Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Groupthink

The book of James deals with the matter of cults. He was the leader of the cult of the "circumcision" according to Paul in the book of Galatians. However, we can see clearly that he repented and the Lord gave him this word.

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

His burden is for the 12 tribes in the dispersion. Yes, that is an indication they have not moved on fully to the New Testament ministry, but being burdened for those who are having trouble with the change in dispensation doesn't mean that James didn't have the vision.

2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

In brief people fall into cults because of a lack of faith. The cults prey on those who are not strong in the faith just like wolves picking off the weakest members of the herd. It is easy to know if you are weak in the faith, you are double minded and unstable in all your ways. Pray for wisdom to discern.

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

What we are seeing today is an attempt to divide people in this country based on whether they are rich or poor. Superficially they are saying that it is all about race with Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory, but in reality what they are saying is that I am of low degree because I am oppressed by the rich and the guy who is rich is rich because he oppressed me. Two hundred years ago the cult was the opposite, then they were taught we are rich because we are superior and people are slaves because they are cursed. This was the basis behind the communist revolution, it was what gave Hitler fire to his speeches.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

There is no "if" in this statement. James says that every man is tempted, not "if he is tempted". It is not a matter of if but when. Why do people join cults? It is a temptation, they are drawn away by their own lust. You want to be special, you want to be "the chosen", you want to feel like you alone have the truth.

16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

This is a crucial lesson, every good gift, every perfect gift comes from God. If someone has a good gift or a perfect gift it came from God. Your lust led you to exclude yourself from others because you were part of a "special group" but the error was that you were cutting you off from many who had gifts from God and you needed every one of those people. Think about today, the rancor and fighting cuts half the country off from the other half. No one can listen to the other. If you listen to MSNBC you can't listen to Steve Bannon or Tucker Carlson and vice versa. We need everyone. Each person has a gift, a talent that we need exercised.

18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

We see this too. People are swift to speak, swift to wrath but very slow to listen. Social media has amplified this. What we need, what we should pray for is to get help from the person we would least expect it from. That will help slow us down in our wrath and speed us up in our listening. We need a word from that person we never expected to get a word from, that will help us to be swift to hear and slow us down in our speaking. We need to confess when we were wrong, that will help slow us down in our wrath.

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Once all that happens we will begin to receive the word with meekness.

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Unless you are a doer of the word it is impossible to not be deceived. Check it out the most arrogant, self righteous, holier than thou Christians, are they doers of the word? You can have all sorts of vain imaginations about who you are until you get into the arena, into the battle, then you find out the real truth.

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

I saw this as a teacher, many teachers seem to have forgotten what manner of man they were. In High School I attended a school with about two thousand students in it and the guidance counselor told my mother after three years that I was the hardest working student anyone at the school had ever seen. But that was because I had decided that I would do 100% of my school work at school. The school opened the doors at 7:30am and I had practice at 3:00 pm. Between those times I did all of my homework, all my reports, everything. At 3 every day I would lock up all my books in the locker to make sure I didn't do anything at home. To my mom, to my family, to my friends they never saw me do any school work. I tell you this because when I look in the mirror as a teacher I know that I was a lazy student and yet I was considered the "hardest working student anyone had ever seen". Yet I hear other teachers always complaining that their students are lazy. They have forgotten what manner of man they were. With the most successful teachers the secret they all have is they remember what manner of student they were.

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

The new testament does not talk very much about religion, certainly not in a positive way. Only this book does and I would say this term "religion" can very easily become groupthink and a cult. If your religion is not "vain" then you would have the power to bridle your tongue. James explains later how evil the tongue can be and all the harm it can do. Hitler is a great example of this. But the description is beautiful. What is religion? It means that Jesus is Lord, He controls us the way a rider controls a horse by putting a bridle in our mouth. If the Lord is not controlling you then your religion is vain. Saying that Jesus is Lord is simply empty words.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

This is the "cult killer" verse. Cults talk a great game but they don't visit orphans and widows in their affliction. A cult is simply Satan disguising himself as an angel of light to lead people astray and make them into wolves in sheep's clothing. It is anathema to them to take care of orphans and widows. At most they will have a pretense like Judas saying "why this waste, this money could have been given to help the poor" when in reality he means give it to me. But the world is another type of cult. Being spotted by the world, giving yourself over to the indulgence of the fleshly desires in the world, that is the worship of the flesh.

