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.
That'd be a long con for no pay off. Christianity is anarchistic.