Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

They will burn the weapons for fuel for 7 years?

Ezekiel 39:10 They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Hard to imagine how you could burn weapons of war for seven years, at least at the time of Ezekiel, however, interesting little side fact, the nuclear warhead on a thermonuclear device from Russia has a shelf life of 7 years, so they can be burned for 7 years for fuel.

This is where we are at today

19 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”

“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.

Why was Lot so insistent about them not staying in the square, were there riots in Sodom?

4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

We have a mob outside screaming to rape the two messengers from God. Seems like Sodom is really strongly against God and anyone who is sent from God.

6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

Most people are horrified when they hear this but take a look at the Rittenhouse trial, let's toss the 17 year old kid to the wolves.

9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

That is what they were there for, to determine whether or not the city was guilty of sin before God, so these people are not wrong. This is all about a trial, the battle is between God as the judge and the mob.

10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

We saw this too. The Prosecutor argued that the minute you use a gun for self defense it is no longer self defense?! What? Is he blind? Who would say such a stupid thing. Another prosecutor said "sometime you just need to take a beating"! What? A 35 year old convicted pedophile is trying to fight you, a guy with a skateboard whacks you in the head, two other convicted felons attack you, some have guns pointed at your head and you are "supposed to take a beating"?! They have been struck with blindness and are completely unable to find the door. No one is going to buy those arguments.

Wonderful connection between Gog Magog war, Ezekiel's description and what we know about nuclear weapons.

Why do born again believers focused on the Lord's return need to know this?

An EMP weapon -- if you explode a powerful nuclear device 100 miles above the US it will fry all of our electrical equipment nationwide. No electric lights. Gas stations cannot pump gas. Cars and trucks grind to a halt, no commuting to work. No computers, no internet, no Zoom, no working from home. Where do you get the water from? Cities all over the country will pump water up into a water tower and then it will feed the whole city. How do you do that without electricity? No water also means no running water for toilets. No gas means no garbage trucks. No police cars, no fire trucks.

Imagine what happens in cities under these situations? Looting, rioting, fires burning out of control, chaos and mayhem.

This now brings us to the question, why do we need to know this? When you preach the gospel showing people a glimpse of the coming judgement and how near it is will motivate them to repent and receive the Lord. This is not my theory, there are several prophecies that say exactly that, the tribulation and the great tribulation are what many people need to repent and return to the Lord. To me it is like some of these seeds that need to be in a forest fire before they will germinate. Add this to your gospel preaching and we will see more turning to the Lord.

I am about to shake the heavens and the earth

Psalm 120
1 In my distress I cried unto Jehovah,
And he answered me.
2 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips,
And from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee,
Thou deceitful tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty,
With coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech,
That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long had her dwelling
With him that hateth peace.
7 I am for peace:
But when I speak, they are for war.

What a perfect psalm for 2020. The year began with the pandemic (Jewish year began at the same time NY shut down). We now know that Fauci was a liar, a deceitful tongue. It was a year of campaigning where Trump was for peace, about the only 4 years in our recent history of peace, and yet the attacks and vicious words like sharp arrows and coals. People thought that by voting for Biden we would finally have some peace but then we learned he is for war. The border has been thrown open and in the first ten months has seen 1,800,000 cross the border, we have also begun an open war with Iran. We have also seen China threaten the US over Taiwan.

It is really too numerous to count all the lies and all the deceit concerning the Pandemic. Just today I learned that Pfizer lied about the trials they did with the vaccine and that more people died who got the vaccine than those that didn't during the trials and yet they lied about that. Yesterday a doctor from the Mayo Clinic described the vaccine as a reverse HIV virus, killing one kind of T cell while HIV kills the other kind of T cell. The result is a huge surge in all kinds of health related issues.

Psalm 121
A song of ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord watches over you—
the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

Now in the year 2021 this psalm is the promise to everyone. To Kyle Rittenhouse -- your help comes from the Lord. To the January 6th protestors languishing in jail -- your help comes from the Lord. To those praying about election fraud -- your help comes from the Lord. To those at the border being overrun with illegal aliens -- your help comes from the Lord.

It is very clear that your help does not come from Washington DC. Joe Biden is asleep, Kamala Harris is asleep, Joe Buttigieg is asleep. They are all slumbering, they are sleeping, they are not watching.

Are you worried about climate change? You have a promise that the sun will not harm you. Are you worried about riots and looting at night? You have a promise that you won't be harmed by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm.

