Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Can someone be marked and not know it? No.

I agree with this but it is only part of the equation. Can someone be hooked or addicted without being warned? Cigarettes, video games, social media, lots of sneaky snake like things done by "sorcerers". The people who make genetically engineered bioweapons and vaccines in labs are called "sorcerers".

It is critical to understand what this vaccine is doing. It is instructing your body to make antibodies specific to the spike protein on the Covid vaccine. That means if you see a strain of Covid with the spike protein you will be well protected, however what if you see a strain without the spike protein like the Delta variant? In that case no protection. A very good analogy is the Magino line. France built a magnificent defense against Germany prior to WWII that spanned their entire border with Germany. It was a concrete wall with guns in the wall that could fire down on German tanks and hit them before the tanks could get close enough to fire back. What did Germany do? They drove around the wall through Belgium. The Magino line was a specific defense against a German tank that comes from a certain direction, very effective if the Germans do what you want and completely useless if they don't.

Like France your body has a budget for defense. If you waste all your budget on useless specific antibodies like the Magino line your immune system will become as weak and ineffective as the French army was against Germany in WWII. Every shot you get from them weakens your immune system filling your body with specific antibodies like union workers who sit around all day doing nothing because of their job requirement.
 

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Amos 2 -- The Sins of America, let's be fair

2 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Moab, even for four, I will not relent. Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom’s king, 2 I will send fire on Moab that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth. Moab will go down in great tumult amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet. 3 I will destroy her ruler and kill all her officials with him,” says the Lord.

Wow, what a relief! Thank you Jesus! Whenever someone starts enumerating the sins of the US I always dread that they will bring up slavery. Is that fair? First of all not all the states had slavery, and then in the ones that did only 25% of the people had slaves, and then when you are talking about plantation owners with 100 or more slaves it was only about 3%. So is it really fair to go back several hundred years and dig up some cursed plantation owner and say the entire US is cursed because of this guy? Even God, right here in Amos condemns doing that! Of course slavery was cursed, but were these men who were made in the image of God cursed because of the US, or were they cursed by God? Oh yeah, Moab, they were amateurs, they only went back one or two generations to justify themselves, we went back much further than that. We went back to before there even was a New World, before Jesus, hey we even went back before Moses, we went all the way back to Noah. We went back to Noah and dug up Ham, and believe it or not, that is why all these people thousands of years later were cursed! Did we stop there? No, no, no we then brought out our witch doctors with their mumbo jumbo science as a racial justification. Burning bones to ash? That is kid’s stuff. We put those ashes into baby food. By the 1950s you could put two dolls before a young child, one black the other white, and ask which is the pretty one, which is the smart one, which is the good one and they would point to the white doll. Which one looks like you? They would point to the black doll. Which one is ugly and stupid? They would point to the black doll. Do you really think this generation will escape the judgement and wrath of God?

4 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not relent. Because they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods, the gods their ancestors followed, 5 I will send fire on Judah that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.”

The US claims to be a Christian nation that trusts in God. His commandment was to love our neighbor as ourselves. Torture, violating treaties, hunting down and killing women and children, selling communities to the highest bidder, and cursing man made in the image of God are all examples of rejecting that law. Money and power are false gods that have led this nation astray.

Judgment on Israel 6 This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Israel, even for four, I will not relent. They sell the innocent for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.

Where was your phone made? How about your slippers? You want to blame covid on China, a poor country eating bats and living in crowded conditions, yet you don’t blame the sweatshops that you buy from for creating these conditions.

7 They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed.

Build the wall. Not so that we can keep illegal immigrants out because if we did that who would do all the menial tasks we don’t want to do. No, we build the wall so that we can deny justice to the oppressed. You don’t like the oppression, fine, we’ll send you back to the other side of the wall.

Father and son use the same girl and so profane my holy name.


Is this true? Some things I am glad I don’t know about. I recently heard that the value of the child trafficking industry in the US is greater than all professional sports taken together!

8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge.


