Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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This verse in Jeremiah 30 is another major development. On the one hand when the saints get raptured out of them will proceed thanksgiving. This will be those who truly give 100% to the Lord in truth, like Barnabas. Meanwhile those who simply put on a show and hold some back for themselves, like Ananias and Saphira, they will be left behind during Thanksgiving in shock. I suspect the three days of darkness and the rapture will precede thanksgiving. So then the rapture will be the Lord's returning in glory like Palm Sunday. Jesus rode in on a donkey two thousand years ago, but this time He returns as the conquering king with His faithful army. Immediately after that you have the US dollar collapsing and three days of darkness. Then when the lights come back on all the food in the fridge and the freezer is thrown into the garbage including all those turkeys that would have been cooked for thanksgiving. Plus at that moment the Christmas songs begin playing on the radio and will be like rubbing salt into the wounds.

Also, if you look at what is happening around the world the globalists realize if they don't kill the Christians and Trump also, the whole world will follow them. AI and digital currency provides a way out of the catastrophe. If you can cut the cost of government by 90% which is possible with AI then the US debt is serviceable. Also, if you replace the US dollar with a digital currency you can control every single transaction. That eliminates the need for income tax. It can be replaced with sales tax. You eliminate tax fraud, collect more tax while also eliminating the IRS agents. Big profit on one hand, big savings on the other. This was the plan of the globalists. Therefore they cannot allow the Christians and Trump to do this, hence the need to crucify them. It is now or never.

But this is a major discovery concerning the time of the rapture. The raptured saints go into the Lord with Thanksgiving and three days later the left behind saints begin hearing Christmas songs that now sound like a dirge for an only son. God is the one that searches the hearts. Do not tell the Lord you love Him and Him only if it is not true. If your heart is divided between the Lord and the world, be honest, confess, repent, and pray for mercy and grace.
 

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I am reminded of something that Watchman Nee shared which I think was illustrated very well in recent events.

He talked about WW2 and said after the war there was a parade in Britain where all the people were cheering the soldiers who had fought in the war. Then at one point the cheering exploded and just became very loud. So he looked to see what had happened and that was when you could see all those who had been injured, lost a leg, or arm. Some were in wheelchairs, others were on crutches.

We might be going through things getting slandered, treated unfairly, cheated, lied to, robbed, etc. You may be wondering why does God allow this? So consider this election with Trump. He was slandered, impeached twice, even impeached when he was no longer President, and they used lawfare against him. Even if they couldn't convict him of crimes they could bankrupt him. Kamala's campaign spent 50% more on the campaign than his campaign did. You had people that he had helped betray him. They even tried to kill him twice. Even if they couldn't kill him they wanted him to stop giving his rallies. At the time this was unfair, but now that he has won it only adds to the glory of that victory. Think of the picture of him surrounded by secret service, blood is running down his face and he is pumping his fist in the air saying "fight, fight, fight".

I used to play football and I loved cold rainy days. On a cold rainy day you could wear extra padding. I didn't mind getting covered in mud. At the end of the game you could really see who had been in the trenches, in the war. Most people would be covered in mud on the front side, but not the backside. But if someone was covered in mud on their backside, that was funny. But the worst, the most pathetic was that one kid with the pristine uniform at the end of the game, not a speck of mud on it. It was clear to everyone he had not been in the battle. He had been a spectator. We don't want to be raptured with a uniform that reveals we were not in the war, that we were spectator Christians.
 

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Hebrews 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Jesus is the forerunner, He ran at the head of the pack, we are following Him. Like He said, if you want to follow Him you must take up your cross.

7 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

Think of Abraham and his army slaughtering the kings. That is what just happened with this election and now with all these others. There are men of faith in the FBI, in the military, in the DOJ. As a result we are seeing the slaughter take place before Trump even takes office.

2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness,

Everyone needs to remember that. First is "king of righteousness". Not "king of Love" or "King of inclusion" or whatever. If you don't have righteousness you will not have peace.

and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

But as soon as people see that righteousness prevails then you will very quickly have peace.
 

