Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

Pre Tribulation rapture

Luke 12:40 You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

Recently I have seen that some have a real issue with the idea that some will be raptured prior to the Tribulation. If we are raptured after the tribulation then this word in Luke makes no sense. Once the antichrist confirms the covenant with the many we will be expecting Him. Once Israel begins to rebuild the temple we will be expecting Him. Once the antichrist is forcing people to get the mark of the beast or else chop off their heads we will be expecting Him.

They thought they were doing well

Revelation 2:2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.

Sounds good, right?

4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.


They thought they were poor.

9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

They thought they were doing well

13 I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality

How many will say that it isn't their fault because they didn't actually commit the crime, but they also didn't do anything to prevent the crime or to prosecute the crime once it was committed. If we are going to rule and reign with Christ then "the buck stops here". If you see someone sin you must deal with it, particularly if it is in the church.

They thought they were doing well

19 I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

20 Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.

So then, what do you do if you have an evil Jezebel who reigns over the church like a queen? Suppose you realize you cannot ignore this, you learned the lesson from Pergamum but you are powerless to prosecute this? You need to leave. You cannot tolerate this. You can be "against all" like Antipas and get martyred, but at some point you need to leave. In Matthew 18 the Lord says if they won't listen to you then let them be as unbelievers to you. It doesn't matter if they call themselves "vicars of Christ" you need to shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them an go to the next church.

I don't know what these ones were thinking

I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.

To these ones it is all about their reputation. Their worship is nothing but a show, pretense.

Some are saying the Lord doesn't love them?

I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 9 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

This is hard to believe but the prosperity gospel claims that the evidence that God loves you is the gold chains, fancy cars and big houses. This church is not powerful, but they have kept the Lord's word and they haven't denied His name. Interesting, all the powerful churches with political ties are those that have denied His word, compromised with His word and denied His name.

The worst example

17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

In every case those that thought they were poor and weak and pitiful got good marks from the Lord and those that thought they were rich and wonderful got severely rebuked.

Enoch and the Days of Noah

There is an interesting way to look at these two. When asked about the tribulation the Lord said it would be as the days of Noah. Think about the flood on the Earth as the tribulation. Noah is not taken out of the flood, rather he passes through the flood in the ark as a preacher of righteousness. So Noah represents those believers who are there during the tribulation. Noah and 7 other souls representing the 7 churches.

However, Enoch is raptured prior to the flood. He is only one person just as the Body of Christ is only one person.

Now compare this to Revelation 12 -- the Woman gives birth to the man child that is caught up to heaven -- Enoch. The dragon sends out a flood to destroy the woman and she flees to the wilderness where she is nourished for 3 1/2 years -- (Noah (Jesus) and the 7 souls (overcomers from the 7 churches) in that ark (church)).

The Lord told us it would be as the "days" of Noah. Well the day that the flood begins would be Nov 24, 2021.

As a result many believers are really on edge this week watching and looking for the Lord's appearing.

Who exactly gets raptured out of the 7 churches in Revelation?

If you overcome in Smyrna you get a victor's crown, in Philadelphia they are told to hold onto their crown that no one takes it. In Smyrna they were slandered by the synagogue of Satan, they were in poverty and afflictions. In Philadelphia the synagogue of Satan comes and falls at their feet and confesses that God is with them. The ones in Philadelphia are the ones who overcame in Smyrna. You have to be an overcomer to be raptured and to be an overcomer you have to overcome the accuser of the brethren by the blood and by the word of your testimony.

Thyatira tolerates Jezebel, who was Jezebel, she persecuted the prophets of God. In Thyatira it is only the simple ones who don't know what is going on there, don't know the deep things of Satan that will overcome. If you do know what is going on then you had better be the faithful Antipas who is against all and is martyred. But they must hold onto what they have (deeds, love and faith, service and perseverance) and they are told that if they do the Lord's will to the end they will get an iron scepter. In Philadelphia He says He knows their deeds and that they have kept his command to endure patiently. So Philadelphia are those who have overcome in Thyatira. The word to them in Thyatira is what they need to do to overcome, the word in Philadelphia is about what they have done.

