Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Think of how they would roll this out.

One day they cut off all entitlement checks. No Social Security, no medicare, no food stamps, no welfare, etc.

What would someone do? They would tell you there was a problem with the checks and you would hope that it got better. Maybe within a week you would be on the street protesting. These protests would get out of hand with looting. They would bring in the police and impose martial law.

Now it has been two weeks since you got a check and for those who live check to check you no longer have food in the house and you are locked in your house, no food, no money. SWAT teams and Police and National Guard patrol the streets. The city looks like Shanghai.
The next two weeks you hear loud wails and cries from people locked in these apartment buildings. The government can tell you any story they want and you have no idea of what is going on. Everyday the news is filled with videos of some old lady or some old man being humiliated, forced to walk on their knees, being beaten, arrested, etc. This is designed to intimidate, to silence, to put people into submission.

Two months into this the situation will quiet down. Many of the weak, infirm and elderly will have quietly died in their apartments. All the body bags could be used by the news to justify the lockdown due to a "pandemic".

However, at this point you can reopen, at least partially, and let the most essential workers go back to work and let food deliveries be made to those who have the money. In this way you have accomplished several things. You have demonstrated to the populace your iron fist, you have provided your military with a training op, and you have eliminated a large number of "useless eaters".

It is not hard to see that after 2 months of "noise" and "unrest" after stopping all entitlement payments you would have eliminated most of those who receive them. Then you have people return to work, say 80-90 days after the lockdown and everyone who needs an entitlement check needs to reapply. This could take a few more weeks. Based on this "test run" you can see what percent of entitlement checks you have eliminated.

Sounds like a Dana Coverstone dream or a Prophecy Club video of all their dreams and visions.
 

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Christians becoming confused when they hear from the latest, newest religion
 

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Luke 20 Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things

20:1 And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
3 And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:
4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
7 And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.

8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

There are those who quote Romans which says that we need to be subject to the authorities concerning the vaccine Mandate. My question to those that mandate the vaccine is "by what authority do you do these things?" They may claim that with the FDA approval they now have the legal right to mandate a vaccine based on the Nuremberg laws. That is fine, however, they don't give you the FDA approved vaccine and they don't have it. So again, my question is by what authority are they mandating a vaccine which is Emergency Use Authorization? That is illegal. They are firing people based on this illegal mandate.

They are setting themselves up as God but what a poor substitute for the real Jesus Christ, Lord of All.

The Bible says to "honor the king" and yet Jesus said "neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things". The minute a ruler steps out from under the law they are dishonoring the true king. The Bible does not command us to honor those who dishonor Jesus. The Lord was not rude, he wasn't crude, but He held His ground. Tell me the authority by which John the Baptist baptized, in other words if you admit that his authority was from God then you admit that Jesus is Lord. These evil rulers refuse to admit that Jesus is God.

How hypocritical. They would condemn Christians for not "honoring the king" when in fact the ones who will be condemned for not honoring the king is them.
 

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A different gospel

There are two very different gospels being preached. One is open, from the rooftops, out in the light. The other is hidden, secret, full of lies and deceit.

In the Bible's gospel we have the Christian ethic, work hard, have faith in God, and you will reap what you sow.

In this antithesis of the gospel it is all about prospering off of someone else's labor. With one hand you do good works as PR, with the hidden hand you bring death and destruction. For example, let's say the government wanted to become much more powerful. Hitler did this, you create a problem, say the Communists, and then the people seek you out to have a more aggressive police department where you now have a firmer grip over the country. Perhaps the Jews see through this so you decide to make them the enemy. You destroy them with one hand, and then steal everything they have and use that to fund your "good works". It is like a snake devouring itself.

Suppose the real goal is to have greater control over the people, like branding cattle. You create something that can track every human being on the planet by simply injecting it into them. You can first test this out on animals and prisoners. This could even store digital information like bank accounts. If you can eliminate cash you have even greater control over people. But no one would agree to this so you create a catastrophe, a pandamic, and then use that as a way to motivate people to get your injection.

Satan comes only to steal, kill and destroy. If you are part of the 1% that rule the world, then it is an easy thing to see killing 1/3 of the people on this planet as a solution to your problems. Hitler saw this as the solution, Stalin saw it this way, Lenin saw it this way, you should not think it strange that "the ruler of this age" would see stealing and murder as a solution.

