Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God

Ruth 1:16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Ruth is a Gentile, a moabitess, cursed to the tenth generation and yet when she marries Boaz this word becomes true. Naomi's people do become her people.

This wedding takes place at the wheat harvest, after the threshing of the wheat, and that is the time of the feast of Shavuot.

So why would a feast commemorating the marriage contract between God and Israel and the time that God gave Israel the Law be commemorated by the marriage of a Gentile to Boaz, a type of Christ?

The story revolves around the law of God. The law said a moabitess was cursed to the tenth generation. Ruth was the widow of an Israelite and based on that she had a near kinsman who refused to redeem her lest his inheritance be marred by that curse. That is one reading of the law, that it curses us.

Boaz read it differently. The Law judges our heart. In her heart Ruth was not a moabitess she was the widow of an Israelite, saying "your God will be my God". Boaz understood that the law is not ruthless, it is filled with mercy.

Second, the story shoots down the entire idea of the self righteous. King David and Jesus Christ are both descended from Ruth. God did not choose Israel because they were more righteous or holy than any other people. Ruth did not set herself above anyone else, on the contrary she gleaned in the field, the job of the lowest in society, the poor, the beggar, the offscouring. She willingly chose to be a deplorable. Just like Jesus said, take up your cross and follow me. Jesus laid aside His glory to come to earth.

Third, we learn later in the Old Testament that God divorced Israel. The only way that Israel can marry again is if their first husband that they had when they got the law were to die. When Jesus died on the cross it opened the way for them to marry again. So then, Israel needs to see that Jesus who died on the cross was their first husband, He was God. Only then can they be married to the resurrected Christ.

How does the Lord get this message through to Israel? The church will be raptured, that will be a major step in their enlightenment. Then Israel will be surrounded with enemies that wish to destroy them and they will realize the righteous have been removed from the earth. The ones who had their back, like Ruth had Naomi's back, have been taken. Then when all else has failed they will hit their knees and they will see Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the one whom they have pierced, returning from heaven with an army to save them.
 

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Does Shavuot depict the rapture of the church?

I don't think that Ruth is the best evidence of this, though she is a Gentile and she is married on Shavuot.

Instead I think the most compelling evidence is that the rapture of the church is the wheat harvest, according to Jesus, and Shavuot is the feast for the wheat harvest.

The first rapture before the tribulation is called the firstfruits in Revelation and Shavuot is called the feast of firstfruits.

Jesus has made the Jews and the Gentiles one loaf, we see that in the book of Ruth and we see that in Shavuot where two leavened loaves are offered as one offering.
 

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A degree in grace and mercy

28 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

In Greek this does not say "the first day of the week" but rather "the first of the week". It is the first day of the counting of the Omer. They count 7 complete sabbaths and then the next day is Shavuot.

So you have a "50" day period (depicting the completion of grace) but you also have Jesus appearing to the disciples 40 times. If we divide the last 2,000 years into 40 times we get 40 jubilees, 40 50 year periods, the completion of the age of grace, and this brings us to the rapture at the end of this age. The feast of Shavuot. But the Bible doesn't say rapture, no it says "ascension".

Think of this age as getting a degree in grace and mercy. You have 40 courses, 40 times the Lord meets with you and speaks concerning the coming kingdom. But now you have completed the requirements, you are ready to graduate and now you learn all kinds of special lessons from watchmen about the graduation ceremony. Think of the rapture as "the ascension" when all those who were faithful to the Lord come in to the sound of the trumpet to graduate.
 

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6/29/21 -- A coming judgement

https://rumble.com/vojvf9-a-shaking-and-a-darkness-dream.html

That is the 19th day of the 3rd month. Shocking when you consider that one of our highest watch dates is the 18th day of the 3rd month for the rapture. Was this a one year warning?
Warning, you are about to be fired.

Let's try a thought experiment. You are the owner of a very big factory with ten thousand employees. Now suppose you discover that using AI and robotics you can replace 90% of your workers and save about 80% of your payroll. Instead of paying $800 million a year in payroll you can cut that down to $160 million in the very first year and in a few years you expect to be able to save even more. The robots and AI can work 24 hours a day, they don't need benefits, and they do just about everything. The vehicles are self driving. Between the robots and the 3d printers you can manufacture everything automatically. The AI can answer the phone, do the taxes, fill orders, ship them out by self driving vehicles and drones, etc. In fact the only reason you will keep 20% of the employees is to make sure we have a smooth transition and to monitor the robots and drones in case they need servicing. So my question is would you fire 80% of your employees? Please note that if you don't fire them you will have to close down and fire everyone since your competitors will put you out of business.

Under those conditions I think it is clear from human history that yes, you will fire 80% of your employees. Not much of a thought experiment, because that is not really the real question.

