Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

Jeremiah 6:28-30 Rejected silver

28 They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly. 29 The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out. 30 They are called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.”

“They are called rejected silver” -- can’t get any clearer than that. He is talking about those who are left behind after the rapture.

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2023 Prophecy & Canary in Coal Mine Dream 12/15/2022

Hanukkah -- The Eighth Feast of the Bible

16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a [j]festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the [k]substance is of Christ.

Hanukkah is taken from the same root as Enoch who was a type of the rapture. His son was Methuselah which was a prophesy that when he dies the end comes. Enoch is then raptured, after that Methuselah died, Noah gets on the boat and the flood comes. So then, Enoch is part of "the days of Noah" which the Lord likened the end of the age to.

Noah spelled backwards (in Hebrew) is grace. Interestingly it is like the days of Noah are being played in reverse. Jesus rose from the dead the same day the ark came to rest on the mountain whose name means "reverse the curse". That was the start of the age of grace. The church age is like Noah and his family riding in the ark for the last 2,000 years. It has been likened to riding in a washing machine. The Bible says that it rained for 40 days and nights, well that ended on the first day of Hanukkah, so if we are going in reverse you can guess that the rain begins on the first day of Hanukkah which is December 18. Interestingly this is the same day that the Lord prophesies He will shake the earth yet once more.

What is also interesting is that this year the 8th day of Hanukkah is Christmas which is also the Lord's day.

Now consider this, there were 7 appointed feasts in the Old Testament and then we had Hanukkah, the 8th feast which was not an appointed OT feast, however, the pattern took place and according to Paul

Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

The fulness of the time refers to Hanukkah as this is what set the stage for the Lord to be sent the first time.

There are 9 lamps on the Hanukkah lamp, two more than the Menorah, that is the church (7) + the two witnesses. The New Testament is 27 books or 3 x 9, the triune version of the Hanukkah lamp.

The age of grace began with Jesus being rejected and cut off by the Jews and the temple being destroyed. Therefore this age is all about the "rededication" of the temple.

Having Antiochus (the antichrist) set himself up in the temple as god and sacrifice a pig illustrates how man (or the apostate church or the Jews) have enthroned Satan in their heart and been defiled. So Hanukkah is also about salvation, restoration, repenting and returning to the Lord.

Hanukkah also gives us a whole new perspective on the parable of the ten virgins and what it means that for some the oil was running out. The reason the oil didn't run out on Hanukkah was because they had the word that God was with them mixed with faith.

We have always felt that the rapture should take place on an appointed feast as a way to send a message to the Jews. Hanukkah is an appointed feast that would send that message. However, Jesus said that "no one knew the day or the hour" at the time of His earthly ministry. That would be true of Christmas, a holiday that had not been set up yet. For this to be the 8th day of Hanukkah signifying a new beginning would send a message to the Jews while also sending a message to the apostate church that is left behind on Christmas (a holiday which for them is about worshipping idols and practicing fornication).

However, I have felt that we should get a 7 day warning just like Noah did when Methuselah died. So if the Lord does shake the earth again on December 18th that would be our seven day warning. Also, like Smyrna we might get 10 days of trial, and so that might begin today. We are seeing terrible things happening to those standing for righteousness in Brazil, Iran and China.

The word for the mark of the beast was the same thing the Roman army did, they branded their soldiers with a mark.

We are told that "who can make war with the beast" and now we know why. Every soldier will have a chip in their brain connecting them to AI and a supercomputer.

Hebrews 7:1-4 -- What does Sodom and Gomorrah have to do with the First Rapture?

1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.” 3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

They give us an overview of the key points, but I think it is important to go back and read the whole story.

Genesis 14:1 At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim, 2 these kings went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). 3 All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea Valley). 4 For twelve years they had been subject to Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5 In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim 6 and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Parannear the desert. 7 Then they turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazezon Tamar. 8 Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim 9 against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goyim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five. 10 Now the Valley of Siddim Was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills. 11 The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away. 12 They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom. 13 A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram. 14 When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. 15 During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. 16 He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

So if you read this carefully this is not some skirmish or raiding party. This has been war and conquest which has been going on in this area for 14 years. That is a long time, just as long as from the 2008 Mortgage meltdown to 2022. It seems to involve every single group of people being allied with one side or the other and fighting. And even though there are so many groups of people they have formed two alliances, one versus the other. The only thing is that it seems none of these “kings” (apparently all these different groups like to call their leader a king) included Abraham into their political machinations. So we have Abraham the father of faith and the household of faith rising up as an army and pursuing after them all the way to Dan. This is a very weird way to describe it as Dan is Abraham’s great grandson, and Northern Israel was not called Dan until long after Moses is dead. You are using the border of a coming kingdom to describe this particular battle.

