Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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The Wormwood prophecy. It is a large space rock that looks like a dragon. He calls it Apophis. April 13th, 2029.

It caused me to read the scripture differently. It could usher in a great revival.

When these things begin to happen lift up your head, look up, your redemption draweth nigh

The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night

1Thessalonians 5:2-4 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

I find this very interesting, what does it mean that "the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night"?

First of all it means "as you have done it will be done unto you".

Matthew 26:55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

Mark 14:48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?

Luke 22:52 Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?

They called good evil and evil good. Well then they also will be treated like a thief in the night. The vaccine mandate is a great example of how some have been surprised, caught unawares, as they take their job away from them. The pandemic is another great example of how this "plandemic" has acted like a thief in the night, 40-60% of small businesses are not going to survive. Many landlords have also been driven to bankruptcy. When the elites want to buy they drive the price down, when they want to sell they drive the price up. Caesar Nero is a great example of how the elites like to buy at a fire sale.



Second question, I thought a thief would come secretly, no warning, and yet we are told that the warning is they say "peace and security". That reminds me of something I read that often the companies that install security systems work together with thieves. So as soon as you install the security system your thought is "peace and security" and yet what you have actually done is allow the thieves into your house to case the joint.

Matthew 2:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Luke 12:39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

This is a beautiful picture. They are in darkness. We have been warning them in the gospel for the last two thousand years that the worldly system is condemned, like a building slated for destruction, and yet they are trying to make their home in this condemned building. But to add insult to injury they hire Satan, a thief, to install their security system. The Mark of the Beast is the security system. They think once we have this in place no one can steal anymore because we can track them, we can track every dollar they have. But how idiotic, the thief is the guy who installed the security system! Once it is installed he can steal everything.

The third point, the Lord tells us that only those in darkness get "overtaken as a thief". Anyone who is walking in the light will not be caught by surprise by the thieves.
Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. This reminds us of the prophecy
Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets. When the Lord comes some will be caught as a thief and ashamed, especially all those who were responsible to tell us and to keep watch.

We are not in darkness that we cannot recognize the thief

John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

A good example of this is election fraud. If you steal an election you are a thief and you "climbed up some other way". When Biden was elected people thought they would finally have some peace and security. Instead on day 1 he signed a stack of executive orders and it was clear, we had a tyrant. Think of Bhagram airbase, a wonderful strategic location in Afghanistan. We handed it over with billions of dollars of weapons and large pallets of cash to the Taliban who in turn have now handed it over to China. It was sudden, in the middle of the night the army was given the order to evacuate immediately. Biden is a thief, he climbed up some other way, and he just stole this airbase for China which in turn will lead to sudden destruction.

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

All those in darkness were asleep. They didn't care that Biden was compromised by China, they didn't care that big tech was censoring any story contrary to Biden, they didn't care that the Main Stream media was taking orders from his campaign on how to spin the news. The day has overtaken them as a thief in the night and they are going to be ashamed.

Romans 11:25 Lest you be self-opinionated (wise in your own conceits), I do not want you to miss this hidden truth and mystery, brethren: a hardening (insensibility) has [temporarily] befallen a part of Israel [to last] until the full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come in,

This is why the discussion of the end times is so complicated. "Until the full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come". This indicates it is a process, probably not a single rapture event. If we look at the harvest schedule in Israel there are multiple crops with multiple harvest times. Even if you focus exclusively on wheat the wheat harvest begins in May and is completed in July. There is a winter wheat (plant during winter) and a summer wheat. One type of wheat is harvested in the Spring time and the other during the summer. For all we know this could be multiple raptures, though we generally just say pretribulation and mid tribulation. Only then, once the wheat is harvested (the gentiles) does the fig harvest begin. Israel is harvested after the gentiles are harvested. We call that rapture "post tribulation".

Think about it, if we have multiple raptures the prophecies concerning them will be complicated if we confuse prophecies with one rapture with those of another rapture.

What is far more important is what this chapter answers is will we be taken or left and why.

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Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. 4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Let's call the witnesses


Words of warning -- signs of the Lord's coming

#1 -- Take heed that no one deceives you.

Hold fast the pattern of sound words. Which you have heard from the apostles fellowship in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

The words have to create faith and love, they have to be in Jesus Christ, they have to come from the apostles fellowship.