In Sardis there is a remarkable statement, if you overcome there He promises not to blot your name out of the book of life. That is shocking, I thought once your name was in the book of life it couldn't be blotted out. Righteous judgement is "as you have done it will be done to you". Some churches excommunicate those who "cause trouble", the Antipas who is against all. When you excommunicate someone you blot their name out. There is a very specific protocol to follow in order to do this. If you violate that protocol you are not "keeping the Lord's word" and "you are denying the Lord's name". When you decide that you make the rules and that you don't need to listen to the Lord you are denying that Jesus is Lord.

The ones who are raptured in Philadelphia they have kept the Lord's word. What does that mean? Does it mean some of these other churches have not kept the Lord's word? Does it mean that allowing Balaam to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, or tolerating Jezebel and her fornication and adultery involved not keeping the Lord's word? Does it mean that in some of these churches they are saying we don't need to keep the New Testament because it was written two thousand years ago and is out of date now? We can ignore this verse and that verse and some other verse? It also says they have not denied the Lord's name! Could it really be true that there are churches out there denying the Lord's name? Are they saying it doesn't matter if you believe in Allah, or Jesus, or Buddha, it is all the same? Is this what you mean by "all types of churches"? Some churches that keep the Lord's word, others that don't think it is necessary, some that have not denied the Lord's name others that are more all embracing than that? Do you mean that we have to be broad minded, some churches hold to the teachings of Balaam, some to the teachings of the Nicolaitans, some tolerate Jezebel, is that what you mean by many types of churches? Because the Lord condemns all that and tells you to repent of all that.

What do the overcomers in the other churches look like? They look like ones who are faithful unto death, they look like Antipas who was "against all". They are the ones who were excommunicated in Sardis and persecuted in Thyatira. They reject the teaching of Balaam, they reject the teaching of the Nicolaitans, they are not tolerant of Jezebel.

The $2 Trillion bill now pays for abortions with American taxpayer money.

This blood moon is tied to when Antiochus sacrificed pigs in the Jewish temple.


interesting references including a reference to Rachel weeping for her children.

If that object is the size of the Earth then it is only 2 million KM away, about 6 times the distance of the moon. The fact that the object seems to swing from one side of the sun to the other as the earth rotates tells you how close it is.

What will the 7 year Tribulation be like?

The book of Revelation is filled with fantastic imagery that sounds bizarre, Old Testament prophecies are filled with names we are not familiar with and are not all that clear.

So then we have a very simple way to understand what it will be like.

1. It will be like WWI and the Pandemic. A war over nationalism against globalism. There will be communist revolutions and atrocities.

2. There will be a great depression, with horrific poverty. The cultural revolution in China, famine in Ethiopia and Bangladesh, and great depression in the US should help people understand what it will be like.

3. It will be like WWII with a blitzkrieg attack in which Babylon is cast down in an hour, a megalomaniac as a world leader that we generally call the Antichrist but who the Bible calls "the Assyrian". You will have a holocaust in which 1/3 of the world dies (during WWII it was 1/3 of the Jews). And you will have a nuclear holocaust.

However, Satan will no longer be the ruler of the air, instead after the rapture it will be Jesus and His saints who rule the air, again just like WWII.

As believers we should know the appointed times.

Luke 8:16-25 Light overcomes the darkness

16 “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. 17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.

It was disgusting to see Delta Airlines object to the election integrity laws in Georgia. No one can use their airline without a picture ID, yet they have the nerve to accuse Georgia of being racist because you need a picture ID to vote. Likewise with Coca Cola, no one can buy stock in that company or attend a shareholder meeting with a picture ID, what hypocrites to blame Georgia for requiring a picture ID. The NBA is even worse, they have the gall to complain about the election integrity in the US while being partners with China where there is no election integrity. The church is a light, a lampstand, we cannot allow businesses to cover up the light. There are a lot of things that are hidden, but they will all be disclosed and brought to light. Stacy Abrams came out against this law as being racist, but now says she was never against voter ID. The lies, the hypocrisy will all be brought out into the open.