Today our "government" behaves like a cult. They don't want you to waste money on helping orphans and widows, they will do that, give them the money and they will be in charge of that. It is Judas all over again. They hold out participation in the world like a carrot with the vaccine mandate. These are cult behaviors.
 

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Groupthink chapter 2

James 2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

This is the heart of groupthink or cults. Instead of having faith in the Lord Jesus they have faith in a man, instead of "what would Jesus do" it is what would the apostle do. Instead of deciding for yourself if you need this vaccine based on your risks and how effective and dangerous the vaccine is, people simply "trust Fauci".

2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: 4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

Recently Obama came and spoke at a campaign rally where he said the people were being swayed by fake outrage at fake problems. According to Obama, a guy who went to Harvard, they needed to "let the experts" handle their kids education. The "fake problem" was that they were teaching the kids in elementary school that they were evil racists because they were white or that they had been oppressed and were victims because they weren't white. The fake outrage was because a man whose daughter was raped in the bathroom of a Junior High School because a boy in a dress used the bathroom and the school was trying to cover it up. When he went to the school board meeting to complain they arrested him, called him a domestic terrorist and then the Attorney General of the US sent out a directive to the FBI to go to school board meetings and observe what is going on and arrest any parents who are complaining as being "domestic terrorists". As a result of Obama's speech the person he was supporting lost another 8 points in the polls. This is the basic "shut up and let the experts handle this" argument and it is central to groupthink.

5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? 6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? 7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

This has been a wake up call and it has become abundantly clear they despise the common people and oppress us. The rich did not become rich because they are smarter and wiser, generational wealth of the ruling class comes from oppression.

8 If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

The word "fulfill" is really important here. They will talk about "love" and having respect for all people including transgender, but did they really love this man whose daughter was raped as they would themselves? One woman put it very clear, she said she wasn't allowed to bring her purse into the meeting because the school board is afraid for their safety, yet they will not protect these girls in the bathroom.

10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.


Time to wake up, they are lawless and we are witnessing the mystery of lawlessness. We call this particular approach what aboutism. You come with tough questions about murder and they change the subject to adultery.

12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

The golden rule, the law of liberty, is the law that you are to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. When I get judged I want to be judged with mercy, so what this law really says is to judge others with mercy. Think about the vaccine mandates. Many people do not trust the vaccine, yet they are being forced to take it or else lose their job and be excommunicated from society. Is that mercy? So then when the Lord judges them they also will be judged without mercy.

14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

Some people will say that they got the vaccine because they have faith and they are not forcing anyone else to get it, they don't "support" these mandates. OK, but faith without works is dead. I am a teacher, part of the biggest union in the country. When the mandate came in NYC about half of the teachers were unvaccinated. If the union had stood as one (which is why I paid dues all this time to them) and said we are against these mandates then the mandates would have collapsed. I know many teachers who got vaccinated because they were coerced and felt they had no choice, they couldn't afford to lose their job. This is why groupthink works, some people have respect to a person and follow a man blindly, others are coerced out of fear to follow the man. In every case the underlying problem is a lack of faith in Jesus Christ, Lord of all.

18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

There are people all over the country taking a stand. Dan Bongino has a very successful radio show, but when the station demanded that everyone be vaccinated he refused to mandate to those who worked with him and he left. Kyrie Irving refused to comply and he left. Draymond Green refused to tell teammates to get the vaccine saying that is their personal choice. One by one you can see people taking a stand based on faith. The faith is not about the vaccine, the faith is about the Lord's rule to treat others the way you want to be treated. Draymond Green put it perfectly, the person not getting the vaccine has no business telling him what he should do about his health, why would he have any business telling him what to do about his health. The law of liberty.

19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Do not think that simply because someone is professing a belief in God they can't be a cult leader. The devils believe in God.

20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

The radio show is Dan Bongino's baby, he is offering it up on the altar because of his faith and because he is a friend of God. Having mercy on God's people makes you a friend of God.

24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

We have a lot of whistleblowers exposing the liars, the thieves and the election fraud. This also takes faith.
 

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Let's discuss Shavuot


Key points in the case for

The watchmen are focused on it because "the feasts are a shadow of things to come".

