Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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Prayer and Fasting
Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Do you want to be a man of prayer, a man that God will hear and answer their prayers?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
These are ways in which we can fast.
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward.
We pray for light, this is how you will get light. We pray to see the glory of the Lord, this is how we will see the glory of the Lord.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
This is how we will become men of prayer who when we call the Lord will answer.
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
This is how we will walk in the light and be a light to the nations.
11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
This is how we get blessed.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
This is how we build the church.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
If the Lord's day is a day for you to watch football or basketball understand that you have a problem, you are not fasting and thus your prayer life is ineffective.
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
This is how you can ride upon high places.
Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Do you want to be a man of prayer, a man that God will hear and answer their prayers?
7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
These are ways in which we can fast.
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward.
We pray for light, this is how you will get light. We pray to see the glory of the Lord, this is how we will see the glory of the Lord.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
This is how we will become men of prayer who when we call the Lord will answer.
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
This is how we will walk in the light and be a light to the nations.
11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
This is how we get blessed.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
This is how we build the church.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
If the Lord's day is a day for you to watch football or basketball understand that you have a problem, you are not fasting and thus your prayer life is ineffective.
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
This is how you can ride upon high places.
Israel and the Apostate church
There is a reason why children of God and His chosen people would be left behind during the tribulation.
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
On the one hand the best thing possible for a believer is to be one that God hears when you pray and responds. The worst thing is that God hides His face from you and will not hear. I believe this is what is happening right now to Israel and what is happening to the apostate church in the US.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
It is one thing to "pray for the peace of Israel" that is fine, it does not mean that they are sinless, or forgiven or justified. The only way Israel will find peace is if they find Jesus.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
I am not supporting terrorists, I don't support Hamas or Hezbollah. However, you reap what you sow. Over the last 75 years the nation of Israel has sown many seeds that will reap terrorism.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Are the Jews God's chosen people? Do they have the Abrahamic covenant? What did Jesus say? John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Obviously there are those who are born of the Spirit, but let us not deny that many of them are born of the flesh and their father is the devil.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Israel as a nation has gone all in on works of iniquity and acts of violence. You don't have a world renowned intelligence agency and a world renowned military without doing that. It sounds good to be 'world renowned' but the entire world lies in the evil one.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
No reasonable and unbiased observer could come to any other conclusion.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Who can deny this? Not one of them is claiming to know the way of peace, the only plan they have is to "wipe out Hamas". This is the way of death, not peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Israel has taken a path, an intentional path since David Ben Gurion, to wall up the Palestinians and crush them. That is not justice.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Listen to the people trying to come up for a way to peace, they are like blind men groping in the dark.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Completely foolish, you have to pay the price if you want peace and in the end the price will be pennies on the dollar compared to what war will cost. This war will lead to Ezekiel 38 war and that will lead to Armageddon.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
You can't live in Israel apart from God, and God is not going to grant you peace until you receive that Jesus is the Messiah and you say "blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord".
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
This started when you denied Jesus. Israel was punished, sent to the four winds. Yes, they have been brought back, their "time out" is over. But you still need to repent and come to Jesus.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Look at what happens to the Palestinians if they try to depart from the war zone, they make themselves a prey to Hamas. There are powerful forces on both sides that want war, if you stand against that and try to depart you are made a prey. You cannot reason your way out of this coming judgment, the line is drawn in the sand, choose Jesus or face God's wrath.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
Anyone who is proposing solutions without seeing that God is at the very center of what is going on is hopelessly blind.
19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
If Israel wins against Gaza they will have to reduce Damascus to rubble, if they do that it will galvanize the muslims against them, and it will bring the Ezekiel 38 war and when they win that it will bring Armageddon as a flood.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
This is the plan, put Israel into a corner until there is no hope of salvation other than Jesus.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
There is a reason why children of God and His chosen people would be left behind during the tribulation.
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
On the one hand the best thing possible for a believer is to be one that God hears when you pray and responds. The worst thing is that God hides His face from you and will not hear. I believe this is what is happening right now to Israel and what is happening to the apostate church in the US.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
It is one thing to "pray for the peace of Israel" that is fine, it does not mean that they are sinless, or forgiven or justified. The only way Israel will find peace is if they find Jesus.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
I am not supporting terrorists, I don't support Hamas or Hezbollah. However, you reap what you sow. Over the last 75 years the nation of Israel has sown many seeds that will reap terrorism.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Are the Jews God's chosen people? Do they have the Abrahamic covenant? What did Jesus say? John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Obviously there are those who are born of the Spirit, but let us not deny that many of them are born of the flesh and their father is the devil.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Israel as a nation has gone all in on works of iniquity and acts of violence. You don't have a world renowned intelligence agency and a world renowned military without doing that. It sounds good to be 'world renowned' but the entire world lies in the evil one.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
No reasonable and unbiased observer could come to any other conclusion.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Who can deny this? Not one of them is claiming to know the way of peace, the only plan they have is to "wipe out Hamas". This is the way of death, not peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Israel has taken a path, an intentional path since David Ben Gurion, to wall up the Palestinians and crush them. That is not justice.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Listen to the people trying to come up for a way to peace, they are like blind men groping in the dark.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Completely foolish, you have to pay the price if you want peace and in the end the price will be pennies on the dollar compared to what war will cost. This war will lead to Ezekiel 38 war and that will lead to Armageddon.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
You can't live in Israel apart from God, and God is not going to grant you peace until you receive that Jesus is the Messiah and you say "blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord".
