Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Famine will be a major incentive for people to take the mark of the beast, but it won't work on everyone. There will be people who are not starving, whether they are farmers, preppers, or what. So the second major incentive will be the plague. This will have to made in a laboratory and the government will need the cure so that if you want the cure you need the mark of the beast. Also, this can't be like Covid19, it will have to be something that people can see you are sick, something like Ebola. Imagine they cross Ebola with pneumatic plague. When people die it is horrific and they are extremely contagious. Now if you refuse to get the vaccine you are threatening the lives of others. But this can't be isolated in Siberia or the Congo. No, an airplane landing at a major international airport in which everyone on the plane has died from this, that would completely terrify the whole world. I am thinking this time it would have to be in Europe for this event. Finally, war is also a great way to get the whole population under control, justify censorship, concentration camps, etc. But they are going to need to make it very clear that anyone who is a traitor will be executed by a firing squad. Make the executions public, live stream them, just like we will ultimately see with the two witnesses.

 
ZNP said:
So let me get this straight, half are raptured, and half aren't. But then they all appear before the Bema seat and now this time 65% are commended and welcomed in. So what happened, the 15% who were not raptured, that was a mistake?
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When Jesus uses 50% twice, as taken vs left behind, straighten him out.
He was obviously mistaken in your opinion.
 
Psalm1 said:
When Jesus used 50% twice, tell him he is confused.
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I have already explained that 1/2 x 1/2 x 2/3 = 2/12, that equals 2 of the 12 spies entering the good land.

Jesus is not giving us one criteria at the judgement, He is giving us all three.

1. Some believers are evil, they say the Lord has delayed his coming and beat their fellow servants who are faithfully watching for the Lord's return telling them "no one knows the day or hour" so shut up.

But that is only one criteria

2. Then of those who were not evil and did not eat and drink with the drunken you have those who were foolish. They figured they could simply borrow someone else's oil, maybe get their supply from the pastor each week rather than developing a relationship with the Lord each day.

But that is only the second criteria.

3. Maybe you were not evil and you were not foolish. The Lord gave you a talent, more than enough to invest. But you were afraid to say anything. You knew if you said anything you would be castigated, shunned, and suffer persecution just like all the saints of God. So you kept what the Lord gave you safely but didn't obey His command to invest it, preach it, teach it, proclaim it, and be His witness.

Those are three criteria, the first eliminates half of all Christians, the second eliminates a fourth of all Christians, and the last eliminates one twelfth of all Christians.
 

X MARKS THE SPOT: PANDEMIC TO FLOOD - AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH (PART 6) OCTOBER 28-29, 2026​


This is the sixth in a six part series. I have listened to all six. I think they are all informative, but rather than post all six I will post this one and you can use this link to get to the other five if you wish.
 
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

In Acts 7 Stephen points out that Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery out of jealousy. They also mocked Moses saying "who made you are ruler over us". Then, even after Moses had delivered them out of Egypt with powerful miracles they wanted to return, pressuring Aaron to make the golden calf. He then asks "which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?" Then the ultimate rejection was when they betrayed and murdered Jesus.

This is the gospel message of Stephen and it stings like the snap of a whip. It may be different than what you would preach to someone at the end of their rope and desperate. But for people who have grown up in a religious household and are rejecting Jesus, this is the message.

54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

That is the gospel. There is a revelation of Jesus Christ as Lord who loves His people and cares for them. He demonstrates how to pray saying "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" and he demonstrates that those who have been forgiven by the Lord should in turn forgive those who sin against them.

If you compare this with Peter, Stephen uses Biblical examples to expose their actions today while Peter used the Prophets to expound on the current events. In both examples they begin by convicting the hearers of sin and only after they have been fully convicted do they turn to the way of salvation.
 
There is a concept known as "convergence". That means you don't simply look at one factor, you look at multiple factors all converging together.

My thesis is similar to that saying "Normal isn't coming back, Jesus is". Only I am more precise. I believe the Covid Pandemic was a prophetic fulfillment from the book of Joel giving us a 7 year countdown to the tribulation beginning.

Although the tribulation is primarily for the harvest of the believers, it is also the opportunity for the Antichrist regime to rule. Therefore I look at the technology required to implement a global currency worldwide without any spot not covered with their service.

To do that you need Starlink. They expect to have complete global coverage by the end of 2028. Therefore I expect they will have a full mandate on the Mark of the Beast by the end of 2028. However, prior to that you will need a famine that necessitates the use of a draconian ration system. You wouldn't have that if you had a bad harvest in 2028 because the food we are eating in 2028 was harvested in 2027. So we need a bad harvest in 2027. Now based on the pattern in Egypt with Joseph, I expect seven good years to precede the seven lean years of the tribulation. We know that the black horse of famine is one of the four horses of the apocalypse which rides at the start of the tribulation. Now we know that 2027 will be a bad harvest due to the price/shortage of diesel and fertilizer. However, even though it is currently guaranteed to be bad, it is not yet guaranteed to be "Biblical". I believe the tribulation begins with the judgment on the Great Babylon which falls in one hour and plunges the entire world into chaos and a "Biblical crisis" when the biggest superpower on the planet has a complete collapse in one hour.

So then a guaranteed famine is converging with the technology being ready for the Mark of the Beast to be implemented and that is converging with the red horse of the apocalypse, the horse of war, with threats of nuclear war being bandied about.

