Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

Bible References in this Blog (so far)


Entire Book


1Samuel


2Corinthians


Joel


Jonah


Luke


Esther


Galatians


1Peter


Amos


James


Ephesians


2Samuel


Philippians


Habakkuk


Colossians


Hebrews


Hosea


1John


Zephaniah




Chapters


Revelation 2-3, 4, 5, 6


Isaiah 5, 9, 10, 13, 26, 29, 42, 53, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61


Hebrews 10:25


Proverbs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26


Psalm 2, 10, 12, 37, 40, 41, 45, 47, 50, 81, 113, 118


Exodus 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15


Acts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12


1Kings 1,


1Timothy 3, 4


2Timothy 3


John 14, 15, 16, 17, 18


2Peter 2,


Joshua 2, 3, 4, 6


Daniel 5, 9


Genesis 49


Jeremiah 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 17, 18, 25,


2Thess 2:1-8


Mark 3, 13


Matthew 2, 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 24, 25


Ezekiel 7, 21, 34


Romans 1, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15


Leviticus 23:15-17


Deuteronomy 26


Zechariah 1-9


Key Topics


The fifth seal


The second Passover


The Feast of unleavened bread


The festival of the firstfruits

Romans 15:20 Thus my ambition has been to preach the Gospel, not where Christ’s name has already been known, lest I build on another man’s foundation;

I realized a lot of people talk about the rapture but it seems their whole focus is on when it will be. That seemed stupid to me since we are told specifically that we don't know the day or the hour. As a result it seems many other Christians avoid the topic altogether. Then there are many others that say it is not Biblical.

I wanted to do something different, view the rapture as "the day of our redemption" when our bodies are redeemed. But I felt the biggest burden was to help all believers see that the rapture is part of the Bible. Hence Bible references concerning the rapture.

I take a very broad view of the rapture, so whereas the focus on when it is to me is like focusing on what day the exam will be, my focus is more on the exam itself. The Bema judgement is likened to when they award the gold medals at the olympics. It is a judgement. Now if you were preparing for the olympics would you be more concerned about what you need to do to win gold or about what day and time the award ceremony is going to be? In the same way my concern is about who will be raptured, why they will be raptured, and what we need to know before the rapture so succeed.

Romans 15:22-33 The abundant blessing of the gospel of Jesus Christ

22 This [ambition] is the reason why I have so frequently been hindered from coming to visit you.

Suppose Paul is speaking, one with the Lord, as His ambassador. Paul is not going to come to us, but Jesus is. Why has the Lord been hindered from coming, because there are still people who don't understand the gospel or who have never heard. If you understand that then you also understand how big a development the internet is and how that has sped up the gospel work and therefore the Lord’s coming.

23 But now since I have no further opportunity for work in these regions, and since I have longed for [b]enough years to come to you,

Again, think about the current events and the election fraud. That actually created an opportunity for work in these regions. It woke people up, it presented a contrast.

24 I hope to see you in passing [through Rome] as I go [on my intended trip] to Spain, and to be aided on my journey there by you, after I have enjoyed your company for a little while.

25 For the present, however, I am going to Jerusalem to bring aid (relief) for the saints (God’s people there).

Some things still haven’t changed after 2,000 years.

26 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make some contribution for the poor among the saints of Jerusalem.

Who are the “poor among the saints of Jerusalem” could that be a reference to the Palestinians? I know that Gaza is one of the poorest regions in the world. You can love Israel, pray for the peace of Jerusalem and give to the poor in Gaza. All three are perfectly aligned with the Bible.

27 They were pleased to do it; and surely they are in debt to them, for if these Gentiles have come to share in their [the Jerusalem Jews’] spiritual blessings, then they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.

28 When therefore I have completed this mission and have delivered to them [at Jerusalem] what has been raised, I shall go on by way of you to Spain.

29 And I know that when I do come to you, I shall come in the abundant blessing of the Gospel of Christ.

This is one of the key themes I have picked up concerning the rapture. The rapture is not the end all be all. The pre tribulation rapture helps those left behind to get matured. Once those Christians who were left behind are taken that helps wake up the Jews to realize Jesus is the Messiah and to repent and turn to Him. The rapture is “the abundant blessing of the gospel of Christ”.

30 I appeal to you [I entreat you], brethren, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love [given by] the Spirit, to unite with me in earnest wrestling in prayer to God in my behalf.

Right now you have to decide what team you want to be on. I want to be on Paul’s team!

31 [Pray] that I may be delivered (rescued) from the unbelievers in Judea and that my mission of relief to Jerusalem may be acceptable and graciously received by the saints (God’s people there),

32 So that by God’s will I may subsequently come to you with joy (with a happy heart) and be refreshed [by the interval of rest] in your company.

33 May [our] peace-giving God be with you all! Amen (so be it).

Right now I am praying that we could be delivered from the unbelievers who have stolen this election and committed fraud. I am also praying that all the believers could see the truth and that it would be acceptable to them. I know if this all came out six months ago many would think it was some kind of scheme by Trump. There have been so many lies spread it really is a big job to try and neutralize them.

5 very big signs of the imminent return of the Lord

I have been combing through the entire bible to see the signs that the Day of the Lord is at hand and there are five major ones that really stood out.

1. Joel says the Pandemic is a sign that the Day of the Lord is at hand. However, it is not just a pandemic (we had one with the Spanish flu) but a pandemic that causes a worldwide shutdown of the economy which the Lord refers to as a sabbath rest before Him.

2. The Revelation 12 sign that we saw on the Festival of Trumpets, September 23, 2017

3. The BLM protests in the streets along with the Stop the Steal protests. The BLM protests seem to be foreshadowed in Jonah, while the Stop the Steal protests seems to be prophesied by the Lord in the gospels and prefigured in Esther.

4. When you see Jerusalem compassed about with troops obviously refers to Jerusalem, but seeing Washington DC compassed about with troops is definitely unsettling.

5. Paul says the Lord doesn't come unless the apostasy comes first. I have gone through that and shown that every single point of the apostasy has come, but then Paul adds that the Lord will send them a strong delusion because they refused to receive the gospel. Many have theorized that the delusion is the story that the rapture will be explained as aliens and a close encounter of the third kind. So the recent revelation from the US military and President Obama that they have been seeing aliens on a daily basis is certainly a major sign. But even more they seem to have some great announcement they will make in June, that sounds like the time in which they will explain away the rapture.

