QAA Podcast - Rapture, Denied (Premium E306) Sample

Episode Date: September 27, 2025

Christian Tik Tok prepares for the end times after a man in South Africa gives the exact date for the rapture (which has come and gone). That’s right, if you’re listening to this podcast… you are in hell. I’m sorry, boy. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Keep mehury-ahoo-hury-a-oh-oh-woh-oh-haw-h-h-h-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. If you're hearing this, well done, you've found a way to connect to the Internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium Episode 306. Rapture, Denied. As always, we're your host, Jake Rockatansky. Liv Egar. And Travis View. Elaine, now you had another date in mind.

According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14th in the year, 2016. Valentine's Day. Bummer. Where'd you get your date, Ely? I received this information from an alien. As I told my husband, it was in the Paramus Holiday Inn. I was having a drink at the bar, alone, and this alien approached me. He started talking to me.

He bought me a drink. And then, I think he must have used some kind of a ray or a mind control device, because he forced me to follow him to his room. And that's where he told me about the end of the world. So your alien had a room at the Holiday Inn, Paramus. It might have been a room on the spacecraft made up to look like a room at the Holiday Inn. I can't be sure about that, Peter.

Of course not. And that is the whole problem with aliens, is you just can't trust him. Occasionally you meet a nice one, Starman, E.T. But usually they turn out to be some kind of big lizard. That's all the time we've got for this week on World of the Second. Next week, though, give me iron. Hairless pets.

Weird. Until then, this is Peter Vickman singing. See you then. Fantastic. You hear something funny. During my trip, I actually stayed in Paramus. You're kidding. No.

But the holiday inn is no longer standing. It's now a comfort in. That's so funny because there's a reason that Dan Ackeroid and Harold Ramos put specifically the holiday inn in Paramus into the movie. So something must have happened there. Folks, it brings me no joy to tell you that the rapture has come and gone. For those of us who are still here, I'm sorry, boy. But perhaps, unsurprisingly, the hosts of the QAA podcast were not taken up to heaven, except for Annie, the best of all of us.

But there's also a good chance that the rapture, at least the one believed to be foretold in the New Testament, did not happen and that the hell we are currently living in is man-made after all. Now, I'm old enough now to have lived through a couple raptures. Travis, you as well, I'm sure there was Y2K, which was kind of like a technological rapture that never really materialized. Yeah, I do remember that. I remember, yeah, there was like, yeah, lots of concern over that. And, yeah, but I think that's one of those things that was just avoided through knowing it was going to happen and a lot of software updates.

I have a family member, actually, who was integral into helping the banks reset their inner programming so that the system would stay online in the year 2000. Sorry, Julian isn't on the podcast to point this out, but you have a family who's, big in with the banks, Jake. Liv's face, like, before she even said that, turned into, like, the devil emoji, like, instantly recognized, like, the absence of Julian. Julian's not here. Someone has to do it. Embody the spirit of Julian for this episode.

So there was also, of course, 2012, the Mayan Rapture. This also didn't really pan out, but at least we got a very entertaining John Cusack movie out of it. That was my first real one because I was two in the 2001 and I was a little worried. I was a little, I had, you know, anxious OCD. That whole day was like a little like what my answer right. What's going to happen? Yeah, people were like, I feel like you just can't get that anymore. You can't convince that amount of people. There's like no monoculture anymore. Yeah, that's so true. I wish we could convince everybody of one thing. But this latest rapture prediction is on everyone's radar because like some guy essentially just said it was going to happen, specifically on

September 23rd and 24th of this past week. I wrote this episode at my personal computer at 9.30 p.m. on September 24th, we were recording it on the following day. So at the time of the writing, for the East Coast, the rapture has passed. And for us West Coasters, we still have a chance for the next two hours or so, although clearly that didn't happen. Blame went viral on TikTok. According to Newsweek, as of Tuesday of this week, writing on Wednesday, there were over 321,000 posts on TikTok alone about the upcoming rapture, and probably an equal number of posts making fun of those people. So who is this South African pastor that went viral on social media for his very specific, nearly imminent end times prophecy? Well, I'm going to tell you about him, and afterwards, Liv is going to bless us with TikTok's reaction to both the prophecy, and its failure.

Before we get into Joshua himself and the consequences of making such a bold prediction with so very little time to grift off of it, which I always think is funny, Travis, like, you know, if you're going to make a prophecy, at least give yourself a couple years to grift off of it, write a book, you know, a channel, something like that. But no, in this age of instant gratification,

you know, people want the rapture to happen soon within the week, you know, they'll lose concentration, They'll get bored if you say it's going to happen years into the future. So I wanted to do a quick refresher on the idea of the rapture itself as a biblical concept. I do this because I am Jewish and a glutton for making episodes more difficult than they need to be. I don't think there's a rapture for Jews. I think we're somehow part of the Christian rapture, maybe in a bad way. Yeah, I don't think you're – I'm not a Christian either, and I was not raised Christian, but I don't think you're going up with them.

No. I don't think so. Somebody once said we were like, the landing pad like that we'll all be in Israel and like we think we've won but then we're just kind of like you know a soft landing pad for the Lord no yeah I think I think the job of the Jews is to like make the welcome party for Jesus but you're not going up so what so what we can have like a couple hors d'oeuvres and then sort of just left behind yeah yeah that's that's basically in I'll bet Christians are like no the Jews would they want to like rule over hell like

that's what we'll, like, they can become the rulers there. We'll go off to heaven. It's like when the elves sort of go away to like their land where they live forever. But I did some, I did some research and I looked it up. And so the verb in Greek, haparzo, meaning to seize or snatch up, was translated into Latin as rapturo. It is from this that we get the English word, rapture. It's also raptor is to steal. Oh, interesting. But until a hundred years or so ago, The bulk of Christianity's mainstream teaching did not focus on a separate event in which believers are beamed up into heaven. The concept of a separate pre-tribulation rapture was popularized in the 19th century by John Nelson Darby, an English evangelist and founder of the Plymouth Brethren.

Darby would later develop the idea of dispensational pre-millennialism, which systemized history into eras and put the rapture before a seven-year tribulation. That's beautiful, so it's the very Protestant. thing of, like, if you believe, like, you will be rewarded by God in this life as well. Yeah, exactly. Because you want to do with all the bullshit. Yeah, so his ideas had a major impact on the United States. First, through an addition of the Schofield Reference Bible, which was published in 1909,

which included dispensationalist footnotes below the biblical text. And in the 20th century, the belief became enshrined in broad swaths of American evangelicalism. I think it really is interesting. Like, if you grow up Christian, you are. left with this idea that like, well, just rapture is just part of like, you know, a normal Christian eschatology. When really it's

it wasn't invented in the United States, but it is primarily an American evangelical concept. You've been listening to a sample of a premium episode of the QAA podcast. For access to the full episode as well as all past premium episodes and all of our podcast

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That's not true. The part about be crying, not me being grateful. I'm very grateful. Thank you.