Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Genesis 25:29-34 Esau makes fun of his birthright


Genesis 2529 Jacob had cooked [reddish-brown lentil] stew [one day], when Esau came from the field and was famished; 30 and Esau said to Jacob, “Please, let me have a quick swallow of that red stuff there, because I am exhausted and famished.” For that reason Esau was [also] called Edom (Red). 31 Jacob answered, “First sell me your [l]birthright (the rights of a firstborn).” 32 Esau said, “Look, I am about to die [if I do not eat soon]; so of what use is this birthright to me?” 33 Jacob said, “Swear [an oath] to me today [that you are selling it to me for this food]”; so he swore [an oath] to him, and sold him his birthright. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and got up and went on his way. In this way Esau scorned his birthright.

There are two ways to interpret this, either Esau is telling the truth, he is at death’s door, and if he doesn’t get this meal he dies of starvation, or else Esau is just making a joke. You see Christians do this, they get invited to a party and in order to fit in they tell jokes or curse like Peter did when the maid said she thought he was a disciple of the Lord. Now if Esau truly was at death’s door it is hard to believe he would be working in the field prior to collapsing from starvation, it is even harder to believe that God would say He loved Jacob who was toying with his brother’s life. Whatever happened to being "my brother’s keeper”? I think it is safe to conclude that Esau who was always described as being very robust, was not at death’s door, rather this was a joke “hey, I’m starved, what good will my birthright be I die of starvation, pass the beans”.

There are Christians who treat their birthright as a joke or as Hebrews put it, they despised their birthright. Is there anything more important to you than your relationship to Jesus Christ? If so you can be sure that God hates that.
 

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Isaiah 64 O Lord, will you humiliate us beyond measure?

1 Oh, that You would tear open the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence— 2 As [sure as] fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil— To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence! 3 When You did awesome and amazing things which we did not expect, You came down [at Sinai]; the mountains quaked at Your presence. 4 For from days of old no one has heard, nor has ear perceived, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who works and acts in behalf of the one who [gladly] waits for Him. 5 You meet him who rejoices in doing that which is morally right, Who remembers You in Your ways. Indeed, You were angry, for we sinned; We have long continued in our sins [prolonging Your anger].
And shall we be saved [under such circumstances]?

When the Lord returns He will find the believers in one of two situations. There will be those who rejoice in keeping His word, who remember His ways and there will be those who are living in sin.

6 For we all have become like one who is [ceremonially] unclean [like a leper], And all our deeds of righteousness are like filthy rags; We all wither and decay like a leaf, And our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing], like the wind, takes us away [carrying us far from God’s favor, toward destruction].

We use rags to mop up the floor, in the same way we use our good works to try and mop up our sins. Is that really any different from some Mafia kingpin donating money to the catholic church to give the impression he is a good guy or some serial killer having a phony life as a “cover story”? No one is actually dealing with the sin they are simply hoping the good works will soak up the blood and guts. If you are not attached to the vine you wither and die and the wind blows you away. Right now you should be praying for the Lord’s soon return, you should be praying that His name would be magnified among the nations, you should be calling to mind all His great works. If you aren’t it is a real sign that you have dried up and are about to be blown away. Do not trust in your good deeds “but I am a good person with a good heart”. Are your sins washed away? Are you white as snow?

7 There is no one who calls on Your name, Who awakens and causes himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have handed us over to the [consuming and destructive] power of our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]. Are you calling on the Lord? When you awake are you turning to the Lord? 8 Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our Potter, And we all are the work of Your hand. 9 Do not be angry beyond measure, O Lord, Do not remember our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing] forever. Now look, consider, for we are all Your people.

Forgiveness means that God forgets our sins. Now, all of these are God’s people, both those who are calling on His name, turning to Him when they awake and rejoicing in His coming as well as those who are dried up like dead leaves.