The law in the OT said you had to give the pledge of a garment to the poor at night so they could sleep and not be cold. The Lord is saying that they put the poor out into the cold and take their pledge, their downpayment. This is precisely what happened during the Mortgage crisis. People paid for their house for a couple of years, then a balloon mortgage kicked in, they couldn’t pay, the bank took back their house, keeping the money they had paid for about 5 years as well as their downpayment.

In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.

I worked for a bank and learned that the overdraft fees and other “fines” were their bread and butter. I once saw a person who had written ten small checks for a total of about $100. If the checks had been paid out in the order they were received one would have bounced, but by paying the big one first, and then bouncing the next biggest one, they were able to cause the other nine checks to bounce because of the fees. This person had to pay $75 in bounced check fees because of the clever way in which they paid out the checks. Sadly the money to cover these checks had been deposited, it just hadn’t cleared yet. Cheers!

9 “Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, though they were tall as the cedars and strong as the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.

There were two main battles, in the wilderness the children of Israel asked for permission to pass through the land of the Amorites and they refused, instead coming out with their full army to attack them. Israel defeated them which was a great sign to all the nations round about. Later, in the good land 5 kings of the Amorites came out to attack Joshua and that was the day the sun stood still so he could finish the battle. You saw what God did to these people who you have dispossessed and now you have taken their place. Why would you imitate them? We defeated Britain, the superpower of the day, a leader in banking and finance, and then we imitated them!

10 I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites. 11 “I also raised up prophets from among your children and Nazirites from among your youths. Is this not true, people of Israel?” declares the Lord. 12 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

There have been many great spiritual leaders in the US. There is no denying that. It is also true that we have laws that forbid the word of God in schools. No prayer, no bible studies, no name of Jesus, no word of God. But how did they “make the Nazarites” drink wine? That is a violation of their vow. I suspect this is much like the Lord’s word: But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. (Matt 23:13)

13 “Now then, I will crush you as a cart crushes when loaded with grain.

Many times the poor feel like the system is designed to run them over like a truck. So, as you have done it will be done to you.

14 The swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life. 15 The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet-footed soldier will not get away, and the horseman will not save his life. 16 Even the bravest warriors will flee naked on that day,” declares the Lord.

You have designed a system so that the poor are trapped, so loaded up with pressures they can’t escape. A system so confusing the poor don’t know how to even use their strength to save their life. I recently wanted to pay off the car for my wife, feeling that eliminating this debt would make our financial situation more secure. She was against it, she wanted to keep the money in reserve in the event of an emergency. I did the math, I showed her that paying it off now would save her $700. She was stunned, she had no idea how the system was designed. The archer has a nice distance between him and the battle, when you lose your house they give you a month, two months, even three months warning. But in the end you lose your shirt and wind up fleeing naked. As they have done it will be done to you.
 

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Massive FreeMason statue put up in New Jersey facing NY

 

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2 Corinthians 5:20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

We are ambassadors of the Kingdom, we are here appealing to unbelievers to receive the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and be reconciled to God. However, at the end of the age the situation becomes so lawless that it is just like the days of Noah with the Nephilim and demon worship and it is just like Sodom and Gomorrah with their lawlessness. At that point God will pull the ambassadors out (rapture) and then His judgement will rain down on this earth.
 

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One world religion -- a sign

I have seen some were not aware that we were heading to one world religion. Ecumenism and the recent actions of the pope are clearly moving in this direction.

The antichrist sets up the abomination of desolation in the temple.

Matthew 24:15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’[a] spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—

During the Tribulation people either worship God or they worship idols and demons

Revelation 9:20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

All the inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast

Revelation 13:8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
 

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Prophecies concerning Israel fulfilled

Someone asked for these prophecies.

Isaiah 66:8 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

Jeremiah 30:3 3 The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity[a] and restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess,’ says the Lord.”

Isaiah 43:5-6“Fear not; for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west. “I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth, even every one that is called by my name…”

Ezekiel 34:11-13 “Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. “As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. “And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land…”

Deuteronomy 30:1-4 “And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, to which the Lord thy God hath driven thee, “And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, “That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations where the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. “If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from there will he fetch thee.”
 

