Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Harpazo

Esther 6:4 The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him.

Haman has prepared to have Mordecai impaled and just as he is coming to ask for permission to seize and impale him the King chooses instead to honor Mordecai. This sounds like "harpazo" being snatched out of certain destruction.

13b His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!”

This is how the tribulation begins. Satan and all his disciples have put together a plan to take over the world and eliminate the believers. However, their plan is interrupted by God rapturing those like Mordecai. This is a strong testimony to all that there is nothing the foe can do but just release God's flow.
 

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Pride comes before the fall -- ie Pride month is June, rapture in July? Outer darkness in August? And then in September we have the confirming of the covenant for seven years (part of the Agenda 2030 with the UN)
 

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WE ALL JUST TOOK A BIG STEP TOWARD THE END--BEWARE OF THE COMING WRATH OF GOD

 

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Warning

RMBC #198 "Mid Acts Dispensationalism FALSE TEACHERS" June 22nd 2023"


I was hoping to avoid this. It is one thing to point out false teachings, it is another to call people out by name as false teachers. Then to insinuate that they do this because they are trying to make money on youtube. With what judgement we judge others we shall be judged. If you have the evidence to back up that accusation, then you cannot simply make the accusation, you must present the evidence as well. I heard Dr. Barry Awe's response to the accusation and I concluded Pastor Armstrong's accusation was without merit. Now in this video he insinuates several others are also false teachers though he doesn't name them by name (Vicky Goforth Parnel, U B Ready, Prophecy club and a few others). Again he accuses them of doing this to make money on Youtube. Although Prophecy club might be monetized I know that several of the people he is accusing are not. So I conclude that that accusation of trying to make merchandise of the saints is baseless slander. Whether or not the seals have been opened is something I don't know and am open to the Lord about. Stan with Prophecy Club is also unsure, but he makes a very good point. You don't lie about hearing an audible voice from Gabriel telling you something and live. That is something that God will judge rapidly.

He holds to a doctrine which is that the church is raptured before the seals are opened, this is based on his interpretation of Revelation 4. No one should hang their doctrine on a single verse. I have been listening to Pastor Sandy Armstrong for over a year, three messages a week, and he has been wrong. His interpretation has been wrong. I don't call him a false teacher, I simply understand that to mean that his interpretation of the Bible was off and needs adjusting. I have been watching Bible prophecy for close to fifty years and to my understanding no one has all the answers. We should all be humble enough to know that our understanding and interpretation may be wrong. Of all people he should know that, he has been wrong repeatedly, not just in past years but three times in this year. Perhaps it was way off, maybe it was only slightly off. But for someone who has been wrong repeatedly in their interpretation to then claim others are false teachers because they are speaking contrary to your interpretation is arrogant. Pride blinds people and this just seems blind to me. To accuse people of having a corrupt motive of making merchandise of the saints without any proof at all is contrary to the Lord's word to us to "judge not lest you be judged".

We are in a spiritual warfare. We saw this with Steve Fletcher, and now we see it with Pastor Armstrong. Enough with the killing of each other with friendly fire. Sadly I may have to stop posting his videos on this blog because doing so would make me an accomplice. Because I have posted his videos previously I feel I must post this with this detailed warning. This will be my explanation for why I have stopped, just as I stopped with Steve Fletcher.

However, I will address the dispute about Revelation 4 because that is a very valid concern.
 

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Does the church get raptured before the seals are opened?

Depends on how you look at it. On the one hand, yes, of course. In Revelation 4 we have a picture of Jesus, the lamb of God, who has prevailed to open the seals and by His side is the church, the golden lampstand. In Ephesians Paul says that the church is seated with Christ in the heavenlies. These seven seals are sealing up a legal document that gives Jesus ownership of the Earth and mankind. Ever since Jesus ascension the mysteries that was secret in time past has been opened. Have we had an unveiling of the many antichrists? Isn't Nero and Hitler types of "the Antichrist"? Over the last two thousand years we have learned a lot about the stratagems of the evil one, we have learned to not be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, and all the ways in which Satan manipulates people with lies, falsehoods and accusations has been revealed to us. So I would say a whole lot of the first seal has been opened. Maybe not completely. The Antichrist is not fully revealed until the rapture, but much of the mystery has been opened.

