Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

A Portal between Heaven and Earth opens when heavenly bodies align in Nisan! The Bible proves it.

I was playing around with Stellarium holding down the time so the hours spun and you could see all the stars spinning and as Virgo (the virgin) began to rise the lights immediately went out. That reminded me of the three days of darkness and the woman being thrust out into the wilderness immediately after the manchild is caught up. It also reminded me of the restrainer, what restrains darkness, it is the light. When you take the light away darkness is left behind. That takes place around 8pm Jerusalem time.

2 Corinthians 1:9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

This has been a big question of this blog, why are some people who are Christians left behind? When you are left behind it will be like receiving a sentence of death. But the reason for this is that these believers have not learned to rely on God who raises the dead, rather they have been relying on themselves. "Receiving a sentence of death" is an experience all believers must have because only then do they truly learn to rely on the God who raises the dead and not on themselves.

Matthew 24:24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

The prosperity gospel is an example, just like these pastors with the mega churches preaching a message of self improvement just like some motivational speaker or like the various cults, the Jehovah Witnesses, the Mormons, etc. All of their messages are tangentially related to the Bible. The prosperity gospel takes the term "blessed" and makes it all about gold, and cars and houses. The self improvement gurus can also find Bible verses that they then spend an entire sermon weaving a message about. JW's have the Bible with only a few Bible verses removed. Mormons will also claim to have the Bible with only the teachings of "their prophet" added to it. The reason they all use the Bible is because it gives them legitimacy, hence they are all admitting that the Bible is the word of God. But rather than drink fresh water from the spring they decide to adulterate, add to or take away from the Bible.

Then there are many, many translations of the Bible which have shaded or distorted the word. As a rule reading one of these Bibles is way better than reading a novel or a work of fiction. So I have no issue with these versions that might help children or people who find the Bible intimidating to read. However, I would never use one of these translations to teach doctrine nor would I want a child or new believer to use this Bible exclusively so they actually think it is the pure word of God. I would advise you either use King James Version, American Standard 1901 version, or New King James version.

If you are studying the word of God you may want to include the Amplified version. Young's literal translation can be useful to help you realize shades of meaning you would otherwise miss, and the Blue Letter Bible on the internet is great because it provides you with the Hebrew and Greek and it gives you Vine's and Strong's definitions for words and all the other appearances of that word in the Bible.

Now I would also point out that one of the most effective ways to lie and deceive people is with the truth. One brother once said that a counterfeit bill will be 99% accurate. It is that 1% that is not accurate that makes the entire bill worthless.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should learn to control your own body[a] in a way that is holy and honorable, 5 not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; 6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.[b] The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. 7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 8 Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

This is Paul, the same one who taught us that we are saved by Grace, it is not of you, not of the works of the law, but of the Lord. This word does not contradict that word, but for some reason many in Christianity can quote the verse in Ephesians but not these verses in 1 Thessalonians. It is God's will that you should be sanctified. This is what baptism signifies, that you are separated from the world and immersed into God. You are not "saved" by being immersed into the Baptismal pool. But it does signify that you are separated unto God, immersed into God, and sanctified for God's use. If you were a utensil, a plate or a cup, and you were "saved" from the garbage dump. That was the Lord pulling you out, it had nothing to do with you. But God is not going to use this plate or cup until it has been thoroughly immersed into the water, completely sanctified. The dirt is washed off and it is the word of God that cleanses this plate each day so that it is fit for the master's use.

This word that "the Lord will punish all those who commit such sins" is written to the church in Thessalonica. The Lord is not talking about unbelievers, yes, they commit such sins and their judgment will come. But, judgement begins at the house of God. Paul does not say they "lose their salvation". No, this does not contradict eternal salvation. But he does say God will punish them. So think about being left behind after the rapture, that is an example of God's punishment.

God called us to live a holy life. You can't do this in yourself. You must be filled with the Holy Spirit. But it is still our calling. You cannot save yourself by pretending to live a holy life. However, if you are saved and if you are filled with the Holy Spirit living a holy life in contrast to the life you once lived would be evidence of this salvation. A believer who does not live a holy life is what James referred to as their faith is dead. It is not living, it is not active, it is not working out within them.

Once again I will repeat, I have no issue with those who teach that we are saved by grace alone and that it is not of us but of God. I have no issue with those who teach that we stand on Jesus' righteousness, it is His atoning blood that paid the price for our sins. The issue I do have is that many of those who teach this about salvation do not also teach about sanctification.

The first day of the first month -- In Hebrew this word for month is often used for moon and for renewing, and repairing. It is very clearly a reference to the new crescent moon after the equinox.

