Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

Luke 13:1 There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

This is the mistake we make. We look at what has happened to those in Ukraine and don't realize it is a warning to all of us. What has happened to them will happen to all of us who don't repent. Same thing with the people in Gaza, the problem is not that they are sinners more than the rest. We all suffer from this desire to avenge ourselves.

So let's look at the things they needed to repent of.

1. In Ukraine there was a warning for over a month that Russia was about to invade and yet many simply ignored the warning until it was too late. How many have ignored the warning about the Day of the Lord being at hand ever since the global pandemic?

2. In Gaza many people were not "Hamas" but they knew they were running Gaza, they knew they were putting their headquarters under schools and hospitals. If you see evil and do nothing about it, well you will suffer the consequences. So yes, many in Gaza may not be actively involved in terrorism, but how many did something to stop it? Even if you say it is impossible for many of them to do anything, they would be killed. Fine, how many saw the evil, understood the consequences, and left Gaza to live somewhere else? Let's be honest, in the US you may have seen the evil concerning the Vaccine mandate, or you may have seen the evil concerning the border invasion, or you may have seen the evil concerning this LGBTQ+ push. Did you take a stand? Did you flee the evil that is to come?

3. And what fuels this hatred. In Gaza there is a very big propaganda effort against Israel calling them the aggressors and the ones committing genocide. This is based in many cases on things that have happened to you, your family, and your friends. I am not disputing the fact that the war has been ugly and the offenses have multiplied. This is true all over the world. In the US we had the mortgage meltdown, the behavior of the banks was criminal. What they did to millions of Americans was a crime that should have been prosecuted and wasn't. I would also argue that the investigation of 911 was not a proper investigation but looked much more like a cover up than an investigation. Likewise the Iraq wars do not look like a genuine response to 911 but rather a rush to judgment as though 911 was a false flag event designed to manipulate the US into war with Iraq, into writing a blank check to the military to build robots and drones, and also to willingly give the US government power to spy on everyone with the Patriot act. I don't doubt that the US government, or more specifically individuals in powerful positions, are very corrupt. They are operating on their own agenda and don't care how much of the taxpayers money they spend to achieve it, nor do they care how many American citizens go and die and are damaged in a war. However, the warning is that "as you have done it will be done to you". It is not our job to take revenge, we are told very clearly in the New Testament "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord".

What we need to do is to repent. Why were we so self righteous that we thought we could simply bomb and kill innocent civilians on the other side of the globe? We knew from 911 that if someone does that to us we will pay any price to hunt them down and kill them. Why would you think it is any different for the people on the other side of the globe. They know who the drones belong to that fire missiles into funeral and wedding parties. Think about all of our westerns, the movies that depict some atrocity being perpetrated, a little kid survives and then twenty years later he has grown up and comes looking for the guy who killed his pa. Well, it has been twenty years.

Luke 13:6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

The context of this is the fruit of repentance. We have seen the invasion of Ukraine, did we repent? That invasion was in January 2022, three years later was January 2025. The Lord is talking about cutting down this tree because He is not seeing any repentance in Europe. So this parable tells us that the invasion of Europe is at hand. The situation with Gaza was in 2023, this is telling us about repentance in the Middle East and Israel. So then the judgment on the Mideast and Israel being cut down will likely be in 2028. In 2021 we had a stolen election in the US and they had an illegal mandate of an experimental vaccine. Anyone repent for that? This will likely lead to the US being cut down in 2025.

Luke 13:10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. 15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

Let us consider 18 years ago in the US, that was 2007, the beginning of the subprime mortgage crisis.

1. In 1992 we had new rules for Fannie and Freddie, the two government housing programs. They were required to devote more lending to affordable housing, ie subprime mortgages.

2. Two years later in 1994 we see the first credit default swaps being sold. The idea is that banks don't want to make bad loans because when people can't pay they suffer loss. They are very good at calculating that. However, they created these subprime loans so that the people would be able to pay for the first five years and then they would pull the rug out from under them. They then packaged thousands of these loans into one instrument which they sold to pension funds telling them that the percent of people defaulting on mortgage loans is very small, 1-2% and so these were very low risk and yet paid very high interest. As a result the banks made money selling these mortgages and then they sold them to investment banks who then sold them to pension funds. So when they did go bust they were no longer holding the bag.

3. In 1995 this subprime mortgage market takes off because by law lenders had to have a certain amount of subprime lending and buying these credit default swaps fulfilled their legal obligation.

4. However, because they were buying subprime mortgages they were running afoul of the Glass Steagall Act which was put in place after the great depression to prevent a wide scale bank collapse again. In 1999 Bill Clinton weakened the act allowing banks to act like brokerages and in 2000 he exempted credit default swaps from banking regulation. At the same time the dot com bubble burst and the fed lowered interest rates.

