Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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2Peter 3:11-18 Knowing these things beforehand

11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness, 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

This is why this is a crucial part of the gospel message. When you have a vision of the end of the age it is a controlling vision. You live and walk in light of that vision. Little, petty offences look just like that, small, petty and insignificant.

13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

We are not rejoicing that some people are not repenting or that God’s judgement will fall on some. Instead, our focus is on the new heavens and new earth where righteousness dwells. Let’s consider how incredibly unrighteous the situation is here in October of 2020. We have just learned that the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop with thousands of emails completely laying out a corruption scandal between Hunter Biden, business interests in the Ukraine, China, Iraq, and other countries and Joe Biden. Not only so but there were also thousands of pictures that proved Hunter Biden continued to be a drug addict and also involved in child porn. They have had this laptop for a year. Did they bring charges against the Biden crime family? No. However the story still managed to leak out this month. Facebook whose executive in charge of dealing with the Presidential campaign censored this story. It turns out that this person worked with Biden in Obama’s administration on the Ukraine deals. Twitter also censored the story, locking out the President’s press secretary for tweeting the story and locking the NY Post account. They were caught in an ugly web of hypocrisy which is a whole other story of lies and deceit. But the story is not just of a corrupt politician and his reprobate son, nor is it of an FBI coverup or even of censorship by these giant tech giants. Adam Schiff a prominent leader among the Democrats put out a story saying that the intelligence community had evidence that this laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign. In other words the whole story is false, made up by the Russians to impact our election. So the Director of National Intelligence also went on the news to state publicly and unequivocally that there is absolutely no intelligence suggesting that the laptop is part of a Russian disinformation campaign. He said that 100% of the intelligence that Adam Schiff gets goes through him and he lied when he said this. That makes Adam Schiff guilty of a disinformation campaign to alter the election. CNN and MSNBC both ran with Adam Schiff, using his statements to discredit the story. So CNN, MSNBC and senior members of the democratic party are part of this disinformation campaign to cover up the sins of Joe Biden. But it is even worse than that when you consider the potential security risk of having a president blackmailed by foreign countries clearly aware of his sins would pose. But incredible as this all is there is still more. This puts the entire dossier that Clinton’s camp put together to smear Trump and the three year campaign to investigate and impeach him in an entirely new light of crooks taking a preemptive shot. Since then we had a massive cyber attack that stole information from virtually every essential government service in this country and then we had a hack of the pipeline which was shut down for a week, disrupted for two weeks, and caused significant gas shortages to the East coast. Yet Biden immediately dismissed allegations that this was an attack from Russia even though the cyber attack did come from Russia. He followed this up with a massive failure in Afghanistan and the number of migrants crossing our border every month is equivalent in size to the D day invasion of Normandy. His policy of being vaccinated or get fired has caused massive chaos in the airline industry and hundreds of container ships to be stuck outside ports waiting to be offloaded or loaded.

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.


Every one of us needs the Lord’s blood to have peace with God. Every one of us needs to repent of our sins. Do not go down this road of covering them up, lying about them, and adding to them by trying to attack and destroy others.

15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you; 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsteadfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Look at that, what a great example. Paul rebuked Peter to his face in the book of Galatians because he was to be condemned. Does Peter hold a grudge? No, he testifies of Paul and confirms Paul’s ministry. What a great testimony and a great example.

17 Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own steadfastness.


Can we please not skim over verses like this! Knowing these things beforehand is a critical part of the gospel we preach. Everyone on earth knows that the rapture is part of the Christian belief. That is important because when they see it they need to know that they are seeing the rapture. Satan will try to deceive them with Alien abductions. There will be many people left on Earth like Lot who although they were not “preachers of righteousness” like Noah, were still “righteous men”. They will need to repent of their fear of the mockers and those who walk in the lust of their flesh and take a stand for righteousness. Knowing this beforehand will help them to repent.