Exodus 12:2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

The year begins with the equinox. The first day of the first month is the first crescent moon after the equinox.

There are a variety of different calendars out there that people are using to calculate the days on the Hebrew calendar. My feeling about this is as follows: God tells the end from the beginning. Jesus being crucified as the lamb of God only works if He is crucified on Passover, and it only works to declare to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah if this is the same day they are celebrating Passover. So it may be that the calendar the Jews use is off, I don't know the answer to that. But my understanding is that on the day that these various things are fulfilled you will see they correspond that year with the day that the Jews say is the feast day. So even if they are using the wrong calendar and in other years they are wrong, in the year that matters they won't be, otherwise what is the point?

Now of course some will point to Satan trying to change times and seasons. I think they have already done that by eliminating a couple of hundred years from the calendar so that we don't know the 6,000th year, but we can calculate it. The thing that overrides anything that Satan tries to do is the fact that God is omnipotent and He alone tells us the end from the beginning.

God told us these feast days are a shadow of things to come, they are prophetic, and so I believe they will be fulfilled precisely. It would not make sense if they are fulfilled precisely but only a couple of people actually knew that because everyone else was on the wrong calendar.

The second point is that Feast of Trumpets is when they see the first sliver of the New Moon and that is also the first day of Tishrei. So the new moon always marks the first of Tishrei. Also, Passover on the 14th of Nisan is the full moon. The 15th of Av was after they saw the full moon. I cannot see how anyone can argue that the days of the month are marked by the moon.

1 Thessalonians 5:1 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.

Paul tells us very clearly we don't need to know times and dates because if we are watching, like night watchmen we'll see the thieves. We have been told clearly in the gospels that Satan planted tares, they will grow up and when they are bearing fruit it will be time for the harvest.

Once I visited Mexico, not with tourists, but with locals, and several things really stood out to me. One of course was how poor the average person was, but the other was how each house was locked up tight like a prison. This became even more clear in Taiwan when I lived there for eight years. I had never seen people living in a such a low standard of living while at the same time the apartments in the city were all covered with bars protecting from thieves, not just the front door which was iron with a dead bolt, but every window. That was when I realized the US was the land of unwalled villages.

So everyone in the whole earth knows what it is like for a thief to come in the night. But you don't expect that from your government. The global pandemic was the biggest heist in human history, completely unprecedented. We are now seeing hundreds of millions of Chinese have died suddenly without regard to age, and this is being ascribed to the vaccine. Why would a government mandate this vaccine and all the boosters, a shot that would wipe out hundreds of millions of people? I asked this question when I was in NY and Governor Cuomo sent the sick people with Covid into the nursing homes and he was lauded by Fauci as the "gold standard". Then it hit me, every dead person that dies is one less dead person collecting Social Security, Medicare, etc. Cuomo was keeping NY solvent. But as bad as the US is, imagine the situation in China, they are supposed to support every single person. But why kids, why workers? Because they knew that robotics, 3d printers and AI were going to replace all the jobs being done in China. Those workers would become useless eaters. What we are witnessing we have never seen before in human history, governments killing their own like a thief in the night.

Now look at what DOGE is revealing, the US government filled with parasites. People who whine about having to come into the office and are unable to tell you five things they did last week for their paycheck. The $36 trillion debt is revealing to us that thieves have been robbing us blind in the night. It seems stupid Americans are the last to figure this out. China and Japan have both stopped buying our debt and are now selling. They understand that this money is going to thieves and they are washing their hands of this. Gold going up to new highs, up over 100% in the last two years, that is countries around the world dumping the US dollar as the reserve currency and switching to gold. But even this is revealing the thieves in the night. For every ounce of real gold somewhere between 100 and 200 ounces are sold on paper. Silver is even worse with estimates as high as 400 ounces on paper for every real ounce. We use the term "short squeeze" to describe what happens in a situation like this, but really it is simply thieves being caught red handed in the night.

This is how the Antichrist is going to become the world leader, you rob people blind, they have nothing, they are desperate and then you make them an offer they can't refuse. Either you agree to take the mark of the beast or we take your head. Hence it is unnecessary to know anymore than that about times and dates. You see AI, quantum computers, Starlink, Neuralink, the collapse of the US dollar, digital currency, the demand for everyone to be vaccinated to keep vaccinated people safe, all these are telling you that the Day of the Lord is upon us.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

The corruption we are seeing in the US government really took off when we got off the gold standard and had a fiat currency. Then it was easier to simply print money than to debate with whiny thieves demanding government programs for everything. Why did our government become infested with thieves? Because that is where the money was. Why did the government want to take over every charitable job being done by churches? Because they were Judas and they were keeping the money being given to do charitable work.