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I am wondering if this verse is a reference to the rapture

Hebrews 7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all

The word used for a "tenth part" is unique to the book of Hebrews, no other book in the Bible uses this greek word. The word is used four times in this chapter and that is the only use of it.

Abraham has a victory in a spiritual war (at least in typology) and then gives a thanksgiving offering to Melchizedek. This is certainly one of the days of Lot and can definitely be viewed as a reference to Thanksgiving.
 

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John 12:12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

I am looking at this portion as a paradigm of Trump's election victory. No doubt this section can be applied to many events whether personal in your life, or bigger events. Any time prayer is answered by God it might be analogous to this event. However, there have been thousands of Christians praying for the last four years.

13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Again, I would repeat, in the OT the kingdom of Israel was divided into a Northern kingdom of ten tribes and a Southern Kingdom of two tribes. Today I believe the kingdom of Israel is also divided with 49% of the world's Jews in Israel and 49% in the USA. Therefore this can certainly be applied to the election of the President of the US.

14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,

Technically you would not call Donald Trump "young". You can fairly call him an "ass". However, the MAGA movement is certainly a "young" movement. They are called deplorable, irredeemable and garbage. So I think it is fair to say that Jesus is riding on a "young ass" with this victory.

15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

This is the difference between the first coming and the second coming. In the first coming it was an "ass's colt. He was the lamb of God coming to be offered up. But in the second coming He is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. He comes with myriad of myriads of His army and they are riding on horses. In the same way this victory was no small feat. They spent close to $2 billion to defeat Trump, they threw everything they had at him from impeachments, to lawfare, to assassins. What they discovered is how much bigger and more powerful he was after four years. Likewise with Jesus the world will discover how much bigger and more powerful He is after two thousand years.

16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.

When you are in the midst of the battle it is very hard to understand, but reflect on what has happened after the victory and you can see the glory much clearer.

17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.

This is what we are now seeing, the testimony of those that were with Jesus when He called Trump out of the grave.

18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.

People love a winner and are attracted to a winner. A week ago Trump won a decisive victory. However, if you were to take a new poll today you would find that even more people support him today than did a week ago.

19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.

This is what we call the Left "melting down". They are fighting amongst each other, attacking each other. We have seen Pelosi attacking Biden over this, they will turn Biden into the scapegoat because they cannot admit that they themselves were wrong. This is their flaw, the fundamental reasons that people will not vote for them are the very things they cannot admit are wrong. The strategy of the left was not to win hearts and minds, rather it was to manipulate, gaslight, lie, steal and murder their way to power. Ultimately the only way they could stop Jesus was to crucify Him and rather than stop Him it released the Holy Spirit. This is what prompts the "tribulation" described in Revelation. The whole world will go after Jesus if the Antichrist doesn't do something and impose His reign with the mark of the beast, demanding people worship him, and killing those that worship Jesus.
 

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The Restrainer

I find it very interesting that Paul said that the Antichrist is not revealed until after the restrainer is removed. Many teach that the restrainer must be the Holy Spirit, but the Lord said He would never leave us nor forsake us, and that would certainly apply to the tribulation time and the tribulation saints. Others say it refers to the church, but if that is the case why wouldn't Paul just say the church? Others think it is the Body of Christ, another term Paul used, but certainly not here.

But if the apostasy must come first, and I do believe that at least one meaning of the apostasy is that Christian churches will forsake the Lord so that those who are approved can be manifested. Then we can certainly see that not all Churches will be restraining evil at the time of the Lord's return. Not every born again believer who is part of the Body of Christ will be restraining evil. You can say these are the spirit filled saints, but Paul didn't say that. He called them "the restrainer". Just because a church appears to be spirit filled, with a prevailing ministry, does not mean they are restraining evil.

I think Paul was being very specific, more specific than saying "spirit filled believers", much more specific than Body of Christ or "church". No, if you are going to be raptured you will be restraining evil.

I used to play football and understand very well that it is not just the defense that restrains the other side, it is also the offense. They have a saying that "the best defense is a good offense". I have seen some teams with a very good ground game and they dominate time of possession 2:1 over their opponent. So the enemy only gets half the playing time of their opponent. That means your defense is well rested.

