Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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What a promise, continued

John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

My mom had a stroke and I was four hours away from the hospital. As I was driving there I was praying and I told the Lord "If you will you can heal her". Immediately I heard the question, since when did the Lord ever "not will to heal someone"? I immediately realized that expression was an expression of unbelief, repented and prayed for Him to heal my mom. When I get to the hospital one side of her was paralyzed and she couldn't speak. She had had a stroke in the middle of the night, since they didn't know how long it had been they couldn't give her a certain medicine that might have helped eliminate the clot. My two brothers were also there and we went to one of their homes for the night. The next morning we returned to the hospital and my sister calls on the phone and is distraught because she won't ever be able to "talk normally to our mother again". I told her she could talk normally to our mother right now and handed the phone to my mom. She had completely recovered and was talking normally.

Another time, before this, my father was rushed to the hospital. He had leukemia and was about to die. They figured he would not make it through the night. Again I had the four hour drive where I was able to pray. When I get there my father was desperate, he hadn't written a will and told me he needed time so he could write the will. He looked terrible, the doctors told us they thought he wouldn't make it through the night, but I thought it was a very reasonable request that the Lord would grant. The next morning he was in great spirits, looked fine, and met with a lawyer all day. It took them a few days to hammer out the details, get it signed and notarized, etc. He lived another two weeks before dying.
 

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The Last Trump, The Feast Of Trumpets & The Rapture Of The Church

 

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Romans 1:21-32 wicked, malicious, full of envy, deceit and malignity

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Wow, so true. All of these people who deny God all profess themselves to be wise. They claim that is mythology, that is out of date, we are modern, scientific, etc. Look at the total chaos that these fools will create. Wicked is worse than sinful. A person can be sinful because they know no better, wicked are those who know exactly what they are doing and choose to be wicked, they choose to be malicious, full of envy, deceit and malignity. They knew God. The fallen angels, the demons, to be demonic is to be wicked.

23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

I saw a picture on the internet of what appeared to be an Iranian woman taking off those coverings they wear to reveal a red bikini bathing suit with another Iranian woman looking down in shame. If a woman parading around in her underwear on a beach is shameful just think of how shameful, unclean and dishonorable are the things done in the world today. We think of paintings and statues as idols and I suppose they can be, but God made man in His image, to worship the flesh is idolatry.

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

When you walk according to the lusts of the flesh you are serving the creature more than the creator. Once you worship the flesh you will pay hundreds of dollars to style your hair, or thousands of dollars for clothes on your back. You'll buy perfumes, have someone do your nails, etc. Once you worship the flesh you will also serve it.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

So you are not allowed to say this. If for example I was to quote this verse it would be grounds to be fired from my job. This is a perfect example of holding down the truth in unrighteousness. If you refer to certain letters of the alphabet as "vile" then you are a bigot and will be fired.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

What a list! We saw this during the Kavanaugh hearings. That was wicked, malicious, full of envy, deceit and malignity. They are covenant breakers. When the Amy Coney Barrett hearings were going on they came up with the idea of “packing the court”. Appointing 11 or 13 justices to the Supreme court instead of 9. Every time they asked Biden about this he refused to answer saying we needed instead to focus on what the President is doing. He nominated someone to the Supreme court which is what the constitution says he is supposed to do. They know that but they argue that this is an election year and it is supposed to be the people who get a say. The people did get a say when they elected him president in 2016. Supreme court nominations were the key reason he was elected. Look at this expression "they did not like to retain God in their knowledge" why do you think the Bible is banned from school? You can pull out the Koran, or the Bhagavad Gita, or any other sacred book, but you cannot pull out the Bible. You can say Mohammed, or Buddha, but you cannot say Jesus Christ.

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

The hypocrisy is off the hook. They claim that the President and Senate are doing something wrong by fulfilling their constitutional responsibilities while at the same time arguing to break the covenant by packing the court. They impeach the president on suspicion of collusion with a foreign government, but when presented with physical evidence that Joe Biden has been colluding with foreign governments for years they censor and hold down the truth in unrighteousness. They even believe that Christians who believe the Bible is the word of God are the single greatest threat to this country.

So learn from them, if the demons and wicked think that the Bible is the greatest threat to them, be advised, dive into the Bible!
 

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The Types and Shadows of the OT

10 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and did all eat the same spiritual food; 4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.


