Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Ezekiel 2: 4 The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’ 5 And whether they listen or fail to listen—for they are a rebellious people—they will know that a prophet has been among them.
 

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But you will have saved yourself

Ezekiel 3:16 At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: 17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. 18 When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for[b] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 19 But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.

Do not judge your gospel by whether the person you talked to is saved, judge it by whether or not you are saved. We are witnesses, not saviors. Jesus is the savior and the Holy Spirit and the word of God do the work. As long as we do what we are commanded to do, witness, then we too will be saved.
 

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4 Watchmen see that the Day of the Lord is near

Ezekiel -- the foundations will be broken


Ezekiel 30:3
For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

So the first thing we see is that it will be the time of the heathen and the second is that

4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.


The sword will come and all the foundations shall be broken. We consider freedom of speech to be "foundational", that will be broken, we consider freedom of worship to be foundational, that will be broken. We consider the right to protest to be foundational, that will be broken.

So let us consider what we are seeing today. Satanic worship at the Superbowl, at the Grammies, and at the Olympics. You are forbidden to speak of Jesus Christ. This is the time of the heathen. We are seeing the sword come to the whole earth and we are seeing the foundational rights being broken. This all began when we had the pandemic. From this angle it would seem to me that the Pandemic was a warning that the day of the Lord was near.

Joel -- time to decide if you are for the Lord or not

Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

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.

Gill: Let the Heathen be awakened, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat,.... That is, let the enemies of Christ and his church be aroused from that state of security in which they are, and prepare for their own defence; for in such a state the antichristian powers will be before their destruction; see Revelation 18:7; let them bestir themselves, and exert all the rigour and strength they have; let them come in high spirits against the people of God; let them invade the holy land, and come even to the valley of Jehoshaphat; and, when come thither, let them, descend into the place appointed for their ruin: the land of Judea being said to be higher than other countries, going to it is generally expressed by going up to it; otherwise it is more usual to say that men go down a valley than come up to it; and, mention being made again of this valley, shows that the same thing is referred to here as in Joel 3:2; these words are said in answer to the petition in Joel 3:11; for they are spoken by the Lord, as appears by what follows:

This is what we have seen. People are arrested for praying, for standing against abortion, for worshipping in church. This began at the pandemic and has reached a fever pitch with this current war in Israel. If you take a different look at this time what you see is that it is the "valley of decision". For example, with the vaccine mandate will you suspend the laws because you are afraid of the virus or of the shutdown? Will you go along just to keep your job? Everyone was forced into this "valley of decision". Think about these pro palestinian protests, will you keep quiet and hide just because there are so many and they seem so violent? The valley of decision, will you take a stand for the Lord Jesus and for righteousness, or will you go along with the mob?

Obadiah -- Payback


Obadiah 1:15 For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

This is the time for payback. Obadiah tells Esau that at this time they will be judged for standing idly by as Jacob was slaughtered. How about the nations during WW2? Did they stand idly by while the holocaust took place? Some can claim ignorance, but God judges the hearts and "as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee". Think about the BLM protests, out of one side of the mouth they are strenuously against slavery but out of the other side of the mouth they are profiting off of slavery. This is what the NBA and all the woke corporations will be judged for. Think about the Palestinian protests "from the river to the sea". They want to exterminate all Jews living in the Mid East, so as you have done it will be done unto you.

Zephaniah -- "Just following orders" is not an excuse


Zephaniah 1:14 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Jumping over the threshold is a reference to the god Dagon, he had fallen down before the Lord on the threshold of his temple so they don't step on the threshold. This verse says that you have puppets, people who are serving their masters, by filling their houses with the spoil from rape, pillaging, and violent fraud. For example, Hamas serves masters is Qatar and Iran and Jordan. If you remember during WW2 many tried to claim that "they were only following orders" when committing war crimes. It was determined that "following orders" does not absolve anyone from committing war crimes.

