Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Others mocking said, they are filled with new wine

5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.

This word is G2730 in the Strong's it means to settle down in a dwelling, to dwell fixedly in a place. Paul used this word to describe the Holy Spirit dwelling in the believers in Colossians and again that Christ would make His home in your hearts in Ephesians. This word does not refer to visitors who are there to celebrate a feast.

6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilaeans? 8 And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born? 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, 10 in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.

Why no reference to Shavuot?

12 And they were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, What meaneth this? 13 But others mocking said, They are filled with new wine.

This is said as a joke. How is it funny to describe "devout men" as being drunk on cheap wine early in the morning if this is not the New Wine festival?
We are going to be judged for every idle word we speak. What standing would God have to do that if He is speaking idle words in our Covenant. The Bible is not simply the word of God, the book of Enoch, a dream, a vision, these can all be the "word of God". No, the Bible is also our covenant with God, a legally binding document. Do you think lawyers put a meaningless joke into a mortgage contract? This joke that is included in our covenant is not meaningless.
 

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Israel may be divided beginning July 1st
 

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The reason America is blinded is because they trample on the sacrifice of Christ's blood

1. Babylon is fallen because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

This appears to refer to our companies like Hollywood and McDonald's and Coca Cola. But one of the issues of fornication is unwanted kids and the "wrath of her fornication" could easily refer to birth control and abortion.

2. I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Arrogance, pride, this has been the cause of spiritual blindness throughout all the ages. The Bible says that therefore the plagues on the US will come in one day death, and mourning and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire. So dig down a little further. Sit a queen refers to ruling and reigning. But "am no widow" indicates they are denying Jesus Christ, the king of kings, who died on the cross.


1. Massive run on the banks in China

2. Bank of England says biggest banks no longer "too big to fail"
Lloyds, HSBC, Standard Charter

3. Musk tries to ingratiate himself with Conservative Christians by saying he might support Desantis in 2024

4. Joe Biden will travel to the West Bank July 13-14

5. Insulin might be the next supply chain crisis. Tampon shortage. Lifeguard shortage. Police shortage. Breakfast bars, canned tuna, etc.

6. Europe has stopped manufacturing tanks because they don't have any Titanium which is essential and comes from Russia.

7. Nicaragua is housing Russian soldiers. Why would Russia who is involved in a war with Ukraine send soldiers to Nicaragua?

8. Russia destroyed a weapons depot in Ukraine that was being supplied by NATO.

9. One of the largest plants to produce liquid LNG will shut down for three weeks due to an explosion. This is in Freeport.

DOD insider -- Russia is moving troops into Nicaragua and has said that if Ukraine fires missiles into Russia that they will attack NATO. Ukraine has fired missiles into Russia. The reason Russia is dragging out the Ukraine invasion is to test the NATO weapon systems to determine their weaknesses. Turkey is turning against Israel and harboring Iranian terrorist cells. Israel has advised all Israelis to leave Turkey immediately.

China's plan to seize Taiwan is to drop millions of paratroopers followed by an amphibious assault. The plan is to seize Taiwan in 3 days. Taiwan will fire missiles into China if they are attacked.

Libya has shut down all of its oil production. The Freeport LNG refinery was supposed to have supplied Europe with 20% of their gas for the winter. The explosion was a Russian cyber attack.

The Pope declared we are in WWIII.

India and Pakistan are both poised for war and both have Nukes.
 

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Rapture - Preaching till midnight

1. Enoch is a type of the rapture. He was taken when he was 365 years old. He preceded Abraham so he was a Gentile and being taken when he was 365 is a very clear reference to the Gentile calendar. He was taken prior to the judgement (Noah’s flood). In typology he supports the teaching of a pre tribulation rapture.

2. 50 = Jubilee. A year of redemption. The rapture is the redemption of our Body. 50 = Fullness. What is the “fullness of the Gentiles”? We are adding Gentiles to the church right up until the “fullness has come”. This is also related to the rapture.

3. Gathering in Summer — He that gathers in summer is a wise son, but he that sleeps during harvest brings shame. In the same way we get this concept that some will be wise and some foolish when the Lord returns.

4. Two mountains — Hebrews 12 — Comparison of Mount Sinai with Mount Zion. This is contrasting the Jews heading to Sinai for the age of the law whereas we are heading to Zion for the age of Grace. This chapter compares what happened on Mt. Sinai with what will happen for us on Mt. Zion. The rapture is where the church of the firstborn is gathered to Mt. Zion.

