Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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For those who love the Lord's appearing
This is only for those who love the Lord's appearing. It is quite similar to the recent Pdfs I have posted but I have added a few things so that it is now 94 pages.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xJTvILxnEKuTJwly7GevmvogKQOkYSNq/view?usp=sharing
Anyway, do not read this if you are one of those servants that say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
This is only for those who love the Lord's appearing. It is quite similar to the recent Pdfs I have posted but I have added a few things so that it is now 94 pages.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xJTvILxnEKuTJwly7GevmvogKQOkYSNq/view?usp=sharing
Anyway, do not read this if you are one of those servants that say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
Get to the point -- what are you saying?
I am saying that we have one appointed feast, one dress rehearsal for our rapture date and that is the Lord’s table. When this day was initiated it was divided into two days, the Lord’s table prior to the crucifixion for those who have already taken up their cross and followed the Lord and the Lord’s table on the day of resurrection for those who are left behind after the resurrection. The Lord’s table is a holy convocation that includes both those who are raptured and those who are left behind. We are also told by Paul in the New Testament that just as there is a table to worship the Lord there is also a table of demons. We know that Satan copies everything God does, and so there is a dress rehearsal by the demons for their table. They have a dress rehearsal for the thief coming in the night to betray Jesus like Judas did. They also have a dress rehearsal for the three days of darkness when Jesus is placed in the tomb. This includes the demons walking the streets after the fallen angels have been cast to earth. When Jesus was crucified He said “My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?” That is the cry of the left behind saints after the Spirit filled saints are raptured. Paul told us the answer, you can’t partake of the table of the Lord and the table of the demons. You can’t be compromised. You can’t be on the fence. So then, simply ask yourself what day is a dress rehearsal for this? Obviously it is Halloween. Every holiday has two sides to it, the table of the Lord and the table of demons except for this one. This one is fully given to Satan. Thanksgiving would be the table of the Lord but it is followed by Black friday, table of demons. Christmas eve is given to the worship of the Lord (by some), but Christmas morning is the table of demons. The same thing with Easter. Memorial day. Labor day and July 4th can all be spent in reverence to the Lord or to demons. Only Halloween is a holiday where there is no justification for a Christian to be celebrating that day. Halloween is a day for people to wear a mask, it is a celebration for hypocrites. Your choice, you can keep the table of the Lord, or you can keep the table of demons, you cannot do both.
I am saying that we have one appointed feast, one dress rehearsal for our rapture date and that is the Lord’s table. When this day was initiated it was divided into two days, the Lord’s table prior to the crucifixion for those who have already taken up their cross and followed the Lord and the Lord’s table on the day of resurrection for those who are left behind after the resurrection. The Lord’s table is a holy convocation that includes both those who are raptured and those who are left behind. We are also told by Paul in the New Testament that just as there is a table to worship the Lord there is also a table of demons. We know that Satan copies everything God does, and so there is a dress rehearsal by the demons for their table. They have a dress rehearsal for the thief coming in the night to betray Jesus like Judas did. They also have a dress rehearsal for the three days of darkness when Jesus is placed in the tomb. This includes the demons walking the streets after the fallen angels have been cast to earth. When Jesus was crucified He said “My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?” That is the cry of the left behind saints after the Spirit filled saints are raptured. Paul told us the answer, you can’t partake of the table of the Lord and the table of the demons. You can’t be compromised. You can’t be on the fence. So then, simply ask yourself what day is a dress rehearsal for this? Obviously it is Halloween. Every holiday has two sides to it, the table of the Lord and the table of demons except for this one. This one is fully given to Satan. Thanksgiving would be the table of the Lord but it is followed by Black friday, table of demons. Christmas eve is given to the worship of the Lord (by some), but Christmas morning is the table of demons. The same thing with Easter. Memorial day. Labor day and July 4th can all be spent in reverence to the Lord or to demons. Only Halloween is a holiday where there is no justification for a Christian to be celebrating that day. Halloween is a day for people to wear a mask, it is a celebration for hypocrites. Your choice, you can keep the table of the Lord, or you can keep the table of demons, you cannot do both.
Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
This verse has always bothered me because the Bible does not waste words. Eating and drinking is not sinful, why is the Lord using this to describe those destroyed by the flood? You might think that this indicates they are clueless, but I am not clueless and I just ate breakfast. Even Noah and his family had to eat and drink.
On the one hand it could refer to the great sacrifice to Dagon when Samson pushed out the pillars. It could refer to the Israelites that were worshipping the golden calf by first eating and drinking and then rising up to play.
That to me is the point. They are eating those things that are sacrificed to idols. Halloween candy is a sacrifice to idols.
This verse has always bothered me because the Bible does not waste words. Eating and drinking is not sinful, why is the Lord using this to describe those destroyed by the flood? You might think that this indicates they are clueless, but I am not clueless and I just ate breakfast. Even Noah and his family had to eat and drink.
On the one hand it could refer to the great sacrifice to Dagon when Samson pushed out the pillars. It could refer to the Israelites that were worshipping the golden calf by first eating and drinking and then rising up to play.
That to me is the point. They are eating those things that are sacrificed to idols. Halloween candy is a sacrifice to idols.
Consider the people who have been saved and make up the Body of Christ, they are every kind of sinner. This is God's plan, why would He make such a plan?
I was reminded of this kid from New Rochelle that I grew up with. I was in the town next door and we heard he was flying around the country for free pretending to be a pilot. He even pretended to be a substitute teacher at his school for a week. They made a movie about him, Catch me if you can. But the point of the movie was that because he was a counterfeiter, he was skilled at catching counterfeiters. This is why the government hires hackers. When a sinner repents and gets saved it is like someone who recovers from a viral infection, their body is now immune to that particular virus. We are being trained to rule and to reign with Christ and that means we need to be able to give others immunity to all the various diseases and attacks of the enemy.