G.K. Chesterton said the study of history should be a study of power elites. Instead historians obscure and deny the truth. The more I read, the more I am convinced that the function of the news media, the arts, education and entertainment is to deceive and make us stupid. While we are numbed and distracted, our leaders carry out their orders under occult discipline (or blackmail.) As human life becomes degraded, it seems less worth saving. The devil is afoot and all-powerful. As long as he uses deceit, good people seem helpless to resist. https://rense.com/general29/free.htm

The Noahide laws are a disturbing development. The US and the UN both recognize them and on the surface they seem Biblical. However, the penalty for blasphemy is beheading and that includes declaring that Jesus is Lord.

Obviously that is a violation of the US constitution and those penalties have not been enforced. The thought is that after the rapture Satan is cast out of heaven, the Antichrist rises and to maintain order not only do they push the "great delusion" of UFOs and something out of a Marvel movie script, but they will also declare martial law and enforce the Noahide law to prevent anyone from preaching that Jesus is Lord.

This is prophesied in the Bible when the fifth seal is opened as we see the souls of those who have been beheaded.
 

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The coming famine -- Revelation 6:5-6 A measure of wheat for a penny.
 

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8 US Presidents that were/are 33 degree FreeMasons (some were honorary)

Revelation 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

One theory is that the Beast refers to one world government and the woman refers to global commerce from multinational corporations like Disney, Coca Cola, etc. These multinational corporations sit upon the seven continents. You can describe it as the stock market with the most prominent being in NY, London and Hong Kong.

8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Was and is not indicates that Babylon with Nimrod as the leader foreshadowed this one world government at the end of the age. The worship of Baal and Ashteroth and all thee derivative worship of Greek and Egyptian Gods is part of this. These false pagan gods suffered a major defeat at the cross of Christ and were all but done away with but in recent years have made a very strong come back with things like "Burning Man" and "New Age" and the apostasy.

9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

If global commerce represents this harlot, then the kings would certainly be US presidents. It is very difficult to view anyone else on Earth as a "king" of these multinational corporate religion.

33rd degree Free Masons

These are the presidents who have been "master masons" since WWII when Israel became a nation again.

FDR, Truman, Ford, Reagan, Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden

Interestingly Biden is the eighth and is of the seven (Obama). The other interesting thing is that it says "five are fallen". At present only four have fallen, Clinton is still alive, however he is quite sick and his death would therefore be a major sign of the Lord's coming.
 

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2Corinthians 3 -- Our rapture is the mirror image of the Lord's resurrection

1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?


Wow! Do you realize he is the apostle of the Lord? He has been sent to us with a message from the Lord and this is the message! So instead of thinking of Paul saying this, think of Jesus.

2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

When the Lord returns will He find faith? Will He find saints that are “Letters of commendation”, the word of God is written on their hearts? That is the point of the ministry, that the words of the Lord would be written on our hearts so that we manifest and express Him when He returns.

4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

That is the point, Paul is ministering the New Testament. We have a covenant with God that “Christ in us is the hope of glory”. In these chapters we have to view this as Christ in Paul the hope of glory speaking. For the last 18 months many of us have been looking at the signs and prophecies of the Lord’s coming. Many of these “watchmen” have become fixated on the Old Testament feasts. Although Paul said in Colossians that these feasts are a shadow of things to come they are still Old Testament. The rapture of the church before the hour of trial is a New Testament promise. We have a covenant with the Lord and in that covenant there is a promise that He will return to gather us to Himself so that where He is there we will be also. This is not part of the Old covenant, this is a new covenant promise, so why are all these “watchmen” ignoring the New Testament? The Feast of Trumpets and the Atonement are both feasts that are part of the covenant to the Jews. How could either one be fulfilled by the rapture of the church composed primarily of Gentiles?

7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

Yes, when you catch the crooks there is glory in that. But when you transform the deplorables into the bride of Christ that is exceedingly glorious. This is my point exactly, yes there is glory in the Old Covenant, but the New Covenant exceeds in glory and most notably that is the rapture.

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

These liars and crooks and thieves are being done away with. Yes we will cheer and clap when this is done. But the bride of Christ will remain, that is a far more lasting glory.

12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

What is this vail? They see Paul, they don’t see Christ in him, the hope of glory. They need letters of commendation and don’t see that the deplorables transformed into the bride of Christ is His letter of commendation. At the end of this age they will be the sign to this evil generation. They will see them stand up in the streets of Nineveh and prevent the house from being broken into. When the Lord comes He will find faith written on the hearts of these ones. The rapture of the believers will ultimately take away the vail that is upon the hearts of the Jews.