Let's call the witnesses

If the media is putting you into darkness then it is reasonable to call them the "medianites"

pretty bizarre 9 minutes in

An interesting theory

Isaiah 62 Till her vindication shines like the dawn

1 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch. 2 The nations will see your vindication, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will bestow. 3 You will be a crown of splendor in the Lord’s hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

For 2,000 years the church has taken the deserted and desolate place no one else wanted. We were the offscouring of all things. Still, the Lord was building something out of the church. Today nothing scares the totalitarian regimes more than the church. They can deal with individuals easy enough, you can censor them, slander them, bring false charges against them and get them fired. But the church with hundreds of millions of believers, that is different. We have been trained to speak for the Lord despite every attempt to shut us up. At the end of this age it will be the church that stands up to the kingdom of Antichrist. When the rest of the world sees the coming destruction it will be the church that offers a way of salvation. Then her vindication will shine out like the dawn. It will be the dawn of a new age, the kingdom age. The churches salvation will be a blazing torch, a light that shows the way. All the nations have been subjected to this satanic worldly system, they will all see the saints stand up to spiritual forces of the air, they will see you defeat the antichrist and the false prophet and that will be your vindication and your glory. Then these saints will be a crown of glory to the Lord. Everyone will see what He has wrought, every knee will bow and every tongue proclaim that Jesus is Lord.

4 No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married.

For two thousand years the church is the bride to the Lord Jesus who was crucified on the cross. We are the desolate bride that lives in a deserted land. But when the Lord returns then we will truly be blessed and beautiful.

5 As a young man marries a young woman, so will your Builder marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

Our bridegroom is the builder, the great builder. The church has been built for such a day as this.

6 I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, 7 and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. 8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled; 9 but those who harvest it will eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather the grapes will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

The governments are incredibly corrupt. In the Old Testament the people paid 10% of their earnings for a government, today we pay over 40%. Everything you buy has a sales tax, and then everyone of those companies that produced it is taxed and all those people who work for those companies are taxed. 40% of what you spend at the store is actually going to pay these taxes. Then on top of that you are taxed. You pay taxes to your federal government and to your state government and maybe even to your city government. If you invest money then anything you earn from that is also taxed. You take the money you have left over after you were taxed and invest it into a company that is being taxed, and if you make money even that is taxed. Why are our taxes so high? The biggest portion of the budget is national defense. In the Old Testament if you wanted to go to war the call went out and that was when the army was raised. They didn’t keep a standing army. Today every time there is a “threat” they spend more money on our “defense”. Going to war is big business for some and extremely profitable. True, for the poor who actually fight the war it is horrible, those that aren’t killed are either left permanently injured or scarred with PTSD. But for those who profit off the war it is extremely profitable and they will richly reward the politicians who did their bidding with big campaign donations and other perks.

But you say politicians can no longer raise taxes, they all promise not to. True, they don’t need to, simply print more money. If you have 100 dollars in circulation and the government goes and prints another 100 it was as though they just reached into your pocket and took 50 cents for every dollar you had. It has become so bad that when Biden got elected he needed $2 trillion to pay off all those who helped get him there. It is so bad and so pervasive that robbing taxpayers is considered the normal course of business and anyone not doing that is too ignorant to worry about.

10 Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations.

Here is what the elites missed. All those people building the highway, they were the ones you considered ignorant masses. They removed the stones. You hired them and trained them to catch people robbing you so now they will rise up and realize you are robbing them. You paid $400 million to steal the election, but you forgot the election was handled by thousands of election workers who you weren’t paid off. That is why we have 2,000 affidavits of election fraud. True you have an army of lawyers, politicians and judges in your pocket, but those who aren’t in your pocket are well able to bring you down. You need us to do all the work of the economy, we don’t need you. If all the crooked politicians, lawyers, judges, tech giants, etc were to disappear no one would miss them. However, if the Lord raptures those that you consider desolate ignorant masses your economy will grind to a halt.

11 The Lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.’” 12 They will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted.

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

A very interesting point, that the beast will try to change times and the laws concerning the times. Many use this to say that the Torah calendar is off so that we won't know when the proper days are for the feasts. However, Torah calendar is right about half the time. So this makes me think that the year of the rapture and the start of the tribulation will be one of the years when the calendar is off, otherwise what is the point. Once Antichrist makes the covenant everyone who knows the prophecies will know. This is one of the years where the Torah calendar is off. Just one more prophecy pointing to this year.

Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

The year begins when Spica (the star formerly known as Abib) rises out of the ground like a sprouting grain of wheat at the time of the Sun setting revealing the first sliver of the new moon in Aries, the lamb. On one hand we have the lamb, on the other hand we have the virgin (Virgo) with the sprouting grain, Abib. 14 days later (Passover) you will see the Full moon in the virgin and the lamb is highlighted by the Sun setting. On the fifteenth day when the Sun is setting the moon is rising in the scales, the lamb is in the grave and the full price has been paid. The next day the Lord went down to Hades to get the keys of hell and death from Satan and the moon rises in the scorpion's claw. On the third day the moon comes up in the Champion and He has the snake by the neck and by the tail. He is victorious, every single year.

