Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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Now is the time to find out who the real false prophets were
Yesterday I got a shipment from Joseph's Kitchen. They sent me everything I need (except for eggs) to make bread for a year. It is very simple, there are buckets of wheat berries, they send you a grinder, you put the wheat into the grinder, then pour all the ingredients into a bread maker and it makes the bread for you. The cost to make enough food to feed a family of 3 for a day = $5. So if my paycheck can only buy half the food it used to I will have this to supplement our "daily bread". Thank you Lord.
So yes, inflation is going to go through the roof, to stop that they will raise interest rates through the roof. No one will buy a house or a car on credit, this will cause a massive recession, even a depression. But it will be worse. The problem is not with Lithium or some other component that you can live without. No it is the most basic resources:
Wheat
Fertilizer
Fuel
And then to make things worse we have these supply chain issues. So let's say a ship does arrive at the port with much needed goods. We have a truck driver who would dearly love to make this haul to feed his family and there is even enough diesel for him to drive. Problem is he has a flat tire and it will take 6 months for a new tire to come in.
In some countries they were unable to get fertilizer or pesticide and as a result their last harvest was 50% of what they would have hoped for and as a result of that they are too broke to plant now.
It is a house of cards and they are all collapsing.
We were given a seven year warning concerning this famine and I posted links to that in this blog. Prophecy club, Dana Coverstone, and the two cows with the 7 on them. Go back and search these out on youtube. Many claimed "false prophet" because it didn't happen immediately. It was a warning, you had a chance to prepare. Now you can easily go through and see who the false prophets really were.
Yesterday I got a shipment from Joseph's Kitchen. They sent me everything I need (except for eggs) to make bread for a year. It is very simple, there are buckets of wheat berries, they send you a grinder, you put the wheat into the grinder, then pour all the ingredients into a bread maker and it makes the bread for you. The cost to make enough food to feed a family of 3 for a day = $5. So if my paycheck can only buy half the food it used to I will have this to supplement our "daily bread". Thank you Lord.
So yes, inflation is going to go through the roof, to stop that they will raise interest rates through the roof. No one will buy a house or a car on credit, this will cause a massive recession, even a depression. But it will be worse. The problem is not with Lithium or some other component that you can live without. No it is the most basic resources:
Wheat
Fertilizer
Fuel
And then to make things worse we have these supply chain issues. So let's say a ship does arrive at the port with much needed goods. We have a truck driver who would dearly love to make this haul to feed his family and there is even enough diesel for him to drive. Problem is he has a flat tire and it will take 6 months for a new tire to come in.
In some countries they were unable to get fertilizer or pesticide and as a result their last harvest was 50% of what they would have hoped for and as a result of that they are too broke to plant now.
It is a house of cards and they are all collapsing.
We were given a seven year warning concerning this famine and I posted links to that in this blog. Prophecy club, Dana Coverstone, and the two cows with the 7 on them. Go back and search these out on youtube. Many claimed "false prophet" because it didn't happen immediately. It was a warning, you had a chance to prepare. Now you can easily go through and see who the false prophets really were.
Time and Date
1. Deuteronomy — 30:5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. — 5708 verse (1948) That is a prophesy for 1948
2. 19th book and 48th chapter
Psalm 48 — God is her fortress — some kings will see Israel but God will destroy them and they will flee
v.12 — consider Israel carefully and go and tell it to the “terminal generation” (the last generation)
Jesus says “this generation (the fig tree) will not pass until all these things happen” — see me on a cloud coming back to rescue the elect generation.
Israel has just celebrated it’s 74th birthday (74 x 12 = 888)
First use of tribulation is used with the “terminal days”. This word is used 22 times.
32:29 (5282 verse) — 29 If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be! "Their end" actually is "terminal generation" in Hebrew.
16:16 Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: — 3 times a year all your men must appear before the Lord. Feast of unleavened bread, feast of weeks, Feast of tabernacles
These are the three raptures, bring some of your harvest with you because that will be the first fruit.
Before summer, during the spring, where the first marriage is, spoken of by Song of Songs.
Revelation 20 — Jesus is back, God is about to take His sabbath,
In the book of Enoch — on the sixth of sevan Enoch was born and raptured on pentecost. The church was definitely born on Pentecost, so if Enoch represents the church
We are living in this 5782 year — if only they knew this was their latter end
Song of Songs is about a wedding, and the wedding takes place in the 6th chapter — complete redemption (number of connection, resurrection, redemption)
Genesis 1:6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” — first verse prophesying to us of the rapture
Song of Songs has exactly 117 verses — Let it divide. Psalm 117 the only chapter 117 in the Bible — Let it divide
Genesis 7:11 beginning of the flood. Hebrews 11:7 Noah and the flood.