5. Paul tarries till Pentecost. 1Cor 16:7 — I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. If Paul is a picture of the Lord’s heavenly ministry, he will tarry at Ephesus because there is a great opportunity to spread the gospel until Pentecost.

6. Paul preaching till midnight — Acts 20 — this is a picture of the church age, where we are preaching the gospel right up until midnight and if you die in the Lord (fall asleep) you will be raised at the end of this age with the rapture.
 

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More comments on the rapture

1. On Shavuot the High Priest (Jesus) holds up the two loaves (Jews and Gentiles) and waves them before the Father. The goal for this age is that these two loaves will become one.

2. Wheat harvest — Shavuot is the wheat harvest feast. You have to have new grain that is used to make the loaves. One way to distinguish between wheat and tares is that during the harvest the stalks of wheat will be bowed due to the weight of the fruit whereas the Tares will be standing straight. The wheat is bowed in worship, the tares are proud and arrogant. We are told that the rapture is also a harvest.

3. Harvest is a picture of resurrection, especially the wheat harvest. Those who died in Christ will be the firsts to meet the Lord in the heavens.

4. Shavuot is the feast without a date. The Lord’s crucifixion definitely had a specific date and the Great White throne judgement definitely has a date, but the rapture does not. There are some who are raptured prior to the tribulation, some in the middle of the tribulation and some at the end of the tribulation. This is just like graduation. Some people will complete the requirements early, some on time, and some after 5 years and still others will get a GED later than that.

5. Season of anticipation — The counting of the omer promotes a season of waiting just as any farmer would have a season of anticipation watching their crops grow. For the believer, the church, we have the same anticipating hope.

6. Ruth took place on Shavuot. It is a beautiful picture of Christ taking a gentile bride, the church. Naomi signifying Israel is destitute and her inheritance is restored through this marriage. Just like rapture.

7. Ruth took place at a time when “everyone does that which is right in their own eyes”.

8. Genesis depicts three raptures: Enoch (before judgement), Noah (preserved during judgement) and Lot (rescued by the skin of his teeth).
 

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Psalm 121 -- has numerical value of 2220

Passover -- value of 148

Times 10 = 1480 = Christ

True meaning of the Passover is Christ.

Jonah, or Dove = 71

times 10 = 710

True meaning of Dove is Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit descended on Christ during His baptism as the dove.

Chariot, Voice of God = 222

True meaning of the voice of God = 2220 = To ascend up.

Too much evidence that in this year you are going to hear the voice of God to ascend up.
 

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More Key points on the rapture

1. Firstfruits and feast of weeks are connected. The day the Lord was raised from the dead the priest offers a wave offering of barley, on Feast of weeks another wave offering is presented of two loaves of bread. These wave offerings have to do with the resurrection. Paul said that we partake of the one bread and as a result we become one loaf. He said every time we keep the Lord’s table we show forth (count) His death until He comes. It is as though the 50 days of grace refer to us partaking of the Lord’s table and every day that we do partake we count off another day.

2. Paul is a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. So just as Peter had the gospel to the circumcision and Paul had the gospel to the uncircumcision we see the two loaves that will be offered up to God during the Rapture.

3. On the third day we think of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Also, on the third day the Lord went to the wedding of Cana. Also, in Mt. Sinai it says “on the third day” Moses ascended the mountain.

4. Fig tree and summer. The parable of the fig tree, you know that summer is nigh when you see the fig tree put forth its leaves. The Lord planted the seeds with his ministry, the church age has been the summer time with the harvest growing, and the end of the age is the fall with the harvest of the crops.

5. To celebrate Shavuot the Jews will read and study the Torah for that night and they call this “decorating the bride”. They know it commemorates the marriage between God and His people.

6. A great harvest season, with wheat being one of the largest crops harvested by the Israelites. It has to be stored in granaries. This harvesting of the wheat is likened to the rapture by the Lord Jesus.

7. The goodman has perished. There is none upright among them. This is from Micah, a word of woe, a word of regret of despair. Comparison of all the fruit is gone to all the good men are gone. This word “perished” means to cause to vanish. It is a reference to the rapture. Those who are raptured will be those who were most closely allied to Israel, when the church is raptured the Israelites will lament that their are no good men left.

