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Imagine tracking end time prophecy as though you’re watching ticker tape on NASDAQ. There is a big difference. In the stock market, a rising index is good. However, in the Rapture Index, good news is bad and bad news is good! Why? Because with good news the Rapture in Dispensational theology Christ’s return cannot occur.

In an article published in TIME Magazine months after 9/11, “entitled Apocalypse Now,” a new stock market was announced to the general public. It is the Rapture Index which tracks doom and gloom, i.e. “earthquakes, floods, plagues, crime, false prophets (except their own) and economic measurements like unemployment that add to instability and civil unrest, thereby easing the way for the Antichrist.”

It’s important to understand what this means in terms of the Rapture Ready paradigm. In a recent blog post, one proponent reported that since November 10, 2008, the Rapture Index was at an all time low. Their high point was 9/11 at 182 points.

That means they were enjoying their greatest accuracy for their eschatological paradigm when terrorists killed over 2,000 people in the bombing of the Twin Towers. In other words, their accuracy for predicting the end of the world and Christ’s return to take them away in a cloud to heaven is at its greatest when terror reigns.

Some Dispensationalists may not openly admit it but they have an internal conflict with world peace and their end time paradigm. Unless things get worse, they can’t go to heaven.

Before they can openly shout “Come Lord Jesus,” they secretly must pray, “Bomb Lord Jesus” This is why they track bad news like watching the Dow Jones Industrial or the Standard & Poor 500 indexes.

Even on the Rapture, they have problems. According to the Parable of the Tares, (Matt. 13:30), the wicked “tares” are “gathered” first, leaving the righteous behind in the field (world). This contradicts Rapture theology. They advocate the wicked are left behind while the righteous are gathered first. Wrong order for Dispensationalists according to the Bible.

The real problem for them is that what the Bible calls the end of the world is literally, the end of the Jewish age which happened in 70 AD. This is when all Bible prophecy was fulfilled, (Matt. 24:34; Luke 21:20-22). It was associated with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem occurring before all in that generation died.

There is no end time in our future. The Rapture Ready paradigm is a hoax built on deception invented in the last century and a half.

William Bell speaks regularly on Fulfilled Prophecy and is the author of The Re-Examination, a study of Christ’s first century return in glory. Find more articles on the endtime at http://www.allthingsfulfilled.com