Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Thoughts on the covenant in Daniel 9

2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

According to Daniel the 70th week starts with the covenant being confirmed with the many by a man who we infer is the Antichrist. We consider this very important because it will tell us exactly when the 7 years of tribulation will take place.

So then, what do we know about it?

1. It can be described as a conspiracy to defraud. When you confirm a covenant with many that results in someone being defrauded it is by definition "a conspiracy to defraud". In the same verse where Antichrist confirms the covenant it also says that three and a half years later he causes the oblation and sacrifice to cease and sets himself up in the temple of the Jews. They got defrauded. However, it doesn't say that he breaks the covenant, so I don't believe the covenant was to give the Jews the right to worship their God, or to build their temple. The 70 weeks begins with the decree to return and rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. There is no second decree to do that.

2. Reading Revelation and Thessalonians we discover that we know a lot about what happens, there are many more puzzle pieces like Peter says, no prophecy is of its own interpretation.

They will be saying "peace and security" then "sudden destruction comes". It comes like a thief in the night. We can compare this to Judas coming to Jesus like a thief in the night, kissing him, and then He gets arrested. We know that this happens after the rapture, after the Holy Spirit who has been restraining Antichrist, is taken away.

We also know that at the same time that the rapture takes place the Lord judges the apostate church. I suspect the numbers will be the same. By that I mean if 100 million are raptured worldwide (ten thousand ten thousand who return on horses) then another 100 million will be killed by fire at the same time. The numbers are simply a hunch to give us an idea of the scale of what is about to take place. The fact that the two events happen at the same time is confirmed by many, many witnesses, prophecies, and Bible verses. I think a very strong case from the Bible can be made that the bulk of this judgement will fall on the US which is called "the Great Babylon" and their judgment will come in one hour. If the US loses the majority of this 100 million killed and 100 million raptured, then the US as a power would cease to exist. That will be devastating to the world's economy in so many ways that you can understand the need to declare "peace and security" and you can understand why people around the world would hand over significant power to this leader in exchange for peace and security.

We also know that the power they hand over is for a world wide currency that the Antichrist can control so tightly that he can decide who can buy or sell and it is only those who worship him by taking his mark on their hand or forehead. This brings us back to Daniel 9. This would certainly "strengthen" a covenant that people have made but are not keeping. If the covenant involves what you can buy or sell, as Agenda 2030 does concerning climate change, then agreeing to this for seven years would certainly strengthen that covenant. The only reason people would agree is they felt it was a matter of life or death.

This covenant gives Antichrist the power to decapitate those who refuse to take the mark beginning with Christians but three and a half years later moving on to Israel. This is all about power and worship. They give Antichrist the power and he demands the worship.
 

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The Fall of America will start with an Internal Revolution 08/18/2023
 

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Thoughts on Daniel 9 Covenant and the four horsemen of the apocalypse

2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

See post #9281 for the first section of this. This is a continuation of that post.

First let's discuss my interpretation which is a variation on the standard interpretation.

1. Let us all agree that Revelation is the conclusion to the entire Bible, both Old and New Testaments and that you don't introduce something brand new in the conclusion, instead you are referring to things that have already been mentioned.

2. The central point of Revelation 4 is a scroll that has seven seals and which no person has been worthy to open prior to Jesus being crucified. I am saying that this scroll is the mystery which has been hidden from ages and generations mentioned by Paul in Ephesians.

3. I am also saying that Jesus opened this scroll right after being crucified and resurrected. According to Paul the mystery was already opened when he wrote Ephesians.

4. According to this interpretation the 24 elders were those who rose from the dead at the same time that Jesus rose from the dead, they are the firstfruits.

5. Also, according to this interpretation the Lampstand that you see in heaven is the church. Paul said in Ephesians that we are seated together with Christ in the heavenlies. So again, at the time of the book of Ephesians it is perfectly scriptural to say that the church, the body of Christ, was in the heavenlies.

6. I also agree with the interpretation that John hearing a voice saying "come up hither" refers to the rapture. It refers to the rapture of those that had risen from the dead at the time of Jesus resurrection.

