Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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The Golden rule

Proverbs 8:13 To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. 14 Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight, I have power. 15 By me kings reign and rulers issue decrees that are just; 16 by me princes govern, and nobles—all who rule on earth.

These verses remind me of my senior year in HS.

I got caned for something I did over Christmas break, I was arrogant. I didn’t take it seriously and instead treated it like a joke which was an insult to the teacher involved, this was perverse speech. Later this teacher wanted me expelled and to be fair the rules justified that. However the headmaster took into account that the incident (evil behavior) had taken place near my birthday and used that to put me on two months detention instead of expelling me. If I had been expelled I also would have forfeited my place at University as that would have violated the conditions of my being accepted. So this decision which was merciful was also a salvation to me.

Those experiences were my lessons in issuing a decree that is just. I then had a final exam on what I had learned.

The teacher that I had insulted and that wanted me expelled gave a final exam. He gave us ten essay questions and said that our final exam would be 3 of them. I was thinking this will be easy, the night before the exam I’ll prepare. Around 7pm I pull out this sheet and look at the first question, it was very broad and I had no idea what it was talking about. I pulled out our textbook and my notes and realized this was a governing question for one of the chapters in the textbook, a chapter we had never discussed during the entire semester. I figured it would take me at least two hours to prepare that question. So I put it aside and went to the second question and again, same thing. Now I am angry and I ask myself “which of these questions did we actually cover in class?” I go through all ten and find that 3 questions referred to the three major topics we covered that semester. I figured he has to ask at least one of these and if I am lucky he’ll ask two. Since I have no idea what to say on the other seven I decide I will make sure I get these questions 100%. I spend the next five hours using my notes and the textbook to write extensive comprehensive answers to these three questions. Then I spend another two hours rehearsing them so that I can write this down by memory. All three questions that I had prepared for were on the exam! I spent the entire 2 hours writing from start to finish, non stop. In my whole life I have never aced a test better than that.

A few days later he posts the grades and I had the lowest score in the class, 23%. I was one of the three top students in that class, if he had told me I had gotten 95% and another student had gotten 97% I wouldn’t have believed it. This was retaliation by this teacher.

The first thing I do is calculate what my final grade in the class would be. This test did not bring my grade down enough to nullify my acceptance to the University, so in the grand scheme of things this score didn’t mean anything to me. But, what about others? If he does this to me and I do nothing will this embolden him to treat others this way? I knew if I reported this to the Headmaster he would be fired and I did not want to be the obnoxious foreigner who comes and gets others fired. My friends in the class were telling me I needed to turn him in. So I prayed about it. I was in the Royal Air force (RAF) and he was the commanding officer. We had to return our uniforms and my coat was missing a button. I decided I’d let the teacher decide his judgement. I would let him know I was missing a button and whatever he decided would actually be the judgement that I would judge him with. I went up to him at lunch, he wouldn’t even look up at me and he was trembling uncontrollably. I realized he had given me that grade without looking at my paper! I told him I was missing a button on my jacket and he said “forget it”. So I forgot it and never turned him in.

40 years later he seeks out my brother at a school reunions to tell my brother what a stand up guy I was. He made sure my brother passed the message on to me. Can you imagine remembering one pain in the butt student for 40 years?

Also, I learned about a year ago that my birthday was the 3rd day of Passover. When I look back I see that God spoke through this Headmaster to let me know that He was judging me with mercy in view of that day.

My behavior was proud, arrogant, evil, with perverse speech. All the things that the Lord hates. However, mercy can be the result of counsel and sound judgement and result in a just decree. Because of mercy that teacher didn’t have his career ruined and I didn’t have my life ruined.

Just like James said, Mercy triumphs over judgement. I believe that with what judgement we judge we shall be judged, and so I will strive to be merciful in judging others as I also would like to be judged mercifully.

 

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One thing stood out to me in this message, the "no one knows the day or the hour" is Jewish idiom for the first day of the month when they sight the new moon. You have to actually have two witnesses see it, so even if your astronomy is on point what about the possibility of a cloud obscuring the moon?

A new day begins at sunset, evening and morning, one day. And that reminded me of the verse concerning the "twinkling of an eye".

Now there are Biblical prophecies that point to 2021 as the year of ascending, the year of the Lord's triumphant return, the year of the rapture. There are verses pointing to it happening at twilight which would be the end of one day and the start of the next.

However, there is also a Biblical basis to see Nisan as the month of flight and the month of the coronation of the king.