How about the way evil rulers manipulate war for their own purposes? We have learned so much, just recently there was an expose on Blackrock where they admitted to buying off politicians to get their policies and how the war in Ukraine is making them a fortune. We were warned about this by Eisenhower, and JFK, and many others. Is this the second seal? If you studies WW2 you should have a completely different view about war and the forces behind it. We have seen what Albert Pike wrote, we have seen how Ford, and Bush, and Kennedy and King Edward and the Rothschilds were involved. These are things the elites wanted to keep sealed up and yet they have been shouted from the rooftop. So again, the second seal is also opened, maybe not all the way, but certainly part ways. We can now even see Ezekiel 38 and 39 coming into focus and well as Revelation 18.

What about the third seal? I read "The Good Earth" about the famine in China, so I have certainly seen a much better view of famines as a result. We are familiar with "giving them an offer they can't refuse" and how you can control the population if food is scarce. Again, we are seeing them attack the breadbasket of Europe (Ukraine) and we see the globalists outlawing the use of fertilizer and cutting agricultural production significantly as well as well over a hundred unexplained attacks on food processing plants.

How about the fourth seal? How do these evil forces use plagues to get their way? Obviously this "plandemic" and Fauci (who is a FreeMason) and the vaccine are revealing to us the way they manipulate the population and get them to agree to give power to the WHO. We saw them use concentration camps for "quarantine" and how illogical the mass psychosis was.

The idea that these seals are not being opened right before our eyes is not logical. No doubt, after the rapture things will get really crazy and that may take all these things to a whole new level. But I am not going to accuse these ones who had dreams and visions of being false prophets without proof. I will agree that my understanding of eschatology has been adjusted. I grew up on JNN Darby's teaching and Watchman Nee and what they saw was simplistic compared to what we are seeing now.
 

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The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night

There is a key principle in the Bible "judgement begins with the house of God". For example, the holocaust during WWII on the Jews, six million gassed to death. That gives us an idea of the judgement that will come on the world, but since the Jews represent 1% of the world's population we can guesstimate that the scale will be 100xs greater.

So then we can look at these events as "warnings to us". One man was talking to a reporter after the Dixie fire burned down his house and he said "all I have is ash and twisted metal". That is precisely what Paul said in Corinthians, that we will be saved but so as through fire. If we build with wood, hay and stubble we will suffer loss, but if we build with gold, silver and precious stones then the fire tests our work and proves that it is of God.

Suppose this same man had spent a lifetime preaching the gospel and thousands had received the word and come to the Lord as a result. He loses his house, and possessions, but think about everything stored in heaven that was not burned.

That fire was like a thief in the night. If you built your house out of stone, and the roof was metal, and you had two hundred feet on every side with nothing but grass and patio. Then the fire would not have destroyed your house and rather would have proved you were being wise. Why has California experienced such severe fires? It is because of the extreme drought. Why have they had 20 years of drought? It appears to be man made, 80% of the water in the state goes to agriculture and they grow crops that cannot survive in California without bringing in water. So the cause of the fire was a thief, stealing the water. We can all see the huge flames from the towering inferno, but anyone watching the water being used by agriculture should have known that this was not sustainable. They should have seen the clues that we have a "thief in the night" and therefore if we don't act now we'll wake up one day and everything will be gone.

If you acted like a forensic investigator you would see that they were "stealing the water" year by year, the evidence was there. You would see that the forest you were living in was stressed due to lack of water. You would realize that the forest fires would come. Based on that you could go ahead and take action so that your house would not be destroyed in the fire.

People need to wake up, the warnings are there, the gospel has been preached, put your treasure in heaven where fire does not burn it up.
 

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The tribulation in a nutshell

Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.
It will devour the earth and its harvests
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

23 “I will heap calamities on them
and spend my arrows against them.
24 I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.
26 I said I would scatter them
and erase their name from human memory,
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”

28 They are a nation without sense,

there is no discernment in them.
 

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We will see a repeat of this during the tribulation

6 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. 2 So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables. 3 Brothers and sisters, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them 4 and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.”

The church will have to work together to see that everyone is fed. There will be a shortage of food and now is the best time to prepare. Beans and rice as well as Joseph's kitchen will provide food for you and the other believers through the tribulation.

5 This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. 6 They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.

7 So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.

What is the apostasy, just this, a large number of priests are not obedient to the faith. During the tribulation they repent.
 

