Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, part 1

5 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Why are Christians so concerned about times and dates? They refer to them as "high watch dates", they feel like here is where we really need to be paying attention. But Paul says you don't need that because we have something else that we will see. We will see that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. According to Paul if we understand that then we don't need times and dates. I have repeatedly returned to this verse and I believe it is because I have only been scratching the surface and the Lord is demanding I look at this again.

Luke 12:39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

This verse is repeated in Matthew and Luke. When the Lord says "understand this" it doesn't mean that we won't know when the thief is coming, rather it means this is the reason the house was broken into. This "house" could refer to the infiltration of the US with this communist agenda to defund the police and overthrow the government. It could refer to a "globalist" infiltration and takeover of our political representatives who have an agenda to destroy the US currency which would force us into this globalist union. It could refer to the stolen election. It could refer to George Soros, and Mark Zuckerberg financing all kinds of corruption behind the scenes. It could refer to the apostasy of the church and the infiltration of organized Christianity with false brothers. The point I'm making is that all of these things are signs to us letting us know the Lord is coming and they are far more useful that dates and times. If you read this we are supposed to be preventing the thief from breaking into our house and in Luke He talks about giving the saints the proper food at the proper time. Therefore the recent declaration about Chrislam, that is a major sign that the Lord is coming.

Revelation 3:3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.


This verse tells us the same thing but from a different angle. I consider the church in Sardis to represent the Protestant Denominational churches. All of these churches had a wonderful start where they had received some new revelation from the Bible and they held it fast. But then at the end of the age there is a new revelation and they have completely forgotten how to receive new light. For over a century they have been drugged with this "no one knows the day and the hour" as though that absolves them from watching or even guarding the house from the thief. The Lord is telling them if you don't wake up now when you do wake up you will realize you have been robbed and you will be ashamed. But this also is a great sign to us that at the end of the age there will be this apostasy and all these Christian denominational churches who are asleep and refuse to wake up. For some of us we can't believe that some are still clueless about what the pandemic and vaccine are all about, or the plan for one world currency, or for a vaccine passport, or the many other indications that a thief has come.

Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,


This is really a very great sign, the rapture of the church will leave many believers ashamed. Everyone talks about not knowing when the rapture will take place. Fine, forget about that, how about knowing how to avoid getting robbed? No one would be so foolish as to say there is nothing we can do about not getting robbed. You can lock the door, you can get an alarm system, you can get a dog, you can buy a safe. If someone were going to break into your house and steal something of high value how long would it take them? Could they do it in less than 5 minutes or would then need at least 30 minutes? Would they need a truck or could they put the valuables in their pocket and simply walk away? Most police can respond to a call within five minutes. Most thieves are going to want a get away car. My point is that it is relatively simple to prevent your house from being robbed. So then if you do wake up after the rapture and you were robbed it is going to be very embarrassing to those who were supposed to be keeping guard. But look at this verse: their kings, their princes, their priests and their prophets! Wow, that is everyone that you put your trust in has failed you.

2Sam 15:6 And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.

This story is a direct example of "the day of the Lord coming like a thief in the night". If you saw Absalom in the gates of the city stealing the hearts of the men of Israel you would know the insurrection was about to take place. This would be a great sign. David was caught by surprise and barely escaped. But this really reveals what the Lord means by the day coming as a thief in the night. The thief is "stealing the hearts of men". That is what the apostasy is, that is what CRT is, that is what the defund the police movement funded by marxist is. For four years we heard a non stop barrage attacking the President with an "orange man is bad" narrative designed to steal the hearts of men. That should have been a very big sign to us.

What Paul is saying is that if we are focused on preventing our house from being broken into we would have woken up much sooner than any teaching on dates and times. Also, the point is not to be awake for the sake of being awake but rather to prevent the thief from breaking into the house and robbing it. So then focusing on making the house secure is by far the more needful message. The apostasy was a big wake up for many, the election fraud was a big wake up call for many, this horrendous exit from Afghanistan was a big wake up call for many. But to prevent the house from being robbed we need to pray.