Psalm 91 -- A prayer for when things get crazy.

1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.

Be careful these protests are a fowler’s snare and a response to a fowler’s snare. Brionna Taylor was caught in a fowler’s snare. The cancel culture is a fowler’s snare. On the other hand the Pandemic is a deadly pestilence.

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.

This is a promise to those who find shelter in the Most High.

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.

We are going to be spectators.

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

Again, the promise is that if you call on Jesus He will be with you in trouble, He will deliver you and honor you. He will show you His salvation. We see the danger approaching what should we do? Focus on the Lord as your high tower, as your refuge, as the one you love and call on.

Romans 11:1-10 Let their banquet table become a snare and a trap

1 I ask then: Has God totally rejected and disowned His people? Of course not! Why, I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin!

Paul was preaching the gospel to the gentiles, he was teaching that the cross of Christ was the real circumcision, and that the things that happened in the Old Testament were types and shadows for us today. All of that is true and yet God has a covenant with the Jews and that has not been annulled.

2 No, God has not rejected and disowned His people [whose destiny] He had marked out and appointed and foreknown from the beginning. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

3 Lord, they have killed Your prophets; they have demolished Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.

4 But what is God’s reply to him? I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal!

The same is true today. We can itemize every point of the apostasy that the Catholic church is now teaching and yet the Lord has reserved some in the Catholic church that have not known the deep things of Satan. There are many denominations that have a name that they are alive and yet are dead, that doesn’t annul the fact that there are some in those denominations that will walk in white with the Lord.

5 So too at the present time there is a remnant (a small believing minority), selected (chosen) by grace (by God’s unmerited favor and graciousness).

6 But if it is by grace (His unmerited favor and graciousness), it is no longer conditioned on works or anything men have done. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace [it would be meaningless].

Now this is a difficult point to understand, kind of like calculus. To every church in Revelation the Lord begins by talking about their works and commending them for their works but then He goes on to point out the issues that He does have. Fundamentally I would say the issue is they have left their first love. Once you do that then other issues come in, self righteousness, tolerating evil, and ultimately practicing evil. James says that faith without works is dead. However, what happens in religion is they have good works without faith. The Bible describes those as “filthy rags”. It is like a mop filled with blood that is simply smearing the blood all around. You aren’t cleaning up anything. We see this in all these Christian ministries that tolerate sin. They are filled with sin, they never dealt with the sin, but they think their good works will save them so they are preaching a gospel that says it is OK to be filled with sin as long as you also do some vain hat tip to the Lord. We really see this fully expressed with the Jews. They will be very strict in how they keep the Passover and yet they will also tell you that they don’t believe in God. It is like an egg. The inside of the egg is faith, the shell are these religious practices. They lost the chicken a long time ago and yet they are still holding onto the shell.

7 What then [shall we conclude]? Israel failed to obtain what it sought [God’s favor by obedience to the Law]. Only the elect (those chosen few) obtained it, while the rest of them became callously indifferent (blinded, hardened, and made insensible to it).

8 As it is written, God gave them a spirit (an attitude) of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, [that has continued] down to this very day.

9 And David says, Let their table (their feasting, banqueting) become a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a [a]just retribution [[b]rebounding like a boomerang upon them];

10 Let their eyes be darkened (dimmed) so that they cannot see, and make them bend their back [stooping beneath their burden] forever.

No one can deny that Israel really did seek to obtain God’s favor. Their rabbi’s have done a very diligent and scholarly work attempting to answer every obscure and even trivial question. But what has happened, the banquet table has become a snare to them! There is an unwritten yet understood rule in “polite society”. You do not preach righteousness at their banquets. If you are a “Jesus freak” you will not be invited to the parties, banquets and all the different events of the “beautiful people”. It is a subtle “cancel culture” at work. What we are seeing today with “cancel culture” is the full blown blossoming of this. Facebook is like the banquet table for the unwashed masses. What are we seeing, they are enforcing this “unwritten rule” you cannot say anything that the hosts disagree with. You thought it was “your” facebook page but you are sadly mistaken, it is Zuckerberg’s Facebook and all those who agree with Zuckerberg agree that he has the right to censor anyone he wishes for anything he doesn’t like. Now we are seeing that “cancel culture” is like a rebounding boomerang that is taking them out as well. It is as though they have bouncers at their parties and if there aren’t any Christians to throw out then they’ll throw out whoever is closest to the door. As a result we see that they are blind to what true justice is. One minute they say that you need to believe all women when one woman brings in allegations over 20 years old that cannot be substantiated. Yet when ten women bring in allegations against Cuomo that can be substantiated and are current, they simply ignore them. They justify abortion because it is a woman’s body, she has the right to decide what she wants to do and not do with her own body. Yet they then demand that everyone get vaccinated regardless and that anyone who refuses be excluded from “polite society”. They are outraged that Trump might be guilty of nepotism and yet ignore the very obvious nepotism in Biden’s administration. They take two years to investigate Trump for criminality and when the investigation reveals that Hillary Clinton and Obama’s FISA courts were the guilty ones they ignore it. They impeach Trump over his request to investigate corruption by Hunter Biden and yet ignore the evidence of the corruption by Hunter Biden. They were screaming about collusion with Russia but when it turns out it was the Biden crime family, Clinton crime family and Kerry crime family that were colluding they are silent. They tolerate the crooks robbing them blind so it is righteous judgement that they will serve these crooks forever.

Romans 11:11-18 The Cancel culture

11 So I ask, Have they stumbled so as to fall [to their utter spiritual ruin, irretrievably]? By no means! But through their false step and transgression salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, so as to arouse Israel [to see and feel what they forfeited] and so to make them jealous.

People went along with Cancel culture for years. There is no way that Bill Maher went to various parties without being complicit. Yet when they see the boomerang hitting others it wakes them up. They thought they were a champion for free speech and independent thought but one day they realize they are blind and bending the back for robbers. This process is fully described in the book “The Help”. A few women were abusive racists, lying and slandering others. Most just went along to get along not wanting to be shunned from “polite society”. A few people were outcasts and they could thumb their nose at “polite society”. The blacks were “the help” and they got an inside view of all of this. Yes, the homes were nicer for the “polite society” but the friends, the neighbors, the society, even the food was better for the blacks.

