Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

Narrowing our focus

1. According to the book of Colossians the feast days, Sabbaths and New Moon's are "a shadow of things to come". So we know they are prophetic. It seems reasonable that important dates like the start of the tribulation will be on one of these dates and therefore we would likely see signs that point to the rapture in these dates as well.

2. According to Joel the sun will be darkened (solar eclipse) and the moon turned to blood (lunar eclipse) before the great and notable day. This also narrows it down a little, but if we interpret this to mean that these will occur in the same two week period (solar eclipse with the new moon and lunar eclipse with full moon two weeks later) then it narrows it down a lot. Maybe one or two high watch dates per year.

3. Pastor Sandy's work with the book of Psalms and other scriptures in Hebrew as well as the two Fig tree prophecies have clearly put all of our focus on this year as when we would have to have the tribulation begin and therefore the pre tribulation rapture.

4. Typology tells us that the raptures are harvests and should correspond with various harvest festivals in the Bible. This narrows it down a lot!

5. According to Song of Songs we would expect the first harvest to be in the springtime. This year there are only two possible times where we have a solar eclipse and lunar eclipse two weeks apart and only one of those times is taking place during a festival related to a spring harvest. That would be the blood moon May 16th. This could correspond with 2nd Passover or with Pentecost depending on when it takes place. [I do not believe that Pentecost is Shavuot, I think that Pentecost is actually the feast of new wine which is 50 days after Shavuot and that Jesus ascended on Shavuot. However, that is not the only theory and it is important to keep an open mind].

Isaiah 64 O Lord, will you humiliate us beyond measure?

1 Oh, that You would tear open the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence— 2 As [sure as] fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil— To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence! 3 When You did awesome and amazing things which we did not expect, You came down [at Sinai]; the mountains quaked at Your presence. 4 For from days of old no one has heard, nor has ear perceived, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who works and acts in behalf of the one who [gladly] waits for Him. 5 You meet him who rejoices in doing that which is morally right, Who remembers You in Your ways. Indeed, You were angry, for we sinned; We have long continued in our sins [prolonging Your anger]. And shall we be saved [under such circumstances]?

When the Lord returns He will find the believers in one of two situations. There will be those who rejoice in keeping His word, who remember His ways and there will be those who are living in sin.

6 For we all have become like one who is [ceremonially] unclean [like a leper], And all our deeds of righteousness are like filthy rags; We all wither and decay like a leaf, And our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing], like the wind, takes us away [carrying us far from God’s favor, toward destruction].

We use rags to mop up the floor, in the same way we use our good works to try and mop up our sins. Is that really any different from some Mafia kingpin donating money to the catholic church to give the impression he is a good guy or some serial killer having a phony life as a “cover story”? No one is actually dealing with the sin they are simply hoping the good works will soak up the blood and guts. If you are not attached to the vine you wither and die and the wind blows you away. Right now you should be praying for the Lord’s soon return, you should be praying that His name would be magnified among the nations, you should be calling to mind all His great works. If you aren’t it is a real sign that you have dried up and are about to be blown away. Do not trust in your good deeds “but I am a good person with a good heart”. Are your sins washed away? Are you white as snow?

7 There is no one who calls on Your name, Who awakens and causes himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have handed us over to the [consuming and destructive] power of our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing].

Are you calling on the Lord? When you awake are you turning to the Lord?

8 Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our Potter, And we all are the work of Your hand. 9 Do not be angry beyond measure, O Lord, Do not remember our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing] forever. Now look, consider, for we are all Your people.

Forgiveness means that God forgets our sins. Now, all of these are God’s people, both those who are calling on His name, turning to Him when they awake and rejoicing in His coming as well as those who are dried up like dead leaves.

10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

We are about to see this happen and it is clearly for the goal of causing people to repent and turn to the Lord. Last year China suffered terrible floods and had to buy a lot of food on the world market to feed their people. That made things tougher on the developing countries but the hope was that this year they would have a bumper crop. Instead the floods are every bit as bad this year. This will be catastrophic to the world’s economies as last year we were able to go through our reserves, this year you will see significant inflation. The impact of inflation is doubly bad on China. When people have to spend more of their paycheck on food and gas they have less to spend on the stuff China makes. So then the same time food prices will soar in China will be the time their exports shrink and people are not getting paid. Still I don’t think “your holy cities” or “Zion” refers to cities in China. So how will China respond towards the US and Israel? On top of all that the real estate bubble in China is bursting and they will see a melt down with global consequences on par with the 2008 meltdown.