18 Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”

To me it is like finding a vein of gold in the ground. Keep digging. They don’t conceal things unless they are really important, really valuable, so keep digging. But there is a warning, there are those who think they already have and stop digging. They even tell others to stop digging and worse they may try to stop you from digging by force. Even what you think you have will be taken away from you. Just remember, Jesus is Lord. You need to be very clear in your spirit that you are walking according to Him. Revolver.news is a news agency that did just that, digging into what really happened on Jan 6 and they have uncovered powerful and convincing evidence that the Jan 6th event was orchestrated by the FBI as an intelligence operation that they did not brief the President on. That, by definition, is treason. Tucker Carlson has been at the tip of the spear revealing this to the country and now we learn that the NSA is spying on him despite having no legal basis to do so. Project Veritas was also on the tip of the spear revealing the lies and deceit behind the Pfizer vaccine and in return the DOJ raided his house and handed his list of contacts over to the NY Times with whom they are currently involved in lawsuits. CNN, NY Times, DOJ all think they have something, that is about to be taken away from them because their job is to be the light not to cover up the light.

19 Now Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd.20 Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.” 21 He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice.”

This is now the second time He has said this, you need to hear God’s word and put it into practice. This word suggests that many families, even Jesus' family will have people who are not interested in hearing God's word or putting it into practice. Abraham had a son according to the Spirit and he also had children according to the flesh. Once again I suspect this is what God desires to make sure the word is spoken to everyone.

22 One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out.23 As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. 24 The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. 25 “Where is your faith?”he asked his disciples.

This election fraud is a squall. If you read the founding fathers writings concerning this possibility they anticipated it. This is the reason we have the electoral college 40 days later, they knew that it could take 40 days to find and prosecute the fraud. This is why if a state can’t certify the vote they let their representatives vote. It is fully constitutional to decide that the vote by the public was fraudulent, cannot be properly counted and so let the elected representatives vote for the state and assign the electoral college. Finally, even if that process cannot be done you can have each state get one vote for the President. So relax, where is your faith, the constitution is not under threat. Already we have people at the highest levels in Arizona, Georgia and Michigan talking about "recalling" their electoral votes. That is enough to completely invalidate the election results. You better believe this is a big storm, but the Lord had said we are going to the other side, amen, so be it.

In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”

Some people thought that “running out the clock” was a viable strategy for the Democrats. The idea is this, if you can’t reverse the results by December 14th, then you lose. But think about this for a minute, there are 73 million people who voted for Trump. In addition there are many others who voted for Biden and are now feeling the election was fraudulent. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that only 31% of Americans trust our elections. The information and investigations will continue until it is finally resolved to everyone's satisfaction. A democracy cannot survive if 70% of the population does not trust the elections. Light overcomes darkness, the darkness has never understood that.

I love watching the situation with the election audits and Kyle Rittenhouse and the Steele Dossier and Durham investigation and CIA in Afghanistan, etc. I view the Deep state security apparatus like the placenta and muscles of a woman. They have always been able to control everything going on within, yet we have this baby which has been growing for nine months until the baby overwhelms the Deep State, there is no way the deep state can keep that baby in, first they are stretched to the limit and then finally the dam breaks and that baby is coming out and will not be denied.

The deplorable way they have treated the January 6th prisoners is coming out, the deplorable way the prosecutor tried the Rittenhouse case came out, the deplorable way the BLM rioters are supplied with pallets of bricks is coming out, the CIA's drug operations, Hunter Biden's corruption, Joe Biden's corruption, it is all coming out.

The sixth vision is unsure, does the Catholic Church rise to great power in the US (Biden's election) or does a woman become president (Kamal Harris today), Vice president and Speaker of the house? Either way the first six have been fulfilled. The seventh sounds like the judgment that comes on the great Babylon in an hour.

