On Sunday night my husband asked me an important question. “Did you know the Rapture is supposed to happen this week?” he said. He was raised Catholic, so I did not expect this from him. The Vatican does not embrace the Rapture doctrine as I learned it from my parents and a succession of Evangelical authority figures. Usually when I talk about the Rapture, he looks at me like bees are flying out of my mouth, which is appropriate because insects do make a dramatic appearance in the Book of Revelation. An angel will blow a trumpet, and locusts will swarm out of the bottomless pit. They will be shaped like warhorses and wear crowns, and they will have the faces of men and the hair of women. “Their power was to hurt men five months,” warns the author of Revelation. People will want to die, b

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