11 Our holy and beautiful house [the temple built by Solomon], Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious objects are in ruins.

We are seeing an all out attack from China. Everyday the evidence becomes stronger and stronger that the Pandemic originated in a bioweapons lab where they were making a weaponized version of SARS as a first strike in a war with the US. We have seen massive cyber attacks, a stolen election, and threats over Taiwan. Meanwhile BLM and Critical Race Theory both appear to be forms of attack to convert the US to communism.

12 Considering these [tragedies], will You restrain Yourself, O Lord [and not help us]? Will You keep silent and humiliate and oppress us beyond measure?

We need to pray to the Lord. At this moment you have many Christians who are praying for the Lord’s soon return. When they are raptured the rest of the Christians will wake up and then they too will begin to pray for salvation.

A nightmare that will school you

I had a dream, I would not call it a nightmare because I did not feel threatened or scared. However, I was in a room like a classroom talking to people to repent for the kingdom and they were all demon possessed. They did not threaten me, they shunned me, but it seemed like they were all waiting to be released.

It was a shocking dream for me because I have not had anything even remotely like that for 40 years.

My understanding of this dream is that something is about to be unleashed, although I did not feel directly threatened it will be horrifying for many people. It was as though I got a glimpse of a coming nightmare.

Moses lived to 120 just like human history is 120 jubilees. Jesus was revealed after 4,000 years or in Moses case he saw the great I am when he was 80 years old. The next 40 years were the revelation of God where God gave Moses the Law of the covenant and He gave him the torah. The last 40 jubilees is the church age where we also have seen a revelation of God and His covenant with us.

Paul

Philippians 3:5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. 7 Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

There are very few people who we know by just their first name, especially from 2,000 years ago. Imagine if Paul had remained Saul of Tarsus, would anyone remember him? How many other Pharisees can you name?

At the time of Paul "persecuting the church" made him an elite member of this religious zealots. He was like the Green Beret of the Jews. How about now, any honor to having been there when Stephen was martyred? Would you consider it a badge of honor now that he went around arresting Christians and having them put to death? He was a Hebrew of the hebrews. What do you think, has history passed down to us a reverence for these Jews that put Jesus to death?

The things that are gain to us today will be things that look like foul stinking garbage in the near future. Seeing Jesus will open our eyes to that and we can toss them in the trash before they stink up our life.

Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

According to Gill this means in a light and trifling way, without any show of reverence of him, and affection to him;

Some interpret this to refer to swearing by the name in a lightly, rashly or falsely.

OK, but hold it, Exodus tells us that the name of God is "I am". You shall not say "I am" in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh the use of "I am" in vain. Do not joke about "I am", do not speak in a light or trifling way about "I am" and do not say lightly, rashly or falsely "I am..."

Let's look at this more closely --

"I am a sinner" -- this is not a joke, this is not a light or trifling matter.

"I am redeemed" -- do not say this lightly. This carries a lot of weight.

"I am going to give myself to the Lord" -- do not swear this falsely.

Things you cannot say

You can say "I was dead in sins" but not "I am".

You can say "I was a slave to sin" but not "I am"

Joshua 5:1-9 The Circumcision of the Army of the Lord on January 6th

1 Now it happened when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted [in despair], and there was no [fighting] spirit in them any longer because of the Israelites [and what God had done for them].