That said, I believe all of this will be repeated at the end of the church age. Once again there will be a rapture.

And, once again these seals will be opened. Does that make sense? Yes, with Paul they were opened to those with eyes to see. Clearly that is not to everyone. At the end of the church age and the start of the 70th week they will be opened to those who are on the earth.

1. The white horse is the gospel that went forth as soon as Jesus said "You are my witnesses". After the church age the White horse will refer to the perverted gospel of Antichrist. He will tell sinners that they will have peace and security because he is going to persecute Christians and anyone saying that sin is sin. You must worship the Antichrist and take his mark.

2. The Red horse represents the spiritual warfare that takes place as the gospel goes forth. Read a few biographies of spiritual men. However, the counterfeit gospel will use physical war to coerce people to worship the Antichrist.

3. The Black horse represents the hunger and famine for the word of God. The counterfeit gospel will use physical hunger to coerce people to take the mark of the beast so that they can get food and eat.

4. The pale green horse of plague indicates that the gospel can deliver you from sin and death. In the counterfeit gospel they will release bioweapons and bring fire down from satellites in the heavens to coerce people to get their vaccines and mark of the beast.

5. The fifth seal indicates that as a result of the whole world lying in the evil one many righteous people have been martyred for their faith. This took place starting with Stephen and has gone on for the entire church age, but it will continue during the tribulation. Perhaps the number killed in the tribulation will equal all those killed prior to the tribulation.

6. The sixth seal is the rapture. It is both the rapture at the end of the church age (the period when the mysteries that Paul opened up in Ephesians were revealed) and also the rapture at the end of the first 42 months of the tribulation.

In my interpretation I say that those who think this scroll was opened up right after Jesus was crucified, and those who think this is opened up right after the pre tribulation rapture are both right. The simplest analogy I can give for that is summer school. Imagine students go to school and graduate HS after four years. That graduation is the pre tribulation (pre summer) rapture. During the four years in HS the mysteries were opened up to them. However, quite a few students did not graduate on time, they must go to summer school where these same mysteries are opened up to them in a completely different way since the first approach didn't work. They then graduate, that is the mid tribulation rapture.

With that as a preview, let's see how this aligns with the covenant that Daniel is referring to in Daniel 9. The one that is confirmed for a seven year period.
 

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Daniel 9 seven year covenant and Revelation 4 and 5.

2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

This suggests that the seven year period known as the seventieth week which begins with Antichrist confirming the covenant for seven years is also the white horse of the apocalypse riding. This is the perverted gospel and we know that the benefit to the world for agreeing to this is "peace and security". This will happen after the rapture.

Therefore the covenant, in this interpretation, is a perversion of the gospel. In Galatians Paul says it isn't another gospel, rather it is a perversion of the gospel.

So then what is Agenda 2030? They are not making the covenant, it was made in 2015. What they want to do is to strengthen the covenant so they can enforce compliance by the whole world. They will do this by controlling what you can buy or sell. They control how much gasoline you buy, how much meat you buy, what temperature you keep your home, even if you have a car, live in a 15 minute city, etc.

There are 17 sustainable development goals. In the Bible there are commandments, Revelation concludes saying Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

So just as our gospel has commandments, the counterfeit does too. The gospel promises life and peace, this counterfeit promises peace and security. In the gospel in order to be saved you must confess that Jesus is Lord, in this counterfeit you must worship the Antichrist. In the gospel we are regulated by the Spirit who indwells us. In this counterfeit we are regulated by a social credit score which AI and a quantum computer are monitoring.

However, in Daniel 9 in the same verse it says that in the middle of the seven years the Antichrist will cause the oblation and sacrifice to cease and will set himself up in the temple. There must be a scapegoat. At the start of the seventieth week the scapegoat are Christians. They are the problem, they are persecuted, and they are beheaded. But by the middle of the tribulation they have all been martyred or raptured. So now the new scapegoat are the Jews. This is divide and conquer. Many Christians and virtually every other person on the planet will have no problem persecuting Christians who refuse to get the mark. But once they are gone, then you focus on Jews, not all Jews, just the orthodox ones that are worshipping in the temple with sacrifices according to the Old Testament.