12 Now if their stumbling (their lapse, their transgression) has so enriched the world [at large], and if [Israel’s] failure means such riches for the Gentiles, think what an enrichment and greater advantage will follow their full reinstatement!

This is the point of the chapter, they went down a path that leads to hell. When they get reinstated they also will provide us with an inside look at hell, like spies. The Bible says we are not ignorant of Satan’s devices. Why is that? Because each of us has been a victim of some of these devices. Look at those who are fighting for election integrity. They were slandered, did that bother them? No, they expected that. In fact they laugh as they see the Democrats meltdown, they know this is the expression of a guilty person who has been caught.

13 But now I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I lay great stress on my ministry and magnify my office,

14 In the hope of making my fellow Jews jealous [in order to stir them up to imitate, copy, and appropriate], and thus managing to save some of them.

There is more than one way to skin a cat. Paul knew that having a vibrant ministry that is bringing in a change to the world would stir someone like himself to jealousy. Why was he so zealous to ride around the country locking up Christians, was he jealous? If so that jealousy was instrumental in his salvation. I was trained in lifesaving (to be a lifeguard). If a person is drowning very often they are fighting and thrashing about. You can use that to save them. You get close enough that they try and lunge at you and then you keep backing up. If you do that they may just swim into shore without you even touching them.

15 For if their rejection and exclusion from the benefits of salvation were [overruled] for the reconciliation of a world to God, what will their acceptance and admission mean? [It will be nothing short of] life from the dead!

Wow, this is the flip side of “cancel culture”. If you cancel the Lord and His people what you have actually done is to reject and exclude yourself from the benefits of salvation. When I read the book “The Help” I see two different groups, one is toxic and the other is loving. The toxic group by excluding the others has wound up excluding themselves.

16 Now if the first handful of dough offered as the firstfruits [Abraham and the patriarchs] is consecrated (holy), so is the whole mass [the nation of Israel]; and if the root [Abraham] is consecrated (holy), so are the branches.

This idea that all whites are racist because of what some whites did in the past is false. The book the Help was based on Jackson Ms in the 1950s. I was there in Jackson in the 1950s (just a baby). That doesn’t make me “toxic”. I have patriarchs that are holy, my uncle had his house bombed by the KKK because he was operating a charity to help black churches that had been bombed. There is a toxic culture, a toxic teaching, but it isn’t from the patriarchs in the Bible. You have a choice, identify with Jesus, and the apostles, or else identify with fallen man. The teaching of the apostles is a handful of dough that is holy. If that is the bread you are eating then you also will be holy. The word of God is the root of God’s people, if you are attached to that root then you also will be holy.

17 But if some of the branches were broken off, while you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them to share the richness [of the root and sap] of the olive tree,

18 Do not boast over the branches and pride yourself at their expense. If you do boast and feel superior, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root [that supports] you.

This pride and feeling superior is the first step towards self righteousness. This is what the Lord meant when He said that the church in Ephesus had left their first love. To be broken off from the tree is what the Lord meant when He said that if you don’t repent He will take away your lampstand.

Romans 11:19-24 We are wild olive branches

19 You will say then, Branches were broken (pruned) off so that I might be grafted in!

20 That is true. But they were broken (pruned) off because of their unbelief (their lack of real faith), and you are established through faith [because you do believe]. So do not become proud and conceited, but rather stand in awe and be reverently afraid.

Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. They were cut off because they stopped hearing the word of God. How do we become proud and conceited? Simple, we don’t see the Lord, whenever anyone in the Bible got a view of the Lord they hit the ground, they did a face plant. If you are feeling that pride and conceit is an issue the solution is the word of God. Pray to see the Lord in the word.

21 For if God did not spare the natural branches [because of unbelief], neither will He spare you [if you are guilty of the same offense].

I often prune trees, love to do it. It is so funny, every time I take pruning shears to a tree there will be someone crying that I am destroying the tree. Yet three months later the tree is looking bigger, healthier and more fruitful than ever. If I see a dead branch I cut it off without a second thought. I know that the dead branch will be something attacked by disease, fungus and rot and that could spread to the whole tree. Those ones who always begged me to “spare the tree” could never figure out that this is what I was doing. There are two options, if you are dead you get cut off completely, if you are living you get pruned. Why? Same amount of sap but directed to a smaller branch meaning more fruit. Isn’t that something? The cancel culture was kicking you out of their parties, that wasn’t them that was under the Lord’s sovereignty. Those parties would “sap” you and lead to 0 fruit. When you read “The Help” the woman who is the author is able to travel through both groups, the toxic women’s group and the black community. However, she didn’t go to their parties, that was the Lord’s pruning that she might bear more fruit. So then what about all those in the parties? They were the dead branches, the ones broken off and destined for the fire.

22 Then note and appreciate the gracious kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s gracious kindness to you—provided you continue in His grace and abide in His kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off (pruned away).

23 And even those others [the fallen branches, Jews], if they do not persist in [clinging to] their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

Repent, turn to the Lord, yes, these dry bones can live again.

24 For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and against nature grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier will it be to graft these natural [branches] back on [the original parent stock of] their own olive tree.

Paul keeps saying “wild olive tree”. What exactly is the difference between a wild olive tree and a cultivated olive tree? There were several wonderful episodes in the book “The Help” that explained that. In one the most abusive and racist of all the women in the group had decided that they all needed separate bathrooms for the help because they were unclean (they were wild while these women were all “cultivated”). Hearing about this the woman who is the author of the book puts a little ad in the paper asking for toilets to be dropped off at this woman’s house. As a result her front lawn was filled with toilets people were throwing out. The second example was a woman who fed this horrible woman a chocolate pie made with her excrement. So yes, they were a loving community, but they were also wild olive branches.

Romans 11:25-36 The ingathering of the Gentiles


25 Lest you be self-opinionated (wise in your own conceits), I do not want you to miss this hidden truth and mystery, brethren: a hardening (insensibility) has [temporarily] befallen a part of Israel [to last] until the [c]full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come in,

26 And so all Israel will be saved. As it is written, The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will banish ungodliness from Jacob.