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Pray for another word from the Lord

Esther 8:5 “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces. 6 For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”

7 King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled him on the pole he set up. 8 Now write another decree in the king’s name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king’s signet ring—for no document written in the king’s name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.”

The judgment during the tribulation cannot be revoked, it has already been written in the King's name and sealed. Instead of revoking that judgment you can pray for another word to go forth from the Lord. All these believers who accused people of being "false prophets" are clueless about this. I just read a prophecy that precisely described the Starlink system providing the Earth with a complete internet followed by the censorship and manipulation. The Lord said that this would happen because people are eating the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil and want to be like God, rather than eating the tree of life. My point is in this prophecy the Lord said "these things will shortly come to pass" and it was in 1985. Sure enough, you could have seen the development of the internet from that time on. The first IBM PC was released in 1981. The global internet arose in the 1990s. It opened to the public in 1991 and began to get wide use in 1993-1994. The internet did not begin to use satellites for transmission till 2010. Starlink did not begin launching satellites till 2019. As of May of 2023 it already consists of 4,000 small satellites. Already North America, much of South America, Europe, Japan, Australia and Nigeria are covered by Starlink. So this prophecy from 1985 has been coming true in front of our eyes over the next 38 years. This is what the Lord means when He says "shortly come to pass". We have also seen how the worldwide internet can be a blessing and a curse to humanity.

But the second point is what we see here in Esther. The decree concerning the mark of the beast cannot be revoked, do not pray for it to be revoked, rather pray for another word to be given by the Lord so that we could stand against the stratagems of the evil one. The Starlink system is essential component of the Beast system, as is quantum computers and AI and neuralink chips in human brains. These technologies will all work together to create the beast system.
 

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The Full Revelation of the man of sin

Esther 7:1 So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s banquet, 2 and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”

3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request. 4 For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.”

5 King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he—the man who has dared to do such a thing?”

6 Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!”

Mordecai and Esther knew who Haman was before this, but it isn't until this banquet where they are drinking wine that Haman becomes fully revealed. This is a picture of the rapture and the restainer being taken out of the way. Mordecai was the "restrainer". When he is honored by the king that depicts the rapture and the restrainer being taken out of the way. Immediately after that Haman is taken to this feast of wine where he is fully revealed to be the man of sin.

Those who object to the "pre tribulation" rapture argue that every believer must be tried and go through tribulation. This is true, but Mordecai went through tribulation. He was dressed in sackcloth, sat that the gate, refused to bow down to the sinful Haman and was on the verge of being impaled when he got Harpazo'd, snatched from the claws of death.
 

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What you need to do to be raptured

3 Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.
 

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STRENGTHENING a covenant with many on Feast of Trumpets

 

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Consider the order of events in Esther

1. Mordecai refuses to bow before Haman

Sounds like the church refusing to bow to the world, refusing to become the apostasy.

2. Haman hatches a plot to not only kill Mordecai but to kill all Jews

Sounds like the UN plot with agenda 2030. This isn't just focused on Christians but on all conservatives and nationalists. It is a plot to seize complete power over the world and they have made it very clear they consider human population to be the source of all the problems and they desire to reduce human population by 90%.

3. Mordecai learns of this, sits at the gate in sackcloth and then Esther also learns of this.

This sounds like all the watchmen from the believers warning about the coming of the Lord to those concerned about election fraud, saying Biden is illegitimate, to those who are warning about Agenda 2030 in the UN, King Charles, and the moves the WEF is making for digital currency and one step closer to the mark of the beast.

4. Esther invites the king (God) and Haman (the deep state) to a banquet. Haman thinks that this means he is special.

This sounds like all the hearings we have had from the Jan 6th hearing through the Hunter Biden hearings, etc. Christians may have a problem with this being "political" but the book of Esther is very discreet in their reference to God and Esther is clearly a Queen, a preeminent person in the government of the country. You cannot liken her to the church because Mordecai charges her to not disclose her people. I would say this is where we are right now in time.

5. Haman goes home from this feast, sees Mordecai on the way who refuses to bow to him, becomes enraged, and builds a fifty foot high pole on which to impale Mordecai on. He then goes to the king to get permission for this.


