Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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What is the point?

Matthew 13:7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.


Yes, we have had wars throughout human history. But what happened beginning with WWI was a move towards one world government. Woodrow Wilson setting up the league of nations, the establishment of the UN. Everything has been moving towards this one world government with the beast and the antichrist.

Rumors are a tactic of war. You see how people will respond, not by announcing something but releasing a rumor about it. In this way it has become clear that the US and Israel are the sticking point to this one world government.

The Catholic Church is very willing to set up one world religion embracing Islam, Buddhists, and others. They have realized the only ones that are a sticking point are those that say that Jesus is God. They have passed Noahide laws that would make that illegal. The rest of the world, even pantheists can embrace the concept of one supreme being.

The UN has been a powerless joke for a long time and so they realize to have real power they need to be able to control people what they can buy or sell. Why has the UN been powerless? Because we control their purse strings. So flip the script and they will have real power. Also, we think the US is the leader of the free world, what we miss is that the "free world" is only about 12% of the world. 88% of the world is run by tyrannies, oligarchs and an elite ruling class. Ever since WWII these rich leaders have had great respect towards the US and have been working to infiltrate and co-opt the US. Another source of the "rumors".

The deep state brought in a very special operation after WWII which we call "the intelligence community". The elites have always known this was critical for them to keep power. This is why they have confession in the Catholic church, so that the Priests could keep the kings informed of anything that is going on. This is why slave owners in the South knew they needed to groom "uncle Tom's". This is why the all seeing eye was put on the US dollar in 1935. They have understood that they needed this capability and have been working towards it ever since WWI was over.

The great depression brought in radical changes to the US from FDR, a Freemason. It is like the black and white tiles of their floor. Yes, everything he did seemed humane on one hand but on the other increased the size and power of the federal government.

The CIA came into existence in 1947, Israel became a nation in 1948. These are two sides of great prophecies being fulfilled. Israel being born in a single day from a proclamation from the UN, that is a great prophecy. On the other hand the CIA is the source of "rumors of war". The Central Intelligence Agency gets their power from "rumors of war". There are WMD's in Iraq, OK, here is a blank check spend whatever you need. Vietnam fired a torpedo at one of our warships. OK, spend whatever you need in a war in Vietnam. The cold war is ending -- oh no it's not! Russia just sent a spy to the US who assassinated the US president. Iraq was responsible for 911. The CIA manipulates a "democracy" to do its bidding by using rumors of war.
 

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Until that day I drink it new

Matthew 26:29 But I say unto you, I shall not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.

Mark 14:25 Verily I say unto you, I shall no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

I am wondering if this expression "until that day I drink it new" is pointing to the feast of new wine (Pentecost)?
 

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Shavuot needs to be fulfilled!

Feast of firstfruits of the wheat.

 

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Fig tree cursed in spring -- great connection to ascension day -- Shavuot
 

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Huge tornado -- Hail and tornadoes seem very common these days

 

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The New Testament Ministry

2 Corinthians.

Chapter 1 -- The New Testament ministry is an answer to the Lord’s prayer: “thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”.

Chapter 2 -- Obedience to the Lord will always result in victory.

Chapter 3 -- The goal of this ministry is that we would all be the Lord’s letter of commendation with the word of God engraved on our hearts. We behold and reflect the Lord as a mirror image, and our rapture is us going from glory to glory in a mirror image of the Lord's resurrection.

Chapter 4 -- We are transformed into a weapon of warfare as a result of our renouncing evil.

Chapter 5 -- The ministry in a single word: reconciliation. We have the ministry that reconciles man to God, God to man, and man to man.

Chapter 6 -- This ministry is likened to the festival of dedication known as Hanukkah. “Come out from them and be separate”. Hanukkah is a celebration of light and there are eight days to this celebration. The last eight chapters of 2Corinthians give us this light.

8 days of light

Chapter 6 -- we see the fair exchange. You exchange your life of service for an eternal salvation.

Chapter 7 -- we must heed our spirit and not walk by sight.

Chapter 8 -- we see the privilege of participating in God’s move. Satan would threaten us, but all he can do is to cast us out. If we have already come out and become separate there is nothing he can do to you. The rapture is our being separated just like the waters above being separated from the waters below.

Chapter 9 -- The historical viewpoint, the bird’s eye view of what is going on and realize “we don’t want to be on the wrong side of history”. If this were Nazi Germany you would want to be standing against the Nazi's. If this were at the time of Acts you would want to be standing with the Lord's apostles.

Chapter 10 -- We see the enemy “weaponize free speech”. The enemy will insult and slander because he has no case. We cannot be ignorant of Satan’s devices if we are going to stand up for the Lord and bring in the Kingdom. We are seeing testimonies concerning Satanic cults like the FreeMasons, these educate us so that we are not ignorant of Satan's devices.