SS 6 — Pomegranates are budding / my desire set me among the royal chariots (222 — also equal to voice of God).
v. 13 — voice of Israel calls out come back Shulamite —why would you gaze upon the shulamite like the dance of … (this is where they made the Antichrist their king). Perfect peace just went up (the voice of God in a chariot). Israel is calling out for the church to be a presence now. Go celebrate your false messiah.
Acts —
Mt, Mark, Luke, John and Acts = 117 chapters (let it divide)
Birth of church happens at Pentecost — Deut 16:16 — Feast of weeks is when all the Jews are to appear before God — hence Pentecost in Acts must be Feast of weeks. While there 3,000 saved (hearkening back to the first Shavuot when 3,000 died).
Hebrews 12 — but you have not come to a mountain (it starts in verse 22) — but you have come to mount Zion, to the church (5782 is 22, and it talks about the rapture in the 22nd book, and also in the last 22 book). Revelation 4: A door standing open in heaven — the voice of God said come up here (222)
7 lamp stands going up just like queen of Sheba (7) going up to see the Lord.
Judgement is going to fall on the same day as our escape (his dream — people dancing on one side and fire falling on the other)
1. Deuteronomy — 30:5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. — 5708 verse (1948) That is a prophesy for 1948
2. 19th book and 48th chapter
Psalm 48 — God is her fortress — some kings will see Israel but God will destroy them and they will flee
v.12 — consider Israel carefully and go and tell it to the “terminal generation” (the last generation)
Jesus says “this generation (the fig tree) will not pass until all these things happen” — see me on a cloud coming back to rescue the elect generation.
Israel has just celebrated it’s 74th birthday (74 x 12 = 888)
First use of tribulation is used with the “terminal days”. This word is used 22 times.
32:29 (5282 verse) — 29 If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be! "Their end" actually is "terminal generation" in Hebrew.
16:16 Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: — 3 times a year all your men must appear before the Lord. Feast of unleavened bread, feast of weeks, Feast of tabernacles
These are the three raptures, bring some of your harvest with you because that will be the first fruit.
Before summer, during the spring, where the first marriage is, spoken of by Song of Songs.
Revelation 20 — Jesus is back, God is about to take His sabbath,
In the book of Enoch — on the sixth of sevan Enoch was born and raptured on pentecost. The church was definitely born on Pentecost, so if Enoch represents the church
We are living in this 5782 year — if only they knew this was their latter end
Song of Songs is about a wedding, and the wedding takes place in the 6th chapter — complete redemption (number of connection, resurrection, redemption)
Genesis 1:6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” — first verse prophesying to us of the rapture
Song of Songs has exactly 117 verses — Let it divide. Psalm 117 the only chapter 117 in the Bible — Let it divide
Genesis 7:11 beginning of the flood. Hebrews 11:7 Noah and the flood.
SS 6 — Pomegranates are budding / my desire set me among the royal chariots (222 — also equal to voice of God).
v. 13 — voice of Israel calls out come back Shulamite —why would you gaze upon the shulamite like the dance of … (this is where they made the Antichrist their king). Perfect peace just went up (the voice of God in a chariot). Israel is calling out for the church to be a presence now. Go celebrate your false messiah.
Acts —
Mt, Mark, Luke, John and Acts = 117 chapters (let it divide)
Birth of church happens at Pentecost — Deut 16:16 — Feast of weeks is when all the Jews are to appear before God — hence Pentecost in Acts must be Feast of weeks. While there 3,000 saved (hearkening back to the first Shavuot when 3,000 died).
Hebrews 12 — but you have not come to a mountain (it starts in verse 22) — but you have come to mount Zion, to the church (5782 is 22, and it talks about the rapture in the 22nd book, and also in the last 22 book). Revelation 4: A door standing open in heaven — the voice of God said come up here (222)
7 lamp stands going up just like queen of Sheba (7) going up to see the Lord.
