A Christian pastor whose failed Rapture prediction sparked widespread panic is now making another claim that the end-times event is approaching.

Pastor Joshua Mhlakela, a South African preacher, says he has worked out the precise timing of the biblical event in which believers are taken into the clouds to meet Jesus Christ. He claims it will occur between October 12 and 13.

The Rapture is part of a Christian belief system known as eschatology, the study of end-times events. Some believers associate it with the Second Coming of Jesus and Judgment Day for those who do not believe.

In interviews and videos posted online, Mhlakela has said that both God and Jesus appeared to him in visions. According to the pastor, those visions disclosed when the Rapture would happen and described the consequences for life on Earth.

“God told me because there’s no other date coming out, 12 to 13 October, which is the true feast of trumpets, which is when I will be meeting my savior face to face in the rapture,” Mhlakela declared.

His claims have attracted intense skepticism and criticism, particularly after he incorrectly identified several possible Rapture dates in 2025.

Social media erupted when Mhlakela claimed the event would take place on September 23, 2025. Some followers who watched his online predictions reportedly sold their homes and cars or left their jobs in preparation.

“There’s no other final. I mean, there’s no other rapture date. This is the final date for me,” Mhlakela said in an interview on September 17.

Mhlakela has insisted that his earlier predictions were not mistakes. Instead, he says God postponed the final judgment to give people more time to repent.

He argued that the delay was consistent with Scripture, which says the days of the Tribulation will be shortened for the sake of the “elect”—those chosen by God before Jesus returns.

According to this belief, the Rapture will act as a rescue, with believers taken instantly from Earth to Heaven before a period of severe suffering called the Tribulation begins.

Biblical passages are interpreted by some Christians as describing the Tribulation as seven years of turmoil and disaster, during which evil dominates Earth before Jesus returns to establish a peaceful kingdom.

Mhlakela says his first visions of Jesus occurred in 2018. At the time, he warned that the Rapture would take place on September 23, 2025, during the Jewish Feast of Trumpets, also known as Rosh Hashanah.

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Some Christians connect the annual festival with the prophecy that Jesus will return “with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God.”

Mhlakela now says the Feast of Trumpets date had been miscalculated by one month, placing his predicted Rapture roughly 30 days after the annual observance of Rosh Hashanah.

“Many are saying Feast of Trumpets is September when you Google [it’s] September 11. [This] is not Feast of Trumpets. The true Feast of Trumpets is actually in October,” Mhlakela said in an interview with CettwinzTV.

The pastor said his revised prediction was based on further visions of Jesus, which he believes directed him toward the later dates.

According to Mhlakela, a vision involving two full moons convinced him the calendar itself was off by about a month because the current celebration of Passover was taking place under the astrological sign of Pisces.

He tied that gap to the Exodus story of Israel’s departure from Egypt, saying the ‘true’ Passover must fall when the sun is in Aries, just as it is said to have taken place during the biblical Exodus.

The pastor then applied that same one-month shift to his new Feast of Trumpets date in mid-October.

However, the Bible did not document the sun being in Aries during the Exodus. It only said Passover falls in the first month of spring, with the Aries link coming from later writers such as Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian – not from the Exodus account itself.

Moreover, Mhlakela’s end times predictions continue to receive pushback from many Christians who believe setting a definitive date for the Second Coming of Jesus goes against the teachings of the Bible.

Vladimir Savchuk, a pastor, author, and YouTube preacher, said last September: ‘If someone sets the date, they are directly contradicting Jesus’s word.’

He further debunked the Rapture claims by noting that Scripture says the son of perdition must be revealed first, referring to a figure often interpreted as the Antichrist.

‘2 Thessalonians 2:3, it says clearly that Jesus is not returning until the Antichrist is revealed, and that has not happened yet,’ Savchuk explained.

Two major law-enforcement unions — representing Nassau County police officers and New York City firefighters — have endorsed Long Island Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi’s bid for re-election.

The Nassau County Police Benevolent Association and the NYC Uniformed Firefighters Association are both backing Suozzi.

Suozzi is preparing for a difficult rematch with Republican Mike LiPetri, whom he defeated by only 3 percentage points in 2024. The 3rd Congressional District includes parts of Nassau County, Queens and Suffolk County.

“We supported him two years ago, and he has been working hard to work with both sides of the aisle. He backs the blue and states all the time on the Congress floor that he absolutely rejects the defunding-the-police movement,” Nassau County PBA president Tom Shevlin said.

“We support candidates who are willing to support us, even if that means going against their own party,” Shevlin added.

Suozzi welcomed the endorsements as Republicans attempt to portray him as soft on crime and link him to the Democratic Party’s left wing.

“I am proud to once again have the endorsement of the Nassau County PBA. I have spent my career supporting law enforcement and making sure our officers have the resources they need to keep us safe,” Suozzi told The Post.

“As my opponent attacks and distorts my record, the men and women who protect us day and night know where I stand, and I am honored to have their trust and support.”

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Bobby Eustace, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, also praised Suozzi as a “common sense” congressman.

“In his over thirty years as a public servant, Tom Suozzi has continued to demonstrate that he sees beyond party lines and works across the aisle to do what’s best for his constituents,” Eustace said.

Republicans, meanwhile, have made Suozzi’s district a key target.

A Trump-aligned super PAC is spending nearly $8 million to support LiPetri, a former state assemblyman, in his effort to unseat Suozzi.

The No Going Back PAC has purchased $5.7 million worth of television advertising in recent weeks, along with another $2 million in mailers promoting LiPetri and attacking Suozzi.

Suozzi, a former Nassau County executive, is serving his second stint in Congress.

