(Joseph Prince) David Jeremiah’s false prophecy that rapture will happen in 2024 – By Rev George Ong (Dated 11 May 2024)
(This article was also sent to Rev Dr Ngoei Foong Nghian, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) office, and for the attention of the Executive Committee Members.)
On 10 May 2024, Friday, yesterday,
I bumped into one of David Jeremiah’s YouTube audio.
I didn’t go and deliberately search for it
but I chanced upon it accidentally.
And what I heard,
I almost fell off the chair.
This is what David Jeremiah said;
“Are you ready to be stunned?
We’ve got ground-breaking evidence
suggesting that the long-awaited rapture
is set to happen in 2024.
Yes, you heard it right.
The signs are all pointing toward this monumental event.
And you won’t believe what we’ve uncovered.”
Many of you would know who David Jeremiah is.
He is an influential Bible teacher.
But from my own study and knowledge
about rapture and tribulation,
and from the authority of the scriptures,
I can say what David Jeremiah said
that rapture will happen in 2024,
is 100 percent wrong.
First, the Apostle Paul clearly teaches
that we will see the Antichrist before the coming of Christ (2 Thess 2:1-12).
Second, Jesus clearly teaches
that rapture/resurrection
will happen after the tribulation (Matt 24:29-31).
Third, other passages of scriptures
teach that the tribulation
which the church will go through
before the rapture
is 3 and a half years.
The focus of this short article
is not to go into the ins and outs
and all the detailed arguments
of whether the church will go through the tribulation.
I have them and have taught them.
I conducted the ‘Rapture and Great Tribulation’ seminar
between 2014 and 2017.
If you wish to browse through the 830 testimonies
– and the vast majority of these 830 testimonies
have not only affirmed the truth of Post-tribulation rapture
but they have also confirmed that Pre-tribulation is false,
Please click on the link below,
830 Rapture Testimonies – Reverend George Ong (revgeorgeong.com)
https://www.revgeorgeong.com/830-rapture-testimonies/
My focus is to point out
this very unwise statement
of David Jeremiah.
Next, though David Jeremiah didn’t say he is prophesying
that rapture will happen in 2024,
he is effectively prophesying,
when he said:
“We’ve got ground-breaking evidence
suggesting that the long-awaited rapture
is set to happen in 2024.
Yes, you heard it right.”
Let me clarify.
David Jeremiah is a good Bible teacher
who is doctrinally right on many counts (not every).
But what he said on audio is false
and should be rejected.
Think with me;
the millions whom David Jeremiah has influenced
is likely to believe him.
And the imprudent and radical (used in bad sense) things
that many would do now,
knowing that rapture will happen in 2024,
is up to one’s imagination.
Some of you may say
“George, 2024 has not ended.
Are you prejudging David Jeremiah?”
So, let’s wait for 2024 to end
and see what he said is true.
You bet,
I will write another article on 1 Jan 2025
regarding David Jeremiah’s prophecy
featured in Apr 2024.
There are enough scriptures, especially in the Old Testament
that tell us that whoever prophesies an event
that did not take place
is a false prophet.
David Jeremiah is so unwise to have made that statement.
If and when 2024 comes and goes,
and the rapture did not take place,
all his years of teachings
and credibility as a Bible teacher
may go down the drain.
Rev George Ong
Appendix 1
As many of you would know,
like David Jeremiah,
Joseph Prince also believes in the doctrine
that the church will escape the tribulation.
Appendix 2
If you want to establish
whether David Jeremiah said those things,
you can easily go into YouTube to find out.
That is only one proviso
– that someone has impersonated him (AI).
If it can be proven that this is so,
I will apologise publicly to David Jeremiah.