Rapture Ready

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Rapture Ready is an Evangelical Christian site founded by Todd Strandberg[1] in 1987, that promotes the belief that the Rapture will occur in the near future, with true Christians being taken up to Heaven.[2] The site tracks the real-world occurrence of events that Strandberg believes are prophesied in the Bible,[3] and uses these to calculate what Strandberg sees as the approach of the Rapture.[4]

Originally, Rapture Ready (then called "Rapture Index") consisted of threads in Usenet newsgroups such as alt.bible.prophecy and alt.christnet.second-coming.real-soon-now . In 1995, Rapture Index became a website. In 1997, it was renamed "Rapture Ready".[5]

Rapture Ready has been featured by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time magazine, Wired magazine, and Inside Edition.[6]

Features

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Rapture Ready's Rapture Index, showing the yearly high and low values

The "Rapture Index" keeps track of activities which Strandberg believes could be indicators of a time when the Rapture might occur.[7][8] The index includes Strandberg's numerical measurement of world events[9][10] and trends in light of conservative Christian views on Bible prophecy regarding the end times.

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