17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Who organized these people to stand up? Who got them together to do this? The Lord is that Spirit. It isn’t by power or might, it is by the Spirit of the Lord. The powers that be have told them to shut up and move on, but where the Spirit of the Lord is there is the freedom to say no, I will stand by faith.

18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Can you imagine that when the Lord returns there would be millions of believers watching and ready and in the same image as the Lord? What does this mean “changed into the same image from glory to glory”. No doubt this is referring to a process, like the songs of ascent, going up step by step with the rapture being the ultimate step. At the time of the rapture we know the Holy Spirit will be seen as the one restraining evil, is that the same image of the Lord?

Now look at this, it is telling you that the rapture of the saints is like a mirror of the Lord’s glory in His resurrection. We are beholding the crucified and resurrected Christ and we are changed into the same image like a mirror.
 

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If they have the capability of monitoring everything we say and write why aren't these Moloch and Baal worshippers stopping us from exposing their crimes? Doing so would confirm to the rest of the world that this is true. There is a restrainer on this earth. Until the restrainer is taken away they cannot operate in the open.
 

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He will restrain until He is to arise exceedingly abundantly out of the midst

2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

Letteth -- 2722 --
Hold (Down, Fast, Forth, On, To, Up), Held, Holden, (Take) Hold:

"to hold firmly, hold fast" (kata, "down," and No. 1), is rendered "hold fast" in 1Cr 11:2, RV (AV, "keep"); 1Th 5:21; Hbr 3:6, 14 (RV); 10:23; "hold down," Rom 1:18, RV, of unrighteous men who restrain the spread of truth by their unrighteousness, or, as RV marg., "who hold the truth in (or with) unrighteousness," contradicting their profession by their conduct (cp. Rom 2:15, RV); in Rom 7:6, RV, "holden," AV, "held," of the Law as that which had "held" in bondage those who through faith in Christ were made dead to it as a means of life.
See KEEP, MAKE (toward), POSSESS, RESTRAIN, SEIZE, STAY, TAKE.

He be taken — 1096 — Te become, to take place, sometimes translated “arise” (a questioning, a murmuring, a tribulation, a stir in the city, a great dissension)

out of — 1537 — A primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause; literal or figurative — Abundance, Abundant, Abundantly, Abound:

a still further strengthened form, is translated "exceeding abundantly" in Eph 3:20; "exceedingly" in 1Th 3:10; 5:13.


See EXCEEDINGLY.

the way — 3319 — out of the midst, out from among, out of midnight — lit., "up to the middle of," i.e., among, or in the midst of, hence, between, is used in 1Cr 6:5, of those in the church able to decide between brother and brother, instead of their going to law with one another in the world's courts.

Imagine this were translated: He will restrain until He is to arise exceedingly abundantly out of the midst

This sounds like the saints and the church are in the midst, restraining, holding back evil, expressing Jesus, shining in the image of Jesus until they arise exceedingly abundantly out of the midst.
 

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Illustrating the one holding back evil

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JRR Tolkien was a Christian and his "Lord of the Rings" fantasy was based on Biblical imagery.

In this imagery his illustration of the Holy Spirit Holding back evil was when Gandalf said "You shall not pass" to the Balrog.

The Balrog falls into the abyss and Gandalf also appears to fall but the next thing we know he is on the mountain top. We see resurrection and transformation.
 

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Are you in the midst, one with the Holy Spirit, holding back evil?

I like to compare this to the 3 gorges dam, holding back the flood. At the time of the rapture the dam bursts and there is a flood on the earth.

Stan is on his knees praying that the suitcase nukes do not go off yet.

Bannon is out there as a thorn in the side of these globalists trying to bring in the AntiChrist.

The movies "Rigged" and "2,000 Mules" are causing an exceeding abundance of people to rise up to stand against election fraud.

Durham's trial of Sussman is causing an exceeding number of people to arise and wake up to the corruption of Hillary Clinton.

Dr. Naomi Wolf is causing thousands to arise and wake up to the evils of the pharmaceutical industry and this vaccine.

Dr. Zelensky is also causing those to arise to see there is a cure they can take to protect them from this plague.

On Friday I was with a number of Gideon brothers handing out New Testaments, we gave away 330. This was at a food give away that a church holds every friday.

I know another brother who works at a place called "the banquet" where they feed people every week. Our church goes and volunteers once a month to assist them.

There are others who are involved in election audits, or in the various precincts or in school board meetings. There are many, many fronts on this battle, but in every instance you see those who are walking by the Spirit to hold back evil until they are taken out of the way with the rapture.