Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

I have always assumed that when the tail of the dragon cast a third of the stars to the earth that it was fallen angels. But here it says that "his angels were cast out with him" referring to Satan and the fallen angels.

Instead the "tail" of the dragon cast down a third of the stars. This sounds like cancel culture, it sounds like people kicked out of their jobs because of the vaccine mandate. It sounds like war between Satan and the people of God.

Tucker Carlson was cast out, all these people who have been cast out of the tech platforms and the MSM who now have set up their own channels, their own blogs.

This makes the situation more immediate. The dragon is standing before the people of God ready to devour the manchild as soon as it is delivered. They have surveilled everyone, tracked everyone, set in motion all the laws necessary. The only reason we don't have one world government, one universal digital currency, and one world religion is because of the restrainer. Once He is removed everything is in place to immediately be implemented!
 

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If thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief

3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

One thing that has struck me is that those who are not watching are clueless about what is going on. Watching for the Lord's return is not some vanity experience where you are focused on the future and not the present, on the contrary you are focused on what is going on today to see signs of the Lord's coming.
 

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For those who believe in the Bible but don't believe Jesus is the Messiah

There are certain prophesies concerning the Messiah who was to come, especially concerning his genealogy.

Consider Jesus' genealogy in Matthew, proving beyond any doubt that God's fingerprint was on this genealogy.

1. The number of words which are nouns is exactly 56, or 7 x 8.

2. The Greek word “the” occurs most frequently in the passage: exactly 56 times, or 7 x 8.

3. Also, the number of different forms in which the article “the” occurs is exactly 7.

4. There are two main sections in the passage: verse 1-11 and 12-17. In the first main section, the number of Greek vocabulary words used is 49, or 7 x 7.

5. Of these 49 words, The number of those beginning with a vowel is 28, or 7 x 4.

6. The number of words beginning with a consonant is 21, or 7 x 3.

7. The total number of letters in these 49 words is exactly 266, or 7 x 38-exactly.

8. The numbers of vowels among these 266 letters is 140, or 7 x 20.

9. The number of consonants is 126, or 7 x 18-exactly.

10. Of these 49 words, the number of words which occur more than once is 35, or 7 x 5.

11. The number of words occurring only once is 14, or 7 x2.

12. The number of words which occur in only one form is exactly 42, or 7 x 6.

13. The number of words appearing in more than one form is also 7.

14. The number of 49 Greek vocabulary words which are nouns is 42, or 7 x 6.

15. The number of words which are not nouns is 7.

16. Of the nouns, 35 are proper names, or 7 x 5.

17. These 35 nouns are used 63 times, or 7 x 9.

18. The number of male names is 28, or 7 x 4.

19. These male names occur 56 times or 7 x 8.

20. The number which are not male names is 7.

21. Three women are mentioned-Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth. The number of Greek letters in these three names is 14, or 7 x 2.

22. The number of compound nouns is 7.

23. The number of Greek letters in these 7 nouns is 49, or 7 x 7.

24. Only one city is named in this passage, Babylon, which in Greek contains exactly 7 letters.

This is the Heptatic structure which is God's structure. He created the earth in 7 days. He is the one who commands you to keep the sabbath. Jesus, the Messiah, claimed He was Lord of the Sabbath.

The odds of this happening by chance is 7^24th power, or 1 in 200 quintillionin.

The number “seven” permeates the totality of Scripture because the number speaks of God’s divine perfection and perfect order. The actual number 7 appears 287 times in the Old Testament (7 x 41 = 287) while the word “seventh” occurs 98 times (7 x 14 = 98). The word “seven-fold” appears seven times. In addition, the word “seventy” is used 56 times (7 x 8 = 56).