17 After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

The story makes it clear that Abraham was not in any way involved in the political future or present of Sodom, but rather his relative lived there so he went to save him. To make a modern comparison you have the "globalists" battling the "nationalists" in the US. The globalists seem to have won but then Abraham representing the household of faith rides in to save the day.

18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, 19 and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. 20 And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” We also see that God is involved because Abraham was involved. It was God who delivered the enemies into his hand.

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.” 22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, 23 that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’ 24 I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me—to Aner, Eshkol and Mamre. Let them have their share.”

First, Abraham swore an oath as he pursued the enemy, since God answered him he was bound by that oath. The oath was that all glory and honor would go to God. The king of Sodom was a liar and Abraham knew it, if he took so much as the tiniest trinket this king would rewrite the history that Abraham was his hired servant and that the king of Sodom had engineered this victory. This story resulted in praise and glory to God because God’s camp, God’s army was revealed to be the true power in the land.

4 Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder!

In this story we have God, we have the household of faith that has been built into an army, we have all the evil and corrupt worldly forces and we have Melchizedek which we learn here in Hebrews represent Jesus Christ in His ascension. Jesus is not declared to be a priest after the order of Melchizedek until He ascends to the throne. Not only so but He is the King of righteousness and the King of peace. This is a picture of Jesus Christ, glorious lord of all, coming to meet His people at the end of the age, after they have stood by faith to prevent their house from being broken into. This story depicts the coming of the Lord after His people win this victory through faith in Him. Many say “what does the US have to do with the Lord’s coming?” Well, what does Sodom and Gomorrah have to do with the Lord’s coming? There are two raptures of God’s people, in one the Lord Jesus likened it to Noah entering the ark with his family, and in the other He likened it to Lot escaping Sodom by the skin of his teeth. When fire falls on Sodom that is depicting the situation in the great tribulation and how some believers will be pulled from the fire. This depicts the rapture before that time as a reward and a blessing to those who were victorious over sin and death. However, when Jesus said it would be as the days of Sodom and Gomorrah He wasn't just referring to Lot being rescued from fire and brimstone but also Lot being rescued by Abraham. You have the first and the second "harpazo" being depicted in this story. Hebrews 11 gives us the first Harpazo.

What is this scroll?

5 And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 2 Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?”

I loved in Ephesians how we were told the mystery of His will, and the mystery of Christ, and the mystery of God and the great mystery of Christ and the Church. Those mysteries have been opened. That is not what this scroll is. That mystery was also sealed with justification and redemption and sanctification and a number of seals which have been opened and revealed during the church age.

But this scroll is opened after Jesus is crowned and the seals are so different.

One thing about this scroll, no one on earth was worthy to open it. This is like saying only the "greatest of all time" can open this scroll. This is what we have seen when you have a player who is so great he sets the standard across the board. Jim Brown, Jerry Rice, Tom Brady are three examples, all great players, but I think under a microscopic examination none would be found worthy.

So what do we look at? Joe Montana had a great record in the Superbowl but his overall statistics are not all that great. I heard someone say that Mike Tyson was not great because in the fights he lost he seemed to just fold. But Jesus is determined to be the greatest and this qualifies Him to open the scroll.

So what did He do? He prevailed on the cross, He defeated the flesh, sin, death, Satan, the world, and He redeemed us to Him. This is not some trivial debate between Michael Jordan and Lebron James, this is essential because without the Lord conquering and rising in victory we wouldn't have anyone who can open this scroll.

Satan is more powerful than any man, only Jesus was able to defeat him.

And now we see why God made Satan. All of these seals keeping the scroll closed and locked up seem to be very satanic. You have the antichrist, war, famine, pestilence, and the martyrdom of the believers as the first five seals. In the book of revelation we learn that we will be taking on the beast, a super computer with AI that controls the whole world including an army of cyborgs. Only Jesus can take these guys on. They will rule the world, everyone will be on their team or else they will be executed.

These are the challenges that a king must be able to face. He has to be able to expose the liars and counterfeits. He has to be able to make peace. It is his responsibility to be a shepherd to the people to see they don't starve, they don't get sick.

Consider Joe Biden, he is facing a possible WWIII, Inflation, Depression, massive invasion at the border, and a couple of major scandals that directly affect him, his administration, election fraud, and potential criminality with the vaccine. So, what does he do? He announces that marriage is protected by the Federal government and he outlaws lynching. Two things that everyone agrees on, there is no dispute, no disagreement, and also no issue. Not only is he incapable of addressing the issues he won't even get into the ring to try and address them.