We need to be aware of what is going on with the Amorites. I get it, they are not God’s people, they are sinful, and some may wish to just focus on the Lord. But the church is not just a hospital or an elementary school, it is also an army, and any army needs to have their eyes and ears open to their adversaries. Right now the “Amorites” those who are ruling and abusing you are terrified. The economy dried up allowing God’s people to cross over from our little bubble in our churches to get involved in the running of the country. The tech giants thought they could censor a few stories, publish a few lies and manipulate the people. The politicians thought they could do as they pleased and would not be bothered. Then they see 500,000 people attend a rally in Washington DC, they saw a hundred of these rallies nationwide, some spontaneous, some organized by Trump, most organized by non profit organizations. They are terrified. It is like the grasshopper that is swarmed by a couple hundred ants. Yes they look like giants but we can swarm them. We can cancel our subscriptions, stop doing business with them, move to other platforms, hire other services, attend school board meetings, go to precinct meetings, write letters, sign petitions, remove governors from office, file lawsuits, publish evidence of corruption and fraud, hold them accountable, and primary those who refuse to listen to the will of the people. They realize how powerless they are before this swarm of millions of Americans who have risen up to take a stand for righteousness. The outage of Facebook is evidence they are terrified, the fact they can't get their spending bills passed is evidence they are terrified, the fact that the Chinese economy is in meltdown is evidence that they are terrified. Now in a desperation move they create "the ministry of truth" opening themselves to be mocked mercilessly. The appoint Mary Poppins to run it! They leak the supreme court ruling on abortion and doxx the judges. A last ditch attempt and yet no one wants to be associated with them. No company backs them, and polls indicate that what is happening is motivating Republicans to vote more than Democrats 2:1.

2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise the [new generation of the] sons of Israel as [was done] before.” 3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. 4 This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness along the way after they left Egypt. 5 All the males who came out were circumcised, but all the males who were born in the wilderness on the way as they left Egypt had not been circumcised. 6 For the Israelites walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, died because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord; to them the Lord had sworn [an oath] that He would not let them see the land which He had promised to their fathers to give us, a land [of abundance] flowing with milk and honey. 7 So it was their uncircumcised sons whom He raised up in their place, whom Joshua circumcised, because circumcision had not been performed on the way.

The church age has been 40 jubilees. First, we need to be circumcised. We do not fight according to the flesh. Look at BLM, they had riots, looting, over 450 of their protests turned violent. People were gunned down in the streets. We have videos of them acting like a mob of wild dogs terrorizing people in restaurants, attacking cars, vandalizing, looting, and in many ways making the city unsafe for everyone. Although the initial claims of injustice by the police and the need for reform resonated with people their support has plummeted. As people see them more and more every day as being fleshly and greedy. Their leaders are shown to be every bit as corrupt as those they are trying to replace. This is not the way to bring in the kingdom. This morning Candace Owens went to one of their properties to ask questions with a film crew and the woman went onto youtube to cry about being threatened by right wing conservatives. Candace is pregnant, hardly a threatening presence. The property is owned by BLM. In little more than a year they have already imploded and destroyed any credibility they may have had. By contrast I was in six Stop the Steal rallies. At every one there were small groups (relative to the size of our rallies) of BLM and Antifa supporters who were there to fight. At some they shouted at us, at others they were dressed for battle with baseball bats, but in every one they were there to try and start a fight. Because they were greatly outnumbered they would try and attack two or three walking alone after the rallies. Then on January 6 they tried to discredit the rally of 500,000 with a riot at the Capital. This was very tricky for them to organize. If they wait until the people from the rally at the White House walk over to the capitol building they would be greatly outnumbered and the Stop the Steal people could stop them from rioting. So they planned to start the riot the minute Trump finished speaking and before enough people could get there to stop them. They were composed of both Antifa and right wing groups that were both anarchists and the whole thing was organized by deep state actors in the FBI. None of these people were part of the Stop the Steal rallies, rather they organized to meet at the Capitol (not the rally at the White House) and break into the capitol the minute Trump stopped speaking. The problem was Trump started 45 minutes later than he was scheduled, as a result they began the riot at the same time Trump began speaking a mile away. Not only so we can detect their plans on social media and see who was planning this. Also, because of their ego and attempt to make money they videotaped everything. We have a total of 14,000 hours of video that reveals everything. There were deep state people who were acting as supervisors. They accused them of killing a cop but that was a lie. The only person murdered was Ashli Babbit who was shot and killed by security even though she didn’t have a weapon and was not threatening to harm anyone. Yes, they were trespassing and vandalizing the capital, but compared to the Antifa riots where people were murdered, stores were looted, and buildings were burned to the ground this was tame by comparison.