Chapter 11 -- Once you see through that device you can then see the counterfeit apostles, the pseudo apostles, and learn how to discern.

Chapter 12 -- we see the Lord’s second coming and we see that there are three categories of saints. There are those who were able to receive the light in the previous chapters, they are raptured first to the third heavens. Then there are those who were stumbled by the counterfeit apostles and the weaponized speech. They will need to take a repeater class for a few years.

Chapter 13 -- Finally the Lord comes a third time where we will all appear before the judgement for the things we have done.
 

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Shavuot needs to be fulfilled!

Feast of firstfruits of the wheat.

He makes a great point about 14 minutes in, Jesus cannot harvest us as the wheat harvest unless he first offer the firstfruits on Shavuot. That is the law.
 

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Shavuot needs to be fulfilled!

Feast of firstfruits of the wheat.

He makes a point 14 minutes in that some may miss or not understand.

In Genesis 1:1 the word "In the beginning" is one Hebrew word. Beresheet. You can look it up, it is translated as "firstfruits" about 14 times in the Bible.

However, if you are not familiar with it, look for a message on Beresheet -- you can see the entire plan of salvation in this word. Which is why he quotes "I say the end from the beginning". The very first word of the Bible tells us about Jesus salvation.
 

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Shavuot needs to be fulfilled!

Feast of firstfruits of the wheat.

At 29 minutes he makes a great point, has Jesus fulfilled the offering at Shavuot? Unless the firstfruit offering is made to God the harvest is not acceptable. If Jesus ascension was the fulfillment of this offering is there any evidence in the New Testament?

Let's consider

1. Hebrews 12 describes us coming to Mount Zion to get the NT to the Jews coming to Mount Sinai to get the OT. Since we have received the NT surely the Lord must have completed this offering to God with His ascension.

2. In the NT we are told there is no Jew or Gentile but that we are one body, one loaf. During Shavuot you offer two loaves as one offering. The two are made one.

3. We all agree that Passover was completed, Unleavened bread was completed, Feast of firstfruits was completed, and Pentecost was completed. Even if you don't agree that Pentecost was the feast of new wine you must agree that the Spirit was poured out on this day (the new wine) and the church came into existence (the new wine skin). Seems bizarre that those first three feasts would be fulfilled and then we skip number 4 and fulfill #5.

4. What is the Lord's table -- he takes the bread, breaks it, and gives it to us saying this is His body broken for us. After that He takes the cup and says drink this is His blood poured out for us. This is a picture of those two feasts, Shavuot we take the bread and Pentecost we take the cup.

5. The church is the wheat harvest. You can't take in the wheat harvest unless you have offered the firstfruit to God.

6. This word "firstfruit" is Beresheet and it is a description of the Lord's saving work on the cross. It clearly refers to Jesus.

7. Passover = Lord's table, crucifixion
Unleavened bread = death and burial
Feast of firstfruits = resurrection and the ones who rose out of the graves
Shavuot = ascension
Pentecost = pouring out the spirit and birth of the church
 

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During Shavuot you need the following:

1. 2 leavened loaves as a wave offering. Leaven does not signify sin, that is the mistake many make, it signifies the traditions. When Jesus said to beware of the leaven of the pharisees the disciples realized He meant the teachings and traditions. The unleavened bread feast is where we clean out the house of all our old traditions. Think about that, the New Testament was supposed to clean out all the traditions from the Old Testament. Why two loaves? Jesus is the cornerstone, He joins the Jews and the Gentiles and makes them one. We were two loaves but we become one offering, one sacrifice to God.

2. 7 lambs -- represent the church. On Passover Jesus was the lamb of God. However He told us that in order to be with Him we had to take up our cross and follow Him. Paul told us he was crucified with Christ. Peter told us that we are often called to suffer just as Christ was. James told us to submit to God and to resist the devil. In Genesis 21 Abraham offers up 7 ewe lambs and says they are "a witness that I have digged this well". The Lord told us that we are His witnesses.

3. The kid goat and the two lambs signify those who are raptured, being snatched away.

4. The Bull and the Ram are how you consecrate a priest. Jesus is our offering. Our destiny is to become priests of God.
 

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Isaiah 47 -- The multitude of thy sorceries

I am interested in looking at this word as it applies to us today. Babylon refers to an evil, Satanic system that worshipped Baal and Ashteroth. It is a worldwide system that is both religious (a one world religion) and commercial (one world economy with multinational corporations). Although they are trying to be united and work as one it is a Satanic system. Post #2363 demonstrates how Hollywood is part of this Satanic system. I have given many other posts throughout this blog which show that FreeMasons trace their religion back to Babylon. Trump tower is built as a temple to Baal, I put that in #2351. We have seen Babylonian ritualistic worship ceremonies at the Superbowl and Olympics demonstrating how this is a one world religion.

