Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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All things happen for good to those who love God and are called according to purpose

Mark 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. 16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

You can be poisoned, you can be killed, but that does not “defile” you. Murdering someone defiles you, being murdered doesn’t. We have martyrs, prophets who were put to death for the word of God, they weren’t defiled by becoming martyrs. Saint Stephen was not defiled because they stoned him. Jesus was not defiled because they crucified Him.

But the people who cried out “crucify Him” they were defiled. People who provide false witness, they are defiled. People who plan and plot adulteries, thefts and murders, they are defiled.

Now we do not freak out if our clothes get dirty, we put them in the hamper and wash them. We are all sinners and every one of us has had defiling thoughts. Not only so but we have acted on some of those defiling thoughts. So we need the blood of Jesus to wash us clean, we need confession, repentance and in some cases restitution depending on the sin.

There are also “generational curses”. By that it is as though your DNA has been stained with sin. King Saul did not obey God to kill all the Amalekites, as a result Mordecai, Saul’s descendant, had to mop up the mess that was left. Therefore we should give thanks for everything that takes place to us just as we should give thanks for everything we eat. Everything that happens is meant for good, an opportunity for you to cleanse yourself of all defilement of sin and flesh. In the Bible Joseph is married to Mary of whom Jesus is born. Joseph is descended from a cursed line of David, it was the royal line, but the curse was their line would never sit on the throne. But by taking Mary of whom Jesus was born this line gets restored to the kingdom, just not to the kingship.

17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

What defiles you is what enters into your heart. Pride, arrogance, condescension, bigotry, hate, malice, greed, covetousness, these things defile us. So then the only way to get cleansed is to have these things washed from our heart and removed. King Saul was not obedient because he thought some of the things of the Amalekites were good. He wanted to destroy the bad things but keep the good things. Mordecai sees firsthand how those “good” things would turn into a monster that would devour and destroy them. The king cursed that Joseph was descended from treated the poor badly, as a result Joseph must be put into the situation where it is assumed he is the father of an illegitimate son, a person who is mocked and ridiculed, so that this poison could be purged from his heart.

20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Now consider how many movies, how many TV shows, how many songs and MTV videos and magazines, how many stories and books, how many of these are filled with evil thoughts. How defiling is all of this and yet people just slurp it down. In the last few years it seems to many of us that the world has lost its mind, it is acting completely unreasonable. Why is that? Could it be they spend 8 hours a day in front of one screen or another? Could Tik Tok, Twitter, Facebook and all the other platforms be the reason that the world seems to have completely lost its mind?

24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

Have you noticed today that when people are speaking the truth on the internet they have to hide their words, they will speak in code, they will point to a picture of a word rather than say it, they will say it in a strange way like “See — Eye — Aye”. They are trying to be hid from this “all seeing eye” but they can’t, the algorithms and AI get better and better at finding them and censoring them.

25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

Perhaps a reference to Tik Tok. One thing is sure, young girls have been specifically harmed by these unclean spirits on social media platforms.

26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. 27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. 28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

What is the primary characteristic of the woke crowd, the ones we call “snowflakes”? It is how easily offended they are over every thing. Those words are offensive to the unclean spirit because they are cleansing your heart. Instead of rejecting the soap, embrace it.

29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. 30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

This is a generational curse. The mother embraced the soap cleansing her from offense and as a result her daughter was healed. The Jews were held in slavery by the Egyptians for exactly 400 years and when you look at slavery in the West of Africans it was for exactly 400 years until it was outlawed. The woke crowd is super offended thinking they were wronged without seeing that they themselves wronged others. If you love God and if you are called according to purpose all things that happen to you happen for good and are from God for your good.
 

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So why was God angry?

20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do. 21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. 22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.

Didn't God give Balaam permission to go with them? Yes, but it was conditional: "if the men come to call thee, rise up". Balaam was so greedy of gain he forgot that part.