10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

We are about to see this happen and it is clearly for the goal of causing people to repent and turn to the Lord. Last year China suffered terrible floods and had to buy a lot of food on the world market to feed their people. That made things tougher on the developing countries but the hope was that this year they would have a bumper crop. Instead the floods are every bit as bad this year. This will be catastrophic to the world’s economies as last year we were able to go through our reserves, this year you will see significant inflation. The impact of inflation is doubly bad on China. When people have to spend more of their paycheck on food and gas they have less to spend on the stuff China makes. So then the same time food prices will soar in China will be the time their exports shrink and people are not getting paid. Still I don’t think “your holy cities” or “Zion” refers to cities in China. So how will China respond towards the US and Israel? On top of all that the real estate bubble in China is bursting and they will see a melt down with global consequences on par with the 2008 meltdown.

11 Our holy and beautiful house [the temple built by Solomon], Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious objects are in ruins.

We are seeing an all out attack from China. Everyday the evidence becomes stronger and stronger that the Pandemic originated in a bioweapons lab where they were making a weaponized version of SARS as a first strike in a war with the US. We have seen massive cyber attacks, a stolen election, and threats over Taiwan. Meanwhile BLM and Critical Race Theory both appear to be forms of attack to convert the US to communism.

12 Considering these [tragedies], will You restrain Yourself, O Lord [and not help us]? Will You keep silent and humiliate and oppress us beyond measure?

We need to pray to the Lord. At this moment you have many Christians who are praying for the Lord’s soon return. When they are raptured the rest of the Christians will wake up and then they too will begin to pray for salvation.
 

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A nightmare that will school you

I had a dream last night, I would not call it a nightmare because I did not feel threatened or scared. However, I was in a room like a classroom talking to people to repent for the kingdom and they were all demon possessed. They did not threaten me, they shunned me, but it seemed like they were all waiting to be released.

It was a shocking dream for me because I have not had anything even remotely like that for 40 years.

My understanding of this dream is that something is about to be unleashed, although I did not feel directly threatened it will be horrifying for many people. It was as though I got a glimpse of a coming nightmare.
 

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Very interesting -- another great insight into the days in which we live.
 

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Joshua 5:1-9 The Circumcision of the Army of the Lord on January 6th

1 Now it happened when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted [in despair], and there was no [fighting] spirit in them any longer because of the Israelites [and what God had done for them].

We need to be aware of what is going on with the Amorites. I get it, they are not God’s people, they are sinful, and some may wish to just focus on the Lord. But the church is not just a hospital or an elementary school, it is also an army, and any army needs to have their eyes and ears open to their adversaries. Right now the “Amorites” those who are ruling and abusing you are terrified. The economy dried up allowing God’s people to cross over from our little bubble in our churches to get involved in the running of the country. The tech giants thought they could censor a few stories, publish a few lies and manipulate the people. The politicians thought they could do as they pleased and would not be bothered. Now they are seeing 500,000 people attend a rally in Washington DC, they saw a hundred of these rallies nationwide, some spontaneous, some organized by Trump, most organized by non profit organizations. They are terrified. It is like the grasshopper that is swarmed by a couple hundred ants. Yes they look like giants but we can swarm them. We can cancel our subscriptions, stop doing business with them, move to other platforms, hire other services, attend school board meetings, go to precinct meetings, write letters, sign petitions, remove governors from office, file lawsuits, publish evidence of corruption and fraud, hold them accountable, and primary those who refuse to listen to the will of the people. They realize how powerless they are before this swarm of millions of Americans who have risen up to take a stand for righteousness. The outage of Facebook is evidence they are terrified, the fact they can't get their spending bills passed is evidence they are terrified, the fact that the Chinese economy is in meltdown is evidence that they are terrified.

2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise the [new generation of the] sons of Israel as [was done] before.” 3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. 4 This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness along the way after they left Egypt. 5 All the males who came out were circumcised, but all the males who were born in the wilderness on the way as they left Egypt had not been circumcised. 6 For the Israelites walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, died because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord; to them the Lord had sworn [an oath] that He would not let them see the land which He had promised to their fathers to give us, a land [of abundance] flowing with milk and honey. 7 So it was their uncircumcised sons whom He raised up in their place, whom Joshua circumcised, because circumcision had not been performed on the way.

