Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Daniel 7:25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

Why would Satan want to change the times? This is a strong indication that if we do know the times we can predict when things will happen. This verse is basically saying that in the spiritual warfare Satan is trying to mess up our navigation instruments.

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Paul tells us the holy days are a shadow of things to come. They are a dress rehearsal. Therefore messing up the calendar can catch us by surprise if the day comes early or cause others to lose hope if they come late.

So then, is there a holy day that depicts the restrainer stepping aside to allow the demons and fallen angels to be revealed?
 

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The US is being rent in two from top to bottom

California’s New Pro-Kidnapping Bill Is Pure Evil — And Here’s Why Republicans MUST Copy It in Every Red State

https://www.revolver.news/2022/10/s...-republicans-must-copy-it-in-every-red-state/

California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed legislation that will block state officials from enforcing other states’ laws that hinder access to transgender medical procedures and drugs.

The new law, sponsored by Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, passed the legislature in late August. It is a response to recent efforts from some red states to ban transgender procedures and drugs for minors, and effectively sets up California as a sanctuary for those seeking to escape those laws.

One such law in Arkansas that is facing a court challenge bans “gender transition procedures,” including surgeries or drugs, for children under 18. Texas, meanwhile, is in a legal fight after its Attorney General Ken Paxton declared “certain medical and chemical procedures – several of which have the effect of sterilization” to be child abuse.

Under the California law, state agencies and law enforcement organizations are now banned from cooperating with subpoenas and other out-of-state legal actions on these matters. It shields both children and parents seeking to obtain or provide those transgender services from legal consequences.


According to State Sen. Wiener, the law prohibits enforcement of other state laws that allow a child to be removed from parents or guardians who allow their child to receive “gender-affirming health care.” It would also bar California from complying with out-of-state subpoenas seeking information on families who seek that care in California, and put criminal arrest warrants against people who violate these out-of-state laws on the “lowest priority for law enforcement.”


California has signed a bill into law saying they will ignore laws in other states, and we can expect other states to follow suit, so we will soon have Red and Blue states passing laws to ignore the laws in other states. This law will result in there no longer being "the United States" of America. This is also the judgment declared by God that if the US would push to divide Israel and have a two state solution He also would divide the US.

The country continues to tear in half

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ply-cdc-mandates-force-vaccinate-kids-school/

Safe States for Children: Here’s UPDATED List of Republican Governors Who Won’t Comply with CDC Mandates to Force COVID-19 Vaccination on Kids for School

I find it interesting that this tear in the nation is coming from the top.

Matthew 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

Here is the problem, for thousands of years the world was ruled by tyrants, kings, Pharaohs, Emperors, Dictators, etc. Then we bring in democracies like the US and others to patch the holes but you can't do that.

Luke 5:36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.

All of the Democracies, everyone moves step by step towards socialism which is simply a way to give more and more power to the government and take more and more power out of the hands of the people.

For example, consider Social Security. Every month they take money out of everyone's pocket to pay for a retirement account in the future. Who controls the account? It used to be your money but now it is the central government in control and you simply have to trust them. But ask yourself, how could Social Security be insolvent, you gave money every month, where is the money you gave? How come that hasn't grown similar to the growth of the US economy? The answer is simple, they stole it.

So now we have two very distinct camps that do not agree with each other. The camps are not "Democrats and Republicans" that is a deceit. The two camps are nationalists and globalists. But wait, why are Christians "nationalists"? Because we know that if you have one world government which is what the globalists want, they will outlaw Evangelical Christians. With Chrislam they have already figured out how to unify everyone else.

What is the green new deal? At its most basic level it says to willingly submit yourself to the tyrants. Do you realize they have outlawed the use of wood stoves unless you have purchased a new, top of the line wood stove that reduces emissions and use that properly? Everyone will have to comply with this new totalitarian regime, and that is what the prophecy about the mark of the beast says. That is what we have gotten a foretaste of with this vaccine and the various mandates.
 

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Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

There was a judgement on them because they didn't know the flood was coming. That tells me they should have known. Yes, Noah was a preacher of righteousness, and surely they ignored him. However, I think it is very interesting that the Lord focuses on them marrying and giving in marriage. The wedding with Jesus is what they are ignoring.

2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

The point is you should know when Jesus wedding is and you shouldn't be scheduling your own things at that time. If the king of England was having a wedding on a certain day, no one in his house, or his family or even in the British government would think to get married the same day. If you were invited to that wedding you would be required to make that a priority. The point is not simply that they are clueless but that they are intentionally snubbing the Lord.

