--- title: "Christians Sheepish After Boasting They Were Going to Get Raptured to Heaven Today" description: "Christians on TikTok are scrambling for explanations after some predicted that the Rapture would happen yesterday." date: "2025-09-24" modified: "2025-09-24" authors: - name: "Sharon Adarlo" job_title: "Correspondent" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/sadarlo" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/christians-rapture-tiktok" categories: - "Future Society" --- # Christians Sheepish After Boasting They Were Going to Get Raptured to Heaven Today ![Christians on TikTok are scrambling for explanations after some predicted that the Rapture would happen yesterday.]() *Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: Getty* Christians on TikTok were so convinced that the Rapture — an event anticipated by evangelical Christians in which the faithful will be beamed up to heaven by God while everybody else is doomed to ruin — was going to happen yesterday that some even ditched [their jobs]() and [cars]() in anticipation. But the day came and went with nary a peep from the clouds above, forcing disappointed influencers to scramble and explain away why it didn't happen — a quintessential fable of the modern age, in which a conspiracy theory goes haywire via social media. "I am sorry to anyone who believed the Rapture was going to happen on the 23rd" said a Christian TikToker who goes by the handle tsunation in a [video]() today. "My intention was not to deceive anyone. I truly believed with all my heart that today was going to be today." Others [hedged]() their bets that the Rapture was actually going to happen today, or maybe later this month or year, which basically sums up the trouble with prophecies about the end times: so far it's never happened, and there's always tomorrow. Other TikTokers [went silent or stopped posting altogether](), perhaps hiding in shame. And some tried to fight back against the jeering peanut gallery. "I never said 100 percent that it would be September 23rd," [one Christian TikToker said](). Others were relieved that the Rapture fizzled out, because they were becoming anxious from all the viral videos. "Please tell me I can't be the only person who was filled with fear, worry and anxiety," a woman said in [one TikTok](). "It caused a lot of anxiety with me." Rapture fever kicked into high gear when a South African preacher named Joshua Mhlakela said in a [YouTube video]() this July that the dates of September 23 and 24 were when God was going to summon his chosen, [according to *The Guardian*](). The Rapture is a [popular belief among some Christians]() that Jesus Christ will come back and take believers, both alive and dead, into heaven. People on Christian TikTok became convinced it would happen on those dates because of a confluence of events happening this week: the start of the Jewish New Year known as [Rosh Hashanah](), the [ongoing Gaza conflict](), and also that the [United Nation was meeting this month](). But the past is littered with failed Rapture predictions stretching into the mid 1840s, and now we can add this year's viral Rapture moment to that list, which *The Guardian* called TikTok's first "'world is ending' moment." TikTok was the perfect forum for the sputtered prophecy, because it's already rife with wildly popular [conspiracy theories](), from Big Foot to Aliens and also credulous people who won't do basic research. And that tells us we should expect more Rapture talk in the near future. **More on conspiracy theories:** *[Meteorologists Are Getting Death Threats From Insane Hurricane Conspiracy Theorists]()*