Will the “rapture” happen on September 23-24, 2025? I have a quick answer for this one: “NO.”
Over the past thirteen years when I have been writing on the Veracity blog, there have been several attempts at “date setting” event predictions connected to the Second Coming of Jesus. Speculation about “blood moons,” eclipses, etc. surface from time to time, and go viral on various news feeds, and this year is no exception. Videos of people having personal dreams about the “rapture” show up on YouTube and TikTok.
I would normally ignore stuff like this, as it keeps happening over and over again. All of the hundreds of attempts over the centuries to try to calculate the exact timing of the Second Coming of Jesus, or related events, have a 100% failure record…. which is pretty terrible. But what struck me this time is how “date setters” have managed to find a way around the New Testament warning AGAINST date setting.
Back in 2017, a prediction associated with the Second Coming of Jesus was made by date setters connected to the constellation Virgo. Foreboding a fulfillment of the Book of Revelation? Nope. Nothing happened like that in 2017….. The same will prove true for the September 23-24 prediction in 2025.
The standard response any informed Christian should give to “date setting” speculations can be found in texts like Matthew 24:36, where Jesus himself says:
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.“
In other words, Jesus as the Son does not even know the time of the Second Coming. For if Jesus does not even know, why would we think that anyone else living on planet earth would be able know any better?
You would think that should settle the matter. But apparently, some have come up with a very clever response to get around these words of Jesus.
The September 23-24, 2025 current speculation for the “rapture” has a certain twist to it. Rosh Hashanah is the time of the Jewish New Year, which will occur sometime during this period, for 2025, over these couple of days. Rosh Hashanah is also known as the Feast of Trumpets, the timing of which is determined by the sighting of the first sliver of the New Moon.
But what if certain atmospheric or other conditions interfere with an accurate sighting of the New Moon? For example, what if the evening is cloudy? Here is where the latest escape hatch for justifying “date setting” comes into play.
The claim is made that when Jesus says that the “day and hour no one knows,” this is a reference to the fact that it is not always clear as to when the New Moon could be actually sighted. Could it be September 23rd? September 24rd? At what hour? We are not sure, but it should be somewhere within this time frame.
If you scour Internet websites where this claim is made, the suggestion is made that Jesus is simply using a Hebrew idiom associated with the Feast of Trumpets to describe the timing of an event like the “rapture.”
The problem here is that there is no evidence which indicates that the “day and hour no one knows” is indeed such a common Hebrew idiom. You would think that if there was indeed such a Hebrew idiom, that a source can be cited to demonstrate this.
Hebrew idioms like this do exist. For example, when Jesus in the Gospels cites the sign of Jonah regarding “the three days and three nights” associated with his coming death, there is indeed an existing Hebrew idiom found among rabbinic Jewish writings, which serves as evidence to support the claim.
Unfortunately, for purveyors of the “day and hour no one knows” Hebrew idiom claim, there is no such evidence. But since the idea appears to fit, advocates for this hypothesis are not bothered by the lack of evidence.
In other words, for the date-setters, it is apparently okay for someone to claim something is true without evidence to support it, simply because you want it to be true: It is okay to simply make things up in order to justify your interpretation of the Bible.
This is really a bad way to try to interpret the Bible.1
I am no prophet, but I am willing the make a firm prediction here: While it is true that Jesus could indeed return at any time, September 23-24, 2025 will come and go and nothing will happen. As this has happened time and time again, purveyors of this type of thinking will go back and rethink their date setting, and some may suggest a new date, based on more supposedly accurate data to work with. Or they will find some other sophisticated way to wiggle out of their original predictions. If someone is foolish enough to buy into the prediction and sell their house and all of their belongings before September 23-24, they will probably be severely disappointed.
But worst of all, such another repeated failed prophecy prediction will invite more skepticism against the integrity of the Christian faith.
Folks, we can do better than this.