Joel 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

Joel describes this worldwide pandemic as a thief sneaking into people's houses like a thief. This pandemic with all the lies has woken up many more people that there is a thief breaking into the house.
 

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The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, part 2

Zechariah 5:1 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll. 2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

These dimensions refer to the door to the Holy of Holies in the Temple. When the Lord comes He says He is at the door. When this door opens the first thing that happens is He sends out his angels to bundle up the Tares to be burned. This doesn't mean they are burned yet, only that they are bound. Then He gathers the wheat into His barn. That is the rapture. So then just like Paul told us we don't need to know dates and times, what we need to be aware of is when the angels are gathering up the tares to be bound. The forensic audit of the election is doing that. Durhams investigation into the FISA warrant scandal and the Russia hoax is doing that. The Ghislaine Maxwell trial into pedophile island and all the elites is doing that. There are rumors of a war going on between the US military ("white hats") and a network of underground bunkers and facilities all connected by maglev trains. It may be that the invasion in Ukraine is also doing that.

3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.

This word "curse" in Hebrew is a very serious word for an eternal judgement or curse like that of the tares to be burned. There are two categories of crimes, those that are the thief doing the stealing and those who are doing the lying to hide what is taking place. We have two kinds of criminals being rounded up right now, those involved in the theft including human trafficking and those who are involved in the lying about it. The mainstream media, people like Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon are being implicated in this crime. We are seeing the "angels" go gather them up. Some are claiming "we have all the evidence of the election fraud", others are saying that Durham had all the evidence of the FISA scandal for the last two years and was simply waiting for the opportune time. The Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell is now a runaway best seller book and so we have the evidence we need to convict and prosecute all of those thefts. There is another book on Fauci and his involvement in the Pandemic. Already we are seeing the pieces getting put together on that theft. Paul told us these were the big signs, the things we would see and the Lord told us the same thing that first we would see the tares being gathered up, bound, and then later tossed into the fire. One aspect of the gospel is that we would have nothing to do with the unfruitful works of darkness. If you heeded that then this current rounding up might be nothing more than "rumors of war" to you, but that is a good thing. I have heard of people saying they hear explosions taking place underground. According to some accounts there is a full fledged war going on beneath the surface where we can't see.

4 The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’”

Again, this is what we are seeing. This did not take place in a single day. Durham has been involved in his investigation for about two years, the election fraud investigations about one year, the Hunter Biden laptop from hell about one year, and the Pandemic is now about 18 months to two years for that investigation. What the Lord says here about destroying it completely is very similar to Trump's "drain the swamp" slogan. This is a great promise, it will be destroyed completely. He isn't going to simply break a few windows, he will be rooting up the tares from the roots so they are completely removed. This reminds me of the Lord's word that not one stone would be left upon another of the temple.

The tribulation has been misrepresented by many believers and especially by Hollywood. The appearance of the AntiChrist is part of an organized retreat. To my understanding the war takes place in three stages. Right now we are in the first stage of rounding up the tares and binding them for the fire. I believe this stage began in 2018. This will culminate in the rapture of the first fruits. That will be when all the sleeping Christians will be rebuked and ashamed. It will also be when Satan is cast out of heaven to the Earth. It is like the battle of Britain where Germany lost control of the air as the US air force wore them down. Then D day would be like the situation for the believers left on the Earth, they are now waking up to a ground campaign.

Meanwhile there will be a holocaust where a third of the people on the Earth die. This is retribution for them killing a third of all Jews during the holocaust. Think of the AntiChrist as being similar to Hitler after D day, he is surrounded, all he gets is bad news and the day of judgement is closing in on him. Meanwhile he is viciously killing about 2 billion people. Yes, there will be Christian martyrs at this time but that will be considered a major victory. Not only so but during this time you will have a massive revival on earth greater than anything we have ever seen prior. Then of course there will also be Armageddon, but that will be the last gasp desperate attempt just like the Battle of the Bulge and that will be a massive concluding defeat to AntiChrist and His armies.