There is a spiritual warfare and Balaam is going to the front lines of this war, if you do not follow the instructions precisely from the Lord you will fall. Sure enough today we view Balaam and Judas as false prophets. Did they both hear from the Lord? Yes. Did they both speak the word of God? Yes. What made them false was that they were greedy of gain. That seed was in their heart and grew up and destroyed them. It would have been far better to have never heard of either one, that neither was a great prophet or apostle of the Lord, yet they had kep their heart pure for the Lord. We should all be warned, do not let this corrupt seed of covetousness destroy us.
 

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Evidence that the crucifixion was AD 33.

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If Jesus was crucified on 33AD that can be considered the end of the "4th" day and the start of the 5th day. Jesus likened His death to the sky being red at night. In Jewish understanding the day begins with the night. The Passover was the start of the Exodus, the beginning of the year to the Jews. We are told that when Jesus ascended that He would return the same way. If we assume that He will return on the day of ascension 2,000 years later (after 2 days) we can say that His return will be 2033AD. Also, most if not all Bible scholars place the date of the crucifixion between 30AD and 33AD. I have always considered that 40 years prior to the destruction of the temple was like the 40 day warning given by Jonah. The Jews were given a 40 year warning and since we know it was destroyed in 70AD that 40 year warning began in 30AD. Either Jesus ministry began in 30AD or the crucifixion was in 30AD. In the story of Jonah he is spit up on the seaside by the fish and then takes a good part of a day to journey to the city of Nineveh. Jesus ministry began in the Fall with the Feast of trumpets and the day of Atonement. Six months later it is Nisan 1 and the start of the religious year.

Many people talk about the tribulation being seven years but it is ten days from Feast of Trumpets to the Day of Atonement. So in typology I see the warning that the king is coming begins ten years prior to the day of Atonement. Seven days before the day of Atonement the high priest is taken into the temple chamber to prepare for the day of atonement. I believe that is a type of the rapture. The priests begin their ministry at 30, but men who are 20 can go to war. I believe Jesus began "going to war" at 20 and ten years later began His ministry. When you get into the word of God it begins with study but eventually it leads to spiritual warfare.

So then let's use the same model. If 33AD is when Jesus was crucified and that was when He was 33, then 20AD is when He began the warfare. 2,000 years later in 2020 we began the warfare with the pandemic and 2033 could signal the end of the sixth day and the beginning of the millennial reign. It turns out that on the Feast of Trumpets in 2020 the world shut down their economy due to the pandemic, that should have been the Trumpet given to all that the day of the Lord was at hand and that God was declaring a sabbath fast to prepare, just as Joel says. However, the feast of Trumpets is known as the longest day because you might not spot that sliver of the new moon. By the Feast of Trumpets in 2021 they were mandating the vaccine, violating international law, and that should have been when it was clear to all what was going on.

In February of 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. From January of 2021 to the present the US has had approximately 28-30% inflation. For the poor this is a "famine". People who live paycheck to paycheck cannot afford to lose 30% of their money's value. Repo's are up, and the poor have to chose between eating or medicine. In the US the "famine" is not so noticeable, but go to China and it is catastrophic with an estimated 50% unemployment. During the depth of the great depression in the US we maxed out at a little over 25% unemployment. We are also seeing the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the ability to make deep fakes that are incredibly deceptive. We use to think that if we had a video of someone speaking that this would not be misquoted, but no more. The level of deception is greater now than ever in human history. Finally, we are learning that the "vaccine" that they gave to the whole world is a far greater health crisis than Covid19 was. Tens of millions have died as a result. Actuary tables show that with each booster shot odds of dying increases by 5%. The shot is said to weaken your immune system with each booster making it more and more likely for a new and deadlier pandemic to strike. These are the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Then on October 17, 2023 Hamas invaded Israel. The word Hamas in Hebrew is "violence", just as in Noah's day violence was everywhere. This was very likely the start of Jacob's trouble, a ten year period that precedes the Day of Judgement. The seven year tribulation would be the last seven years of that time.

We received a warning, a heavenly sign in 2017 that this judgement was coming on the US, a three year warning before 2020. That was the solar eclipse. We also received another solar eclipse in 2023, October 14th, over the US. That could be a three year warning pointing to 2026. Finally there is a third heavenly sign over the US, the third solar eclipse writing the name "alpha and omega" or "aleph Tav" over the US. That could be a 3 year warning pointing to 2027.
 