6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.

We have all noticed the others. They binge watch TV and are lazy at their jobs and then complain about everything and want the government to do everything for them. They are asleep.

7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

Getting drunk is equivalent to getting high. Why is drug addiction and alcohol addiction such a big issue in this country? Because there are a lot of people who are asleep here and a lot of people who are drunk. We have a very short life and then we all must appear before the judgment seat to give account of ourselves. No one wants to have to give account for sleeping and being drunk during all that time.

8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

We believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, that despite all the tares that have been planted there is also a field full of wheat that have received the Lord and been redeemed. Yes, we are surrounded by people who are asleep and drunk. Some of them are rude and insulting, but we wear a breastplate of love as we try to wake them up and sober them up. Finally, even though we see the world marching to the apocalypse and ultimately to Armageddon we have the hope of salvation protecting our mind from going nuts. Yes there are some very nutty people out there who see judgment day approaching and think that somehow they can delay the inevitable by trusting liars and thieves and murderers.

Concerning the Yankee’s Stadium Game & The Green Warning Dreams 3-30-25

This dream answers a huge question I have had for years. Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead is clearly a picture of the rapture. However, the crucifixion of Jesus is also clearly a picture of the rapture. On the one hand you have Christians who have been one with the Lord in the likeness of His death who are raised at the time of the rapture, on the other hand for those who haven't been they will be crying out "my God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" To be left behind will be equivalent to be given the sentence of death. But which is it, because these two events are clearly not at the same time, they are separated by at least two weeks at the minimum.

But this revelation in this post by Vicki explains this and it blew my mind!

Jesus was walking the earth when the Julian calendar was being used. So the dates in the New Testament should be understood according to the Julian calendar. But today everyone is walking by the Gregorian Calendar. Guess what, there is exactly two weeks difference between the two. So on the Gregorian Calendar we are in Nisan but in the Julian Calendar it is two weeks earlier at the time of Purim.

The rapture is the conclusion of the church age to those who took up their cross and followed Jesus, that would be the last day of Adar, but for those left behind it is the first day of the first month for their Christian walk, that would be Nisan 1. We see this in Exodus, the three days of darkness is the rapture event for those taken and the three days in the grave for those left behind. We see this with Elijah being taken up, he realizes that the rapture takes place on the other side of the Jordan, prior to Israel crossing the Jordan. It took place when the curse ended and they came up out of the graves. However, they cross the Jordan at the time of Passover so He is telling us it takes place prior to that. Likewise with Enoch, he walked with God and was not. We see this with the gospel of Luke. In that gospel Lazarus dies, and Abraham and the rich man are talking about sending someone out of the grave to warn everyone else not to come to this place of torment, but we don't see Lazarus raised. Instead we see that those in Luke are praising and worshipping the Lord every day in the temple and then poof, it is over, they are no more. The raptured saints are the saints in Luke who are raised. Meanwhile the saints in Mark are those who are left behind and for them the rapture is "the beginning of the gospel". For Luke it is the conclusion, for Mark it is the beginning.

So here is the beautiful thing about this revelation. We can now confidently use both Lazarus being raised from the dead as a template of the rapture as well as the Crucifixion of Jesus and the Passover week. They both work precisely because you have two groups, one is walking according to the New Testament and that is the Julian Calendar, and one is walking according to the prince of the power of the air and that is the Gregorian Calendar.

When is the first seal on the scroll opened in Revelation 4-5?

There are many people who teach that the first seal is opened at the start of the seven year tribulation after the rapture. They equate the opening of the first seal to the Antichrist being revealed. I have asked many people who have this doctrine to help me understand, but when I ask these questions they then refuse to have any more communication with me. The Lord tells us to beware the leaven of the Pharisees which is their traditional teachings an to try and test all things.

I am asking these questions because I don’t want to assume, so if the question seems obvious then by all means please understand better to ask than to assume. I mention many of the assumptions I am making so that you can correct them if I am mistaken. So by all means, anyone who holds to this teaching and can answer these questions please help us to understand.

1. The scroll in Revelation with the seven seals is a title deed. If Jesus is opening it at the start of the tribulation then can you explain the difference between this scroll that gives Jesus ownership of the whole earth and hence makes Him “Lord of all” and the title deed that is opened at the start of the church age which Paul talks about in Ephesians where Jesus is made Lord of all and which we become joint heirs with Christ. That title deed was called the mystery hid from the ages and so like the one that John describes in Revelation no one had been worthy to open it until Jesus rose from the dead.