“Until the full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come in”. This is the harvest at the end of the age. We are likened to “wheat” but there is a spring wheat and a summer wheat. There are several harvests and the final one is referred to as the “ingathering”. The first one is celebrated with the Festival of Firstfruits. This is a hidden truth. Very easy for Christians to be wise in their own conceits saying they are going to heaven. Don’t miss this point about God banishing ungodliness. Once again the way God banishes ungodliness is by filling us with Himself so there is no room for ungodliness, filling us with faith, filling us with His word.

27 And this will be My covenant (My agreement) with them when I shall take away their sins.

28 From the point of view of the Gospel (good news), they [the Jews, at present] are enemies [of God], which is for your advantage and benefit. But from the point of view of God’s choice (of election, of divine selection), they are still the beloved (dear to Him) for the sake of their forefathers.

29 For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.]

30 Just as you were once disobedient and rebellious toward God but now have obtained [His] mercy, through their disobedience,

31 So they also now are being disobedient [when you are receiving mercy], that they in turn may one day, through the mercy you are enjoying, also receive mercy [that they may share the mercy which has been shown to you—through you as messengers of the Gospel to them].

This is something we can empathize with. We were once dead in our offences and sins, then we saw the Lord, confessed and repented. They will follow the same path.

32 For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike].

For eternity we will all be alike in that we all received mercy from God.

33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unfathomable (inscrutable, unsearchable) are His judgments (His decisions)! And how untraceable (mysterious, undiscoverable) are His ways (His methods, His paths)!

Isn’t this great! He started the chapter worried about God annulling His covenant and cutting off His people forever only to realize that God’s plan of salvation is based on His showing mercy to every one of us alike. If you are worried that you may not be raptured, remember God is glorified in showing mercy. He showed you mercy, so you in turn show others mercy. You want God to show you mercy, right? Well the Lord’s commandment to do unto others as you would have them do to you then commands you to show others mercy.

34 For who has known the mind of the Lord and who has understood His thoughts, or who has [ever] been His counselor?

35 Or who has first given God anything that he might be paid back or that he could claim a recompense?

36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. [For all things originate with Him and come from Him; all things live through Him, and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in Him.] To Him be glory forever! Amen (so be it).


When you see this it is truly wonderful. Every single person has value and a purpose. They are like little precious stones. You might have to clean them up a little, but when you do you will discover emeralds, sapphires, and all manner of precious stones. Those people, the “help” they were precious stones. The woman who was the author saw that which is why she was able to write a best selling novel.

I think we can compare Romans 11 to the Tom Brady story. Here was a guy considered the best quarterback of all time and yet the coaches all felt they could plug in any quarterback and have the same success. As a result he was forced out, just like the Jews rejecting Jesus. He went to the worst team, the team with the worst record in all of football. The very first year there they go and wind the superbowl. Meanwhile the team he left brought in a star quarterback, a guy who was the first overall pick of the draft a few years ago. A very talented and athletic quarterback and they had a losing season and didn't make the playoffs. People were describing this as "Brady won the divorce". This is what the Lord is doing with the Jews. They will see that the Lord went to those of us who had the worst record of all human beings and takes us to win the superbowl. That will drive them to jealousy. But wait, that is not their response yet. After Brady winning the superbowl his old team broke the bank to bring in all kinds of players. Now, if Brady can win the Superbowl again that might be the full ingathering and really push them to repentance. If not a third one certainly will (three superbowls in a decade is defined as a dynasty, turning the worst team in football into a dynasty by adding Brady, and taking a dynasty and turning them into an also ran by removing Brady, that will be the ultimate).

Romans 11:25 Lest you be self-opinionated (wise in your own conceits), I do not want you to miss this hidden truth and mystery, brethren: a hardening (insensibility) has [temporarily] befallen a part of Israel [to last] until the [c]full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come in,

This is why the discussion of the end times is so complicated. "Until the full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come". This indicates it is a process, probably not a single rapture event. If we look at the harvest schedule in Israel there are multiple crops with multiple harvest times. Even if you focus exclusively on wheat the wheat harvest begins in May and is completed in July. There is a winter wheat (plant during winter) and a summer wheat. One type of wheat is harvested in the Spring time and the other during the summer. For all we know this could be multiple raptures, though we generally just say pretribulation and mid tribulation. Only then, once the wheat is harvested (the gentiles) does the fig harvest begin. Israel is harvested after the gentiles are harvested. We call that rapture "post tribulation".

So then some say that trumpets prefigures the rapture. It might prefigure the mid tribulation rapture. Others say that Pentecost prefigures the rapture, well it might prefigure the pre tribulation rapture. So it is possible that both answers are right.

What is far more important is what this chapter answers is will we be taken or left and why.

Romans 9:1-17 All the glory will be to the Lord

1 I am speaking the truth in Christ. I am not lying; my conscience [enlightened and prompted] by the Holy Spirit bearing witness with me

2 That I have bitter grief and incessant anguish in my heart.

3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off and banished from Christ for the sake of my brethren and instead of them, my natural kinsmen and my fellow countrymen.

Can you believe this? He cannot be talking about his zealousness to wipe out the Christians prior to his conversion because he is telling us the truth in Christ. Nor can he honestly be telling us he would prefer eternal damnation if it meant his countrymen would be saved. There is no way the Holy Spirit would bear witness with him on that. No, what he is saying here is the attitude you see in the Secret Service where they are willing to take a bullet for the president. This is the grief and anguish a cop has when he was unable to save someone, or a doctor has, or anyone who is on the front lines.

4 For they are Israelites, and to them belong God’s adoption [as a nation] and the glorious Presence (Shekinah). With them were the special covenants made, to them was the Law given. To them [the temple] worship was revealed and [God’s own] promises announced.

5 To them belong the patriarchs, and as far as His natural descent was concerned, from them is the Christ, Who is exalted and supreme over all, God, blessed forever! Amen (so let it be).

Again, he sounds like someone in the Secret Service entrusted with protecting someone and he appreciates how valuable that person is.

6 However, it is not as though God’s Word had failed [coming to nothing]. For it is not everybody who is a descendant of Jacob (Israel) who belongs to [the true] Israel.

That is a very big however, just because you are a descendant of Jacob according to the flesh it doesn’t mean you are the true Israel. We need both revelations. We need to see how valuable the true Israel is and we need to see the Israel according to the Spirit. So what is the difference? How do you distinguish the one from the other?