This is the revelation that we need to see in this book. We are going to enter into a period of time where no person can defeat Satan. We have been told in all of human history this will be the worst period of time and that no flesh could survive if it weren't for God's mercy. So don't focus on that, focus on Jesus, the one who can open these seals, the one who has conquered death, the one who is ruler of all.

Aliens, Caterpillars & Climate Change 12/16/2022

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Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

Jesus said that the end of the age would be like the days of Noah. In Hebrew the name Noah means "rest" however, spelled backwards it means grace. Imagine the age of grace is like the days of Noah in reverse. Jesus resurrected from the dead on the same day that Noah's ark came to rest on mount Ararat, meaning "reverse the curse". We are told in Hebrews that during the age of grace we need to labor to enter into His rest, into Noah's ark. The entire church age would be when Noah (a type of Christ) and the other 7 souls (a type of the church) were on the ark.

The next big day is the day the flood stops. That is the first day of Hanukkah which is also December 18th this year.

Imagine you were in a bathtub and we are playing the movie in reverse. The day the flood stops would be the day the water is turned off. However, in reverse it would look like the day the water is turned back on. However, instead of the bathtub filling up with water it would be draining the water out.

We are told in revelation that the water are peoples. How do you drain people off the earth? Once again, look at our movie being played backwards. Look carefully at that water coming out of the faucet, when you rewind it the water is going back into the faucet. That would be the rapture.

Not only so but we are told over the entire period of the tribulation 50% of the world's population dies. That would drain the bathtub. Many will be Christians who are martyred, also going to heaven. The first people raptured prior to this 40 days of trial stand on a glassy sea. When you first are taken up that bathtub looks relatively calm. However, as the water goes down it becomes a lot more turbulent and so those who are martyred stand on a sea that is mingled with fire.

The world will hate the Christians, why? Imagine you are in the bathtub that is now draining out, the rapture has taken place and you learn from the Christians who are left behind that "Oh yeah, we knew about that, we just never told you" and "by the way, you are going to hell and we never told you that either" not only so but "You have all been bitten by snakes with a deadly bite, that also is in the Bible and we never warned you about that either, sorry, our bad". Of course they would hate them.

But wait you say, what about the Christians that were talking about the rapture, were warning of hell, and did warn about the snake bite? They got raptured prior to all this because God is righteous and it would not be right for them to be penalized for that.

Proverbs 29 17-19 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.

17 Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire.

Discipline does not mean punish. When I was a teacher we learned the importance of having positive habits in the classroom. You don’t do the same thing every day, but you have a routine that the kids are familiar with so they know from the very get go what to do. It helps them redeem the time. Then I learned that our kids were very poor at the open ended questions so I began the day, every day, with a few of these questions. You walk in, take the sheet and work on them. This habit became a discipline. On days we used computers you could not get a computer until you completed in a satisfactory way the questions. I would stand by the computers, they would bring me their paper and if it was completely correct they get a computer. I would mark the questions that were right and wrong so if you got two right and one wrong you needed to go back and fix that one. Soon kids around the class had computers so if someone is having trouble I might give them a hint or I might tell them to ask a friend of theirs to help them. The first ten times we did this there was a lot of resistance and kids who seemed lost. But after the second month it was just a routine, most kids had no trouble, a few kids had some trouble and every now and then there would be one kid who needed special attention. But after five or six months this became very easy for the kids. By the end of the year they were disciplined by this practice.

18 Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.

Really, what is the point of working hard? I would begin each year with a little statistical analysis of the top Earth Science programs in NY city and show them where the previous year’s class stood. I would give them a vision that I expected my class to compete with the very best students in the city. This was an inner city school that is generally scoring at the bottom of any analysis. However, this wasn’t hype, I was showing them the data, they could talk to the kids who were in the class the year before. The point was they could be excellent, they could be champions, they could do something they would be proud of.

19 Servants cannot be corrected by mere words; though they understand, they will not respond.

Don’t tell me how to do it better, show me. I don’t want to hear your sales pitch, I want to see the evidence, the facts, the truth. There are two very different lessons from this verse. One is do not just speak something and think you “taught that lesson”. The other is you have to change people’s mindset from being a servant. If you are an owner you are fully focused on your business, all you need to do is hear one word and you will jump into action. But servants don’t have that attitude. A servant is not worried about the money flow or financial health of the company, they just assume that will be OK, not their problem, and they simply want to do their job. You want kids to take ownership of their education, of their future. A change in mindset will result in them being better students.

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Comparing and contrasting the nativity story with the Rapture

Hear the prophecy he speaks at the 1:30 mark


Amos 8:10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.

Then at 1:44 a second prophecy concerning Christmas

Isaiah 35:4 Say to those who are fearful-hearted, “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, With the recompense of God; He will come and save you.”