Now suppose you are at Davos, you are one of the elite, the richest 0.1% of the world and you see this coming. You know that having 80% of the world's people unemployed overnight is a dangerous thing. What are you going to do about these people? In all reality they are unnecessary. But they aren't a 0 they are negative numbers. They consume natural resources, they make the world unsustainable, and they are a major drag on the economy. Essentially they are "useless eaters", something you have already called them. You can provide welfare, but you know where that leads. You will have ghettos, crime, looting, drugs, prostitution and disease.

You have several potential solutions. Give everyone a shot that will cause them to be sterilized. If you can eliminate 80% of the babies worldwide then you will solve this problem in one generation.

But still that will take 80 years. Spread a bioweapon that kills the elderly and infirm, that would help solve the problem.

But what to do about all the useless eaters that are 60 and younger? Would you justify killing them as the "humane" thing to do? Obviously that is some wild, tin foil hat conspiracy thing to do. Before you even contemplate that you need to put a tracking device into each person on earth so that you can monitor them. Pick off the most vociferous opponents first while promoting those who are the most willing to embrace this planned Holocaust. Everyone will need to get this tracking device, no excuses. Fire those who won't get it. Tie it to public health, put your bank account onto this tracker so anyone who doesn't have it can't buy or sell.

Once you have done that you can offer a "basic human salary" for those who are "fired", again, only for those who have the tracker on them and use the digital currency. Everyone who is signed up for this salary that they get even if they don't work, that will become a list of all the useless eaters to get rid of. You can do this quietly, because if anyone tries to blow the whistle you are tracking them, can pick them up and expedite their "removal". Imagine if the news industry also sees 80% of their employees "fired". The threat of report what we want you to report or else you will be fired would be a very real threat.

So that is the real question. 80% of jobs will become automated in the foreseeable future. What will be the humane thing to do to all those who are jobless with no hope of ever getting a job?
 

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Acts 1:1-10 -- I make known the End from the Beginning

There is a verse in which God says He makes known the end from the beginning. There is another verse that says that which was is that which shall be. So, we can look at the first ascension to see what the second ascension will be like and what the third, etc. Think about it, the Lord said we must take up our cross and follow Him. Suppose there is a believer and this one balked at taking the cross, they "backslid". But then they see the rapture, the saints are taken, and this one repents. What do they need to do? They need to take up their cross and follow the Lord. It doesn't matter if you are Peter, or Paul or James or saints living today or saints during the rapture, everyone of us has to take up our cross and follow Him. Seeing the Lord ascend to heaven was a major motivation to them and you see them spend days in prayer and then they are on fire. I suspect we'll see the same thing repeated at the end of the age.

1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

This is very specific. Everything Jesus began to do and to teach until the day He was taken up to heaven. He was taken up “after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles”. Once again, what are those who are raptured, the firstfruits, going to be doing prior to that? They will be writing about all that Jesus did and taught and will be giving instructions to all those who will be left behind.

3 After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

The timing is fascinating. Jesus is raised from the dead after His suffering, He is with the apostles and disciples for 40 times and then is taken up. They remain until Pentecost when they are baptized with the Holy Spirit. Paul talks about "unto all the riches of the full assurance of faith". We all have faith, but with every "rich" we get from the word our faith grows and grows until we arrive at the full assurance.

6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

It is not for you to know times and dates. However, we are the Lord’s witnesses. No one would call a witness if they didn’t know anything, so what is given to us to know is Jesus Christ, the resurrected King. What are witnesses? They are the evidence in a trial. Mike Lindell released "Absolute 9-0". It is a movie where he presents the evidence that he says is undeniable and will result in the Supreme court ruling 9-0 concerning the election fraud. What he has is like having a video tape of the bank being robbed. As the data was flying back and forth between the US and China and votes were being switched someone was recording the entire thing. Surely they had this evidence the first week of November, so why wait seven months to release this? If they recorded all the evidence of election fraud and knew about it in November don't you think the NSA is also listening into phones, texts, emails, etc? They aren't simply going to say "the election was stolen" they also needed to know each and every person involved. Imagine the last seven months as lawsuit after lawsuit has been put forward. State legislators, Judges, people working with the Tech giants, the Biden administration, there must be many, many phone calls, texts, emails that will unravel the entire twisted web of deceit. This is why we could not know, because if we had we would have given it away and then they would have completely shut down all communication. Allow them to be overconfident, they let down the guard, and then you will hear and learn so much. Besides, the NSA has everything on tape, so the minute you identify someone like Dominion, or Kemp or Zuckerberg you can then go back in time to 2020 and 2019. The same is true of the movie Rigged and the Movie 2,000 Mules. Each one raises the awareness and motivates lawmakers to do something. Each one sends a notice the criminals that they are caught. Rigged "followed the money", can't hide it, they know it all. 2,000 Mules used geo-tracking, evidence on the phones, video tape and whistleblowers.

