Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Thank you brothers and sisters

Think of all these brothers and sisters like Vicky Goforth Parnell with their prophetic dreams and visions and U B Ready with his prophetic words. Thanks to Dana Coverstone, it was his dreams that first alerted me to the outpouring in the dreams.

Think of the wonderful messages from brothers like Dr. Barry Awe who discovered this hidden feast of Pentecost

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This brother Repoman 64 who dug in the word to help us make sense of the calendar. This is how we learned of the 9th of Av, the 15th of Av, and everything pointing to August 6th. Couldn't have done this without these brothers.

Thanks to Aaron who has helped keep up the spirits of the brothers and sisters, bring in a little humor and help explain some of the more confusing things that other brothers shared.

Thanks to brother John (Watchman for that Great day) for holding testimony meetings live on Youtube for the saints.

Thanks to Tom with his channel Watchman River giving us the daily news concerning the Lord's return, making it pleasant as we see the day approach. Thanks to the sister at Midnight Oil.

Thanks to Stan with prophecy club, even though he is almost militant in his mid trib doctrine of the rapture it is so helpful to see all his prophecies and warnings on a daily basis.

I would like to also thank brothers who are no longer with us like Chuck Missler and the brother who wrote the prophecy in the Psalms after a sister alerted him to that.

One of the key principles I have held is that the Lord is not going to give any one brother and sister all the puzzle pieces, it will take the whole body to put this together.

Thanks to DTBM (Dr. Barnett) it is wonderful to see someone with a Phd and seminary background who is also confirming that he sees the Lord's soon return. Very encouraging and healthy to hear him share on church history and doing the work of an evangelist.

Thanks to Generation2434, thanks to Chad at Watchman on the Wall, thanks to Cloud9 blessings, and Watchwoman 65.

Thanks to author Tim Cohen, Janie Duvall's youtube channel and Craig Bong on the research they have done on King Charles.

Thanks to Ken Potter for his livestreams helping to make known all the watchmen to the community.

I can't mention everyone, but these ones have been a blessing to me and no doubt to many others as well. In the end it was a team effort.
 

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If the Sixth seal is the rapture, does this mean it is opened on a full moon?

No.

Revelation 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

If you are interpreting the sun turning black like sackcloth as a solar eclipse, then that is on a new moon. If you are interpreting the moon turning blood red as a lunar eclipse, that is on a full moon. These two events are two weeks apart. We get a blood moon about three times a year, or about 6,000 times since Jesus was crucified. We get a solar eclipse every 18 months or about 1,300 times in the last two thousand years. You get a lunar eclipse following a solar eclipse about every three years, or a little less than 700 times since the crucifixion. Suffice it to say this would be notable but not a very rare event.

So we have two possible interpretations.

One is that the opening of the sixth seal begins prior to a new moon and goes past the full moon. So it would be more than two weeks in time. That would suggest that the opening of the sixth seal may begin with the rapture since we are told that is the "surprising" event that catches everyone off guard. However, it may also include fallen angels being cast to the earth causing three days of darkness. It may include the forty days of fasting and praying where the two witnesses are in the presence of the Lord. It may include the revelation of the Antichrist and the two witnesses. This verse about the sun turning black and the moon turning to blood says this is before "the great and notable day of the Lord". The seven year tribulation is the great and notable day of the Lord.

I don't think we appreciate how big an event this is, far too big to take place in a single day.

14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

Does everyone understand how huge that is? Hawaii, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, these are all islands, they will all be removed from their place? The Rocky Mountains, the Himalayas, all these great mountains and mountain chains will be removed from its place? This will make every previous catastrophe seem like the good old days. Remember the good old days when your house got flooded so you had to stay in a hotel for a week? He is saying it doesn't matter where you live, whether it is on the coast or in the mountains, you are going to feel this event. It will have a major impact on you. Floods and earthquakes are never over in one day. The rescue can take a week or longer.

15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

You think everyone goes and hides underground in a matter of a few hours? This is like the Exodus from Egypt. Their houses, towns, cities, and country are shattered. Gas lines are broken, sewer lines are broken, water lines are broken, electricity is down. Roads and bridges are all down. There is no police or fire department. We are talking about total chaos. They aren't putting the military out to restore order, they can't restore order. Instead they take their military with them and hide underground in their bunkers.

So let's look at this as a timeline.