Notes:
1. As apologist Mike Winger shows from his videos regarding the September 2025 rapture speculations, there are other ways of mistreating the Bible which are also bad. For example, 1 Thessalonians 5 is the famous passage on the “rapture,” as verse 2 lays out what Paul is writing to his readers: “For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.” Paul is indeed warning the Thessalonians of the first century that the return of Jesus will come at any time. That Jesus is returning is sure, but the timing is unexpected. But at least one popular purveyor of the September 2025 rapture hype claims that in 1 Thess 5:4 , Paul shifts his audience to address people living much, much later (like September 2025???): “But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief“. In other words, Christians today will not be surprised as to when Jesus comes back, as they will no longer be in darkness about the timing of the “rapture.” Not surprisingly (pun intended), this popular purveyor of the September 2025 prediction gives no supporting evidence for the claim that the “you” of verse 2 shifts to a different “you” in verse 4, the later “you” being Christians living 2,000 years later. This is just making stuff up to make the Bible say what you want it to say. What is missing is the intervening verse 3: “While people are saying, ‘There is peace and security,’ then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.” Verse 3 here explains the meaning of verse 4, in that there will be some in Thessalonika who will be completely surprised at the coming of the Lord, when/if it comes in that day. But the coming of the Lord will not be a surprise for the Christian believers who understand the truth that the Lord will indeed return. In other words, while the coming of the Lord Jesus will not be a “surprise” for those who expect it, we still will not know when it will come; that is, the exact timing of his coming, NOT the fact that Jesus is coming. Since what Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, regarding the Second Coming, did not happen in his lifetime, there is nevertheless still a message for us living today. If only such prophecy “teachers” could read the Bible in context, and stop reading things into the text which simply are not there!! ↩
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September 20th, 2025 at 6:38 pm
Clarke,
Those false prophets who speak words which the Lord has not given them often use celestial events as signs that something bad will happen soon. The prediction that the world would end on September 23, 2017, was based on the belief that the Earth would collide with Planet X, also known as Planet Nibiru. In 2025 the prediction that the rapture will occur is based on “the first sliver of the New Moon.”
False prophets are everywhere these days. I agree with your conclusion: “Will the ‘rapture’ happen on September 23-24, 2025?” The answer, as you said, is “NO.”
Claude Mariottini
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September 21st, 2025 at 4:34 pm
Hello. I would have liked to see more claims in your recent September 23/24 rapture prediction article, such as world leaders meeting to implement incredible peace talks, and specific numerological and/or historical biblical prophetic reasoning. I have listened to findings from many knowledgeable historians, and they do present objective, mathematical support for the 9/23 or 9/24 possibility. But thanks for addressing the topic. Many media sources have chosen to ignore it.
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September 22nd, 2025 at 12:45 pm
Please provide this objective and mathematical support, I’m smelling a lack of critical thinking.
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September 22nd, 2025 at 8:05 am
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September 22nd, 2025 at 11:28 pm
Can’t agree with you. Jesus said (2000 years ago) that no one knows and that even He didn’t know. In his incarnate body He didn’t know. Once He ascended into heaven I’d be 100% sure He knew and knows now’s seated at the right hand of God the Father. Also Matthew didn’t say no one woud ever know. Just no one knows at the time of writing. Many things are sealed up until the time of the end but will be revealed. We are to be ever ready and to watch. So there’s every chance the Elect may well know. God promises his believers that He will inform them of things Before He does them. To say we can’t know isn’t biblical. It’s ridiculous to speculate that just because no one knew in Jesus’ time, that it follows that His church won’t know now!!
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September 23rd, 2025 at 12:16 am
Hi, Jerry. Thank you for commenting. But I feel compelled to ask you how far do you take that kind of hermeneutic? God has given us clear revelation in Scripture. Yet it sounds like you are saying that there will be further revelation superseding what Jesus already revealed through the New Testament. No one knew in Matthew’s day, but someday in the future someone will know? Really? Who receives this revelation? How does one go about evaluating the truth or falsehood of such claims to this revelation? There are many who say that what Jesus taught 2000 years ago has no bearing on what we are to believe and do today. Do you really want to go there with that?
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November 2nd, 2025 at 1:57 am
And no Clarke, I agree that what Jesus said 2000+ years ago is 100% relevant today.
I just don’t like it when people add to the Bible by saying it said something that it didn’t. It clearly says some things are sealed up until the time of the end. Mysteries and unveilings will reveal to us more of God’s plans as He always informs His own of what’s about to happen before it does.