47 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

The Chaldeans were the most fearsome of all warriors. The "virgin" daughter of Babylon would refer to the US. We are a "daughter" of the UK, as a "christian" nation we would be considered a virgin, and at one time our parents were the most fearsome warriors on this planet, so this generation is "the daughter of the Chaldeans". Not only so but with all of this "woke" culture and people being so incredibly sensitive and easy to offend we are not the "son" but rather the "tender and delicate" daughter. But, no more.

2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.

Babylon is the one responsible for destroying Israel. WWII was not solely the responsibility of Hitler and the Germans. On the contrary the elites around the world became alarmed at the Russian revolution. They were scared of communism and so they funded the "German miracle" with money from the Rothschilds, Ford, and elites from around the world. The goal was to put a wall between them and communism. This is why Hitler turned from the Battle of Britain to attack Russia. Rather than being the biggest blunder it was the puppeteer pulling the puppet strings. Well, WWII officially ended on October 24th, 1951 when a peace treaty was signed. The 70th anniversary of that date was October 24th, 2021. We are told in Jeremiah that after 70 years the Lord will visit Babylon for what they did to Israel. God intended to teach Israel a lesson, to turn them back to Him, but they went too far with the Holocaust and the gas chambers, so the Lord will take vengeance on them and will spare no man. This war in Ukraine will turn nuclear, the inflation, depression, and famine will spare no man.

4 Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. 6 I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. 7 And thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof.

Who is this that is saying she will be "the mistress of kingdoms"? Ford and the Rothschilds represent bankers and industrialists. Multinational corporations. Hollywood with their movies going worldwide. The NBA and other sports franchises trying to appeal to a global market. Many of those corporations began in the US and are considered US companies by many, but the reality is that the US is only 5% of the world's population and so is not their major market. So although we may think of Coca Cola or Disney as a US corporation, their leaders don't. They are globalists.

8 Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Hollywood could say "there is none else besides me" even though there is Bollywood and there are movies made in Hong Kong as well. The point is not that this is a true statement but an arrogant one. Pride goes before a fall and the prophecy is of a very big fall. But I want to focus on the "multitude of thy sorceries". It refers to both sorceries and witchcraft, spells and potions. For example, the cigarette industry realized that making people addicted to nicotine was the most profitable business strategy and so they hired chemists to make their cigarettes as addictive as possible and viewed them as means to get your "nicotine fix". However since they were a drug they should have been treated as a drug which would have destroyed their business model so they brought in some of the best lawyers to craft a strategy of plausible deniability. The addictive drug was sorcery and the lawyers strategy to get around the law was witchcraft. The NFL did the same thing with CTE. The Catholic church did the same thing with pedophile priests. Many years ago products were made to last, you could buy a phone that would last you a lifetime, today we have "planned obsolescence" where these items will break and will not be worth fixing. All of these are "enchantments". They hired some wizard to come in and cast a spell and all of sudden the company was twice as profitable even though the products were poorer quality.

10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

Yes, this worked as long as no one saw them and that is why they had people sign Non Disclosure agreements (NDAs). But eventually we had whistleblowers come out.

11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou knowest not.

So because they were extremely deceitful and tried to hide their wickedness their judgement will be the same. As they have done it will be done unto them. Everyone can see the inflation, the war, and the looming recession. But for a select few these are good times. Inflation doesn't affect you if you own the commodities, the land, the food. The war is good news to the military industrial complex. Recession, that is good for the owners, labor costs will go down. What they don't see is the rapture and how devastating that will be to everything they think is about to happen.

12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.

It seems these are the same people -- the prognosticators, the talking heads on TV. In other words they control the media, they use the media to manipulate public opinion, this is their plan on how to save themselves. We saw this during the litigation with the tobacco companies as they threatened massive litigation against CBS. We can see today that the mainstream media is fully controlled and is simply the mouthpiece of the elites.

14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. 15 Thus shall the things be unto thee wherein thou hast labored: they that have trafficked with thee from thy youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save thee.

We are seeing this play out now. CNN has seen an 80% drop in their ratings. They are going to become as stubble. Rachel Maddow was the most significant pundit on MSNBC, she sees the writing on the wall and has run for cover. Facebook, Twitter, and Google have all been exposed for trafficking with the wicked and so people are moving to other platforms. They will all be stubble, unable to save Babylon. Disney, Netflix, and the NBA are exposed.
 

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This is an interview confirming the evidence of these suitcase nukes being out of Russia and confirms what many other prophets, dreams, visions and whistleblowers have said.
 

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This is an interview confirming the evidence of these suitcase nukes being out of Russia and confirms what many other prophets, dreams, visions and whistleblowers have said.
When I worked on Wall Street I would regularly see military personnel on the street appearing to be scanning for radiation. Perhaps it could be possible to identify one of these nukes with these types of scans. That is why I thought Dana Coverstone's dream about these "men in black" figures all being at the Arch in St. Louis and then dispersing throughout the country. I don't think that is meant to be understood literally, rather to me it meant these nukes are dispersed widely in the rural areas where it would be next to impossible to scan for them until the moment they are sent to go to various cities and detonate them.
 