Strengthening the covenant does not mean saying the Jews can rebuild the temple, that charge was made at the beginning of the entire 70 weeks. Strengthening the covenant is giving the Antichrist the ability to control what everyone on earth can buy or sell. Daniel doesn't say in the middle of the seven years that Antichrist breaks the covenant. If the covenant was to worship God and rebuild the temple then causing the oblation and sacrifice to cease would be breaking the covenant.
 

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Rapture Anxiety? Watchman River - Tom Cote


"I don't have one worry in the world that the rapture won't cure"
 

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Those that teach contrary to the Lord's command to watch for His coming

Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.

This verse is often misapplied, so let's look at it carefully. Paul is not saying to mark those whose doctrine is different that what you learned. First, it is "contrary" to what you learned. The word means "against". For example, the Lord told us to "watch" for His coming. If you teach people that you should not watch, that is clearly contrary. The Lord likened this to a woman having a baby, so if you say the woman is having birth pains and they are getting closer and closer together and stronger, that is watching. If you say ignore that people have been saying that for days, that is contrary to the Lord's word. The Lord likened this to a farmer harvesting a crop. He doesn't know the day and hour it will be ripe so he must watch. So if you are a farmer and every day you are walking through the field, looking at the fruit, that is watching. If on the other hand you say no one knows the day or hour so let's just sit here and watch TV, that is not watching. That is contrary to the Lord's doctrine. However, Paul is not talking about people who have these erroneous doctrines, he says they are causing divisions and occasions of stumbling according to them. So if someone starts a Christian sect or is a pastor or teacher and they are teaching to ignore all the signs of the Lord's coming because no one knows the day or hour, that would be an example. If someone is floating around on various forums and telling believers who are interested in signs and prophecies to stop being interested, that could cause an occasion of stumbling. These are the ones we are to mark and to turn away from. He doesn't say debate, doesn't say convince, simply turn away from them.

18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

You have to be very naive to be beguiled by this. Every single time the Lord said "no one knows the day or the hour" he concluded with "therefore watch". How could anyone come up with any other conclusion?

19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil.

Paul is letting us know he has just skipped over something very evil because he would have us simple unto that. There are people who claim to serve the Lord Jesus, but they don't, they serve their own belly, they serve the flesh, they are paid, like Judas, to betray believers. Satanists have infiltrated the board of directors of many large "mega churches" in order to influence what is and what is not taught. They want to deceive as many as possible concerning Antichrist and to do that they need to silence the pastors and churches talking about the end times and the prophecies and signs.

20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
 

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Let's read Joel, you would have thought every pastor and church would have studied this book during the Pandemic

Joel 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

Anyone ever hear of a worldwide shutdown due to a pandemic? No. We had parts of cities shut down temporarily in 1918-1919, we had a few cities with mask mandates. But we never saw what we saw in 2020 in human history.

3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. 4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

Palmerworm, locust, cankerworm and caterpillar eat at different times in the season and different agricultural products. Some attack trees, others attack crops. This is describing a comprehensive attack on the agricultural economy.

5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. 7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

This is figurative language, they eat up everything with powerful teeth, like a lion. But he isn't talking about a nation of lions, nor is he talking about four kinds of insects. Lions would not eat bark from fig trees and would not destroy the vines in a vineyard. So far he has used three different analogies, four kinds of insect, a warring nation, and lions.

8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn.

Not only so but the houses of worship are also cut off.

10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. 11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

Now it is even weirder, he isn't blaming the insects, the army, the lions, he is saying the farmers should be ashamed.

13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Not only so but he says the offerings to the house of God are being held back.

14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord, 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Let's summarize what is described so far, because this is what we will see as a warning that the Day of the Lord is at hand.