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
This started when you denied Jesus. Israel was punished, sent to the four winds. Yes, they have been brought back, their "time out" is over. But you still need to repent and come to Jesus.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Look at what happens to the Palestinians if they try to depart from the war zone, they make themselves a prey to Hamas. There are powerful forces on both sides that want war, if you stand against that and try to depart you are made a prey. You cannot reason your way out of this coming judgment, the line is drawn in the sand, choose Jesus or face God's wrath.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
Anyone who is proposing solutions without seeing that God is at the very center of what is going on is hopelessly blind.
19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
If Israel wins against Gaza they will have to reduce Damascus to rubble, if they do that it will galvanize the muslims against them, and it will bring the Ezekiel 38 war and when they win that it will bring Armageddon as a flood.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
This is the plan, put Israel into a corner until there is no hope of salvation other than Jesus.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
PROPHECY-- COMBAT ZONE
Jeremiah 25:15-17 15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
My son, My heart aches when I see how sin has driven man to shed blood - BUT SOON - THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE A COMBAT ZONE. Satan hates My creation so much, that all he wants is to steal, kill, and destroy. Many lives stand at the crossroads, and sadly, most take the wrong road. I have said many times, through many servants, that THIS DAY WOULD COME, and sadly, again, most do not hear. The sheer amount of bloodshed coming will STOP THE HEARTS of many people. The CHAOS around the world will INCREASE, and My church sits back in their recliners instead of hitting the floor on their knees. They watch the COMBAT ZONE from the comfort of their home, while others go without food, water, or electricity. THUS SAITH THE LORD - SOON! VERY SOON! THE COMBAT ZONE WILL BE IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD! YOU WILL NOT BE GONE - BUT YOU WILL BE TRIED BY FIRE. I TELL YOU NOW - MANY WILL FALL AWAY, AND MANY WILL PERISH.
My son, I have said the ENEMY IS IN THE CAMP, and they are strong. The weapons they possess are many, and they will come to EVERY CITY, TOWN, AND VILLAGE. Many think they can fight and hold back the enemy... BUT I SAY - THEY ARE MY TOOL - AND I WILL TURN EVERY PLACE IN AMERICA INTO A COMBAT ZONE - FOR UNREPENTANCE. FEAR WILL RULE in the hearts of men as they witness the carnage and violence brought about by the enemy allowed in. REPENT NOW!
My son, SPEAK HOPE to those who truly seek Me. Those who fight on their knees and come against the enemy in the spirit will be VICTORIOUS. For this battle is not in the flesh, but in the spirit. Tell My Chosen Ones that I will have their backs - and NOT TO FEAR - for it will be easy to allow fear in. I will protect My Chosen Ones, and I will fight the battles. TRUST and FAITH are the WEAPONS of this warfare. Without those - you will perish! THIS IS A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THOSE IN MY BODY WHO ARE SLEEPING! SOON THE COMBAT ZONE WILL BE IN YOUR BACK YARD! ARE YOU BRACED??? HAVE YOU PREPARED YOUR HEARTS AND YOUR HOUSES??? WILL YOU BE READY TO STAND BEFORE ME??? I LOVE YOU ALL. GET READY FOR COMBAT!!! READ MY WORD. PRAY DAILY. REPENT DAILY.
Amen. Lord Jesus
Jeremiah 25:15-17 15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
My son, My heart aches when I see how sin has driven man to shed blood - BUT SOON - THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE A COMBAT ZONE. Satan hates My creation so much, that all he wants is to steal, kill, and destroy. Many lives stand at the crossroads, and sadly, most take the wrong road. I have said many times, through many servants, that THIS DAY WOULD COME, and sadly, again, most do not hear. The sheer amount of bloodshed coming will STOP THE HEARTS of many people. The CHAOS around the world will INCREASE, and My church sits back in their recliners instead of hitting the floor on their knees. They watch the COMBAT ZONE from the comfort of their home, while others go without food, water, or electricity. THUS SAITH THE LORD - SOON! VERY SOON! THE COMBAT ZONE WILL BE IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD! YOU WILL NOT BE GONE - BUT YOU WILL BE TRIED BY FIRE. I TELL YOU NOW - MANY WILL FALL AWAY, AND MANY WILL PERISH.