5. If you understand what arbitrage is, it means a bank can borrow money at a low interest rate and then loan it at a higher interest rate. Imagine with every single mortgage you wrote you could make 1% on that transaction. You loan 300k, you make 3k. You loan 3,000 K you make 30k, you loan 300,000K you make 3,000 K. The banks went wild. They came up with something called a NINJA morgage. No income No Job. Anyone who wants to buy a house is qualified. It is a balloon mortgage, the first five years are very affordable and then the monthly payment doubles. Imagine you have this big beautiful house and you pay 2k a month for the mortgage. It is tough, but you are investing for the future, so you scrimp, you do what it takes each month to make that payment. Then after 5 years, after making 60 payments of 2k to the bank, they now tell you that you owe them 4k a month. You can't make the payments and so they foreclose and take the house back. The bank keeps the 120k you paid them. They paint the walls, replace the carpet, and sell the house again. The bank is not worried about you going bankrupt because they get the 120k and then they get to resell the house. Granted, the bank that sold this mortgage then sold it to an investment bank a few weeks later, so they have no worries. Likewise the investment bank sold it to a pension fund and they have no worries. Because they do understand that although people have paid their mortgages in the past, that is all about to change when these new mortgages balloon. In the past there were strict banking laws requiring that you don't sell a mortgage to someone who can't afford it. That has changed. There were also strict rules that prevented banks from being over leveraged (loaning too much money) but not anymore, those restrictions were removed in 2004.

6. So guess what happened in 2007? The housing bubble burst. All of those rule changes led to more and more houses being sold and built and the housing market taking off. But then, after 16 years you see the housing bubble collapse, that is when the people with these mortgages went bust. When bankruptcies increase people are not stupid, they realize you can get a deal, buy a house that is in bankruptcy at a discount. One year later in 2008 Lehman brothers goes bust, that is seventeen years after these rules went into effect. Then in 2009 Obama uses tax payer money to bail out the banks, so now even taxpayers who did not get involved in this greed and covetousness must pay the price. That is 18 years after the rules "loosing" the banks to commit this crime began. Releasing criminals to steal is equivalent to binding the woman.

But now look who is complaining? The religious leaders. They are useless shepherds, they are hypocrites. They were the ones who were supposed to see the wolves coming in to devour widows houses and to put a stop to it.

So this woman begins to stand up straight and be released in 2007. On the one hand you go bankrupt, the bank gets the house back and you realize you have been played. On the other hand you are now released from that and are all the wiser. So now we see the Tea party rise, why? They realize they were lied to about 911 and their kids were sent to fight a bogus war to make rich people richer. They realize the government is not protecting them from predatory banks. The tea party grew into the MAGA movement with Trump. It is simply a populist uprising against the corrupt regime. It has been 18 years since 2007 when those mortgages that never should have been given all started going bust.

Luke 13:18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? 19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it. 20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? 21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

The context of this chapter is that if you don't repent you will all likewise perish. If you see that the government was corrupt, that is not the goal, the goal is to see what your mistake was that you need to repent from. It doesn't do me any good to say this guy lied and deceived me. I need to take this the next step to "the reason I fell for it was this, and therefore I need to repent of that so I don't fall for it again".

Our first problem is our desire for mustard. We love to have flavor on our food. Why do people spend $200 on a meal they could make for $50 at home? What is the appeal of these fancy restaurants and five star chefs? They make the food taste delicious. The next thing you know a little humble shrub has become a great tree with all these fowls of the air lodged in the branches. We now need people to go and try the food and then review it and tell us where the best restaurants are. This is just an analogy. It is the same with our news, we have experts on the TV who make the news taste good, the term is "if it bleeds it leads". They are truly experts in manipulating people and they are daily looking at the ratings to determine how effective they are. The word of God is likened to a seed sown in the ground and these fowls of the air are likened to demons and foul spirits that steal that word. Next thing you know you have exchanged a healthy meal for a McDonald's happy meal. After that happens you have 35 year old men dying from heart attacks.

This is the analogy, who is making your food, what are you eating every day? The same giant corporations who you pay to make your food have a vested interest in making sure you don't make your own food and they are hiding stuff in the food that you eat. Again, this is an analogy, the Lord said that we do not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds forth from God. Their goal is to make sure you do not live by any word that proceeds forth from God but only by words that proceed forth from them.

Luke 13:22 And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

The context is Jews, all of whom are sons of Abraham.

24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Once again, when He says that many will seek to enter, we are not talking about unbelievers. They are not seeking to enter. There is this pervasive teaching that has spread throughout all of Christianity, like the leaven the woman hid in the three measures of meal until it was all leavened that all Christians are going to saved.