I see Satan and his angels being sent to Earth and the establishment of AntiChrist as a further way in which the tares are bundled. The tares will be attracted to Antichrist, they will join "the nazi party", they will join "the gestapo", etc.

Where are we right now? We have fought and defeated Rommel, we also fought in Italy. Britain was able to withstand a despicable bombing. The air war is turning the tide. Initially we didn't have the news outlets and tech platforms, but now we have them and the polls have flipped and we are now winning in the air. We are preparing for the D day invasion. Biden should have pressed his advantage after January 6th, so that is a major blunder of theirs to wait, and now blaming everything on Russia including blowing up their own gas pipeline, it is like Germany attacking Russia and being caught in this war that will destroy them. No one is buying the idea that Russia blew it up and everyone is seeing that it was the US.
 

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Day of Atonement

Exodus 32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
31 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.


Made unto them gods of gold? This sounds like the Prosperity gospel, it sounds like materialism and Xmas.

32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
33 And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

This is what the day of atonement is all about, you are judged by God for your sins. Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb and walking in obedience to His word? Do you love His appearing? Are you watching and waiting while investing the talent that He has given you? Or are you mocking and ridiculing the believers, eating and drinking with the drunken, caught up in a worship of gold?

34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

Lead the people unto the place of which the Lord has spoken sounds like the rapture. The day in which He visits us, sounds like the midnight cry that the bridegroom cometh. So the day that the Lord visits us, the day of rapture will also be the day that God will visit the sins of the apostate church on them.

35 And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

This sounds like the tribulation and the great tribulation. So let's look at this logically, the Lord commanded us to watch for His coming. Every single time that the Lord said "no one knows the day or the hour" He also said "therefore I say unto you to watch". So that word that we don't know the day or the hour is a charge that we must watch. Why would Christians and churches use this as an excuse not to watch? Could it be they are worshipping gold and are not interested in the Lord's return? Could it be that teaching on the rapture will undermine the FreeMason's attempt to distort the gospel with their once saved always saved doctrine that it is OK to live in sin?

Lord Jesus you are a merciful God. Yes, many Christians are apostate, they have sinned, they have forsaken your word. Yes, you have said that you will visit their sin upon them and you will plague them. However, in judgement we pray that you would show yourself merciful so that every knee would bow, every tongue confess that you are a great God, so much greater than all the false gods who do not have forgiveness. We pray that as grievous and heavy that your discipline might be that it would work out to salvation for so many lukewarm Christians and nominal Christians.
 

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Matthew 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

Look at this, the cry goes out, all the virgins wake up and trim their lamps which means you cut the charred part off the wick and light it. But the foolish ones their lamps go out because there is no oil.


We see this right now, it seems youtube videos about the rapture and dreams and visions have exploded. A couple of years ago I was surprised to see Dana Coverstone's dreams, now rapture dreams are a dime a dozen. There are so many who have lit their lamps, and yet many of them have gone out. All they had was some reference to a Simpson episode, or a sign in the heavens. They didn't have any oil, any word, any personal experiences with the Lord.

So what we are seeing right now is what the Lord said. We would have a midnight cry that the Bridegroom cometh, we had this in 2017 with the Revelation 12 sign. Over the last five years we have seen many light their lamps and go forth to meet him, but many of those lamps have gone out because they didn't have any oil.
 

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Happiest day of the year

The day of atonement was the happiest day of the year. The high priest would come out of the Holy of Holies and that would be evidence that God accepted the blood sacrifice. In same way the rapture will be evidence that God accepted the blood sacrifice of Jesus.

4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
 

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Coincidence is not a kosher word

Some people think that Psalm 48 -- foretells the reformation of Israel in 1948. Think how ironic it would be that the 19th book of the Bible and the 48th chapter would prophecy of 1948.

They also think that Psalm 17 describes General Allenby of the British as a young lion who takes Israel just as he did in 1917.