Judgement is going to fall on the same day as our escape (his dream — people dancing on one side and fire falling on the other)
Making a case for Shavuot
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty:
1. Three times we are required to appear before Jehovah. At the feast of unleavened bread the graves were opened and Jesus and the firstfruits appeared before the Lord. At the feast of tabernacles a strong case can be made that this is the conclusion of all the dead being raised. (There are two resurrections according to God, the resurrection of the living and the resurrection of the dead). Both of those are harvest festivals depicting a harvest. Therefore it is reasonable to say that there will also be a rapture/resurrection of the dead at the feast of weeks).
2. The church was born on Pentecost and according to Revelation 12 you see the birth of the manchild depicting the rapture followed by the woman who brought forth the church fleeing to the wilderness. So it is perfectly reasonable to view our birth as also our rapture.
3. The sixth of Sivan is Shavuot. It is also Enoch's birthday and the day he was raptured. He is a type of the church being raptured prior to the tribulation (flood).
4. I have had an issue with Shavuot being Pentecost depicted in Acts because it seems like they might have been talking about the feast of new wine which is 50 days later. My concern is that seven sabbaths from Passover plus one day will never be 50 days so it would not make sense to call it Pentecost. However, Acts also says that Jews were there from all over and that would indicate that it is one of the three feasts, Shavuot, where everyone had to appear in Jerusalem. That does leave the problem of Ascension day. Still, if it is Shavuot then it does fit with the Spring rapture and the description in Song of Songs.
5. One issue I have had is that the only day given to the New Testament is the Lord's table for us to keep that. This is a New Testament day that clearly points to us celebrating the Passover and drinking the wine again with the Lord, it depicts the wedding, and it reminds us of the Lord's promise to return. This year Shavuot, the 6th of Sivan, is on the first Lord's day of the month (June 6th). That would be a day that Christians around the world would be celebrating the Lord's table. So this is good.
6. Hebrews 12 is clearly talking about our rapture and compares us coming to Mount Zion with Israel going to Mount Sinai. I feel this is a critical chapter because one thing that bothered me is using the Old Testament for a rapture that is promised to the New Testament saints. I have no problem with types and shadows, nor do I have any issue with the feast days being a shadow of things to come. My issue is that the rapture is part of our covenant and therefore our covenant, a legal document, should be what is telling us about the rapture. Hebrews 12 does that and makes it very clear that there are two covenants and two mountains.
Hebrews 12:22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.
This has to be one of the clearest rapture verses in the entire New Testament and it is using the Old Testament celebration of Shavuot as the context and as a shadow. This is also the conclusion of Hebrews, as though the entire journey in the book of Hebrews (river crossers) brings us here. We have a new covenant, we have a new priesthood (sprinkling of blood), and we have better speaking. This is an all inclusive picture of our meeting in the heavens.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven:
This warning is clearly a warning to the apostasy. Once again, setting the stage for a rapture / judgement. Many have seen "as we go up, Satan and his angels come down".
26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.
This must be a reference to the Day of the Lord.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
This does appear to be Biblical, pointing to this feast as both the time that the rapture takes place and the time that Satan and his angels are kicked out of heaven.
7. Looking at Hebrews 12 it is easy to see that we get a complete picture of the rapture prior to the tribulation, but that when the church goes up many foolish Christians will be exposed who ignored the warnings.
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty:
1. Three times we are required to appear before Jehovah. At the feast of unleavened bread the graves were opened and Jesus and the firstfruits appeared before the Lord. At the feast of tabernacles a strong case can be made that this is the conclusion of all the dead being raised. (There are two resurrections according to God, the resurrection of the living and the resurrection of the dead). Both of those are harvest festivals depicting a harvest. Therefore it is reasonable to say that there will also be a rapture/resurrection of the dead at the feast of weeks).
2. The church was born on Pentecost and according to Revelation 12 you see the birth of the manchild depicting the rapture followed by the woman who brought forth the church fleeing to the wilderness. So it is perfectly reasonable to view our birth as also our rapture.
3. The sixth of Sivan is Shavuot. It is also Enoch's birthday and the day he was raptured. He is a type of the church being raptured prior to the tribulation (flood).
4. I have had an issue with Shavuot being Pentecost depicted in Acts because it seems like they might have been talking about the feast of new wine which is 50 days later. My concern is that seven sabbaths from Passover plus one day will never be 50 days so it would not make sense to call it Pentecost. However, Acts also says that Jews were there from all over and that would indicate that it is one of the three feasts, Shavuot, where everyone had to appear in Jerusalem. That does leave the problem of Ascension day. Still, if it is Shavuot then it does fit with the Spring rapture and the description in Song of Songs.