7 And they are not all the children of Abraham because they are by blood his descendants. No, [the promise was] Your descendants will be called and counted through the line of Isaac [though Abraham had an older son].

8 That is to say, it is not the children of the body [of Abraham] who are made God’s children, but it is the offspring to whom the promise applies that shall be counted [as Abraham’s true] descendants.

It is the children of the promise. What a great revelation.

9 For this is what the promise said, About this time [next year] will I return and Sarah shall have a son.

10 And not only that, but this too: Rebecca conceived [two sons under exactly the same circumstances] by our forefather Isaac,

11 And the children were yet unborn and had so far done nothing either good or evil. Even so, in order further to carry out God’s purpose of selection (election, choice), which depends not on works or what men can do, but on Him Who calls [them],

12 It was said to her that the elder [son] should serve the younger [son].

Wow! I never really considered this matter of election from God’s viewpoint, but look at how Paul struggled with this issue. Right now we in the US are struggling with our election. Who do you vote for, how do you choose, etc. So then, let’s learn from God. We want children of the promise, those who God calls. That is the biggest criteria, looking at their resume of what they have done is not even a factor in God’s choosing Jacob (Israel).

13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated (held in [a]relative disregard in comparison with My feeling for Jacob).

It is not logical, it is not reasonable, just like love. God doesn’t say “I have carefully weighed the pros and cons and decided to choose Jacob”. No He says Jacob I loved, Esau I hated.

14 What shall we conclude then? Is there injustice upon God’s part? Certainly not!

It would be unjust if God’s judgement were based on His feelings rather than righteousness. We are not talking about our judgement before God’s throne. No one accuses you of being unjust for having friends, for having people you like. How is it any different with God?

15 For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion (pity) on whom I will have compassion.

Mercy is not a matter of righteousness, it goes further than the righteous requirement of the law. God’s choosing to have mercy on Jacob was not part of the righteous requirement of the law, it was the extension of God’s mercy to man.

16 So then [God’s gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God’s mercy. [It depends not on one’s own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God’s having mercy on him.]

There are two sides to this, if God’s gift is not based on how much you willed it, or how hard you ran, but rather simply on God showing you mercy then all the glory goes to God. Beware of anyone pretending to have worked so hard and having received God’s gift due to the strength of their will. That would be Esau, not Jacob. That would be the descendants of Abraham according to the flesh.

17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, I have raised you up for this very purpose of displaying My power in [dealing with] you, so that My name may be proclaimed the whole world over.

This is what all these powerful rulers and elites portray themselves as. They are smarter, harder working, more diligent, more purposeful, hence they are the rulers. Actually they were raised up by God so that God’s power could be displayed and His name proclaimed. This is what we are seeing today, the rich, the powerful, the elites are all being displayed as liars, frauds, and cheats. We were told for sixteen months that the Pandemic was from a fish market and those that say otherwise were nutty conspiracy kooks. But the truth has come out that the pandemic was created in a bioweapons lab with the intention of being a pandemic. In fact it turns out that those who were telling us what to do about the pandemic (Fauci) were the ones who paid for the lab to create the pandemic. Not only so but those states who followed Fauci’s instructions to the letter had the worst impact to their states. They had the most deaths and the worst economic outcome. States that ignored his instructions had the best outcomes both health wise and economic wise. Who is uncovering all these truths? People that God showed mercy to. They were slandered, insulted, and suffered financial loss. But as recipients of mercy they displayed the Lord’s power and proclaimed His name.

Romans 9:18-33 Because [they pursued it] not through faith, relying [instead] on the merit of their works

18 So then He has mercy on whomever He wills (chooses) and He hardens (makes stubborn and unyielding the heart of) whomever He wills.

This is why we see this incredible stupidity among our leaders. Their stubbornness helps display God’s power just as Pharaoh’s stubbornness helped during the time of Mose.

19 You will say to me, Why then does He still find fault and blame us [for sinning]? For who can resist and withstand His will?

Whoa, we aren’t puppets. We have a free will. They are resisting the truth because it exposes their sin, it exposes their crimes and their lies. When they fall from their elevated position they have a very long way to fall.

20 But who are you, a mere man, to criticize and contradict and answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?

One minute they are the high and mighty and the next they blame God for everything they did.

21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same mass (lump) one vessel for beauty and distinction and honorable use, and another for menial or ignoble and dishonorable use?

Oh, yuck! Ouch. You want to blame God for everything you did, fine, He’ll respond that He made you to be a chamber pot.

22 What if God, although fully intending to show [the awfulness of] His wrath and to make known His power and authority, has tolerated with much patience the vessels (objects) of [His] anger which are ripe for destruction?

23 And [what if] He thus purposes to make known and show the wealth of His glory in [dealing with] the vessels (objects) of His mercy which He has prepared beforehand for glory,

24 Even including ourselves whom He has called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles (heathen)?

Everyone who writes a good story knows it is not simply about having a good hero, you also need a good villain. God has prepared both. We like to think that God is transforming His church into the one new man, the warrior. Well at the same time He has also prepared, raised up Pharaoh, so that the exceeding greatness of His power can be displayed.

25 Just as He says in Hosea, Those who were not My people I will call My people, and her who was not beloved [I will call] My beloved.

26 And it shall be that in the very place where it was said to them, You are not My people, they shall be called sons of the living God.

There is this arrogance of being “people of God”. There is no room for arrogance, if we are called sons of the living God it is God’s mercy.

27 And Isaiah calls out (solemnly cries aloud) over Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant (a small part of them) will be saved [[b]from perdition, condemnation, judgment]!

It seems there are multiple rapture events but only a very small remnant that will be taken first, the first fruits.

28 For the Lord will execute His sentence upon the earth [He will conclude and close His account with men completely and without delay], rigorously cutting it short in His justice.

According to God’s justice whoever believes that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and calls Him Lord shall be saved. But being saved for eternity and being saved from the coming tribulation are two different things. Just because someone will ultimately be saved doesn’t mean they have been saved from arrogance and pride yet.

29 It is as Isaiah predicted, If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed [from which to propagate descendants], we [Israel] would have fared like Sodom and have been made like Gomorrah.