These are all inclusive types and shadows. Paul is pointing out specific events that took place in Exodus, but at the same time He is saying that everything in the OT is a type and shadow

5 Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

This is a scary verse, Paul didn't need to say this. "With most of them God was not well pleased". Why say that? It is an example of how we can use the types and shadows. You had 12 spies of the good land, how many of them were well pleasing to the Lord? 2. That is 1/6th and with 5/6th God was not well pleased. But it is worse than that. There were only two out of all those who left Egypt that were 20 or older that made it into the good land. On the other hand the entire second generation did make it in. But based on this verse I interpret that only 1/6th of Christians will be raptured before the tribulation. I don't base that solely on this verse, but this verse does indicate we can do these kind of calculations. Therefore I also use three of the Lord's parables to come up with this as well. He said you had the good servant and the evil servant in the house, one was watching for the Lord's return, the other was eating and drinking with the drunken. Then you have five wise virgins and five foolish. Finally you have two who were faithful to invest what the Lord gave them and one that buried it in the backyard. Start with 12, half of 12 is six, half of six is 3, two thirds of three is 2. That is 1/6th or 2/12ths of believers.

6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents. 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

Why is it that some Christians do not want to talk about the Lord's coming, why are they mocking and scoffing? Why are they beating their fellow servants? Why are they making excuses for not doing what the Lord said? Why are so few believers actually witnessing for the Lord? Take a look at the types and shadows and you can see what is in their hearts and what is going on behind the curtain.

11 Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

This blog is all about Bible references to the rapture. The rapture happens at the end of the age and at this time these heart conditions become very apparent. I was reading the book of Jasher (not part of the Bible but the Bible refers to this book several times) and it really hit me how few men of faith there were. At the time of Abram it seems that only he and Noah's family were men of faith. God planted a seed with Adam and by the time of Abraham 300 people follow him to Canaan. I think the same thing can be said of the 2nd Adam. We are told at the start of the church age we had 500 following the Lord. They estimate the world's population was 300 million. That means 99.9998% of the world wasn't a Christian. Today 31% claim to be Christian. Based on the typology I believe half of them will be found to be false, and then of the 16% that are real, only about a sixth of them will be raptured before the tribulation. However, the remaining Christians will witness and be part of the greatest revival in human history. We may see 3 billion saved during the tribulation. God's word has been sown throughout the world and the promise is that this word will not return void. The tribulation will cause those seeds to sprout.

12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

One of my biggest pet peeves is how careless people are with the word of God. When Paul says to "take heed" he is referring to lusts, idolatry, those who spend their time eating and drinking and playing, fornication, mocking, scoffing, murmuring, etc. Is it wrong to be a member of a golf club? I don't know, are you lusting, and consumed with idolatry eating and drinking and playing? There is a reason that people worship idols, it isn't because they are devout, it is because they want to eat, drink and play. Why does someone worship an NFL team? Because they enjoy tailgating with their bros and whooping and hollering at the games. It used to be obvious distinction between the believers and the unbelievers, but not anymore.

13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

The world makes it very hard. You may be very devout in your worship to the Lord and yet your job requires you have the club membership, and the house in the suburbs, and it is illegal to mention Jesus on the job, etc. Maybe you are a single person, you would like to get married but it seems everyone all around you is involved in fornication, even those in the "church". This is the Lord's design, the way of escape is by prayer and abiding in the Lord and in His word. If you do that He can lead you out.
 

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God desires all men to be saved

I have been reading through the book of Revelation once a day for the last week or so and the thing that has really stood out is that the purpose of the tribulation is to cause people to repent of their sins and get saved. There was great hail, deadly hail, why would God do that? Well if a big chunk of ice falls from the sky and smashes your car or smashes a hole in your roof, or smashes your business is that really any different from some gang threatening you to pay them or else they will smash your car, or your house or your business or kill your family? Righteous judgement is "as you have done it will be done unto you". Remember the two thieves on the cross with Jesus, one was mocking the Lord, the other was saying "hey, we are getting what we deserve but He did nothing wrong". The tribulation is designed to give people a chance to repent like that thief on the cross did.

But wait you say, I never was involved in extortion, why is the giant hail falling on me? That to me is the point. If the tribulation is to help people repent of their sins and be saved, what about those who have repented of their sins and are saved prior to the tribulation? There is no point in them going through it and in fact there is a lot of reason why taking them in the rapture would help others to confess and repent.

Suppose you are a Christian, life is very good for you, job is good, family is good, the golf club is good. You don't want to hear about the rapture, you tell the Jesus freaks to tone it down, stop being so abrasive, etc. Let's all go along to get along. Then the rapture happens, you are left behind, and you repent. It is the rapture that causes you to repent.