1. Moses ascending the mountain appears to foreshadow the ascension of Jesus, and the ascension of Jesus appears to be the equivalent of the rapture of the church.

2. We had a wave offering at the feast of firstfruits and there were saints who came out of the grave at that time. Since there is a wave offering of two loaves of leavened bread we see that as suggesting these ones will also come out of the grave at this time.

3. The rapture of the church is likened to a wheat harvest and you can't do the wheat harvest unless the firstfruits is accepted by God.

So then let's address these.

1. I would argue that this was fulfilled at Jesus ascension. The confusion comes because they translate that Jesus walked with the disciples 40 days after his resurrection, I would say that should be that he met with them 40 times.

2. Yes, the Jews understand this to mean that the two leavened loaves refer to the twins, Jacob and Esau, and that now the gospel is open to Esau. This also was fulfilled at the time of Jesus ascension according to the book of Ephesians. We who were dead in sins were made alive and raised up to sit together with Christ in the heavenlies.

3. Yes, the rapture of the church as the wheat harvest cannot be accepted unless the firstfruit, which is Jesus is accepted. First is the ascension of Jesus, then second is the harvest of the church. So yes, the harvest of the church must come after Shavuot.

It is true that Shavuot was a shadow of things to come, however, it would be a slap in the face to the Jews that the day they were betrothed to the Lord, the day of their espousals, that the gentiles would be raptured. That is a special day in their covenant. According to the New Covenant the rapture will be like the days of Noah (who represents the judgement that will come on the whole world) and the days of Lot (who also was not a Jew). Both of these stories have one thing in common, they depict being rescued out of certain destruction.

Now we are told that Noah's ark came to rest on the tops of the mountains on the last day of Sivan / first of Tammuz. In other words at twilight on that day. What is the rapture? It is the church (depicted by the seven souls in the ark with Noah) going to heaven (tops of the mountains) and finding rest during the flood that comes on the whole earth.

Who is it that gets raptured? Those who are "shut into the ark" by God. It is simply another picture of being immersed into God. You choose to be a servant of God forever and He nails your ear to the entrance just as He nailed the door of the ark shut. Being shut in means there is no going back. The first of Tammuz is around June 30th / July 1st

The rapture is a new beginning and the end of an age. For the earth the light goes out and the judgement begins to fall during the rapture.
 

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Groupthink Chapter 3

1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.


Many translations translate this as teacher rather than master. The person in charge, the master, gets to tell others what to do and how to do it (teacher). This is how cults work, you begin with people who are weak in the faith, then you give them someone they put their faith in, the cult leader, the "apostle", for example Fauci. Then those who swallow this stuff hook line and sinker get to become the "teachers", the mini leaders to the rest of the cult members.

3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.


You think you are advancing in the group, what is actually happened is they put a bit in your mouth. Think about Fauci, he controls the NIH grant money, every scientist that cow tows to him gets the money, but that money is a bit in their mouth giving Fauci control over them so that they obey him.

4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

The US is a ship. Fauci wasn't elected, and yet he steered the ship during the pandemic.

5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!


The pandemic was a worldwide fire, primarily because of Fauci. You may think that he is a little member, like the tongue, yet look at how great a fire a little member like Fauci kindleth! When we wanted to shut down travel he advised against it, when we wanted to wear masks he said they wouldn't help, then he advised everyone to be six feet apart which caused businesses and schools to shut down. He said that Cuomo was the gold standard of how to deal with the pandemic even though Cuomo was putting contagious people into nursing homes increasing the death rate. Fauci turned away investigators from looking at the Wuhan lab, and has lied over and over and over again. All to set the world on fire.

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.


Our mouths were created to bless God, yet when you see these cult leaders, these false prophets, people like Fauci and Hitler they use their voice to curse man. That is how you know they are not of God. Tamed is not the same thing as domesticated. You wonder how they can get all these countries and governments to cooperate? They have been tamed, trained, that if they buck the system they will experience extreme pain. You don't go against big Pharma.

11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

The same fountain cannot yield both kinds of water. Once you see that someone is purposefully lying to you to your harm then that is it, there is no question that some of the water is good, the entire fountain is no good. This is why I have cut off CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, WAPO, Twitter, Biden, Pelosi, Fauci, etc. Once I saw they lied to me to harm me I refused to trust anything they say.