2. Again, I don’t want to assume, so in Revelation when John said that no one was found worthy to open the scroll until Jesus came having just been slain, are you saying that Jesus for the last two thousand years has not been worthy to open that scroll? If not can you explain?

3. Also, I assume that you believe that Jesus is Lord of all, so can you explain how you reconcile that with Him not yet having opened a title deed that makes Him Lord of all?

4. I also assume that you see the first seal being opened up as the Antichrist being revealed with his counterfeit gospel and not referring to the gospel going out into all the earth. But that raises a few questions, why would you have a counterfeit gospel if you don’t first have a real gospel?

5. Also, if the first seal is the Antichrist being revealed after the rapture then I assume you think that John being in Spirit on the Lord’s day and being called up to heaven is the rapture event and that the lamp stand we see in heaven is the church which has been raptured to heaven. But didn’t Paul in both Ephesians and Colossians say that we are seated together with Christ in the heavens? It seems to me that Jesus takes the scroll out of the hand of God before He is seated on the throne and yet Paul is saying that the believers in Spirit, like John, are already seated with Christ. Wouldn’t that be after He opened the scroll?

6. So if I am understanding you correctly, the first seal is opened by Jesus and that is when for the first time the Antichrist is revealed. Prior to that it was a mystery that no one knew because no one was worthy to open that seal. If that is the case then how come we know that the number of his name is 666? Wouldn’t that be something that was sealed up? Also, the antichrist is revealed after the restrainer is taken out of the way. I understand the restrainer being the saints who are filled with the Spirit restraining evil on this earth through the gospel, their prayer and the word of their testimony. Similar to light overcoming darkness. Take the light away and then darkness will reign. So then, when it says that the Antichrist is not revealed until those who are walking in the light are removed, doesn’t that mean he is revealed to those who are in darkness, those who were asleep, those who were drunk? He isn’t talking about the people who were in Spirit and were removed in the rapture.

7. If the rapture is when John was called up to heaven, how is it that the people who are left behind on the earth do not realize that the great day of the Lord’s wrath has come until the sixth seal is opened? I would have thought that at the rapture people all over the earth would realize that. The rapture is unique to Christians and to Jesus.

8. Finally, how is it that you cannot see the martyrs from the church age underneath the altar beginning with Stephen crying out to the Lord “How long will you not judge and avenge our blood”. Martyrs dating all the way back to Abel but certainly the church age is filled with martyrs. I am assuming you can’t since you say the first seal hasn’t been opened yet and that means the fifth seal hasn’t been opened either.

I hope you will take the time to answer these questions faithfully, because Islam teaches that Jesus was a prophet and a good man but He failed and was not able to open the scrolls and that the Mahdi will come at the end of the age and open them. So your teaching to me sounds like what Islam teaches, that Jesus was not worthy to open the scrolls for the last two thousand years. That is blasphemy. Also it seems like you are saying that Jesus is not Lord of All until the start of the tribulation since that title deed makes Him Lord of All. That of course is a damnable heresy.

Other problems with thinking the 1st seal is opened after the rapture

If the first seal is after the rapture, then what is the sixth seal? It surely seems like a rapture, but if you eliminate that as the option then it must be the start of the Great Tribulation at the midpoint of the seven years, this is when the wrath of God is poured out and we know that Christians are not appointed to wrath so they will all be gone prior to the sixth seal.

Revelation 13:15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

This takes place after the sixth seal is opened. So if the sixth seal is not the rapture (my understanding) then it is the midpoint of the tribulation, the start of the Great tribulation when God pours out His wrath and the believers are no longer on earth. So then, who is refusing to worship the beast? Who is being killed? This is not referring to Jews it says "it also forced all people". That is not simply the Jews who flee when the abomination of desolation is set up in the temple. That is only a third of the Jews and they represent less than 1% of the people on earth. It is not trivial to interpret the first seal as starting the seven year tribulation, as soon as you do that everything else is messed up.

Now think about this, we know that the first half of the tribulation will be worse than anything previously in human history. Yes, the second half will be even worse than that, but the first half still stands out. The famine is worse, the plague is worse and the wars are worse. But if you think the rapture is before the 1st seal is opened then you think the Mark of the Beast comes in the second half of the seven years. So what kind of famine could the believers experience? No one being able to buy or sell without the mark is not part of your eschatology for Christians.

