Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Luke 11:34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

The wisdom of this world is based on this evil darkness. Humans have to be filled with something. If you are not filled with Jesus then you are not filled with light but rather with darkness.

35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

Everyone has a "light which is in them". It guides and leads them. Batman is a story of a vigilante who is the "hero". That is an example of having a light within you that is darkness. The popularity of super heroes is evidence of this. People identify with wearing a mask, they are struggling with trauma and weakness and having been overcome with evil. The Little Prince is a book showing how the light within you can be darkness.

 

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"Being cast out into outer darkness"

This phrase is only used by Matthew. Compare Matthew with Luke in these three examples:

1. The Faith of the Centurion

• Matthew 8:11–12: Jesus praises a Roman centurion's faith and warns that many Gentiles will sit at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, while the "sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness."
• Luke 13:28–29 (Parallel Context): Jesus says people will come from east and west to sit in the kingdom, while those listening will be "thrust out" and experience "weeping and gnashing of teeth."
• The Difference: Matthew has a specific agenda for the Jews who are saved as a nation at the end of the tribulation. At this point if you have still not repented, this is your last chance. Luke has a different agenda, for those raptured prior to the tribulation. For those who are left behind it is not your last chance, you still have an opportunity to repent and return to the Lord.

2. The Parable of the Wedding Feast

• Matthew 22:1–14: A king throws a wedding feast for his son. One guest sneaks in without a proper wedding garment. The king orders the servants to bind him and "cast him into the outer darkness."
• Luke 14:15–24 (The Great Banquet Parallel): Luke's version focuses on a man throwing a great banquet where the invited guests make excuses. The master sends his servants to bring in the poor, crippled, blind, and lame from the streets so his house will be filled.
• The Difference: In Matthew the guest without a garment represents someone trying to enter the kingdom on their own terms. Luke’s version focuses heavily on extending the invitation to marginalized groups and concludes with the warning that none of the originally invited men will taste the banquet. The point in Luke is that everyone has been invited, but most people love the world and don't have the love of God. They will be left behind in the tribulation. Matthew's point is that by the end of the tribulation if you are still so obstinate as to still be rejecting Jesus Christ as your righteousness you will be cast out.

3. The Parable of the Talents / Minas

• Matthew 25:14–30 (The Talents): A master entrusts talents (large sums of money) to three servants. The third servant buries his talent out of fear. The master calls him a "worthless servant" and orders: "cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness."
• Luke 19:11–27 (The Ten Minas Parallel): A nobleman gives ten servants one mina each before going to receive a kingdom. The servant who hides his mina in a handkerchief is rebuked and has his mina stripped away.
• The Difference: In Matthew, the servant is given a talent, that equals 60 Minas. If a days wage is $200 a Mina would be $20,000. It is enough to go and do something but not a "fortune". However, a talent would be $1,200,000. That is significantly more. The Jews were entrusted with the word of God whereas Christians are entrusted with their testimony of Jesus' saving work in their life. Jews were responsible to identify the Messiah. Imagine you were one of the Jewish leaders who paid the centurions to lie about Jesus' resurrection. They had a job to do, confirm that Jesus was the Messiah. No doubt to do that was "scary" because of the persecution against anyone who received Christ. But you can see why Jesus would say "worthless servant". We will arrive in heaven and we will discover that "great leaders" who had really been entrusted with a lot from the Lord were in fact "worthless servants" who are cast out. But in Luke we see something different, we see that there are active enemies of the gospel, FreeMasons who have hated Jesus, false prophets who snuck into the church to bring us into subjection, and these ones get slaughtered before the Lord, just as the 450 prophets of Baal get killed after Elijah calls down fire from heaven.

Right now there are many churches controlled by a board of directors that are heavily influenced by FreeMasons and their money. At the start of the tribulation these false prophets get executed. But then you may be a believer and a servant of the Lord who has received a great treasure at being able to teach the word of God. But it will be frightening to do that. There will be persecution, Christians hunted and killed for their faith. So these ones may hide the talent the Lord has entrusted to them. They are still believers, they are still servants of the Lord. However, Jesus will call them "worthless servants" while others will be "good and faithful" servants.