There are verses that would say the believers that had mocked and ridiculed the saints over the rapture (like Mirriam and Moses) would have 7 days where they are put outside the camp but then the 8th day could be like that meal in Bethany in John 12 and it would be like those in Luke seeing the two witnesses on the mount of transfiguration about 8 days after (the rapture?). This would be six days before Passover and two days before Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

My point is everything seems to be pointing to 6pm Jerusalem time on April 2 and interestingly, the word for rapture is also the number for 204 while April 2 is 4/02.

 

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There is an interesting point he makes that 'no one knows the day or the hour'. Yet there is another verse that says you need to watch otherwise the day will come at a time you think not.

So consider this seeming paradox. God didn't say you can't know the year. The year that Jesus would enter Jerusalem was prophesied and there is some evidence that the same prophesy that told us the year Jesus would be crucified also tells us that Jesus returns in 2021 (Hebrew year ends April 1, 2022). if you were watching and knew this as the year came to an end you could wind up with only one moment left for this to be fulfilled.

So then if I prophesied the year and didn't tell you the day or the hour I wouldn't have to tell you the day or the hour if it is the last day of the year and the last hour of the year.

 

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Psalm 45 -- The cause of humility

1 My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. 2 You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever. 3 Gird your sword on your side, you mighty one; clothe yourself with splendor and majesty. 4 In your majesty ride forth victoriously in the cause of truth, humility and justice; let your right hand achieve awesome deeds. 5 Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet. 6 Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. 7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy. 8 All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes you glad. 9 Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir. 10 Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father’s house. 11 Let the king be enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord. 12 The city of Tyre will come with a gift, people of wealth will seek your favor. 13 All glorious is the princess within her chamber; her gown is interwoven with gold. 14 In embroidered garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions follow her— those brought to be with her. 15 Led in with joy and gladness, they enter the palace of the king. 16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land. 17 I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.


This Psalm depicts the coronation of Jesus, the only one found worthy to open the scrolls. He will be clothed with splendor and majesty at the coronation prior to riding forth victoriously in the cause of truth, humility and justice. Today we see many people championing causes for truth and justice. You don’t see any championing humility as a cause. But what do you think happens when the church is raptured? These are those who were despised, thought very little of, the offscouring of the world. God will exalt the humble.

Luke 1:46 And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48 for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, 49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name. 50 His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation. 51 He has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. 52 He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. 53 He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty. 54 He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful 55 to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors.”

The rapture of the saints is the “lifting up the humble”. Jesus birth and ministry championed all three causes: truth, justice, and the humble. This verse that Jesus loved righteousness and hated wickedness is quoted in Hebrews. It demonstrates the superiority of Jesus Christ to all others whether man or angel. The coronation of the Messiah takes place on the festival of Trumpets. His bride is on His right side, evidence that the rapture of the Bride takes place prior to the tribulation. Her gown represents her righteousnesses, interwoven with gold indicates that her life is interwoven with God, embroidered indicates the experiences of Christ. She is “led to the king” indicates the rapture. Your sons become princes indicate that we will rule and reign with Christ.

 

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We have both a 7 year warning and a 120 day warning, both of which are pointing to Nisan 1, 2022 (April 2), whereas we have a multitude of prophecies pointing to 2021 being the year of the rapture and that year ends April 1, 2022.

However, April 2, 2022 begins at twilight on that day, so if you are looking at Jerusalem that would mean the entire world has moved from April 1 to April 2. But twilight would also be the time of "the twinkling of an eye" referenced in the NT and this day would also be the time where "no one knows the day and the hour" as that is an idiom for the New Moon.

 

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Isaiah 10:1-11 -- the writers that write perverseness

1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness; 2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

We are seeing unrighteous decrees. Pelosi and the Democrats impeached Trump because of a phone call to the Ukraine. After careful scrutiny it was shown to be a righteous phone call. What is worse, the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop at the time of the impeachment, that laptop was physical evidence that the call was righteous, could have put an immediate stop to the impeachment and could have identified those involved in collusion but they hid this evidence. We are also seeing the mainstream media write perverseness. For months they told us that Riots were the language of the unheard. Spokespeople for the BLM and ANTIFA movements said that “looting was reparations”. We watched as businesses were burned, and people were assaulted, shot and stabbed while they said the protests were “mostly peaceful”. We saw almost 100 Stop the Steal rallies that were 100% peaceful. Incidents did occur after the rallies where people from the rally were assaulted. Even in Washington DC on January 5th there was a peaceful rally. But then on the 6th a riot took place at the capital. People broke windows and maybe as many as 1,000 protesters entered the building. The same people who for six months told us that riots were the language of the unheard now decried this as insurrection and called for the impeachment of the President. There were at least 500,000 people at that rally, at least 99.8% of the people did not participate in the riot. In addition, the video shows them booing those that entered and calling them ANTIFA. But this was a heinous crime to walk into the capitol building whereas burning and looting cities for the last few months was not. One paper described the BLM riots as "93% peaceful" and when you read the article they said they looked at over 7,000 protests. If you did the math 93% peaceful meant there were over 500 non peaceful riots. Some claimed that this was on a different level because this was a government building. The Kenosha riots burned down the police station, that was a government building. Joe Biden claimed that the treatment was racist, that Stop the Steal protestors were treated differently than BLM protestors. This is true, an unarmed woman who did not have any criminal past was shot and killed while inside the capitol building. The outrage against her was hot and heavy from this media. Meanwhile Jacob Blake was shot and not killed while trying to kidnap three kids and while reaching for a knife. He had a criminal record, he had attacked police before with a knife and he had outstanding warrants against him and was violating a restraining order at that moment. The outrage was also hot and heavy only this time it was against the police and they did incite riots and looting. The NCAA made a special rule in response to Tim Tebow outlawing putting scripture verses on you however they now have another new rule saying that you can put "social justice" messages on you. The Bible is banned, Antifa is promoted.