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An illogical assumption

We had a sign of two cows with the number seven on each which we understood to mean seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. Since the tribulation is seven years long many assumed that the seven years of famine would correspond with the start of the tribulation. That is illogical. We know that the tribulation begins with the Antichrist confirming or strengthening the covenant with the many. At this point in human history we see this covenant with the many referring to the 17 sustainable development goals being passed in the UN concerning climate change. We also know that Satan uses chaos to push people to accept his "world order". In other words the reason that people accept the Antichrists draconian rules is because of famine. The famine creates a crisis that the Antichrist then steps in to solve. Therefore it is illogical to assume that the seven year famine corresponds with the seven year tribulation, rather the famine will precede the start of the seven year tribulation by at least a year or more in the same way that you bring the house lights down at the start of a show to alert the audience that everything is about to start.

Think of gears and as one wheel turns it turns a second wheel. The famine wheel turns the Climate change covenant wheel and that wheel turns the wheel that brings Antichrist to power.
 

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Consider the hypocrisy of blindness

If we had 50% unemployment in the US everyone would agree that this was the tribulation and famine. But the US is 5% of the world's population, China is three times as many and they have 50% unemployment. Consider Israel, the entire world is accusing them of genocide, how is that not the start of Jacob's trouble? When Jesus was crucified the Sanhedrin bribed people to shout "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" Righteous judgement is "as you have done it will be done unto you". Can't you see that today the whole world has been bribed to shout "crucify Israel! Crucify Israel!" This is righteous judgement. Just recently we learned that the US had 12 secret CIA bases in Ukraine. That means when Russia invaded Ukraine that the US and Russia went to war. Since then they have been desperate to send tens and even hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine. We thought that the red line to WW3 would be when we sent F16s and Abrams tanks. We have already crossed that line. We thought when NATO goes to war with Russia that would be the red line, we have already crossed that line. Before we invaded Normandy we sent in paratroopers to help create chaos at the time of the invasion. We can assume that Russia (and N. Korea, Iran, China and Venezuela) would all do the same. We have 10 million illegals who have flooded into the country and dispersed into all the cities. How blind do you have to be to not see that we are at war and that WW3 has already begun?
 

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Giant Crosses In The Path Of The Eclipse Rapture Soon


At this point I think it is absolutely undeniable that these three eclipses are a very clear heavenly sign of the Lord's coming. We can see the sign of Noah in this, we can see the sign Jonah in this, we can see a reference to the rapture, a reference to the cross of Christ, and a reference to the writing on the wall for the Mystery, Babylon the Great.

The question becomes how to interpret this sign. The 2017 sign came 3 years before the 2020 pandemic and 7 years before the last eclipse which could indicate the seven year period of plenty coming to an end. The second eclipse came a week after Hamas invaded Israel. Signs come before the event, not after, so this may be pointing to a similar event taking place in the US in the future, perhaps as much as 3 years in the future, but that is certainly not a guarantee. The third eclipse becomes the third witness that judgement will fall on the US, and we are told that by two or three witnesses let every word be established. This is the point at which the judgement will be established. According to Daniel it was the same night that Babylon was overthrown. So although this might be a three year warning, I would not assume that, rather I would consider that we were given a seven year warning just as Noah was told to enter the ark seven days before the flood and that this third eclipse is the end of the seven year warning. As far as I can tell April 8th could be the collapse and overthrow of the US.

Now many might think that if the Lord was crucified and ascended to heaven in 33AD that the Lord does not return to Jerusalem until 2033AD (two days later) and therefore the rapture would not be until 2026. That may be so, I don't know the answer to that, but I think it is a poor assumption to think that Babylon the Great will not collapse until the rapture. You have to set the stage for the Antichrist, his reign will be in the context of an Islamic Caliphate (a very persuasive interpretation of the empires that Daniel described). That means Babylon the Great (the US) must be overthrown first, and these things can take years. Also, the chaos that will create will send the rest of the world into tribulation paving the way for the Antichrist to ride in on a white horse to save the day and for everyone to agree to take the mark and use digital currency.

