Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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1 of 3, It's Time! 4-18-24@2:56PM

I have been wondering what does this 1 of 3 mean? Then I was listening to Amir about the Passover and he said they drink three glasses of wine.

The first cup is rescue, the second cup is the Lord coming to save us from our sins, the third cup is the cup of judgement.

1. I will rescue you
2. I will bring you out
3. I will redeem you
4. I will take you as my people and be your God


 

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Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

I started this blog to try and learn as much as I could about the rapture, no one seems to teach about it in church and all the books about it seem to be "unstable" and something like what the Lord is warning about here. People saying "look here and look there". Here I am over 11,000 posts later and what I have been completely impressed with is the Spirit moving in different people. Vicki Goforth Parnell and her prayer life, Stan Johnson and his life devoted to prophecy, Aaron and his encouraging study of the word, Tom Loud and his healing ministry, and many of the watchmen. A watchman is not someone who is seeking the Lord in the newspaper. They are listening to what the Lord would say to them. Some people have given themselves to the Lord their whole lives and others are clearly just recently saved in the last couple of year. Look at all these testimonies from dreams and visions. Take this blog, nothing about it would attract anyone to it, no advertising, no fancy graphics, not on a prominent tech platform, and yet over 320,000 people have found this.

What I get from these verses is that we are not spectators, we are on the field, we are participants. It is the fact that the Lord and the Spirit is moving in so many people all over this Earth that forces Satan to act and it forces the kingdom of God to come. What was the response when Jesus was crucified?

John 11:47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

What forces the hand of Satan is that the Kingdom is rolling and if they leave us alone all men will believe.

22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

This was not the days of Acts. During those days you could clearly see the Lord moving on the Earth. What the Lord is saying is that the same people who reject your testimony today will be seeking to find you and hear from you tomorrow.

23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.

So this is your basic cult. Jesus is warning that this is a common refrain. When the church rejects the Lord the word dries up, the people leave like a diseased tree slowly dying and that is when you will see cults proliferate as people are out seeking. It is like people in the desert, the water hole has dried up so they are out digging about in the ground looking for water.

24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.


You don't need to be in the desert when the Lord returns. It won't matter what continent you are on, or whether you are in the city or the country. If you belong to the Lord at that time you will be taken, and if you don't you will be left, regardless of what church you are meeting with.

25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

This is important. This is what will cause many to repent, because they first rejected the Lord. The reason they are weeping and gnashing their teeth is they know it was their fault, they were arrogant, they were insulting, they mocked, they ridiculed, they rejected the Lord and yet He was offering them salvation for free.

26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.


Noah was a preacher or righteousness and he is in the Faith Hall of Fame in Hebrews. Entering into the ark signifies the rapture. Noah entered into the ark seven days before the flood and the rapture is seven years before wormwood and armageddon. Now they are not all destroyed until seven years later, but the eating, the drinking and the weddings seem to cease on the day that Noah enters the ark. So one thing I have been noting is how there seems to be a conspiracy to wipe out the food supply and even undermine marriage, questioning what a woman is.

28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.


Lot is different from Noah. He is not in the faith Hall of Fame, nor does it say he was a preacher of righteousness, rather it says he was righteous. When the mob comes to his house and he tells them not to do this they tell him "who are you"? It seems Lot was an important person in the city (that is what it means to be in the city gate) but he didn't preach the gospel like Noah. There are many christians who have key jobs in the city and they are righteous, but they don't warn people of the coming judgement or preach repentance from sins for salvation from hell. I think the Lord is presenting two different rescues here. Noah had prepared for over a hundred years for his rescue, whereas Lot loses everything but is saved, but so as through fire. Noah's rescue is glorious, Lot's is by the skin of his teeth and he loses half his family. Noah was absolute about no compromise, and Lot felt that you need to go along to get along. One is saved seven days before the flood and the other sees the cities go up in smoke and his wife turned to a pillar of salt as they flee the judgement.

30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Remember the context, the Pharisees wanted to know what they would see that would tell them the kingdom of God is coming. Jesus says when you see the Son of man is revealed you better run and not look back.

31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife.

If you need to memorize verses start with the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus Wept. Then go to the second shortest verse in the Bible: Remember Lot's wife.

33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.


This is half the gospel message, take up your cross and follow the Lord. ABC stands for Admit, Believe and Confess. After that you need to Obey, Take up, and Follow. With Noah he did all of that prior to the flood and so he had a glorious rescue. With Lot he only did ABC and so he did OTF during the tribulation. He lost everything in the fire including his wife. He lived in a cave during the tribulation and his children became the Ammonites and Moabites, children of incest.

34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

I heard a message that this "bed" refers to the way people eat. Think of the church, you have two there who are being fed, the church is the "bed" and one will be taken and one left.