5. One issue I have had is that the only day given to the New Testament is the Lord's table for us to keep that. This is a New Testament day that clearly points to us celebrating the Passover and drinking the wine again with the Lord, it depicts the wedding, and it reminds us of the Lord's promise to return. This year Shavuot, the 6th of Sivan, is on the first Lord's day of the month (June 6th). That would be a day that Christians around the world would be celebrating the Lord's table. So this is good.
6. Hebrews 12 is clearly talking about our rapture and compares us coming to Mount Zion with Israel going to Mount Sinai. I feel this is a critical chapter because one thing that bothered me is using the Old Testament for a rapture that is promised to the New Testament saints. I have no problem with types and shadows, nor do I have any issue with the feast days being a shadow of things to come. My issue is that the rapture is part of our covenant and therefore our covenant, a legal document, should be what is telling us about the rapture. Hebrews 12 does that and makes it very clear that there are two covenants and two mountains.
Hebrews 12:22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.
This has to be one of the clearest rapture verses in the entire New Testament and it is using the Old Testament celebration of Shavuot as the context and as a shadow. This is also the conclusion of Hebrews, as though the entire journey in the book of Hebrews (river crossers) brings us here. We have a new covenant, we have a new priesthood (sprinkling of blood), and we have better speaking. This is an all inclusive picture of our meeting in the heavens.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven:
This warning is clearly a warning to the apostasy. Once again, setting the stage for a rapture / judgement. Many have seen "as we go up, Satan and his angels come down".
26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.
This must be a reference to the Day of the Lord.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
This does appear to be Biblical, pointing to this feast as both the time that the rapture takes place and the time that Satan and his angels are kicked out of heaven.
7. Looking at Hebrews 12 it is easy to see that we get a complete picture of the rapture prior to the tribulation, but that when the church goes up many foolish Christians will be exposed who ignored the warnings.
From June 6, 2022 1335 years before this the abomination of desolation was built on the temple mount.
From June 6, 2022 1335 months before this (a lunar month is 29.5 days) is July 28, 1914, the start of WWI.
From June 6, 2022 1335 days before this is October 10, 2018 That would have been the very end of Tishrei 1, the Feast of Trumpets and also when Hurricane Michael strengthened into a category 4 storm just before landfall.
From June 6, 2022 1335 months before this (a lunar month is 29.5 days) is July 28, 1914, the start of WWI.
From June 6, 2022 1335 days before this is October 10, 2018 That would have been the very end of Tishrei 1, the Feast of Trumpets and also when Hurricane Michael strengthened into a category 4 storm just before landfall.
Lessons learned from the watchmen
Since starting this blog it has become very clear to me that "no one knows the day or the hour" and so I have been very open to any and all that seemed to be expounding on the Bible, or watching for the Lord's return based on Biblical principles.
I was open to signs in the heavens, types and shadows from the Old Testament, current events that are signs, etc.
But I soon came to feel that there were a couple of key principles to me that seemed to be secondary to others.
1. Few if any emphasize that the Lord's return should be on the Lord's day. My feeling is that God is the same today, yesterday and forever. Jesus only gave us one day to keep, the Lord's day. Everyone looks at all the Old Testament feasts and their significance. OK, those are a shadow of things to come, but in the NT we were not charged to keep any of them. However, we were charged to keep the Lord's table. The Lord's table definitely depicts the wedding and the Lord's 2nd coming so why wouldn't you see that as the first and primary day.
2. Yes, the feasts are a shadow of things to come, Paul tells us this in Colossians. So if you have a "high watch date" I would ask "does it take place on the Lord's day"? If not, let's move on.
3. So much has been done with the calendars, you have the Biblical calendar, Torah calendar, Enoch calendar and Josephus calendar. But the entire world is on the Gregorian calendar and Jesus is Lord, so that could not happen without His sovereignty.
4. We are in the New Covenant and the rapture of the church is part of this covenant. Therefore any claim that anyone makes should be based on the New Covenant verses. I have no problem with you using types and shadows to fill in the picture, but the outline of your drawing needs to be based on the New Testament. This is why Hebrews 12 is so powerful. It clearly is a reference to both the rapture of the church and the judgement on the apostasy and it is also cleary a reference to Shavuot and it is also very clearly showing the difference between the New Testament and the Old Testament.