These protesters are the needy who are seeking justice. They are the victims of government policies that send manufacturing to China and rob their homes from them with the mortgage meltdown. The widows and fatherless are the prey of this government. They have violated the covenant they have with God. All laws come from God, if the government violates their end of the covenant and will not hear these pleas we then raise our voices to God almighty.

3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes all of them kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

The Lord has a staff in His hand and He can use it to meet out justice. If the US government ignores these pleas, if they are no longer a legitimate governing body the Lord can use other nations to execute justice. He did this in WWII, He did this during the many revolutions that have taken place. These invasions are called “the day of visitation”. We are not immune. We invaded Iraq, we invaded Afghanistan, we invaded Vietnam. Surely we know that this is a possibility as we have seen this done numerous times in our lifetime.

 

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2 Corinthians 4:1-10 -- Renounce the hidden things of dishonesty

Right now there is a lot of interest in the prophecies concerning the end of the age and also about the rapture. The goal of this ministry is to make us a letter of commendation for the Lord Jesus. His words are engraved on our hearts. The bride of Christ is the goal of this ministry which will have an eternal glory. This group of people will be transformed into the same image of the Lord by His Spirit. The image that they will be transformed into is the image we see in Luke. (The gospel of Matthew gives the gospel to the Jews that remain to the end of the tribulation, Mark gives us the gospel to those who remain after the first rapture, and Luke gives us the gospel to those who are raptured before the tribulation. I compare and contrast the gospels of Mark and Luke in another post to demonstrate this.) In Mark He is always arguing with religious leaders while in Luke He is always healing and forgiving. In Mark the message to the disciples is to persevere in faith despite suffering whereas in Luke it is to leave everything and to accept everyone, especially outcasts, poor, and even enemies. If you are the letter of commendation written in Luke you are accepting everyone, including the “deplorables” and you are healing and forgiving which includes healing this country with the divide, dealing with this corruption that is growing like a cancer, and you are forgiving those who got caught up in this crime but now repent. There are others who are all caught up in “arguing with religious leaders about the interpretation”. That is also a work of God but is the letter of commendation that we see in Mark, not in Luke.

1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Many Christian ministries crash and burn over this point as hidden things of dishonesty are revealed. Judgement begins with the house of God. But like a tempered sword, we are now transformed into the sword of the Lord. We have renounced these hidden things of dishonesty. People who are dishonest have to become crafty and they have to handle the truth deceitfully. At the end of the age the “letter of commendation” for the Lord is that His people who have been derided as deplorable and chumps, that these people know how to deal with the hidden things of dishonesty, they know how to handle crafty snakes, they know how to renounce the handling of the truth deceitfully.

3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Jesus is the image of the invisible God. If you are a believer the light of this glorious gospel has shined unto you. You have seen how Jesus handled the deceitful and crafty and dishonest attacks. “Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, yes or no”. This is the kind of training they don’t give in the public schools, you get it from the word of God.

5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

Remember this verse. In the first three chapters Paul was not preaching himself. His not wanting to come when they weren’t ready, that was not himself, that was the Lord. The world, the false prophets, the cults are all about preaching themselves.

6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Once again, if you are a letter of commendation at Jesus’ return you will be a light to shine out of darkness. For two thousand years the darkness was in us, in the church, and judgement began there. But right now the darkness is clearly in this election fraud and it is incumbent upon us “to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”. The darkness is in this vaccine mandate, these quarantine camps. Right now the world needs the glory of the light of the gospel to shine forth.