8. This is the only offering where you offer up leavened loaves. Leaven does not indicate sin, rather it indicates the customs and practices. At the ascension in Acts what happened, we had new customs and practices. At Mt. Sinai what happened we had new customs and practices. When the age of the law began we had “new leaven”, when the age of grace began we had “new leaven”. Likewise at the rapture we will have new leaven, new customs and practices, because we will have the Millenial kingdom reign where the entire world will be ruled by Jesus Christ.

9. In Acts it says those who observed this tried to explain it away as everyone being drunk. The same thing will happen after the rapture, they will have the “great delusion” to try and explain it away.
 

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30 minutes in he begins talking concerning the future.


The only thing that will save you is spending time in the bible.

Gog Magog war began in Sept 11, 2015 according to this. The army is led by Obama.
 

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I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling

Zechariah 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

A cup of trembling refers to a cup of drunkenness, that someone keeps on drinking even though they are drunk out of their mind, they are so befuddled they don't even know there is a siege going on against them. The focus is on Jerusalem. Now the way I read "Jerusalem" is that it depends on where we are in the timeline. As long as we are talking about the church age and the age of grace I think we have to consider the US to be "Judah". It is a country that is based on law, built on the constitution. And Jerusalem, the "city of Peace" would be Washington DC. Now after the rapture of the church Jerusalem would refer to the Jerusalem in Israel and the US becomes "the wilderness". We also know that in the church age the church is the Jerusalem which is above. In other prophecies it seems Ephraim, Joseph's younger son who wound up getting the double portion is the US. Obviously Judah and Ephraim are tribes in Israel and so have that meaning. But in the NT we hear about

Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.

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Galatians 6:16 And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

So it is reasonable to say that we can apply all the verses concerning Israel as a shadow of our own experience as Christians. This is the rule that Paul was referring to:

Galatians 6:14 But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

So then how would we, the Christians who are not drunk, who are not asleep, who are not befuddled, going to know when the Lord's return is upon us? We will see those in Washington DC and all the people round about (the mainstream media broadcasting out of NYC, Atlanta, and LA) will be befuddled. They will be drinking from a cup of drunkenness and continue drinking from it not having any clue about what is going on.

For example, you might see the other super powers like China threatening Taiwan and even laying the ground work for an invasion by first attacking with a bioweapon, followed up by stealing the election and installing their puppet, and then we would see a rapid increase in cyber attacks. I doubt we would see Russia befuddled so they would probably make a move on the Ukraine. Likewise Iran might see this as an opportunity as well to test out ICBMs and manufacture enough nuclear material for a bomb. If you were going to attack the US you would want "shock and awe". You want to be lightening fast on multiple fronts. Still I think they would want to lay the ground work by burning down 97 food processing plants, causing supply chain issues, massive inflation, cause the price of gas to double, and crash the stock market. Taiwan is absolutely critical to Asia, the Pacific and to micro chips. Without a supply of microchips US industry and defense would be crippled. The Ukraine is critical to the peace and security of Europe and Israel is essential to the peace and security of the Middle East. Cutting off the oil from the Middle East would cripple our allies, particularly Europe, and seizing the Ukraine would threaten Europe as well. Not only so but before D Day we had soldiers infiltrate Normandy either paratroopers or those in the underground in France. They were there to make sure once the attack started they would cut communications, blow up bridges, and in many ways make it difficult to reenforce the Normandy beaches. Using that as an analogy consider the D day size invasions of the US (156,000 soldiers) coming across our Southern border every month since Biden became President. So far we have had over 2 million come in illegally (that we know of). How many of them are agents designed to cause bedlam when the attack takes place?

What we will be able to see prior to that is Washington drinking from this cup of trembling. Maybe with a show trial. Perhaps we see the Chinese in all of our universities and influencing our scientists and politicians with joint projects and grants. Perhaps you will see politicians trying to distract from the threat of China and focus on some trivial threat like "white supremacists" or some other ridiculous boogey man like the parents of elementary school kids. You can be sure that some of our key politicians will have multi million dollar dealings with the Chinese like Hunter Biden does, or Kerry and Clinton do. You will also discover that some politicians have been involved with Chinese spies, probably the pretty honey trap ones like Fang Fang and Swalwell, and yet it doesn't hurt their career, if anything it helped. Then others like Pelosi and Feinstein will be invested in stealing elections using voting machines. This isn't a conspiracy theory, it may be a conspiracy, but there is no theory here, all of this has already been put out in the open. These drunks are so befuddled they don't realize the whole world sees their shame. They might threaten insurrection over some Supreme court ruling, they might double their own security while ignoring the security of Supreme court justices who don't vote the way they want. Maybe in their desperation they would do some false flag event at an elementary school in a last ditch attempt to seize the guns of Americans.