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The Gates of Hell

Starting at 30:57 he goes over the satanic ritual that sacrificed 8 children at the Travis Scott concert.

https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-c...tual-battles-pray-awk-must-video-3605762.html

Revelation 18:2 With a mighty voice he shouted: “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.
 

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3 Total Solar eclispses in the last 3 years.

December 26 2019 New Moon festival 10th month (Tevet)

December 14, 2020 New moon festival 10th month (Tevet)

Tevet is the month that begins with Hanukkah.

December 4, 2021 New moon festival 9th month (Kislev)

Kislev is the month that ends with the Hanukkah

Hanukkah depicts the NT ministry and the context is of the Antichrist taking over the world and forcing people to worship him while those who are faithful to God stand against him. This age began with Hanukkah as a sign. Then the tribulation for the church ends with the mid tribulation rapture and that rapture is also depicted in the feast of Hanukkah.
 

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Nice Summary of seven signs

 

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Government will have more control -- Climate change is the excuse


Many focus on the appointed times of the feasts in the Old Testament however they are not part of the New Testament. Instead we are told very clearly by Paul to let no one judge us in regards to a feast day or a new moon.

Likewise the pretribulation rapture is not part of the Old Testament, it is part of the New Testament. So there is no legal reason why we would find the appointed feasts for the Old Covenant as a prefigure to the rapture.

There are a few exceptions -- Genesis has the seeds to the entire Bible so one would expect to see something in Genesis that is relevant to believers. Likewise the Lord told us in the New Testament that it would be as the days of Noah and as Lot.
 

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Government will have more control -- Climate change is the excuse

Many focus on the appointed times of the feasts in the Old Testament however they are not part of the New Testament. Instead we are told very clearly by Paul to let no one judge us in regards to a feast day or a new moon.

Likewise the pretribulation rapture is not part of the Old Testament, it is part of the New Testament. So there is no legal reason why we would find the appointed feasts for the Old Covenant as a prefigure to the rapture.

There are a few exceptions -- Genesis has the seeds to the entire Bible so one would expect to see something in Genesis that is relevant to believers. Likewise the Lord told us in the New Testament that it would be as the days of Noah and as Lot.
He makes a wonderful connection between Adam and Eve sinning, becoming naked because the Spirit of God covering them had left them and the rapture being when the Spirit of God leaves the Earth. All of this on the 17th day of the 2nd month. Which ever since the Passover is now the 8th month. That is approximately Nov 21.
 

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My Spirit will not contend with humans forever

Genesis 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

2Thessalonians 2:5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

The day that the Spirit stops striving with the lawless one, stops holding back the lawless one, the day the Spirit is taken out of the way is what God was talking about when He talked to Noah. Removing that covering of the Spirit is what Adam and Eve realized when they sinned and realized they were naked.
 

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Do not Mock and Scoff at the significance of the Mark of the Beast

I have heard Christians mocking and scoffing at the idea that the government would know everything you have ever bought and even everywhere you are (your phone pings every 15 minutes).

During the Tribulation you will be required to get the Mark of the Beast in order to buy and sell and if you refuse to worship the Beast you will get your head chopped off. Prior to that the government will create a file on each person, it will show all their friends via social media. They will know if you attend church and which church it is and they will get all the members of that church via social media and create a web of all their friends, all your posts, everything you have said. They will know your daily routine, everything.

So when the time comes to label people who refuse to worship the beast as subversive they will know everything about you. They will know everywhere you have gone in the last 20 years. If they decide to shut down these dangerous rebel organizations that are teaching "Jesus is Lord" or "there is no other name in which you can be saved" then this information will be very helpful.
 

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Come out from her my people and don't partake of her plagues.

Everyone in the church in Philadelphia came out from one of the previous 5 churches which is why one of the promises is that they will not need to go out anymore.

The other churches tolerate Jezebel, they have false prophets like Balaam, they are where Satan's seat is, they are dying and are full of pretense, and the Lord even calls them "the synagogue of Satan". They provide an opportunity for the genuine believers to grow, to mature, to overcome. They learn to return to their first love, to not love their life unto death, to be against all that is contrary to the Lord.

Those that refuse to come out of these corrupt and dead churches become Laodicea.
 