I have heard people say they don't think they have the technology for the mark of the beast yet. Well, let's consider that. We have tested out digital currency, we have RFID chips, we use these to buy and sell already so we have tested that out, we have starlink putting up a web of satellites to cover the entire globe, we have AI that can handle big data, we have tested out social credit score in China so that has also been tested, and we have quantum computers. But that is not all, how are you going to administer the mark to the entire globe's population? Well we tested that out as well when the vaccine was mandated across the globe. Every aspect of the mark of the beast has been tested. They are pushing the US dollar to collapse and we know that the ten kings rule for a short period as a bridge from the US dollar to the Mark of the Beast, and sure enough we have BRICS with the ten countries who have switched to it as a interim currency. So they have already tested and prepared every aspect of making the transition to the Mark of the Beast.

DREAM VISION ROCKETS GALORE

2Thessalonians 2:1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,

This word about being "gathered to Him" is a reference to the rapture, but it is all inclusive. It could refer to the rapture that is prior to the seven years or it could refer to the tribulation saints who are also gathered to Him.

2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come.

In the Bible the Day of the Lord is both great and terrible. It is great for those who are gathered to the Lord and terrible for those who are left behind. However, it gets progressively worse. So if you were in a very bad famine or plague or war you might be tempted to think that it had already started. But the true scale of the horrors that will take place mean you cannot possibly be tricked into thinking Armageddon is already over. So basically this verse is referring to the start of the seven years, prior to it starting there is going to be something that is very significant that takes place.

3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

Now this verse could refer to one of two holy days. It could refer to Passover, prior to Passover in the book of Exodus there were nine plagues revealing the Pharaoh to be a man of sin. The other one would be Purim where Haman is revealed to be the man of sin. However, you would not say that Pharaoh was running a rebellion, but with Haman you would. When we look at this verse Paul is telling us very clearly that the book of Esther will be our guide for the rapture. Haman's rebellion comes first. This word translated here as "rebellion" is apostasia. Some will tell you that this means departure, hence the rapture comes first. But that would not make sense in the context, they were afraid that the gathering to the Lord had already taken place, ie the rapture and according to this interpretation Paul is saying don't worry, the rapture has not taken place because before the rapture the rapture takes place. That does not make sense. Also, if you read Esther Haman's rebellion was hidden, but not from Mordecai or Esther. Another foolish teaching is that we cannot know what is going on concerning the Antichrist until after the rapture. That is derivative of this foolish interpretation but is completely debunked when you see the connection of Paul's word here to the book of Esther and Haman's rebellion. Finally, the only other place this word is used in the New Testament is Acts 21:21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake G646 Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs. So then based on the principle of first use, the interpretation of "rebellion" or "falling away" is certainly the primary interpretation. Now let's consider this logically. After the rapture the Antichrist is revealed and becomes the world ruler. That would take some advance planning and we can see that. The UN has passed laws where the WHO would supersede all national governments in the event of a global health crisis. There is a short term period where the ten kings rule, we can view that as "King dollar" is overthrown and replaced with BRICS for a short period of time. But that alternate currency would need to be up and running and in place ready to serve as a short term transition. Also you need the technology to implement the mark of the Beast. You need Starlink, Quantum computers, AI, RFID, and a worldwide famine. Therefore the rebellion is against God or more specifically, against Jesus Christ as Lord. We also see this with the ecumenical movement. They are pushing to make it a crime punishable by death to say that Jesus Christ is God.

4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

The context of this is the rebellion. Paul is telling us that prior to the Antichrist doing this there will be evidence that he is preparing to do this, that is what the "falling away" or "rebellion" or "apostasy" is referring to. Yes, when those who are restraining this rebellion because they are one with the Holy Spirit are removed, then yes, you will certainly see this rebellion take off like a sling shot.

2 Thessalonians 2:5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?

In other words it is written down in books that precede 2Thessalonians. The story of Esther is in the Bible.

6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.

Remember that everything was created by the Lord Jesus, through the Lord Jesus and for the Lord Jesus. That includes Haman, that includes the Antichrist. We are trained to stand against giants and defeat them by standing against giants and defeating them.

7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

This spiritual warfare has been going on since Jesus ascended to the throne. FreeMasons, Nephilim, and Demons have been operating for two thousand years, just as the church has also been holding back the evil and the lawlessness. This is what we should be alarmed by. When they mandated the vaccine that was lawlessness. The law says you can't mandate an experimental vaccine if there is effective treatment. HCQ and Ivermectin were both effective treatments. They lied and slandered these treatments so that they could mandate the vaccine. Then you have to demonstrate that there is a real threat first, the treatment for those who were sick was almost always deadly. Not only so but they put sick people back into nursing homes to make everyone sick. Their actions were intentional to make the disease appear much more deadly than it was. Third, if you do mandate an experimental vaccine all those who receive the vaccine must be given all of the relevant research on that vaccine. Instead they were given blank pieces of paper. The restrainer refers to all those people who were one with the Holy Spirit who objected to this vaccine mandate. They have been standing in the way of this rebellion and the rapture is when they will be taken out of the way.

