When Will It Blow? – Rapture and Alka-Seltzer
1st Angle
2nd Angle
What you need:
- Film canister or equivalent container – the ones I recommend can be found on Amazon.com and purchased using the link below
- Alka-Seltzer tablets
- Optional: plastic spacer (looks like a small piece of clear plastic straw that is about 1” long and ¾” diameter
Lesson:
This lesson illustrates the rapture quite effectively.
Fill a film canister or a similar type of container with 1/3 to 1/2 water (make sure you practice this ahead of time and find out how much water works best for you but typically it is between 1/3 and 1/2 of the way full).
Drop in one tablet of Alka-Seltzer and cap the lid tightly, then began talking to the kids about the rapture. Explain that you just never know when it’s going to happen.
Matthew Chapter 24
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come
As you talk the pressure inside the canister is building and eventually it will cause the top of the canister to pop off hopefully scaring everyone around!
The idea behind it interrupting you is because you never know when the rapture will take place in the same way that you never known the top of that canister will blow off.
One great way to set this up ahead of time is to fill the film canister to the desired point and then insert a small plastic spacer in the film canister. You then set the Alka-Seltzer tablet on top of the spacer and close the lid. Nothing will happen until you turn the entire canister upside down and set it down on the lid. At that point the water will be covering the Alka-Seltzer tablet and the reaction will soon take place.