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

“He will come back in the same way”. Does this mean that God is making known to us the end from the beginning as He said in Isaiah 46? Imagine the age of grace began with the Lord’s ascension and ends in the same way. This is why the resurrection day is not called "the first day of the week" rather it is called #1 of the week. It is day 1 of the counting of the Omer. You are supposed to count 7 complete Sabbaths just like church history has been 7 complete churches. You are supposed to count 50 days which is a number that indicates the completion of grace. And, it says Jesus walked with them 40 times (the word is better translated times rather than days). 2,000 years is also 40 Jubilees. We started counting on the day of Resurrection and after 50 jubilees we will arrive at the end of the age of grace. The church is the wheat harvest and the first fruits will be offered to God on Shavuot.

Here we see they need to see the ascension, it is a great motivation to them. They dive into the word and prayer. "You will see him come back in the same way you have seen Him go".
 

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(sorry about the sound quality, this video has a lot of good Bible references concerning Shavuot)
 

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Circumcision

For the Jews this is a sign of their covenant with God. For Christians the cross of Christ is where we were circumcised in the heart.

So then, what does circumcision depict? I read this Russian joke, a man is walking down the street and sees a shop with a bunch of clocks in the window. He walks in and asks if they can fix his clock, it is broken. They say we don't fix clocks here, we perform circumcisions. He says, then why do you have all those clocks in your window? The person smiles and responds politely "what would you want us to put in the window?"

I didn't understand the joke at first, I hate to ruin it so if you get it you can skip this paragraph, but if you don't get it then go ahead and read it. Circumcision is where we take a knife and cut off a bit of the flesh and toss it into the garbage. It withers, it decays, it dies. Well that is precisely what is happening with every second a clock ticks. Think of the second hand as an exquisite scalpel slicing off one cell at a time. Minute by minute, hour by hour you are dying. From the day you were born you are dying. Your flesh is being cut off.

This is the sign that we have a covenant with God. We have cut off our flesh. We know that this life is temporary, like a wisp of smoke passing away. Why do we take up our cross and follow Him? Because you have a choice, a slow motion decay where once you die you lose everything, or you can live for Christ and for eternity gain a great reward. Circumcision is all about time, we are not focused on the here and now, we are looking to eternity.
 

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Judgement on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah -- The US

The cries that rise from the US outnumber the cries from previous civilizations that God had judged.

https://rumble.com/vopdlz-blueprints-of-the-enemy-dream.html
"Your nation has entered the time of judgement"

We have been told that the coming of the Lord would be like the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. You need to pack up and leave the evil cities. I have posted numerous warnings about:

NYC, Boston, Washinton DC, Philadelphia, Miami, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, (Denver?), LA, San Francisco, Seatle, Dallas

*This was published Nov 4, 2021
 

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Judgement on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah -- The US

The cries that rise from the US outnumber the cries from previous civilizations that God had judged.

https://rumble.com/vopdlz-blueprints-of-the-enemy-dream.html
Wow! Big Revelation.

She sees desperate praying in a little shanty after this catastrophe and then she sees the power of the Holy Spirit fall like a flame of fire just like it did in Acts on Pentecost. Since many other dreams and visions have seen that this calamity takes place at the time of the rapture (as we go up Satan and his angels get cast down). This dream here shows that Pentecost, which is 50 days after Shavuot, takes place after the rapture! I think this is confirmation that the rapture will be on ascension day which is Shavuot (not 10 days before).

Why has there been confusion all these years. The Bible says that Jesus walked with the disciples 40 times prior to the ascension. This has been translated as 40 days, and then misunderstood to meant that from the Resurrection the ascension was 40 days later. This does not make any sense. There is no prophecy, no convocation, nothing to indicate or foreshadow the Lord's ascension 40 days after resurrection. However, there is a festival, a convocation called Shavuot that does foreshadow Jesus going up to heaven, it is after 7 complete sabbaths, after the church age. Translate 40 days as 40 times which it should be and the meaning is clear. The Lord met with the disciples 40 times to teach them concerning the kingdom prior to the ascension. 40 Jubilees after Jesus resurrection we come to the ascension.

This vision tells us that we will see the fulfillment of Pentecost again and it won't be the rapture, it will be the power of the Holy Spirit falling like fire on the believers. This will happen after the rapture and after judgement has fallen on the US like it did at Sodom and Gomorrah.

She even asks if the church will be here for these things and Jesus says no. These things are clearly going to happen after the rapture, after he who restrains is taken away.
 

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It may be the Lord will look on my affliction and repay me with good.
 

