Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

Bottom line of all these ones is that 2021 will be the year all this unfolds, and that the latest this will happen is the Fall of 2021, but understand the rapture of the church precedes the start of the tribulation. According to the "days of Noah" he entered the ark 7 days before the 40 days of rain began. Once the rain ended he released the Dove and the Raven suggesting the Holy Spirit was released and the spirit of Antichrist was also released.

If you precede September by 47 or better yet 50 days there is no feast where everyone is to appear before God and that prefigures the rapture other than Shavuot.

Laodicea

Shavuot takes place after 7 complete sabbaths. I have a hunch that these “seven complete sabbaths” refer to the believers going through the seven golden lampstands. I would compare this to graduation, you don’t graduate until you complete these seven exams. The rapture is our graduation. So then, if the rapture is imminent we must be in Laodicea or completing laodicea.

14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

This is what happens when the Lord tells you to leave and you don’t say Amen. This is what happens when you are willing to watch the faithful and true witness leave but you stay behind. This is what happens when you don’t have faith in the one who is the beginning of the creation of God. You are afraid to start from scratch, better just stay where you are even though it is dead.

15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

This is the boastful, arrogant, and condescending church. In Pergamos others blasphemed them saying they were poor yet they were rich. When you return to your first love this is what you discover, those who the synagogue of Satan is blaspheming as poor it turns out are rich in faith. In Thyatira, those saints who made it through still holding to their first love, they were tried in the fire. In Sardis, those who walked in white with the Lord even though they got excommunicated for it, that is how you pay the price for white raiment. But these saints never did say Amen to the Lord, they made excuses for not being a faithful and true witness, choosing to be more pragmatic and diplomatic. And when it came to trusting in the Lord to make that leap they were faithless, not believing that He was the beginning of the creation of God.

For example many Christians are rebuking those of us who are examining the scriptures concerning the rapture saying that we are contradicting the established Bible teachers of the past. In other words they are rich, they have all knowledge, all wisdom, and in reality they are luke warm Christians. The ones who are hot for the Lord are saying amen, they trust that the Bible is the faithful and true witness and they are getting to know the one who is the beginning of the creation of God. We are seeing an entirely new doctrine, a new understanding of the prophecies.

19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

The Lord loves them, but they must be zealous and repent. The Christians who are rebuking us for examining the rapture are the ones that the Lord is rebuking for being luke warm.

20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

They have shut the door on the Lord and are ignoring Him even though He is outside knocking for them to open up to Him. We all have access to the internet, we can all open up to this word.

21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

How do you overcome? By the blood and by the word of your testimony. By saying Amen to the Lord, by being faithful and true to the Lord, and by trusting Him even if you have to lose everything. You have to overcome all the traditions of men, you have to be willing to “go where no Bible teacher has gone before”. You have to walk by faith, but there are those out there looking at the signs in the heavens despite the attack that this is “astrology” (it isn’t) and that it is prohibited by God (it isn’t, He is the one who gave the stars for signs). There are others who are taking apart the calendar and putting it back together again so we can all understand it. There are those looking at the types and shadows of the rapture and at the feasts. Finally, there are those looking at the prophecies like that of Daniel. The rapture is us sitting down with the Lord in His throne, it is us overcoming all the naysayers, all the attacks, all the doubts and unbelief.

22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Numbers 33:49

The Lord told us that the servants which were doing what they were supposed to when the Lord returns would be blessed.

There were two in the field, there were two grinding at the mill. This is what we are supposed to be doing.

In another place the Lord says that the servant that is giving the food at the proper time would be blessed.

I believe this is the proper time to be examining the rapture, it is the proper time to be going through the Bible (like Daniel said -- running to and fro through the scriptures) and to be grinding up these grains.

I am thankful for what I have learned about the heavenly calendar that God has. I am thankful for everything I have learned concerning Trumpets, Hanukkah, second Passover, and Shavuot.

I am thankful for what I have learned concerning Daniel and his prophecies.

Some people used to share that "when the last person gets saved then the Lord will come". Their point was that we need to be doing what we are supposed to be doing, there is something that needs to be accomplished in this age and then the Lord will come. I saw that same message in Shavuot where it doesn't give a specific date but rather says "after seven complete Sabbaths, then it is the next day". We need to completely learn the lessons of the seven golden lampstands in Revelation. The last lampstand, Laodicea, has a lesson about not being proud thinking you know everything but willing to open the door to the Lord who is outside of this arrogant "know it all" situation. I think we see this illustrated for us in the debate over the rapture with some willing to leave their comfort zone and go out to the Lord to explore and others who are content that they already know all there is to know and there is nothing else to know.