Still, these people should have known better than to trespass in the capitol. We now are getting video that suggests the police invited them in, taking away the barriers and waving people in. If that is the case they cannot be charged with trespassing. We also have evidence that the hundred or so rioters who broke windows and truly rushed the capital were part of right wing anarchist groups and left wing communist groups like Antifa. Neither of these groups were associated with the Stop the Steal rally. Still you should take forethought for things honorable with man. Knowing that you are going to have 500,000 in the city you should make sure you have the security. The Washington Mayor arrested the Proud Boys the day prior to the rally, the proud boys act as the security for these rallies. So although we had had over 100 peaceful rallies prior to this the police took away our ability to maintain peace. Also, Trump and the FBI both advised Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer of threats that they had detected. However Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer refused to accept the national guard from Trump and refused to have extra police presence or put up a serious barrier.

So yes, you should take forethought for things honorable among men, the rally did that by providing their own security which the police arrested despite there not being a single incident to base that on. Trump also acted responsibly. The only ones who were not responsible were Pelosi and Schumer.

8 Then, when they had finished circumcising all [the males of] the nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed. 9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach (derision, ridicule) of Egypt from you.” So the name of that place is called Gilgal (rolling) to this day.

I found it very surprising that God would do this since there is a story in Genesis about how Jacob’s sons used the circumcision of a town as an opportunity to kill them. January 6th was a circumcision. We were in pain and unable to do anything until this was healed and the reproach was rolled away. But you can be sure once this happens we will be coming with a renewed vengeance.

What have we cut off? We were entangled in the world, we have cut off that fleshly connection. What does it mean to be healed? We left Facebook and created new platforms like Frank Speech, GETTR, Rumble, etc. We have dumped the mainstream media and have new channels of journalists we trust like Steve Bannon and Project Veritas. Netflix and Disney have crashed. Nothing can stop what is coming.

Short, sweet, to the point and full of convincing proofs

What is happening?

1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

>Germany. On brink of natural gas shortage
>UK.. In the red zone/[CRASH] gas shortage
>U.S. on the brink of second gas Shortage/stock markets
>China system collapsing>stock market[CRASH]>not enough electric for production of world goods/not enough coal
>U S. Politicians. Congress is turning on reach other _ U S. Soldiers Exodus of Military began.
>Doctors, SOLDIERS, POLICE, scientist, health care workers mass Exodus from government and start to ban together against the System
>MAJOR conflict inside the PENTAGON and Intel agencies<>>Soldiers are beginning to see the chain of command is in CHAOS
>FBI caught in a lie on the FAKE insurrection jan.6 report and starts DEMOCRATIC inside war<<
>RAND PAUL>> [EXPOSURE] of FAUCI and gain of function in the Congressional hearings reach's the ears of Democratic Leaders<<<Tom Cotton Report (Mil INTEL} on the creation of the virus to hit FALL <>>> many governors and senators are becoming aware of Gain-of function and 900 page FAUCI report in collusion with Gates CDC NIH
>MASS stock dumps began in big tech and consumer goods//Transfer of $$€£ to Energy
As World wide shortages begin
>China buying U S. EU >Goods and meat with cash surplus and causing mass INFLATION/
>China lower class demanding more meat and goods brings CCP into brink of full collapse [CRASH]>
>CHINA 2 months flooding in 12 province cause huge disruption In World wide chain of production,goods and aluminum >> World INFLATION in construction industry destroying small companies<
>South American agriculture industry hit by high temperatures and Exports of seasonal foods in chaos>corn, soy beans, coffee
>Coffee shortage expected as Vietnam slows exports/South America drought and frost effects coffee production/
>Many countries see the Market [CRASH] incoming and start to reduce exports and start reserve and storing<>>this effects the Market
>L A port and New York ports have back up shipping CARGOS with millions of U.S. goods, produce, and supplies drifting afloat with no time of delivery in sight and insurance companies began PANIC<
>Nearing 30 billion loss and jobs in the U.S. auto industry due to china and with holding micro chips/ chip shortage
>China EXPECTED to devalue the currency which will effect the World wide stock market at over 22% and destroy over quarter billion small and large business's in the first 4 months
>Military reserves/Army Expected to be Activated in the U.S. Canada. U k EU . ICELAND South American. Mexico ,African regions. Malaysia.
And over 80 countries
>Forced Vaccinations/Vaccines pass mandates and Government threats among it's citizens is reaching an all time high rebellion across several natiions with PROTESTS turning to violence and riots
_THE LOSS OF FOOD/ ENERGY IS THE CATAPULT, WHERE SOCIETY WILL CREATE RIOTING IN THE STREETS ACROSS THE WORLD. THOSE WHO WERE UNAWARE OF THE GLOBAL COLLAPSE... WILL WAKE UP!!!