5. I don't mind people using all kinds of bizarre teachings, mountain is 22 and this year is 22. June 6, 2022 is 666. That is all fine and dandy, but please don't tell me that is what your teaching is based on. To me if this is all wrapped up with shiny wrapping paper and ribbons that is what those teachings are. But for me the meat and potatoes are Hebrews 12, various prophecies in the gospels like Matthew 24, Colossians which tells us that the feasts are a shadow of things to come, and the charge to keep the Lord's table.
6. After I have seen all that then I am quite interested in the various prophecies from the OT that point to this year that Pastor Sandy has pulled out. However, there is too much careless teaching throwing these numbers and dates around. Jesus did not say that the 70th week ends before Israel turns 81. He said "all these things will take place before they turn 81. Look at His list, all those things. Nowhere in His list does He say the 70th week will end first. Everyone will see Jesus Christ returning in great glory in the clouds before they turn 81, or before May 14, 2029. But it could be that the 70th week is not over until the Fall of 2029.
7. People are investigating, they have the right to make mistakes and adjust their interpretation without having to be called "false prophets". I have heard many teaching on Noah's flood as though it was referring to the rapture of the church and now it seems they have all concluded it refers to Israel going through the tribulation. Just like Thomas Edison was allowed to try many different things to get a light bulb to work, we also have the right to try many different interpretations to get these prophecies to work.
8. I have no problem with signs from heaven like the Revelation 12 sign. However, a sign is like a sign on the highway. They tell you what is coming much more often than where you are at.
9. I also feel we should be paying attention to dreams and visions. Joel said there would be these before the great day and so it is crucial that we have them otherwise we have a prophecy not being fulfilled. Also, it is hard for me to believe that they would be meaningless, why give them to us if they are meaningless? To me it is like the story in the Bible where God was revealing the enemies plans to the prophet in Israel. Of course they cannot contradict the Bible, but at the same time there is a lot of information that we can get that may not be in the Bible.
10. Also, look at how those who share these dreams and visions are mocked and ridiculed. Look up Dana Coverstone and see the attacks he gets. You can tell he hates to share these dreams because he knows every time he does he will get more abuse and yet he does it. That is something that I want to see. If someone is using their "visions" for selling books and going on speaking tours then there might be a financial incentive for them to say what they do. But if they do it because they feel they have to in order to be faithful to the Lord it gives me more confidence.
11. Anyway, don't judge before the time. Many have called Dana Coverstone a false prophet for things he said years ago which didn't happen that year but now they are happening. These prophets are giving you a warning with enough time for you to "brace yourself".
12. We need to drop our ego. This is not about us being right. The one thing I am absolutely convinced of is that this is a group effort.
Since starting this blog it has become very clear to me that "no one knows the day or the hour" and so I have been very open to any and all that seemed to be expounding on the Bible, or watching for the Lord's return based on Biblical principles.
I was open to signs in the heavens, types and shadows from the Old Testament, current events that are signs, etc.
But I soon came to feel that there were a couple of key principles to me that seemed to be secondary to others.
1. Few if any emphasize that the Lord's return should be on the Lord's day. My feeling is that God is the same today, yesterday and forever. Jesus only gave us one day to keep, the Lord's day. Everyone looks at all the Old Testament feasts and their significance. OK, those are a shadow of things to come, but in the NT we were not charged to keep any of them. However, we were charged to keep the Lord's table. The Lord's table definitely depicts the wedding and the Lord's 2nd coming so why wouldn't you see that as the first and primary day.
2. Yes, the feasts are a shadow of things to come, Paul tells us this in Colossians. So if you have a "high watch date" I would ask "does it take place on the Lord's day"? If not, let's move on.
3. So much has been done with the calendars, you have the Biblical calendar, Torah calendar, Enoch calendar and Josephus calendar. But the entire world is on the Gregorian calendar and Jesus is Lord, so that could not happen without His sovereignty.
4. We are in the New Covenant and the rapture of the church is part of this covenant. Therefore any claim that anyone makes should be based on the New Covenant verses. I have no problem with you using types and shadows to fill in the picture, but the outline of your drawing needs to be based on the New Testament. This is why Hebrews 12 is so powerful. It clearly is a reference to both the rapture of the church and the judgement on the apostasy and it is also cleary a reference to Shavuot and it is also very clearly showing the difference between the New Testament and the Old Testament.