Now imagine if the Jews celebrate this feast during the wrong month! The entire story is ruined and it shows their complete disregard, even contempt for this story. No wonder God hates their feasts and new moons. It is as though they are trampling the blood of Christ.

Like a thief in the Night

This expression was also used for the Feast of Trumpets. It was a Jewish idiom and it meant that you needed to be alert and watch because no one knows when a thief is going to come. It is an expression that describes a vigilance and a watchfulness. They had to watch for when they saw the first sliver of the moon and it was not possible to fully calculate this as the sky could be cloudy. You can't declare the Feast of Trumpets till you actually see that sliver, and two witnesses need to report it to the Sanhedrin. So this expression by Jesus was an idiom that described watchfulness and was associated with the Feast of Trumpets.

This term also refers to the captain of the guard for the temple. He walked around at night and if he caught you sleeping He would set your clothes on fire, you would toss them off and run around naked in shame. Jesus saying He would come "like a thief in the night" was a reference to the captain of the guard in the Temple.

The idiom was also used for a Jewish wedding. So Jesus was not comparing Himself to a thief, but rather to the captain of the guard for the Temple and to a bridegroom coming for His bride and also a reference to the Feast of Trumpets.

Covid <---> Divoc

Interesting little aside, the mirror of the word Covid is Divoc (kind of like how you can reveal a vampire with a mirror). The Hebrew word Divoc means demon possessed.

Romans 16 Don’t look now, but the sleeping giant is waking up!

1 Now I introduce and commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess (servant) of the church at Cenchrea, 2 that you may receive her in the Lord [with love and hospitality], as God’s people ought to receive one another. And that you may help her in whatever matter she may require assistance from you, for she has been a helper of many, including myself. 3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, 4 who risked their own necks [endangering their very lives] for my life. To them not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. 5 Also greet the church that meets in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the first convert to Christ from [the west coast province of] Asia [Minor]. 6 Greet Mary, who has worked so hard for you. 7 Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and [once] my fellow prisoners, who are held in high esteem in the estimation of the apostles, and who were [believers] in Christ before me. 8 Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord. 9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys. 10 Greet Apelles, the one tested and approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus. 11 Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. 12 Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord. 13 Greet Rufus, an eminent and choice man in the Lord, also his mother [who has been] a mother to me as well. 14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them. 15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all God’s people who are with them. 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Can you imagine after the rapture getting to meet and greet all these saints all over the world who have played a role in this ministry? This is so awesome, we can hear so many testimonies, meet so many saints all of whom are filled with faith.

17 I urge you, brothers and sisters, to keep your eyes on those who cause dissensions and create obstacles or introduce temptations [for others] to commit sin, [acting in ways] contrary to the doctrine which you have learned. Turn away from them. 18 For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites and base desires. By smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting [the innocent and the naive]. 19 For the report of your obedience has reached everyone, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

Amen. We are getting wonderful news that public support for BLM has crashed after people have learned more about what they are really all about. Meanwhile parents are flooding school board meetings and voting them out while opposing Critical Race theory. Kudos to them as well. There are still others who are standing up to these laws that say they must have transgender males share lockerrooms and showers with girls in Christian high schools. Still others are seeing the hypocrisy in keeping strip clubs and casinos open during the pandemic but locking down churches. We just learned that one governor who approved of young children receiving transgender operations had received $250,000 from those that would profit from doing these operations. Also a tv show directed at 3-8 year olds teaching them how to be drag queens received national attention when Tucker Carlson put the spotlight on it. Public TV is now trying to defend this filth. Still others are getting involved in precinct politics and from the ground up taking over the politics in this country to push back on this attempt to turn the US into Sodom and Gomorrah. Recently there was an issue with one of the George Floyd statues and someone was complaining to me about him. "Why did they make a statue to him" they asked. They mentioned others whose death seemed far more unjust. I explained that George Floyd is designed to split the nation. If you had a person who clearly was killed unjustly the whole nation would agree, if you had a person who clearly was killed by the police in self defense again you would have the whole nation agreed. Glorifying George Floyd is right in the middle, designed to cause dissensions and to create obstacles and introduce temptations to others to sin.

The [wonderful] grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. 21 Timothy, my fellow worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen. 22 I, Tertius, the writer (scribe) of this letter, greet you in the Lord. 23 Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church here, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you. 24 [The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.]

There are so many different functions needed. Talk radio is essential at getting the word out, many do their own podcasts. Others work producing these. Still others are setting up platforms that support and defend free speech, preventing the tech giants from censoring them.

25 Now to Him who is able to establish and strengthen you [in the faith] according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery [of the plan of salvation] which has been kept secret for long ages past, 26 but now has been disclosed and through the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the commandment of the eternal God, leading them to obedience to the faith, 27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forevermore! Amen.

