As we take seen, when the Rapture occurs, every single American who is a born-again believer in Jesus Christ will suddenly disappear. This volition cause enormous disorientation and disruption for all the unbelievers who are left behind equally their lives all of a sudden alter and they are forced to handle the aftermath and adapt to the new and rapidly shifting conditions.

Think of how dramatically life in the Us changed after we lost some iii thousand Americans on September 11, 2001. Start and foremost, the emotional impact was devastating. Then the way we travel changed. The mode nosotros deport foreign policy changed. Our economy changed. Our government institutions changed. Then many areas of life inverse that it is difficult to fairly categorize them, much less catalog them.

At present try to imagine the U.South. losing a one thousand thousand people in the blink of an centre. Or v one thousand thousand people. Or 25 meg people. Or more.

If you're riding in a car driven by a laic who suddenly disappears, that car very well could crash. If you're on a plane flown by believers who of a sudden disappear, that plane likewise could crash. Highly valuable and experienced military commanders and business organization leaders and medical professionals will disappear, maybe in the middle of critical projects or medical procedures. The touch will be catastrophic.

Consider, besides, the emotional devastation for people who suddenly and irretrievably lose a spouse, children, parents, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and other loved ones. At that place will be no long illnesses during which one can become prepared, no dead bodies to identify, no human fashion to notice closure. Consider the horror that will be experienced past millions of people who long described themselves as Christians but suddenly realize that they were not included in the Rapture, people who realize that they never actually received for themselves the complimentary gift of forgiveness and salvation offered by Jesus Christ. Consider how sickened they will feel when they realize that despite having gone to church and perhaps having occasionally read the Bible and done good works and been "religious" in some mode, they never really understood or accustomed God's simple program of salvation.

Consider, too, the terror felt by atheists and agnostics and people of other religions when they see their country and their world imploding and realize that their family members and friends who had been followers of Jesus Christ were correct, and thus are gone, simply that they themselves were left to face up the wrath to come. Can such people fall on their knees the minute after the Rapture and receive Christ's complimentary gift of salvation for themselves? Absolutely, and they should. If they exercise, the Bible teaches that their sins volition exist instantly forgiven and their souls saved forever. They tin know without the shadow of a doubt that they are going to heaven when they die and will spend eternity with Christ Jesus, not in the lake of fire with no way of escape. But as wonderful and real and truthful every bit all that redemption will be, such people who receive Christ as their Savior and Lord later on the Rapture will besides be struck past the daunting realization that they and their remaining family members and friends and neighbors will accept to endure previously unimaginable suffering in a state that will neither be nor seem similar annihilation they accept ever known, a country that has neither the strength nor the volition to oppose the Antichrist or the persecution that is coming.

Imagine, besides, the economic implications of the Rapture. If you think U.Southward. banks have a foreclosure problem now every bit millions of Americans cannot afford to pay their mortgages, imagine what will happen when millions of American homeowners suddenly disappear, never to make another mortgage payment once again. What will happen when millions of business organization owners are suddenly no longer around to pay their bills? Or pay their employees? Or continue delivering vital goods and services? What will happen to the federal regime when millions of taxpayers are no longer providing Washington much-needed revenues? What will happen to state governments? What will happen when nonprofit agencies and medical clinics and hospitals that intendance for the poor and needy hither in the United States and are run by and funded past believers suddenly stop operating? What will happen when humanitarian relief organizations and adoption agencies and other charitable organizations that are run by and funded by believers in Jesus Christ stand empty? Those who sneer at Christianity and mock the exercise-gooders and the missionaries will suddenly realize how much of a blessing believers really have been in the U.S. and effectually the world.

All of this traumatic change in the United States will be compounded by the fact that hundreds of millions of believers around the world—possibly a billion people or more—volition have suddenly disappeared at the verbal same moment. They will stop returning phone calls and e-mails. They will stop paying their bills and compensating their employees. They will terminate being a strength for proficient and hope in the globe. They will but be gone.

The foreign-policy implications for the U.S. must besides be considered. With such an immediate, enormous, and unprecedented daze to American lodge and economy from the loss of millions of people, it is hard to imagine how the U.Southward. could remain a superpower. How could nosotros apace replace all our Christian intelligence and strange-policy officials who would of a sudden be gone? How could we quickly supplant all the officers and NCOs throughout the ranks of our military who are born-again believers? With all the resulting anarchy and dislocation acquired by the Rapture, how could the U.S. movement rapidly and finer to defend a threatened or invaded marry or defend our vital interests around the globe? How could we defend our own homeland?

The preceding excerpt is taken from IMPLOSION Can America Recover From Its Economic & Spiritual Challenges In Time? By Joel C. Rosenberg, Tyndale House Publishers.