5. I don't mind people using all kinds of bizarre teachings, mountain is 22 and this year is 22. June 6, 2022 is 666. That is all fine and dandy, but please don't tell me that is what your teaching is based on. To me if this is all wrapped up with shiny wrapping paper and ribbons that is what those teachings are. But for me the meat and potatoes are Hebrews 12, various prophecies in the gospels like Matthew 24, Colossians which tells us that the feasts are a shadow of things to come, and the charge to keep the Lord's table.
6. After I have seen all that then I am quite interested in the various prophecies from the OT that point to this year that Pastor Sandy has pulled out. However, there is too much careless teaching throwing these numbers and dates around. Jesus did not say that the 70th week ends before Israel turns 81. He said "all these things will take place before they turn 81. Look at His list, all those things. Nowhere in His list does He say the 70th week will end first. Everyone will see Jesus Christ returning in great glory in the clouds before they turn 81, or before May 14, 2029. But it could be that the 70th week is not over until the Fall of 2029.
7. People are investigating, they have the right to make mistakes and adjust their interpretation without having to be called "false prophets". I have heard many teaching on Noah's flood as though it was referring to the rapture of the church and now it seems they have all concluded it refers to Israel going through the tribulation. Just like Thomas Edison was allowed to try many different things to get a light bulb to work, we also have the right to try many different interpretations to get these prophecies to work.
8. I have no problem with signs from heaven like the Revelation 12 sign. However, a sign is like a sign on the highway. They tell you what is coming much more often than where you are at.
9. I also feel we should be paying attention to dreams and visions. Joel said there would be these before the great day and so it is crucial that we have them otherwise we have a prophecy not being fulfilled. Also, it is hard for me to believe that they would be meaningless, why give them to us if they are meaningless? To me it is like the story in the Bible where God was revealing the enemies plans to the prophet in Israel. Of course they cannot contradict the Bible, but at the same time there is a lot of information that we can get that may not be in the Bible.
10. Also, look at how those who share these dreams and visions are mocked and ridiculed. Look up Dana Coverstone and see the attacks he gets. You can tell he hates to share these dreams because he knows every time he does he will get more abuse and yet he does it. That is something that I want to see. If someone is using their "visions" for selling books and going on speaking tours then there might be a financial incentive for them to say what they do. But if they do it because they feel they have to in order to be faithful to the Lord it gives me more confidence.
11. Anyway, don't judge before the time. Many have called Dana Coverstone a false prophet for things he said years ago which didn't happen that year but now they are happening. These prophets are giving you a warning with enough time for you to "brace yourself".
12. We need to drop our ego. This is not about us being right. The one thing I am absolutely convinced of is that this is a group effort.
Prayer for today
Psalm 19
ז Zayin.
49 Remember the word unto thy servant,
Because thou hast made me to hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction;
For thy word hath quickened me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision:
Yet have I not swerved from thy law.
52 I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah,
And have comforted myself.
53 Hot indignation hath taken hold upon me,
Because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
54 Thy statutes have been my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night,
And have observed thy law.
56 This I have had,
Because I have kept thy precepts.
Lord hide us from your indignation
Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Psalm 19
ז Zayin.
49 Remember the word unto thy servant,
Because thou hast made me to hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction;
For thy word hath quickened me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision:
Yet have I not swerved from thy law.
52 I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah,
And have comforted myself.
53 Hot indignation hath taken hold upon me,
Because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
54 Thy statutes have been my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night,
And have observed thy law.
56 This I have had,
Because I have kept thy precepts.
Lord hide us from your indignation
Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
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2Thess 2:6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: [f]only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way.
2Thess 2:6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: [f]only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way.
Pre-Trib/Post Trib -- We are all one body and one blood in Christ
Stan is very strong against a Pre-tribulation rapture being Biblical. Pastor Sandy is equally strong against those who think a Pre-tribulation rapture is not Biblical. I post links from both on this blog regularly.
Here is my opinion on this matter.
Stan and Pastor Sandy are both servants of the Lord doing what the Lord has told them to do.
Stan's burden is to restrain the evil and help God's people prepare for the evil day. We all agree whether you are Pre tribulation or not, that many of God's people will be here during the tribulation. Therefore I can certainly understand this.
Pastor Sandy's burden is for the church.
You might say "aren't these the same people". But why would you say that? We have a military in this country that are supposed to be fighting against the forces that want to destroy us. Do they include the full 350 million Americans? The Lord is over far more than just the US, surely he can have servants doing many different jobs with many different missions.
Romans 14:4 Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.