We saw this with the pandemic, with the shutdown, with the vaccine mandate and now with Hamas. In each case thousands of "useful idiots" were just "following orders" to commit the crime and fill their masters houses with plunder. They will be judged.

In Conclusion we have been warned since 2020 that the Day of the Lord is near.
 

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Ezekiel 4:16 He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair, 17 for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of their sin.
 

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PROPHECY -- BLAZE OF FIRE

BLAZE OF FIRE Isaiah 66:15-16 15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

My son, I hear your cries and see your tears, but these things must be. I have told you many times that the world would spin out of control - that the events foretold would come to pass in your lifetime. The world is now seeing My hand lift off, and the time for mankind to make a DECISION has come. I will not force any man to follow Me. I have given man the ability to choose. I love all men, and My heart's desire is to see all mankind saved.

My son, you have asked for more time to reach the lost, but the time is up. I am dividing now - those who will follow Me - and - those who will not. Have I not given enough warnings?? Have I not provided a way for all men to find Me?? I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. All men need to do is to ask for forgiveness and repent of their evil ways. The way of the cross is not easy, and many who think they are saved are not. The works of the cross will not save you - the way of the cross will.

My son, the people think the world will return to a former state - IT WILL NOT. Many will start to see the TIME they are in and realize that the TRIBULATION has started. THOSE IN MY REMNANT KNOW - AND SOON THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW. Israel will be victorious. However, now the whole world will turn on her. I will pull all of My people back to the land I gave them as an inheritance. My people will be HATED BY ALL - even those who call themselves allies. My two witnesses - chosen from the foundation of the world - will then preach the gospel to My chosen people. Their time has arrived.

My son, wars will continue until I return. America will be no more. She will fall in a BLAZE OF FIRE, be conquered, and taken captive. Some of the people of America will be taken away as captive. Others will stay and tend the land for their captors. I AM COMING SOON. Stay on your face before Me. Seek Me in all things, and I will carry you THROUGH until I SNATCH AWAY those remaining. Repent now! Come to Me, and I will forgive you. I love you all. Come away from the world.

Amen. Lord Jesus
 

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Amos 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

The Day of the Lord is darkness, and not light -- that suggests to me that it might refer to massive volcanic eruptions spewing ash into the air, this can often take weeks or months to dissipate.

Even very dark and no brightness in it? Have you ever seen a sunny day in the winter when there is snow on the ground? It is extremely bright. But if the sky were filled with ash and the ground and snow were ashen then there would be no brightness, just gloomy and dark.

I despise your feast days -- מָאַס mâʼaç, maw-as'; a primitive root; to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear:—abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, × utterly, vile person.

The primary feast day in the US is Thanksgiving. This is our feast day, not His. Imagine God causing it to disappear, casting it away, making it melt away.

Thanksgiving is famous for having family over and having that "crazy uncle" or some other person that everyone else in the family spurns, abhors or despises. As you have done it will be done to you. Imagine that crazy aunt or uncle is raptured, imagine all the kids are raptured, and at the same time the US is invaded with a massive surprise attack. People fill the roads as refugees fleeing the destruction. Perhaps this is what Amos was talking about.

Joel 3:13 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.

This sounds like the rapture which is when the wheat is gathered to the barns and the tares are tossed in the fire.

14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

My understanding of the valley of decision is that the whole world has to decide who they are going to follow, this sounds like what happens when the Antichrist is revealed after the rapture.

15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

The rapture coincides with a great earthquake around the world. This could also be at the same time as a super volcano erupting and filling the sky with ash.

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.



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Based on what we see here there could easily be 1 million miles of tunnels under ground, they could easily criss cross the ocean. Theoretically, a mag lev train could travel 1800 mph. This means a train could cross the Atlantic ocean in 1-2 hours. The Pacific ocean would take 2 hours. You could have armies assembled underground ready to pour into the US.

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Ezekiel 6:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them 3 and say: ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols. 5 I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. 6 Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out. 7 Your people will fall slain among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.8 “‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations. 9 Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices. 10 And they will know that I am the Lord; I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.
 