My point is that the US could very likely fall a year or two before the start of the 70th week, the last seven years of this age.

Right now we see the Beast system rising out of the Sea (AI is rising out of the nations). We see the ten kings who will rule for an hour (BRICS and their new currency) which could take place after the US collapses and fill in the gap until the Antichrist arrives and pushes the mark of the beast. And we see the writing on the wall, the heavenly signs Jesus told us about, these three eclipses on the US that spell Aleph Tav or Alpha and Omega.
 

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Mark 8:10 And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha. 11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

This is a temptation and later Jesus says to beware the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. That is part of the context here so I would argue that this temptation is leaven, two different types of leaven.

12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

This is what I want to examine, when we understand why they are seeking this we will understand what the temptation is and why Jesus says it consists of two types of leaven.

13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side. 14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. 15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

This is the conclusion and Jesus makes it very clear he is not talking about bread but their doctrines and tricky way of deceiving people.

So then why do they seek a sign? Pharisees and Kings love to have a sign that they can say proves they have God's approval or backing. They promote a superstitious mob to think this way. The term "omen" refers to a "dark sign" or a "sign of impending doom". So it was very typical for them to talk about signs, and for all kinds of leaders of that day to refer to signs of their authority from God.

Now Jesus did have signs, there was the star of Bethlehem, there were the angels that appeared to the shepherds, there were the angels that appeared to Joseph and Mary and Zacharias and there was the ministry of John the Baptist. There was the dove that descended on Jesus at His baptism. Of course there were those that He healed, and just in this chapter there was the 4,000 that He fed. So why doesn't Jesus tell them those? We are told them in the gospels because they are signs to us from God that Jesus was the Son of God. John even tells us that we are told these things so that we could believe that Jesus is the son of God. But that is not why they are asking Him for signs. The Pharisees and Herod want to be in a position to tell others whether or not Jesus is the Son of God. They have built an entire power structure on being the mediator between God and men.

We have two kinds of mediators, we have priests and kings. Both get their authority from God and both are supposed to be representatives of God to man and man to God. That is the leaven that Jesus is warning us about.

1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

So in one place Jesus says the only sign the adulterous generation gets is the sign of Jonah. That is a different question than what they were asking here. They wanted to be the mediator between God and man. If they could be the ones to proclaim Jesus as a "knight" then He would be under their authority. Jesus is saying that is not going to happen.
 

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Mark 8:22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.

The context is the leaven of the pharisees and Herod. It is this idea that some people are "elite" and act as mediators between God and men. This is a blindness.

23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

He spits in his face to help him see. In the last few years they called these rural supporters of Trump "deplorables". When they complained about the mortgage meltdown and the criminality of the banks in stealing their homes they were told the banks "were too big to fail" and so no one was prosecuted for their crimes, instead they were given million dollar bonuses. Their children were sent to the Middle East to fight to defend America from WMDs only to learn that was a lie and when they came back with PTSD they were treated horribly. Then when they saw the election stolen they were told to shut up and those who refused on January 6th they locked up in prison. They have been spitting in their face. But guess what, it is helping people to see.

24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

He sees them as giants.

25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

In other words he sees them as normal men, no bigger or stronger than he is. I got a lot of help watching football. You would see teams with a "no name defense" stop some "great" offense. You would see Tom Brady with "no one to support him" go on to win a Superbowl. You see a rookie intercept the ball off of a superstar quarterback and win the game. Time and time again you learn to see men clearly. The same year they are mocking and insulting Eli Manning he goes on and wins the Superbowl against an 18-0 Patriots team. I played on a PeeWee team. There is a weight limit so no team has anyone who is bigger or stronger than anyone else. They also have an age limit so no one is older and more skilled than anyone else. Yet we were undefeated for two years straight and defeated teams by thirty or forty points. We knew it had nothing to do with us being bigger, stronger, faster, or anything else. It was simply we were better coached and better prepared for the games.

The disciples of the Lord have a problem they hold the crooks in power in esteem as though they must answer to them, and that they stand between them and God and that they are giants among puny men. Once they see them aright then they can stand up as Peter did in Acts.