13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

From the minute Trump was elected we had strife. We had #notmypresident, we had Pelosi ripping up the state of the union address in public, we had investigations, impeachments, and a world of strife. It was a satanic wisdom. They project their own treason and corruption on others. It worked for a while but little by little people have woken up to it. Just yesterday the Lincoln project hired actors to pretend to be KKK members supporting the candidate they didn't like. It was a false flag attempt, just like the phony impeachments, phony special prosecutor and phony Jan 6th insurrection.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.


Frontline asked all kinds of very provocative questions concerning the January 6th event insinuating that Trump was guilty of treason. My response was that I had my own question, if Trump is guilty of treason why not try him? He is a citizen, Biden controls the DOJ, the democrats control the presidency and the two houses. Instead of suggesting, insinuating and using innuendo, let's have a trial. They said they were going to do this but then Trump said his first witness would be Nancy Pelosi and they balked. When they were calling for audits of swing states that went for Biden many Democrats called for audits of states that went for Trump. I agree, let's audit all 50 states. That is righteousness. That will lead to peace.
 

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He that is feeble shall be as David

Zechariah 12:7 The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. 8 In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.

Look at who gets saved first, the deplorables, the feeble. Not the mighty, or powerful, or rich, but the lowly.

Think about this, the "feeble" will be as David. How, it doesn't make sense. Well, today I can read something that someone else wrote, something that would be likened to a stone from an expert at slinging stones that is headed straight for the forehead of some giant, and I can simply share it myself. I can share it on this blog, or on Facebook, or on some other platform. All of a sudden one expert slinger of stones becomes a hundred or a thousand.

What we are seeing is a populist movement. This is the problem with the deplorables, saying they are deplorable doesn't work, they have been insulted their whole life. All of their friends are deplorable. Those kinds of insults only work on those desperate to be popular with "the beautiful people".
 

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I love this. Remember when you are seeing some of these prophets and some of these dreams and you are with your ministry praying to move the Lord's will that we are "under rowers" we are down underneath where you can't see, in the engine room, but our ministry, our prayers, our preaching and speaking and teaching, this is what is causing this boat to move.

 

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He that is feeble shall be as David

Zechariah 12:7 The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. 8 In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.

Look at who gets saved first, the deplorables, the feeble. Not the mighty, or powerful, or rich, but the lowly.

Think about this, the "feeble" will be as David. How, it doesn't make sense. Well, today I can read something that someone else wrote, something that would be likened to a stone from an expert at slinging stones that is headed straight for the forehead of some giant, and I can simply share it myself. I can share it on this blog, or on Facebook, or on some other platform. All of a sudden one expert slinger of stones becomes a hundred or a thousand.

What we are seeing is a populist movement. This is the problem with the deplorables, saying they are deplorable doesn't work, they have been insulted their whole life. All of their friends are deplorable. Those kinds of insults only work on those desperate to be popular with "the beautiful people".
Pretty cool, we have a prophecy that "He that is feeble will be as David" because we will have the greater David in us, and then we get this prophecy concerning the return of Goliath!

https://rumble.com/v194dmb-the-return-of-the-nephilim-dream-52222-255pm.html

This is a completely different view of the tribulation.

"Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it."

These guys will be our food!
 

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Wow, I finally get it. The Lord will curse the water so that it reveals who has not been washed by the blood of Jesus Christ. That would be a great sign to help the whole world get right with Jesus. To prevent this, to "muddy the waters", the enemy will come up with a counterfeit bloody water. Why is Jesus doing this? To bring in the kingdom. Why is the Antichrist doing this? To bring in his kingdom.

It can be very difficult to defeat an entrenched enemy going from house to house. But if they don't have water to drink they'll fold in three days.
 

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Proverbs 1:1-33 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

Yesterday a brother was talking about the news and saying how difficult to know who is telling the truth or what to believe. This book will teach you how to discern.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Fools, or "morons", remember the 5 foolish virgins? How many Christians have we heard that have the attitude "I don't need to know that"? They don't read Revelation even though they are told there is a blessing to those that do. They don't need to study the rapture, their attitude is that it will all pan out in the end, even though the Lord commanded us to watch. Their attitude was "I can just listen to the pastor". Well what happens when you don't know which pastor to listen to and half of them are lying?