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Ezekiel 9:4 and said to him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.”

Have you seen the detestable things that are done in Washington DC, in NYC, in San Francisco, in Chicago, in the cities across this country?

9 He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’ 10 So I will not look on them with pity or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done.”

In my city they have people who are trying to overturn the recent ruling on Roe v. Wade. They try and get signatures for a referendum. They are supposed to be residents of the state but they aren't, they attack anyone who is educating the people concerning their tactics. They slash tires and assault them. They encourage people to sign the ballot multiple times. They are liars, cheats, detestable, trying to fill the land with the blood of babies.

Consider the wars where they came up with phony reasons to go fight in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Vietnam, or wherever. How many people were killed and damaged so that these war mongers could live in gated communities with their kids going to private schools?

Consider the pandemic and the vaccine. How many were forced to take that vaccine that they didn't want only to die or get myocarditis or some other illness? Both the pandemic and the vaccine are bioweapons.
 

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NOTHING Has Changed Regarding The Rapture…


I have been watching for the rapture for 50 years, ever since I got a speaking from the Lord in 1972. 10,000+ posts on this blog attest to my interest in this. But you cannot live a Christian life for 50 years focused solely on this. I never got into the "88 reasons for the rapture in 1988" nor did I listen to any of the other notorious predictions.

However, I got into plenty of theoretical discussions on eschatology over the years and for many decades all the discussion was on how we needed to take the Bible as being allegorical and not really to be taken literally. I remember us thinking it was impossible to control what every person on earth bought or sold, so we thought maybe this was just talking about Europe. We had no idea what the "beast" system was. The best we could come up with for the image of the beast was TV, had no idea about Deep Fake, or AI or neuralink.

The world took a very sharp turn for the worst during the pandemic, it did things we couldn't have predicted in all the time running up to it.

We are watching the Psalm 83 war and we can see how this leads into the Ezekiel 38 war, questions we never really could figure out before. It is clear to our eyes that the US is the Great Babylon, something that was not at all clear twenty years ago.

So are we in the season right before the rapture? Yes. For those of us watching for the last 50 years it is very, very plain. I have been intently watching for the last two years, am I tired? No. I don't want to miss anything and so far we have seen so many things we never could have imagined just a few years ago.
 

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Amos 8:1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

This is another vision of Amos. This book is filled with visions that are designed to help us "prepare to meet out God" at the Day of Atonement. Prior to judgement day you have the Feast of Trumpets which announces the coming of the day of Judgement. I have considered that this was 2020 when we had the pandemic and the ten years from 2020 to 2030 are the fulfillment of these ten days. This is the fourth vision, so that would align with 2023.

The basket of summer fruit represents the last fruit harvested prior to the winter. This vision shows an abundant harvest while also indicating a coming hard winter. It is also a play on words, the word for summer sounds like "end" in Hebrew. This is a vision of the harvest at the end of the age.

We have discussed this while talking about the feast of ingathering. A harvest festival at the end of the summer and beginning of winter is the picture we are given concerning the rapture in the gospels. God is the same yesterday, today and forever indicated to many of us that the God who fulfilled the five spring feasts in His first coming would fulfill the Fall feasts in His second coming. We are told in Colossians that the feasts are a shadow of things to come, and we are told in Ephesians that Jesus is Lord of all and so everything that takes place, our calendar, our sabbaths (making Sunday the day off rather than Saturday) and our feast days are under His sovereignty. Jesus also told us at the time of His earthly ministry that "no one knows the day or the hour". That strongly suggests that the rapture is not on a Jewish feast day since those days were known. However, Jesus did not say "no one will know" and in fact that idea would contradict what He said about the Days of Noah and the Days of Lot, so it could be a feast day instituted later that no one knew about at the time of the gospels.

