I also believe that the anticipation of the Rapture—Christ embracing the faithful in the sky at the end of days—is actually the anticipation of imagery that was never meant to be taken literally. And I believe that the real Rapture preceding the end of days will be far more thrilling and far, far more sacred.

Remember, part of the Rapture of the book of Revelation is God’s judgment of all of humankind “by what was written in the book of life, by what they had done.” (Revelation 20:12) “And if any one’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:15) I said in an earlier chapter and I’ll say again—the God I know, the God I worship who created us all, is perfect in His kindness, His forgiveness, His wide-open arms, and his absolute, unconditional love. I cannot and will not conceive of a God so cruel, spiteful, and merciless that he would condemn any of His children to an eternity in a “lake of fire.” Even the Dark Entities who’ve turned away from God, while He continues to love them and wait for their return to Him, will become a part of Him when life on Earth ends. So unless Jesus would appear in the clouds to deliver all of us, without judgment or discrimination, I can’t imagine the Revelation version of the Rapture. And as you’ll read later in this chapter, no one judges our lives on Earth but us, after we’ve arrived on the Other Side.

There’s also a simple matter of logistics, by the way. While Jesus can obviously appear anywhere and everywhere he wants, I repeat— from personal experience, my Spirit Guide Francine, and more study and research than I can possibly describe—that the Other Side is three feet above the ground level of Earth. So why our spirits would be drawn all the way up into the sky for our trip to a Home just three feet above us I can’t imagine.

I promise, the true Rapture is going to be far more spiritually enormous, and far more Godly in its universal, unconditional love. A beautiful story, not a biblical one, that illustrates that unconditional love so eloquently: the end of days had arrived, and the righteous who were gathered in anticipation of the Rapture finally asked God about Jesus’s whereabouts. “Jesus is outside the gate,” God replied, “waiting for Judas.”

The true Rapture will be the increasing groundswell of deep spirituality that will be pervasive throughout the world by the end of days. It will supersede individual religions, politics, racial differences, anything and everything that stands in the way of humankind finally understanding that because we all share the same Father and the same Home, what separates us pales in comparison to what unites us.

The true Rapture will be the subtle lifting of the veil between our dimension and the dimension of the Other Side, so that we on Earth will have easy access to the spirit world that waits to celebrate our return.

The true Rapture will be a diminishing fear of the end of days, as our memories of our previous lives and deaths  become clearer to us and we know beyond all doubt that we are eternal, that death is nothing but an illusion and that a simple step through the veil between dimensions will bring us the peace and joy and is our birthright as God’s children.

The true Rapture will be the understanding that God is not vengeful and cruel, so that at the end of days all of us—all of us— will be safe and loved in His arms forever.

The Antichrist

We might as well get the subject of the Antichrist out of the way while we’re at it, since being braced for his arrival seems to be as essential to the end-of-days anticipation as the Second Coming and the Rapture.

It will be a brief discussion, because we can officially stop watching for the Antichrist.

The Antichrist is already here, in human form. The Antichrist has a name.

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