Today the Rapture is primarily believed by a very specific type of Evangelical Protestant.
Combining this with Premillenialist theology stating that there will be a period of a great tribulation and hardship on Earth before Jesus comes back to defeat evil for good and reign for 1000 years, Darby is largely responsible for creating the major trappings of the Rapture that people most commonly associate with Christianity today. A former Anglican minister by the name of John Nelson Darby took a single verse from 1 Thessalonians describing how the church will be "caught up together in the clouds" to join with Jesus. In reality, while this idea has worked its way into popular consciousness regarding the End of the World, it's actually a fairly recent idea, dating back to a Protestant group called the Plymouth Brethren in the 1830s. Uncover the traces of the vanished community discover fragments of events and memories to piece together the mystery of the apocalypse.įeaturing a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.A standard feature of some Christian eschatology that purports that before (or possibly after) God allows Satan to screw the world over, He will rapture His church, grabbing everyone who is Christian or will be saved and lifting them up into the air before departing to Heaven, while everyone else will be left on Earth to suffer through the End Times. Immerse yourself in a rich, deep adventure from award-winning developer The Chinese Room and investigate the last days of Yaughton Valley. And someone remains behind, to try and unravel the mystery. Above it all, the telescopes of the Observatory point out at dead stars and endless darkness. The televisions are tuned to vacant channels. Strange voices haunt the radio waves as uncollected washing hangs listlessly on the line. Down on Appleton’s farm, crops rustle untended.
Toys lie forgotten in the playground, the wind blows quarantine leaflets around the silent churchyard. 06:37am 6th June 1984.ĭeep within the Shropshire countryside, the village of Yaughton stands empty.
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