Have you lost your job because of the vaccine mandate? Your help comes from the Lord.

Some want to know "what lies"?

So I got this list:
Epstein committed suicide
McAfee committed suicide
Biden won the election
COVID came from a wetmarket
Conservatives are all terrorists
Ivermectin doesn’t work
HCQ doesn’t work
Biden doesn’t have dementia
The jab isn’t making anyone ill
Fauci was consistent
Masks work
COVID passports
Cuomo didn’t kill old people
Dominion systems were secure
Hunter Biden is an artist
Trump colluded with Russia
Jan 06 was an insurrection
Transwomen should compete with women
BLM is mostly peaceful
Trump had a pee pee tape
Antifa is an idea
Advanced coursework is racist
1619 is real history
Hunter Laptop wasn’t real
Trump caused asian hate
White rage is the problem
CRT isn’t poisonous
All white people are racist
A water pipe in ATL stopped the count
Juicy Smollet was attacked
China travel ban was racist
Words are violence
The military isn’t woke
The FBI is apolitical
Obama didn’t build cages
Iran never got cash pallets
Churches should be closed
The border is under control
Voter ID is racist
Biden is tough on Putin
Blasey Ford was credible
Swalwell isn’t compromised
Kids should get the jab
Teachers had it the worst
China managed COVID well
WHO is an independent body
The Great Reset isn't real
Renting forever is just fine
Bailouts are necessary
Gain of Function wasn't funded
Hunter isn’t incestuous
Double masking is best
Own nothing, be happy
Hillary had 98% chance to win
Melania was an escort
A video caused Benghazi
Trump camp wasn't spied on
Hunter was hired on merit
Hands up Don't Shoot happened
AR15s are weapons of war
Bubba Wallace noose was real
Covington Catholic kid is racist
Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist Trump supporter
Jacob Blake was shot because he was black
Pfizer lied about the trials that were done to test the vaccine
Biden said they would not mandate the vaccine
Kamala Harris said if she were elected she would put a stop to human rights abuses at the border

It gets interesting around 7 minutes in.

To escape and to stand

Luke 21:36 But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

I have become quite struck with this verse. We are praying for two things: to escape and to stand.

When you listen to the testimonies these two things really come out. There are many sharing how they are sick of this world, they are "strangers in a strange land" and can't wait to be raptured to escape from this evil age.

But there are others, of which I am one, and what we really want to do is to crush the enemy.

Let me share my experience, in high school I played goalie on our ice hockey team. Hockey is a very physical game, people are checking and taking the opponents out all the time, but as goalie you can't do any of that, you simply have to block their shots. However, in the high school gym class they had a street hockey competition and my attitude was "forget this, I want to hit someone" so I played forward instead of goalie. Then in the final game we played this team that completely intimidated everyone else. Rigano and Dissler were their two main guys, they were the two offensive tackles on the football team so they were very big and strong. I played offensive guard on the team so I knew both of them and was not intimidated by them, however, their goalie was a kid named Kiely and he I was intimidated by. I played street hockey against him all the time and knew he was the best goalie in the school even though he didn't play on the ice hockey team.

Anyway I had a blast, I would hit Rigano, hit Dissler, take a shot on goal. Kiely would block the shot, Rigano would chase down the puck and then I would hit Rigano, hit Dissler, and take another shot on goal. Everyone else huddled on the other end of the court and watched.

My point is that the rapture is not just about escaping from the enemy, later the Lord returns with His army, so it is also about standing before the Son of Man to be that army that will defeat the enemy. For two thousand years we have been taking the abuse from the enemy, so I can't wait to unleash on the enemy at the end of this age.

So I am here praying "Lord pick me, Lord pick me!"

Predestination

The church is like a train that is heading to glory, that is the destination, it is "predestined". But you have to choose to step aboard this train and to stay on the train and not get off. The train is predestined to arrive in glory, but whether or not you are on that train is up to you.

7 Raptures in the Bible

Enoch -- Gen 5:42, Heb 11:5

Elijah -- 2 Kings 2:1, 11

Jesus -- Mark 16:19: Acts 1:9-11, Rev 12:5

Philip -- Acts 8:39

Paul -- 2 Cor 12:2-4

Body of Christ -- 1 Thess 4:17

John -- Rev 4:1

Beautiful prophecy in Hosea.