First, we need to be circumcised. We do not fight according to the flesh. Look at BLM, they had riots, looting, over 450 of their protests turned violent. People were gunned down in the streets. We have videos of them acting like a mob of wild dogs terrorizing people in restaurants, attacking cars, vandalizing, looting, and in many ways making the city unsafe for everyone. Although the initial claims of injustice by the police and the need for reform resonated with people their support has plummeted. As people see them more and more every day as being fleshly and greedy. Their leaders are shown to be every bit as corrupt as those they are trying to replace. This is not the way to bring in the kingdom. In little more than a year they have already imploded and destroyed any credibility they may have had. By contrast I was in six Stop the Steal rallies. At every one there were small groups (relative to the size of our rallies) of BLM and Antifa supporters who were there to fight. At some they shouted at us, at others they were dressed for battle with baseball bats, but in every one they were there to try and start a fight. Because they were greatly outnumbered they would try and attack two or three walking alone after the rallies. Then on January 6 they tried to discredit the rally of 500,000 with a riot at the Capital. This was very tricky for them to organize. If they wait until the people from the rally at the Whitehouse walk over to the capital building they would be greatly outnumbered and the Stop the Steal people could stop them from rioting. So they planned to start the riot the minute Trump finished speaking and before enough people could get there to stop them. They were composed of both Antifa and right wing groups that were both anarchists and the whole thing was organized by deep state actors in the FBI. None of these people were part of the Stop the Steal rallies, rather they organized to meet at the Capital (not the rally at the Whitehouse) and break into the capital the minute Trump stopped speaking. The problem was Trump started 45 minutes later than he was scheduled, as a result they began the riot at the same time Trump began speaking a mile away. Not only so we can detect their plans on social media and see who was planning this. Also, because of their ego and attempt to make money they videotaped everything. We have a total of 14,000 hours of video that reveals everything. There were deep state people who were acting as supervisors. They accused them of killing a cop but that was a lie. The only person murdered was Ashli Babbit who was shot and killed by security even though she didn’t have a weapon and was not threatening to harm anyone. Yes, they were trespassing and vandalizing the capital, but compared to the Antifa riots where people were murdered, stores were looted, and buildings were burned to the ground this was tame by comparison.

Still, these people should have known better than to trespass in the capital. We now are getting video that suggests the police invited them in, taking away the barriers and waving people in. If that is the case they cannot be charged with trespassing. We also have evidence that the hundred or so rioters who broke windows and truly rushed the capital were part of right wing anarchist groups and left wing communist groups like Antifa. Neither of these groups were associated with the Stop the Steal rally. Still you should take forethought for things honorable with man. Knowing that you are going to have 500,000 in the city you should make sure you have the security. The Washington Mayor arrested the Proud Boys the day prior to the rally, the proud boys act as the security for these rallies. So although we had had over 100 peaceful rallies prior to this the police took away our ability to maintain peace. Also, Trump and the FBI both advised Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer of threats that they had detected. However Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer refused to accept the national guard from Trump and refused to have extra police presence or put up a serious barrier.

So yes, you should take forethought for things honorable among men, the rally did that by providing their own security which the police arrested despite there not being a single incident to base that on. Trump also acted responsibly. The only ones who were not responsible were Pelosi and Schumer.

Now think about it, for forty years as the Israelites wandered in the wilderness and died off the kids saw how weak and pathetic they were. It was like the feeling towards organized Christianity in this country for the last forty years. Many were turned off of the church, but now they need to "be circumcised", take up their cross and follow the Lord and realize Jesus was the man!

8 Then, when they had finished circumcising all [the males of] the nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed. 9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach (derision, ridicule) of Egypt from you.” So the name of that place is called Gilgal (rolling) to this day.

I found it very surprising that God would do this since there is a story in Genesis about how Jacob’s sons used the circumcision of a town as an opportunity to kill them. January 6th was a circumcision. We were in pain and unable to do anything until this was healed and the reproach was rolled away. But you can be sure once this happens we will be coming with a renewed vengeance.

What have we cut off? We were entangled in the world, we have cut off that fleshly connection. What does it mean to be healed? We left Facebook and created new platforms like Frank Speech, GETTR, Rumble, etc. We have dumped the mainstream media and have new channels of journalists we trust like Steve Bannon and Project Veritas.
 