  • The seven years of famine
  • The seven years of plenty
  • The seven trumpets marching around Jericho
  • The seven plagues
  • The seven demons it came out of Mary Magdalene
  • The seven indictments to the scribes and Pharisees announced by Jesus
  • The seven words of Jesus pronounced on the cross
  • The seven golden lampstands
  • The mystery of the seven stars
  • The seven seals
  • The seven letters addressed to the seven churches
  • The seven trumpets
  • The seven thunders
  • The seven kings
  • The seven heads of the beast
  • The seven plagues of the seven bowls
 

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What we know about the day of the rapture

1. We know the rapture is an appointed day. It is the “great and notable” day of the Lord. Jesus is the same today, yesterday and forever. He ascended on an appointed day, He was crucified on an appointed day, buried on an appointed day, resurrected on an appointed day and poured out the Holy Spirit on an appointed day. Therefore it is very reasonable to say that the key events at the end of the age will also be appointed days. We know that for the Jews Jacob’s trouble, a ten year period, begins with the Feast of Trumpets and ends with the Day of judgment. Paul told us in Colossians that these feast days were prophetic.

2. We also know it is a “great and terrible” day. So for those raptured it is great, for those left behind it is terrible. So this appointed day will be a dress rehearsal with two sides to it, on one hand it will be filled with rejoicing and hymns of praise and worship. On the other hand it will terrible, dark and gloomy.

3. We also know that it is not an OT appointed feast. The Lord said no one knows the day or the hour, so this was not one of the feasts in the Old Testament because everyone knew those days and those hours.

4. We also know the first half which is the half with praise and worship will be the Lord’s day as that is the only “appointed day” in the New Testament that the believers have been given to keep.

5. The second half will be the feast day that the world and the apostate church keeps. We know that this day comes “as a thief in the night”. They will celebrate Satan coming to them in the middle of the night like a thief. He will be “magical” because this will have everything to do with idolatry and the occult. This will be “another gospel” which is not another but rather an adulteration of the true gospel along with another spirit. It will involve an elaborate delusion that those who love a lie will embrace and use it to teach their children to lie. We also know that the god they worship is the accuser of the brethren so anyone who does not worship their god will be slandered, accused of being heartless, or some other nasty accusation. This will include the worship of idols with the star of their god.

6. We are told in Proverbs that the return is during the full moon, but that is for the apostate church likened to an adulterous woman. These will be the ones locked out of the wedding feast and cast into outer darkness. We are told this will be three days of darkness.

7. In Revelation 12 we learn that the Revelation 12 sign will appear first in the heavens before the rapture, the sign we saw in 2017.

8. We also know that it will happen after the dragon casts a third of the stars to the earth. I used to think this referred to the fallen angels, but it doesn’t. If you read Revelation 12 a few verses later there is war in heaven and the Dragon and his angels, the fallen angels, are cast out. So then we can expect to see many people who are considered “stars” to be kicked out of their jobs and cast to the earth like we did with the vaccine mandate and those who refused to get vaccinated.

9. We know that for both the believers and the apostate church this day will be celebrating the birth of a baby. Revelation 12 describes a baby being born who is called “the man child” and is caught up to heaven. Babylon describes a baby being born who is a figure of the antichrist.

10. We know after the rapture the Antichrist is revealed who is a counterfeit for the real Christ.

11. We know that the Antichrist will mock and ridicule the truth of the gospel. Instead of teaching people to pray to God for salvation they will teach them to pray for material blessings. They will mock the rapture, and desperately try and distract people from the truth with glitz, shiny lights, and sparkly toys.

12. One of the key types of the rapture of the Gentile bride is the book of Ruth, this is where we learn why Jesus is born in Bethlehem.

13. Another prophecy tells us this day will come after the sun is darkened and the moon doesn’t give her light. The last few solar and lunar eclipses followed this pattern, but beginning in April of 2024 it will be reversed with the lunar eclipse first and the solar eclipse second. So if the rapture is to take place soon we would expect it must be before April.

14. The rapture is the end of the church age. Some believers will be given a grace period to get right with the Lord during the tribulation, but the church age should end before the 70th week of Daniel begins. The church age is called the “times of the Gentiles” and refers to two thousand years by their calendar, not the Jews calendar.

15. This Spring the Jews will be sacrificing the red heifer and beginning the sacrifices again and raising their temple or tabernacle of David. Therefore the 70th week should be beginning this spring for them.

