I don't know how do people still believe in these fairytales, but there seems to be an idea about how the most faithful christ believers can escape the "tribulations" (Read:the upcoming NWO "Rape of man" where you just roll over and die) before they come if they are faithful enough.
Don't delude yourself.
The only people who survive the upcoming mass worldwide Dark Ages are the ones who know how to evade government and survive as the outside rest of the world goes to bloody hell.
It happened in Cambodia that everyone who survived got the fuck out of Cambodia years before the Khmer Rouge took power. It happened in Russia where if you didn't run years before the October Revolution you just die. Do not expect it will be different this time. If you are in ground zero at year zero, Jesus doesn't turn you into a holy paladin. You just die.
I dunno who spread this rapture thing, but whoever spreads it clearly wants the easy way out of the upcoming death and destruction that will engulf the world.
Large ports of the Bible are clearly allegoric, and until the rise of Protestant literalists, Christians knew that.
For example, the first words of Genesis are "God created the heaven and the earth" and then "let there be light" .....but the sun isn't created until later in the chapter on like day three; "And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars."
Anybody with half a brain reading that in ancient times could see that light comes from the sun, so it's meant to not be exactly literal.
The idea of the rapture is a consequence of "once saved, always saved" theology that denies previous standard interpretations, and further, requires the use of the Protestant bible, which is short 7 books.
Perhaps you ought not to be doing mental gymnastics for the Bible, ascribing allegory in place of sense etc and just look at the Bible at it’s written - a piece of nonsense. A blueprint for mental and spiritual enslavement in order that Israel can inherit and rule over the whole world