Right now there is a strong battle going on to turn the US into Sodom and Gomorrah. They have children’s programs for preschoolers being taught by transgender people as a means to train kids to be transgender. Just today a Christian college was ordered to allow transgender (males who now say they are females) to shower with women in the women’s locker rooms. There are many others doing all they can to restrain this madness. Once the rapture takes place the Holy Spirit which is now working to restrain will step aside and allow the US to become Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot is likened to those who are raptured in the middle of the tribulation.

30 What shall we say then? That Gentiles who did not follow after righteousness [who did not seek salvation by right relationship to God] have attained it by faith [a righteousness imputed by God, based on and produced by faith],

31 Whereas Israel, though ever in pursuit of a law [for the securing] of righteousness (right standing with God), actually did not succeed in fulfilling the Law.

32 For what reason? Because [they pursued it] not through faith, relying [instead] on the merit of their works [they did not depend on faith but on what they could do]. They have stumbled over the Stumbling Stone.

The problem was not that they were pursuing it, the problem was that some pursued it based on their strength, their scholarship, their diligence, their holiness. Others didn’t have any pretense at being holier or more scholarly, rather they pursued it through faith. Simply reading the Bible, praying over it and believing the promises.

33 As it is written, Behold I am laying in Zion a Stone that will make men stumble, a Rock that will make them fall; but he who believes in Him [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] shall not be put to shame nor be disappointed in his expectations.

Isaiah 62 Till her vindication shines like the dawn



1 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,

for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet,

till her vindication shines out like the dawn,

her salvation like a blazing torch.

2

The nations will see your vindication,

and all kings your glory;

you will be called by a new name

that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.

3

You will be a crown of splendor in the Lord’s hand,

a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

For 2,000 years the church has taken the deserted and desolate place no one else wanted. We were the offscouring of all things. Still, the Lord was building something out of the church. Today nothing scares the totalitarian regimes more than the church. They can deal with individuals easy enough, you can censor them, slander them, bring false charges against them and get them fired. But the church with hundreds of millions of believers, that is different. We have been trained to speak for the Lord despite every attempt to shut us up. At the end of this age it will be the church that stands up to the kingdom of Antichrist. When the rest of the world sees the coming destruction it will be the church that offers a way of salvation. Then her vindication will shine out like the dawn. It will be the dawn of a new age, the kingdom age. The churches salvation will be a blazing torch, a light that shows the way. All the nations have been subjected to this satanic worldly system, they will all see the saints stand up to spiritual forces of the air, they will see you defeat the antichrist and the false prophet and that will be your vindication and your glory. Then these saints will be a crown of glory to the Lord. Everyone will see what He has wrought, every knee will bow and every tongue proclaim that Jesus is Lord.

4

No longer will they call you Deserted,

or name your land Desolate.

But you will be called Hephzibah,[a]

and your land Beulah[b];

for the Lord will take delight in you,

and your land will be married.

For two thousand years the church is the bride to the Lord Jesus who was crucified on the cross. We are the desolate bride that lives in a deserted land. But when the Lord returns then we will truly be blessed and beautiful.

5

As a young man marries a young woman,

so will your Builder marry you;

as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,

so will your God rejoice over you.

Our bridegroom is the builder, the great builder. The church has been built for such a day as this.

6

I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem;

they will never be silent day or night.

You who call on the Lord,

give yourselves no rest,

7

and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem

and makes her the praise of the earth.

8

The Lord has sworn by his right hand

and by his mighty arm:

“Never again will I give your grain

as food for your enemies,

and never again will foreigners drink the new wine

for which you have toiled;

9

but those who harvest it will eat it

and praise the Lord,

and those who gather the grapes will drink it

in the courts of my sanctuary.”

The governments are incredibly corrupt. In the Old Testament the people paid 10% of their earnings for a government, today we pay over 40%. Everything you buy has a sales tax, and then everyone of those companies that produced it is taxed and all those people who work for those companies are taxed. 40% of what you spend at the store is actually going to pay these taxes. Then on top of that you are taxed. You pay taxes to your federal government and to your state government and maybe even to your city government. If you invest money then anything you earn from that is also taxed. You take the money you have left over after you were taxed and invest it into a company that is being taxed, and if you make money even that is taxed. Why are our taxes so high? The biggest portion of the budget is national defense. In the Old Testament if you wanted to go to war the call went out and that was when the army was raised. They didn’t keep a standing army. Today every time there is a “threat” they spend more money on our “defense”. Going to war is big business for some and extremely profitable. True, for the poor who actually fight the war it is horrible, those that aren’t killed are either left permanently injured or scarred with PTSD. But for those who profit off the war it is extremely profitable and they will richly reward the politicians who did their bidding with big campaign donations and other perks.

But you say politicians can no longer raise taxes, they all promise not to. True, they don’t need to, simply print more money. If you have 100 dollars in circulation and the government goes and prints another 100 it was as though they just reached into your pocket and took 50 cents for every dollar you had. It has become so bad that when Biden got elected he needed $2 trillion to pay off all those who helped get him there. It is so bad and so pervasive that robbing taxpayers is considered the normal course of business and anyone not doing that is too ignorant to worry about.

10

Pass through, pass through the gates!

Prepare the way for the people.

Build up, build up the highway!

Remove the stones.

Raise a banner for the nations.

Here is what the elites missed. All those people building the highway, they were the ones you considered ignorant masses. They removed the stones. You hired them and trained them to catch people robbing you so now they will rise up and realize you are robbing them. You paid $400 million to steal the election, but you forgot the election was handled by thousands of election workers who you weren’t paying off. That is why we have 2,000 affidavits of election fraud. True you have an army of lawyers, politicians and judges in your pocket, but those who aren’t in your pocket are well able to bring you down. You need us to do all the work of the economy, we don’t need you. If all the crooked politicians, lawyers, judges, tech giants, etc were to disappear no one would miss them. However, if the Lord raptures those that you consider desolate ignorant masses your economy will grind to a halt.

11

The Lord has made proclamation

to the ends of the earth:

“Say to Daughter Zion,

‘See, your Savior comes!

See, his reward is with him,

and his recompense accompanies him.’”

12

They will be called the Holy People,

the Redeemed of the Lord;

and you will be called Sought After,

the City No Longer Deserted.