Then verses like
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; In Psalm 40 and this in Psalm 41 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? and this 8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
and this in Psalm 42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
These verses all seem to describe the plight of the Jews during WWII


In Psalm 43 the "ungodly nation" sounds like Germany, "the deceitful and unjust man" sounds like Hitler, .and "the oppression of the enemy" sounds like the Holocaust

And this in Psalm 44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. Certainly sounds like the antisemitism at the end of WWII

But who knows, maybe the Psalmist was just in a funk because he snaps out of it in Psalm 45:3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. 4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. Of course WWII ended in 1945.

Others see a prophecy of scud missiles coming into Israel in 1991 in Psalm 91.

Others say that this verse in Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. Refers to Stalin who said this in 1914. However, some debunked this pointing out that almost the same thing is said in Psalm 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. And Stalin didn't say that in 1953, that was the year he died. Of course the verse in Psalm 53 is past tense, not present tense.

But anyway that is all pointless. If the Psalms are truly prophetic going year by year then Psalm 120 would describe the pandemic.

Psalm 120:1 In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me. 2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

That is ironic seeing as we now know that Dr. Fauci was lying to us when he said there was no evidence that the pandemic came from the Wuhan bioweapons lab. We also know that when he said all the evidence pointed to a bat cave that that also was a lie. We know that forcing the use of masks was a lie, that requiring six feet apart was unnecessary and caused the shutdown, that HCQ does work even though they lied about that and that Ivermectin works even though they lied about that.

3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

We now know that all those liars received $350 million from Big Pharma.

4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

It was like flaming arrows burning down the city. They destroyed kids education, they destroyed small businesses, they mandated treatment that killed people.

5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. 7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Yep we saw that. This was the election year with the BLM riots and looting and burning the cities. People were trying to keep the peace but it was clear some did not want that.
 

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Can you see why the proud are oppressing you?

The sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet ayin. The numeric value is 70. The letter depicts two eyes seeing, watching. The word ayin means eye. The thought is that God is watching over us, He is the good shepherd, He cares for us. The word also means a spring of water. The first mention of a spring of water is in Genesis 16, in this same chapter Hagar refers to God as the one who sees, clearly a reference to the sixteenth letter in the alphabet. Other Hebrew words with a numeric value of 70 are wine and secret.

Psalm 119:121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

There is a reason that God gives us oppressors. Remember when Paul prayed for a thorn to be removed and God said His grace is sufficient for thee? I like the example of Michael Jordan. He had oppressors. Every team schemed for him, and oppressing him was always the game plan. The Bad Boy pistons were the ultimate example with Dennis Rodman turning into a defensive specialist. But we need to see that our oppressors cause us to seek grace, to grow in life, and to overcome.

122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

When you are in the battle and the Chicago Bulls are being beaten up by the Detroit Pistons you need God to be your surety for good. It is a guarantee that if you hold to Him, obey Him, that He will lead you to victory. If you hate to lose then these teams that always beat you are oppressing you. We have promises in the Bible that in all things we conquer in Christ Jesus and that no weapon formed against us will prosper. But those promises are based on our setting the mind on the Spirit and being trained by God and that requires our obedience. The Pistons were physically stronger than the Bulls and so after their final defeat Jordan vowed they would be the stronger team next year. He got everyone into the gym and they worked out so they would be dishing the punishment and not the other way around. This reminds me of "Miracle on ice" when the 1980 US olympic hockey team beat the Russians who were considered the best hockey team in the world. The coach didn't have time to greatly increase their skill, so what he did was he copied the Russian style which no other team did, and he made sure his team was in better shape which no other team was.

123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

This word translated "fail" is the same word translated "finished" in Genesis when it says "the heavens and earth were finished". It is the word that is translated ended where it says God ended His work. Jesus said that if your eye is good your whole body will be filled with light. The work of our eyes is finished if our whole body is filled with salvation and righteousness.

124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

Mercy is God's statute. Jesus said that with what judgement we judge we shall be judged. That is His statute. I want to be judged with mercy, the psalmist here wants to be judged with mercy, so this teaches us to deal with others with mercy.