The timing of the Rapture isn’t known but there will certainly be a revealing of currently unknown information as timw
goes by as the Bible says this will occur.
Thanks again.
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November 2nd, 2025 at 1:52 am
Thanks Clarke.
No I don’t wish to state there will be any new revelation or extra-biblical information but the Bible does clearly say that many things will be sealed up until the time of the end so I believe what’s IN the Bible will be unveiled in the end times and we will have more understanding of the text.
There are many mysteries in the Bible yet ro be revealed and it’s foolish to say we know all we will know. Sure, when it was written No one knew the time, not the angels nor the incarnate Jesus.
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September 22nd, 2025 at 11:44 pm
Think of it like this: “It will rain this winter.”
I’m going to be sure my roof is tight, and won’t leak. I’m going to have a rain coat and umbrella.
When will it rain? I don’t know, but when it does rain, I will be ready. I’ll be watching and expecting.
I know He’s coming, and I’ll be ready.
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September 23rd, 2025 at 2:35 am
[…] There is no credible scientific or biblical evidence that confirms the Rapture will happen specifically on September 23-24. The claims largely stem from personal vision, interpretation of holidays, and symbolic readings—not verifiable evidence. Veracity […]
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September 23rd, 2025 at 7:26 am
Y’all will be sorry tomorrow when your damned souls are left behind for eternity.
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September 23rd, 2025 at 12:15 pm
Jim Bob, I understand you may feel very strongly about this. I’m curious though, why would the Bible say this If it wasn’t true. The Bible is the most accurate text on Earth, so it’s in your best interest to respect it. In Matthew 24:36 (KJV), it says this, “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” This says that no man or even any angels know when He’s going to come back. This doesn’t mean don’t be prepared, we continue to wait anxiously or His return, as it says in Hebrews 9:28 (KJV), “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” So all this not to say not to look for when He’s coming back, but don’t be so anxious about it to where you feel the need to predict it or rely on someone else’s prediction about when the Rapture will happen. No one knows the day, or hour, it’s simply not possible to predict. Only our Lord God knows the moment He’ll return.
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September 24th, 2025 at 10:11 pm
But yet…. here we all are on the 24th.
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September 23rd, 2025 at 11:54 am
not that very nice to say. we don’t know the time, our the hour that when Jesus will return to bring his people to heaven. so your prediction for him coming back may be false.
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September 24th, 2025 at 5:14 pm
2 Thessalonians 2:1-2
“Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.”
Only a few hours left on September 24 for this Rapture prediction to become realized. Do any of you “pro-Rapture prediction” readers reading this care to comment?
Do you really want to go up against the Apostle Paul???
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September 25th, 2025 at 12:14 am
Here is something else that the date setters neglect to grasp. We are now in the tail end of the age of the gentiles. God Is Still dealing with us. The vast majority of Jews don’t believe in Jesus, just as the majority of gentile Christians don’t know and follow Jewish traditions. We are Christians, we follow Christ! and why would God use a Feast Day for the rapture when only a miniscule number of Christians would even relate to it, or understand? As God’s Word clearly says, NO ONE knows, but God Himself, PERIOD! No trying to work around God’s Word, or treat it like a buffet, taking what we want, and leaving the rest! Yes, Jews can and will be raptured, if saved by Jesus Precious Blood, but this is the time of the gentiles. The Time switches back to God’s Chosen People, the Jews, after the gentiles, grafted into The Vine, have been raptured. Then Daniels 70th week will commence, and the Jews will be front and center. They will sadly believe the antichrist is their Messiah but will quickly learn When the 3rd Temple is desecrated, and they run for their lives, they were wrong. The Third of them saved and hidden from harm, will realize Jesus is Their Lord and Savior, and will repopulate the earth, with the gentile tribulation survivors who refused the mark of the beast, during Christ’s Perfect Rule, in His 1000-year Reign! We are sadly, usually wasting our collective breath trying to convince date setters of the truth, and sadly we must sometimes shake the dust from our sandals, move on, and use our time trying to help the helpable, and reach the reachable. Thank you for trying to do so, it is very admirable. I’ve been there and done that for decades but have chosen to fight battles that can be won and produce fruit, all for God’s Glory! May He bless you.
