Rapture Rescheduled to Oct 7-8 Following Prophet’s ‘Julian vs. Gregorian Calendar’ Snafu

The false prophet who predicted that the Rapture would take place late last month has set the date for the REAL Rapture, insisting it will take place some time between October 7-8 of this year “”The 7th and 8th of October is the real Feast of the Trumpets. I’m a billion percent sure.”

Three months ago, Joshua Mhlakela—a “believer” from South Africa who claimed to have once been a pastor—came out of nowhere and began claiming that Jesus came to him in a dream in 2018 and told him: “On the 23rd and the 24th of September, 2025, I will come to take my church.”

His predictions picked up steam, with #RaptureTok trending on TikTok, and videos about it doing brisk business on YouTube—either supporting it, debunking it, or featuring folks claiming that they too had visions confirming it was going down.

While some folks were memeing on it, many people took him seriously, quitting their jobs and selling their cars and homes in anticipation.

Of course, nothing happened.

After the Rapture did not happen, Mhlakela went silent for a couple of days, then reemerged more confident and arrogant than ever, doubling down and saying he is “a billion percent sure that the rapture is going to happen on the 23rd and 24th of September 2025.”

Using some flawed math and the reasoning normally reserved for a paranoid schizophrenic who just mainlined 500grams of PCP and hasn’t slept in a week, he insists that because “we see dimly, as in a mirror,” there was some confusion because his initial prediction was based on the Gregorian Calendar. Instead, he suggests that his date should be based on the Julian calendar, which is 13 days ahead, so that Sept. 23–24 will actually occur in early October.

It’s super dumb, but what can you expect?

Notably, in a a recent video, apologist Mike Winger rightly excoriates Joshua Mhlakela and exposes him as a false teacher, liar, and budding cult leader that he is.

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