125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

Ruth is a testimony of God. She is a gentile bride for Boaz, a type of Christ. Naomi coaches Ruth and it is Ruth that brings Naomi to Boaz. Naomi depicts the Israelites who were dispersed but then return to Israel and ultimately come to see that Jesus is the Messiah, the kinsman redeemer. We need to see these testimonies and understand them that we could understand what is happening in the world and where we are in the move of God.

126 It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.

Do you want to learn to pray? Read the word. Instead of lamenting the current state of affairs in the US, pray. It is time for the Lord to work because the US has made void the word of God. In the last week I have met with four pastors. One church has a big youth ministry with over 100 youth, another has a kindergarten so the parents can work, still another has a ministry for the elderly and infirm, and another has a growing ministry for the hispanic community. I am a Gideon and we are distributing bibles as well as praying for the churches and partnering with them. It is time for us to be coworkers with the Lord and get to work.

127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

Gold has many limitations. How do you keep someone from stealing it? Does it help you understand what is going on today, or help you navigate in perilous times? No, if you have gold in a ship in stormy seas that gold will help sink your ship. If your vault is filled with gold does it help you pray to the Lord? Does it tell you where you need to work? All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in the word of God, therefore I love the Lord's commandments above gold.

128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

When the kids on that olympic hockey team were training they were being pushed to the absolute limit. They didn't know this would cause them to pull off the greatest upset in history. But, after winning the gold medal they learned to esteem those precepts to be right. They learned to hate all the false ways. The reason the NHL always lost to the Russians was because of every false way. They want to create "stars" to improve ratings rather than to create a team. They want to claim to be the best without putting in the work, as a result they become the proud who oppress all those who would take the narrow way that leads to life.
 

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Another look at what "no one knows the day or hour" means

Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

After giving all the signs of His coming He then says that no one knows the day and hour, so you can study the signs and prophecies, you can read the book of Enoch and other books, they won’t tell you the day or hour. However, He gave us many signs that He likened to birth pains. Birth pains are not a single pain but rather a pattern of pains in a specific area that increase in both frequency and intensity. Have their been wars before in history? Yes, but you will see them increase in both frequency and intensity. Have their been plagues before? Yes but they will increase in both frequency and intensity. Same with earthquakes, same with famines. We have had horrible famines in Bangladesh, China, and Ethiopia. But this coming famine will be bigger in scope. For example, instead of 70 million it will be 700 million. So then we are watching for a pattern of signs, not any one sign.

Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Two will be in the field, two will be grinding at the mill when suddenly one is taken and one is left. Therefore watch. The implication is that they are left because they weren’t watching. This is stunning to me, I thought that whether or not you are watching would not determine if you are raptured but the implication in this verse is that it definitely will be and he explains in the next few verses.

Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

This is comparing the Lord’s coming to a thief in the night. You are a watchman, if you are at your post, doing your job He cannot sneak past you, so you will be rewarded, if you aren’t paying attention you will be punished. If you are a night watchman and your job is to guard the house then of course you will be punished if you are asleep at your job when the Lord comes. This has widespread implications. Suppose I work in the FBI, suppose I am in the DOJ, suppose I am responsible for election integrity in our state. Teachers are supposed to be "Parenti en loci" so if you are not doing your job to protect the kids in your care you will be rebuked.

Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

The context is the foolish virgins were caught without oil in the lamps and the Lord said He knew them not. The word watch means to be vigilant, to give strict attention to be cautious, to be active, to take heed. Your job is to know the Lord Jesus. You should be spending time everyday with the Lord, in His word, in prayer. If you are not vigilant, if you are not giving heed to His speaking to you, if you are not actively watching everyday for the Lord's return then you will be rebuked.

Revelation 3:3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

So that is the context of this word. It is clear here in Revelation 3:3 that not knowing the hour that the Lord is going to come is for those who are not watching. If you are watching you will see Him coming and will know the hour.

There are four major analogies given here.

