Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

Just consider and meditate on Him who endured

Matthew 10:22 And you will be hated by everyone because of [your association with] My name, but it is the one who has patiently persevered and endured to the end who will be saved.

Many Christians do not endure to the end of their life, they become offended and turn back. They expected to be loved by everyone, appreciated by everyone, so they cut off their relationship with the Jesus freaks and those that are hated.

Matthew 24:9 “Then they will hand you over to [endure] tribulation, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

This happened to the Apostles. We have a foretaste of what is going to happen at the end of the age and what has happened to many Christians throughout the age.

Matthew 24:13 But the one who endures and bears up [under suffering] to the end will be saved.

Imagine the shame of following the Lord your entire life and then when threatened with death you denied Him. What a horrible way to finish the race that is set before us.

Mark 4:17 and they have no real root in themselves, so they endure only for a little while; then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they [are offended and displeased at being associated with Me and] stumble and fall away.

It is so impressive when you see some little brother or sister who seems so weak, and yet under great persecution does not waver, indicating that they have real roots that go deep into Christ.

1Corinthians 4:12 We work [for our living], working hard with our own hands. When we are reviled and verbally abused, we bless. When we are persecuted, we take it patiently and endure.

We have an example set for us by the apostles.

1Corinthians 10:13 No temptation [regardless of its source] has overtaken or enticed you that is not common to human experience [nor is any temptation unusual or beyond human resistance]; but God is faithful [to His word—He is compassionate and trustworthy], and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability [to resist], but along with the temptation He [has in the past and is now and] will [always] provide the way out as well, so that you will be able to endure it [without yielding, and will overcome temptation with joy].

We have this promise from God. Love endures all things.

2Corinthians 1:6 But if we are troubled and distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted and encouraged, it is for your comfort, which works [in you] when you patiently endure the same sufferings which we experience.

When we patiently endure persecution we experience the Lord's comfort to us.

Philippians 1:30 [and so you are] experiencing the same [kind of] conflict which you saw me endure, and which you hear to be mine now.

When we experience persecution we must endure we realize that we are experiencing the same thing the apostles did! The bible becomes real to us.

2Timothy 2:10 For this reason I [am ready to] patiently endure all things for the sake of those who are the elect (God’s chosen ones), so that they too may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it the reward of eternal glory.

Put your shoulder to the wheel, in so doing you will have a part in this ministry.

2Timothy 2:12 If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He will also deny us;

How about that for a promise!

2Timothy 3:11 persecutions, and sufferings—such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, but the Lord rescued me from them all!

How about that for a testimony!

Hebrews 11:25 because he preferred to endure the hardship of the people of God rather than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.

The testimony of those who are in the hall of faith!

Hebrews 12:3 Just consider and meditate on Him who endured from sinners such bitter hostility against Himself [consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Amen!

James 5:11a You know we call those blessed [happy, spiritually prosperous, favored by God] who were steadfast and endured [difficult circumstances].

God showed her the Rapture and the signs we are expecting!


(Once again I think it is very important to have many witnesses because by the mouth of two or three witnesses let a matter be established. I used to teach Forensics and they did studies that more than 50% of the time a witness who said they saw a person commit a crime was mistaken. But once you have two witnesses the odds go over 50% and 3 witnesses put you over 80% that it is true. This is why I have many witnesses on this blog).

You can learn a lot from correction

Proverbs 12:1 Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

When I was in 8th grade we had a mock presidential election. There were 4 candidates and my best friend was one of the candidates. I was his campaign manager. Two of the other candidates asked me as well to be the campaign manager and I had some ideas on how I would run their campaign, but I couldn't do that to my best friend so I turned them down. My best friend won the election, all 4 candidates and the other 3 campaign managers got an A, I was given a B. I asked why, we had won, I thought that was the point. The four teachers involved said they didn't think I worked hard enough.