7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

I have watched several women give their testimony to various hearings and my impression was “wow, this treasure in earthen vessels”. Several representatives tried to intimidate and disparage them and they got totally renounced by them. The modern expression is “mic drop”.

8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

So yes, we are troubled on every side. Facebook censored one of my posts because in the video they said the people were pulling “suitcases filled with ballots” out from under this table where they had been hidden all day to then count them while no one watched. According to Facebook they weren’t suitcases they were “boxes”. OK, but they appeared to have wheels on them so these were really nice boxes. But the story was not about suitcases it was about hidden ballots being counted when no one is looking. The mainstream media declared victory in certain states when it didn’t make sense and didn’t declare victory in others when it also didn’t make sense. It was perplexing. Also, they stopped counting when it looked like Trump had won and then early in the morning when they had stopped counting all of a sudden they discover hundreds of thousands of votes for Biden. It was perplexing. People get persecuted by this cancel culture. Yet every time some business or person got attacked and persecuted the “deplorables” rose up to support that person whether with donations or by supporting their business. So yes, we have seen people persecuted but not forsaken. We have seen people cast down but not destroyed. Finally everyone is very much aware that these protests must bear about in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus. I was in Atlanta, they didn’t give them a permit to protest so we all had to stay on the sidewalk and couldn’t get in the street. Everyone was very submissive to and appreciative of the police. Just like the Lord said “which one of you convicts me of sin?”

 

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Remove the Holy Spirit from the Earth and humanity self destructs like a runaway nuclear reaction.

 

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God gathers them together -- just like the Lord said He will send out his angels and gather the tares together.

 

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2 Corinthians 4:11-18 I believed and therefore I have spoken -- If you believe you need to speak

11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

The term is “courage is contagious”. 234 affidavits turns into a thousand. People are taking pictures of companies hired to shred ballots. They are pulling these shred ballots out of the garbage and sending them to the lawyers. More and more people are becoming emboldened to stand up.

13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; 14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

Standing up for justice is all about having faith in the resurrection. I believe I will appear before the Lord one day to answer for the things I have done and said and therefore I stand up and speak.

15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

Many people from Trump to these commentators on the internet have marvelled about these people, these witnesses, these lawyers and these protestors. They admit that they didn’t do this. It redounds to the glory of God. Why do I keep using current events to illustrate these verses? Paul says it right here, "all things are for your sakes". Stop making excuses for why we can ignore the man who is beaten up and left on the side of the road to Jericho.

16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Every day as we see more evidence come out we get renewed. When we hear that despite the mainstream media doing everything in their power to censor this story that over 50% of voters now believe the election was stolen we know we are having an impact. The Biden campaign cancelled their inauguration saying they would do it remotely! Every day we see more and more protesting Biden as an illegitimate regime. His approval rating has dropped to 34% saying he is on the right track and that is with media that historically has been biased for Biden and the Democrats by 14%! In reality it could be as little is 20% that are actually supporting Biden's agenda.

17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

I missed the Martin Luther King march at Washington, but no way I am going to miss these. I take selfies at every one, not something that I typically do, because I want photographic evidence that I was there. My plan is to show these as evidence when I have to appear before the Lord Jesus to be judged. You have to make a choice, you can choose a path that you will regret for eternity, or you can choose a path with a light affliction that is but for a moment, but that works for us an eternal weight of glory. Here is the thing, you can compare the Holy Spirit to the control rods in a nuclear plant that prevent a runaway nuclear reaction. When the Holy Spirit leaves and removes us in the rapture humanity will destroy itself. Our job is to be one with the Holy Spirit and that means we stand against sin, we are one with the Holy Spirit in restraining sin.

18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Some people see temporary protests that will die out over a few weeks. But what I see is the sign of Jonah to this wicked generation, the only sign that they will get before the Lord’s coming. I don’t want to miss one moment of it. This is not about Biden, or Trump, or one party or another. This is about the whole world lying in the evil one and the believers being ambassadors for the Kingdom of the heavens.

 

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The Lord has a sense of humor

Psalm 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.

The Greek word for rapture is also the number 204. Some have pointed out that 204 backwards is 4/02.

Then Revelation 4:1 says "after this a door was opened and I heard a trumpet saying come up here"

If the rapture is 4/2 at twilight as the year 2021 ends and Nisan 1 begins the year 2022 then consider how many ways the Bible told us this? It is everywhere. He didn't tell us the day and hour, but He did tell us the year in multiple ways, and He did indicate it would be at twilight, and so anyone caught unawares was simply not watching.

 

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Study the times Jesus' says "never"

Salvation is present tense -- it is always happening in the present.

True believers keep believing in the present tense, this is not a once for all, happened 20 years ago event.