And yes, there is a place for those of us who are preaching Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past. My whole life I just wanted to know what the Bible said and I suspect there are many others who would like to know as well. Recently it occurred to me that Joe Biden allegedly got 80 million votes in this last election and eight months later his support is now less than half of that. Still there might be 40 million people that support Joe Biden being president. So I asked how many people would support Jesus? 400 million, sure, of course. How about 4 billion people, again that is quite likely. Even among those who are not Christians Jesus is highly regarded, much higher than Joe Biden. What about the leaders of the other superpowers, do you think Xi or Putin is more popular than Joe Biden? I doubt it. That is why they are terrified of Christians! We easily have 1 billion people who will be obedient to the Lord by faith and how many do they have? The only ones who are obedient to them are the ones they write fat checks to. There are only so many multi million dollar checks they can write. They don’t have a single person that would be as obedient and faithful as hundreds of thousands of genuine Christians.

Isaiah 63:1-6 My year of redemption has come

1 Who is this who comes from Edom, With crimson-stained garments from Bozrah [in Edom], This One (the Messiah) who is majestic in His apparel, Marching in the greatness of His might? “It is I, [the One] who speaks in righteousness [proclaiming vindication], mighty to save.”

Wow, what a wonderful vision of the one new man at the end of this age. Every expositor understands this to be the Messiah, yet this is the end of the age. Paul told us in Ephesians that the church is the Body of Christ, the one new man. We are being built and fashioned together into one new man that expresses the Lord. We are in the image and likeness of God. It is hard to describe a single person as “marching”, rather this is a corporate man, the army of the Lord. This is a picture of Ephesians 6 where we see the church as the warrior.

2 Why is Your apparel red, And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press? 3 “I have trodden the wine trough alone, And of the peoples there was no one with Me. I also trod them in My anger And trampled them in My wrath; And their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments, And I stained all My clothes.

Yes, this is a blog about the rapture and the verse references to it. Do you want to know what the rapture will be like? It will be like this. The church will have to stand up to the spiritual forces of evil in the air alone and trod them like grapes in a wine press. This is like a football game played in the mud. If you see anyone at the end of the game with a clean uniform you know they never got into the game. But if they slandered you, insulted you, accused you and threatened you, then that is like stains on your uniform, a badge of honor showing you were in the middle of the battle.

4 “For the day of vengeance [against ungodliness] was in My heart, And My year of redemption [of those who put their trust in Me—the year of My redeemed] has come.

The rapture is the “day of redemption” for our body. It is also the day of vengeance. We are to stand up to those who are trying to break in and rob the house. The Christians who do wake up and take a stand will be the ones who are raptured, those who sleep through the battle will be left behind.

5 “I looked, but there was no one to help, And I was amazed and appalled that there was no one to uphold [truth and right]. So My own arm brought salvation to Me, And My wrath sustained Me.

This is precisely what we have seen this last year. We thought our government would stand up to fight against a bio weapon from China, but no, Fauci gave directions designed to destroy our economy and Cuomo gave directions designed to kill many who were elderly and infirm. We thought our courts and legislators would help fight against election fraud from the CCP and Venezuela as an attempt to take over our democracy. But no, not one of them would uphold the truth. So the believers stepped forward in “Stop the Steal” rallies, in giving 2,000 signed affidavits concerning the fraud, in providing expertise, free of charge, for lawsuits and forensic investigations. People got on the radio and TV like Steve Bannon, Bongino and Tucker Carlson. It was the right arm of the Lord that did this, the church, the body of Christ.

6 “I trampled the peoples in My anger And made them drunk with [the cup of] My wrath, And I spilled their lifeblood on the earth.”

Be angry and sin not. You can have a godly anger, but don't sin. We aren't rioting, we aren't looting, we aren't sinning. Joe Biden and his crime family, their lifeblood will be spilled. Everyone involved with Epstein and his pedophile island, their lifeblood will be spilled. We have already gotten evidence that he was murdered and that it wasn’t suicide, Prince Andrew has been exposed, Bill Gates has been exposed, Roberts has been exposed, Clinton has been exposed. Likewise with the false flag event of January 6, we now have enough evidence to show that it was set up by the deep state using non Trump activists whether right wing or left wing. Nancy Pelosi and Chuch Shumer will be exposed. Arizona already has discovered enough evidence to justify decertifying Biden’s victory in that state. Georgia is going to also do an audit in one of their counties where there is evidence of massive fraud with mail in ballots. Wisconsin has also authorized a forensic audit. We are seeing a complete meltdown of Joe Scarborough on MSNBC and Rachel Maddow. These are the two mouthpieces for the left's ideology.