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What is happening?

>Germany. On brink of natural gas shortage
>UK.. In the red zone/[CRASH] gas shortage
>U.S. on the brink of second gas Shortage/stock markets
>China system collapsing>stock market[CRASH]>not enough electric for production of world goods/not enough coal
>U S. Politicians. Congress is turning on reach other _ U S. Soldiers Exodus of Military began.
>Doctors, SOLDIERS, POLICE, scientist, health care workers mass Exodus from government and start to ban together against the System
>MAJOR conflict inside the PENTAGON and Intel agencies<>>Soldiers are beginning to see the chain of command is in CHAOS
>FBI caught in a lie on the FAKE insurrection jan.6 report and starts DEMOCRATIC inside war<<
>RAND PAUL>> [EXPOSURE] of FAUCI and gain of function in the Congressional hearings reach's the ears of Democratic Leaders<<<Tom Cotton Report (Mil INTEL} on the creation of the virus to hit FALL <>>> many governors and senators are becoming aware of Gain-of function and 900 page FAUCI report in collusion with Gates CDC NIH
>MASS stock dumps began in big tech and consumer goods//Transfer of $$€£ to Energy
As World wide shortages begin
>China buying U S. EU >Goods and meat with cash surplus and causing mass INFLATION/
>China lower class demanding more meat and goods brings CCP into brink of full collapse [CRASH]>
>CHINA 2 months flooding in 12 province cause huge disruption In World wide chain of production,goods and aluminum >> World INFLATION in construction industry destroying small companies<
>South American agriculture industry hit by high temperatures and Exports of seasonal foods in chaos>corn, soy beans, coffee
>Coffee shortage expected as Vietnam slows exports/South America drought and frost effects coffee production/
>Many countries see the Market [CRASH] incoming and start to reduce exports and start reserve and storing<>>this effects the Market
>L A port and New York ports have back up shipping CARGOS with millions of U.S. goods, produce, and supplies drifting afloat with no time of delivery in sight and insurance companies began PANIC<
>Nearing 30 billion loss and jobs in the U.S. auto industry due to china and with holding micro chips/ chip shortage
>China EXPECTED to devalue the currency which will effect the World wide stock market at over 22% and destroy over quarter billion small and large business's in the first 4 months
>Military reserves/Army Expected to be Activated in the U.S. Canada. U k EU . ICELAND South American. Mexico ,African regions. Malaysia.
And over 80 countries
>Forced Vaccinations/Vaccines pass mandates and Government threats among it's citizens is reaching an all time high rebellion across several natiions with PROTESTS turning to violence and riots
_THE LOSS OF FOOD/ ENERGY IS THE CATAPULT, WHERE SOCIETY WILL CREATE RIOTING IN THE STREETS ACROSS THE WORLD. THOSE WHO WERE UNAWARE OF THE GLOBAL COLLAPSE... WILL WAKE UP!!!

1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.

4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. 5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. 9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, 10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. 11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. 14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
 

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Joshua 6:1-20 -- Riding forth conquering and to conquer

1 Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.

Right now the world is terrified of the church, the gospel, and the Lord. They see everything that is coming true before their eyes and they know that means the day of judgement is near.

2 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3 March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. 4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. 5 When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”

This is a fantastic plan. Try and visualize a city that has a wall all the way around it. The wall is essentially a circle. It is supported on the inside so if you try to knock it down it will stand. The design is very sturdy at repelling those who are outside trying to get in, but it is very poor at stopping those on the inside from getting out. Now imagine you are in this city, locked tight and up on the ramparts of this wall you have soldiers watching what is going on. Everyone in the city wants to know “what are they doing?” They say “nothing, just walking around”. You think “no way, they are doing something, you are missing it, if I was up there I would see”. This goes on day after day after day. Finally on the seventh day they blast the trumpets, everyone inside knows that they are definitely doing something now and all around the city the inhabitants rush up the ladders to see what is going on and oops, there is nothing to prevent the wall from falling down flat. The world is shut up in this city being told to lock down and they know the people telling them what to do are lying to them. Even Bill Maher the atheist knows they are being lied to. Fauci and the others are the ones on top of the wall telling everyone in the city to continue being in a lockdown indefinitely, they know it is a lie. Outside this wall there are those marching around the city proclaiming liberty, blowing the trumpet, and lifting up the Lord Jesus. What do you think is going to happen when for 2,000 years the world has been told about the Lord’s return, the rapture, and the judgement and then they see the rapture?