1. Never before seen event in human history

2. Worldwide attack on the economy by something similar to insects, to an invading army, and to lions.

3. The house of God will be shut and the offerings are cut off to them.

4. God is declaring a solemn fast so that the priests and ministers can lie all night in sackcloth and cry unto him.

5. They should be ashamed. The farmers (that would be the lords in the economy) and the priests should be ashamed and fast before God.

17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. 18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

Whatever is happening is perplexing. What happened to the fields? What happened to the pastures? What is going on with the herds?

19 O Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

Now it seems like he is talking about fires burning up the fields.

20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Now it seems like he is describing a drought.

However, it isn't a drought we have seen that many times, it isn't a fire, we have seen that many times, it isn't insects, it isn't an army, it is something that we never saw before and it is perplexing.
 

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Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Here is what we know so far. An event will take place, never before seen in human history, it will devour our economy, shut down the churches, and at the same time you will hear people "blowing the trumpet in Zion and declaring the day of the Lord is coming". There is no way to predict ahead of time what this event is since we never saw it before, but we can compare it to many things that we have seen and you will hear many people saying the day of the Lord is coming.

2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

Here it is no longer insects or lions, but it is being described as an army never before seen. And "nothing escapes them". God does not exaggerate. There are over 200 nations worldwide and you will be able to go into the statistics and see that not one nation escaped. Their spread is described as a fire spreading and their sound is also very distinctive. I remember when I was in NYC, you heard the sirens blaring day and night, the spread of the pandemic was likened to a fire, they talked about hot spots, and jumping from one place to another.

7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

This is what social distancing looked like. I once was at Costco, the line snaked all around the parking lot and might have been a mile long. Everyone moved in an orderly line, no one was pushing on anyone else.

9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

Again, what he is describing is impossible. How can a great and terrible army be like a thief sneaking into a window? This great and terrible army is an army you can't see. It is the virus.

10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11 And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

God is the commander. Remember when he used frogs, and lice, and flies at his command? So the only thing we can compare this to is the ten plagues in Egypt at the time of Moses.

12 Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

This was a day of fasting declared by God for the whole world to turn and repent and return to the Lord.

14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

This is the proper response to the shutdown. Some people used it to turn to the Lord, spend more time in the word, in prayer and in seeking the Lord.

18 Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19 Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. 21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things. 22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

These verses are used to describe how the Lord comes in and restores those that turn to Him. We have used them for decades, broken lives are restored, people who were felons, drug addicts, prostitutes are all restored. We have testimony upon testimony about how this has happened. But before the day of the Lord comes you will have this event that is worldwide to help so many more repent and turn to the Lord.

28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

Another sign that will go along with this event is you will hear of many dreams and visions. All of a sudden people are prophesying, they are dreaming dreams and they are seeing visions. I have been a Christian since 1972 and never seen the abundance of dreams and visions and prophecies that I have seen since 2020.

30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

Likewise with all the disasters we are seeing on Earth and the amazing signs we are seeing in the heavens (google "Revelation 12 sign" there was an amazing one in 2017 and another amazing one in 2023. Not only so but very prophetic blood moon tetrads and solar eclipses. All of that is on youtube.

31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

So now we are looking for this invisible army that eats up the economy like a plague of insects, and that kills people like a lion and that sneaks into your home like a thief and you will also see the churches shut down, it will be a sabbath rest that the Lord proclaims for everyone to fast and return to Him and you will also see social distancing and people all saying the day of the Lord is at hand and lots of prophecies, dreams and visions. Not only so, but the event will be something that has never happened before in human history, but it can be compared to many things that we have seen.
 

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Even the Sound of Freedom is prophesied in Joel

Joel 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Here we see the sins that are being committed and first and foremost we learn about child trafficking.

4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

This is referring to Moloch and Baal worship. Ukraine is the center of this child trafficking.

7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Many of the worst sins we see are a recompense for sins that others committed. Egypt held the Jews as slaves for 400 years. Slavery from Africa lasted for 400 years until it was abolished in 1926 in the League of nations. From 1526 to 1926 they were held as slaves.