18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


I have seen many of these Youtube accounts of “rapture dreams” and as good as they are, the key point is to grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior. If a dream helps you wake up that is great, but it is the fellowship of the apostles, the word of God that will help you grow in grace and the Knowledge of the Savior.

To him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen.
 

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A Nova burst would blast the earth with intense radiation followed by a shower of radioactive dust that would be very destructive to life as we know it while also blocking or dimming the sun.

There would be other impacts as well perhaps stopping the Earth's rotation for a short period of hours or days. That would cause catastrophic flooding of anywhere that is less than 300 feet above sea level.

But amazingly all of this activity would probably result in an ice age. It is somewhat complicated, this video explains it however, if you don't have a background in Geology you might not understand.

 

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He feels this is a false teaching because wormwood is something supernatural that cannot be explained by nature.

I don't agree with him but thought it was fair to include his opinion. Jesus crucifixion is where Satan, and the world, sin and death were all crucified. That is supernatural. Who nailed Jesus to the cross? Who pierced His side? Who buried Him?

Was it a supernatural death or did He die the same way other people die?
To add to this, the Lord said there would be earthquakes in various places as a sign of His coming, yet Wormwood cannot be a natural phenomenon?
 

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You can skip to 7:45 That is where she really begins.
 

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70 years after the End of WWII

 

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70 years after the End of WWII

Isn't this an incredible prophecy! We all thought WWII ended in 1945 yet the peace treaty was not signed until October 24, 1951. This October 24th will be the 70th anniversary. After seeing the holocaust you have to believe that God would judge Babylon for that.


October 24th is somewhat confusing, on the Torah calendar it is Chesvan 17, but on the Biblical calendar it is Tishrei 17. So who knows what is what, very confusing.

I would also point out that they have recently confirmed that they found Noah's ark using special 3 d imaging of the boat they found in Turkey.

Now if this is really the 17th of Tishrei it will be exactly one week after the day of Atonement where the book of life is opened and God judges the world. It is as though one week later the world which was condemned is then sentenced.
 

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1Timothy 6:20 Guard that which is committed unto thee

1Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called; 21 which some professing have erred concerning the faith.

This is the charge to Timothy.

1Timothy 1: 11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

This is what we are to guard. The gospel of the glory of the blessed God was committed to our trust, we are to guard it, turning away from profane babblings and the opposition of what they falsely call knowledge.

I remember when I was in college in 1980 there were people who confidently affirmed that the stories in the Bible were false. For example if there had ever been a flood that went over the tops of the highest mountains as Genesis describes we would have evidence of it and all people and creatures would have been killed. I was studying Geology and the guiding principle of Geology is “the present is the key to the past”. There is no meteorologic event that could explain 40 days and night of rain for the whole earth. It was a persuasive argument. Either the Bible is true or it is false. But this argument is falsely called knowledge because what it is really based on is the lack of knowledge. What they really meant is that we didn’t know about the evidence of such a flood and we didn’t know about a mechanism whereby we would get such a flood.

Since that time Geologists got a very big shock as evidence of the mass extinction for the Dinosaurs turned out to be a meteorite. Prior to that we had no idea that sudden cataclysmic events could be so powerful. Since then we have learned that although the present is the key to the past the history of life on Earth has been punctuated by five major extinction events and the one that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn’t even the worst of them.

For those of you who have watched the animated movies called Ice Age and Ice Age 2 you have seen them depict giant dams of water that burst at the end of the ice age. This is because we have discovered massive floods that came down out of the Himalayas and the Rocky Mountains at the end of the last ice age, floods on a biblical scale every bit as horrific as described by Noah. The problem is that as we see the glaciated highlands melt today we don’t see “ice dams” forming. On the contrary we see the water draining out continuously. So the same people who falsely said we had knowledge that Noah’s flood was not true because the present is the key to the past are the same ones pushing a theory that is contrary to the present is the key to the past. It is important to understand this because there are many who use “science” to push their agendas and will claim science says whatever they need it to say. This has been evident during the pandemic, they lied when they said science had shown HCQ to be ineffective and dangerous at treating Covid19, it is effective and could have saved 20,000 lives or more had they not lied. They say science has shown masks are effective at stopping the transmission when science doesn’t confirm that at all, on the contrary the use of masks could facilitate the spread of respiratory diseases, not inhibit them.