2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Add to this the two movies on election fraud recently released: Rigged and 2,000 Mules. The indisputable evidence of election fraud is clearly out there for all to see. Not only so but Trump is 55-0 in the candidates he endorses winning in the primary. In desperation they leaked the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade and organized protests at churches as well as doxxing the Supreme Court justices. Biden did not condemn any of this. Clearly they hoped this would motivate 50% of the country to back the Democrats but it isn't working. Polls indicate that it is the Republicans who are motivated to vote as a result 2:1. No one is buying the idea that letting the states vote is against democracy, and if they truly have 69% of the popular support as they claim then it doesn't make sense why they say letting people vote will cause most states to restrict or prohibit abortion.

3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.

Meanwhile the evidence is pouring in of criminality as Dr. Naomi Wolf does a forensic audit of the 55,000 documents released by Pfizer with 3,000 volunteers reading through the documents and 250 lawyers working on lawsuits.

4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

That is the key point, we do not need to worry or fear. We have men and women of faith giving themselves to audit the election, audit Pfizer, investigate the pedophiles, investigate the use of FISA warrants, investigate the FBI and Clinton, and everywhere they look they are surrounded and judgment is coming like a freight train.

8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. 9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, 10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. 11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

Thank you Lord, You are my refuge.

13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

Interesting that the evidence is now coming out that this vaccine is actually cobra venom. They thought they were the king of the jungle and combined that with the treachery and deceitfulness of a snake.

14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

Lord Jesus, we need you to save us.

Joshua 6:1-20 -- Riding forth conquering and to conquer

1 Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.

Right now the world is terrified of the church, the gospel, and the Lord. They see everything that is coming true before their eyes and they know that means the day of judgement is near.

2 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3 March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. 4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. 5 When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”

This is a fantastic plan. Try and visualize a city that has a wall all the way around it. The wall is essentially a circle. It is supported on the inside so if you try to knock it down it will stand. The design is very sturdy at repelling those who are outside trying to get in, but it is very poor at stopping those on the inside from getting out. Now imagine you are in this city, locked tight and up on the ramparts of this wall you have soldiers watching what is going on. Everyone in the city wants to know “what are they doing?” They say “nothing, just walking around”. You think “no way, they are doing something, you are missing it, if I was up there I would see”. This goes on day after day after day. Finally on the seventh day they blast the trumpets, everyone inside knows that they are definitely doing something now and all around the city the inhabitants rush up the ladders to see what is going on and oops, there is nothing to prevent the wall from falling down flat. The world is shut up in this city being told to lock down and they know the people telling them what to do are lying to them. Even Bill Maher the atheist knows they are being lied to. Fauci and the others are the ones on top of the wall telling everyone in the city to continue being in a lockdown indefinitely, they know it is a lie. Outside this wall there are those marching around the city proclaiming liberty, blowing the trumpet, and lifting up the Lord Jesus. This is the fundamental flaw with censorship.

6 So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.” 7 And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”

Now to do this properly you have to carry the ark, and to carry that ark you must be a priest who is sanctified. There is a proper way to bear the testimony of the Lord.

8 When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them.

In this picture Jesus is Joshua. We are a kingdom of priests, but the number seven strikes me as referring to the church, the bride of Christ. The ark of the Lord's covenant would refer to the New Testament which is our marriage covenant, it is also a word of grace, a light that shines in a dark place. We go before blowing our trumpet, sharing our testimony and the word follows right along, right behind us.

9 The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding.

All the while we have an armed guard before and behind. I find this quite amazing that in this age of censorship, cancelling and violence against others we are able to blow the trumpet of the Lord's return unhindered.

10 But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!” 11 So he had the ark of the Lord carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there.

To give a shout is to give a Teruah. These trumpets and this shout both point us to the feast of trumpets. We are proclaiming the coming of the king, we are proclaiming that the Bridegroom cometh, and we are proclaiming that it is the Day of the Lord.

12 Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13 The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the Lord and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets kept sounding. 14 So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days. 15 On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. 16 The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city! 17 The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. 18 But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. 19 All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.”