So you can restrain evil by having a powerful ministry, by helping the church shepherd the saints and by spending time with the Lord. You must first restrain evil in your own life before you can impact the rest of the world. Pretty much any ministry that is a testimony of Jesus Christ would be a light that is shining in the dark and that light would restrain evil. But don't compromise. We all know that at times we must speak a word that is offensive. If we compromise then we aren't the restrainer, if we flinch then we aren't the restrainer.
 

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Stir up the fire and it will come right back to life

An example of these words is in 2 Timothy 1:6 "wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands."

This word translated "stir up" is only used this one time in the New Testament. If you have every worked with a campfire you know if you let a few big logs burn to ash overnight in the morning you can stir the fire up with some fresh kindling and it will once again come right back to life. I believe that this is critical to God's burden in 2 Timothy. It seems to me the words that are unique to each book would be a great study tool.
 

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Another example of unique words telling us a story

Another example is the word "forasmuch", the first word used in the gospel of Luke. It is somewhat ironic because Luke is saying many others are writing their accounts of the Lord's gospel ministry and since he also knows these things quite well he is also writing and yet that word is unique to him. He is not regurgitating what others have written.

Then he says "taken in hand" indicating that he has picked up this burden to. This word is not unique to the gospel of Luke but it is unique to the writer showing up only in Luke and Acts.

Then he says "to set forth in order" another word unique to Luke.

Then he says "a declaration" another word unique only to the gospel of Luke.

Consider the irony that he says since everyone else is doing this he is going to do it also and in that verse gives you four unique words. He makes it very clear that he has a unique perspective that will add to what we know and not simply regurgitate what others have already spoken.

1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

Contrast this with the word many which is used 365 times in 30 unique forms in the New Testament. That could be a coincidence but it seems like God is saying 365 days a year and 30 days a month people are having unique experiences of Jesus Christ and since others are sharing their testimony you should too.

It is easy to say that others are taking care of that, I don't need to, but then think of what we would have lost if we never got Luke's gospel.

This point is further emphasized in verse 2 where Luke says we are eyewitnesses. That word is also unique to Luke. But in a trial we would definitely want to hear from all the eyewitnesses.
 

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How old do you need to be to give a testimony of the Lord?

Luke 1:44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped G4640 in my womb for joy.

Luke 6:23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: G4640 for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

This word "leaped" is also unique to the gospel of Luke. You have a baby that has not even been born yet giving a testimony of the Lord.
 

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Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

A clear reference to the rapture of those who are restraining evil.


The Mystery of the Wolves from Ancient Times, the Occult, and Your Life | Jonathan Cahn Sermon

Adolf means "wolf" as in Adolf Hitler.
 

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The fundamental question for me about January 6th

4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

1. Have they answered the concerns about election fraud?

No.

2. Has the concern about election fraud gone away, diminished, or grown and gotten worse?

It has gotten worse.

3. Is this a trivial question or fundamental to our Republic?

It is fundamental to our Republic.

4. Is there a valid reason why they would not do audits for the election process in all 50 states?

No.

5. Are they being honest and transparent about this or are they being deceitful and gaslighting people?

They are being deceitful. People are asking for an audit and they tell them "they did a recount". Not the same thing, not even close to the same thing. They do not even allow people to examine the machines that count the votes. They don't do a canvass. They don't even present the ballots in some cases.

6. Has this issue been resolved now that Trump won?

No. Why is it that a week after the election they are still counting votes? This is brazenly corrupt.

7. Let's agree that 70 people behaved criminally during January 6th and the majority of those people were supporters of Trump. Does that mean that the 500,000 to 1,000,000 people at that rally behaved criminally?

No.

8. Does that mean that we can no longer raise the issue of election fraud?

No.

9. Should every supporter of Trump be castigated for what those 70 people did?

No.

So then why is this even an issue?

10. Was it a violent insurrection?

No.

11. Was it violent?

Not by the Trump supporters, but some hoodlums did break glass, and the police did kill at least one protestor.