 

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"Being cast out into outer darkness"

This phrase is only used by Matthew. Compare Matthew with Luke in these three examples:

1. The Faith of the Centurion

• Matthew 8:11–12: Jesus praises a Roman centurion's faith and warns that many Gentiles will sit at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, while the "sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness."
• Luke 13:28–29 (Parallel Context): Jesus says people will come from east and west to sit in the kingdom, while those listening will be "thrust out" and experience "weeping and gnashing of teeth."
• The Difference: Matthew has a specific agenda for the Jews who are saved as a nation at the end of the tribulation. At this point if you have still not repented, this is your last chance. Luke has a different agenda, for those raptured prior to the tribulation. For those who are left behind it is not your last chance, you still have an opportunity to repent and return to the Lord.

2. The Parable of the Wedding Feast

• Matthew 22:1–14: A king throws a wedding feast for his son. One guest sneaks in without a proper wedding garment. The king orders the servants to bind him and "cast him into the outer darkness."
• Luke 14:15–24 (The Great Banquet Parallel): Luke's version focuses on a man throwing a great banquet where the invited guests make excuses. The master sends his servants to bring in the poor, crippled, blind, and lame from the streets so his house will be filled.
• The Difference: In Matthew the guest without a garment represents someone trying to enter the kingdom on their own terms. Luke’s version focuses heavily on extending the invitation to marginalized groups and concludes with the warning that none of the originally invited men will taste the banquet. The point in Luke is that everyone has been invited, but most people love the world and don't have the love of God. They will be left behind in the tribulation. Matthew's point is that by the end of the tribulation if you are still so obstinate as to still be rejecting Jesus Christ as your righteousness you will be cast out.

3. The Parable of the Talents / Minas

• Matthew 25:14–30 (The Talents): A master entrusts talents (large sums of money) to three servants. The third servant buries his talent out of fear. The master calls him a "worthless servant" and orders: "cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness."
• Luke 19:11–27 (The Ten Minas Parallel): A nobleman gives ten servants one mina each before going to receive a kingdom. The servant who hides his mina in a handkerchief is rebuked and has his mina stripped away.
• The Difference: In Matthew, the servant is given a talent, that equals 60 Minas. If a days wage is $200 a Mina would be $20,000. It is enough to go and do something but not a "fortune". However, a talent would be $1,200,000. That is significantly more. The Jews were entrusted with the word of God whereas Christians are entrusted with their testimony of Jesus' saving work in their life. Jews were responsible to identify the Messiah. Imagine you were one of the Jewish leaders who paid the centurions to lie about Jesus' resurrection. They had a job to do, confirm that Jesus was the Messiah. No doubt to do that was "scary" because of the persecution against anyone who received Christ. But you can see why Jesus would say "worthless servant". We will arrive in heaven and we will discover that "great leaders" who had really been entrusted with a lot from the Lord were in fact "worthless servants" who are cast out. But in Luke we see something different, we see that there are active enemies of the gospel, FreeMasons who have hated Jesus, false prophets who snuck into the church to bring us into subjection, and these ones get slaughtered before the Lord, just as the 450 prophets of Baal get killed after Elijah calls down fire from heaven.

Right now there are many churches controlled by a board of directors that are heavily influenced by FreeMasons and their money. At the start of the tribulation these false prophets get executed. But then you may be a believer and a servant of the Lord who has received a great treasure at being able to teach the word of God. But it will be frightening to do that. There will be persecution, Christians hunted and killed for their faith. So these ones may hide the talent the Lord has entrusted to them. They are still believers, they are still servants of the Lord. However, Jesus will call them "worthless servants" while others will be "good and faithful" servants.

Now consider this. In the story with the Centurion the people listening to Jesus wanted to be in the Kingdom, they didn't want to be kicked out. They thought they had a ticket because of their parents. In Luke they are the ones listening to the Lord, like people sitting in the pews, but they don't actually want to get their hands dirty. Jesus tells us the harvest is plenteous but the workers are few. So these people are hearers only and not doers. But at the time of the rapture they get "thrust out" into the field to bring in the harvest of the tribulation saints, which according to Revelation is a number so large you can't count it.

In the second story some guy sneaks in to the wedding feast, that is how much he wants to be there, but he wants to do it on his own terms, rejecting Jesus Christ as His righteousness. In Luke it is a little different. Those people were too full of themselves and their worldly success so that the wedding banquet becomes a place for all the outcasts of society. They didn't want to go and be associated with the outcasts. So the very things they were afraid of happening to them in this world, is what happens in the next. Those who get to enter into the wedding feast are willing to be outcasts today.