My son, I have said the ENEMY IS IN THE CAMP, and they are strong. The weapons they possess are many, and they will come to EVERY CITY, TOWN, AND VILLAGE. Many think they can fight and hold back the enemy... BUT I SAY - THEY ARE MY TOOL - AND I WILL TURN EVERY PLACE IN AMERICA INTO A COMBAT ZONE - FOR UNREPENTANCE. FEAR WILL RULE in the hearts of men as they witness the carnage and violence brought about by the enemy allowed in. REPENT NOW!
My son, SPEAK HOPE to those who truly seek Me. Those who fight on their knees and come against the enemy in the spirit will be VICTORIOUS. For this battle is not in the flesh, but in the spirit. Tell My Chosen Ones that I will have their backs - and NOT TO FEAR - for it will be easy to allow fear in. I will protect My Chosen Ones, and I will fight the battles. TRUST and FAITH are the WEAPONS of this warfare. Without those - you will perish! THIS IS A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THOSE IN MY BODY WHO ARE SLEEPING! SOON THE COMBAT ZONE WILL BE IN YOUR BACK YARD! ARE YOU BRACED??? HAVE YOU PREPARED YOUR HEARTS AND YOUR HOUSES??? WILL YOU BE READY TO STAND BEFORE ME??? I LOVE YOU ALL. GET READY FOR COMBAT!!! READ MY WORD. PRAY DAILY. REPENT DAILY.
Amen. Lord Jesus
Mischief Night
1Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Do we have a day that can be seen as a dress rehearsal for a thief coming in the night? I would say there are two holidays that do this. You have mischief night, the night before Halloween, and you have Christmas. However, Paul here is describing the thief coming as a surprise, and that would not apply to Christmas.
Mischief night could also remind us of the days of Lot, though that crowd could hardly be described as wanting to commit "mischief", more like brutal felony night. But this could explain Paul's meaning here. The day of the Lord refers to God's judgement and it comes when the situation in Sodom is so bad that God cannot find ten righteous people.
1Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Do we have a day that can be seen as a dress rehearsal for a thief coming in the night? I would say there are two holidays that do this. You have mischief night, the night before Halloween, and you have Christmas. However, Paul here is describing the thief coming as a surprise, and that would not apply to Christmas.
Mischief night could also remind us of the days of Lot, though that crowd could hardly be described as wanting to commit "mischief", more like brutal felony night. But this could explain Paul's meaning here. The day of the Lord refers to God's judgement and it comes when the situation in Sodom is so bad that God cannot find ten righteous people.
1Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Sudden -- αἰφνίδιος aiphnídios, aheef-nid'-ee-os; from a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and G5316 (compare G1810) (meaning non-apparent); unexpected, i.e. (adverbially) suddenly:—sudden, unawares.
The meaning is unexpected or unforseen. You are looking to your right and get hit from the left.
Some have said that this verse refers to when the Berlin wall came down and the cold war ended. In other words the word "sudden" does not mean "immediately afterwards", rather it means we are looking over here, cheering when "out of nowhere" we get hit from behind.
This is the problem with the world, there are winners and losers. In the West we celebrated, we were the winners, and now we could stop focusing so much on a cold war with communism and instead could focus on our economy and enjoying life. Meanwhile Putin, Xi, and Iran were not so happy, they were stewing and plotting. We warned them with the first Iraq war and so they had to go into even more serious plotting and planning. But know assuredly when they do strike it will be suddenly, unexpected and unforseen.
Sudden -- αἰφνίδιος aiphnídios, aheef-nid'-ee-os; from a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and G5316 (compare G1810) (meaning non-apparent); unexpected, i.e. (adverbially) suddenly:—sudden, unawares.
The meaning is unexpected or unforseen. You are looking to your right and get hit from the left.
Some have said that this verse refers to when the Berlin wall came down and the cold war ended. In other words the word "sudden" does not mean "immediately afterwards", rather it means we are looking over here, cheering when "out of nowhere" we get hit from behind.
This is the problem with the world, there are winners and losers. In the West we celebrated, we were the winners, and now we could stop focusing so much on a cold war with communism and instead could focus on our economy and enjoying life. Meanwhile Putin, Xi, and Iran were not so happy, they were stewing and plotting. We warned them with the first Iraq war and so they had to go into even more serious plotting and planning. But know assuredly when they do strike it will be suddenly, unexpected and unforseen.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Once again, this reminds me of the mob that attacked Lot's house in Sodom before the fire and brimstone rained down on them. The fiances for Lot's two daughters, they were of the night, Lot's wife, she was of the night. We need to be children of the light, children of the day.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Once again, this reminds me of the mob that attacked Lot's house in Sodom before the fire and brimstone rained down on them. The fiances for Lot's two daughters, they were of the night, Lot's wife, she was of the night. We need to be children of the light, children of the day.