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According to the law God said "if you obey I'll forgive the punishment" According to Ezekiel Israel was supposed to be in captivity for 390+40 years, or 430 years (Ezekiel laid on his side for 390 days for Israel and 40 days for Judah). However, if after 70 years they obeyed to return to Jerusalem God would forgive the 360 years. Instead they stayed in Babylon so he multiplied the 360 years times 7 which equaled 2520 years and that brought them to 1948 to the day.

So that is from Cyrus decree to return to Israel.

Well, 80 years later Artaxerxes made a decreed to restore and rebuild Jerusalem -- that would be in 2028.
 

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Joel 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
 

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Don't know what to think about this.

 

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Signs in the sun, and in the moon and in the stars

Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Partial solar eclipse -- 4/30/22

Blood Moon -- 5/16/22

Massive Shooting Stars -- 5/30/22

 

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Warning -- I can see the train coming

If you have not been paying attention to many of these links they are making a very compelling case for why this year that began in the Fall of 2021 and ends in october of 2022 (Jewish year begins with Rosh Hashana, this is the birthday of the world so for the perspective of the Gentiles this is where the years begin and end) is the year that the tribulation begins and the pre tribulation rapture takes place. Technically most people believe the tribulation will begin on the Feast of Trumpets which would be the first day of the next year. However, after the rapture there may be some very amazing and miraculous things happening on Earth. The dragon spews a flood out of his mouth to kill the woman who is fleeing to the wilderness. We might get the miraculous Ezekiel 38 war against Israel with the coalition of Russia, Turkey, and a number of other islamic nations. All indications are that this would be a nuclear war. If Biden agrees to split Jerusalem between the Jews and the Palestinians many prophecies say that God will split the US from the Great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. There are other prophecies about famine and suitcase nukes which may take place prior to this fall. So, a lot of incredible, miraculous and terrifying things could happen before October.

As for dates, I think the clearest and most irrefutable date is that the AntiChrist would be released the 9th of Av. That would be around August 6th and 7th. Now if that is Pentecost then the Spirit will be poured out in a powerful and miraculous way as well. This would put Shavuot at June 16th. Dr. Barry Awe has made a very compelling case for Shavuot being the feast where we must all appear before the Lord and the one that has yet to be fulfilled. It is the feast of firstfruits of the wheat and Revelation refers to one of the raptures as the rapture of the firstfruits. I would say that this is far and away the strongest case to be made. A long list can be given for why and we have done that in the last ten or twenty posts. Pastor Sandy also agrees with this though he is referring to Shavuot as Pentecost. Steve Fletcher is also identifying many signs and wonders that are pointed at this day. The Return of the King also agrees with this, as do others like Godaminute and others.

Prophecy club is letting you know that the Lord has been shouting a warning with many dreams and visions. These are all warnings concerning the tribulation, the famine, the judgement of the US, etc.

One thing I would point out is that everything has been increasing exponentially. Earthquakes, natural disasters, economic disasters, political catastrophes, etc. If the rapture does not take place this Shavuot you have several issues. First, the feast of Shavuot has not yet been fulfilled and it must be. It is the feast for the harvest of the wheat and the church is the wheat harvest. As bad as things are now, imagine what it will be like in one year, so I find it hard to believe the dam doesn't burst before then. China has 0 growth in their GDP and the US GDP shrunk by 1.4%. This is totally catastrophic. The CCP is like a criminal organization that needs slush funds to keep everyone loyal. A famine and a recession at the same time is catastrophic to the Chinese regime and they know it. The same is true for Russia, they are like the guy at the poker table who has put all his chips on this bet. It is all or nothing for Russia. Iran, Turkey, and many other countries are on the verge of total economic collapse right now, so either they figure out a worthy opponent to blame and go to war with or else there will be internal revolutions. The US is also on the verge of an internal revolution. Durham is clearly going to indict major players in the Democratic party all the way up to Clinton and maybe Obama, the election fraud proceeds without any statue of limitations as it is "treason" and that also will bring down Biden's regime. Meanwhile the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is also proceeding and tying Joe and Jim into the scandal. This could go on for a couple more weeks, but it is very hard to believe it could go on for a couple of months. This is going to be a summer of blackouts, fires, famines, and revolutions. All of this could easily erupt into a nuclear WWIII.

The rapture is a word "harpazo" which means to snatch out of the way of destruction. Think of the old time movies where Dudley Do Right saves the girl tied to the railroad tracks right before the train comes. That is what it means to "snatch away" or "harpazo". The rapture will take place when you can see the train coming.