Testimony of William Branham

The Bible compares the tribulation to the refining fire, and it compares those people who are left behind to "rejected silver".

This analogy helps us understand the purpose of the tribulation and why there would be multiple raptures. You take ore, you melt it down and since silver is much more dense than the rock it forms in it will drip down to the bottom while the slag will float on top. You then draw out all the melted silver which is pure. The slag is "rejected silver" but it still has a certain portion of silver in it just as the ore did. So you can double or triple the amount of slag, and do the process again and once again gain certain amount of silver, once again leaving yourself with slag. Do this several times to get all the silver you can from the ore.

There is a bizarre teaching going around where someone is saying the tribulation is shortened to a ridiculously short period. I think this is based on the Lord's word that if those days were not shortened no one would survive.

However, grammatically speaking that phrase means that the timing was already shortened by God. So the 7 years mentioned in a variety of prophecies in both the old and new testaments is the shortened time frame. We have already seen that the 30+ years from the beginning of WWI to the conclusion of WWII with the Atomic bomb and Nuremberg trials, that all those events are going to be worse and compressed into a 7 year time frame during the tribulation. We have seen the preview of this movie. Not only so but you can throw in some of the famines and ecologic disasters like Chernobyl into the mix. If we had not seen all those events the book of Revelation would seem like some comic book fantasy land. But every day as we learn more and more about technologic advances, transhumanism, AI, Drones and the rest we can see that the book of Revelation is a detailed and accurate description of what is about to take place.

So the time frames given in Daniel and Revelation have not been shortened, those time frames reflect God's shortening of the events into a very compressed time frame.

Also the verse does not mean that no life would survive. There are creatures living a hundred feet underground which have survived some of the most horrific extinction events in earth's history. The verse means no humans would survive had the time frame not been shortened. Compared to ants and cockroaches humans are very fragile creature.

Luke 8:26-39 Election fraud by a legion of demons living in the tombs.

26 They sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is across the lake from Galilee. 27 When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs.

For the last 12 years or so election fraud has been carried out by stuffing the ballots with votes from dead people. This is why they don't purge them from the roles even though in this computer age it would be a simple thing to do.

28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torture me!” 29 For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by the demon into solitary places. 30 Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him. 31 And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss. 32 A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission. 33 When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

What this reminds me of is ANTIFA. It turns out that they are being funded by George Soros. Also it is very strange, the BLM movement has collected huge sums of money, I may have even heard that it is over a billion dollars, yet they collect it through a service that collects money for the Democratic party. This is strange because if you are donating money to them you might think that it is for charitable purposes, to help inner city, or some other cause but no, it is not a charitable tax deduction. Instead you made a campaign contribution to the Democratic party. It is a sneaky way for a billionaire like George Soros or a company like Google to pretend they are making charitable contributions to BLM when in reality what they are doing is making big fat campaign contributions to the Democrats. So what happens when this gets exposed, that a bunch of big fat politicians and CEOs were using ANTIFA not to help the inner city but rather to deceive and take advantage of minorities. They just wanted a black face on the riots. That’s right, the demons who were in these people who didn’t know any better will go back to where they belong and all those “swine” will be drowned.

34 When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside,35 and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. 36 Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured. 37 Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.

Are we talking about the mainstream media, the government officials and the tech giants? Right now one of the big stories is that people are leaving these platforms, these media outlets and even these cities in droves. Change of address forms for NYC have doubled in the last six months. Ratings for the mainstream media have tanked as people realize they have lied and cannot be trusted. New platforms that support free speech have been started and people are fleeing Google, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. If the "pigs" refer to these rich multinational corporations then those "tending the pigs" would refer to the people working in these companies and perhaps to the stockholders who are watching their investments tank.

38 The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 “Return home and tell how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.

Yet even so there are many testimonies and individuals popping up on Youtube (or Rumble). Epoch Times, NTD, Newsmax, etc. The "Walk Away" movement is a movement of people who have left the Democratic party, they share their testimonies similar to what the Lord is asking this man to do.

