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South African pastor Joshua Mhlakela has revised his prophecy predicting the Rapture from September 23 to October 12 or 13, claiming a divine vision instructed him of this new date. Initially advising followers to prepare for the event on the earlier date, many believers quit their jobs and sold assets based on his prediction. After the first date passed without incident, Mhlakela maintains his updated timeline is accurate due to astrological interpretations not aligning with previous predictions. Critics argue his revisions contradict biblical teachings and label him a false prophet.
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Joshua Mhlakela, a South African pastor, recently changed his prediction for the Rapture from September 23 to October 12 or 13. In videos posted on YouTube, he claimed God told him these new dates are correct and mark when Jesus will take believers to heaven as described in the New Testament. Mhlakela previously said September 23 was "the final date" but later admitted it didn't happen as predicted, despite followers quitting jobs and selling possessions in anticipation. Some devoted followers expressed disappointment on TikTok after realizing their expectations were unfounded.
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Doomsday has been delayed.
asserted
Doomsday → delay → ?
A South African pastor who bungled his prophecy of the Rapture claims that the end is still nigh — it has simply been postponed.
uncertain
it → bungle → Rapture
Joshua Mhlakela of South Africa claimed that the Biblical event — the end of humanity marked by Jesus whisking his followers up to heaven, per the New Testament — will not occur on September 23 as previously predicted but will now go down early next week, the Daily Mail reported.
asserted
Mail → claim → September
“God told me because there’s no other date coming out, 12 to 13 October, which is the true feast of trumpets, which is when I will be meeting my savior face to face in The Rapture,” said the self-proclaimed prophet in a Youtube clip.
asserted
prophet → tell → clip
The religious figure flipped the script-ure after his previous heavenly forecast didn’t come to fruition despite him insisting on September 17 that that was “the final date.”
asserted
that → flip → September
Unfortunately, his legions of followers swallowed his prophecy hook, line and sinker.
asserted
legions → swallow → prophecy
Many allegedly quit their jobs and sold heir homes and cars in anticipation of Armageddon.
uncertain
Many → quit → Armageddon
“I didn’t do my exams because I [thought] it doesn’t matter,” one crestfallen believer wrote on Tiktok with a crying emoji — one day after realizing that the apocalypse wasn’t now.
asserted
apocalypse → do → emoji
They had reportedly felt snookered by the Messiah’s so-called middleman, who had claimed both God and Jesus came to him in visions to inform him when The Rapture would take place and what Judgment Day and Christ’s second coming would look like.
uncertain
Day → snooker → what
However, Mhlakela claimed that this prediction revision was not an error, but simply based on a vision in which the Savior said this come-to-Jesus moment would occur at a later date.
asserted
moment → claim → date
He said his early divination had been off by about a month because the Passover celebration was transpiring under the astrological sign of Pisces.
asserted
celebration → say → Pisces
He insisted the “true” passover would occur when the sun is in Aries just like in the Exodus story detailing the Israelites’ departure from Egypt.
asserted
sun → insist → Egypt
This allowed him to shift the heavenly goalposts to October.
asserted
him → allow → October
However, as many bible scholars have pointed out, the sun wasn’t in Aries during the Biblical Exodus.
asserted
sun → point → Exodus
Meanwhile, other penitents have frequently accused Mhlakela of crackpottery.
asserted
penitents → accuse → crackpottery
Last September, Youtube preacher Vladimir Savchuk declared that “if someone sets the date [of the Rapture], they are directly contradicting Jesus’s word.”
asserted
they → declare → word
Meanwhile, one theologian on Youtube quipped that the South African seer was likely correct as the “Bible says there’ll be false prophets wen [sic] the time is near.”
asserted
time → quip → Youtube
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