I have a slightly different take on on this chapter however, Cahn does a great job of connecting 2Kings 10 to January 6 and I agree with all the strong connections.

He concludes that unlike 2Kings 10 in the present day Jehu is defeated by Baal. I disagree.

The one thing he misses with the story is the deception of Jehu to pretend to worship Baal and to fill the temple of Baal with the worshippers of Baal. This is called a honey pot, you set up a trap that will entice all the ones you wish to catch. Trump's loss has enticed all these worshippers of Baal to think this is their chance to rip off the country blind and we have seen them spending money as fast as they can print it. But the evidence is they have all been trapped in their fraud and in their deceit and this act by Jehu is the most important act of his might.

It also says they turned the temple of Baal (which in our analogy is the Capital building) into a latrine. The same building which is printing up $7 trillion spending bills will become a latrine. In other words this paper money will become toilet paper.

So Cahn likening the 80 men going inside to wipe out the worshippers to Jan 6th is where we disagree, I believe those 80 men do not refer to Jan 6, but rather to Sydney Powell, Lin Wood, Rudy Giuliani, Matt Gaetz, MTG, etc. We are about to see a complete draining of this swamp of those who worship Baal who have infested our Capital and we will also see the US currency collapse.

There are 3 different interpretations that are consistent with a literal interpretation of the Bible. He presents all three:

1. Jesus was setting a time frame for His return as everything taking place in 80 years.

2. Jesus was setting a time frame for His return but it can be more than 80 years because the real limit to man's life is 120.

3. Jesus was referring to the unbelieving Jews that rejected Him and was saying that they will not pass away until His return.

Based on this single prophecy I think all three of these are legitimate interpretations. Based on a many other prophecies I think you can eliminate option 2 yet at the same time find support for both #1 and #3. I see no reason why this prophecy cannot be seen as a double edged sword.

On the one hand He is telling us the time frame for His return and on the other hand He is telling us that there is no real remedy for unbelief until His return. Which is really ironic since most people would have thought that the fulfillment of the reformation of the nation of Israel would have put an end to unbelief and yet it didn't.

The Rapture in a nutshell

John 13:36 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now; but you will be able to follow later.”

John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

There is an interesting point, only in two places in the Bible does it mention "the trumpet of God" (there are many mentions of trumpets that are blown by man and angels but only twice does it mention the trumpet of God), once at Shavuot on Mt. Sinai, and the other time in the New Testament referring to the rapture of the church. As a result everyone sees a very direct connection between the feast of Shavuot and the rapture.

However, in Hebrews 12 there is a contrast given between the NT and the OT.

18 For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them; 20 for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; 21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:

22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel. 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven: 26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

We have come unto Mount Zion not Mount Sinai (these mountains represent two covenants just as Abraham has sons from two women)

The city of the Living God -- That is the church
The heavenly Jerusalem -- That is the universal church
To the general assembly -- that is the local church

The church of the firstborn -- The seven golden lampstands with Jesus the priest walking in the midst.
To Jesus the mediator of the covenant (again a reference to our gathering together -- where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst)
To the blood of sprinkling -- This is the preaching of the priests

The fulfillment of the Passover is the Lord's table. The Lord's table is a rehearsal meeting for the Lord's coming. It is the only day given to us to keep in the New Testament. Prior to the tribulation you will have saints from a variety of churches taken, but the entire church in Philadelphia will be taken. It has always seemed appropriate to me that this would take place on the Lord's day. That is when the pastors are sprinkling the blood in their preaching, that is the general assembly with a whole heavenly host of angels watching, that is where we see Jesus the firstborn walking in the midst of the lampstands.

On January 5th the WHO warned the world of Covid19. This was the 10th day of the tenth month for the Jewish calendar and was the same day that Israel was being surrounded by the Babylonian army. The whole world was under seige by this virus scare. We'll know this was just a coincidence if the 9th day of the 4th month nothing happens (July 19th, 2021). The 9th day of the 4th month was when destruction came.

The 10th day of the fifth month is the day that the temple was burned down, it seems this would coincide with Rev 13:7 where power was given to the beast to make war with the saints and conquer them (they are the temple of God). Perhaps the foolish virgins. This power might be to force everyone to get (the vaccine?) the mark of the beast.