Now I have been a teacher for many years and I know that many parents come in and throw a fit over something much smaller than this. But I had a very different reaction, to me it was a revelation that your grade is not simply based on the outcome but even on the perception of how hard you work. (What I didn't tell any of them was that I had two very different strategies for the other two friends of mine which had I been their campaign manager I think they would have won). In my mind no one cares what your grades are in 8th grade and having this new knowledge about grades would be very helpful in HS.

So I took this new knowledge to HS and I vowed that any work I did at school I would make sure my teachers could see it. So I decided the best way to do that would be to not do any work at home and the best way to do that would be to lock up my books in the locker at the end of each day.

I never missed doing a HW assignment and I never turned in an assignment late and I never did homework at home. Now to do that I had to be super efficient, plan out my day from the first minute to the last, and often had to arrive at the school when the custodians opened the door to students. I learned how to study for tests without spending any extra time. I was also scientific, discovering how to redeem the time even more. So when I left school everyday I was free, no homework, no homework at night, no homework on the weekends. Everyone else at home is working hard and getting Bs and Cs and I was listening to music, going to bed at 9 or 10 and getting As. My parents were mystified but agreed to not bother me as long as I was getting straight As.

You can learn a lot from correction. Maybe the B on that assignment was "not right" but it pulled the curtain back to reveal how teachers really grade, and sure enough in HS I got the benefit of the doubt every time and they even told my Mom "he is the hardest working student we have ever seen"! Think about that, a school of 2,000, not the hardest working student of this class, or this year, but ever! My mom said she did everything she could to hide her shock and keep a poker face because she had never seen me with a book.

So then if you are left behind, stop whining (after the requisite weeping and gnashing of teeth) and now embrace the correction and learn from it. In eternity no one will care if you were "pre tribulation" rapture or a martyr or mid tribulation rapture. The big thing everyone will care about is if they are saved or if they went to hell.

Once Saved Always Saved becomes absurd

1Corinthians 5:5 you are to hand over this man to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Every believer is protected under the covering the blood of Jesus from Satan. We are also protected by the prayers of the saints. You can pray to cover the meeting, pray to protect certain saints, pray for Peter to be released from Prison, etc.

Here, Paul is telling the church to take away all protection from this man, to excommunicate him from the fellowship of the church, from the assistance of the saints. Not only so but to tell the Lord in prayer that you hand him over to Satan.

Now look at this verse from the perspective of "once saved always saved". According to Paul this man can be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus, but it is necessary that his body be destroyed due to his sin for him to be saved. It is perfectly reasonable to say that it is at least implied that if they don't hand him over to Satan (excommunicate him from the church) that his spirit can't be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus! We don't say that because we are not the judge, but it is certainly implied that it is a possibility.

So how does this square with Once Saved Always Saved? They would tell you that he wasn't saved before, that is why he is living in sin, and that by excommunicating an unsaved person and having no communication with him it would lead to his salvation. That makes no sense.

Or they would say that this proves OSAS because this terrible sinner still "may be saved". This would have been the perfect opportunity for Paul to say "because his spirit has been saved". That is what OSAS teaches, once you receive the Lord as savior you are eternally saved. So why doesn't Paul say that?

Also, do the OSAS preachers ever mention that if you are saved and are living in sin then you must be handed over to Satan so that your body may be destroyed in order to be saved?

Drop all the ridiculous traditions of men. If your conscience has been activated because you have received the Holy Spirit then listen to it. Do not "grieve" the Holy Spirit. Do not let your conscience be seared. Confess sins, repent of them, turn to the Lord and walk with Jesus.

To me the understanding of this verse is obvious. The man is living in sin and he must repent of that in order to be saved. Were all his sins washed away when he first came to the Lord and received Jesus blood? Yes, but now he has this sin to repent of and wash away. My clothes may be spotless yesterday, but today they are dirty and need to be washed. That is a simple concept to understand. No one who is living in sin, grieving the Holy Spirit and ignoring their conscience is going to be raptured before the tribulation. You are going to be left behind where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. If you then repent, stand for the Lord and let them chop your head off because you refuse to worship the beast then your spirit will be saved in the day of the Lord.