35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Grinding refers to grinding wheat to turn it into flour and make bread. Again, think about the church, you have many pastors and preachers who are grinding during the week to get a message to feed the sheep. One will be taken and one left. Also this word left is used for "divorced". Taken is a word that means a close personal friend. So to interpret this as referring to believers and unbelievers doesn't make sense. An unbeliever would not be "divorced".

36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

The field refers to the ministry. There are many in ministry that will be divorced. Recently I have learned about how Satanic the Christian music ministries sometimes are. Half of those in ministry (based on this verse) are charlatans. Think about Judas, he was one of the twelve, or Balaam, he was a prophet of God.

37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.


In 2017 and 2024 there were two solar eclipses that criss crossed the US. They intersected over a place in Illinois called "Little Egypt" and in particular in this place they have an annual celebration for the "gathering of the vultures". Isn't it ironic that this word for eagles can also be translated as vultures. The US is the great eagle, the US is where the Eagles are gathered together, and the US is the only "Christian" nation that is filled with churches. Many of them are apostate, many of the pastors are apostate and many of the ministries are satanic.
 

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We are battling the kingdom of Darkness so let us consider the strengths of our opponent.

1. We have the word of God, it is light, it is truth, it is salt. These are our strengths. It is the word of life that no one else has.

But Satan has Hollywood, he has music and MTV and TV and Movies and pornography. His strength is entertainment, if you try and make the church an entertaining place that will appeal to young people you play to Satan's strengths.

Instead convict people of sin, speak words of life, mercy and forgiveness. This is what we have and Satan doesn't.

2. Satan is older, wiser and smarter than us. Don't battle him using your mind and your opinions and your good ideas. You will be playing to his strength.

In Jesus is hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, we need to follow the Lord with childlike faith. That is our strength. When we enter the battlefield people should think "you are just a child and he has been a warrior from his youth, you have no chance". Money, TV, Radio, all of that is a temptation that you need to reject. What you need is the word of life, no on else has that and people will seek you out if you can feed their soul.

3. Satan is not omniscient nor is he omnipresent nor is he omnipotent.

Our Lord is all three. So we should use the power of prayer and we should overwhelm Satan. If thousands of saints worldwide are out preaching the gospel, posting about Jesus on the Internet, praying for people, ministering the word, we can overwhelm the kingdom of darkness and he will have no choice but to fight us openly where all can see.
 

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"We don't have to be masterminds, just listen to God and do what He says" -- CrystalLove4Jesus
 

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Rapture Dream - A Darkness Suddenly Surrounded The World ! I Knew What THIS WAS

 

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Israel Strikes Again!! Shhhhh…

 

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Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
I started this blog because I felt everything I had heard about the rapture was coming at this topic from the wrong angle. I didn't know what the right angle was, so I wanted to see everything that the Bible said about it. This verse is the perfect example, many people are looking at Israel because they are "God's prophetic time clock". Others are looking at the news, at politics, at signs in the heavens. But, none of these things "brings the kingdom". That doesn't mean they aren't real, it just means they are not the driving force. It is like looking at animal tracks. Are they real? Yes. Do they mean something? Yes. But they aren't the animal, they are simply a sign that the animal is on the move.

The animal is the Holy Spirit and if He is on the move it is from within the believers. People follow tracks in order to find the animal. If you have seen the signs it should lead you to the Holy Spirit and His move.

So you have some believers who are getting dreams and visions and they are like people saying "I saw something". You have some who are looking at the signs in the heavens and they are saying "I saw something". But what have they seen? So we have others interpreting the signs and that is helping us to know what they have seen. But in this blog I have been tracking the Holy Spirit. That is how I found Dumitri Duduman and Vicki Goforth Parnell. It is also how I found Tom Loud and Peter Cabrera Jr.

MASTERCLASS: The full guide to divine healing #1


It was hard for me to listen to him at first, this has taken me two days of listening a little, putting it down, coming back, etc. I am now an hour and 25 minutes in. So I did not just slap this up on the blog without checking it out.

My understanding is that if the believers rise up like this Satan's kingdom will collapse which is what is forcing him to act now. Satan would rather operate in secret, but because of the advancement of the kingdom of God he has no choice but to come out of the shadows and do whatever he can to prevent this word from getting out.
 

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Healing ministry: Step 1

The first step is to be thankful in all things.

Ephesians 1:6 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

Begin by giving thanks for all the people you know. Those in your family, those at your job, in the church, and all those you meet. Every single person gives you a chance to grow in grace and in the Spirit.