8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

The rebellion is like a train coming down the tracks. These ones who were standing in the way of the train could see the train, it wasn't an invisible train. But when they are taken out of the way then everyone else will see the train as well. Right now the MSM portrays the people standing in the way of this train as the problem, that is what everyone else sees. When they are taken out of the way then those who are left behind will see what they were restraining.

2 Thessalonians 2:9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works.

If you look at this blog I have focused a lot on "how Satan works". He is a liar, but that word embraces a lot. He will gaslight you like he did during the pandemic. He will lie with the truth which is how many "churches" in the apostasy operate. And he'll throw so many different bizarre teachings at you that you have no idea what to believe. Think about the debate over this word apostasy as an example. It really is not that hard if you read this chapter slowly and carefully to understand what Paul is saying. If you realize he is referencing Esther as an example it gets even easier. But the temptation is to find some famous preacher and just trust him to tell you what it means. Here is the problem with that temptation. Obviously many of the "famous" preachers are false teachers. But let's assume you are going with a very good, genuine man of God. I was raised learning from JN Darby and from Watchman Nee. However, these two taught prior to World War 2. They taught prior to computers, prior to satellites, prior to RFID chips, prior to the UN, prior to Israel becoming a nation again, prior to the US becoming a superpower, prior to nuclear weapons. Yes, even if they were excellent Bible teachers, they were extremely limited in what they were able to see.

He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie,

Satan will operate like a magician, trying to distract you, keep your focus elsewhere while he does his tricks. But notice, Paul is not referring to lies, plural, he is referring to "the lie". The Lie is in contrast to "the truth". The truth is that Jesus Christ died, and rose again and now lives inside each one of us as The Spirit. The Spirit of truth, the Spirit of life, the Spirit of the Lord lives inside of each believer and will guide each one. The Lie is that you need Satan to guide you. The Bible is the word of truth, every word that comes from Satan's mouth serves the lie that you need his help.

10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Even if the light of the Lord within you is a tiny little flashlight, love the truth, love the Lord, love the word of God and that light will grow.

11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie

Once again, Satan can do nothing but what God wants him to do. This life is a period of separating the wheat from the tares. The tares do not love the truth, so to make it easier to separate them God sends them a strong delusion so they'll all flock to the delusion and be easier to tie up into bundles to be burned.

12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

This is common sense. Why would we want to share eternity in heaven with those who delight in wickedness?

This is why I hate the apostasy

2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits[b] to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

Whenever the apostasy uses the word "saved" it is always a reference to being saved by the blood of Jesus, being washed of your sins, being saved by grace. It is not of you, it is all of Him. All of that is true, but what is also true is that in addition to that once for all salvation from sin, we also have the salvation of our soul through the sanctifying work of the Spirit. Sanctifying is where you are separated unto God. Yes, that is positional. Perhaps before getting saved you were sitting in the living room with your friends drinking and doing drugs and watching perverted movies. Now, after getting saved you have moved to a different location, you are in a church gathering praying and worshipping God, listening to the word of God. But there is also a constitutional separation. Before being saved the words that came out of your mouth were foul, they were curses, insults, mockery, ridicule, and filled with hate. Now the words that come out of your mouth praise the Lord, they uplift others, they are compassionate, they demonstrate love, and concern.

The Bible teaches us to "believe and be baptized and you shall be saved". To be saved from sins we simply need to believe. But to saved through sanctification you need to be immersed into the triune God and separated from all the evil influence of the world. The apostasy ignores sanctification, it ignores the significance of being separated unto God and becoming reconstituted with the word of God.

Is Shavuot a shadow of the Great and Terrible day of the Lord?

First of all, we can see aspects of the resurrection life in all of the feasts of the Lord as well as other days like 2nd Passover, the 15th of Av, Hannukah and Purim. So the fact that there is some correlation to me is meaningless. We are told that no verse in the Bible is of its own interpretation. So then I want to gather every verse referring to the rapture and it will have to fit all of those verses.

Second of all, one very key aspect of Shavuot is the wave offering of the two leavened loaves. Now if you cannot interpret that I am not interested in any other theories you have. That is a critical component. However, a wave offering of a sheaf of Barley did depict the rapture at the time of Jesus resurrection, so that wave offering is very significant and indicates a rapture of two loaves of leavened bread. The question is why would the rapture at the start of the seven year tribulation be likened to two loaves of leavened bread? I realize many will try to make a square peg fit in a round hole, so we need to ask the Lord for wisdom on this.