In the third story the mina is stripped away in Luke. Right now if you preach the gospel you will be mocked, you will be ridiculed and many people will reject it. But if you try to preach the gospel during the tribulation, after the rapture they will attack you "who are you, if you were right with God you would have been raptured, the fact you are here is proof we don't need to listen to you". They had despised what they had and they won't appreciate it until it is gone. In Matthew it is the "final judgment". Every servant wants to hear "well done thou good and faithful servant" and this persons final judgment will be "thou worthless servant". Maybe they had a position and respect in the world and that was the reason they were afraid to speak the whole counsel of God. So the very thing they feared, being seen as a "worthless servant" is what their final judgment is.

 

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John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

God discerns the hearts. When you preach the gospel it is OK if you think the goal is to bring people to salvation because that certainly is your goal. However, you should know this, every single person you preach to will be held accountable for how they respond. Some will be exposed that they loved darkness rather than light. They will rage at the light. Even though they don't get saved, it does lay the groundwork for their judgement.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Yes, this is the gospel, our goal is to turn people from darkness to light. However, you should understand that those who are not saved have turned to darkness and to the power of Satan.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

 

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Now consider this. In the story with the Centurion the people listening to Jesus wanted to be in the Kingdom, they didn't want to be kicked out. They thought they had a ticket because of their parents. In Luke they are the ones listening to the Lord, like people sitting in the pews, but they don't actually want to get their hands dirty. Jesus tells us the harvest is plenteous but the workers are few. So these people are hearers only and not doers. But at the time of the rapture they get "thrust out" into the field to bring in the harvest of the tribulation saints, which according to Revelation is a number so large you can't count it.

In the second story some guy sneaks in to the wedding feast, that is how much he wants to be there, but he wants to do it on his own terms, rejecting Jesus Christ as His righteousness. In Luke it is a little different. Those people were too full of themselves and their worldly success so that the wedding banquet becomes a place for all the outcasts of society. They didn't want to go and be associated with the outcasts. So the very things they were afraid of happening to them in this world, is what happens in the next. Those who get to enter into the wedding feast are willing to be outcasts today.

In the third story the mina is stripped away in Luke. Right now if you preach the gospel you will be mocked, you will be ridiculed and many people will reject it. But if you try to preach the gospel during the tribulation, after the rapture they will attack you "who are you, if you were right with God you would have been raptured, the fact you are here is proof we don't need to listen to you". They had despised what they had and they won't appreciate it until it is gone. In Matthew it is the "final judgment". Every servant wants to hear "well done thou good and faithful servant" and this persons final judgment will be "thou worthless servant". Maybe they had a position and respect in the world and that was the reason they were afraid to speak the whole counsel of God. So the very thing they feared, being seen as a "worthless servant" is what their final judgment is.

1Thessalonians 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Do you realize what has been going on for the last few years since 2017? The signs and prophecies are very clear about how close we are to the rapture. However, many of the pastors and churches are controlled by FreeMasons who do not want this word to get out, similar to putting a lamp under a bushel basket or "collection plate". As a result these churches are kept in the darkness intentionally. These are the ones who continually say "no one knows the day or hour" is therefore intended by the Lord to mean "don't look up" despite the Lord telling us to "watch therefore".

But guess what, these ones who have intentionally kept the church in darkness will themselves be in darkness and so the day will overtake them as a thief. Everything they are afraid to lose will be taken from them.

1John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

 

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Revelation 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

Your tongue is to speak truth and light. If you use your tongue to speak lies and darkness you cause pain to others.

Let me give you an example of speaking "darkness". A few years ago many people did not trust Fauci. Then a few months ago he was at a hearing because his diary had been made public. In that diary they were able to see that at the same time he was telling people they had no evidence that pregnant women have anything to fear from the vaccine he was privately saying they were afraid the evidence revealed that the vaccine could cause terrible complications to pregnant women. Technically what Fauci said was not a "lie" because the human trials they had run had excluded pregnant women. So in fact they did not have "evidence" that this harmed pregnant women. However, theoretically and animal trials confirmed the theory, this could be very damaging to pregnant women and their unborn child.

So that would be "obfuscation" and it is considered a subset of lies. That is not what I mean by speaking darkness.

But I then was talking to someone who has strongly supported the vaccine and ridiculed anyone who didn't get the vaccine for the last six years. I mentioned this about Fauci and his response was "let's not re-litigate that". Think about that? When was it ever litigated? Six years ago if you questioned Fauci you were deplatformed. No litigation was allowed. The reason we were talking about this now was this guy was saying everyone needed to get the vaccine today in order to protect small babies from getting sick. So on the one hand he is concerned about his baby gettin sick but on the other hand let's just sweep all the harm and damage done to other babies under the rug.