25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.

So these are people who attend church and listen to sermons.

27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

Consider the US, a Christian nation, and all the iniquity this country is guilty of. We invade countries accusing them of crimes they didn't commit. We bomb weddings that are thousands of miles away from the US filled with people who didn't have the slightest concern about the US until you killed their families. The CIA uses the drug trade to finance clandestine operations. The US is the biggest destination for human traffickers. Our corporations infect all nations and take advantage of them. To call the US "workers of iniquity" is appropriate. Perhaps these are bankers or politicians or lawyers or others working for multinational corporations asking the Lord to open up to them.

28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

Abraham lived a life of the altar and the tent. Let's be real, most Christians in Christianity do not live that life. Isaac was a child of promise, most Christians have not had that experience. Jacob was transformed into Israel, a prince of God. How many Christians in Christianity have been transformed into a prince of God?

29 And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. 30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

No, most of those in Christianity are "first" they are not "last". They are the "head" not the "tail". They are the ones getting their feet washed, not the ones washing the feet. There is no way to twist this word to say anything other than Jesus is talking about Christians in Christianity being locked out of the rapture. This doesn't mean they lose their salvation. Being last doesn't mean going to hell, just means you don't sit at the seat of honor. If we have a marathon race, coming in last doesn't mean you go to hell, you are still running the race and you still finished the course.

Luke 13:31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.

The same day as what? According to the context Jesus was talking about the rapture and some being locked out where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. We are talking about the Day of the Lord. After the rapture the Antichrist and the beast system will seek to kill Christians.

32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

During the tribulation Jesus will do many miracles, He will cast out devils, He will do cures and on the third day (third year) you will see the two witnesses raised from the dead and ascend to heaven.

Again, even being last in this race is filled with glory. If you can finish the race that is what really matters.

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Fruit worthy of repentance

Luke 13 begins by saying these horrible crimes happened to people not because they were worse sinners but as a warning to others. The warning was that you would repent of your sins otherwise you would perish in the same way.

So let's think about what fruit worthy of repentance means.

I am going to use the example of rape. A woman get's raped, that is not because she is a worse sinner than you, but rather it is a warning to you that unless you repent you also will suffer the same fate. So then, let's assume I was raped, how could I repent? Perhaps going forward I would carry pepper spray. Perhaps when I think about what happened I think "if I only had pepper spray it would have been different". Or perhaps I will no longer go to a bar alone. Maybe someone put a date rape drug in my drink. So I make sure I go with friends who are going to watch my back. However, as I start to think about it I realize there are many ways in which I could be raped, my one experience is only one of those ways. So I read books. I then learn that many predators get away with this because women are afraid to come forward. So I volunteer in support groups to help encourage women to come forward and testify. But in the end no way is foolproof. There is no such thing as a silver bullet. Two ways are better than one, three are better than two.

So let's look at this in another way which will be even simpler to understand. Suppose you live in Australia and you love to surf but you don't want to be a victim of a shark attack. There are things you can do, you can go surfing in a group, you can pay attention to any warnings of sharks in the area, but in the end, surfing raises the chances of a shark attack. For most people we understand that, simply stay away from the water where sharks go. But for someone who loves to surf that is offensive.

When I was in NYC you would always read about someone being killed by a gang or by the mafia. People thought NYC was dangerous. But i knew that most of those killings took place at a bar at 2am. Stay away from bars at 2am and NYC is much, much safer.

The same is true of bars, avoid going to bars to find a date and you are much less likely of being raped. Now for people who don't go to bars that is easy advice to receive, but for those to whom this is where they like to hang out on the weekend that is offensive.

My point is that true repentance will include many things. You will now treat the risk of this happening with much more respect and not treat it as a joke. You will purchase items and take steps to make sure it does not happen again. You will have empathy for those who have suffered from this and will now look to help them rather than be self righteous. But in the end there will be a sanctification, you will realize that shark attacks only happen in waters infested with sharks and you will avoid those places. The Bible if filled with warnings that people mock and scoff at until it happens to them. Think about Job, he was righteous, the attack did not come because he wasn't righteous. No for some reason he had allowed the hedge of protection to be dropped.

When God first told Satan that Job was this great guy he should consider Satan's response was I can't touch him because you, God, have put a hedge of protection around him. When we have a covenant with God it includes a hedge of protection. But then Job must have done something that permitted God to say, fine, I'll remove the hedge of protection up to a point. That is something that unbelievers will mock and scoff at. But when you realize this happened to you, somehow your hedge of protection was removed just like Samson waking up and realizing his strength was gone because they had shaved his head, then you will repent. You will weep and gnash your teeth at your stupidity and you will bring forth fruit worthy of repentance to get that hedge of protection from God back.

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