Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Lazarus may be a shadow of the rapture

John 12:1 Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. 2 So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him. 3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

Imagine that Lazarus being raised is the pre tribulation rapture. Then in this picture the Passover will be the return of Christ as the King. When He comes on the cloud and every knee shall bow. Six days before this, or six years we will be one year into the tribulation and at that time the believers who are on earth will pour out the costly oil onto the Lord -- you will see a great revival, great salvation, precious testimony.

9 The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death; 11 because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

Then what happens, they tried to say you can't buy or sell without the mark and they walked away from the economy ("why this waste") but now they take counsel on how to kill them. You just had the rapture and yet now you want to decapitate the believers like that will help? But this is spiritual warfare and the elites who are one with Satan realize the whole world is being converted and saved and they must do something!
 

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A. L. Byers's Birth of a Reformation: Life and Works of D. S. Warner "One must ignore every influence of man and then rely on the witness of both the Word and the Spirit in order to be guided right."

As a general rule I agree 100% as long as you understand that the witness of the Spirit can work through other men. I see many watchmen getting upset over trolls and probably they are mostly trolls. But at the same time they may have been very good advice coming from the Spirit that they view as an attack.

I will not give any names because this probably applies to many different people but I will give some generic examples.

There are many watchmen that are focused on when the rapture will be. They will give you some caveats like "they are not prophets", this is only a theory, etc. Obviously up to the present date all these surmisings have been wrong and some make a joke of it.

I would argue that instead of making a ministry that is truly focused on guessing the date of the rapture only to then joke that you never actually did say a date, that it would be more profitable to put puzzle pieces together focusing on what we do know and not going off on what we don't know. I heard one brother say "we don't know anything, we are just guessing". I wanted to shout, stop telling us what you don't know and instead tell us what you do.

1. We know that Paul said that the Feasts are a shadow of things to come.

Based on that what would be really helpful would be messages on each feast tracing out exactly what it is a shadow of. Put the rapture aside for a minute and give us all the details, all the insights of each feast and let us put the puzzle pieces together.

2. We know that the first 4 (5) feasts were fulfilled to the minute, so give us a really great, detailed message on that: Passover with Jesus' death, Feast of unleavened bread with Jesus death, cut off in his prime, Feast of Firstfruits with the resurrection of Jesus and the dead rising out of the graves. Shavuot with Jesus ascension, and the hidden feast of Pentecost fifty days later.

3. Then give us all the references in the Bible that might give us the season or that might point to one feast or another. Again, we are putting together puzzle pieces.

Some watchmen have turned comments off! Once you are cut off from fellowship and correction you are like "The Old man and the Sea". If you haven't read that book, read it, it is short and it explains a lot about how we need each other.

I listen to these links because these brothers and sisters have been focused on this topic for several years. I don't want to listen to them telling me they don't know anything, I want to hear what they do know.
 

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To Stain the pride of all glory

Isaiah 23:9 The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

There are a lot of people on this earth that have a certain "glory" or "honor". The tribulation is not simply a judgement on the evil criminals who are blatantly sinful. You may have an excellent education, and you are very serious and conscientious about your job, but if you are not living and walking with God's Judgement on you and the earth in view, then you are a fool. You are like that rich man who tore down his barns to build bigger only to die the same night.
 

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The land shall be utterly emptied

Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.


There are so many wealthy people in the US, they don't even realize they are wealthy. They have several houses, swimming pools, several cars, and plenty of money stored up in their bank accounts that they feel very secure. They are fools. The reason they are fools is because they refuse to see the judgement that is coming. They are not looking at all the evidence logically and rationally, no they refuse to see it because they don't want to see it. It is like the song "the Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel, "a man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest". An army has already entered the US through our Southern border. It only takes ten teams of them to bring down the entire electric grid in the US. They can attack the electric grid, the communications network and the transportation network all at the same time and do it nationwide. This would cause massive confusion and mayhem and result in mayors and governors in every state crying out for help from the military. At the same time they could set off twelve suitcase nukes in twelve major cities, causing pandemonium, fear, panic, and massive traffic jams. What's worse, these nukes would fry the electronics of many cars leaving them dead on the street. Imagine evening rush hour in total darkness, chaos, confusion, etc. Then poseidon torpedos could all be detonated. You have less than five minutes to evacuate if you are within five miles of the coast, but with all the gridlock that would be impossible without a helicopter. When those 500 foot waves hit the coast they will take out all our bases that are on the coast. Imagine the confusion and fog of war at that time followed by missiles that are also nuclear aimed at other targets not on the coast.

Who is the enemy? Is it Russia? How about China? What about N. Korea? What about Iran? What about Venezuela or Nicaragua? It will be all of them. I suspect Biden would be on Airforce 1, if they are able to jam any signals from that plane for a few minutes they could prevent him from giving any orders for counterstrikes.

The US is about to be hit much worse than Pearl Harbor. The Antichrist wants a CBDC so he can control the whole world. The US is restraining that, the rapture will remove the restrainer and will coincide with the US being eliminated as a world power. They do not want the US dollar ruling over them anymore, they have already replaced the US manufacturing, and in exchange for their bonds they will take US land for farming. They don't need US farmers either, they have sent millions of young men in from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and other countries to be able to take over the land.
 