This reminds me that Jesus has suffered all things just like us. How many of us would have our parties snubbed? To me this is the biggest and best event in all of human history. This is something that God has been talking about for six thousand years and Jesus has clearly been preparing for for 2,000 years. We will see God's glory and when we do these ones will be put to an open shame.
 

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13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. [14]

They are hypocrites, actors and they have an agenda which is to prevent those who are trying to enter from entering the kingdom of heaven. They literally shut the door of heaven in people's faces.

15 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

They are hypocrites, actors, and they have another agenda which is to win converts and make them twice the child of hell that they are.

16 “Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’ 17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ 19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22 And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.

I think it is wonderful if you don't know what this is talking about. When you descend into the depths of their wickedness you discover all their compromise is about gold. Think about the Vatican helping the Nazis, how despicable, and yet it was all about gold. You cannot serve God and Mammon for either you will love the one and hate the other or else you will hate the one and love the other. These ones are loving and serving Mammon.

23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

This is the expression of one who loves gold instead of God. They are precise to the point of being meticulous when it comes to tax, but when it comes to justice, mercy and faithfulness they are negligent! They do all of this while acting like they are guides to the blind! They can swallow the biggest, nastiest and most unclean judgements yet when it comes to the tax they collect they are fastidious.

25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

Seriously, can anyone claim that the inside of the cup of the worldly celebration of Halloween is not filthy? So why defend it? Because they defend it that is why they are given respect in the marketplace. Attack Halloween and Christmas and they would be reviled like John the Baptist. The same goes for the Pope. Everyone knows the insides of the cup of the Vatican is filthy and disgusting. Yet they have the nerve to tell the rest of the world they will help us clean up our mess? Why don't you first clean up your own mess with your pedophile priests and illuminati bankers.

27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

The Lord knows where the bones are buried. Most of us have only a cursory understanding of how deep and vile the blood guiltiness is. The Lord is telling us that these religious leaders are all wearing a mask (hypocrites) just like on Halloween. Except their mask is the opposite, on the outside they are holier than thou but on the inside they are covetous and evil.

29 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!

We saw this recently when the Democrats were attacking the racists past of this country while trying to hide the fact that it was the Democrats. They picked the most obscure date from the Civil war to celebrate the end of slavery when any reasonable person would have selected the Gettysburg address. But they couldn't do that because it would highlight that Lincoln was a Republican and the the south were Democrats. The most ornate and lavish tomb for any president is for Garfield. When I saw that I knew he had to be a FreeMason. They even have swastikas in the floor. This was before the Nazi's in Germany, but that is another sign of the FreeMasons.

33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.

So then don't think it is a strange thing when these "teachers of the law" kill, crucify, flog and pursue you. This is the Lord's doing so that like Noah, a preacher of righteousness, He would have the basis on which to condemn this generation. They worship and embrace demons, fine, after the rapture the demons will be let loose. Earth will very quickly become hell.

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
 

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Hebrews 11 -- Do not be deceived, part 3

17 By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

This is the big test. Will you sacrifice everything to obey the Lord’s speaking? If I speak up I could lose my job. Maybe I got that job as God's answer to my prayer. "Surely I shouldn't sacrifice my job." Tell that to Abraham, the father of faith. What was it that God really appreciated about Abraham again? He had a successful ranching operation? No, that isn't it. He brought Lot to the Lord? Nope. Oh yeah, he was looking forward to a city made by God. That city, did it involve censoring the word of God? If one of those words would cause him to sacrifice everything he had, even his experiences of God what would he choose? What if we just cut this one little word out, just kind of ignore it? Obedience is better than sacrifice, it is the real sacrifice. You can claim to have faith, well then let's see your obedience to the word of God when it really counts, when it is really going to cost you.

20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

Can you do everything by faith? Many look at this story as being a story of Jacob deceiving Isaac, yet God tells us he blessed him by faith.

21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

How exactly did Jacob do this? He had to have known the two kids, prayed for them, and sought God for them. Your faith can be expressed, like Enoch with a prophecy, or like Noah in building a boat, or like Jacob in praying for your grandchildren.

22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.

You can pray for your people, and those in bondage. What do Isaac, Jacob and Joseph all have in common? They have their eyes fixed on the city that God is building, they are speaking blessing and prophecies concerning this city and concerning our exodus from this evil age.
 