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2023 Rapture Dance In The Stars Feast of Trumpets

I don't know what this is, don't know if it is relevant.


However, we have been seeing great signs in heaven concerning this verse:

4 And his tail swept [across the sky] and dragged away a third of the stars of heaven and flung them to the earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

So perhaps this is part of that great sign.

September 23, 2023 - 09/08/2023

Summary on the Pandemic

Yes, most people are willing to allow the "experts" to tell them what to do. I taught the basics of immunology and vaccines in HS but when I got Covid and was laid up in bed for two weeks and then the school was closed I figured the kids would have many questions about this and so I began to focus very carefully on what Fauci was telling us. I immediately realized what he was saying was contrary to what we had taught so I was always watching with the question that he would explain why this virus was different from all the others.

For example, we had always taught that recovering from an illness is the best vaccine, in fact Fauci taught this as well. But for some reason that was completely ignored.

Another issue I had was why the mask mandate. It is like trying to keep mosquitos out with a chain link fence. I understood the need for a splash guard and social distancing, I also was in agreement that a business had the right to request you mask, but the behavior by people bordered on lunacy.

Also as a teacher I knew that the majority of my students and presumably Americans were very poor in their scientific foundations, so being lectured by clowns like Colbert on the need to "respect the science" did not come across to me as anything but clown world and cultic.

I saw that Trump talked about HCQ and was mocked and ridiculed for it, some woman comedian made these hilarious videos mocking him. But, I also knew that HCQ had been used in camping supply stores for 50 years to purify water. The idea that this was "bleach" came across to me as idiotic. Yes, if you took 10,000 pills instead of 1 in a liter of water it would be similar to bleach, but if you took 10,000 Tylenol you would be dead. We were subjected to some of the stupidest morons in human history lecturing us on "respect the science".

It didn't make sense to outlaw treatments that were clearly safe and might be effective (the outrage happened way too early to have scientific studies determining the efficacy). HCQ was one they had a problem with, Ivermectin was another. Both of them had been used for years and proven safe and effective. It was also clear that vitamin D deficiency was clearly linked to whether or not you wound up in the ICU. Yet none of these things were being encouraged? Generally we always teach that your immune system is your first and best defense. Eat well, would include vitamin D, get plenty of sleep, and exercise were always our first and foremost recommendation. But never heard any of that from these fear mongerers.

But then when they wanted to mandate an experimental vaccine I knew something nefarious was up. This was a clear violation of the Nuremberg laws made after WWII and the only way you could do this was if there was no treatment (hence the need to outlaw the treatments of HCQ and Ivermectin) and also if it was very deadly (and there was plenty of anecdotal testimony from doctors and nurses in hospitals that they were inflating the risk from this disease by labeling anyone who died "with" Covid as having died from it. They said they would test people who died in car crashes and if they were positive they would put that down because the hospital got extra money for everyone who "died with" Covid).

By the summer of 2021 I knew that Fauci was a bald faced liar. When he said "to question me is to question science" that was the final straw. I taught numerous examples of "questioning science" in my class. For example when you and I went to HS there was some kook who said that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor. This was contrary to the prevailing theory of "the present is the key to the past" and he was mocked and ridiculed as some religious nut. But piece by piece the evidence came out until it was undeniable, and then overnight it was "oh yeah, the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor, everyone knows that". Likewise with Galileo saying that the earth revolved around the sun.

Since this time we have also learned that the pandemic did indeed come from the Wuhan bioweapons lab and that letter from all those respectable scientists that Fauci was waving around was simply an attempt to get the spotlight off of Wuhan because he had financed the research in violation of US law. All of those "respectable" scientists also were fearful of being caught.

By 2021 when Deblasio mandated the vaccine I knew something was rotten in Denmark. I knew if this had been a good think done properly he would have announced this at the end of the school year in June but he waited until August because that was after a deadline for teachers to transfer. After that date the principals can give you a nasty reference.