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Why do you think they are attacking the constitution, attacking our forefathers like Washington and Lincoln? Why do you think they are trying to destroy the nuclear family, or attacking the teaching of your mother and father in these public schools? Those teachings protect us, remove the protection and we will be easy pickings.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.


Watch 2,000 mules and you will see 2,000 people who cast their lot in with the sinners to steal the election, to rob the taxpayers, and to ultimately bring in policies that will wait for blood and destroy the innocent without cause. But it is worse than that. We have Attorney Generals and Prosecutors who have thrown in their lot with Soros and are getting rich by releasing these felons who cause death and mayhem. But it is worse than that we have politicians like Pelosi and Swalwell and Schiff and Schumer who have done the same. Of course the Hunter Biden laptop is telling us that Biden, Obama, Clinton, Kerry, and many others have also done the same.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Don't you think these guys regret it now that the bloodhounds are on their scent? Joe Biden can't escape, Ghislaine Maxwell was almost killed in prison, you don't think they will have to release the names on that black book? 2000 Mules has the geotracking data on all their phones, you don't think they regret it now? We know that Swalwell worked with a Chinese spy, we know that Pelosi is the one responsible for January 6.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

The Bible is everywhere, we have preachers on every street corner, Youtube is filled with these messages, bloggers are posting everyday, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson and Daily Wire are trying to educate people.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

When you tell people a train is coming it doesn't mean it is here. It means get off the tracks, get out of the way, prepare yourself. The movie runaway train was about a train that was barreling down the tracks and when it got to the city it would hit a sharp curve, fly off the tracks and wipe out several city blocks. Since it had toxic chemicals in the cars it was going to be horrific. The warnings were for different people. For a couple of people that worked on the railroad their job was to prevent disaster. For police it was to block off the intersections as the train roared through. For the radio and TV it was to sound the alarm. Everyone got their warning with just enough time to take appropriate action immediately. But if you don't, if you look outside and say "everything is fine" then when destruction comes it comes as a whirlwind.

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. You see the warning signs that Russia is and NATO are clashing in their talk, you hear Kamala come out and provoke Russia, so you sell your house in Kiev at a steep discount and you move to the western border of Ukraine and live in an apartment and get a new job. You look like a fool selling the house at less than you could have gotten if you had not been in such a hurry. Six months later Russia invades Ukraine, Kiev is shelled and that house is now worthless. People who are fleeing now are destitute.
 

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The days of Noah

Luke 17:26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

We have a number of prophecies which have really told us that this is the year that the tribulation begins. But what about the day? There has been a lot of theorizing about the holy convocations, that they are a shadow of things to come and therefore a shadow of the rapture. However, consider this: Jesus fulfilled Passover (crucifixion), Jesus fulfilled feast of unleavened bread (death and burial), Jesus fulfilled feast of firstfruits (resurrection), Feast of trumpets will definitely be announcing the coming of king, (first at His birth and then at the end of the age at His second coming), Atonement will be fulfilled when we appear before His throne and Feast of tabernacles is referring to the millennial reign. That would leave Shavuot as the one major feast not fulfilled, however I would argue that was fulfilled at Jesus ascension. This is not my "theory" but based on what Paul tells us in Ephesians, 1Timothy, Hebrews, John and Acts. So then when Colossians says that they are a shadow of things to come it is true. But it doesn't make sense that they would refer to the rapture of the church prior to the tribulation. First, Paul said the things concerning the church were hidden and have only now been revealed. Hard to believe that Shavuot would be referring to that. Also, Jesus' incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension and coming kingdom apply to all believers, not just those who are raptured prior to the tribulation.

So what I would argue is that we should listen to the Lord, He told us to pay attention to these days concerning "the days of the Son of Man".

Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

First, notice that this is not the ecclesiastical calendar of the Jews after the Passover, but rather the original calendar and Noah does not represent the Jews but all people, Jews and Gentiles. So then this refers to the 17th day of the 8th month. This event describes the "bursting forth of the floodgates" like the bursting of a dam. This would be November 22, 2021, it would also refer to the beginning of the church age (2000 years is 40 jubilees).


Genesis 7:12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

We can look at the events that took place from Nov 22, 2021 to Jan 1, 2022 and we can also look at all the events that took place over the course of the church age.