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Why? Because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
 

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The Earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard

Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

This verse makes me think that the theory of a brown dwarf star in our solar system (a binary system with our sun) is true. A massive body passing near the earth would cause this.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

There is evidence that they see this coming and this is the true basis for their all agreeing that "climate change" is an existential threat. They use that as a cover to dig huge underground bunkers the size of large cities and to stock them with food. Some claim the "recalls" are just the government taking the food for these bunkers. The bunkers are definitely real, truck drivers have posted videos of them driving through them for miles and you see a whole lot of 18 wheelers in there stocking the place up. Military maps show them crisscrossing the US with high speed rail lines. Then there is a special telescope that the Vatican purchased designed to see Brown Dwarf stars and other planets in our solar system. They understand that the people who do not get to go down into the bunkers will be quite unhappy with the government, hence the need to facilitate their demise.

22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Sure sounds like what we see in Revelation where they hide in caves from the wrath of the great day of the Lamb.

23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.


Another factor if a very large body with a powerful gravitation force passed by the Earth would be that you would get massive volcanic eruptions, probably setting off at least one or two super-volcanoes. That would fill the atmosphere with ash for months, perhaps even a year, and you would get a winter that would last for about 18 months.
 

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How to use this blog

I realize there are almost 10,000 posts. That is a lot for someone to digest. So, if you click on the eyeglass at the top it will allow you to search the blog. You can search this thread only, and then you can search for a particular verse in the Bible. You could see every post on 1Corinthians 15, or every Post on John 14, or every post on 1thessalonians 5, or Daniel 9, etc.
 

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Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. 9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

The human government will be doing everything in their power to save themselves, but those that trusted in the Lord will be saved by His snatching them out of the way of sudden destruction just as He promised. Christians have been mocked and rebuked for trusting in the Bible and the rapture, so this will take away their rebuke.
 

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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee

Isaiah 26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

During the tribulation all the walls and bulwarks will come down except for the Lord's salvation. That alone will stand.

2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

Many want to know what they need to do to be raptured. First you must be righteous, not with your own righteousness which is as filthy rags but with the Lord's blood. But this is a two way street. The Lord forgave you and so you should also forgive your neighbor. If you don't forgive you will have a root of bitterness growing in your heart. Also you must be part of the nation, part of the congregation of God's people. The Lord is rescuing His church, do not live like a monk in the woods and think you will be let in the gates. Then you must also be those that keep the truth. The word of God is truth. God's people are also called the people of the book. But this doesn't say they keep the word, or they keep the Bible. The word of God is spirit and it is truth. You must keep the truth of the Bible, the reality. Jesus is filled with reality. You must also be filled with reality.

3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Romans 8 tells us the mind set on the spirit is life and peace. If we keep our mind on the Lord we will be kept in perfect peace. So then if you are not in perfect peace, if the wars and rumors of war have you unsettled, if the actions of corrupt politicians have you unsettled, if the news has you unsettled it is like visiting the doctor and learning your vital signs are showing dangerous signs. If your mind is in perfect peace then it tells you that your mind is stayed on the Lord.

4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength: 5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

Where are you dwelling? Are you dwelling in Jesus, the one who had nowhere to lay His head, or are you dwelling on high?
 

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RAPTURE - SUPER HIGH WATCH - 10/3 IS 7/14 ON ENOCH CALENDAR AND ENOCH IS WITH JESUS CHRIST RIGHT NOW

 

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DON’T Be Caught Off Guard…

 

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When those Prophecies I gave your Wife come to Pass People will listen to your Ministry 10/02/2023

 

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For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity

Isaiah 26;18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Of our own selves we can do nothing. We are learning to pray, to call out, to cry unto the Lord for deliverance and to look to Him to save.

19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

The dead in Christ will rise first. The Lord knows where the bodies are buried.

20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

This is the rapture. 7 days before the Day of Atonement the High Priest will be changed into a linen garment at twilight and hide himself in the Temple chamber for the seven days leading up to the Day of Judgement. Jesus is the high priest and those that are in Christ at the end of the age will also be one with Him.

21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

We pray, He answers.
 

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AN OVERVIEW OF CHURCH HISTORY

 

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2023 - 2030 Rapture Review Timeline 📝

 

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China Prepares to Attack America and Giants 10/03/2023

 

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Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

They refer to the deep state in the US as "leviathan". Right now this political battle you are seeing between Trump and all the rest and between Matt Gaetz and McCarthy, that is some people battling leviathan. Neither Trump nor Gaetz is a "sore and great and strong sword", but the Lord will punish Leviathan and He will use this sword. He will punish these crooked bureaucrats and politicians, and He will slay the dragon. The sea refers to the nations. The US is not the only country with a "deep state". I believe the entire 70th week tribulation will be to slay Leviathan. But, judgment must begin with the house of God and so I believe it must begin with the US, a country that was dedicated to be a light on a hill, the only nation in the world that was called "a Christian nation" and by every single metric the nation where the Lord Jesus put His name. Yes, this will ultimately lead to judgement of other countries at Armageddon, all the nations will be gathered there, and yes, Europe will be central to the Antichrists kingdom.
 

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Isaiah 29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. 13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

You reap what you sow. If you live a lie, if you are a hypocrite pretending to love the Lord and honor the Lord and yet your heart is somewhere else, then the Lord is going to expose you, toy with you and put you to an open shame.

14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

It used to be that we had wise men on TV talking to us, but they have disappeared. It used to be we were well trained and we had prudent men of understanding, but they also have been hid. We can see this prophecy being fulfilled today, in the US, in the churches.
 

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I’m Here to Sound the Alarm!

 

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The Day IS TRUELY NEAR!!!