This “second coming” was third price!
The Rapture didn't occur Tuesday as predicted by a “prophet” in a viral video that prompted some followers to stop their jobs, promote their possessions and ditch exams — and now true believers say they're deeply depressed.
Followers took to social media Wednesday to mourn the truth that Jesus didn't return to Earth and float them as much as heaven as promised by Joshua Mhlakela of South Africa, who was featured in a Youtube video that took TikTok by storm.
“I didn't do my exams as a result of I [thought] it doesn't matter,” one crushed believer wrote on Tiktok with a crying emoji — in the future after realizing the top wasn't actually nigh. “Now have a look at me.”
A somber video posted by an obvious spiritual chief, titled “My Apologies,” additionally raked in a slew of regretful feedback below the hashtag #rapturenow.
“I'm right here with all humility to apologize to everybody who've [seen] me promote brother Joshua's twenty third and twenty fourth date of September rapture,” the person will be seen declaring in TikTok footage posted Wednesday.
One other obvious follower additionally posted footage of herself with tears streaming down her face as she brushed her hair.
“POV: You didn't get raptured and now it's a must to prepare for work,” her caption proclaims.
Within the unique viral video, Mhlakela — who mentioned he's only a “easy individual,” not a pastor — claimed in June that Jesus got here to him in a dream in 2018.
“God took me to see the longer term after which he introduced me again,” he mentioned, including the Lord said, “On the twenty third and the twenty fourth of September, 2025, I'll come to take my church.”
Mhlakela didn't reply to messages despatched by The Publish on Wednesday.
His prediction tore by TikTok in latest days with the hashtag garnering greater than 300,000 movies — as some followers scrambled to prepare for Jesus' large look.
To arrange, some believers removed their vehicles, suggested others to not make weekend plans and left their properties unlocked for many who aren't “saved.”
Some evangelical Christians imagine the Bible predicts the end-of-days occasion, referred to as the Rapture, which marks the start of the top of human historical past. The passage states Jesus will return and take followers up “to the clouds to satisfy the Lord within the air,” in keeping with the Christian New Testomony.
However even after it turned out that “the saved” weren't headed to the pearly gates on Wednesday, some followers used the defective prediction as additional proof {that a} second coming is on the horizon.
“The Bible says there'll be false prophets wen [sic] the time is close to,” one believer wrote.
One other insisted, “Somebody mentioned it was delayed till subsequent week.”
