They're a Millerite splinter not Mormon when the Millerites imploded after multiple failed predictions it created several new religions, the biggest two being being Jehovah's witnesses and Seventh day advenentists. They came out of the same religious spring as the Mormons and Christian scientists for example but are more or less unrelated outside of being nominally Christian. There used to be more groups from that era but most of them were Christian socialists and were more or less all killed off by the 1950s.

Sorry about the pedantry but my kin have been fueding with the fucken Seventh Day Adventists since they moved into what is now Loma Linda California back in the early 1900s.

There was big end-of-the-world hysteria when the year 1000 was coming up. And dozens of dates after that.

Most of the Rapture beliefs are more based on late 19th and early 20th-century fanfic.

I remember when the rapture was supposed to happen last year. I remember when 2020-2022 was to be the end. I remember when 2012 was the end times. I remember when 2000 was the apocalypse. I remember multiple other years prior to that saying the same thing. There are books in the Bible that talk about it happening soon and they were made canon centuries ago. The monopoly on wanting the end isn’t even Christians’. Just this month I saw a video advertised on youtube still pushing that Nibiru collision nonsense that pops up every year or two. None of these people know anything about the end of the world.

Ah, but they then will point to the Book of Daniel and Revelations, which contain all sorts of timelines and mileposts.

Right. They are acting like they can just summon it like it’s some DnD ritual spell. The Bible literally states otherwise.

Only people talking about launching nukes are on social media.

That’s not new either.