1. Great Earthquake

Then

2. Sun is turned black

Could be a solar eclipse, could be fires and smoke.

Then

3. Moon turned to blood

This is two weeks later. This is probably 3 weeks into this catastrophe.

only then do we learn

4. Every mountain and island has been removed. This could be 3 weeks into the crisis we begin to get radio or internet working again and start learning what happened worldwide.

only then

5. Do the kings and rulers flee to their bunkers with their armies. They have assessed the situation, they know it is hopeless, they aren't even going to try to help most people, instead they will focus on saving themselves.

This sounds like 4 weeks or longer. This sounds like that 40 days of fasting and praying. This sounds like what would be necessary to convince the whole world that we need the mark of the beast and anyone who refuses gets their heads removed.
 

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A closer look at this flood

Revelation 12:7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.

There is a spiritual reality to the things we see on earth. This war breaking out in Ukraine has a spiritual reality. The situation in the US between Trump and Biden has a spiritual reality.

9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

We have a saying that "as we go up they go down". I think most would agree that this is a situation where, from the perspective of earth, things have gotten much worse.

10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
11 They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”


This is quite similar to another place where the tribulation saints overcome by the blood and by the word of their testimony. This is why I like the analogy of summer school. You have to learn the same lesson, you have to pass the same test, if you take your studies seriously you can pass at the end of the school year and enjoy your summer. If you don't then you will have to go to summer school, but again, if you pass you are passing the same test.

Today we can see there is a great risk to whistleblowers. Their job is ruined, their career is ruined, they are slandered, perhaps persecuted by the IRS and DOJ and maybe even imprisoned. They may not get their heads chopped off but it is the same threat of "death". You are tempted to shrink back and they have refused. It is like the vaccine mandate, if you refuse it you lose your job, your house, everything. All you need to do is get a little shot and you can get everything back. I believe this "triumph" is referring to those who were raptured.

13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

I believe this is referring to the tribulation saints.

14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach. 15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.

At this time there is a great flood like a river. This cannot simply be the kind of flood we see every spring when the snow melts. This must be a great flood, so big that even two thousand years ago John would see how big this was. What I wanted to point out is that floods are seasonal. I have compared this dragon to China and this flood to the Yangtze. Every year the Yangtze will "flood". Some years are worse than others. The Yangtze floods every summer, so although this is interpretive based on the Dragon referring to China, it does give us a season for the rapture being the summer. You do not get floods in the late fall, winter, or early spring. This means you can eliminate Hanukkah, Passover, and probably even Shavuot. In fact the prime flood season would be 50 days to 100 days after Shavuot (Feast of New Wine and Feast of Oil). Obviously by itself this would be flimsy speculation. However, there is probably the best evidence and scriptural basis to say that the pre tribulation rapture would be at this time of year, so this is simply one more piece of evidence to add to the pile of evidence we already have.

16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

This sounds like the opening of the sixth seal and the great earthquake. For the earth to open it's mouth, that certainly sounds like an earthquake similar to when the Rebellion of Korah was swallowed up by the earth. But that is weird, because if this earth opening its mouth takes place when the graves are opened up, that would be before the rapture, or at the same time. So then, is the dragon hurled to earth before or after the rapture? Does the flood take place before or after the rapture? Does the earthquake signal the rapture or does it take place after the rapture?

We have dreams, we have visions, they are not part of the Biblical account, but they may help us understand. When the rapture takes place, and many have seen it, there is no earthquake, but as they are going up the earth is hit with meteors which would cause Tsunamis, floods, and great earthquakes.

17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

The rest of her offspring -- these are the tribulation saints. They keep God's commands and they hold fast their testimony about Jesus. So why weren't they raptured? Were they accused day and night? Did their testimony require that they love not their life unto death? It seems we have two kinds of Christians, those whose testimony is public and offends many to the point they are attacked, mocked, ridiculed, slandered and censored. The other kind are the "keep it to yourself" believers. They are the live and let live believers. During the last two thousand years they have been "wiser" than their brethren because by keeping quiet they don't have to sacrifice their career, and standing in public. But their wisdom is turned to foolishness as it has led to the Antichrist kingdom and they will have to go through the tribulation.

In conclusion the flood looks like it will happen around the time of the Feast of Trumpets, probably before it, but right after the rapture. It seems that at the time of the rapture we will see earth hit with a meteor shower.
 

