Interest in the idea spiked in recent days, with videos on TikTok drawing millions of views. As of Monday, Sept. 22, the number of Google searches for the Rapture also eclipsed those for Taylor Swift. That appears to have spurred all the online discussion, although predictions about the Rapture — a much-debated, controversial concept among Christian churches — is nothing new. The Rapture is not a widely held view across all of the major Christian denominations, though it is popular among evangelicals. As noted by the Times reporters in Asia, there hasn’t been a Rapture there either.