9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

The way we will know that this pandemic is what Joel is talking about is all the nations will beat their plowshares into swords. Farming will be curtailed as the nations go to war. We have only had "world wars" since WW1. However, prior to the war God tells us that the sin is child trafficking. Also they come down to Israel and the valley of Jehoshaphat. That obviously was not WW1 or WW2, the Gulf war got closer, but so far none of those wars were assembling outside of Israel.

13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.


This is the second time it says this. We have a sign prior to the seven year tribulation beginning and you will have a pre-tribulation rapture. However, as they are gathering for Armageddon you will have another mid tribulation rapture for all those who were not already beheaded. The language here is very similar to the book of Revelation.

16 The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.
 

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Floods Hasten China's Economic Collapse, Citizens Bear Hundreds of Billions Lost

This is stunning. I post this because the big question is whether or not the seven years of famine begins this Feast of Trumpets. I think this video shows us that it definitely is starting this September.
 

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Canada is burning | Wildfire in Yellowknife,Canada 2023
 

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Psalm 109:1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

Lord Jesus, it has now been confirmed, Fauci was lying to us, the vaccine was not safe, the vaccine was not effective. They were not respecting the science. They don't care about the citizens, they don't care about the people in Palestine, they are stealing the land from the people in Maui, we see the spirit of Caesar Nero at work.

3 They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

They mandated a vaccine, even to people who had already had Covid. They forced us to quit our jobs and there was no cause for that. Look what they did in Maui, there was no cause for that.

4 For my love they are my adversaries: But I give myself unto prayer. 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.

Lord I look to you.

6 Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.


Lord set a wicked man over these people who hate and attack the Christians without a cause. Let them be surrounded with adversaries. May their fields fail, may their currency collapse, may their lies and deceits all be exposed.

7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.

Lord you have had mercy on us, you have been longsuffering, but these ones they continue to lie, they refuse to repent, so let them be judged, let them be found guilty, let even the prayers they offer up to God be sin.

8 Let his days be few; And let another take his office.

Lord they are traitors, they betray your people, so let their days be few.

9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;
And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
And let strangers make spoil of his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;


Amen Lord, vengeance is yours, no one can deal with sin better than You.

16 Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay them. 17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.


Amen Lord, let them be an example to the rest of us, that we sin not.

20 This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.

Lord we are your servants, we look to you, they haven't disrespected us, they have disrespected You.

21 But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name’s sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
22 For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees [i]are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.
26 Help me, O Jehovah my God; Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand; That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
30 I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth; Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul.
 

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The Whirlwind Dream 8-15-23 journaled on 8-17-23@8:24am (Uploaded 8-18-23)


"I thought I might be done with dreams"
 

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The Whirlwind Dream 8-15-23 journaled on 8-17-23@8:24am (Uploaded 8-18-23)


"I thought I might be done with dreams"
"Coming to America this fall before the fall."

What does this mean? I looked up the word fall and it can be both a verb and a noun and it has about 5 definitions each. There is no reason to believe that "before the Fall" is referring to Autumn. It could just as easily refer to the Fall of the US dollar.

Likewise "Coming to America this fall" could refer to that destructive tornado as this fall. Instead of trying to interpret a "when" from this I will look at what and How.

Suppose "this tornado is coming to America before the Fall of the apostate church", that would be possible. August 22nd BRICS is meeting, they could cause the fall of the US dollar which could precede the rapture and the judgment on the apostate church. But then it could have a double entendre, August 22nd is before the "Fall" and so the collapse of the US dollar is coming to America before the Autumn. That would be a second interpretation that is essentially the same.

The tornado she saw had both Putin and Xi's faces, so equating it with BRICS seems quite relevant. Many are wondering how long before the dollar collapses and it seems like this dream is telling us it will be very soon.

There are also pictures of the war in the destructive tornado and I believe the war in Ukraine is over the reserve currency as well as many other things, but it is completely tied to what is happening with BRICS.
 