I was also irked by people who are clueless about science telling me that this was just another vaccine like the one for polio or smallpox. I had taught that both of those vaccines took over 50 years to make and that the first couple of attempts proved to be anything but safe and effective even though that is what they said every time. I taught that it takes 10 years to know if a vaccine is safe and effective because you need to do statistical analysis on those who got the vaccine and many health issues can take ten years to surface.

So then I found Dr. Malone, he was the one who invented the mRNA vaccine, not the Covid vaccine, but since that is an mRNA vaccine he was very familiar with the process. Because one of my major questions about the Covid vaccine had to do with why they were even going to use a vaccine. A corona virus is related to the common cold and the reason we never developed a vaccine for the cold is because it is mutating rapidly. To make things worse the mRNA vaccine was not giving you immunity to the entire virus but to one piece of it. So if that one piece mutates then it would be useless. Which is exactly why we see people who are vaccinated getting the variants. The vaccine was not protecting you, it was creating an environment that would favor certain mutations.

One very effective way to be "vaccinated" is to be exposed to a weakened form of the virus. It turns out that the virus cannot survive for more than 15 minutes in bright sunlight. Remember all those "superspreader" events, the Trump rallies and the biker parades? None of them became superspreader events, instead they became an immunization event. This polarized the country. All these blue collar workers working outside were not about to mask themselves and they became immune and looked on the lunatics in the city driving around in their cars with a mask on like they were morons.

Anyway it was Dr. Malone that taught me about how the mRNA vaccine would cause your body to manufacture specific antigens for the vaccine, that is a defense that is specific to that one strain of Covid19. Like anything else there is a trade off. You make more "specific" antigens then you are making less "non specific" antigens. The analogy to the Maginot line vs Tanks is a very good analogy. People who got the vaccine built the Maginot line while those who didn't had tanks for their immune system.

Since that time Dr. Wolf has done a marvelous job going through the Pfizer studies on their vaccine and using their own studies to prove this should never have been approved.

However, all of the proof the vaccine was dangerous and should never have been mandated came out after people had to make the decision whether or not to take it. What tipped me off was I knew they were lying, acting deceitful, and trying to manipulate the masses. I didn't know why, but I knew that the lies about HCQ and Ivermectin were so they could mandate it, the lies about inflating the deaths was so they could mandate it, and the lies about it not coming from Wuhan were just absurdly brazen. They said "there is no evidence" that it came from the Wuhan Bioweapons lab even though patient 0 worked at the lab? How is that not evidence and even though the lab was experimenting with Coronoa viruses? It was so obvious that there was some evidence and that it was way too early to rule it out.

Since then it is becoming more and more obvious that this is the Spirit of Caesar Nero at work. You want to buy up the land, they don't want to sell it, you burn it to the ground, and then you can buy it for pennies on the dollar. Look into the Maui fire. They want to claim it was started by a downed power line. The power had been shut off for six hours before that fire started and the fire from the downed power line had already been put out. The reason the fire spread uncontrollably was because the water had been turned off. There are still over 1,000 children missing from school in Maui, where are they? I saw a picture of a car parked on the shoulder of the road on gravel and the aluminum hubcaps had melted into a pool of liquid metal. After that came out they put up a big wall around the area burned and have forbidden drones from flying through and videotaping the burned area. Before they outlawed the drones I saw a video where one side of the road was nothing but ashes and other side of the road where the multimillionaires and billionaires live had green grass and was untouched. I also learned that Lahaina is where one of the Pentagon's Space Force bases was located.

We are at war. WWIII has already started.

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The problem with the heavenly signs and tetrads and solar eclipses is the question "what is this a sign of"? And also, how far away from the event is this sign?

I personally can't stand this stuff because where are the Bible references? They tie the "signs in the heavens" to historical events and then extrapolate for future signs.