So if the floods that came out of the Himalayas and Rockies were not from dams bursting, then where did it come from? When it rains on snow and ice there is no place for the water to go, it can’t seep into the ground so it runs off. When you get massive rain over glaciated mountains you will get flash floods, not only so but this rain will cause the melting of the glaciers causing even more tremendous flooding. We now know a meteorite hit the Indian Ocean causing a massive Tsunami which left behind sand dunes a thousand feet high on Madagascar and which put a tremendous amount of water up into the stratosphere which would have circled the globe before returning as rain. So although it is true that 40 days and nights of rain could not be caused by any meteorologic event we have seen, it could have been caused by a meteorite hitting the ocean.

We have been given the gospel of the glory of God. According to this gospel the Lord will save us with a mighty hand and deliver us from this evil age. All those ones who profess to have knowledge that contradicts this gospel it is merely profane musings from people who have erred concerning the faith. There are those who are not “true children of faith”. Their faith is feigned. They don’t hold faith as being precious and have therefore become shipwrecked in regards to the faith. First and foremost we are teachers, witnesses of the Lord, in faith. We must continue in the faith. The only way we can hold the mystery of the faith is if we have a pure conscience, otherwise we too will be shipwrecked. If you want to have boldness during the tribulation and persecution that is coming it is only through faith. Everyday we need to be nourished in the faith and our life is to be an example in faith. Covetousness and the love of money is what leads many astray from the faith. Now at the end of the age we are here fighting the good fight of the faith. This faith has once for all been committed to us and we need to guard it.
 

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Precursor

https://rumble.com/vnoa9r-project-precursor-english-w-spanish-subtitles.html

Any believer needs to listen to this prayerfully if they are still considering whether or not to get the vaccine. We are told very clearly in the New Testament that doing anything that is not of faith is sin, you need to have the full assurance in your spirit before making this decision.
 

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Big Question

If this were the mark of the beast why wouldn't God have warned us first?

In Numbers God sent snakes to bite the Israelites because they said they "detested this miserable food". If you had been fully into the word of God and the fellowship during the pandemic when we had the shutdown you would have seen and heard many sharing about the signs that this is the end of the age. You would have woken up and realized how close we are to the Lord's coming and that this pandemic was a plandemic and was prophesied of in Joel. You would have seen the Revelation 12 sign in 2017, you would have become fully awake when the Abrahamic accords were signed, you would have realized the Stop the Steal rallies were according to the pattern of Esther and Mordecai and you would have also been warned concerning Biden, Harris, Obama and Hillary Clinton that they are all involved in the Freemasons, in witchcraft and the worship of Satan. You would have been alerted to all of this prior to the vaccine being available.

Even a little sensitivity to your spirit would have led you to see that there were numerous lies about the vaccine, the origin, how to treat it, who is really doing the best job, how many died, and who really needs the vaccine.

So the big question I have is did you see those signs? Were you in the word of God and listening to your spirit? Or were you, like the Israelites in the wilderness, those who "detested this miserable food"?
 

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However,

No ones salvation has been compromised yet. Just like the story in Numbers the purpose is to turn everyone to turn their attention on Jesus Christ, the bronze serpent who heals us, the one who was crucified for us. This vaccine is like wiring a house, they are currently running the wires. When they turn on the power that will be when you are given a choice to either get the vaccine or have your head cut off. Already they are saying it requires booster shots. So there will still be another shot where you will be faced with this choice.
 