This is what we are seeing. You don't think that this digital currency and WHO oversight of all countries is going to put up these people as a gazingstock and example of what happens to those who speak against this regime? People who have refused to bow to the globalists? Someone recently asked Karine Jean Pierre a question about a woman who was seriously injured by a trans man during a sporting competition and she responded that "this question is dangerous". They are threatening people very clearly to shut up.

6. However, Haman is interrupted in his quest to impale Mordecai and instead must parade him for all to see that the King (God) is honoring him.


I think this refers to "harpazo" being snatched out of the sudden destruction and raptured to the throne of God. Therefore I believe we are on the cusp of the rapture.

7. As soon as that is finished Haman is hustled off to the second banquet where he is revealed as the man of sin, just as the new testament says. The restrainer (Mordecai) is taken out of the way and then the man of sin is revealed.

So consider these two "banquets". In both banquets they are very explicit that they are "drinking wine". In the Bible we have two aspects of wine, you get God treading out the wine vats that are filled to overflowing, indicating sin, evil and the blood of all those who are killed. But you also have the Holy Spirit as the New wine which is poured into the church which is the wineskin on the feast of Pentecost. In the first banquet we have the rapture of the church, those who are restraining evil, one with the Holy Spirit, and who refuse to bow to Satan. In the second banquet we have the man of sin being exposed, trying to molest God's children who are left behind. Ultimately this results in all the believers waking up and having a revival, standing for the Lord.
 

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PROPHECY--PESTILENCE OF PESTILENCES


PESTILENCE OF PESTILENCES Matthew 24:7 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Revelation 9:6 6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. Revelation 13:16-18 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

My son, WARN MY BODY OF THE COMING PESTILENCES. There will be THREE more worse than the PREVIOUS that locked your nation down. There will be a STRONGER V__ of the PREVIOUS PESTILENCE that will once again lock the nation down. However, the people will REFUSE to be controlled, and ANARCHY will erupt in many cities. The controllers will then release a NEW V__. This one will be THREE TIMES more deadly, and FEAR will rule the nation.

My son, these are My judgments on a nation whose PRIDE and ARROGANCE cause them to REBEL against Me. After the SECOND PESTILENCE runs its course, the people still REFUSE TO REPENT and take to the streets in protest. There will be FOOD SHORTAGES, and people will turn on each other, STEALING and ROBBING from their neighbors. These TWO PESTILENCES will not be short lived, but continue throughout the remainder of the tribulation.

My son, the THIRD PESTILENCE is a targeted one from My Father. This is the WORST, and will cause SORES and LESIONS to break out on ALL THOSE who take the MARK of the beast. So PAINFUL will this PESTILENCE be, that men will want to die - but cannot. This judgment is just on those who REFUSE TO REPENT and take his MARK. While this is ongoing, WAR will come to this nation. People AFFLICTED will not be cured, but will be shot, and their bodies burned by the invaders. THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN THE AMOUNT OF CARNAGE THAT WILL COME.

My son, SHOUT REPENT NOW!! Turn from your evil ways and follow Me. I AM YOUR ONLY PROTECTION from ALL that will transpire. GREAT EARTHQUAKES and TSUNAMIS will ravage both coasts. ARE YOU READY TO MEET ME? Many of you will, and many of you are not ready. REPENT NOW! Place your life in My hands, and I will guide you through ALL that is coming upon the land. BE PREPARED NOW - for the SECOND PESTILENCE is now ready, and it will be AIRBORNE. NO MASK WILL SAVE YOU - ONLY I CAN. I LOVE YOU ALL. Amen. Lord Jesus
 

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A gentile, But urgent MESSAGE!

Today, and for the Next 48 hours be Ready, in your Heart, to meet the KING, of Kings! As we watch what is Happening in the Ukraine situation, we see that the Time is very Near to a MEETING...Now whether that Meeting is of Men, at the Negotiating Table or that Meeting is in the Air....REMAINS to be Seen.... But we should ALWAYS Be Ready to Meet Our KING, Jesus! and for those who ARE NOT READY ...This is the Day, THIS is the Moment, DO NOT WAIT, even another Second...For you will not know when the SUDDEN Destruction Comes....IF IT DOES... and It is More REAL RIGHT NOW than is has ever been before... and It is NOT GOING away... BUT Escalating faster than we have thought! for those who make a Decision for Jesus today, PLEASE write me an E mail telling me you have , and I will be Happy to Pray for you! You Have made a Great choice, and Welcome to the Family of God! [email protected]