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September 24th, 2025 at 10:31 pm
All of these backslidden Christian date setters are stealing true Christian’s joy and killing their faith. They are also causing open mockery of the Holy Bible, God and the real Christian church. They do this year in and year out, then reset when proven to be heretics and false teachers. They also like to try and save face when proven to have lied, by saying ‘we weren’t really sure, or didn’t say that’ when they clearly did! God Said He Will NOT be mocked, and I can assure you that this fringe cult who continues to do this, will surely answer to God one day! Now let me go back and try to do some damage control, like I do every single year as a Pastor and Watchman, after the lies have been exposed.
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September 25th, 2025 at 10:54 am
Well, we are now September 25, and still no rapture. Huh. Imagine that.
And yet, already the true believers in Sept 23-24 rapture prediction belief have come up with new ways of backing off on their earlier confident assertions.
For example, this guy now says:
“The rapture time window has NOT PASSED YET, and that’s because I was using the wrong calendar, which I do apologize for. Jesus actually used the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian calendar. God does not follow the Feast of Trumpets according to the twisted designs of man. He follows it according to the true timing of His feasts, as He established them. The “new moon” that marks the beginning of the Feast of Trumpets is actually the full moon. “Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast day.” (Psalm 81:3). The full moon lands exactly on September 23rd – 24th on the Julian Calendar, marking the TRUE beginning of the Feast of Trumpets for 2025. This translates to October 6th – 7th for the Gregorian calendar. That is the TRUE time window of the rapture”
See https://www.youtube.com/@brotherdanielchung/posts
Clever.
And yet, wrong again.
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September 25th, 2025 at 8:26 pm
how is it wrong exactly? Looking for an explanation. I think october will come and go. I believe 2028 is a tribulation start, (even in secular, its called point of singularity, a.i. and tech reach point of no return/exponential power) but Bible lays it out for that as well cleverly enough, in Genesis of all places.
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September 25th, 2025 at 9:17 pm
Hi, Dcherwon: I am puzzled as to what you are getting at. You question as to how I can say the Oct 6th-7th rapture prediction is “wrong,” which suggests to me that you accept the prediction, and then you follow up with saying that October “will come and go,” suggesting that you reject the prediction. So, which is it?
What is wrong exactly? For starters, to say that Jesus “used the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian calendar” is anachronistic. The Gregorian calendar came centuries later after the Julian calendar had drifted badly from the solar year, in order to fix the calendar. There was no option to use the Gregorian calendar in the first century, because it did not yet exist.
Is it really necessary to say more?
The point is that the “no-show” rapture for September 23-24 is simply another of a long string of failed rapture predictions, which only bring ridicule on the Christian faith. Attempts to recover and say, “No! Wait! I got the date wrong! Here is the TRUE date” are not helpful.
Let us stick with Matthew 24:36, and stay away from “date setting,” and instead be watchful and prepared for Christ’s coming, which will come like a thief in the night.
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September 25th, 2025 at 9:46 pm
The gregorian calendar IS true for being replaced. And October 6 or 7 would be the full moon phase. And I believe that it will come and pass. Two things can be true at once there bud. Maybe get off the high horse?
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October 10th, 2025 at 5:59 pm
Hi, Dcherwon. Well, October 6/7 have passed, and as you stated it is true that these dates “will come and pass.”
Still, no rapture,…. still the true believers in the September 23-24 rapture prediction have not given up yet,…. and I am still not clear as to why you sought to rebuke me.
Apparently, you took offense at my attempt to ask a question as to what you were getting at with your original comment, which I still think was a legitimate question, which you managed to evade to answer anyway. Frankly though, I find it even more puzzling that you took offense to what I asked you (suggesting that I should get off my “high horse”), while you had no real response to my concern that we should urge caution against “date-setting.”
Does it not bother you that such false rapture-predictions cause great harm to the reputation of the cause of Christ?
Feel free to have the last word on this. Blessings to you.
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November 2nd, 2025 at 1:43 am
Thanks Clarke.
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November 2nd, 2025 at 7:35 am
You are welcome, Jerry!
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