Third, in order to make Shavuot appear to depict the rapture they don't call it Shavuot, they call it Pentecost. If you combine Shavuot with Pentecost then we do get more aspects of the rapture. So let's examine this. It is based on the traditional teaching of Christianity. That does not mean that it is wrong, but it does mean we need to be extra careful about this. Jesus told us specifically to beware of the traditional teachings of the pharisees. The teaching says that Jesus ascended 40 days after He rose from the dead based on a verse in Acts 1 that says the ascension was the fortieth time Jesus had appeared to the disciples. The problem with equating the 40th time to 40 days after the resurrection is that the second time Jesus appeared to the disciples was a week after the first time and the third time was when Peter said he wanted to go fishing and spent the entire night fishing. So at the very least you would assume that the 40th time was at least 47 or 48 days after the resurrection. However, I doubt that right after seeing Jesus the second time Peter told everyone he was going fishing.

Still based on Acts 1 it is reasonable to interpret the ascension to be 48 days after the resurrection. But we now have another problem, Shavuot, if the word Pentecost really refers to Shavuot, was 50 days after the resurrection. At the resurrection they are all in Jerusalem and Jesus tells them to remain there until the Spirit is poured out. But all Jews are required to be in Jerusalem for Shavuot, of course they will remain there. They are claiming Jesus said this two days before Shavuot. That makes no sense.

But the real problem for me is the fundamental premise that the Feasts of the Lord are prophetic and are a shadow of things to come. The entire basis to say that the rapture is on Shavuot is that they are saying that feast was prophetic shadow of the rapture. So then, what was the prophetic shadow of Jesus ascending to the throne? On Shavuot Moses ascended the Mountain to God the Father. That to me is the perfect shadow of the ascension. We have feast days celebrating Jesus conception, birth, circumcision, death, burial and resurrection. All of that supports the idea that these feasts are a prophetic shadow of things to come, the underlying principle in looking at Shavuot/Pentecost in the first place. But now, all of a sudden, there is no Feast commemorating Jesus ascending to the throne? What happens when Jesus ascends to the throne? We are told in Revelation 4 and 5 that He takes the scroll out of God's hand and opens the mystery hidden from ages and generation but now made known to us, that we are joint heirs with Christ and that Jesus Christ is now Lord of all. What happens on Shavuot? Moses, a type of Christ, receives the law which was a marriage proposal between God and man. When we are joined to the Lord and become one flesh with Him we become joint heirs with Him. Shavuot is the perfect prophetic shadow of Jesus ascending to the throne.

OK, so then what are the two leavened loaves? Leaven signifies the traditional teachings of religion. The Jews have their traditional teachings, that is the leaven and the word of God is the wheat that makes up the loaf. Likewise Christians have their traditional teachigns, that is the leaven and Jesus as the incarnated word is the wheat that makes up that loaf. Jesus said that He didn't come to abolish but to fulfill the law and that every jot and tittle would be fulfilled. This is what happens when Jesus ascends to the throne and opens the title deed to the earth.

But there are more problems with equating Pentecost with Shavuot. Why does the fact that it is 9AM prove that the disciples are not drunk on new wine? That makes absolutely no sense expect on the Feast of New Wine which is 50 days after Shavuot. Also why assume they are drunk on "new wine". That is very specific, why couldn't they have been drunk on old wine, or other forms of alcohol? Again, that makes no sense unless everyone was there to celebrate the feast of new wine.

So this simply means I don't accept the traditional non Biblical teaching that Jesus ascended ten days before Shavuot and that Shavuot was the feast of Pentecost. This does not in any way address whether or not Shavuot or Pentecost is a prophetic shadow of the rapture.

Is Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, a prophetic shadow of the rapture

The first rapture was when Jesus rose from the dead and brought many Old Testament saints with Him. That was on the "Feast of First Firstfruits" and was depicted with a sheaf of Barley. This feast is done to bless the harvest so that the entire harvest will be blessed by God. But it wasn't the Barley harvest, it precedes the Barley harvest.

This means the next thing to take place on the prophetic timeline is the Barley harvest, that will be the rapture that precedes 7 years of tribulation.

In the book of Ruth she returns from Moab to Israel at the time of the Barley harvest. She depicts the tribulation saints who will have to glean in the field. She depicts the first becoming last at the time of the rapture. Shavuot is not at the time of the Barley harvest. Shavuot was the ceremony where the first fruits of wheat are offered to God so that He can bless the harvest. The two covenants, Old and New are waved before God, fully cooked and ready to eat. This was fulfilled by Jesus. Even if you have a different interpretation of Ruth, that she represents the Gentile bride taken before the seven year tribulation that still will not work for Shavuot because she is married after the harvest. Shavuot does not in any way fit with the book of Ruth.