Another Christian is poo pooing the idea of the mark of the beast, this is not the time. The Christians talking about this are giving Christians like yourself a bad reputation. You try to silence them but you can't. Then you are left behind, the Antichrist stands up, everyone must get the mark, and now you know, you were wrong and the Jesus freaks were right. You don't simply take a stand to not take the mark, you also repent for the way you treated those who were warning you.
 

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Pray this

Psalm 141:1 Jehovah, I have called upon thee; make haste unto me:
Give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
2 Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee;
The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth;
Keep the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing,
To practise deeds of wickedness
With men that work iniquity:
And let me not eat of their dainties.
5 Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness;
And let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head;
Let not my head refuse it:
For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.
6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock;
And they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
7 As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth,
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 For mine eyes are unto thee, O Jehovah the Lord:
In thee do I take refuge; leave not my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,
And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,

Whilst that I withal escape.
 

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Censorship Confirms Depopulation Storm Upon us! Green Horse Rider About to Ride! Rapture Warning!

 

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Three interesting hurricanes

1. Hillary -- first time for a storm of that size to hit the west coast in over 100 years. It means "cheerful" and might be a double entendre referring to the former secretary of State.

2. Idalia -- "Behold the Sun" reminds me of the Lord's word that when we see these things take place to look up for your redemption draweth nigh.

3. Franklin -- means landowner who is not a noble. I guess this is equivalent to our term "middle class".
 

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I just heard that Farmer's insurance (the one whose slogan is 'we know a thing or two because we have seen a thing or two') has said that they will no longer cover any damage related to climate change.

24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not,
[but instead trusts in insurance companies] shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
 

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Prune away the dead wood

Jesus tells us in John 15 that He is the vine, the dead branches are taken away and tossed into the fire and the ones that are bringing forth fruit are pruned so that they bring forth more fruit.

I used to do the pruning of a number of trees and there were always those who were terrified, what are you doing? I love those trees. They don't understand that a tree has a certain amount of sap, just like you have a certain amount of time and energy. If you were to remove all those things you do that do not bring forth fruit the things you do that do bring forth fruit would bring forth more fruit. If you then pruned those branches they would bring forth even more fruit. When I cut off branches I do not cut down the amount of sap that a tree has, so what I am really doing is increasing the amount of sap to the branches that are not cut off.

I had a fig tree. I loved that tree, always looked forward to the figs. But one year it was dead, I cut off all the dead wood and it was reduced to a stump. It was too late in the year to plant a new tree so I figured I'd wait till spring to pull it up and put in a new tree. Next spring that tree bounced back far beyond anything I could imagine and from that year on it was like a brand new tree.

Prune away all the dead wood.
 

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This is 20 minutes of preaching the gospel to atheists and several things you have to like about them, they are very open about admitting to sins and they are very willing to listen to him and they are freely admit to not knowing things and being afraid of death.

 

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This is 20 minutes of preaching the gospel to atheists and several things you have to like about them, they are very open about admitting to sins and they are very willing to listen to him and they are freely admit to not knowing things and being afraid of death.

Listening to this one thing occurred to me when one of the atheists said that God is not going to judge minor sins the same as major sins.

I considered Hitler, a major sinner. Suppose his punishment is to be pushed off the 100th floor of a building. When he hits the ground he dies. But a Cartel member is not as big a sinner, he is pushed off the 99th floor, but again, he dies. But a serial killer who has killed three people is not as big a sinner, he is pushed off the 98th floor, when he hits the ground he dies.

So yes, it may be that the punishments are not all the same. Suppose you are a tiny fraction of these sinners and you are pushed off the fifth floor. Are you gonna die? Very possibly, not guaranteed. But one thing is guaranteed, you would definitely not want to be pushed off the 5th floor and if you were the only way you live is if the ambulance takes you to the hospital immediately. Same thing with the fourth floor. If you were pushed off the third floor you are more likely to live, but again, with some potentially very serious injuries.

So then even if this logic is valid, and God says that you are better than 90% of the sinners. So you get pushed off the tenth floor. What is the point? Jesus is the only one worthy, He has the elevator pass, you would get to take the elevator down to the ground floor.
 

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Rapture Dream The Force Was So Powerful ! A Warning Dream From God

 

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RAPTURE IMMEDIATELY - WAKE UP NOW! STRONG'S 118 ADALIA THE STORM/HURRICANE!


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