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Further confirmation that the rapture happens at the opening of the sixth seal

(This is from 2Esdras, it isn't part of the Bible, it was part of the Apocrypha). We have prophets and divinely inspired books that are not part of our covenant. The Bible is the covenant, but God is not limited to the Bible. He can speak to others as well, the requirement is that everything lines up with the word of God and nothing contradicts the word of God. This appears to line up perfectly with Revelation 7.

 

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A Joyous Occasion 8-11-21 (8/5/23...Uploaded on Rumble First)

 

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A warning to those who refuse to get into Eschatology

The Bible tells us that there are many antichrists, just because Luther thought the Pope was the antichrist doesn't mean he wasn't an antichrist and expressing the antichrist spirit.

Of course the holocaust is relevant to the end times. It means "burnt offering". The Jews killed one third of the God head and one third of the Jews were killed by the Gentiles and during the tribulation one third of the Gentiles will be killed.

It is true that prophecies can be very difficult to understand, but the fact that we have so many that have been fulfilled precisely and that God tells us this is the proof that He alone is God is the basis for us to treat them with great respect and not ignore them.

We are warned about who the antichrist is so that we would not be deceived. We are warned about the mark of the beast so that we would not be deceived. We are warned about the great delusion, the perverted gospel, snakebites, and on and on so that we would not be deceived and harmed by these. But if you ignore intentionally do not blame God if you are deceived.
 

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Rapture Connections Elul = Harvest
 

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Rapture Watch - The End Time Convergence Can NOT Be Denied...Night Watch with Bro Chooch
 

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Internal Revolution in 2023 or 2024? 08/07/2023

In my opinion the rapture takes place prior to this internal revolution. If the US were to split and have a military coup then it seems that would be part of the "flood". Jesus said they would be eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day the flood took them all away.

Think of the story in Daniel with handwriting on the wall, Babylon was overthrown that night, they were feasting the same night.

Now the rapture is supposed to come at the same time that fallen angels are cast to earth and in many of the dreams it looks like meteors striking the ocean or it looks like ICBMs, but either way if that happens at the time of the rapture then of course the military must take over.
 

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I have a very different take on this.


Rapture - False Prophet in Revelation 12 Sign with Dragon and Beast!

I think it is undeniable that this is a sign in the heavens that God is giving us. However, an asteroid depicting "Yeshuhua"? No way. That is a counterfeit. Asteroids fly around until they crash and burn, Yeshuhua is not like that. Jupiter depicting Yeshuhua, that I can believe. Yes this sign is really "perfect" except that she doesn't really have a true crown, again, just like the Antichrist. We have "twins" in the womb, Child and United Nations. Were they there for nine months like the 2017 sign? Were they impregnated on Hanukkah like the 2017 sign? Were they the result of being impregnated by the Lion of the Tribe of Judah with the conception comet, like the 2017 sign?

We know the UN will be the ten kings that give their power to Antichrist and we know that Antichrist will be birthed after the rapture.

Instead of saying this sign is "more perfect" than 2017 I would say this is the second half of the 2017 sign. 2017 was a sign of the coming of the rapture and the 2023 sign is of the coming of the Antichrist, the counterfeit Christ.
 

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Exposing the hearts when sin becomes exceedingly sinful

Romans 7:13 Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

What we are seeing today is that sin is becoming exceedingly sinful to make it very clear to all of us. There have been Christians for the last two thousand years that have seen how sinful sin is, but there have also been many more Christians who have poo pooed this, thinking they aren't that sinful. It is like those that buy into the woman's right to choose as though abortion is for that occasional time when a woman was forced to get pregnant, had no right to choose, and now this baby is forced on her. In their mind you have some woman who was raped and got pregnant. What they don't see is 60 million babies aborted, dead babies piling up everywhere as a sacrifice to Moloch and Baal (fornication and your career).

God is judging the hearts. Think of the crucifixion of Jesus. If you were closely following His ministry you would be horrified. But if you lived a few hundred miles away and only heard vague news reports about some insurrection that took place at the capital which the government dealt with by sentencing the leader to death you would not be so horrified. If you lived in another country you probably wouldn't care about it at all.

If you are going to judge the heart you can't condemn all these ones because it wasn't in their face and brazen. You need to make sin exceedingly sinful so that you can find out where the heart is. Even gang members, it is the same thing. At first these drug lords can appear to be the only ones that care about the ten year olds. He gives them gifts before school starts and the kids who are in the gang have every advantage. No one messes with them. When you first get involved it may not seem so bad, you are a runner, kind of fun, no real repercussions as you are too young to prosecute. Later you may see a friend of yours "killed" but the explanation would be that he was stupid or made a big mistake or was a coward. So you think you are learning from this to make sure you aren't stupid, you aren't a coward. But then you see some hits and you realize, the truth is not the same as the story. But you are required to speak the official narrative that he was "stupid" or "a coward" or "a rat". Step by step you become more and more involved, you are guilty of the crimes as well and even if you tried to cut a deal to get out of the gang they would kill you immediately and say that "you were stupid" or "a coward" or "a rat".

At this point we can see where your heart is. Are you willing to embrace sin or reject it regardless of the cost?
 

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What happens when you first receive the Lord and pray?

Romans 8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

You heard the gospel and for that moment you turned your mind to the Spirit and when you prayed you were walking after the Spirit.

Now you have a lot of control of what you set your mind on. Suppose you are just the most sinful person in the world, all your friends lead you to sin, etc. If you were to spend one day, separate yourself from all that, read the Bible, sing hymns, listen to a message on Youtube, read a spiritual biography. What you are doing is setting your mind on the spirit and you are drawing closer to God. This is like sowing many, many seeds to the Spirit. Suppose during this day you search and find a place you want to go to church. Don't pick a church that is the richest and well funded church, that should be a blinking neon light saying warning. Instead pick a church that seems to be ministering to the outcasts and that has no funding at all from the rich. This means the rich have no influence over what is spoken in that church. Avoid a church that is composed of all family members as this is probably some tax dodge. Avoid a church that is like some weird cult where everyone lives on the compound and they all work for the "blessed leader".

Listen to a message, do they worship the Lord Jesus? Do they care for widows and orphans? Do they strive to put to death the works of the flesh and to be unspotted by the world? If so, you can grow there.

Then remember this secret, the best way to combat sin, temptations and the flesh is to set the mind on the Spirit. Have a little pocket NT so that you can easily, quickly just look at a verse. A thirty second break is enough to turn the mind to the Spirit. A quick trip to the bathroom is a simple way to turn the mind to the Spirit. Coffee break, lunch, commuting in the car, etc.

It can take weeks, even a month for seeds to begin to come up. If you are growing lettuce it could take two months before you are eating from your lettuce, same with tomatoes, or peppers or other things. A fruit tree can take five years. So don't get discouraged that you did this for a week and there is no benefit.

Also, do not judge success based on how much you remember. Watchman Nee shared that when you wash rice it doesn't retain any water, but the rice gets washed. In the same way if you are reading the Bible, singing hymns, listening to messages, praying, and fellowshipping you may not feel like you are retaining anything. But your mind is getting washed.
 

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There’s a LOT of Talk About the Rapture! Tom Cote

 

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You Are Witnessing The DAMASCUS Prophecy Casting It’s Shadow Now!!!

 

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Arise, O God, judge the earth; For thou shalt inherit all the nations.

Psalm 82:1 God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth among the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? Selah

Lord Jesus we see this everyday. We see the crimes of Hunter Biden, anyone else would have been in prison within 24 hours and been given 20 years. How long are they going to respect the persons of the wicked. We have seen this with Epstein Island. How is it that we know who went there, they flight logs, we have video of what took place and yet no one is prosecuted, no one is imprisoned? Lord Jesus what about all the people close to the Clintons who supposedly have committed suicide, what about this chef at Obama's house, are we to believe the official narrative? How long will they respect the persons of the wicked?

3 Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.


Lord Jesus what about the 2008 Mortgage crisis, was that justice or was that the banks stealing houses and the government approving of it?

4 Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

Lord we have seen Sound of Freedom, we have seen how these children have been stolen and are in the hand of the wicked, and we see how the wicked are trying to attack this movie. Lord we pray that these poor and needy would be rescued, may your powerful hand be with them to bring the wicked down.

5 They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Thank you for what you are doing. We see unrighteousness as the foundation of all these governments and You will bring them down. They walk in darkness, not realizing how they are about to fall into the pit that they have dug. We thank You and praise You.

6 I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High. 7 Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.

Amen, and amen.

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; For thou shalt inherit all the nations.
 

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Elul Is The Time Of Summer Harvest Rapture Is lookin' Soon