16. There is an interesting interpretation of a verse in Genesis that says “Enoch was not yet” that this refers to the raptured saints not being here in 2024.

17. There are other interesting prophecies from the Bible that indicate the end of the tribulation is 2030.

18. After the three days of darkness there will be a discovery that the rapture took place worldwide, just as the disciples discover the resurrection three days after the Lord was crucified. Doubting Thomas learns this 8 days later. So then 8 days later the left behind saints will begin to build up their faith.

So then, is there a feast day under the Lord's sovereignty, that no one knew about at the time of the gospels but that everyone in the US now celebrates (the US is a "christian country and will represent both the genuine and apostate believers) that has this dichotomy? The first half, the Lord's day, appointed by the Lord in the NT, the second half idol worship straight from Babylon and celebrated by the Great Babylon, depicted as a whore?
 

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Psalm 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Lord Jesus we come before You, standing on Your blood, and praying that Your will would be done and Your kingdom would come, on Earth as it is in heaven. Remember the lying lips that spoke during the pandemic, the lying lips that mandated the vaccine, that caused people to be fired or lose their jobs, they lying lips concerning election interference, the lying lips concerning our border, and concerning the Hunter Biden laptop. They have lied, they have spoken contemptuously, calling the righteous conspiracy theorists, domestic terrorists, deplorable, irredeemable, anti vaxx, anti science, and on and on. So then, Lord Jesus we pray according to Your word that their lips would be put to silence.

In the all powerful and omniscient name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.
 

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Silent Night

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

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.

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.

This is Amos, the basket of summer fruit refers to the "end" of the age. There are two aspects to it, one of course is the rapture which will be filled with joy, rejoicing, praise and worship. But not for those left behind. There will be songs in the temple on the day of the rapture, but for those left behind they become howling. But then it becomes a "silent night" as many will die and they cast them forth with silence and those left behind are cast out into outer darkness.
 

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Problems with "No one knows the day or the hour".

There are a number of verses that indicate a big problem, not with the verse but with the interpretation. Rather than go through all the verses that would make it seem like this will not be the case when the Lord returns even if it was the case during the gospels, the biggest problem is that pattern is prophecy. Every big and important event was marked by a holy convocation, a dress rehearsal. I believe the rapture is the opening of the sixth seal in the book of Revelation, and that it is called "the great and terrible day". Therefore, since Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever it should have a dress rehearsal, an appointed day. So then a different interpretation would be that "no one knows the day" means it is not an Old Testament appointed day. In the New Testament Jesus appointed the Lord's table and the Lord's day for us. Both of these are NT and not in the OT. It is a dress rehearsal for the wedding feast of the Lord.

However, that does not tell us the day, as Paul says it is celebrated on "whatever day". I believe this is because the rapture is the "end" of the church age. Immediately after that you have the revealing of the Antichrist, so it will be his appointed day. It will also be the judgement on the Great Babylon, so it will be the terrible day of judgment that is appointed for Babylon.

So then I am looking for a Babylonian feast day celebrating the birth of the Antichrist.

  1. appointed place, appointed time, meeting
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מוֹעֵד môwʻêd, mo-ade'; or מֹעֵד môʻêd; or (feminine) מוֹעָדָה môwʻâdâh; (2 Chronicles 8:13), from H3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand):—appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).

Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

Here God calls them "your appointed feasts", not His. That is what I am looking for, a great feast day that we keep as a dress rehearsal for "the day of the Lord coming as a thief in the night" that comes from Babylon.

Jeremiah 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

Here we see that God's people should see the judgment coming, but don't. This also tells me it is an appointed day that everyone should know. In 1989 the USSR collapsed on Christmas day and ever since Putin has been plotting his revenge. So it this is something we should know because the whole world said "peace and security" when the USSR collapsed.

Daniel 8:19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.

This day will be the prime day for the Lord to express His indignation with the idolatry of the apostate church.

Daniel 11:27 And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

Like I said, "peace and security" is a lie, and Putin has been plotting, the end is yet for an appointed time.

Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

It will be a day of mirth and feast days, a solemn feast. For the idolatrous church.

Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

It is for an appointed day, but not for one of the OT appointed feasts.

כֶּסֶא keçeʼ, keh'-seh; or כֶּסֶה keçeh; apparently from H3680; properly, fulness or the full moon, i.e. its festival:—(time) appointed.

† כֶּ֫סֶא Proverbs 7:20, כֶּ֫סֶה Psalm 81:3 [Psalm 81:4] noun [masculine] full moon (compare Aramaic ; origin dubious, compare LagSymn. i. 93; perhaps Assyrian loan-word; compare Assyrian kusêu, headdress or cap, = agû, id., and also full moon (as tiara of moon-god ?), DlHWB, sub kusêu, kubšu, agû; yet see Brock) — לְיוֺם הַכּ׳ Proverbs 7:20; as a feast-day, בַּכּ׳ Psalm 81:3 [Psalm 81:4] (opposed to H2320 בַּחֹדֶשׁ, at the new moon).


Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

Proverbs 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.


This word refers to a full moon. But Proverbs 7:20 is definitely referring to the Apostate church which will be caught by surprise. Therefore we expect the Lord's return to be before a full moon. Since the rapture is likely to be followed by 3 days of darkness I would suspect the rapture will be on a Lord's day that is three days before a full moon.
 

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So then, yes there is an appointed day by the Lord and that is the Lord's table. It is our dress rehearsal. There is also an appointed day for the apostate church. Ask them and they will tell you there are two days a year when there are many people who this is the only days they come to church, Christmas and Easter. But only of Christmas do you have songs of mirth and only of Jesus do they say "this is the day they have been waiting all year for". Only on Christmas, a Babylonian holiday for the firth of Tamuz who is a figure for the antichrist, does it come like a thief in the night. Christmas is not an appointed feast for the Bible, it is "your feast" referring to the apostate church which the Lord says he is sick of.

Only in this year do we have the Lord's day preceding Christmas day, which would be the rapture preceding the judgment on the Great Babylon. Also we are three days from the full moon. So the adulterous wife, the apostate church, says that the Lord returns on the full moon, but that will be after 3 days of darkness and after being left behind.

We are also told that God's people were clueless to the coming judgement. Again, we we told that "when they say peace and security then. sudden destruction comes". When did they say that? Christmas of 1989. So then when does sudden destruction come? Christmas. Putin has been planning his revenge for the last 34 years and Kim Jong Un also said he would give the US a Christmas present. So Russia lands a special plane for evacuating the embassy yesterday in Washington DC, there is no excuse for us to not be on our highest alert.

We were told that when we see Jerusalem compassed about with enemies to know that our redemption draws nigh. We have also received warnings from the Muslim brotherhood and Iran about attacking the US over Christmas. We are at war with both Russia and Iran right now.
 

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Why is this night different than all others?

This is the question that they are to ask in every Passover celebration.

Deuteronomy 6:20 When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

Among the Christians in the New Testament is there one night that is different than all others?

The apostate church has two big celebrations, Christmas, which is all about the "night" and Easter which is celebrated at sunrise.

We have three interesting things about this Christmas.

1. The 24th is on a Lord's day, the odds of that happening is 1 in 7.

2. Three days later we have a full moon, the odds of that happening is 1 in 30.

3. Christmas follows a period of solar eclipses followed by Lunar eclipses. The odds of that happening is 1 in 2.

The odds of these three things happening is 1 in 420.

This also happens when Jerusalem is surrounded by enemies. So then this is the first Christmas since 70AD that fulfills these 4 conditions.
 

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Psalm 69:16 Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. 19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Amen, Lord.

21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.


Amen, Lord. As they have done let it be done unto them.

23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.


Amen, Lord. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

Amen. Lord Jesus, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.


Amen, Lord of heaven and earth.

26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

Amen Lord, You are acquainted with our sorrows.

27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

Amen, Lord Jesus, the Holy one of God.

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Amen Lord Jesus, You are the judge of all.