The only other book depicting the rapture of the Bride of Christ would be Esther. That book definitely does not fit with a rapture at Shavuot.

So then what do they do? They ignore Ruth and Esther and try to use Song of Songs, a book about our love for the Lord Jesus and say that the bride is raptured in chapter 2. Does that make sense? She has not even been transformed yet? Think of all the experiences she has still not had. This is what happens when you try to jam a square peg into a round hole.

Now consider Elijah, where does he get raptured from? He depicts those taken before the tribulation while the tribulation saints are depicted by the ministry of Elisha. He is raptured on the other side of the Jordan and it is the tribulation saints who take up the mantle and cross the Jordan river. That would mean the rapture is prior to Passover. Again, definitely does not fit with Shavuot or Pentecost.

Then consider Exodus 12, this is when the Jews get a new beginning. It takes place immediately after the three days of darkness. The resurrection of Jesus is our new beginning. It is when we became a new creation. Likewise, the rapture will also be a new beginning for those who are left behind and become tribulation saints.

What is fascinating is that the three days before Nisan 1 are in the season of Purim. Nisan 1 is two weeks before Passover. According to the Julian calendar it will be Nisan 1 when it is Passover on the Gregorian Calendar. When you put those two feasts together you get the fulfillment of the "great and terrible day". It will be great for Esther and terrible for those are left behind crying "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me".

Encouragement for those who are weary

There are a lot of people who became fascinated with watching for the Lord's return at the time of the Revelation 12 sign in the heavens in 2017. That is more than seven years ago and so they are now weary. I became fascinated with the Lord's return in 1972 when the Lord told me I would see His return. I am not the best person to show empathy for someone who is weary after only seven years, but I will still try to be a little more empathetic.

1. I believe the Writing on the Wall Sign indicates a rapture this Spring of 2025. I have shared extensively on that.

2. I believe the writing on the Wall sign also indicated 7 years of peace for the US beginning in 2017.

3. I believe that prior to the rapture or at the same time as the rapture Jesus will flip the tables of the money changers. Right now the US dollar is the reserve currency, this dramatic movement to Gold is putting the table the US dollar is sitting on ready to tip over. Looking at the charts and tables it does not look like this can wait another year.

4. The UN has a seven year covenant known as Agenda 2030 and they strengthened it "confirmed it" during the Feast of Trumpets in 2024 saying if there was a global health crisis the WHO would supersede every governments authority, thus bringing in one world government.

5. Everything is in place for the technology for the Mark of the Beast.

6. The vaccine mandate globally gave the WHO the data needed to train the AI for implementing the mark of the beast as a way to insure everyone is vaccinated at the time of the next pandemic.

7. We now have evidence that close to 800 million people have died in China, instead of 1.2 billion people they now have less than 400 million people. They call it white lung disease or walking pneumonia, either way we could have another global pandemic announced any day now.

8. Iran and the US are all in on threatening nuclear war. Bunker busters are not going to go down 500 meters where Iran's tunnels are.

9. China is also all in on threatening to invade Taiwan.

10. Russia and N. Korea are all in. They all know they have to overthrow the US to get what they want and the US actions have not caught them by surprise.

11. Trump is a modern day Jehu which tells me that Jezebel signifying the Great Babylon is about to be judged.

12. I don't get into the debate over when Jesus was crucified. I know that in 70 AD the temple was cast down without one stone upon another and the church was dispersed to the nations. I believe that 490 years of forgiveness (7x70) for all four corners of the earth (4x490) equals 1960 years from 70 AD before there will be no more forgiveness left. Therefore I believe that on the 9th of Av, 2030 you will see there is no more opportunity for forgiveness. That would put 2030 in the second half of the tribulation when God's wrath is poured out. Theoretically that could mean the seventieth week does not begin until 2026, but more likely it will be 2025.

My point is there is too much going on right now to be weary or to lose heart. Every day I learn something new, yesterday I was stunned to see that it could be the season of Purim on the Julian calendar while being Passover on the Gregorian calendar demonstrating the dichotomy of the rapture for those who are taken compared to those who are left behind. In the last few days I have learned so much about Purim as a prophetic shadow of the rapture that I have been fully amazed. I don't get caught up in banking on a day, rather I get caught up in trying to dig down and get into all the details on this.

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John 2:15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

Mark 11:15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves,

Matthew 21:12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.

Notice that this is not in the gospel of Luke. I believe Luke ends at the rapture. So this event is likely caused after the rapture. Consider the situation right now, if the rapture were to take place it would surely cause the dollar to collapse and everyone to flee to gold.