2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
This answers that question "why does God allow bad things to happen". In the gospels Jesus said He healed people of infirmities as proof that they had been forgiven of their sins. When you are praying for someone who is sick let them know that they have been forgiven of their sins and that if they want proof simply confess the sin they want assurance of having been forgiven of and when God heals them that will be their proof.
James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
The biggest sin we need to be forgiven of is unbelief. So the very act of calling for the elders to pray for him because he is sick, that act alone is the basis for God to heal. Pastors are resigning because no one wants to listen to them. This is why the Lord has given this promise, "the prayer of faith shall save the sick". That will put an end to the debates and arguments. The church right now has this terrible virus of rebellion. This is the cure.
I was reminded of this kid from New Rochelle that I grew up with. I was in the town next door and we heard he was flying around the country for free pretending to be a pilot. He even pretended to be a substitute teacher at his school for a week. They made a movie about him, Catch me if you can. But the point of the movie was that because he was a counterfeiter, he was skilled at catching counterfeiters. This is why the government hires hackers. When a sinner repents and gets saved it is like someone who recovers from a viral infection, their body is now immune to that particular virus. We are being trained to rule and to reign with Christ and that means we need to be able to give others immunity to all the various diseases and attacks of the enemy.
2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
This answers that question "why does God allow bad things to happen". In the gospels Jesus said He healed people of infirmities as proof that they had been forgiven of their sins. When you are praying for someone who is sick let them know that they have been forgiven of their sins and that if they want proof simply confess the sin they want assurance of having been forgiven of and when God heals them that will be their proof.
James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
The biggest sin we need to be forgiven of is unbelief. So the very act of calling for the elders to pray for him because he is sick, that act alone is the basis for God to heal. Pastors are resigning because no one wants to listen to them. This is why the Lord has given this promise, "the prayer of faith shall save the sick". That will put an end to the debates and arguments. The church right now has this terrible virus of rebellion. This is the cure.
27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.
Resurrection is a three day journey, Jesus was the first fruit, the church’s rapture at the end of the age is the harvest. Pharaoh does deal deceitfully. That was his choice, he was warned not to, but as a result he and his entire army were swallowed up in the Red Sea. It will be the same at the end of this age. But a three day journey from what? From the idol worship and the hypocrisy and the lawlessness. If the rapture takes place on October 30th, then the Lord’s day will be three days from that idolatry, hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Resurrection is a three day journey, Jesus was the first fruit, the church’s rapture at the end of the age is the harvest. Pharaoh does deal deceitfully. That was his choice, he was warned not to, but as a result he and his entire army were swallowed up in the Red Sea. It will be the same at the end of this age. But a three day journey from what? From the idol worship and the hypocrisy and the lawlessness. If the rapture takes place on October 30th, then the Lord’s day will be three days from that idolatry, hypocrisy and lawlessness.
James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
These two words that are translated "sick" in english are two different words.
In Verse 14 it is astheneo "to lack strength, to be weak, sick," is translated "were diseased" in Jhn 6:2, AV (RV, "were sick").
In Verse 15 it is kamno. Faint: primarily signified "to work;" then, as the effect of continued labor, "to be weary;" it is used in Hbr 12:3, of becoming "weary" (see also No. 1), RV, "wax not weary;" in Jam 5:15, of sickness; some mss. have it in Rev 2:3, AV, "hast (not) fainted," RV, "grown weary."
In other words when someone is sick you pray for them, call the elders and anoint them with oil. Now if you pray the prayer of faith in the Lord it isn't just the sick person who gets healed. This can rejuvenate your own Christian life. Perhaps you are faint or wearied, maybe you have some shortcomings that you are praying about. This prayer of faith for someone else is an opportunity for you as well as for them.
The word for save is the word for Heal, Healing: "to save," is translated by the verb "to heal" in the AV of Mar 5:23; Luk 8:36 (RV, "to make whole;" so AV frequently); the idea is that of saving from disease and its effects.
The person you are praying for may be healed but you also may be made whole. I have had several experiences of this and it is always an experience that invigorates me, that makes many people whole, not just the one who is sick.
These two words that are translated "sick" in english are two different words.
In Verse 14 it is astheneo "to lack strength, to be weak, sick," is translated "were diseased" in Jhn 6:2, AV (RV, "were sick").
In Verse 15 it is kamno. Faint: primarily signified "to work;" then, as the effect of continued labor, "to be weary;" it is used in Hbr 12:3, of becoming "weary" (see also No. 1), RV, "wax not weary;" in Jam 5:15, of sickness; some mss. have it in Rev 2:3, AV, "hast (not) fainted," RV, "grown weary."
In other words when someone is sick you pray for them, call the elders and anoint them with oil. Now if you pray the prayer of faith in the Lord it isn't just the sick person who gets healed. This can rejuvenate your own Christian life. Perhaps you are faint or wearied, maybe you have some shortcomings that you are praying about. This prayer of faith for someone else is an opportunity for you as well as for them.
The word for save is the word for Heal, Healing: "to save," is translated by the verb "to heal" in the AV of Mar 5:23; Luk 8:36 (RV, "to make whole;" so AV frequently); the idea is that of saving from disease and its effects.
The person you are praying for may be healed but you also may be made whole. I have had several experiences of this and it is always an experience that invigorates me, that makes many people whole, not just the one who is sick.