This is quite significant because at the Lord’s return He will call His servants to make account and they will need to bring forth the talents He gave them and show what they have done with them. Nothing will be lost. Everything belongs to the Lord. If you were to steal one of the devoted things you would be stealing from God. Also note that Rahab the prostitute represents someone on the inside who helped spy out the city. Right now we have people on the inside telling us about the corruption, the sins and the crimes of the Democrats, of the Biden crime family, and of many in the deep state. Some people liken this seven days to the seven year tribulation. I don't know, I find it hard to believe in some respects. This would mean that Rahab went through the seven year tribulation including the wrath of God. That doesn't seem right. Also it would mean that on the seventh day you could still do something that would impact your salvation even though the gospel of grace ends before the seventh year of the tribulation.

20 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.

One translation is “they went straight up”. This is a picture of the rapture. It will be a glorious victory for the gospel. It will be our entry into the good land. It will mark the year of Jubilee where everything that was taken from us will be returned (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived in the good land before going down to Egypt and becoming enslaved). It will also come like a thief in the night. When the saints are raptured Satan’s kingdom will be robbed. We have completely surrounded this kingdom, some are focused on election fraud, some are concerned about what is being taught in the schools, some are concerned about our withdrawal from Afghanistan, others care about the border crisis, still others are concerned about LGBTQ, and others with Abortion, and others with inflation and the economy, and still others with the vaccine mandate. Each of us will go "straight up" when the walls fall. So I prefer looking at this as a figure of the pretribulation rapture. The walls of Jericho are trying to shut out the gospel. When we are raptured it will cause those walls to fall down flat and for the entire worldly system to collapse. Satan's lies for 2,000 years, the apostasy, all that about the Bible being a book of fairy tales, that will all collapse.

The Hebrew calendar is based on the Old Covenant. However, shouldn't we be looking at the New Covenant for the pretribulation rapture since we are still in the church age? According to our covenant there is no Sabbath day, Paul refers to it as "whatever day" indicating we are on a different calendar from the Hebrew calendar. So the Jews can celebrate their independence day based on their calendar, but the rest of the world will see May 14th as the anniversary.

It makes sense to use the Hebrew calendar when looking at the day counts given to us by Daniel. But when it comes to prophetic timing it makes sense to look at this blood moon on May 15th as marking the world's view of the anniversary of the UN ruling concerning Israel.

Also please note that Noah was not using the "Hebrew calendar" and that the 2nd month for him is what is now considered the 8th month. However, you can be "like the days of Noah" by using the 2nd month, even if it isn't the same 2nd month.

Joshua 6:21-27 -- Riding forth conquering and to conquer

21 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. 22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.

I like to think of Rahab as being similar to Oscar Schindler. Schindler was a “prostitute”. He sold himself to the Germans to make money. But when he saw what they were doing to the Jews he feared God. He knew there would be a fearful judgement and so he hid the Jews, protecting them from the concentration camp and the gas chambers. As a result he is counted as one of the righteous before God. It is very interesting in the movie about him, Schindler's List, they consider everyone he saved and all their offspring as being part of his house that came out of the holocaust with him.

24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house.

Then they burned the city and everything in it. That sounds like the tribulation.

25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.

We are watching the deep state be brought down. We are seeing the election fraud being exposed, Zuckerberg being exposed, Epstein being exposed, Fauci and Gates being exposed, Hunter Biden and Joe Biden being exposed, Clinton being exposed, etc. This is happening because there are whistleblowers like Rahab willing to hide the spies.

26 At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: “At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.” 27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.

Joshua, the Jewish version of Jesus. There are several pictures of the rapture, one is of a coronation, one is of a wedding, one is of the initiation of the tribulation on Earth, and one is of the Lord girding His sword on His side and riding forth on the white horse conquering and to conquer.

But what is Jericho? Maybe it represents the collusion between the tech giants, the mainstream media, the politicians and the deep state to censor information, to spread disinformation, and to control what people can and cannot see. Perhaps this 6 hours where Facebook was recently down indicates that Rahab has helped us to get inside the walls of Jericho and fully expose their wickedness.

It is a perfect storm

The 40 years in the wilderness depicts 40 jubilees of the church age. The last 2,000 years of human history.

Proverbs 27:1-13 -- This is why the day of evil is approaching.

