I’ve been watching a new series on HBO lately that’s titled The Leftovers. Its premise is based solely around a single event where two percent of the world’s population suddenly disappears. The question of whether this event was a Biblical rapture or not is not necessarily the focus of this series though. Instead, it’s centered on a town that’s lost many of its own and how those left behind try to move on. The interesting question I’ve been asking myself as I watch it each week is how would I move on if I were one of those left behind?
The main thing I believe is important to mention before I answer that question is to explain what “The Rapture” means. I must admit I first learned about this “event” in my Christian upbringing. What I was originally told indicated that God will one day unexpectedly take some unspecified number of souls and bring them straight to Heaven before the end of times arrives. It was also inferred that those who were the most righteous will be the ones taken and those who were left behind will wrestle for their salvation. What’s ironic about all of this is that I discovered through some research that the word “rapture” never once appears in the Bible. I also learned there’s an incredible amount of conflicting translation in the Bible that doesn’t clearly state such an event is even written about. That alone made me wonder how the story I was once told about this “rapture” got started. But that’s a completely separate topic altogether I guess.
Regardless of it’s scriptural truth or not, I return now to the question I posed already. How would I handle things if 140 million people suddenly disappeared around me and I wasn’t one of them? While I’m sure I could go into a long discourse about it like The Leftovers is doing week to week, my answer is actually pretty simple. I would accept that my work is not done here on Earth, both with myself, and with bringing more love and light to others. With that being said, I truly believe I’d just do my best to continuing what I’m doing each day to become the spiritual person I believe my Higher Power is grooming me to become.
So whether “The Rapture” will ever happen in this lifetime or any lifetime here on Earth definitely remains to be seen. In the meantime, I think I’m just going to continue my enjoyment of watching the fictionalized version of it on HBO’s The Leftovers, and doing what I can everyday to raise my spiritual vibration and spread unconditional love.
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson