Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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The Feast of Trumpets is to alert you of the coming judgement

You need to repent and be humbled in order to be forgiven.

This is why I think this happens after the rapture. During the rapture what will those who are left behind think?

1. They will be cast out into outer darkness. We have often wondered what that means. After the rapture the Great Babylon will be judged with fire. The US will suffer massively, 2/3 of the country will have to leave their homes due to radioactive contamination. The power will be off for weeks and all communications will be shut off. Your phone and TV will no longer work. We know that during this time there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

2. When the power does come back on during Feast of Trumpets the air waves will be filled with people trumpeting the Lord's soon return. If you are a genuine believer this is the time for you to repent and be humbled. That is what will usher in a great revival.

3. Some did this once the pandemic hit. If they are raptured prior to the tribulation which should start on the Feast of Trumpets it will help others to repent and be humbled.

4. Feast of trumpets is also a reminder that God will reveal Himself to the world. If 2019 was the fulfillment at the start of the ten days of awe, then a rapture in 2022 would also be a fulfillment of the Lord revealing Himself to the world.
 

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The Feast of trumpets was to be a rest and a reminder, a holy convocation. Leviticus 23:24

That is precisely what the first year of the pandemic was. I was a teacher and now was able to work from home, saving me 90 minutes of commuting everyday. But it was easier than that. I had already created an entire curriculum online, so I didn't have to do any lesson plans, they were already up and ready to use. That saved me another 30-60 minutes a day. But it was easier than that, our classes only met every other day.

What did I do with all that extra time? I dove into the Bible with urgency knowing that it was critical for me to understand what was going on.

So then this first year from September 28 2019, to September of 2020 was a rest and a reminder to me. It was also a holy convocation, a dress rehearsal, for the coming tribulation.

You shall make an offering of fire to the Lord

It was at this time I felt compelled to begin my blog. I didn't begin on this forum, I began on a different Christian forum and moved here when I was no longer welcome there.
 

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This reminds me of school. Every year we had a final exam for Earth Science. Everyone was given the alert and we would spend two weeks (ten class days) reviewing prior to the exam. Many would pass, but not all. Those who didn't would go to summer school and then take it again in August.

In the same way 2019/2020 was a wake up call to all believers. Some will be ready by 2022, some won't. Those who aren't get a summer school course to try and pass by the end of the tribulation three and a half years later.

Then of course we have the Jews who will get their own exam and must pass it as a group. I was at my son's college yesterday and saw a girl wearing a T shirt that said "don't try to be the greatest on the team, try to be the greatest for the team". That is what the Jewish salvation is all about, teamwork.
 

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https://christianchat.com/blogs/sum...s-on-the-rapture.197802/page-283#post-4913435

A Dream and a Word of Our Collapsing Economy 6-24-22 & 7-1-22

A few weeks, maybe months of desperation. Bartering like a flea market.

warning -- A sign -- a falling of a monolith hours before. This gives you a few hours notice but not in time to pull money from the Stock market. She says that she got this at the time the Georgia Guidestones were destroyed. However, I think there will be a second sign hours before the stock market collapses.

Monolith -- a large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument.

We are talking about the Washington Monument!
 

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RAPTURE at Trumpets or Atonement? Maybe...NOT

I don't think so. It seems to me that 2019 was the fulfillment of this. We were given a two year warning in 2017. It also seems that the pandemic in 2020 was a two year warning. Therefore the first trump during 2019 was not the trump that woke the dead nor the last trump in 2019 the one that caused the rest of us to rise.

Instead I think there is a 2 week period after the rapture until the Feast of Trumpets. This is the pattern we saw with Noah. The dove (Holy Spirit) leaves, does not find anywhere to lay her feet and returns (first rapture, saints are brought to heaven), then a week later dove goes out and returns with an olive leaf or branch indicating that the two olive trees have begun their work of faith, and then a week later the dove is released and descends upon the two witnesses.

Jesus Ministry began on Feast of Trumpets with the dove descending on Him and a voice from heaven indicating that we were to listen to Him. These two witnesses need a speaking from heaven like that to get the entire world to pay attention to them from the get go.

Also, this would be the time that the Antichrist ministry would begin as well. I don't believe God would allow the AntiChrist ministry to begin at the time of the rapture. Yes the angels are cast out of heaven to earth, but at the same time after such an awesome display God would expect them to be silent before Him.

Also this two week period aligns with what Ken Peters saw and what others like Vicki Goforth Parnell have seen. Also this two week period could explain what is meant by being cast out into outer darkness. It could mean that those who are left behind are cast out of their churches, cast out of their homes into a world of a communications blackout and electric blackout. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Also it seems to me that the rapture should take place prior to the Feast of Trumpets because God made man in six days and rested on the seventh. Since Feast of trumpets is the birthday of the world it makes sense that the rapture takes place before the next birthday.
 

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The Ten Days of Awe

This is when God is writing the names in the Book of life.

Obviously those who are raptured before the tribulation have their names in the book of life.

Then during the tribulation you get a second chance at repenting and humbling yourself and getting yourself right with the Lord.

This reminds me of school, if you pass the exam you graduate, if you don't pass the exam you get a second chance after going to summer school.

Then the final group are the Jews who are saved in mass at the end of these ten days.
 

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Micah 7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

The Watchmen began in earnest when the Pandemic hit in 2020, though if you were really alert you saw the danger in 2019 and some saw the signs in the heavens as early as 2017.

My point is that this Feast of Trumpets is not the one where the trumpets sound the alarm for the watchmen that have been sounding the alarm for the last 2-5 years.
 

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Interesting math, but hokey.

He says if you go 7 complete sabbaths and then the day on the morrow would be Pentecost (OK) and then you count another 7 complete sabbaths and the day after will be the feast of oil (OK) and he says this brings you to the day before Feast of Trumpets.

Shavuot is the 5th day of Sivan. 7 complete sabbaths plus the next day could be as much as 52 days, but that is it. Then 7 complete sabbaths plus the day after could be another 52 days at most. That is 104 days after the 5th of Sivan. It is 115 days from the 5th of Sivan to the first of Tishrei, not 104. So how does he do it, he says the 6th and 7th of Sivan are not a complete Sabbath so don't count those two, so we are now down to 113 days. He then says you can't count the six days after feast of new wine because it isn't a complete sabbath. That gets you to 107 days.

I think that is hokey and even as hokey as it is you are still off by 3 days which he attributes to more of the "new moon sabbaths".

So here is how you get to where he is going. We don't count the 6th or 7th of Sivan, that gives us 3 sabbaths, followed by 4 more sabbaths, followed by a sabbath we don't count, followed by 3 more in the fifth month and then the next four in the sixth month.

Remember to get here we are saying that the feast of Pentecost which means 50 is not gotten there by counting fifty days, on the contrary it would be 55 days. Also we skip most of a week to then get to the feast of new oil. This sounds hokey. I googled Feast of new oil and they said it is the 22nd of Elul, that would be one week before the feast of Trumpets. They don't skip that one week after feast of new wine.

Again, I do not expect the rapture to take place on Feast of Trumpets, rather I expect it will be two weeks before or perhaps one week before on the feast of new oil.

1. Rapture of those who have their vessels filled with oil.

2. Those who were not ready are sent to get oil from those who sell. In the meantime they are cast out into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.

3. The Two olive trees, the two witnesses begin their ministry on the Feast of new oil, the same time that the dove returns with an olive branch in her mouth.

4. The Ministry of the two witnesses and the ministry of the AntiChrist starts on the Feast of Trumpets.

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https://christianchat.com/blogs/sum...s-on-the-rapture.197802/page-283#post-4913435

A Dream and a Word of Our Collapsing Economy 6-24-22 & 7-1-22

A few weeks, maybe months of desperation. Bartering like a flea market.

warning -- A sign -- a falling of a monolith hours before. This gives you a few hours notice but not in time to pull money from the Stock market. She says that she got this at the time the Georgia Guidestones were destroyed. However, I think there will be a second sign hours before the stock market collapses.

Monolith -- a large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument.

We are talking about the Washington Monument!
Wow, all this time I was looking at Noah as some great man of faith, a historical figure and that his life was a pattern for prophecy.

Now I see him as the professor at the front of the class and all of us in this class are about to get the final exam. Why isn't your ark stocked with food? The flood is about to hit, why aren't you ready? Why isn't your ark filled with those that you preached to and led to salvation?

24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
 

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Lessons from "the Christmas story"

1. Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem because Caesar had declared a census, right now we are seeing this worldwide push for a "vaccine passport".

2. The wise men see "His star" and so come to Jerusalem, right now we have many who are using Stellarium to say they have seen this great Revelation 12 sign in the heavens in 2017, that is a harbinger for the Lord's second coming.

3. Herod kills 2,000 kids and we now have this vaccine mandate for kids and we see healthy kids dropping dead every day.

4. Mary was a hillbilly, a "deplorable" -- and we are seeing these deplorables rise up with the "Stop the Steal" movement.

5. There was no room at the Inn for Mary and Joseph and if you are not vaccinated there is room at the Inn for you.

6. The Shepherds who are in the Field are the ones who get to see the Lord first and the Lord tells us that those servants who are doing what they are supposed to when He returns will be blessed.

7. The religious leaders in Jerusalem know the Bible well enough but do not bother to come and see the Lord, just like all these ones saying "no one knows the day or the hour".

8. Jesus' birth took place at the fullness of the time. We now know that you could have estimated to within a year of Jesus' birth simply using the Bible. Why wouldn't you be able to do the same with the start of the Tribulation which is the start of the Antichrist ministry.
 

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A misunderstanding concerning the Shemitah

I heard Pastor Sandy saying that this teaching was wrong because you can't know the day or the hour of the rapture. The Shemitah teaching doesn't tell you the day or hour of the rapture, it tells you that the 70th week is a Shemitah. Since the 70th week begins with the AntiChrist being revealed confirming this covenant there is a very good correlation between it and the 7 year tribulation.

It seems absurd to me that the 70th week would not be a Shemitah.

Once you know that the next question is when is the Shemitah. That is the point of Rabbi Jonathan Kahn's teaching on it. He proves that this is the last year of a Shemitah and the next Shemitah starts this fall at Feast of Trumpets.

The conclusion of this teaching, which I agree with, is that if the tribulation does not start this fall with the Feast of Trumpets then it won't start for another 7 years.
 

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How do you determine if someone is a false prophet?

I know that Pastor Sandy has some serious questions about Rabbi Jonathan Kahn because of his hawking all his books. Some of us provide our ministry free of charge: Pastor Sandy with S4C Global Community, Dr. Barry Awe, Dana Coverstone and myself are examples. Others are selling stuff with every video: Jonathan Kahn and Prophecy Club are examples of that. The NT says the ox that treads out the corn is worthy of his hire, so I don't think selling books is enough of a reason to reject a ministry which is why I post links from both of these. However, Paul does talk about those who hawk the word of God, so it is certainly something I take note of. False prophets have a goal of making merchandise of you, just like cult leaders. So selling a book does not rise to that level, but is certainly something to pay attention to.

2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.


A heresy is a school of teaching. When you have a teaching that requires the believers to separate themselves from the rest of the body of Christ, for example the 7th day Adventists, then you have a heresy. Not all heresies are "damnable". What makes it damnable is if you are now cut off from the rest of the Body. For example, suppose a group teaches that if you take the Lord's table with any other gathering of Christians then you are doing it an unworthy manner. That is damnable. They also deny the Lord who bought them. We have been redeemed solely by the work that Jesus did on the cross. If anyone teaches that you need the blood of Christ + something else, then they are denying the Lord who bought them.

2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.


Pernicious -- "broad is the gate that leads to destruction" that word for destruction is the same word.

"But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?" that word for waste is this word pernicious.

"But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee" this word perish is the same word pernicious.

"endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction" this word for destruction is the same word for pernicious.

It is often translated as perdition in terms like "son of perdition"

A common teaching of the "Free Grace" mega churches is that you cannot lose your salvation even if you are living in sin. Basically you say a few magic words twenty years ago and you are good, you can continue to come and tithe to their ministry for the next twenty years, no problem. This is "pernicious ways". This is why the way of Truth is evil spoken of, Catholic church shuffling pedophile priests around, Mega pastors going to prison for tax evasion, etc.

3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

To make merchandise of you indicates they are using a person or thing for gain. Moonies selling flowers at the airport is an example. Selling a book cannot be classified as this unless you are required to buy the books. I used to meet with a church where every church had to have a standing book order with this ministry regardless of whether or not you sell the books. No one wanted to buy the books. So they were simply using the churches for financial gain.
 

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Jesus is Lord

As evil and harmful as the Covid19 bioweapon was and the vaccine that was forced on the world despite it being experimental, deadly and ineffective on this forum we should all be able to see that all of these things have happened under the sovereignty of Jesus. None of this could have happened had not Jesus allowed it.

Psalm 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

The reason the whole world took that vaccine and now have AIDS from this vaccine is because they were not abiding under the shadow of the almighty. The reason snakes bit the Israelites in the wilderness is because they despised the manna, the daily time in the word with the Lord. If you don't diagnose the real issue correctly you will never be able to treat the real problem. Neither Trump nor Desantis is going to help anyone spend more time with the Lord in His word. That is the cure, turn to Jesus, lift up Jesus in your midst and look on Him.
 

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Wake Up!

If you said you estimated that 5,000 people had snuck into the US illegally, many of them working with Cartels selling drugs that are killing kids I'd say we have a problem but it is understandable given the size of our border.

50,000 people that is more than a problem, 500,000 people that is incompetence at its highest level. But they are estimating the number is 5,000,000. That isn't a problem, it isn't incompetence, it is an invasion being carried out by those who are planning on taking over this country. It is an invasion on the scale of D day and the idea that anyone is even debating this tells me they are mentally incompetent or part of the insurrection.

The same is true of January 6th. If someone looks at this reasonably and says it was a stupid and bad event, OK, I agree. But we are almost two years after the event and we don't know who planted the pipe bomb? We have not had a trial for the person who shot and killed Ashli Babbit? Joe Biden is still lying about cops being killed by the protestors? Clear instigators in this have been let go? Meanwhile they did next to nothing about real riots, real looting, real government buildings being burned down. This isn't still a debate, you have to be an idiot to keep debating with liars like Schiff, Schumer, and AOC. Joe Biden calls 75 million Americans who voted for Trump "semi fascists"? This right after he raids the home of his political opponent? Democrats complaining that Trump is still speaking on social media? If you can't see who the real fascists are then get your eyes checked, you are legally blind.

We have had 110 food processing plants burn down.

We are in an energy crisis that was man made when Biden shut down pipelines and outlawed drilling. We were energy independent on a full spectrum when Biden took office. This is what invading armies do to prepare the way for an attack.

We handed over billions of dollars of state of the art military equipment to the Taliban, a terrorist government that will attack the US? Come on, if you don't realize that there is someone out to destroy America and they are in the camp you are willfully "see no evil, hear no evil".

This administration is printing money so fast they have no idea what to do with it and as a result we are looking at 20-25% inflation. They are not stupid people, this isn't a joke, this is a concerted effort to destroy the US and the US currency. Control food, you control people, control energy you control countries, control money you control the world. If you want to rule the world you have to destroy the US and that is what we are seeing right now.

Defund the police -- how could that have led to anything other than rising crime and destabilize our cities.

Covid19 came from a bioweapons lab and they lied about that. Clearly, to your face, lied about it. The vaccine is killing more people than Covid ever did. They mandated it illegally. They forced the military to get it and now we know it gives you AIDS. Come on, we are at war. Anyone smart enough to do all this knew that you could only go like this for a couple of years before it became plain to all. The war is about to go kinetic.