1 Do not boast of tomorrow, for you know not what a day may bring forth. 2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

I have seen a lot of indoctrination about giving encouragement and not speaking criticism. I was in a professional development where we were told that words like "but", "however" and "should" are hurtful words. What has happened that we have become so fragile? Consider Steve Bannon, he has been vilified, insulted, slandered, mocked and made fun of for the last two years because he was running a show called “War Room Pandemic” where the fundamental premise was that the pandemic was a bioweapon created in the Wuhan laboratory. Yet now, everyone, Wall Street Journal, even Bill Maher have come to the conclusion that they were wrong to mock him and that the evidence is piling up that he was right. How is it that two years ago they were able to jump to the conclusion that Bannon was a nut case, and that the doctors from both China and the US coming forward about this threat should also be slandered? This is how you get praised from a stranger. Bill Maher is a left wing liberal and Steve Bannon is a right wing conservative. They are on opposite sides of the political spectrum and yet Bill Maher, a “stranger” praised Steve Bannon. No one would be praising Steve Bannon today if he had curled up and sulked at the first negative word he heard. He is praised that despite that He stood firm and continued to push for the truth.

3 Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool’s wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both of them.

Critical Race Theory is a fool’s unreasoning wrath. Some people confuse this with the history of slavery (it isn’t) or with the history of the Civil Rights movement (it isn’t that either). Rather this theory says that Blacks are and have always been victims and whites are and have always been oppressors. It is insulting and demeaning to everyone. It says that all decisions should be based on the color of the skin going so far as to even say the more melanin someone has in their skin the more morally upright they are. The proponents want to “burn the US constitution”. Think about that, what government on this earth do they think is better? It turns out they support communism. Russia, China and Venezuela are the models they wish to emulate. That is a fool’s wrath.

4 Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Before you start praying for the Lord to come in and judge let’s examine ourselves. God says that idolatry provokes Him to jealousy. Do you worship the dollar? You can be sure the dollar will not be able to stand before God’s jealousy. This vaccine mandate is a test, are you trusting in the Lord or in your paycheck?

5 Open rebuke is better than love that is hidden.

This is the problem with that professional development. They are labelling all rebuke as hate speech. Not being allowed to rebuke someone is the same thing as requiring love to be hidden. Rebuke is like applying the brakes to someone’s life when they are about to crash. Done correctly it is an act of love.

6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are lavish and deceitful.

We are seeing lavish and deceitful kisses. Kamala Harris said if you elect her she would put an end to the human rights abuses at the border. That was a “lavish kiss” that was deceitful. Not only has she not put an end to the abuses she clearly has no intention of putting an end to them. Interestingly she is named after an Indian goddess famous for being deceitful.

7 He who is satiated loathes and treads underfoot a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

The world right now is about to enter a time of testing and trial, and the result will be that all those who are satiated are about to become hungry souls. The prophets say that they will seek up and down looking for someone to speak a word from the Lord to them, even a rebuking word, but they won’t be able to find it.

8 Like a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who strays from his home.

The church is our home. Have you strayed from the church?

9 Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of a friend’s counsel that comes from the heart.

TV is not counsel that comes from a friend. The Lord called us friends. His counsel is sweet and rejoices the heart. The world wants to cut you off from that counsel, replacing it with their trivial garbage.

10 Your own friend and your father’s friend, forsake them not; neither go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near [in spirit] than a brother who is far off [in heart].

The day of calamity is coming. What do you do? Don’t forsake the Lord Jesus. Remember what the Lord said, those that hear His words and obey them are His mother, and brother. He said to love your neighbor as yourself. A person who is obeying that word is better than a brother according to the flesh.

11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

I am a teacher and some students get paranoid as though the teacher is out to get them. Teachers are judged based on kids passing, we have to give account for every student that fails, it is never true that we want a student to fail. I have had some very difficult students, if they fail I will have them again the next year, you can be sure I don’t want that.

12 A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.

We can see the day approaching if we are awake and are watching. How do we “hide”? We hide ourselves in the Lord. We immerse ourselves in the Triune God. We flee into the Lord who is a strong tower.

13 [The judge tells the creditor] Take the garment of one who is security for a stranger; and hold him in pledge when he is security for foreigners.

The US has made themselves security for a stranger. We have given an exemption from lawsuits to tech giants. Why would we do that? They can harm the US as much as they want and no one can seek compensation. This is why the evil is coming. We allowed them to lie and censor with impunity.