6 So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.” 7 And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”

Now to do this properly you have to carry the ark, and to carry that ark you must be a priest who is sanctified. There is a proper way to bear the testimony of the Lord.

8 When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them. 9 The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding. 10 But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!” 11 So he had the ark of the Lord carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there.

To give a shout is to give a Teruah. These trumpets and this shout both point us to the feast of trumpets. We are proclaiming the coming of the king, we are proclaiming that the Bridegroom cometh, and we are proclaiming that it is the Day of the Lord.

12 Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13 The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the Lord and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets kept sounding. 14 So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days. 15 On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. 16 The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city! 17 The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. 18 But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. 19 All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.”

This is quite significant because at the Lord’s return He will call His servants to make account and they will need to bring forth the talents He gave them and show what they have done with them. Nothing will be lost. Everything belongs to the Lord. If you were to steal one of the devoted things you would be stealing from God. Also note that Rahab the prostitute represents someone on the inside who helped spy out the city. Right now we have people on the inside telling us about the corruption, the sins and the crimes of the Democrats, of the Biden crime family, and of many in the deep state.

20 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.

One translation is “they went straight up”. This is a picture of the rapture. It will be a glorious victory for the gospel. It will be our entry into the good land. It will mark the year of Jubilee where everything that was taken from us will be returned (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived in the good land before going down to Egypt and becoming enslaved). It will also come like a thief in the night. When the saints are raptured Satan’s kingdom will be robbed. We have completely surrounded this kingdom, some are focused on election fraud, some are concerned about what is being taught in the schools, some are concerned about our withdrawal from Afghanistan, others care about the border crisis, still others are concerned about LGBTQ, and others with Abortion, and others with inflation and the economy, and still others with the vaccine mandate. Each of us will go "straight up" when the walls fall.
 

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Joshua 6:21-27 -- Riding forth conquering and to conquer


21 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. 22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.

I like to think of Rahab as being similar to Oscar Schindler. Schindler was a “prostitute”. He sold himself to the Germans to make money. But when he saw what they were doing to the Jews he feared God. He knew there would be a fearful judgement and so he hid the Jews, protecting them from the concentration camp and the gas chambers. As a result he is counted as one of the righteous before God.

24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. 25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day. 26 At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: “At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.” 27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.

Joshua, the Jewish version of Jesus. There are several pictures of the rapture, one is of a coronation, one is of a wedding, one is of the initiation of the tribulation on Earth, and one is of the Lord girding His sword on His side and riding forth on the white horse conquering and to conquer.

But what is Jericho? Maybe it represents the collusion between the tech giants, the mainstream media, the politicians and the deep state to censor information, to spread disinformation, and to control what people can and cannot see. Perhaps this 6 hours where Facebook was recently down indicates that Rahab has helped us to get inside the walls of Jericho and fully expose their wickedness.
 

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Roll the stone away!


We are Joshua's army and we can participate in blowing the trumpet, giving a shout, and praying for Jericho's wall to fall flat.

What is this wall? It is a mountain that man has made to say "you can't come here" and they are saying that to God! They are saying that to Jesus!

We have been preaching the gospel for 2,000 years and saying these things will come to pass and the world has been saying they won't. This is where the rubber meets the road, this is the showdown between our faith in God's word and the scoffers and mockers.

The focus is on our Father who is in heaven, that His name would be hallowed. Our focus is on the Lord Jesus that His kingdom would come. Our focus is on the Holy Spirit that He would indwell us so that we would express Jesus.

Roll the stone away!
 

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Proverbs 27:1-13 -- Why is the day of evil approaching?