Gomer represents Germany and according to Hosea 1 Germany is a prostitute and a daughter of prostitutes. When the Jews went to Germany they were unfaithful to God and so the prophecy is very clear, you reap what you sow. Hosea had 3 children with Gomer, the first represents a great war, then "no mercy" and finally "you are not my people". This is what happened in Germany, there was a great War, WWI, then Hitler rose up and showed the Jews no mercy and said "you are not my people". If we were there we might think this was Satan who was saying this, but no, this is a fulfillment of God's word because the Jews were unfaithful to Him.

In the same way when the vaccine mandate comes down you might think this is Satanic, but no, this is a fulfillment of God's word to "come out of her my people".

When you see this unrighteous trial with Kyle Rittenhouse you might think this is Satanic, but once again this a fulfillment of the word of God in Genesis when the two angels went down to Sodom to see if the cries that had gone up to God were true or not. Only this time it is on display for all of us to see. Listening to the despicable lies from the Main stream media and from the prosecutors we can see how evil the US has truly become.

Luke 6:1-9 -- At what point did it become illegal for Christians to do good?

1 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. 2 Some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

This is a weird law. If the disciples were at home and had an orange on the countertop they could pick it up, peel and eat the orange and that would not violate the Sabbath. But because they are standing in a field and not at home this is considered “work” and a violation of the Sabbath. We have seen some very weird laws during this pandemic. For example, a campaign rally held outdoors is a "superspreader" event, but not if it is a BLM rally. They want Americans to have pandemic passports that prove they have received a shot before they are allowed to travel, but illegal aliens who are contagious with Covid19 are exempt. Schools are being done remote to protect against the spread of the pandemic except for illegal aliens, for illegal aliens they are holding in person schools.

3 Jesus answered them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.” 5 Then Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

I have viewed this pandemic as a very long Sabbath. We have seen some very strange laws, particularly laws that shut down the houses of worship even though I thought freedom of religious worship was outside of the authority of the local governments. A woman was arrested by the police in a house of worship. She was pregnant and holding a newborn baby, she became light headed so she removed her mask. This was in Texas where there is no mask mandate. Didn't stop the police from coming in and arresting her. In Australia they have drones flying around telling people that are quarantined (unvaccinated) to stay in their homes.

What we are seeing is that people are hungry for the word. I have gone to the internet, to various fields to see what others are speaking. It is like finding little kernels to eat. Much of the word is about the Day of the Lord, prophecies and even the rapture. I have learned a tremendous amount in this last 18 months from the word, probably more than in any of the last 30 years. I have also learned that the rapture is far more central to the gospel than I had ever realized. In my first 50 years in the bible it was rarely ever mentioned. It is almost like there is an unwritten rule to not talk about it and yet I can now discover it in so many places I am amazed I never saw it before. The rapture is a distinctly Christian teaching and yet it seems there are Pharisees who throw a penalty flag any time someone mentions it, “you are not allowed to talk about that”. However, the Pharisees are not "lord of the rapture", Jesus is.

6 On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled. 7 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath.

During Jesus ministry this matter of the Sabbath was the third rail. You couldn’t touch it without getting electrocuted. This was how the teachers of the law imposed their authority. So we have the Lord’s disciples finding little kernels of truth throughout the entire Bible on this matter. This is because they are in the field with Him, walking with Him and obeying Him. Then you have those who are in the synagogue under this oppressive regime, they are not allowed to touch this topic and as a result their hand is withered. We also need to remember that God tells us the end from the beginning. Jesus promised that the works He does we would do also and greater works than these because He goes to the Father. I believe this will be fulfilled after the first rapture because many more believers "go to the Father". There are hospitals that will not treat people who are not vaccinated, this is the enemy upping the ante to force people to get vaccinated with this shot. Well if this were poker Jesus would have to either call or see that and raise him. I think at the end of the age we will see this healing taking place, the same work Jesus did, only we'll see it in many, many congregations all over the Earth. You won't treat them? OK, I'll heal them!

8 But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Get up and stand in front of everyone.” So he got up and stood there.