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https://rumble.com/v16ibp9-two-babies-dream-4-5-224-04am.html

This dream is amazing, it tells us so much and confirms so much that we already know. Initially I was going to skip this dream because you have 5 people on the boat so we have a discrepancy with Noah which had 8 people on the boat.

Here is how I understand this.


1. You have to see the dream I posted in #4,593. That dream reveals cities destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the Lord makes it clear that is what happened and that prior to that the church was raptured. The Lord told us that His coming would be as the days of Lot. This dream is the other half.

2. In this there is a flood of soldiers coming on to this camp and 5 flee to a boat. In the story of Lot 3 leave the city. Together this is the 8 signifying the Lord + the Church for a new beginning.

3. In the dream #4,593 there are 3 people in a Shanty praying, father, mother and child. That is a type of the church, it is a fulfillment of Pentecost in Acts where they were in an upper room praying when tongues of fire fell. Again, these two dreams together tell us of the rapture.

4. In this dream they are living in tents, just like Abraham. The camp has been infiltrated just like the 12 apostles were infiltrated by Judas. We have learned about how many churches have been infiltrated by FreeMasons. Everyone running in every direction at the end reminds us of when Jesus was arrested and everyone ran in every direction.

So then this dream is describing what happens right before the rapture, our escape.

1. We have this bizarre story of a couple, one American one Chinese, stealing a baby for a baby sacrifice. They murder a witness to this crime. Former US military personnel track the blood back to the Moloch and Baal worshippers. We have heard about this, Epstein Island and the witnesses to that theft have also ended up dead. Some say that Ukraine was a central spot for human trafficking for the Moloch and Baal worshippers. We think that the Durham trial which has led us to Clinton will also result in revelations concerning these crimes. Since Biden came into power human trafficking at the border has skyrocketed. So then, this is where we are now, we are discovering the people responsible for these horrible crimes and are about to bring them to justice.

2. The Lord tells this prophet that these traitors have signaled to soldiers to come and destroy this camp. The reason is that they don't have anything to lose. In other words, they know they have been caught, they know the trial will result in the death penalty, so killing everyone is their only option.

3. They track these traitors to the supply cabin. Today we are seeing food plants all over the country have been sabotaged, that we have man made shortages of food and particularly baby formula.

4. One interesting detail is how these moloch and Baal worshippers demand to put their tent right next to the woman with a baby the same age. This reminds me of Disney, or these LGBTQ people teaching elementary school kids, or the pedophiles who were caught as Catholic Priests.

5. It also explains something quite interesting. The worship of these satanic idols requires a human sacrifice. They don't want to sacrifice their own kids so they steal a child for the sacrifice. In the Bible we are a living sacrifice to the Lord. We sacrifice ourselves, willingly, and out of love. These ones who worship moloch and baal they don't love these idols, they won't sacrifice from themselves, they steal their sacrifice. What a joke these idols are. Everyone hates and despises them, even their worshippers.

Conclusion

The Durham trial, the movies concerning election fraud (Absolute Proof, Rigged and 2,000 Mules), the exposure of Disney and Epstein Island, and the war in Ukraine have all put these moloch and baal worshippers into a position where they are like Scarface, trapped, and they will go down in a hail of bullets.
 

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1. I tell you the end from the beginning.

Isaiah 46:8 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me; 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; 11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.

This is one of the crucial prophecies concerning the watchmen. There is no one like God, the prophecies prove this, the fact that He can tell you the end from the beginning is proof of this. This is our focus, what Has God said. I talk to people who are depressed and crying over what they are seeing take place. Why? Everything I see is a fulfillment of what God said would take place, that encourages me, fills me with faith in His word unto the full assurance of faith.

2. Does nothing without telling His prophets

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, except he reveal his secret unto his servants the prophets.

Not only are we told that God tells us the end from the beginning, but we are also told that God reveals these secrets to His servants, the prophets. This word is in the Bible though it may have been secret. We have to dig it out just like digging out gold or silver.

John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

I get it, many believers don't want to refer to themselves as "prophets". OK, how about servants, how about friends?

Genesis 6:13 Then God said to Noah, "The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

The Lord told us His coming would be as the days of Noah. Surely this is a very significant "day of Noah" when God revealed to him what He was about to do.

Genesis 18:17 And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

OK, you aren't a prophet, but how about a descendant of Abraham? Are you a member of the household of faith?

Daniel 2:47 The king said to Daniel, "Your God is truly the God of gods and Lord of kings, the Revealer of Mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery."

Enough with the whole "no one knows the day or the hour". Revealing the mysteries is a glory to God. We pray that God's name would be hallowed on Earth as it is in heaven. Revealing mysteries glorifies God.

Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds."

Revealing the council of God requires faith, to those in the world it will look like courage. Those who don't do this will be ashamed at His coming.