Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Matthew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

When you confessed your sins and repented and prayed to the Lord for salvation that was when you entered in the strait gate. But that is the entrance ramp to the "narrow way". You have to then travel the narrow way which leads to life.

This does not mean that if you do not travel the narrow way you will go to hell, nor does it mean if you sin that you go to hell. When you entered in at the strait gate you were saved from going to hell. But you haven't arrived at life yet. If you are addicted to drugs you can get saved with that prayer, but that doesn't mean you have arrived at life. Your life can still be a total mess. You have to follow the Lord, let Him lead you and guide you. Every day you need time in the word and in prayer. You need the fellowship of other saints, you need to gather with other believers. The Christian life is a journey to life. The resurrection life conquers death. It is a journey to arrive at a victorious life in resurrection.

Entering in at the strait gate is not the end of the journey, it is the beginning.
 

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Man's Mind Is Not Made For That Dream 6-1-25@11:52 AM Shared 6-4-25


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Amos 3:14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

Lord Jesus we pray that you would visit the evil altars that are raised against our families, against our churches, against out pastors and leaders. May all the evil they hoped to bring upon us reverberate back to them. As they have hoped to do to us, may it be done unto them. As they have done to others may your righteous hand do unto them. As they have measured to others may it be measured to them. May the horns of these altars be cut off, in the name of Jesus Christ. May their horns fall to the ground. May the evil spirits tremble with fear knowing that the Great God's wrath is kindled against them. And may these altars against us never be rebuilt. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, the king of kings, the Lord of Lords.

I praise you that you are above every name and that every knee must bow before You! I praise You that You are returning as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. I praise You that when You speak the Kingdom of darkness shudders. So may the fire of God fall on these evil altars and obliterate them, never to be rebuilt again. Amen.
 

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Hosea 10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

Lord Jesus we pray that you would break down the evil altars that have been erected against the children of God and we pray that you would spoil their images that they use. We know that they use these images to track the children of God and to cause harm. We annul and revoke all access and permission that was granted to them in the name of Jesus Christ, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. We revoke all access granted through ignorance, or oversharing, or spiritual laws or family covenants. We pray that every access granted through deception, through ignorance, or prior to them receiving your blood as payment for all debts would be revoked in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and God our Father. Lord we pray they would be found faulty, that You would break down their altars and spoil their images. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.

Lord we praise You because You are omniscient and omnipotent. You alone are capable to answer this prayer, to destroy all these images in a moment, to break down all these altars with the breath of your mouth, and to find fault with all of these evil spirits seeking to harm your children and your church. We praise You, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
 

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Ezekiel 6:2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

Lord Jesus we call on You to bring a sword and destroy the high places. May their altars be desolate. MTV, Hollywood, Grammies, and all of their altars, may they all be desolate. May their images be broken. All the images they create for evil intent to enslave man to sin, may they be broken and Lord we pray cast down their slain men before their idols.

5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

Lord Jesus we remind You of Your word. They slew 60 million babies, they have trafficked in human beings, they murder and kill with impunity. So we pray that You would defile their altars, make them vile, something that is despised, rejected, and repulsive.

6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Amen Lord, Your word says You will do a complete and thorough work, and so we praise You. When You say something You do it. You watch over Your word to accomplish it. You do a complete and thorough work. Amen.
 

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Isaiah 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Amen, Lord Jesus we pray that the stones of the evil altars would be as chalkstones that are beaten into powder. Lord Jesus we pray that their groves and images would not stand but fall flat before You. Lord Jesus we pray according to Your word that You would accomplish all that You have sent the word out to accomplish.

We pray that God's name would be hallowed, that all would know there is a God and that Jesus Christ sits on the throne and that you do not touch the apple of His eye. Amen.
 

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Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

Amen Lord, we pray according to Your word that as You have commanded, so it would be done.

Deuteronomy 12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

Amen Lord, we pray these evil altars would be overthrown, the pillars broken, the groves burned, the graven images hewn down and the names of them destroyed.
 

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Psalm 71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

Lord Jesus I pray that they would be confounded and brought to shame that seek the hurt of Your church, or of the pastor or his family or of any of the saints.
 