So let’s talk about another 3rd rail topic in the church. What about righteousness in our government. If you go back 400 years to 1620 the pilgrims made the mayflower compact, a covenant with God to set up the new land as a city on a hill as a testimony to the whole world. Just like the descendants of Abraham we have become enslaved in this land and after 400 years it is time for our deliverance. But, you need to “get up and stand in front of everyone”. You need to take a stand for righteousness. When I read this I knew I had to go to the rally in Washington DC and then the next Sabbath to the rally in Atlanta, Ga. I am taking a stand for righteousness. I want every legal vote counted, I want every illegal vote not counted, and I want transparency so that everyone can see that the process is free and fair. But many would argue that Christians should not get involved in politics. I would say that I have seen signs from Christians at these rallies, some print out prayers, some sing hymns, and in Atlanta they said the Lord’s prayer. While in Washington DC I went to three candlelight vigils and met Christians from all over the country. Some assume that if you go to this rally you must be "in the cult of Trump". I do not care if Trump is elected or if Biden is elected, to me Jesus is Lord. However, I do care that we know the truth. Knowing the truth sets us free. One truth is that our God is a covenant God, so I care about the US constitution being taken care of. Another truth is that this country is of the people, by the people and for the people. If 70% of Americans are not sure if the election was legitimate then that is a problem that must be resolved with full forensic audits in every state.

9 Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

Simple question isn’t it. At what point did it become illegal for Christians to do good?

Judgment on Babylon

Isaiah 47 The Lord says,

“Babylon, come down from your throne,
and sit in the dust on the ground.
You were once like a virgin, a city unconquered,
but you are soft and delicate no longer!
You are now a slave!
2 Turn the millstone! Grind the flour!
Off with your veil! Strip off your fine clothes!
Lift up your skirts to cross the streams!
3 People will see you naked;
they will see you humbled and shamed.
I will take vengeance, and no one will stop me.”
4 The holy God of Israel sets us free—
his name is the Lord Almighty.
5 The Lord says to Babylon,

Not a nation unconquered, not a people unconquered, but a city. There are three cities that act independently and view themselves as sitting on a throne. Washington DC, London and the Vatican. They are the rulers of the current world order.

“Sit in silence and darkness;
no more will they call you the queen of nations!

Queen of Nations is the name of a Clipper ship built in England. The United Kingdom used to be the kingdom on which the sun never set. They were an imperial power, ruled the high seas, and so all nations paid tribute in one way or another to them for international trade. That role has been taken over by the US. Meanwhile the Catholic church has tried to influence all nations in their own way.

6 I was angry with my people;
I treated them as no longer mine:
I put them in your power,
and you showed them no mercy;
even the aged you treated harshly.

This is a direct reference to the prophecy in Hosea where his third child with Gomer was "Not my People". That was a prophecy about Germany and WWII with the holocaust (a Jewish word that means burnt offering). At that time a third of all Jews on earth were killed just as a third of the Godhead was killed on the cross. As it turns out the Vatican was involved in Germany and their decision to gas the Jews, meanwhile the German war machine was financed by the Rothschilds in London as well as others like Ford in the US.

7 You thought you would always be a queen,
and did not take these things to heart
or think how it all would end.

WWI and WWII give us a preview of the Tribulation. The seven years of the tribulation is broken into two halves just like these two wars. They both conclude with a nuclear bomb. We are told that during the tribulation a third of the people die which is just since they killed a third of the Jews. WWI led to the use of chemical weapons and a worldwide plague just like right now we have a worldwide plague and the Earth's environment is becoming toxic and deadly. WWI led to a great depression and likewise we are going to see a great depression as a result of the runaway inflation and collapse of China's real estate bubble.

8 “Listen to this, you lover of pleasure,
you that think you are safe and secure.

There are many signs that the US is currently being invaded from our Southern border and that Russia and China are preparing to attack Israel and Taiwan. They would not do this if they didn't expect the US to be defeated first. Tell Americans this and they think you are some wild paranoid conspiracy theorist. Just another way of saying they think they are safe and secure.

You claim you are as great as God—
that there is no one else like you.

This is what the apostasy and transhumanism claims.

You thought that you would never be a widow
or suffer the loss of your children.
9 But in a moment, in a single day,
both of these things will happen.
In spite of all the magic you use,
you will lose your husband and children.

It will be in a single day. The visions, dreams and prophecies suggest the US will be destroyed as a world power in a single day. They are seeing the rapture take place at the same time as a meteor shower and an attack from missiles from Russia. A single large nuclear bomb set off 100 miles above the US would be capable of wiping out our entire electric grid for the 48 contiguous states. A missile fired from a ship off the East coast could wipe out the electricity for 65% of the US and the entire East coast. The prophecies are very clear that the destruction will be lighting fast, just like Germany's blitzkrieg during WWII.

