59% of the people polled "believe the prophecies in the Book of Revelation will come true" and 35% of the people polled "say they are paying closer attention to news events and how they might relate to the coming end of the world since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11." article begins here:
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020701/story.htmlWhile neither of these number reveal the number who believe in the rapture this passage in the article is somewhat telling:
For evangelical Christians with an interest in prophecy, the headlines always come with asterisks pointing to scriptural footnotes. That is how Todd Strandberg reads his paper. By day, he is fixing planes at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb. But in his off-hours, he's the webmaster at raptureready.com and the inventor of the Rapture Index, which he calls a "Dow Jones Industrial Average of End Time activity." Instead of stocks, it tracks prophecies: earthquakes, floods, plagues, crime, false prophets and economic measurements like unemployment that add to instability and civil unrest, thereby easing the way for the Antichrist. In other words, how close are we to the end of the world? The index hit an all-time high of 182 on Sept. 24, as the bandwidth nearly melted under the weight of 8 million visitors: any reading over 145, Strandberg says, means "Fasten your seat belt."
8 million people visitors in one day on a rapture site.