1. It is like birth pains, you don't know the day or the hour the baby will be born but you can tell when it is time from the birth pains and because the water breaks.

2. A night watchman. Your job is to protect the house. If when the Lord comes He finds you have not done your job then you will not be raptured.

3. People in the field. If you are a farmer working the fields you will not know ahead of time the day or the hour to reap, but because you are actively in the field every day and attentive you will know when it is time to reap because you have been watching.

4. People will be grinding at the mill. You should have inside knowledge. You should see that the crop is good or bad, you should know if a famine is coming or not. Also, the Lord said it was your job to give the saints their food at the proper time. Therefore you need to know the proper time. You don't grind grain until it is time to make the bread. You are like a commodities trader, they have to be keenly aware of everything that is going on which might affect their market.
 

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Another look at what "no one knows the day or hour" means

Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

After giving all the signs of His coming He then says that no one knows the day and hour, so you can study the signs and prophecies, you can read the book of Enoch and other books, they won’t tell you the day or hour. However, He gave us many signs that He likened to birth pains. Birth pains are not a single pain but rather a pattern of pains in a specific area that increase in both frequency and intensity. Have their been wars before in history? Yes, but you will see them increase in both frequency and intensity. Have their been plagues before? Yes but they will increase in both frequency and intensity. Same with earthquakes, same with famines. We have had horrible famines in Bangladesh, China, and Ethiopia. But this coming famine will be bigger in scope. For example, instead of 70 million it will be 700 million. So then we are watching for a pattern of signs, not any one sign.

Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Two will be in the field, two will be grinding at the mill when suddenly one is taken and one is left. Therefore watch. The implication is that they are left because they weren’t watching. This is stunning to me, I thought that whether or not you are watching would not determine if you are raptured but the implication in this verse is that it definitely will be and he explains in the next few verses.

Matthew 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

This is comparing the Lord’s coming to a thief in the night. You are a watchman, if you are at your post, doing your job He cannot sneak past you, so you will be rewarded, if you aren’t paying attention you will be punished. If you are a night watchman and your job is to guard the house then of course you will be punished if you are asleep at your job when the Lord comes. This has widespread implications. Suppose I work in the FBI, suppose I am in the DOJ, suppose I am responsible for election integrity in our state. Teachers are supposed to be "Parenti en loci" so if you are not doing your job to protect the kids in your care you will be rebuked.

Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

The context is the foolish virgins were caught without oil in the lamps and the Lord said He knew them not. The word watch means to be vigilant, to give strict attention to be cautious, to be active, to take heed. Your job is to know the Lord Jesus. You should be spending time everyday with the Lord, in His word, in prayer. If you are not vigilant, if you are not giving heed to His speaking to you, if you are not actively watching everyday for the Lord's return then you will be rebuked.

Revelation 3:3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

So that is the context of this word. It is clear here in Revelation 3:3 that not knowing the hour that the Lord is going to come is for those who are not watching. If you are watching you will see Him coming and will know the hour.

There are four major analogies given here.

1. It is like birth pains, you don't know the day or the hour the baby will be born but you can tell when it is time from the birth pains and because the water breaks.

2. A night watchman. Your job is to protect the house. If when the Lord comes He finds you have not done your job then you will not be raptured.

3. People in the field. If you are a farmer working the fields you will not know ahead of time the day or the hour to reap, but because you are actively in the field every day and attentive you will know when it is time to reap because you have been watching.

4. People will be grinding at the mill. You should have inside knowledge. You should see that the crop is good or bad, you should know if a famine is coming or not. Also, the Lord said it was your job to give the saints their food at the proper time. Therefore you need to know the proper time. You don't grind grain until it is time to make the bread. You are like a commodities trader, they have to be keenly aware of everything that is going on which might affect their market.
So then, let's consider what each of these would see.

