It was Monday night and time to watch football for millions of Americans.
The Denver Broncos were at home playing the Oakland Raiders in sold-out Mile High Stadium. Denver always packed out their stadium for national television, and for this game it was particularly difficult to find a ticket.
It was a huge game as both teams were
undefeated in the Western Conference. It was late in the fourth quarter, the game was tied 21 to 21 and Denver was driving for the go-ahead score.
As quarterback Tim Tebow took the snap and dropped back to pass, a thunderous noise shook the stadium that sounded eerily similar to a monstrous trumpet blast. In an instant,
nine of the eleven Denver offensive players on the field vanished into thin air. Less noticeable,
two of the Oakland defensive players were missing too. (1 Cor 15:51-52, 1 Thes 4:16-17)
Even though the football bounced to the ground, and no whistle had blown, the players just
stood motionless. Then, just as abruptly, every light in Bronco stadium went dark, as well
as all of Denver. As far as you could see, there was no light anywhere.(John 9:5)
Stadium exits became clogged as thousands of confused fans rushed hurriedly into the
dark parking lots . . . only to find their cars wouldn't start. Car headlights wouldn't even
come on. Cell phones wouldn't work. Nothing made any sense.
Regardless of their age, everyone seemed to be suddenly acting viciously self-centered.
Fights between fans were breaking out over the least little issue. No one seemed to have
any restraint. Darkness prevailed. It was as if someone pulled a switch.(1 Thes 2:6-7)
People watching the game at home across the nation heard the trumpet-sounding explosive
blast both on TV AND outside their own homes. Their TVs had about 3 or 4 seconds of the
strange sight of the missing players on the field. Then all the houses also went dark. America
was dark. The world was dark. The Door had shut. (John 10:9)
KABOOM!
Rapture had come like a bolt of lightning when not even the most die-hard predictors had imagined. Everyone on planet earth knew immediately that something major had suddenly changed.
When God, the Holy Spirit, came to earth some two thousand years earlier, the two most notable,
non-personal characteristics of that event were a great noise and confusion for the non-Believers.
It was no different when the Holy Spirit departed. There was an explosive noise heard round the
globe followed by great confusion for those left on earth. (Acts 2:2,6,12)
But what was not noticed when the Holy Spirit first came to earth, and what was hugely noticed when
He departed the earth at the Rapture was the catastrophic disruption of earth's electromagnetic field.
Scientists had warned for years about the 
possibility of a large solar flare knocking out electricity around the world.
The sudden departure of millions at the Rapture made a large solar flare look like a candle compared to a forest fire. Rapture caused a sudden world-wide change in the delicate balance of electrons and protons in the atmosphere and every electric motor in the world stopped dead in its tracks. In fact, if it used electricity, it didn't work. It was as if the world itself had come to a stop.
Virtually 100% of communication ceased beyond the distance one could yell. Cars, buses, trains, computers, phones, televisions, elevators . . . everything with a motor or that used electricity . . . stopped working. Only the planes on the ground were saved.
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