The godfather of Alaska's growing militia movement is Commander-Pastor Norman Olson of Nikiski. Olson is pastor of the Freedom Baptist Church and a commander in the Alaska Citizens Militia ...

The end of the world will coincide with war and natural disasters, according to prophetic scripture in the Christian Bible. Before the end times and Second Coming of Jesus Christ, many Christians ...

For every Christian, the goal is to experience the Rapture – the moment when, according to scripture, Jesus will take those who "belong to him" up to heaven to be "with him eternally".

The Rapture is a relatively recent idea in church history, as well as a minor theme in Scripture: Many Bible scholars argue that it's not there at all, while descendants of 19th-century ...

In Hal Lindsey’s 1970s rapture fiction, all the bad guys are Soviets. The villains can also morph into Muslims, as they often have in the post-9/11 world. Frykholm’s book helpfully situates the Left ...

On Monday, the rapture index was at 159, ... James knows that not all Christians see Scripture and the signs the same way he and Strandberg and the whole Left Behind crowd do.

If you believe today is the much-ballyhooed rapture, and you're reading this, well, that's probably not a good sign. Because it means you either weren't among the elect taken into heaven or the rec… ...

My opinion on this matter, by the way, is not at all found in the Bible, it is simply my conclusion based on what I know about God, our bodies and this scripture: “But there’s far more to life ...

The rapture notion goes like this: ... Yet it’s amazing how scriptures get misused, and relatively new theological ideas — such as the rapture — get deeply embedded in certain circles.