Some are claiming that this is a leap year for Israel which mean you insert a 13th month, hence Passover was not March 26th but one month later in April and 2nd Passover is actually May 26th. Calendar issues are very hotly debated, very confusing, and beyond my ability to judge.

There is a very interesting contrast between the Old and New Testaments. In the old testament you had very specific dates that had to be kept precisely. Those dates were a dress rehearsal for the final event. So they were very prophetic. But in the new testament we are told that "it is not for you to know dates and times". So why do you have these dress rehearsals for all the big events with one covenant and the other covenant there are no dates and no times. Rather we are only told to keep one day, the Lord's day. We celebrate it with the Lord's table which looks toward the wedding with the Lord and His return.

One interpretation is that we don't know when, it could therefore be any day so live with that attitude. That is the fundamental attitude of the believers in the new testament.

However, there is another biblical interpretation which is that God has confused the calendar. We have three basic calendars that we can refer to: Gregorian, Torah, and Enoch. This is very apparent every year because the Jewish feast of firstfruit should be the same day as Easter and yet it rarely is.

To add to the confusion there is a strong debate among many as to whether the Torah calendar is accurate or the Essene calendar. The Essenes are the ones who made the dead sea scrolls and they are the ones that John the Baptist came out of. Many believe that the early church was composed of the Essenes.

This is why I feel that the entire debate over calendars is beyond me. When the Lord said that no one knew the date, not even the angels I understand that to be a reference to the Enoch calendar.

Instead, the Lord said when you see the day approaching "Look up". This is why I think the great Revelation 12 sign is so significant, it has only happened three times in the last six thousand years and the last time was when Jesus was born.

The odds of eight solar eclipses to be symmetrical about May 26 over a 14 year period is about 1 in 6,000. So if the Revelation 12 sign is significant then this also is significant. In contrast the Jewish leap year occurs 7 times in a 19 year cycle, so the odds that this is a Jewish leap year is better than 1 in 3 (apparently orthodox Easter also agrees with that interpretation). Now if this is a Jewish leap year then May 26th is the 2nd passover. It would certainly be appropriate that the 2nd passover have a blood moon. Not only so but the moon is darkened for exactly 4 hours beginning at noon time in Jerusalem (it is visible over the Pacific). That is another prophecy from the Old testament. Although you can only have a blood moon on a full moon which only happens 12-13 times a year, you can have it occur at any hour using Jerusalem's time. So there is a 1 in 24 chance of this event. Add to this that this is the very first worldwide shutdown of the economy ever (let's say 1 in 2,000) and the combined odds are one in 576 billion. That suggests to me that this is a very significant event that is not simply an interesting quirk.

Now if there were nothing prophetic in the old testament concerning the day in which the rapture takes place there is no need to confuse the calendar. To me, all this confusion about the calendar is because the day is prophesied about in the Old testament.

The Lord didn't just say that we don't know the day, He also said we don't know hour. It also occurred to me that at any given instant the entire earth is experiencing 24 different hours. Therefore if the Lord's return were to take place on one day it would have to take place in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, and it would have to be at 12 noon at the Prime meridian. The Prime Meridian is over London, but what if in God's view it is over Jerusalem? Not only has He confused the calendar He has also confused the clock.

Revelation 3:3b So then, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

This is a very difficult verse because the Lord told us that no one knows the day or the hour and yet here he tells us that if we don't wake up we won't know the day or the hour? How do you explain this seeming contradiction?

Revelation 3:a 3 So remember and take to heart the lessons you have received and heard. Keep and obey them, and repent

He is telling us that he has given us the instructions we need to know the hour.

So then no one knows the day or the hour indicates we cannot just look on a calendar and know, however we are told that "we will see the day approaching", we are told that when we see the day approaching "look up". Even though the calendars are confused one thing is for sure, 2nd Passover must be in the Spring time, after Equinox and on a full moon. That certainly narrows it down to one or two days a year.

The fact that we will "see the day approaching" is because there are many prophecies, whether in the Old Testament or the New Testament that will tell us the day is approaching.

For example the Lord said that on that day two will be in the field and one of them is taken. That is not proof that the day is not on a holy day or sabbath, but it certainly appears that way. The only Holy day that would not be considered a sabbath is 2nd Passover.

Then the New Testament saints are given only one day to keep, the Lord's table. Now I would assume that the Lord's table would be kept on the Lord's day, which in our calendar is Sunday. But that is not what Paul says, Paul says "whenever you keep it" indicating that we can celebrate this day on any day of the week which also aligns very nicely with 2nd Passover.

We are also told in the Old Testament that the feast days are holy appointments between us and God. The first three were kept by the Lord Jesus. Therefore I would expect Jesus to keep the next one, the 2nd Passover, when He returns from a long journey.

Romans 16 Don’t look now, but the sleeping giant is waking up!

1 Now I introduce and commend to you our sister [a]Phoebe, a deaconess (servant) of the church at [b]Cenchrea, 2 that you may receive her in the Lord [with love and hospitality], as [c]God’s people ought to receive one another. And that you may help her in whatever matter she may require assistance from you, for she has been a helper of many, including myself.

3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, 4 who risked their own necks [endangering their very lives] for my life. To them not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. 5 Also greet the church that meets in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the first convert to Christ from [the west coast province of] Asia [Minor]. 6 Greet Mary, who has worked so hard for you. 7 Greet Andronicus and [d]Junias, my kinsmen and [once] my fellow prisoners, who are held in high esteem [e]in the estimation of the apostles, and who were [believers] in Christ before me. 8 Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord. 9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys. 10 Greet Apelles, the one tested and approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of [f]Aristobulus. 11 Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. 12 Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord. 13 Greet Rufus, an eminent and choice man in the Lord, also his mother [who has been] a mother to me as well. 14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them. 15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all [g]God’s people who are with them. 16 Greet one another with a [h]holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Can you imagine after the rapture getting to meet and greet all these saints all over the world who have played a role in this ministry? This is so awesome, we can hear so many testimonies, meet so many saints all of whom are filled with faith.