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RAPTURE - CROWN 👑 OF 12 STARS! AND THIS REVELATION 12 SIGN IS CLEAR AS A BELL 🔔
 

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The Month Of Honey 🍯 & The Carcass Rapture Soon ⬆️
 

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The situation is out of control: a fire is raging around the capital of the island
 

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Having made known unto us the mystery of his will

Ephesians 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

I believe this is what Revelation 4 is referring to, the scroll that no man was worthy to open, the one that was sealed with seven seals, false gospels, war, famine, disease, martyrdom. Jesus made known unto us this mystery.

10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

The scroll was a deed. It reveals that Jesus is Lord, He is the one that will gather us all together.

11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Jesus paid the price for us, we belong to Him, but in Him we also become joint heirs with Him.

12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Think of the glory in taking something that is tiny, insignificant, nothing and making it shine with the glory of God.

13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

This happened on the day of Pentecost. The Spirit was poured out as new wine into the church which was the wine skin. That was our engagement, it was the beginning of the church age, and the church age will end when Jesus snatches away His bride.
 

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Introduction p.3

Wars and uprisings

9 When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.”

Here is another distinction between Luke, and Matthew and Mark. In Luke it is “wars and tumults” and in the other two gospels it is wars and rumors of war. We now have “police actions” where we don’t consider that it rises to the level of a war. Panama Canal was not a war, it was a tumult. Falkland Islands was not a war, it was a tumult. The Gulf war is a war, and police actions are tumults. This will be the situation prior to the tribulation and the first rapture.

10 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

World War I, World War II, and the two Gulf wars are examples. But if we consider the whole church age you can include many other wars: Vietnam, Korea, Napoleonic, etc.

Earthquakes, Famines and Pestilences

11 There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places,

Krakatoa, Japan’s Tsunami, Indonesia Tsunami, and various pestilences like Black plague and Spanish flu.

Fearful Events

and fearful events

The terrorist attacks are fearful events. Munich Olympics and taking the Israeli team hostage was a fearful event. 9/11 was a fearful event. The bombing in Afghanistan was a fearful event. The mortgage meltdown was a fearful event. Chernobyl was a fearful event.

Great signs from heaven

and great signs from heaven.

The Revelation 12 sign on September 23, 2017 was a great sign from heaven. There have been a whole host of lunar eclipses and solar eclipses which are very prophetic, within this blog you can see links to videos that go into great detail on the significance of each one. The lord describes these things as though there would be lots of them, kind of like a bowl of M and M’s, but then at the very end you will have great signs from heaven. The sense I get is don’t get all bent out of shape over a war or a famine or a pestilence or an earthquake, or even from a fearful event. All of these things will happen, there will be many of them, and they don’t really tell you that the day of the Lord is at hand. However, at the very end you will get great signs from heaven, that is the key sign. The Revelation sign is a great sign, the last time something similar to this happened was six thousand years ago depicting that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head. This sign will not appear again for several thousand years. It is a great sign. You have the woman (Virgo) crowned with 12 stars, clothed with the sun and the moon is at her feet. In her belly you have Jupiter for 9 months and then comes out the birth canal. This sign occurred at the feast of trumpets in 2017.

The feasts are prophetic, Paul in Colossians said that the feasts were a shadow of things to come. Passover was fulfilled when Jesus was crucified. The feast of firstfruits was fulfilled at His resurrection. The feast of unleavened bread was fulfilled indicating the church age. The feast of Shavuot was fulfilled at His ascension. The feast of Pentecost (feast of new wine) was fulfilled in Acts depicting the new testament ministry as the new wine, the church as the new wine skins and everyone hearing the great things of God in their own tongue as the gospel that is preached to the whole world. The next major feast is the feast of Trumpets which announces the coming of the King. It is ten days before the feast of Atonement where we are all judged to see whose name is written in the book of life. These ten days signify ten years known as “Jacob’s trouble”. This September 23rd, in the evening, is the fourth anniversary of the Revelation 12 sign and many believe this will be when the tribulation begins.

So then it is very important to know what these heavenly signs are that have been prophesied and to dive deeper into a fuller understanding of what these mean. Most of the intense watchmen posting on the internet concerning the day of the Lord approaching began with this Revelation 12 sign. It is the nail on which many of these prophecies of the Lord’s coming hang.