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Then why

do all the Christian denominations put their seal of approval on the vaccine and encourage their members to get the vaccine? At the end of the video they give a whole long list or Christian denominations that have officially promoted and encouraged members to get the vaccine including Islamic leaders and Judaism as well.

We were told that there would be an apostasy at the end of the age. Everyone of us was told we are responsible for our walk with the Lord, we had to have a relationship with the Lord, just blindly following man was not going to cut it. We were given the word of God. We were told in the Bible there is only one mediator between God and man and that is the Lord Jesus Christ and He sent the Spirit to guide us into all truth. Therefore the issue is not what the Presbyterian church's official position is, or what the Pope says, but rather what does the Bible say, what does your spirit say, what does the Lord Jesus say to you personally?

My question to anyone who wants to put their faith in what the Pope said or what any other man said is this, when the Lord returns will He say to you "depart from Me I never knew you"?
 

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2Timothy 4 The time of my departure is at hand

4 I charge thee in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables. 5 But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry. 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: 8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.

This is the time that Paul is talking about. The time is clearly now when they will not endure sound doctrine. This is what Paul was most concerned about when he knew the time of his departure has come. Preach the word, be urgent, reprove, rebuke, exhort. How is it that they were able to heap to themselves many teachers who would tell them exactly what they wanted to hear about the vaccine? If they admitted the truth, that the CCP and NIH designed the pandemic in a lab as a weapon they would not have pushed their narrative that “orange man bad”. The Mueller investigation was built on a fable, the two impeachments were built on fables. They listen to people who tell them what they want to hear, rather than telling them the truth. We were told in all certainty that the pandemic came from bats in a cave 1,000 miles from Wuhan, jumped to a pangolin, and then somehow went to the big city where it caused this outbreak. The problem is that there was no evidence at all this was true while there was overwhelming evidence that it was a bioweapon, it was manmade and it was at a lab that was experimenting with corona viruses. There is also evidence that the pandemic was designed to force you to take "the cure", the vaccine. That was the real goal. This last election was a trial, can you be sober in all things? Kamala Harris told us the border was a human rights crisis and that if she were elected she would put a stop to it. She was elected and if it was a human rights crisis before now it is a full blown catastrophe. Listen to Paul, he says there is a crown laid up for him. Why? Well, he fought the good fight, and he finished his course and he kept the faith. That is what we need to do. We all need to fight the good fight, we all need to finish our course and we all need to keep the faith. If we do that then we will love His appearing.

9 Give diligence to come shortly unto me: 10 for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee; for he is useful to me for ministering. 12 But Tychicus I sent to Ephesus. 13 The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, bring when thou comest, and the books, especially the parchments. 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord will render to him according to his works: 15 of whom do thou also beware; for he greatly withstood our words. 16 At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account. 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.


When the Lord returns we will find Christians in all of these conditions. There will be those who have forsaken the ministry having loved the present evil age. There will also be those like Luke who are faithfully ministering. There will be others like Mark who had previously stumbled but repented and are now useful. Then there will be those who are doing much evil. There will be many who forsake the Lord like Peter did at His crucifixion, but if they repent they can still be saved out of the tribulation. All of this will be so that the message can be fully proclaimed. The court cases, the trials, the accusations, the daily news reports are all so that the message can be fully proclaimed.

19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus. 20 Erastus remained at Corinth: but Trophimus I left at Miletus sick. 21 Give diligence to come before winter. Eubulus saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

22 The Lord be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.
 

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Great analogy to what is going on

 

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Interesting, she describes the antichrist as an anti Joseph who will use a famine to get people to sell their soul to the devil.

 

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Interesting, she describes the antichrist as an anti Joseph who will use a famine to get people to sell their soul to the devil.

She has a couple of very good arguments against this vaccine being the mark of the beast

1. There is a very clear warning that goes out beforehand saying if you get this mark you will be cursed

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2. all the other basic things, the mark on the hand or the forehead, and if you get it you are cursed.