But even if we have two years of famine before the mark of the beast is implemented, we can expect that the image of the Beast and the "worship" of the beast takes place at the start of the tribulation. Recently Trump said we can't call AI artificial intelligence, we have to call it "Super intelligence" because he is giving it personhood similar to how corporations have been given personhood. AI just recently passed the Turing test which means an image that AI projects can decieve the majority of humans into thinking it is "human". Hence it can now pass for "the image of the Beast". So that technology has also converged.

But we are also seeing lots of civil unrest globally. This is essential because the way you deal with global unrest is you declare a state of emergency and this helps you implement dictatorial rule. So if the plan is to use the unrest in France and other countries to implement a dictatorship, well you wouldn't wait 12 months, you would have to act relatively soon, in a matter of days or weeks. So the white horse of the antichrist deception controlling the media with censorship, shadow banning, etc. is also converging with the other two horses. The weaponization of treason is definitely one of the tools of this form of dictatorship and Trump live streaming the execution of a man convicted of treason is designed to send a message to the country, and so that is also converging.

Now the fourth horse of the apocalypse is the plague. Propaganda manipulating the populace, war, and famine are all very valuable tools to coerce the majority of people to take the mark of the beast. But from the pandemic we know that the most effective tool is the plague. We know some people will have food stored up and so the famine will not impact them. We know that many people don't trust the government after the last pandemic and so they will not be manipulated. But we also know from the New Testament that family members and friends will be turning people in who did not get the mark of the beast. Why? They wouldn't do that because of the famine, or because of the war. They would do that because of the plague, accusing anyone who didn't get the mark of putting everyone else in danger. However, this time the plague cannot be like Covid. People are going to want to see people dying horrific deaths like that with Ebola. If they are puking up blood and dying on the sidewalk there will not be any debate. Right now we have seen a very big spike in Ebola in the Congo. However Ebola is not that transmissible. The spread can be controlled with quarantine. However, if you mix Ebola with pneumatic plague you would have something extremely transmissible and extremely deadly.

But so far all of this convergence is only pointing to the start of the tribulation to be "soon" (weeks or months away). However, the current events concerning Noah's ark comes at an extremely interesting time. The Noahide conference is the first week of November. If they confirm prior to that as front page news being blasted from all the major media that they have confirmed Noah's ark on the mountains of Ararat that will both shock and confound the world. If Noah's ark is true then how should you respond? Should you believe Jesus and the Christians who say the end of the world will be as "the days of Noah"? Antichrist as to short circuit that with implementing the Noahide laws which would make the worship of Jesus a crime punishable by death.
 
Daniel 9:8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
 
Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

14 Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
 
Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Is this verse equating going to hell as "shame and everlasting contempt"?

Many people argue that the concept of hell is contrary to a loving father. I disagree. I consider hell to be the same thing as a museum. A loving father is not going to want his children to be ignorant of what happens if you reject God and His son Jesus Christ. Whenever you find a person who is living in sin they have a philosophy that justifies what they are doing. It could be vengeance, bitterness, or some other thing. But this philosophy will either condemn God as being unjust or it will claim that the things that happened to them prove there is no God, or they will simply have a philosophy that is convenient to their flesh. Many serial killers try to justify their actions because of the "abuse" they suffered growing up. In reality they didn't suffer anything more than perceived slights. On the other hand there are those who truly suffered horrendous abuse and rather than turning to vengeance or hate, they found Jesus Christ the savior.

It is difficult for us to empathize with sinners unless we ourselves have suffered from the same affliction. If we know what it is like to be an alcoholic who almost killed themself, then we can minister to other alcoholics. We can empathize with them. Same with drug users, or gang members, or prostitutes, or many other sinful lifestyles. A convicted felon who gets saved needs to view that as a ministry. If you are in prison minister to those in prison. If you are released minister to those who are following in your footsteps to do evil, pray they would repent and be converted.

So I see hell as one of these museum displays where each person in hell tells you their story for why they wound up there as well as demonstrating the horrible consequences of not receiving Jesus Christ and the blood of His sacrifice. So you can see, anyone whose story is that they did receive Jesus and the blood of His sacrifice will not be in a place of "shame and everlasting contempt".

Instead all that receive Jesus will be raised to everlasting life. But everlasting life does not mean a crown. Just as everyone in hell has a testimony, every believer will also have a testimony and if we are honest we will confess that we failed to heed the Lord's speaking to us. Maybe sometimes we did and sometimes we didn't. Each of us will have a testimony. Once again, that testimony is profitable to others. That is what a ministry is, when your testimony is profitable to others. Suppose you had a word that would have saved someone, the Spirit was urging you to share it, but you declined to heed the Lord and now that person never did get saved, they are in hell. How are you going to feel for eternity knowing of this failure? Let me clarify, I don't believe anyone goes to hell unless they clearly and unequivocally rejected the gospel, rejected the word of God. So if you declined to speak to them, others must have spoken to them. But imagine you see them in hell and they say "why didn't you warn me?" That is going to sting.

The good news is that our failures motivate us for our ministry and the Lord's blood cleanses us from all sin. So we can repent, and go forward.
 

Grok Was Asked Which Nation in Ezekiel 38 Is Closest to Moving on Israel — Here’s What It Said​


All eyes on Turkey as the prominent leader in this war in Ezekiel 38.

Also, something has to change before Ezekiel 38 becomes reality. I suspect the start of the Tribulation will result in a global crisis that will change everything. Also even though two of these nations are a basket case (Sudan and Libya) the fact is they house Russian air bases so they could certainly take part in this war once Russia joins.
 
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