In my opinion I would rather just begin with the Bible verse and then see the fulfillment.

Yes we are told there would be signs in the heavens, in the Sun, Moon and Stars. But that is very vague.

The Revelation 12 sign was not vague, but calling 2017 the "Revelation Sign" may have been debunked with this updated Revelation 12 sign we are seeing right now. I'm not saying the sign in 2017 wasn't very significant, but it appears without any doubt this 2023 sign is the sign that you just cannot believe. It is as though the entire NT is up there telling us the story of the Revelation 12 sign and it is unambiguous.

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Wow, just realized if 2020 was the fulfillment of the Feast of trumpets, the first day is known as the longest day because you need two witnesses to confirm the sighting of the new moon. That would make 2021 also part of the "Feast of Trumpets". In September of 2020 you could have had an inkling that this pandemic was a bioweapon from the lab, but hard to have conclusive proof. But by 2021 you had conclusive proof that they were mandating an experimental vaccine against the law. There was no transparency, which is a violation of the law. There was no necessity as Ivermectin and HCQ were effective therapeutics which they lied about, and there was no emergency as the deaths were inflated classifying anyone "with" Covid as having died from Covid.

This makes 2023 Feast of Trumpets the beginning of the 4th day of Jacob's trouble.

Therefore, if the priest changing into the linen clothes and going to the temple chamber at twilight on the 3rd day is a type of the rapture, that would mean that we are now right at twilight of the 3rd day.

Proverbs 13:5 A righteous man hateth lying; But a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

Because these wicked men are liars and are holding onto power at any cost they have become loathsome to the country. If Hunter Biden had simply been prosecuted and convicted for his crimes and then sent to prison Biden would not have been loathed so much. He might have had a chance to win the election and soon as he won he could have pardoned his son. Even if he lost he could have pardoned his son on the way out.

But all the egregious lies and lawfare have made Biden so utterly loathsome and toxic that even Newsome doesn't want any part of this election.

When Adams is crying out about the border crisis and inner city blacks in Chicago are crying out about the border crisis, and San Francisco is a basket case, you can't hide how loathsome this administration is anymore.

I was asked so I will give my opinion.

I shy away from charts and timelines since everyone has their own and they are all different and instead of helping you to understand the word of God it seems to only confuse the issue.

So then, here is my understanding with that Caveat.

1. I believe, unlike most Bible expositors that the scroll with the seven seals was opened shortly after Jesus rose from the dead and not after the rapture. I understand the confusion because when you read Revelation it certainly appears to have happened after "a rapture" and I also agree that the 24 elders are men, not angels.

However,

1. the account clearly says "as a lamb having just been slain"

2. Paul repeatedly talks about the mystery hidden from the ages having now been opened and being revealed, Ephesians 3 is the strongest place to see this, but he refers to this in Romans, and Corinthians, and Timothy.

3. Revelation is the conclusion to the Bible, as a rule you don't introduce new topics in the conclusion, therefore, where in the Bible does it refer to the resurrected Lamb opening this scroll? When I ask that question it seems obvious that the book of Ephesians talks about it.

4. We had a rapture at the time of Jesus resurrection, the graves were opened and people saw them walking about the city. This was the sheaf of Barley fulfilling the Feast of Firstfruits after Jesus resurrection.

5. The first seal reveals the Antichrist. How could we know that the number of his name is 666 if that seal was not already opened?

6. The second seal refers to war. Haven't many things been revealed to us of the working of Satan when we look at various wars, particularly WWI and WWII? Dont' we know that the whole world lies in the evil one? Haven't we been fighting a spiritual warfare for the last two thousand years?

7. I can go on with famine and plague, but let's skip to the martyrs. How could the fifth seal not be opened? How can anyone ignore all those Christians martyred over the last two thousand years?