So it is important to comfort any believers who have gotten the vaccine and are now concerned, yes it isn't the mark of the beast.

However the Israelites that were bitten of snakes were not given a prior warning and they were not condemned to death and hell. The book of Mark has a very strange verse concerning not being harmed by snakes which has not made much sense for the last 2,000 years but would make perfect sense now.

Once again I would point out the Lord's return is imminent, every believer needs to turn and focus on the crucified Christ, if you have gotten the vaccine pray for you to be healed from this sorcery, and be aware that the Globalists are "wiring" the Antichrist's kingdom and will be ready at a moments notice to turn the power on.

A common tactic in sales is to ask a number of yes no questions to get a person to say yes making it easier for them to say yes when the big question is asked. I suspect that these globalists are masters at intrigue and will use every form of deceit and guile to trick it possible God's elect.
 

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My Dream

The Lord reminded me of something quite interesting in this dream I had. I already shared about this dream but this is something I hadn't considered. Still I think I should share the context first. The evening before going to bed I had prayed because I was completely frustrated with all the various calendars: Torah, Enoch, Gregorian, and then others saying those calendars were wrong and we needed the Essene calendar or use the calendar from the Bible as explained by Josephus. I told the Lord I needed help. That night I had this strange dream with a bizarre character in it. The next day I happened upon a youtube video of Dr. Barry Awe and realized instantly that was the strange character and he has really helped explain the Bible's calendar. All of that I already shared.

However, in that dream I see my car has gotten a big dent in the rear quarter panel and as I am examining this I suddenly realize this is a Nissan, that is not my car, I have a Honda Accord. Nisan is the first month of the Jewish year, it is also the month that Jesus was resurrected and ascended. Our rapture looks just like His, He was taken in the first month of the Hebrew year, but perhaps we who are all in one accord are taken in the first month for the world's calendar at the time of Noah. Tishrei is the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar but the first month of the year during the time of Noah.

Jesus was crucified on the Passover, in the evening He ate the Passover with the disciples, and then he was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced, scourged, crucified, pierced and then buried before the Passover Sabbath begins. Three days later on the 17th He was resurrected from the grave. Well thanks to Dr. Barry Awe I know that October 7/8 was Tishrei 1, October 21 is Tishrei 14, and October 24th is Tishrei 17, which is also the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII (the peace treaty was signed October 24th, 1951) and there is a prophecy that after exactly 70 years WWIII will begin.

Interestingly the Torah calendar (man's tradition) has October 24th as Chesvan 17 which is when Noah entered the Ark.
 

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Candace Owens shared this list of rules for people in Queensland Australia

  • Limited number of people allowed in your house
  • At various times we are told we are allowed no visitors
  • Funerals limited to between 5-10 people
  • Curfews — helicopters often patrolling the skies to ensure that everyone is abiding
  • Not allowed to go past 5 kilometers from your home
  • Not allowed to sit down at many parks, beaches, and public spaces
  • No dancing
  • Only one person per household is allowed to go shopping for essentials — only essential shopping is allowed, and at times the defence force and police have checked what people are shopping for
  • International borders are closed. No one is allowed to leave the country.
  • Small businesses are shut down while big businesses are allowed to operate.
  • Citizens are locked out of their home state — thousands of them, and are not allowed to return unless they get a vaccine or go through a slow and restrictive exemption request process.
  • Families have been refused access to attend funerals that are across state borders. Yes — there is an application process and you have to apply to attend funerals and weddings and many people are denied.
  • Relatedly, many people have died without family beside them because there is a mandatory quarantine process to move — and many people didn’t make it in time. One woman was only given access to her dying father in a hazmat suit.
  • Protests have been declared illegal (despite the fact that protest is supposedly a constitutional right)
  • If you protest, heavily armed police can pepper spray, tear gas, or fire rubber bullets at you.