2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

When the fifth seal is opened in Revelation we see the martyrs under the altar, they are clothed with white robes and told to wait a little while for more martyrdoms before the judgement. One way to look at this is "the dead in Christ rise first". At the pre tribulation rapture the dead in Christ will be given white robes and will come out from under the altar (the graves they have been in since being killed). However, you are still seven years before the Day of judgement on the killers and during those seven years there will be many, many more martyrdoms. This verse where the Lord says "I will not again pass by them any more" reminds me of the 5th seal where the martyrs are crying out "How long O Lord will you not judge and avenge our blood".

3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

The songs of the temple shall be howlings, that reminds me of the judgement on the apostasy. All those who are left behind after the rapture. So we have a vision of the harvest at the end of the age, the dead in Christ rising first, and those who are left behind howling. Amos is showing us what we need to repent of, here there are many dead bodies in every place that they cast for with silence. If this is righteous judgement where "as you have done it will be done unto you" when did people cast forth dead bodies in silence? That is an abortion and that is many of these mass killings. In the US they said it was a woman's right to kill her unborn baby secretly. The law was that the government had no right to regulate abortion and that they should cover their eyes and ears and mouth like the three monkeys. We have had 60 million abortions since Roe v. Wade so it is not unreasonable to estimate the number of dead at this time will be 60 million in the US.

4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

There is a concerted effort in the US to make the poor of the land fail. In order to get big multinational corporations like Walmart, you need thousands and thousands of workers who will man cash registers or mop the floor or stock the shelves. If the US economy were a vibrant middle class and entrepreneurial economy it would be hard for these companies to fill their cubicles with drones. The failure of the US education system is intentional. They want teenage pregnancy as that helps make the poor of the land fail.

5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?


The US dollar is "falsifying the balances by deceit". People think the piece of paper has value rather than the ephah of wheat. A five pound bag of flour cost $0.59 in 1970, today it is $5.24. As a result trying to grow an investment in "dollars" is deceitful. A million dollars today is worth what $100,000 was worth in 1970.

6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

If you are an employee you are a slave. You have sold yourself for silver. However, the sweatshops where our shoes are made have sold them for a pair of shoes. Also look at the flour we do sell, it is bleached with all life removed so that it can sit in a bag for weeks even months without becoming rancid. Bread today is refuse. It used to be that any bread you didn't sell that day would be given to the poor because it wouldn't be good the next day. This made it too easy to be poor, you could get by easily if you didn't mind eating day old bread.

7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Abortion, mass murder, bioweapons, vaccine mandates, teflon, taking the US dollar off the gold standard, the military industrial complex, WMD's, FTX, mortgage meltdown and NINJA loans, etc. The Lord will not forget any of them. You had better confess your sins, repent and take the Lord's blood.

8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

There are multiple prophecies that the US will be hit with Tsunamis that will drown our coastlines where 65% of the US population lives.

9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

This sounds like the result of a super volcano filling the sky with ash, or it could be the result of a meteor like that which wiped out the dinosaurs.

10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

This is talking about "your" feasts, not God's, and "your" songs, not God's. We have hymns of praise, but I don't think that is what this is talking about. I have always felt the songs refer to Christmas songs. They depict the apostasy more than anything else. It is a corrupt confused mingling of pagan worship with the worship of Jesus. These songs promote fornication and the worship of mammon and hedonism. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, God is going to turn it into the mourning of an only son. This season is famous for cookies and pies, God will turn what was sweet into a "bitter" day. "Sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head", the Christmas season officially begins on black Friday when people flock to the mall and shop for new clothes and get their hair done. Not this year.

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:

12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

Right now we have filled the internet with the word of God. Every day you can find multiple dreams and visions, you can find many people posting messages, many preachers posting their sermons. Their is an abundance of the word of God, so how could this happen? This tells me that we are talking about after the rapture. Of course the books still exist, but after seeing the rapture now people are interested and want to hear more, but everyone who knew anything was raptured. The people left behind were like that "refuse wheat" that they were selling to the poor.

13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
 

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