3 days of darkness
There have been repeated prophecies that the "outer darkness" will be three days. I find this interesting because if Halloween is the first day of outer darkness, all saints day would be the second and the day of the dead would be the third. Some people may have trouble with looking at Celtic pagan worship and the mixture of the Catholic church which also embraced these pagan holidays. However, the "outer darkness" refers to demonic and fallen angels. There is no reason that the OT or NT would have holy convocations for these days whereas it does make sense that the pagans do.
Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
This seems to correspond with 3 hours of darkness when Jesus was crucified.
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
This also corresponds with those who are being left behind being cast into "outer darkness". In other words, those who are left behind experience what it is like to be nailed to the cross.
This word "outer" refers to being outside. For example, you are cast outside of the marriage feast, outside of the safety of the house. Imagine you are a poor beggar outside the rich man's house, or outside a gated community, or outside an exclusive club. I suspect many of those who are left behind will be those who were "inside" those places while ignoring those outside. Now it is reversed.
There have been repeated prophecies that the "outer darkness" will be three days. I find this interesting because if Halloween is the first day of outer darkness, all saints day would be the second and the day of the dead would be the third. Some people may have trouble with looking at Celtic pagan worship and the mixture of the Catholic church which also embraced these pagan holidays. However, the "outer darkness" refers to demonic and fallen angels. There is no reason that the OT or NT would have holy convocations for these days whereas it does make sense that the pagans do.
Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
This seems to correspond with 3 hours of darkness when Jesus was crucified.
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
This also corresponds with those who are being left behind being cast into "outer darkness". In other words, those who are left behind experience what it is like to be nailed to the cross.
This word "outer" refers to being outside. For example, you are cast outside of the marriage feast, outside of the safety of the house. Imagine you are a poor beggar outside the rich man's house, or outside a gated community, or outside an exclusive club. I suspect many of those who are left behind will be those who were "inside" those places while ignoring those outside. Now it is reversed.
According to Stellarium you could see 2% of the moon on the 15th. A month ago the witnesses claimed to have seen the moon when it was only 1% visible, therefore if we are off a month the Feast of trumpets began on the evening of the 15th, Atonement begins on the evening of the 24th (one week from now) and the feast of ingathering begins on the evening of the 29th (in the US, EST, that would be around 11am on the 29th, which is the Lord's day).
The 30th = Mischief Night -- Comes as a thief in the night
the 31st = Halloween -- outer darkness
the 1st = All Saints day/all Hallows day -- celebrate the saints/martyrs in heaven
the 2nd = The day of the dead/all soul's day -- celebrate the faithful dead
Not only so but the harvest season ends on the 30th and the 31st/1st is the start of the winter (Jeremiah says the summer is over and we are not saved).
The 30th = Mischief Night -- Comes as a thief in the night
the 31st = Halloween -- outer darkness
the 1st = All Saints day/all Hallows day -- celebrate the saints/martyrs in heaven
the 2nd = The day of the dead/all soul's day -- celebrate the faithful dead
Not only so but the harvest season ends on the 30th and the 31st/1st is the start of the winter (Jeremiah says the summer is over and we are not saved).
We have a problem with the calendar
We are told that Satan will try to change times and seasons. We know from Astronomy that the sun is not in the same constellation that it was four thousand years ago. So then how do we reconcile the Jewish calendar that is based on the Sun, Moon and Stars with where these feasts are supposed to be?
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
We are not told that the Sun will always be in the correct constellation, rather we are told that the constants are seedtime, harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night. These are our constants.
Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
This verse appears to be referring to those who were not raptured. It does not refer to the sun in the scales, it refers to Harvest and summer, two constants.
Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
The harvest refers to the rapture. It refers to the wedding of Ruth, it is referenced in Song of Solomon. Therefore instead of using a calendar that we know has been corrupted we should use the harvest season, seedtime season, summer, winter, day and night.
We are told that Satan will try to change times and seasons. We know from Astronomy that the sun is not in the same constellation that it was four thousand years ago. So then how do we reconcile the Jewish calendar that is based on the Sun, Moon and Stars with where these feasts are supposed to be?
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
We are not told that the Sun will always be in the correct constellation, rather we are told that the constants are seedtime, harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night. These are our constants.
Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
This verse appears to be referring to those who were not raptured. It does not refer to the sun in the scales, it refers to Harvest and summer, two constants.
Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
The harvest refers to the rapture. It refers to the wedding of Ruth, it is referenced in Song of Solomon. Therefore instead of using a calendar that we know has been corrupted we should use the harvest season, seedtime season, summer, winter, day and night.