1. If your wife is pregnant you don't know the day or the hour the baby will be born, but you know that she is nine months pregnant, you know the due date, the baby is kicking, and you can monitor the birth pains, how frequent and how intense they are. A few years ago the internet began to explode with people sharing their dreams and visions. This is like the baby kicking. Now Youtube is filled with watchmen telling you the rapture is near, this is the baby kicking. There are several prophecies that give us a due date and we have known that ever since 2017 when we had the Revelation 12 sign that the baby is due.

2. A night watchman will hear strange sounds. If he is lazy he'll say it is probably just the cat an ignore it. Overreacting is far better than saying it is probably just a cat or a piece of paper blowing in the wind or some other excuse. A good night watchman is alert, walking his rounds, watching the monitors, checking out every little noise. There are several like this that are looking into every little news story or event. They are accused of being "false prophets" by the lazy watchmen. They aren't prophets, they are watchmen who are trying to investigate every little noise to see that the house is secure.

3. The farmer in the field has to watch the crop and the weather report and also the market. You don't know the day or the hour, but if you are vigilant you know when the crop can be harvested.

4. The people grinding grain are like those looking at every little verse in the Bible. Here a little, there a little.

If I trade commodities it requires a very special skill. The movie "The Big Short" does an excellent job of showing you three different investment strategies. Burry is a numbers guy who looks deep into the data and the numbers and does his own calculations. Based on that he determined that there was a housing bubble about to collapse. He couldn't tell you the day or the hour, but the numbers don't lie and it was inevitable. The same way I feel about the prophecies in the Bible. Then there was another group who assumed the worst in people. They assumed bankers were liars and thieves and so they were always on the lookout for how they might be lying to you. They were like the FBI in the movie "Catch me if you Can". They assume the check is bogus, just trying to figure out how the guy writing the bogus checks is doing it. This should be our attitude. We know that Satan is a liar, a thief and a murderer, and we know the whole world lies in the evil one. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is the word of God. Go in with that as the basic premise. I'm not trying to figure out if someone is lying to me, on the contrary I assume they are and so I'm trying to figure out what the lie is. The third group looked at human nature and said no one wants to think about worst case scenarios so they don't price them properly. The odds are in your favor if you bet on the worst case scenario. The tribulation is the "worst case scenario" and people have been trained to devalue this. They make it far less likely than it really is. We need to do our own valuation based on faith in the word of God.
 

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Rivers of living water

The seventeenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is Peh. The numeric value is 80. It is a picture of a mouth. The Hebrew word peh means a mouth. The fifth letter, heh, also symbolized a mouth, breathing, breath, spirit. That letter was the difference between Abram and Abraham. The letter Peh signifies an open mouth, speech, the spoken word, testimony. This signifies the spoken word stored in our mind like Mary remembering everything Jesus did, and then later it is relayed and spoken to others. The previous letter signified eyes that are seeing. These two make a pair, we see with our eyes and our mouth speaks. God watches over us and He speaks to us and so we are filled with a testimony. It is interesting to me that Esther is the 17th book, the central focus of this book is that Esther is fearful to speak because she could be put to death but by speaking she saves the nation from Haman. Malachi is the 17th book in the second section of the Bible and that is the book where God tells us He will send His two messengers to speak. 2Peter is the seventeenth book in the third section and it gives us the word concerning false prophets and how to discern them. It's also the book where we are told we have received like precious faith with the apostles. We may not have as much "gold" but the faith we have is every bit as precious as the faith they have.

Psalm 119:129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.


This is like Mary keeping all these things that Jesus did in her heart.

130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.


Again, this is the idea of this letter Peh. God speaks to us, let their be light, and in us there is light. We get understanding from that word. We could be simple, foolish, but this word transforms us so that we now have understanding.

131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.


This word for "panted" can be understood as "gasp". Imagine someone is holding you underwater and you break free to gasp for air. This is the picture here. We need God's instruction, training, leading and guiding. When you begin to speak it is a whole new warfare, you will be attacked, repudiated, rebuked, slandered, insulted and basically Satan will throw everything at you including the kitchen sink.

132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.


