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Would it be true to say that the 'day of judgement' and 'rapture' do
not apply to humankind? If we look at the 'book of enoch', it speaks
of God condemning some wicked beings to be exiled to the earth until
some future 'day of judgement'. Is it possible that 'rapture' refers
to these beings being removed from the earth? After all the earth is
said to be a place where a 'new jerusalem' will herald the presence of
divinity. This would happen with the continued presence of humankind
upon the earth.