Genesis 7:13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

We entered the ark one week before the flood. The flood is the 70th week in Daniel and one week before is the 69th week when the Messiah was cut off, crucified. In the story of Noah Methuselah dies and then Noah enters the ark. November 6, 2021 we had a mass shooting at Astroworld, at a performance by Travis Scott who is a Satanist and the shooting appears to have been a sacrifice to Satan. This indicates that the Nephelim are on earth, those who are mingled with the fallen angels of Satan. Eight people were killed, the number 8 signifies Jesus and the 8th day is the Lord's day. Interesting that one week after these 8 dies Noah and these seven signifying the church enter the ark.

Genesis 7:17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. Genesis 7:24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.


This would take us to May 20, 2022, the same night that 2,000 Mules was released for viewing. From this point the waters began to recede and people were able to see the election fraud, the lies, the deceit and the "great con".

Genesis 8:4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

This would be resurrection day, the 17th day of the 1st month. The day Jesus rose from the dead. This would be April 18, 2022. On that day Russia began a major new offensive in the Donbas region. South Africa declares a state of emergency after floods result in 400 deaths and destroy 4,000 homes (10 times 40 is the complete understanding of trial and testing, and 100 x 40 is the ultimate completion of trial and testing). Also a federal judge rules as unlawful the Biden administration's mandate that masks be worn on public transportation. Also a report is released on the 19th telling us that inflation had hit 8.5%. This was the high water mark of the flood and the point at which we began to see all the crimes and death being covered up by these water.

Genesis 8:5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

This would be the first day of the fourth month, the first of Tammuz, which is June 30th/ July 1st this year. If you are going to have a rapture depicted by one of the days of Noah this would be it. What does the rapture do, it reveals "the tops of the mountains". The pre tribulation rapture is when it becomes very clear who was following the Lord and who wasn't. In Revelation the Lord tells Philadelphia that He will make those of the synagogue of Satan to come and worship at their feet confessing that God was truly with them.

The waters receding

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

In other words, everyone will be able to see the tops of the mountains.

Genesis 8:6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark

This would be the 9th of AV (around August 6th). I have always felt this is the clearest day for the AntiChrist to be revealed. If you contend that the tribulation will begin on Feast of Trumpets in 2022, then the AntiChrist would have to be released prior to that and the best day would be 9th of AV. We also strongly believe that the church will be raptured prior to the release of the Antichrist because Paul talks about the restrainer stepping aside prior to the Antichrist being released.

Genesis 8:10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

One week later would be the 15th/16th of AV. That is a wonderful day on the Jewish calendar.

Genesis 8:12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

In conclusion

Yes, there is a lot to see in the holy convocations, but that does not mean that they depict the rapture of the church before the tribulation and if you consider it there seems to be more than sufficient evidence from the New Testament to tell us what they do depict as well as telling us in no uncertain terms that they do not depict the church being raptured. If we have an old testament depiction of the day the church is raptured I would think that the days of Noah would be where we should look. It should be before the 9th of AV, the day Noah released the raven depicting the Antichrist. Therefore the first day of the tenth month, the month of Tammuz, the month of the door, should be the day the "ark comes to rest in heaven". If we are raptured "at the twinkling of the eye" at sunset it would be the 30th of Sivan/1st of Tammuz. I would think that would be around June 28th and June 29th.
 

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The Law of the trees. Messiah ministered for 3 years, in the fourth year He bore his full fruit to God. That is the resurrection.

Likewise, in Jesus life it is the fourth decade where He bears fruit.

Same with man. It was the 4th day of Human history (1 day = 1 thousand years) when we bore the fruit to God.

Not only so but consider the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, man sinned, the seed was sewn into man, and after 4,000 years it was revealed, fully manifested in the crucifixion of Jesus.

The Bible says that the fruit is uncircumcised for the first three years, likewise it is the Lord's cross that circumcised us.
 

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Consider the following months

Sivan -- The month you celebrate Shavuot, this is the end of the spring, Tammuz is the fourth month representing the door and also the first month of the summer. So the expression "Summer is near, even at the door" would indicate the very end of Sivan.

Tammuz -- this is the month of the beginning of destruction of the Holy Temple. Often the Lord talks about the doors being opened indicating the outpouring of judgement. The gates are opened and the king rides forth with his sword in his hand.