God judges rightly. The only way to overcome the slanderer is by the blood of Jesus, He is our righteousness, and by the word of our testimony. I was very impressed by Mike Lindell, he was on this late night comedy show and the host asked him if his previous drug use was causing him to have paranoid delusions about the election. Mike's response was that by saying that this person condemned all former drug addicts and was saying that if you are a recovering drug addict you can no longer participate in our democracy. That completely put this person to an open shame.

133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.


We should give thanks in all things. Again, Mike Lindell gave thanks that Joe Biden stole the election and it was not resolved on January 6th. He said that because of that they have been forced to do a complete and thorough investigation to completely root out the corruption. So while many are whining and crying about this and it is having dominion over them, others are not letting this trouble have the mastery over them. Those who trespassed on January sixth did not have their steps ordered by the word. Yes, it was a small misdemeanor, but it gave the enemy a foothold and it brought reproach on all those calling for election integrity.

134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.


I was there on January 6th right in the center of the crowd during the rally. However, I had been there from 5am to about 1:30pm, I was cold, I was tired, and I decided to go back to my hotel and come back at night for a candlelight vigil so I completely missed all the stuff that took place at the capitol about a mile away.

135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.


As long as the Lord's face is shining on you it is easy to learn the statutes. When you sin all that stops, you have to deal with that first before His face will shine on you again. This is critical, we overcome first and foremost by the blood of Jesus Christ. Do not try to speak the word if you have unrepented sin.

136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.


Do you remember when the Lord said that out of your innermost being would flow rivers of living water? Focus on these tears, that will lead you to your ministry.
 

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Isaiah 24:1-13 Escape from what?

1 Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

As a rule Isaiah appears to be prophetic for the time prior to the tribulation (for the pre trib rapture) and Jeremiah is prophetic for those who are left behind. This is present tense, it appears that at the same time that the rapture takes place this happens. It is as though the floor gives way and the entire worldly system collapses at the same time that the Lord snatches up the saints in the rapture and they “escape”.

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. 3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.

Many people have been talking about “the great reset”. The great reset indicates that the world leaders see an impending collapse with a great depression and a collapse of the world’s fiat currency. They are working to make sure this reset doesn’t hurt the 1%, only the 99%. However, the Lord has spoken this word, it will hit all alike. God is going to shake everything that can be shaken and it will all collapse at the same time as those who have received an unshakeable kingdom are raptured.

4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

Think of the “lofty people of the earth”, the ones who have been privileged their whole lives and they are now digging around in dumpsters to get something to eat. At first they will mourn for everything that has been lost, but very quickly that will fade away as they are languishing, just trying to survive. But even that will fade away as the “lofty people” will also be languishing. The lofty people are those on TV, in the Movies, the Oligarchs, etc. But what happens when no one can afford to watch TV, or when there is no electricity to power the TV or the computer? The world will fade away and then the lofty people will languish.

5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

There is a lot here, suffice it to say they have rejected the word of God, they have refused to allow God to rule over them, they reject the laws, the statutes and the covenant of God. Because of their sins everyone gets burned, not simply the individual sinner. The earth is polluted because of these sins and “few men are left”. What happened? Where did they go? War, famine, plague, rapture? Or does it mean that no one is a “man”? The rapture will take away the “men”, those who are filled with the Man, Jesus Christ. Without those people as an example there will be few men left.

7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

It sounds like this will be the case at the feast of new wine, which is Pentecost. The church age began with this feast, it is fitting that when the church age ends there would be no more “new wine”.

8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Can you imagine, after the rapture to hear a strong message, perhaps one that was taped, one that you rejected because you rejected the laws, statutes and covenant of God, that message would be very bitter then.

10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

This is a picture of a total lack of law and order. Every house is shut up so no one can come in, it is like the old Western movies where they barred the doors and everyone inside had a gun to fend off the indians.

11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

They still have those messages of the gospel, but instead of bringing rejoicing it brings sorrow and regret.

12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13 For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

What a picture! The rapture is a reaping. After the reaping what will it be like, it will be like an olive tree after the reaping. Just bare bones, the way trees look after the leaves have fallen off.