On Rapturetok, today is the end of the world as we know it

If you read this, we are sorry: you are one of the remains. In the religious corners of Tiktok, the self -proclaimed prophets and prognosticators decided that Tuesday, September 23, 2025 is the day of the kidnapping – the moment when Jesus Christ returns to earth and will raise all true believers in heaven, where their eternal rewards await them.

You probably have a lot of questions. Don’t worry, we do it too. As everyone can say, the idea that the kidnapping was going to strike on September 23 seems to come from a proclamation of Joshua Mhlakela, a person sometimes identified as a pastor but who identifies himself as “a simple person”. He rejects titles as “apostle”, “pastor” and “bishop”, but accepts “believing” if you are so inclined. Whatever you wanted to call him, he seems to be the source of the removal date, which stems from a dream he had.

In the story of Mhlakela, he had a vision of Christ for years in his dreams. But a vision in 2018 really stayed with him. In this document, he said, Jesus visited him and said that he planned to “come and take my church” on September 23 and 24, 2025. Christ also said to him: “There will be no World Cup in 2026”. Which is added if the removal ends up being real. There are many people left to play, with all the chaos in which the world will be plunged and everything! But it is a strangely specific thing for the Son of God to reference. Jesus is a big football, apparently.

Anyway, it seems to be the origin of all this, a guy who dreamed that the World Cup will not arrive because Christ returns. Mhlakela reiterated this in an episode of September 9 on the same program, which has accumulated almost half a million views and could be responsible for the theory that wins in online steam.

At one point, the date has made its way to Tiktok’s private parties where people are frankly dizzy about the possibility of the end of the world, as evidenced by their many other predictions which have passed without occurring without Christ. Previously, the word preceded that the kidnapping would come in the summer of 2021, for example. But a mixture of Christians, people who are too much in symbology and numerology, and your ordinary conspiracy theorists have simply passed a peak with this particular prediction.

This has generated Rapuretok, a subsection of the social platform which was largely inevitable if you scroll through the page for a while. Swipe and you could find someone who explains to you how Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is there. Drag again and you will get advice on how to delete everything that is potential from the demonic energy of your home before the removal of the removal. Another blow and you can take some advice on how to manage the rays of paradise. (Pro advice: don’t look down!)

A large part of the content on Rapuretok is ironic or mocking. But not everything! Some people are really, really in the idea. It’s a bit difficult to blame them, because things don’t happen exactly here. About four out of 10 Americans believe that we live in the end of time, by PEW survey. You don’t need to be religious to feel that it seems good. But hey, at least we had the World Cup in 2026 to wait.