How can we make sense of failed rapture prophecies from this week?

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there's renewed interest and discussion about the intersection of politics and faith.

How can we think biblically about it?

And is AI coming for your parenting?

These are the stories we will discuss, and we will also address some of your questions.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray.

This is the Think Bivocally Weekly Cultural Update, brought to you by Talos School Theology, Biola University.

Scott, this is an unexpected story to me that we're covering, but over the past week or two,

the idea that the rapture would be

September 23rd has blown up on social media.

It's been covered in the New York Times.

It was all over YouTube.

And in my McDowell family chat, people were sharing and talking about it.

So I figured we better discuss it. Now, this is from

an article in the New York Times that says the rapture was predicted to happen today. TikTok has

some advice. The prediction was made specifically Tuesday, September 23rd, Jesus would return to

earth and take true believers to heaven.

Now, this article is kind of describing to people that are not evangelicals, what this

even means.

And they're talking about how the rapture is essentially the beginning of the end of human history

from a Christian perspective.

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