After a while it starts to feel like "The Boy Who Cried, 'Rapture'". The simple fact is it really doesn't matter (but then, as long as we're consulting the bible, Jesus and others REPEATEDLY SAY EXACTLY THAT many times in the bible). Christians should be always prepared, primarily because of an active and urgent desire to please God, but also because most of what the bible ACTUALLY says about Christs return is that it "will come like a thief in the night". Non-Christians will be no more impressed by news the Rapture is tomorrow than by being told Christ died and rose for their sins. These periodic predictions strike me mainly as ill conceived PR; even if you're right it won't matter, and if you're wrong you look like an ignorant fanatic. Here's a controversial idea: Why not lead people to Christ with no more or less than genuine love for and repentance of acts against God, instead of attempts to escape our actions' consequences? That people can think they accomplished the latter despite sin requiring the righteous Son of God die for them speaks poorly of their relationship with Him.