But Stan said "no prophet of God believes in a pre-tribulation rapture". Yes, even though I believe in a Pre-tribulation rapture I agree with Stan. If your job is to be one with the Holy Spirit in praying for God to restrain the evil one then the thought "hey, it doesn't matter because we'll all be raptured out of here anyway" that is not helpful.
But if that is the case then what about the watchmen who are all speaking concerning a pre-tribulation rapture?
2Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
We are not preaching ourselves. This is not our teaching. We are sharing the word of God and whatever light the Lord gives us in the word. By all means if we are to be ridiculed and reviled when we do it then rejoice, because our reward in heaven will be great.
Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
One very interesting contrast between the two, those who teach that there is a pre tribulation rapture also teach that it does not matter if you believe this or not, it is not an essential doctrine of the faith. On the other hand those that are prophets warning God's people and praying for God to restrain the evil one teach that you cannot do this job if you believe in a pre tribulation rapture. It is like warriors in the military, you burn the bridge behind them so they know they must hold the line.
2Timothy 2:24 And the Lord’s servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
So on one hand Stan says you can't be a prophet and believe in the pre tribulation rapture but on the other hand he says he loves all his pre trib brothers and sisters. No one views this as an essential doctrine of the faith. This is not about being right or wrong, it is about being faithful to what the Lord has told you.
Hebrews 3:5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken;
Moses gave the law, we now have a better covenant. This doesn't mean Moses was wrong, rather he was faithful and God has a plan that is more wonderful than our poor reach of mind.
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
It is the revelation of Jesus Christ, not the revelation of Pastor Sandy or the Revelation of Pastor Stan. They are both seeing the things that must shortly come to pass.
Suppose this were a football game and Stan is on the defense and Sandy is on the offense. Stan's mindset is they will not score. Sandy's mindset is we will score.
Stan is very strong against a Pre-tribulation rapture being Biblical. Pastor Sandy is equally strong against those who think a Pre-tribulation rapture is not Biblical. I post links from both on this blog regularly.
Here is my opinion on this matter.
Stan and Pastor Sandy are both servants of the Lord doing what the Lord has told them to do.
Stan's burden is to restrain the evil and help God's people prepare for the evil day. We all agree whether you are Pre tribulation or not, that many of God's people will be here during the tribulation. Therefore I can certainly understand this.
Pastor Sandy's burden is for the church.
You might say "aren't these the same people". But why would you say that? We have a military in this country that are supposed to be fighting against the forces that want to destroy us. Do they include the full 350 million Americans? The Lord is over far more than just the US, surely he can have servants doing many different jobs with many different missions.
Romans 14:4 Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.
But Stan said "no prophet of God believes in a pre-tribulation rapture". Yes, even though I believe in a Pre-tribulation rapture I agree with Stan. If your job is to be one with the Holy Spirit in praying for God to restrain the evil one then the thought "hey, it doesn't matter because we'll all be raptured out of here anyway" that is not helpful.
But if that is the case then what about the watchmen who are all speaking concerning a pre-tribulation rapture?
2Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
We are not preaching ourselves. This is not our teaching. We are sharing the word of God and whatever light the Lord gives us in the word. By all means if we are to be ridiculed and reviled when we do it then rejoice, because our reward in heaven will be great.
Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
One very interesting contrast between the two, those who teach that there is a pre tribulation rapture also teach that it does not matter if you believe this or not, it is not an essential doctrine of the faith. On the other hand those that are prophets warning God's people and praying for God to restrain the evil one teach that you cannot do this job if you believe in a pre tribulation rapture. It is like warriors in the military, you burn the bridge behind them so they know they must hold the line.
2Timothy 2:24 And the Lord’s servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
So on one hand Stan says you can't be a prophet and believe in the pre tribulation rapture but on the other hand he says he loves all his pre trib brothers and sisters. No one views this as an essential doctrine of the faith. This is not about being right or wrong, it is about being faithful to what the Lord has told you.
Hebrews 3:5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken;
Moses gave the law, we now have a better covenant. This doesn't mean Moses was wrong, rather he was faithful and God has a plan that is more wonderful than our poor reach of mind.
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
It is the revelation of Jesus Christ, not the revelation of Pastor Sandy or the Revelation of Pastor Stan. They are both seeing the things that must shortly come to pass.
Suppose this were a football game and Stan is on the defense and Sandy is on the offense. Stan's mindset is they will not score. Sandy's mindset is we will score.