1 Do not boast of tomorrow, for you know not what a day may bring forth.
2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

I have seen a lot of indoctrination about giving encouragement and not speaking criticism. I was in a professional development where we were told that words like "but", "however" and "should" are hurtful words. What has happened that we have become so fragile? Consider Steve Bannon, he has been vilified, insulted, slandered, mocked and made fun of for the last sixteen months because he was running a show called “War Room Pandemic” where the fundamental premise was that the pandemic was a bioweapon created in the Wuhan laboratory. Yet now, after sixteen months everyone, Wall Street Journal, even Bill Maher have come to the conclusion that they were wrong to mock him and that the evidence is piling up that he was right. Just yesterday Jen Psaki responded to questions about this that “we don’t have enough evidence to jump to a conclusion”. What!? How is it that sixteen months ago they were able to jump to the conclusion that Bannon was a nut case, and that the doctors from both China and the US coming forward about this threat should also be slandered? This is how you get praised from a stranger. Bill Maher is a left wing liberal and Steve Bannon is a right wing conservative. They are on opposite sides of the political spectrum and yet Bill Maher, a “stranger” is praising Steve Bannon. No one would be praising Steve Bannon today if he had curled up and sulked at the first negative word he heard. He is praised that despite that He stood firm and continued to push for the truth.

3 Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool’s wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both of them.


Critical Race Theory is a fool’s unreasoning wrath. Some people confuse this with the history of slavery (it isn’t) or with the history of the Civil Rights movement (it isn’t that either). Rather this theory says that Blacks are and have always been victims and whites are and have always been oppressors. It is insulting and demeaning to everyone. It says that all decisions should be based on the color of the skin going so far as to even say the more melanin someone has in their skin the more morally upright they are. The proponents want to “burn the US constitution”. Think about that, what government on this earth do they think is better? It turns out they support communism. Russia, China and Venezuela are the models they wish to emulate. That is a fool’s wrath.

4 Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, but who is able to stand before jealousy?


Before you start praying for the Lord to come in and judge let’s examine ourselves. God says that idolatry provokes Him to jealousy. Do you worship the dollar? You can be sure the dollar will not be able to stand before God’s jealousy. This vaccine mandate is a test, are you trusting in the Lord or in your paycheck?

5 Open rebuke is better than love that is hidden.

This is the problem with that professional development. They are labelling all rebuke as hate speech. Not being allowed to rebuke someone is the same thing as requiring love to be hidden. Rebuke is like applying the brakes to someone’s life when they are about to crash. Done correctly it is an act of love.

6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are lavish and deceitful.


We are seeing lavish and deceitful kisses. Kamala Harris said if you elect her she would put an end to the human rights abuses at the border. That was a “lavish kiss” that was deceitful. Not only has she not put an end to the abuses she clearly has no intention of putting an end to them. Interestingly she is named after an Indian goddess famous for being deceitful.

7 He who is satiated loathes and treads underfoot a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

The world right now is about to enter a time of testing and trial, and the result will be that all those who are satiated are about to become hungry souls. The prophets say that they will seek up and down looking for someone to speak a word from the Lord to them, even a rebuking word, but they won’t be able to find it.

8 Like a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who strays from his home.


The church is our home. Have you strayed from the church?

9 Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of a friend’s counsel that comes from the heart.


TV is not counsel that comes from a friend. The Lord called us friends. His counsel is sweet and rejoices the heart. The world wants to cut you off from that counsel, replacing it with their trivial garbage.

10 Your own friend and your father’s friend, forsake them not; neither go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near [in spirit] than a brother who is far off [in heart].


The day of calamity is coming. What do you do? Don’t forsake the Lord Jesus. Remember what the Lord said, those that hear His words and obey them are His mother, and brother. He said to love your neighbor as yourself. A person who is obeying that word is better than a brother according to the flesh.

11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.


I am a teacher and some students get paranoid as though the teacher is out to get them. Teachers are judged based on kids passing, we have to give account for every student that fails, it is never true that we want a student to fail. I have had some very difficult students, if they fail I will have them again the next year, you can be sure I don’t want that.