12. Was it an insurrection?

No.

13. So then why is this relevant at all when talking about Trump supporters or election fraud?

Don't know, but that question needs to be answered as well.

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?

I feel that Election fraud is a huge issue that must be thoroughly dealt with before the election in 2026. Also, January 6th must be resolved. If it turns out that there was no election fraud in 2020 that would be one way to resolve it. But if the Dominion machines are fraudulent, if there are missing ballots, if crimes were committed this must all be made public and every single person involved in slandering and attacking those who called for righteousness must be dealt with according to righteous judgment.

7 But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
 

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All things were made by him

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

This is my view of prophecy. When God speaks there is a creative power in that speaking and so all things are made by that word. As a result God tells us the end from the beginning. You can be jealous of God, or intimidated, or in awe. But ultimately you should be excited to be born again and to be indwelt by that word with the opportunity to speak the word of God yourself.

So now consider the New Testament. That is the word of God. When that word was spoken don't you think that word had the creative power and that all things were created by that word? To me prophecy is not evidence of fate, rather it is evidence that God is the creator.

This brings me to the Bible code. If you are not familiar with this then you probably have a misconception. This does not mean that there is a hidden code in the word of God with some new revelation. What happened is that the Rabbis noticed certain skip sequence codes in the Torah. Think of it as a watermark to prove that it is the word of God. If you remove just one letter you can erase these skip sequences so it proves this is God's word and not some distortion. But then we invented computers and a guy who works as a code breaker applied the computer software to the Bible. At first they wondered if the names of certain rabbis would be hidden in this skip sequence code and they were. Many people can share the same name so they would look for the names of their wives, children, parents, year of birth, and city of birth. Sure enough they found all of it in the same location and interconnected. So they looked at a few other books, War and Peace, the unabridged Dictionary, Encyclopedias, etc and they could not find the same thing. So they wanted to publish an article on their findings in a very prestigious journal on statistical analysis. They were told they would only publish if they could get a world famous atheist who was also a famous statistician to coauthor the piece. He said he would if they checked 1 million other books. It took them a few years but they did and so they published the fact that an extraordinary skip sequence was hidden within scripture including the names of people who had yet been born.

But then someone thought, what about famous people like Hitler and Mao and FDR? Are they there? Sure enough they found them as well. After finding another 200 famous people someone tried their own name and it was there as well. So they offered a service online, for a small fee they would find your name. So I decided I wanted to do this because I felt the Bible verses where my name showed up would be significant to me (and they were). So they asked for my full name (17 letters) the name of my mother, father and wife (16 more letters) the name of my son, daughter, year and day of birth and location (another 13 letters). That is 42 letters in total all showing up in the same location and all intersecting with my name. The odds of that being random was 22 raised to the 42nd power. But I also had them do this for my son and daughter. When you throw in another thousand or so people who have done this the odds are so ridiculously unbelievable that the only explanation is that it wasn't chance, rather it was what John said, all things came into being through the word of God. Then you can also find other terms and historical events.

So then, lets apply this to the Lord's word concerning the rapture. Every word spoken has creative power that is causing people and events to come into being. When the Lord said no one knows but His Father, He said that prior to the entire New Testament being given. This tells me that the event is in the New Testament and had not been spoken out in the Old Testament yet. Of course the idea was, the shadow of the rapture can be seen, but God calls not being as being and Jesus was telling us that God had not called that particular not being as being yet. The resurrection and ascension of Jesus had been spoken into existence already, but not the rapture of the saints.

The church was given a holy convocation, that is the Lord's table. The Lord's table was instituted on a Wednesday, then it was celebrated by those of us who celebrated Jesus' resurrection on the Lord's day. Since then it has been a dress rehearsal for us. We remember Jesus as our Passover, we remember Jesus as the firstborn from among the dead, we remember that the church age is an age of eating unleavened bread, removing all the corrupting influence of the world from our house. We share the word given to us, remembering the feast of Shavuot, we remember the Holy Spirit given to us, celebrating Pentecost, and we examine ourselves if we are in the Lord, celebrating the Day of atonement. Ultimately we are brought to the wedding feast during the Lord's table, celebrating the feast of tabernacles.
 