10 “You felt sure of yourself in your evil;
you thought that no one could see you.
Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray,
and you said to yourself, ‘I am God—
there is no one else like me.’

This is why this prophecy is talking about Washington DC, London and Rome even though everyone would think it is talking about Germany. The "German miracle" was financed by the Rothschilds, the elites in the US, London and the Vatican. They thought no one could see them.

11 Disaster will come upon you,
and none of your magic can stop it.
Ruin will come on you suddenly—
ruin you never dreamed of!

Think of all the magic they use to manipulate countries into doing what they want, false flag events, creating worldwide pandemics, etc.

12 Keep all your magic spells and charms;
you have used them since you were young.
Perhaps they will be of some help to you;
perhaps you can frighten your enemies.
13 You are powerless in spite of the advice you get.
Let your astrologers come forward and save you—
those people who study the stars,
who map out the zones of the heavens
and tell you from month to month
what is going to happen to you.

I suspect the disaster will come from the sky. The astronomers will warn them, they will dig tunnels and caves and holes in the ground.

14 “They will be like bits of straw,
and a fire will burn them up!
They will not even be able to save themselves—
the flames will be too hot for them,
not a cozy fire to warm themselves by.
15 That is all the good they will do you—
those astrologers you've consulted all your life.
They all will leave you and go their own way,
and none will be left to save you.”

A little common sense will show that digging a cave is not going to save them.

The 70 weeks

Daniel 9:26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

The 70th week is clearly part of a group of 70 weeks and follows the 69th week.

We believe that the 69th week stopped when the Messiah was cut off, resulting in an interval for the age of grace.

Therefore, it seems to me that if the Messiah was cut off on the 14th day of Nisan and that is when this period of 70 weeks stopped, then the 70th week begins on the 15th day of Nisan. That would be April 16th, 2022. That would make Nisan 14 in 2029 exactly 7 years later and that would be April 28, 2029. The 81st year from May 14, 1948 would be May 19, 2029.

This is not date setting because I am not talking about the rapture, I am talking about the 70th week which begins when the antichrist is revealed confirming the covenant with the many and probably after the Gog Magog war described in Ezekiel 38.

I have posted many different links on this but it appears that the rapture and the judgement that comes on Babylon in one hour all happen at the same time (the Lord's coming is like a thief in the night). This event seems to be the "fog of war" that Russia uses to take out the United States electrical grid and telecommunications. That opens the door for the Gog Magog war which one would assume would take several months (it took the US several months to assemble their army in Saudi Arabia prior to the first Gulf War).

No one knows the day or the hour but my father only.

This expression indicates the Father knows the day and hour that the wedding will take place and it is soon.

However, it says more than this, if the tradition back in those days was for the wedding to be a surprise, when would you plan it? Would you say "surprise" in the middle of the day while everyone is working in the fields? I think not. You live in an agrarian society, everyone is on the same general schedule working around the harvest. From March to October would all be terrible months to surprise farmers with a wedding, they will be turning the soil, planting the crop, weeding, watering, killing pests, harvesting, etc. Once farmers start working in the Spring it is pretty much non stop till the fall harvests. Maybe the cows got out of the field and you spend all day rounding them up and fixing the fence. There are a hundred different jobs that need to be done and you would never be able to pick a day that is good for everyone to come to your wedding. But, after the harvests in the fall everything changes. Most farmers work in the house on jobs they do throughout the winter. Those jobs are not nearly as pressing and can easily be put off to go to a wedding feast. Also, its not like you just spent the whole day slogging through the mud and are filthy and exhausted. You can easily clean up to go to a wedding.

But also consider this, it seems to me a sabbath day would be the best day to have a wedding. You know everyone will not be working that day and will be cleaned up. Weddings can be a church service, I don't know what Jewish law is but I suspect the best months for weddings were right after the fall harvest was brought in, especially in close proximity if not on a sabbath day.

Why do I say all this? Because the shut down from the pandemic was a "sabbath" from God enforced because they had ignored all the previous sabbaths. Telling people to get the vaccine or lose your job is like God telling you to take a sabbath rest. God the father knows when the rapture will be, when the wedding will be, and He is going to want everyone free and available to come to the feast.

The pandemic, the shutdown and the vaccine mandate are all signs telling us that God the Father is about to tell the Son to go get the bride.

Lots of headlines suggesting we are about to go to war.