One very good question would be "what about the man of lawlessness, he doesn't get revealed until the restrainer steps aside?" OK, who was the restrainer restraining? Isn't that verse saying that the Holy Spirit through the Spirit filled saints are restraining the Antichrist until they are raptured? How can they be restraining him if he hasn't been revealed yet? That verse doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit can't see the Antichrist, it doesn't mean that those who are one with the Holy Spirit are not restraining the Antichrist. It means once they are taken away the curtain is also taken away and the whole world, the soulish and fleshly ones can see the Antichrist.

I understand that this has not yet answered your question, but it is critical because I think the opening of the sixth seal is the pre tribulation rapture. Read the account again with the thought that this is when the whole world realizes it is the tribulation:

12 I looked when He (the Lamb) broke open the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as [h]sackcloth [made] of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree shedding its late [summer] figs when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The sky was split [separated from the land] and rolled up like a scroll, and every mountain and island were dislodged and moved out of their places. 15 Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the [i]military commanders and the wealthy and the strong and everyone, [whether] slave or free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; 16 and they called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the [righteous] wrath and indignation of the Lamb; 17 for the great day of their wrath and vengeance and retribution has come, and who is able to [face God and] stand [before the wrath of the Lamb]?”

Every time there is an account of a resurrection in the Bible there is an earthquake.

Consider the world today, we have many, many natural disasters, do the kings and rich and famous respond saying "it is the great day of the Lamb's wrath"? No. Something about this earthquake makes everyone know this is not simply "the end of the world" but it is "the wrath of the Lamb". That can only refer to Jesus and the NT. I think the dead in Christ rising from the graves and then the rapture is what brings about this response.

That in turn brings up the next thing I believe that is probably going to blow the minds of your standard eschatology. Everyone (or at least most of the established eschatology) teaches that the tribulation begins on the Feast of Trumpets with the Antichrist confirming a covenant with the many for seven years. I don't fully disagree or agree. The problem I had for a very long time is that the Feast of Trumpets is 10 days before the day of Atonement and everyone agrees that the day of Atonement is where the 7 year tribulation ends. But if that is 7 years why would it be depicted by 10 days called "Jacob's trouble".

So here is where I will blow many minds again.

The book of Joel describes a worldwide pandemic that destroys the economy and causes a "sabbath rest" declared by God as the trumpet announcing that the Day of Judgement is at hand.

I believe that September of 2020 was the fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets. This is called the "hidden day" and "the longest day". It requires two witnesses to confirm the sighting of the new moon with the Sanhedrin. In September of 2020 there were some claiming this was a bioweapon and a plandemic, but it wasn't all that clear. But by 2021 we had many witnesses making this claim as they were illegally mandating the vaccine and we realized everything was a lie.

Now many realize we are in a bizarro world where good is evil and evil is good. They are giving pornography to elementary school kids, they say $4 billion is too much to build a border wall and yet we send $110 billion to Ukraine to defend their borders without so much as a debate. On many fronts we see those who are restraining this attempted socialist takeover of the US, they are fighting for election integrity, for their children, for border security, etc.

Now we are told that the holy days are a shadow of things to come in Colossians. I have been looking at the holy days to see if there is a shadow of the saints being changed in the twinkling of the eye and taken to the heavenly chamber until the indignation be past? Yes, there is such an event. It happens at the end of the 3rd day after the Feast of Trumpets before sunset, the priest changes into linen clothes and is taken to a chamber in the temple for the next seven days to prepare for the day of atonement and to make sure he is not defiled by someone dying.

That would be right before this coming Feast of Trumpets around September 18-21.

This will coincide with Agenda 2030, a seven year covenant with the many nations of the UN, being strengthened by using a digital currency to insure compliance with their SDGs (sustainable development goals). This is "only" for seven years until they can get the situation with the "climate" under control so that we can have security. It will also coincide with the international day of peace.

But how is this "pre tribulation"? I believe the 70th week for Israel begins on Nisan 1, not Tishrei 1. So the 70th week begins six months from the Feast of Trumpets. This corresponds with King David reigning for 7 1/2 years in Hebron before coming to Jerusalem.

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