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It is time to leave. The game is over. Someone else will be cleaning up.

I had a dream this morning. I had specifically prayed to the Lord to give me some direction in this blog and the current situation.

In this dream I am watching a football game though my vantage point was from the midst of the field so I felt I was playing. I watch someone that I did not know execute a finely run pass pattern, he was very well defended, the pass was a very tight, accurate spiral, and I was impressed that he was able to catch it with such tight defense. To me the entire play was at the NFL skill level. But then the game was over. There was something to clean up but I had no time, I got on my bicycle to leave. Riding on my bicycle reminded me of when I was in Junior HS.

I have used my experiences from that time especially playing football as an analogy to what is going on now and so I think this dream was referencing that. I think the football game was a reference to the blog. So although I had been using the analogy of a Pee Wee football team before, this was not Pee Wee (we did not have a passing game -- our entire offense was a ground game and the only times we did throw passes was simply for fun when the game was over). Leaving without helping clean up bothered me in the dream and I was leaving the guy who caught the pass to clean up. I think this is a reference to the left behind saints.

I think the point of the dream was an answer to my prayer for direction. It is time to leave. The game is over. Someone else will be cleaning up.
 

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dM18beTF9Jka3w8XUk10ARkI-cYnltH5/view?usp=sharing

A Letter to those left behind after the rapture

I based most of my letter on the Gospel according to Mark and the Book of Acts.

We are at war -- our enemies are already destroying our communications satellites.

Because of this the internet could go down at any time.

Therefore I expect this forum and especially this blog will be censored and unavailable. As a result I have created these Pdfs. I recommend you download them to a computer or flash drive. This is not because of my interpretation of the word but rather because these all are filled with the word of God. If you are using an online Bible you will greatly appreciate having something like this. Plus, for those who are newly saved it will be an example of how you can read the Bible.

I have made about 120 posts since the last time I posted these and we have had about 10,000 new visitors to the site. These are here for anyone to download. In a very short time frame the internet will be fully censored of material on the Bible.

Index of Bible References volumes 1-4

I would have done this for all of them but ran out of time. However, it does help those who are interested in a particular verse to find the verse and what is said about it. One reason I did this was so I could look for verses that had not been referenced.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GHtGI9hLkPKgoqvlAI73u-NCB0KUn-Nj/view?usp=sharing

This is a reference of Bible verses in these four volumes.

Look Up, Your Redemption Draws Near (volume 1)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JvGt0moH2kzWMqdxBiO73Gaj7UxxqvfD/view?usp=sharing

Look Up, Your Redemption Draws Near (volume 2)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eAIgnWSGMkVw_Fawa_dbXyJTi1yOWwks/view?usp=sharing

Look Up, Your Redemption Draws Near (volume 3)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dg9eD4It_H1V8XCMuAc7Im8G2UfuvEjV/view?usp=sharing

Look Up, Your Redemption Draws Near (volume 4)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RwFhRsl7Ww5ZAn1C3ro7VrNCo5baWqPN/view?usp=sharing

Look up your redemption draws near (vol 5)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/160buxQxCAsHjuN7qfTVY7dOQft8VA4L_/view?usp=sharing

Look up your redemption draws near (vol 6)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ewv-l-yh4A2KRcPnQmOJB_51S1HQ095X/view?usp=sharing

Look up, your redemption draws nigh (vol. 7)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l7FBpjTk2NNVgYBAATm-3Th3rfeXEDhG/view?usp=sharing

Look Up, Your Redemption Draws Near (8)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OkRHsPs36DZ-gFO-UgGUj-mVa63TI1vR/view?usp=sharing

Look Up, Your Redemption Draws Near (9)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xECKmu-anfa0J_Sxn9ysUtpQSG2HVvtt/view?usp=sharing

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;

Finally, I have been locked out of this Gmail account where these are all posted. So I suspect very shortly these will be taken down as well. However, I have accessed them this morning so they are still up.