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The Rapture - The Church Exodus - Our Blessed Hope: SOONER Than We Think? FIVE Witnesses Say YES!!!

 

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Satan's lease on the earth expires after 6,000 years.

Genesis 6:3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

I think the 120 years is a reference to 120 Jubilees. Just like a jubilee we sold our inheritance and became slaves as a result of the fall of man. If the limit of a man's life is 120 years we can consider the limit of mankind's life in this current state to be 150 jubilees and when that time is up we will have the release of all the prisoners.

Now even if you have sold yourself as a slave someone can redeem you, and that is what Jesus did on the cross. When He proclaimed the jubilee at the start of His ministry He was proclaiming that He would redeem us from slavery.

God is saying in this verse that He is striving with man because he is flesh. This is a reference to the fall. He says that He won't strive forever, that after 120 years this flesh will die. This is a reference to God and to the human body indwelt by Satan making it the flesh. When man sinned God said that in that day he would die and that "day" was a reference to 1,000 years since one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day to God. So then this term 120 years could refer to 120 sets of a plural number of years. The Bible gives us two sets of plural years, a week of years, and a jubilee of years (50). God is saying that Satan's lease on inhabiting the human body is 120 years and in other verses we learn that the period of years where your inheritance will return to you after having sold it is 50. So then it is a reasonable interpretation that God is saying that the period of time that Satan can keep man's body as his dwelling place, making it the flesh is 120 jubilees.
 

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We have a couple of dates that must line up.

1. If Satan's lease on man is 6,000 years (120 jubilees) and it began with the Fall of Man then it must also end on that same day as the fall of man. Although man fell on the 9th of Av, they might not have been kicked out of the garden the same day. It appears that there was a trial and a judgment that was put on Eve, Adam and the Serpent.

2. The seventieth week must begin on the first day of the week.

3. The Jews must flee into the wilderness in Spring, Summer or Fall, not in the winter.

4. The Seventieth week ends and the Jubilee begins on the Day of Atonement.

5. Therefore the seventieth week begins on Feast of Trumpets and that is when the Man of sin is revealed.

6. Prior to the man of sin being revealed we have the outer darkness with the weeping and gnashing of teeth. That is the ninth plague in Egypt.

7. Prior to this we should have Biblical plagues of locusts.

8. And prior to that we should have hail (violent storms accompanied by fire). Right now we are having hail take place around the world along with major forest fires with this fire in Canada perhaps the biggest in the history of North America. This follows horrific fires in Lahaina and also in the Palisades in Calilfornia.

9. If the seventieth week begins on Feast of Trumpets we would have the midpoint where the two witnesses are killed on Passover. The Jews would flee and they would miss the first Passover having been defiled by their dead religion. So they could celebrate second Passover a month later just as we see with Hezekiah.
 

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This is the reaction of many Christians when faced with the cross of Christ

10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

This is why you don't want to be sleeping when the Lord asks you to watch with Him in prayer. If Peter had been watching he would have known that the Father has given Jesus this cup to drink.
 

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I am going to share a link with that I strongly disagree with his interpretation, I think the interpretation is harmful, but that is my opinion. God is the one that will correct us, and reading, studying and trying to understand the Bible are all good things.

1. He says the two wave loaves on Shavuot represent the Levites.

They are leavened loaves. Jesus said the word of God is bread. Shavuot represents God giving the Jews the word of God. Jesus said that leaven represented the traditions of the Pharisees. We refer to the Old Testament as "The law and the Prophets". It is two loaves, two traditions that were given to us on Shavuot.

2. He says the word for firstfruits used in Shavuot is the root of the word for a manchild to open the womb.

I looked at this and the word used for Shavuot is never used to apply to a child being born. This is like saying the word "Firstfruit" is a root for "First child" because they both have the word first in them.

3. He says the word for "wave offering" is used for the Levites, hence these two loaves being waved refer to the Levites being raptured.

This is utterly ridiculous. This word used for wave offering is used in many offerings that are offered at many times and it means a sacrificial wave offering. The gold given for the temple is called a wave offering. The bread that is a wave offering is said to be a gift to the Levites. I think it is very clear that the word of God is likened to fine gold and is a gift to us.