12 A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.

We can see the day approaching if we are awake and are watching. How do we “hide”? We hide ourselves in the Lord. We immerse ourselves in the Triune God. We flee into the Lord who is a strong tower.

13 [The judge tells the creditor] Take the garment of one who is security for a stranger; and hold him in pledge when he is security for foreigners.

The US has made themselves security for a stranger. We have given an exemption from lawsuits to tech giants. Why would we do that? They can harm the US as much as they want and no one can seek compensation. This is why the evil is coming. We allowed them to lie and censor with impunity.
 

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1. 2001 -- 911 was a harbinger of coming destruction if we did not repent and return to God.

2. The victory against the terrorists who attacked in 2001 has been undone (Afghanistan), that also is a sign.

3. The 19th year is the year of the greater shakings -- that is 2020, the year of the pandemic.
 

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1. 2001 -- 911 was a harbinger of coming destruction if we did not repent and return to God.

2. The victory against the terrorists who attacked in 2001 has been undone (Afghanistan), that also is a sign.

3. The 19th year is the year of the greater shakings -- that is 2020, the year of the pandemic.
The deadline to leave Afghanistan was 9/11 2021, that was the end of the 19 year period. We have been given a warning of a much greater judgement than 9/11 and the only remedy is revival.
 

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Reported Events on the AMS website

22 reported events in 1st 5 days of October

Compare these 5 days with this 25 year period

We had a total of 25 events from 1980 through 2005
 

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9/11 was a warning to return to God. Over the last 19 years has the US repented and returned to God? That is a joke, look at the LGBTQ, pro abortion, woke CRT marxist curriculum they are teaching in the schools while prohibiting the Bible, prayer, or any reference to Jesus. Our loss to Afghanistan after 19 years was God telling us we are about to get hit worse than we did in 2008 (see the real estate collapse in China), worse than we were in 9/11. We already have a full invasion crossing our southern border every month. We have China and Taiwan on the verge of war. Taiwan produces 92% of the top line computer chips. The minute Taiwan falls to China will be the minute the US is no longer a superpower.
 

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The Trillion dollar coin

What is this and what does it mean? Right now we have $2 trillion dollars in circulation. If the US government mints a $1 trillion dollar coin and puts it in the reserve to pay off debts they will increase this number to $3 trillion. The value of this dollar is based on the goods that you can buy. If the dollars stay the same and the goods increase then you can buy more with your dollar, however, if the goods stay the same and the dollars increase each dollar is worth a smaller percent of the goods. If they mint this coin the result will be to increase the dollars in circulation by 50% without increasing the goods at all, in fact because of the pandemic the amount of goods you can buy with that dollar have decreased. This would create massive inflation. $50 of gas will now cost $75. $100 worth of groceries will now cost $150. But it is worse than that. Our debt is being funded by the world buying our bonds which pay around 7%. If you devalue the dollar by 35% every single person holding bonds will be crushed. As a result confidence in the US $ will collapse. If no one buys our bonds we cannot continue to pay our creditors, and so the US will declare bankruptcy. If the US declares bankruptcy at the same time as China has their real estate bubble burst it will be a double whammy to the world's economy. The only reason the world respects the US dollar is because you have to use dollars to buy oil and gas. They will stop that immediately and the minute they do the US will become Venezuela and all those countries holding our debt will hate our guts. They will "devour" the US which means you come in and sell all the assets at a tiny fraction of what they were worth just a year ago.

You might say well then obviously they will not mint this coin. The problem is just talking about it is enough to cause the holders of our debt to go into their war rooms and figure out what they need to do. They will seize all of our assets which includes all federal land and also all of the S&P debt the Fed has bought and then the globalists will own the US and the S&P 500. They will also buy up all the property from the 40-60% of small businesses that have failed. When they do that the value of your house will drop by more than 50% (your house is valued based on what nearby houses have sold for, if there is a massive fire sale those houses will sell for a small fraction of what they are going for now). That will enable more banks to foreclose as the equity is not sufficient for the mortgage.

When it is all said and done 90% of Americans will be penniless and work for slave wages, similar to what Chinese are currently being paid.

Also, if the Globalists take over the US government they will not be obligated to pay Social security.