Sherri Shepherd heard the predictions that the Rapture would occur on Tuesday, Sept. 23, and she didn’t fall for it — this time.
That’s because the former cohost of “The View” previously bought into another rapture prophecy.
“I have been through this before. I used to be in a religion that told me that the Rapture was coming,” Shepherd recalled during the Wednesday, Sept. 24, episode of her “Sherri” talk show. “They told us to get our house in order. And I said, ‘Why? I’m not going to need a house where I am going. I don’t need those worldly possessions.’”
Shepherd’s belief in the impending apocalypse had serious consequences for her.
“I didn’t pay my bills. I didn’t pay my taxes. I did not pay my traffic tickets because why would I pay anything when the world’s about to end?” she explained. “I had, seriously, $10,000 worth of unpaid moving violations. … Why would I show up to court when the world is about to end and I’m about to get taken up to heaven? Jesus don’t care about no parking tickets!”
The unpaid bills and missed court dates caught up to Shepherd eventually.
“The world never ended. I went to jail,” she recalled. “I went to jail for eight days. Because I fell for the Rapture, I became a hardened criminal.”
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The Rapture is a belief held by some Christians, particularly American evangelicals, that one day all Christian believers will rise up in the air to be with God. The TikTok hashtag #rapturenow racked up over 300,000 videos over the past week, with some users believing the prediction and others making jokes about it.
Rapture predictions aren’t uncommon, but it seems that the Sept. 23 theory stemmed from a June episode of the “I’ve Been Through the Most” podcast. During the episode, a man named Joshua Mhlakela said the date of the supposed rapture was revealed to him in a dream.
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