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There is a constellation that is called the scales and represents judgement. In this constellation there are two stars, one is called "price deficient" and the other "price sufficient". If you have been redeemed by the blood of the Lord then the price will be sufficient. If you are relying on your own righteousness then the price will be deficient.
 

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Amos 3 -- We are supposed to be the salt and the light

3 Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the Lord has spoken against you—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt: 2 “You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins.” 3 Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so? 4 Does a lion roar in the thicket when it has no prey? Does it growl in its den when it has caught nothing? 5 Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground when no bait is there? Does a trap spring up from the ground if it has not caught anything? 6 When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it? 7 Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

We have a duty and a responsibility. We know God’s words, we know His laws. We are supposed to be the light of the world and the salt that kills the germs. If God and His people are going to walk together they must be in agreement. If you are a servant of the Lord you should hear when the Lion seizes the prey. You should be aware when the trap has sprung. You need to sound the trumpet! The fool in his heart says there is no God, but we need to let them know that when disaster comes to a city the Lord has caused it. This plan has been revealed to His servants, so the servants have a responsibility and a duty to sound the alarm.

8 The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken— who can but prophesy? 9 Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod and to the fortresses of Egypt: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest within her and the oppression among her people.” 10 “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.” 11 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “An enemy will overrun your land, pull down your strongholds and plunder your fortresses.” 12 This is what the Lord says: “As a shepherd rescues from the lion’s mouth only two leg bones or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued, with only the head of a bed and a piece of fabric from a couch.”

The Lord has spoken that He will judge them for what they have done to the poor. They have plundered and looted the poor like an invading army, therefore an invading army will plunder and loot your strongholds. Joel describes this invading army as a “bug” and uses five or six different analogies. But consider what this virus will do to the banks and investment banks that sell mortgage backed securities. Shopping malls and theaters are done. Concerts and sports arenas are done. They will be bankrupt. Even if they are allowed to reopen they won’t be allowed to operate profitably. Also, all the small businesses in the malls will also go bankrupt, if they survive it will be through an online presence. And therefore the anchor businesses like Sears and Macy’s will also go under. Now the saying in the real estate business is this: if you owe $1 million to the bank you have a problem, if you owe $1billion to the bank they have a problem. The banks have a huge problem. The real estate bubble in China has already burst. The trap has been sprung, the lion has the prey in his mouth and is roaring. Maybe a few scraps here and there will be rescued, that is it. This situation has forced everyone to use the internet and you can expect orders over the internet to companies like Amazon.com will increase greatly but these in turn will cause most of the stores with a retail presence to go out of business. With unemployment at Great Depression levels you can expect the housing market to also collapse. Car sales are seeing a 30% drop nationwide, it is hard to imagine that showrooms can keep much of a retail presence anywhere other than cyberspace. Now one thing you can be sure of is the banks will keep a smile on their face and pretend all is well with the hope of somehow selling what few scraps they have left.

13 “Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob,” declares the Lord, the Lord God Almighty. 14 “On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground. 15 I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed and the mansions will be demolished,” declares the Lord.

This is talking about a “golden calf”, interestingly down by Wall Street they have a bronze bull indicating a bull market. The stock market has several sources of power, of course you have the major stock indexes like S&P 500, and you have the bond index, you have the commodities market, and you have currency markets. These will all be cut off. We are seeing major inflation due to the unrestrained spending of the Biden administration. They are using the printing press to print money and that is robbery to all those who have US debt. The only protection for other countries is to buy into some digital currency and to dump the US dollar as a reserve currency. That will cut off the horns of the altar. You will see a collapse of the US economy. Not so much for the poor and blue collar as we will shift to a barter economy, but to the wealthy, their entire wealth will be gone in a flash.

They know this and they are desperate to get everyone vaccinated. This is the reason for the vaccine mandate. The vaccine opens the door for a "vaccine passport" which will be a digital device controlling everything including your bank account. They are terrified of a barter economy, that would cause the central bank to collapse and with it the wealth of all the elites. The vaccine passport is part of the plan to eliminate any "barter economy". They will have complete control over buying and selling.