He left the seat to run for governor in 2022, but lost the Democratic primary to incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Suozzi returned to Congress in February 2024 after winning a special election triggered by the expulsion of serial liar and former Republican Rep. George Santos. He went on to narrowly defeat LiPetri in the November 2024 election.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is the Republican candidate for governor expected to perform strongly at the top of the ticket against Hochul, a result that could benefit LiPetri.

U.S. Ambassador to South Africa L. Brent Bozell III has sharply criticized President Cyril Ramaphosa, telling News Media that South Africa’s leader “refuses to condemn an incitement to kill.”

Bozell made the remarks in an exclusive interview with News Media after being summoned to South Africa’s foreign ministry last week and accused of engaging in “undiplomatic conduct.”

The meeting marked the third diplomatic rebuke, known as a démarche, that Bozell has received from Pretoria during his nine months in the country. South Africa has objected to his public statements relaying President Donald Trump’s criticism of its policies and official positions. Bozell, a former Fox News contributor, founded the Media Research Center, the largest conservative media watchdog.

Bozell has repeatedly pressed South Africa to address concerns raised by Trump during a tense Oval Office meeting with Ramaphosa 16 months ago. Those concerns include alleged race-based discrimination, claims involving the murder and torture of farmers, proposals for uncompensated land seizures and calls for violence against minority communities.

According to Bozell, South Africa has disregarded three of the five specific demands outlined by the Trump administration.

Among the administration’s central demands is that Ramaphosa prevent people in South Africa from chanting, “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” Merriam-Webster defines a Boer as a White South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent. Ramaphosa has said he cannot prohibit the slogan because South Africa’s supreme court has ruled that it is permitted.

“You’ve got a president of South Africa who refuses to condemn an incitement to kill,” Bozell told News Media.

He also accused the South African government of abandoning the Afrikaner rural community and requiring mining operations to participate in race-based programs. “We’re not going to allow your investments to go the way everyone else has been allowed to go,” he said, summarizing the government’s position.

“Those were three strikes and you’re out as far as we were concerned,” Bozell said.

“Ask 100% of the world if ‘kill the farmer, kill the Boer’ isn’t hate speech,” he continued. “If that isn’t hate speech, I don’t know what hate speech is: inciting people to commit murder.” Bozell rejected South Africa’s argument that the chant cannot be stopped because the court approved it, saying that in the United States, presidents routinely disagree with court decisions within the democratic system.

“To say, well, you can’t do it because the court said it’s not, you know, that’s poppycock,” Bozell said. “If President Ramaphosa wants to, he can do it. It’s just as simple as that.”

He emphasized the scale and nature of the demonstrations, asking, “How hard is it to say this chant, where some, where people do it, 50,000 people in the stadium jump up and down, pantomiming guns, shooting people, how hard is it to say, stop it?” Bozell called the alleged incitement to violence “awful.”

Analysts say South Africa is moving increasingly closer to Iran, Russia, China and Cuba. The African National Congress, or ANC, which leads the country’s so-called “government of national unity,” has also hosted the terrorist organization Hamas.

The shift has drawn close attention from the Trump administration. Trump recently met with Bozell again in Washington, and the ambassador said the president is “perhaps most of all” concerned that South Africa has been steadily abandoning its non-aligned position and moving closer to U.S. adversaries.

Speaking about South Africa, Bozell asked why some officials remain tied to the legacy of the Soviet Union and communism. “Why are they still working with Cuba?” he said.

Digging deeper, Bozell asked, “Why are they working with Iran and Hamas terror organizations? What’s Russia doing for them? What’s China doing for them? This is bad news when they’re going in that direction. What we’re saying is simply do what you’ve always done. Have a non-aligned with both sides. We’ll live with that.”

The ambassador stressed that the U.S. wants to make dynamic business with South Africa on mining, particularly on critical or rare earth minerals. He stated, “We’re not going to do what the Chinese do. They come in, they take the ore, they take it to China, they benefit [from] it and they make a pile of money. We’re saying to South Africa, we’ll come in, we’ll do the mining, we’ll do it right there in South Africa.”

He continued, “South Africa gets the money, not the Chinese. We bring in the technology that they could never have. We’ve created hundreds of thousands of jobs. We’re saying we could create more and more and more at a time when they desperately need it, but it will be good for us as well. This is the partnership we want.”

Elon Musk and his Starlink satellite internet company are one of many U.S. companies which want to enter South Africa. But in the telecommunications and mining fields, the government insists that 30% of foreign company ownership must be given to Black local entrepreneurs.

Bozell says this is problematical for the U.S. “There are literally billions of dollars from American firms and American government investments ready to go into mining, but it’s not going to go there so long as you have these race-based avenues they must go through. In telecom, Elon Musk has said he will put Starlink in 500 schools and pay for it in perpetuity if he’s allowed to go this way. And they said, ‘No, we want 30% of your company.’ So yeah, of course it’s hurting.”

On Friday, a senior official at South Africa’s Department of International Relations – the country’s foreign ministry – confirmed to News Media that they demarched Ambassador Bozell for a third time, adding, “This is a record. He was called in to explain his undiplomatic conduct. The issues related to the bilateral relations between the two countries are a subject of ongoing discussions. There is commitment from both sides to resolve the outstanding matters. South Africa values the relationship with the USA. It is a mutually beneficial partnership.”

Also, Friday, a State Department spokesperson told News Media, “We are not interested in diplomatic maneuvering, procedural delays or dialogue for dialogue’s sake. The ball is now squarely in the Government of South Africa’s court to outline the relationship it wants with the United States and respond accordingly to President Trump’s executive order.”

Still, Bozell looks to the future of the U.S.-South Africa relationship with guarded optimism. “Look, temperatures can go up, but I want their temperature to go down too. You know, we want this partnership. We want to figure this out. It’s good for South Africa. It’s good for the United States of America. Temperatures need to go down, and we got to figure it out.”