Ephesians 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your mouth is filled with filthiness then you need that cleaned out, like cleaning out a garage in the spring time. If your mouth is filled with foolish talking, things that are trivial, things that are vanity, you need to take the cleaning to the next level. Healing is like this, you can focus on the biggest and most obvious problems first, but after than you get the less obvious problems. Then after you remove that you come to jesting. We will often say something that is quite funny and then chase after that with a whole lot of useless jesting. Clean out this desire in you. To me this is like the TV. First, if you have a problem with pornography that is a clear problem, get rid of that. Then if you have a problem with these foolish talking heads on MSM that are wasting your time, get rid of that. Finally you are left with Seinfeld, the four absurd characters with inconvenient jesting. It seems like you are not harming anyone and laughter is good for the soul. But you have misaimed. Think of a sniper aiming at a target. First shot is way off, second shot is closer but still misses by a clear margin and the third shot is closer still. But you aren't aiming at the target. The target is "giving thanks". If someone is healed they will give thanks. If someone is saved they will give thanks. If someone thought they were about to be evicted but instead the rent is paid they will give thanks. That is our target, giving of thanks.

Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

We are not giving thanks because of all things, we are giving thanks for all things. Think of all the things coming your way as an opportunity to manifest Jesus Christ and experience Him in your life. That is the proper attitude. Paul begins this letter praying that we would see the exceeding greatness of the power toward us, then after 5 chapters he brings us to this verse that we would give thanks for everything that comes our way because it gives us a chance to manifest that power.
 

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We must cast down the mindset that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. If we have not experienced something that has been promised by the Lord to us then we need to repent for our unbelief and anything that is hindering us. The truth is that Jesus Christ, Lord of all, lives within us. He has the resurrection power. He has the power of life. Everything that would hinder us going forward has died and in the spiritual realm has no power. So what is holding us back, what is Satan going to attack? He is attacking the truth, the truth sets us free, so to keep us from being set free he is using deception to keep us in chains.
 

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144,000 Anointed, 2 Witnesses and The Sun Clothed in Sackcloth

I appreciate that he is pulling up a variety of verses on this topic from the Bible.

The idea that the 144,000 is the 2 witnesses is interesting and unique which is why I have posted this here.
 

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Imagine that the 12 apostles become 144,000 after 2,000 years.

Jesus sent out 12 two by two. That is 6 groups of 2. Then he sent out 72, again two by two. That is 36 groups of two by two. Each iteration is increasing by six. What is 144,000? It is 12 x 12,000. If you divide 12,000 by 6 you get 2,000. There is a very clear progression from the 12 apostles to the 144,000 over the last 2,000 years.
 

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Prophecies for 2024-2025 - 04/22/2024
 

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DREAM: A Warning For Those Who Will Be LEFT BEHIND ! What I Saw Was SHOCKING

 

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2024: The Mystery of Salvation in the Tribulation. Were you left behind?

 

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If anyone has noticed the war today is very different from WW1 and WW2. By now we would have had a draft and would have hundreds of thousands of soldiers in training camp in all the western powers. But we don't have that. What we do have is missiles, bombs, satellites, and drones. Artificial intelligence is taking over our warfare. War does not become real to the people until there is a draft. This is why "rumors of war" is a sign of the end of the age, it is because the Beast system is rising from the sea.
 

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I just hit 325,000 views, so I looked up the Strong's number 325 in both Hebrew and Greek.

In Hebrew it is the name of the Persian King in the book of Esther, a type of God the Father.

In Greek it means to "deliver up" and it is only used once. When Paul was brought before the governor they delivered up a letter to him.

1000 is 2 cubed x 5 cubed. Two is a testimony and five is the number for grace or responsibility. 3 refers to the triune God operating in the resurrection power.
 

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Amir Tsarfati & The Red Heifer Controversy


If you are not familiar with this controversy Amir shared about this yesterday. It seemed like he thought the hype around the red heifer was causing Israel trouble and to avoid that everyone should just stop talking about red heifers.

My feeling was that Israel is not going to avoid the tribulation by simply telling everyone to be quiet. That said I do agree with him that a lot of foolish things have been said, a lot of hype has been said, and Christians should not be cheerleaders for Israel rebuilding the temple. If that was his point I agree with it.

On the other hand I agree with Watchman River that the Red Heifers are an important puzzle piece to the prophecies concerning the end of the age. I also agree that all Christians should know these prophecies and telling people to be quiet about them is not helpful, rather it helps the ignorant believers to be manipulated. Finally I think it is absurd to think that Israel searched worldwide for red heifers, brought five to Israel, inspected them and certified them, found the place they are are supposed to be sacrificed and sought out for a priest who had never set foot in a hospital or graveyard so they would be clean to perform the sacrifice if Israel is not planning on performing the sacrifice. Everything they have done tells you they are planning on doing it.
 

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