Luke 8:40-48 We have been bleeding for 12 years

40 Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him. 41 Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come to his house 42 because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying.

In the last chapter we had Jesus marvelling at the faith of the centurion. In this chapter He is rebuking His disciples “where is your faith”? In this chapter his cloak is touched by faith and that stops the bleeding. This girl is “about twelve”. 12 years ago was 2009, the mortgage meltdown. At that time the banks defrauded the American people out of homes knowing that when everything collapsed the US government and the taxpayers would bail them out. Anyone in the banking industry knew that those who designed this system were crooks whereas some of those who made money off of it might have been sleazy and stupid but not really aware of how criminal it was. Yet, despite the criminality and premeditation inherent in those who set it up no one went to jail. Instead the US taxpayer bailed out the criminals so that they could continue to give themselves million dollar bonuses. At that time the politics in this country changed, the common man realized if you don’t stand up now they will take your job and your house.

As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. 43 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her.

For 12 years we have seen this political extremist wind bleeding Americans. We are seeing some really scary developments from blacklists, censorship, and indoctrination camps. A totalitarian regime is being organized even down to voting machines that will allow them to insure victory. What they are really focused on, the big prize is the US dollar. If you can destroy the value of the dollar investors betting on this can become rich. This is how George Soros has made his billions. Many are looking at the policies of this government and in every case they are terrible causing inflation, economic collapse and the collapse of the US dollar. Don't think this is a mistake, if you bet against the dollar you can become very wealthy with policies like this. People steal elections so that they can get policies that will make them rich. The Pandemic is providing the globalists with leverage to bankrupt currencies around the world and to then replace them with a universal digital currency and a computer chip with your information injected into you. A computer chip like this would give the governments enormous power to control the world. But even more important, the base of this movement to bring justice and righteousness to a corrupt government in the US were the small business owners. These are the ones they are bankrupting due to the pandemic while the supporters of these leftists are getting incredibly wealthy (Amazon.com, FedEx, etc). If you attack the Trump supporters in their wallet they cannot donate to Trump’s campaign and they can’t focus on the election when they have to focus on saving their business.

Twelve years ago a two things happened, first a grass roots movement in this country started in response to the very clear corruption in Washington. That was like a little girl. It was this movement that got Trump elected but now with this election fraud she is in danger of dying. Meanwhile at the same time they robbed widows houses, similar to this woman who has been bleeding for the last twelve years. They both have become desperate to be healed.

44 She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. 45 “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.” 46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.” 47 Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. 48 Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

She was trying to go unnoticed. We need to stop having that attitude. No one lights a lamp and puts it in a clay jar or hides it under the bed. No, that is true, but people do keep a journal with their testimonies and hide that under a bed or keep that in a clay jar. When you put your faith into action you will have a testimony and that testimony is a light to the rest of us. Do not hide it.

Today completes the 400 years in captivity

I got a response that this is not from the Bible. The idea of being in captivity for 400 years is a word spoken to Abraham and we are children of Abraham.

Every believer needs to understand that the Lord's word to watch for His coming is a command. If you do not watch you are disobeying the Lord's direct command, that is sin.

I have two dogs and they watch the yard. They let me know about everything that is happening to the yard. They have a bark that tells me someone is walking a dog, another that says a package is being delivered and still others for cats that have tried to sneak into the yard.

They respond to every sound at the gate. They are an example of what it means to watch.

During Jesus ministry the pharisees attacked him repeatedly over the Sabbath rest. Today the pharisees attack believers over anything to do with the Lord's coming. In one case the disciples were in the field picking grains to eat. These are tiny little nuggets. The pharisees attacked them for doing this saying they were working on the sabbath (weird because if you were at home and peeled an orange that would not be an issue).

After dealing with that the Lord heals a man with a withered hand. If you buy into this teaching from the pharisees your hands will become withered, unable to pick grains from the word of God.