Anyway, when you see these things happen know that the day of the Lord is here, the Jerusalem "count down clock" is about to hit 0.
 

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The Ten Plagues of Egypt have returned

https://rumble.com/v18phkj-water-into-blood-dream-61622310am.html

Is this a dream of the water being turned into Blood? She gave a dream recently that said we would have the ten plagues of Egypt shortly. The Lord said they would come rapid fire.

"This will be the same as before only different as I turn the waters of the wicked hearts into blood"

The first time we saw the Nile River as the economy of Egypt, but here we see it as the heart of wicked men.

An underground sewer system -- simultaneously install inside the water system, water purification, water filtration, -- Your water ways and waste system have been tampered with.

These things are coming -- Trust Jesus and His words and it shall be done!
 

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Globalism vs the US

Zechariah 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

We can see that the entire earth would be gathered against Jerusalem in the Middle East because of the oil in the Middle East.

But why would the whole Earth be gathered against the US? Even if China, Russia, Iran, and a few other Islamic nations are against the US that isn't the whole earth. Of course most nations are for globalism. It is pretty much the US that is the lone holdout and primarily because of Evangelical Christians who see this as the coming kingdom of the AntiChrist.

Recently we have seen astounding hypocrisy of "woke" corporations. For example the NBA protesting racism in the US while working closely with the Chinese who are involved in the genocide of the Uyghurs right now. Or Coca Cola and MLB boycott Atlanta and move the All Star game to Denver because Georgia will require voter ID and yet Denver already requires voter ID. Recently there was an amazing expose of Lebron James describing him as being a sell out to the KKK.

https://rumble.com/v18qh16-jason-wh...-hypocrisy-and-lies-said-to-appease-the-.html

It looks like hypocrisy. These corporations worship the dollar. There are 7 billion people on this planet that are not in the US, that means market share and growth for global corporations is outside the US. They obviously don't care about racism, or slavery or even genocide whether past or present, what they care about is money and they are more than willing to lie about it. They have to lie to the US because of the evangelical Christians and that is becoming a very heavy stone for them. Those that pretend to be "woke" and are virtue signalling will be cut in pieces, their ratings will plummet, they will be broken up in antitrust legislation, or through lawsuits, and they will be taken over.

But know this the whole earth is moving towards favoring one world government. The final straw will be the US printing money like a bank robber. They will want one world currency that no one can control the printing press for. Therefore the whole earth will be against the US. Biden's drunken spending spree of $7 trillion and counting is the final straw. In the US we see inflation, but all the countries who invested in our bonds to them this is a bank robber stealing their investment.
 

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How will God respond to 1 billion abortions?

I looked at Worldometer, total number of abortions so far this year is almost 20 million. Imagine how many babies have been aborted during this generation that began when Israel was returned to the Jews in 1948.

What hit me is that God killed the firstborn of the Egyptians on Passover and then drowned the Egyptian army. Why? Pharaoh had killed the male children of the Jews, many were killed by being drowned in the Nile.

So if that was the righteous response to what Egypt did, then what will God's righteous response be to over 1 billion aborted babies worldwide?
 

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If you are horrified at what happens during the tribulation when 1/4th of all people die

Then you do not fully appreciate the difference between this ephemeral life and our eternal judgement. If these things cause people to repent and receive Jesus then they are mercy.
 

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She subscribes to "once saved always saved" doctrine with "one caveat" that you can lose your salvation if you take the mark of the beast during the tribulation.

Does that make sense? Is there any basis in the New Testament to say that at the start of the tribulation the dispensation to Christians in the age of grace takes such a dramatic change?

Let's be fair, yes, she is going to go through three parables that clearly depict Christians being judged and punished. All Christians from the time of Jesus' resurrection until the end of the age of grace are under the same criteria, the same covenant. If there is a way to worship the beast during the tribulation that would cause you to lose your salvation then there is surely a way to worship the beast prior to that. The difference is in scale and quantity and the fact that it is out in the open.

FreeMasons worship Satan if they make it to the top levels and they take oaths that it is under pain of death if they ever betray their worship to Satan.