4. He says that Jesus did not fulfill Shavuot in the flesh.

This is borderline blasphemy based on the traditions of the Catholic church that we were warned directly to beware of. It is crystal clear from the Bible that Jesus ascended on Shavuot. The evidence is indisputable. Jesus was seen by the disciples the first time in the evening after the resurrection (Day 1). He was seen the second time by the disciples a week later (Day 8). He was seen the third time after Peter and the disciples went fishing in Galilee at least four days journey from Jerusalem (Day 13). He was seen a total of 40 days. 37+13 = 50th day, Shavuot. I have shared this with him personally and he felt I was rude for using the word "blasphemy" and so refused to listen. I have shared it with others who fellowship with him and he has heard this from Dr. Barry Awe as well. Because he has refused to listen and because I have shared links to his ministry before I feel compelled to share this here.

Shavuot is a picture of Jesus (typified by Moses) ascending to the heavens (typified by Moses ascending the mountain) to bring us the New Testament (typified by Moses bringing the ten commandments down).

5. Because he teaches that Jesus ascended ten days before Shavuot he equates Pentecost with Shavuot.

This is where the damage is. Pentecost does look like the single best candidate for the rapture. I did not want to get into this while he was on his "final countdown" binge but then I figured if I waited until afterwards it would look like just more of the same old same old, as soon as one day is up they move on to the next. Even when I was so focused on Passover and Second Passover one of the key reasons was the connection with the 15th of Av. Pentecost is the 8th of Av. We are under the impression that the 9th of Av is when Adam and Eve fell by eating the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If Satan's lease on being able to inhabit man's flesh began on 9th of Av and if he is given 6,000 years it makes sense that it would end on that day as well. The fifteenth of Av is a powerful picture of the rapture, whereas Shavuot is a powerful picture of Jesus ascension. After the rapture there will be a period of outer darkness before Antichrist comes on line, introduces himself, is hailed as the rider on the white horse with a counterfeit gospel. The best time for that is the Feast of trumpets. We are told that this reign is during the seventieth week, a seven year period which logically would start on the first day of the year. The seventieth week is not simply a seven year period for the Jews but also for the Gentiles. So although Nisan 1 became their first day with the Exodus, Tishrei 1 is still the first day for the world. It is not a picture of the rapture, that takes place before the Antichrist is revealed to the world as a counterfeit Messiah. However, 3 1/2 years later would be Passover, the perfect time for the two witnesses to be killed and raised. This in turn would cause many Jews to repent and turn to the Lord. Since they missed that Passover they would keep the 2nd Passover just as in the days of Hezekiah.

Here is the link:

I am not the arbiter of the truth, by all means examine what he says, pray about it, and discern for yourselves with the help of the Holy Spirit.
 

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Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Exodus 9:16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

to count, recount, relate

  1. (Qal)
    1. to count (things)
    2. to number, take account of, reckon
  2. (Niphal) to be counted, be numbered
  3. (Piel) to recount, rehearse, declare
    1. to recount (something), rehearse
    2. to talk
    3. to count exactly or accurately
  4. (Pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related

When we speak the word of God we are declaring the name of Jesus Christ, Lord of Heaven and Earth, throughout the entire earth. We can recount, we can rehearse, we can declare, we can number, and we can relate.

1 Corinthians 7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

  1. to separate, put asunder, to pick out, select, choose
  2. to approve, esteem, to prefer
  3. to be of opinion, deem, think, to be of opinion
  4. to determine, resolve, decree
  5. to judge
    1. to pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong
      1. to be judged, i.e. summoned to trial that one's case may be examined and judgment passed upon it
    2. to pronounce judgment, to subject to censure
      1. of those who act the part of judges or arbiters in matters of common life, or pass judgment on the deeds and words of others
  6. to rule, govern
    1. to preside over with the power of giving judicial decisions, because it was the prerogative of kings and rulers to pass judgment
  7. to contend together, of warriors and combatants
    1. to dispute
    2. in a forensic sense
      1. to go to law, have suit at law
We can stand stedfast and we can have control over our will to make holy decrees in the name of Jesus Christ.

Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.