Laodicea
Shavuot takes place after 7 complete sabbaths. I have a hunch that these “seven complete sabbaths” refer to the believers going through the seven golden lampstands. I would compare this to graduation, you don’t graduate until you complete these seven exams. The rapture is our graduation. So then, if the rapture is imminent we must be in Laodicea or completing laodicea.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
This is what happens when the Lord tells you to leave and you don’t say Amen. This is what happens when you are willing to watch the faithful and true witness leave but you stay behind. This is what happens when you don’t have faith in the one who is the beginning of the creation of God. You are afraid to start from scratch, better just stay where you are even though it is dead.
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
This is the boastful, arrogant, and condescending church. In Pergamos others blasphemed them saying they were poor yet they were rich. When you return to your first love this is what you discover, those who the synagogue of Satan is blaspheming as poor it turns out are rich in faith. In Thyatira, those saints who made it through still holding to their first love, they were tried in the fire. In Sardis, those who walked in white with the Lord even though they got excommunicated for it, that is how you pay the price for white raiment. But these saints never did say Amen to the Lord, they made excuses for not being a faithful and true witness, choosing to be more pragmatic and diplomatic. And when it came to trusting in the Lord to make that leap they were faithless, not believing that He was the beginning of the creation of God.
For example many Christians are rebuking those of us who are examining the scriptures concerning the rapture saying that we are contradicting the established Bible teachers of the past. In other words they are rich, they have all knowledge, all wisdom, and in reality they are luke warm Christians. The ones who are hot for the Lord are saying amen, they trust that the Bible is the faithful and true witness and they are getting to know the one who is the beginning of the creation of God. We are seeing an entirely new doctrine, a new understanding of the prophecies.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
The Lord loves them, but they must be zealous and repent. The Christians who are rebuking us for examining the rapture are the ones that the Lord is rebuking for being luke warm.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
They have shut the door on the Lord and are ignoring Him even though He is outside knocking for them to open up to Him. We all have access to the internet, we can all open up to this word.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
How do you overcome? By the blood and by the word of your testimony. By saying Amen to the Lord, by being faithful and true to the Lord, and by trusting Him even if you have to lose everything. You have to overcome all the traditions of men, you have to be willing to “go where no Bible teacher has gone before”. You have to walk by faith, but there are those out there looking at the signs in the heavens despite the attack that this is “astrology” (it isn’t) and that it is prohibited by God (it isn’t, He is the one who gave the stars for signs). There are others who are taking apart the calendar and putting it back together again so we can all understand it. There are those looking at the types and shadows of the rapture and at the feasts. Finally, there are those looking at the prophecies like that of Daniel. The rapture is us sitting down with the Lord in His throne, it is us overcoming all the naysayers, all the attacks, all the doubts and unbelief.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