17 I urge you, brothers and sisters, to keep your eyes on those who cause dissensions and create obstacles or introduce temptations [for others] to commit sin, [acting in ways] contrary to the doctrine which you have learned. Turn away from them. 18 For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites and base desires. By smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting [the innocent and the naive]. 19 For the report of your obedience has reached everyone, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

Amen. We are getting wonderful news that public support for BLM has crashed after people have learned more about what they are really all about. Meanwhile parents are flooding school board meetings and voting them out while opposing Critical Race theory. Kudos to them as well. There are still others who are standing up to these laws that say they must have transgender males share lockerrooms and showers with girls in Christian high schools. Still others are seeing the hypocrisy in keeping strip clubs and casinos open during the pandemic but locking down churches. We just learned that one governor who approved of young children receiving transgender operations had received $250,000 from those that would profit from doing these operations. Also a tv show directed at 3-8 year olds teaching them how to be drag queens received national attention when Tucker Carlson put the spotlight on it. Public TV is now trying to defend this filth. Still others are getting involved in precinct politics and from the ground up taking over the politics in this country to push back on this attempt to turn the US into Sodom and Gomorrah.

The [wonderful] grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

21 Timothy, my fellow worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

22 I, [i]Tertius, the writer (scribe) of this letter, greet you in the Lord.

23 Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church here, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you. 24 [j][The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.]

There are so many different functions needed. Talk radio is essential at getting the word out, many do their own podcasts. Others work producing these. Still others are setting up platforms that support and defend free speech, preventing the tech giants from censoring them.

25 Now to Him who is able to establish and strengthen you [in the faith] according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery [of the plan of salvation] which has been kept secret for long ages past, 26 but now has been disclosed and through the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the commandment of the eternal God, leading them to obedience to the faith, 27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forevermore! Amen.

And yes, there is a place for those of us who are preaching Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past. My whole life I just wanted to know what the Bible said and I suspect there are many others who would like to know as well. Recently it occurred to me that Joe Biden allegedly got 80 million votes in this last election and four months later his support is now less than half of that. Still there might be 40 million people that support Joe Biden being president. So I asked how many people would support Jesus? 400 million, sure, of course. How about 4 billion people, again that is quite likely. Even among those who are not Christians Jesus is highly regarded, much higher than Joe Biden. What about the leaders of the other superpowers, do you think Xi or Putin is more popular than Joe Biden? I doubt it. That is why they are terrified of Christians! We easily have 1 billion people who will be obedient to the Lord by faith and how many do they have? The only ones who are obedient to them are the ones they write fat checks to. There are only so many multi million dollar checks they can write. They don’t have a single person that would be as obedient and faithful as hundreds of thousands of genuine Christians.

Isaiah 63:1-6 Behold the church, the body of Christ, the one new man, the warrior

1 Who is this who comes from Edom,

With crimson-stained garments from Bozrah [in Edom],

This One (the Messiah) who is majestic in His apparel,

Marching in the greatness of His might?

“It is I, [the One] who speaks in righteousness [proclaiming vindication], mighty to save.”

Wow, what a wonderful vision of the one new man at the end of this age. Every expositor understands this to be the Messiah, yet this is the end of the age. Paul told us in Ephesians that the church is the Body of Christ, the one new man. We are being built and fashioned together into one new man that expresses the Lord. We are in the image and likeness of God. It is hard to describe a single person as “marching”, rather this is a corporate man, the army of the Lord. This is a picture of Ephesians 6 where we see the church as the warrior.

2

Why is Your apparel red,

And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?

3

“I have trodden the wine trough alone,

And of the peoples there was no one with Me.

I also trod them in My anger

And trampled them in My wrath;

And their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments,

And I stained all My clothes.

Yes, this is a blog about the rapture and the verse references to it. Do you want to know what the rapture will be like? It will be like this. The church will have to stand up to the spiritual forces of evil in the air alone and trod them like grapes in a wine press. This is like a football game played in the mud. If you see anyone at the end of the game with a clean uniform you know they never got into the game. But if they slandered you, insulted you, accused you and threatened you, then that is like stains on your uniform, a badge of honor showing you were in the middle of the battle.

4

“For the day of vengeance [against ungodliness] was in My heart,

And My year of redemption [of those who put their trust in Me—the year of My redeemed] has come.

The rapture is the “day of redemption” for our body. It is also the day of vengeance. We are to stand up to those who are trying to break in and rob the house. The Christians who do wake up and take a stand will be the ones who are raptured, those who sleep through the battle will be left behind.

5

“I looked, but there was no one to help,

And I was amazed and appalled that there was no one to uphold [truth and right].

So My own arm brought salvation to Me,

And My wrath sustained Me.

This is precisely what we have seen this last year. We thought our government would stand up to fight against a bio weapon from China, but no, Fauci gave directions designed to destroy our economy and Cuomo gave directions designed to kill many who were elderly and infirm. We thought our courts and legislators would help fight against election fraud from the CCP and Venezuela as an attempt to take over our democracy. But no, not one of them would uphold the truth. So the believers stepped forward in “Stop the Steal” rallies, in giving 2,000 signed affidavits concerning the fraud, in providing expertise, free of charge, for lawsuits and forensic investigations. People got on the radio and TV like Steve Bannon, Bongino and Tucker Carlson. It was the right arm of the Lord that did this, the church, the body of Christ.

6

“I trampled the peoples in My anger

And made them drunk with [the cup of] My wrath,

And I spilled their lifeblood on the earth.”

Be angry and sin not. You can have a godly anger, but don't sin. We aren't rioting, we aren't looting, we aren't sinning. Joe Biden and his crime family, their lifeblood will be spilled. Everyone involved with Epstein and his pedophile island, their lifeblood will be spilled. We have already gotten evidence that he was murdered and that it wasn’t suicide, Prince Andrew has been exposed, Bill Gates has been exposed, Roberts has been exposed, Clinton has been exposed. Likewise with the false flag event of January 6, we now have enough evidence to show that it was set up by the deep state using non Trump activists whether right wing or left wing. Nancy Pelosi and Chuch Shumer will be exposed. Arizona already has discovered enough evidence to justify decertifying Biden’s victory in that state. Georgia is going to also do an audit in one of their counties where there is evidence of massive fraud with mail in ballots. Wisconsin has also authorized a forensic audit. We are seeing a complete meltdown of Joe Scarborough on MSNBC and Rachel Maddow. These are the two mouthpieces for the left's ideology.