This is what it means to "speak darkness". Censorship, deplatforming, and basically preventing the story from being told or the guilty people from being prosecuted. Covering up a crime makes you guilty of the crime.

When you do this your tongue spreads darkness and causes pain to others. This angel pours out his vial on the kingdom of the beast so that they would be in darkness and they would realize the pain their tongue has caused others so that they could repent. Think of the thief on the cross who knew he was guilty and his punishment was just. That person repented. That is the goal of this plague. Repentance unto salvation.

 

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INCREDIBLE!!! Bible prophecy is unfolding in Israel and it’s MIND BLOWING!

 

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I have come to realize something recently which really helps to be empathetic to sinners. Man was made in such a way that we need to be filled with something. So if you are not filled with the word of God and with the Holy Spirit, and if Christ is not living in you, then you will be filled with something else. People are caught up in addictions of all sorts, and even into demonic worship. You can hate the sin while still having mercy on the sinner. But then, consider this analogy. You come to a fork in the road and one person says to go one way and another person says to go another. You are going to be open to hearing from both. But now suppose you have walked for 3 hours down the one way when it is becoming obvious you took the wrong way. Now even though it is becoming clear you went the wrong way and the guy who told you not to take this way was right, you don't want to actually admit that because it means turning around and walking back for another 3 hours and so you wind up where you were 6 hours earlier after having walked for six hours straight. It is easier to preach the gospel to a teenager before they have taken the wrong path, rather than someone who is forty years old and has been walking the wrong path for 20 years or more.

This is why for a lot of people they have to "hit bottom" first. They have to realize they are looking into the abyss of hell before they turn around.

Now consider we have a congregation of believers. Some heard the word when they were 12 and never went down the wrong path. Others did try the wrong path, but only for a year or two before realizing this was foolish and turned around. Others walked the wrong path for 30 years having been saved after a drug overdose almost killed them or after being convicted of a felony, so some other event that was them hitting bottom. We need all of them. The 12 year olds can be those who truly know the word of God 40 years later, the ones who turned back after a year or two can become our evangelists helping others to turn around, and those saved after hitting bottom can help with support groups and give testimonies of God's mercy and salvation. Because these others walked that path we were not to go down we can describe in great detail what is down that path. Meanwhile those that have been walking the Lord's way for the last 40 years can give us great details about what lies ahead for those who haven't.

 

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Consider the difference

Luke (talking about the church age right up to the rapture)

Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

It starts with the great earthquake, which is described in the opening of the sixth seal. I believe that is the rapture and the book of Luke concludes with the saints being raptured. This great earthquake results in famines and pestilences.

Mark (talking about the tribulation saints right after the rapture up to the middle of the tribulation)

Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Here we see the after shocks. The great earthquake in Luke destroys the power structure and the US as the biggest superpower, and so you have nation rising against nation and you have after shocks in divers places. All of this chaos leads to more famine. However, the pestilence from the great earthquake will be due to the millions of dead bodies which after a month or two will have been devoured by maggots and so the pestilence fades away quickly. What doesn't fade away is the trouble that results from the collapse of society and the famine due to that collapse.

Matthew (talking about the Jews saved during the second half of the tribulation)

Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

The consequence of the great earthquake and the after shocks as well as nation rising against nation is famines and pestilences. Those are the two main issues, continuing after shocks is now listed as third to those two things. But pestilences are back. Why? Refugee camps breed pestilence. Collapse of society means collapse of clean water, which breeds pestilence. Famine for several years causes deaths and people who are so weakened they are susceptible to pestilence.

The picture is that the seven year tribulation begins with a "great earthquake" that causes millions of people to die, resulting in pestilence from the dead bodies decaying, and famine from the collapse of a global economy. This is followed my famine being the primary issue as well as trouble (civil war, riots, mobs, Mad Max type situations, roving gangs, etc) and after shocks from the initial great earthquake. However, the pestilence was short lived, fading after the first two months once the dead bodies have decayed. But by the middle of the tribulation famine and pestilence are back, front and center, as years of famine take their toll. Also earthquakes in diverse places are still Biblical in frequency and damage done. Because of the collapse in the global economy it is all the more difficult to send aid and help to places when these earthquakes hit.

 

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WATCHING THROUGH THE LAST DAY OF TABERNACLES - OCTOBER 4, 2026