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Hebrews 11 -- Do not be deceived, part 4

23 By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

Faith can be expressed by civil disobedience, rejecting unjust laws, like Rosa Parks. Can we please read the word of God as a warning to us from God who knows exactly who our enemy is and what he will do? Pharaoh was trying to kill all the males in Israel. Whether with abortion, or infanticide, or censorship, or vaccine mandates, or shutting the schools that is the goal shut them up and kill them. Do not be so naive to think they couldn't possibly be that evil. They could be, you have been told they are, and if you willfully ignore that warning it is on you, don't blame God.

The Pandemic was created in a bioweapons lab. Of course it is theoretically possible that the release of this virus was an accident. But that doesn't explain the cover up from the Wuhan Lab, from the CCP, or from Fauci. They knew it came from the lab and intentionally tried to turn people away from looking there. It also doesn't explain China hiding the genome sequence for months, an action that resulted in many people dying. It doesn't explain why China, knowing the virus was loose locked down Wuhan to all domestic travel yet kept international flights open. It doesn't explain Fauci authorizing only one treatment for Covid which would actually make it worse and lead to death. Nor does it explain people like Cuomo doing the exact opposite of what any rational person would do, putting infected people into nursing homes boosting the death rate, nor does it explain why Fauci would hold up Cuomo as the "gold standard" of how to respond to the virus, or why Hollywood gave him an Emmy, or why the Mainstream media loved him and vilified Desantis.

As far as I am concerned you have to be the biggest idiot in the world to trust these people, and if you are that big an idiot that is fine, God doesn't just save people with discernment. So I am not interested in having them mandate a vaccine which is experimental and which I am not allowed to ask relevant questions about, and where they silence anyone who does ask questions. I'm not afraid of the King's edict.

So tell me, you who said I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist when I said they would mandate the vaccine despite them telling us they wouldn't because that is unconstitutional, are you still making excuses for them? They told you 30 months ago they would shut down for two weeks to flatten the curve, are you still making excuses for them? Harris said she didn't trust the vaccine and Fauci said masks don't work and yet today you are listening to them tell you to wear masks and take the vaccine? They told you the vaccine was safe and then 18 months later they tell you that the J&J vaccine is not safe, don't take it. They mandated this vaccine for everyone that is 5 years old and older and now NY is coming out with a letter to all parents about how they are anticipating a huge spike in heart attacks among the kids, yet you still listen to them? Do you really think they are doing this for the public's good? The WHO just said you cannot have a vaccine mandate on immigrants coming into the country illegally, yet you can mandate it on the citizens? At what point do you realize this is a lie? Do you have to be locked up in a quarantine camp even though you have tested negative for the virus like what is going on in Australia? Don't you think it is a little too late at that point?
 

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1Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
 

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Hebrews 11 -- Do you know why Satan and His evil kingdom is scared of us?

30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.

Faith of who? This is Israel acting as a corporate body in faith. This is what the censorship is, it is the "walls of Jericho" trying to keep out the word of God. Do you realize all those people hiding behind those walls are losing trust in the city leaders day by day? Do you realize they are desperate to know what the story is about all the Israelites outside the walls marching around? Regardless of how hard they try to shut out the gospel they are desperate to know what it is we are talking about.

31 By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.

I consider Oscar Schindler to be a good example to understand this. He had “prostituted” himself with the Nazi’s selling them products to get rich. But he came to see the sins of the Nazi’s and he feared God more than the Nazis. So he hid several thousand Jews from extermination. Do you know why Satan and this evil age is scared of the gospel? It is because with us there is forgiveness. The chains that they use to bind people in the Satanic kingdom is that there is no forgiveness. You sinned, we will use that to destroy you and condemn you so you are now forced to do our bidding. But we come along and tell them your sins can be forgiven. As a result many of those who were formerly held captive, like a prostitute, are now free to follow the Lord. This is why the Satanic kingdom is falling, there are those within it that know the sins but they are following their conscience, following the Lord at great risk to themselves.
 

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To Meet the Lord

1Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

It seems to me that we have been rehearsing our meeting with the Lord every week, that is what our Lord's table meeting is.

I have also felt the Lord would give us a 7 day warning because the Bible says that the Lord does nothing without letting the prophets know, and the Bible also says that if the church in Sardis does not watch they will not know the day our hour the Lord is coming indicating that if they are watching they will know. So then this sister posts this video that ties the wonder in the sky on October 9/10 with the vision she had and the word she received. However, we get the confirmation today, so this could be the heads up warning I was expecting to get.
 

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what is this? It shows up at 2:30 and no, it isn't the moon, the moon is a new moon.