AV -- this is the fifth month, the month that both temples are destroyed. This is the month that the spies gave a bad report. This is the month that Noah released the raven to fly to and fro over the face of the earth.

Elul -- This is the month or repentance, the month of mercy and forgiveness. To me this sounds like the month that John the Baptist would go forth baptizing people and calling on them to repent for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand.

So then "Summer is near, even at the doors" does that refer to the greatest fulfillment of prophecy the returning of the Jews to Israel in one day? Or does that refer to the greatest fulfillment of prophecy in the NT, the rapture of the church?

There are plenty of prophecies that after the rapture of the church the apostate churches and pastors are judged and destroyed just like when Elijah had fire fall from heaven (immediately after the rapture) and then rounded up the prophets of Baal and had them killed. This sounds like Tammuz, the beginning of the destruction of the temple.

But then it gets worse, AntiChrist arises, the world sees him as a savior on a white horse, and this is the one who will completely destroy the temple. This is the month of Av, the judgement on all those ones who brought an evil report.

But this in turn ushers in repentance, it paves the way for the ministry of John the Baptist to call everyone, worldwide to repent for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand.
 

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Group think chapter 4

4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

We are on the brink of war, actually Russia is saying we are already in WWIII. Why? Well, since 2020 the world's economy has lost $26 trillion, probably more (16 trillion for the pandemic and 10 trillion from the US markets just this year). If we totaled up everything worldwide it would probably exceed $30 trillion. By comparison the 2008 Mortgage meltdown was a $10 trillion hit to the world's economy. So it is clear there are a number of countries that "have not". But what are they lusting for? Well, Russia has a really powerful military (this exercise in Ukraine is simply "rattling the cage" to see how NATO responds). They would like to supply security for the Middle East and so make the Ruble the world's reserve currency. After Chernobyl they were humiliated. That would return Russia to the glory of the Soviet empire. To do that they would have to destroy the US and you can't do that without powerful allies. They would have to have China as an ally as well as a coalition of Islamic nations. So then, what does China lust after? They are not interested in our cities on the coast, what they want is our agriculture. Our farms are the envy of the whole world, particularly China. So there you go, Russia, all the Islamic nations and China could easily form a coalition to attack the US. All they need is evidence the US was behind the pandemic and that would be all it takes to justify this attack to the rest of the world.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

This is the problem, you want to be a friend of the world and that makes you an enemy of God. You have to say certain verses in the bible are no longer relevant, you have to compromise with atheists, unbelievers and satanists. You give them your children to teach. You let them govern your country and run the businesses that hire and fire you. The US is a "Christian" country and yet the CIA is a criminal enterprise.

5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.


There are many verses on this, how exactly do we resist the devil? John the Baptist preached the gospel of remission of sins, that means to cut back, stop funding the sins. If the school system is sinning pull your kids out, move to a different school district so that you are not funding these schools. Jesus said that we should not think that He came to give peace on the earth but a sword. The word of God is a sword that cuts off the flesh. If they reject you in this city saying you have to be vaccinated or else you are fired then leave that city and go to a city that welcomes you. Cut off the flesh.

8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

The only way to cleanse your hands is with the blood of Jesus. Draw nigh to God means you repent, you confess, you pray, you read the bible, you fellowship with believers, you worship the Lord. Double minded, with one mind they want to worship the Lord in peace, with the other mind they want the high paying job with the company car and membership to the club.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Cancel the club membership, move out of the gated community, stop the meals at the fancy restaurants, leave the prestigious job in the big city that your conscience has been bothering you about and move to a small town and help others.

11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

This works both ways. Don't speak evil of those who are vaccinated and don't speak evil of those who refuse to be vaccinated. Don't speak evil of blacks and don't speak evil of whites. Don't speak evil of those who vote for one person and don't speak evil for those who vote for another person. I had this dream that I was at the wedding of the lamb, everyone was all dressed up for the wedding and out on the lawn in front of a big country club and I saw a sister who was a democrat, a supporter of Hillary Clinton. I was shocked that she was there. The Lord was speaking to me, do not judge your brother or sister.

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

"Drain the swamp" that is boasting, what you should say is "if the Lord wills we will drain the swamp". "$6.5 trillion dollar stimulus bill" once again boasting unless you say "if the Lord wills". Judgement will fall on the US and you will see that it all vanisheth away like a vapour.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.


Not everyone knows to do good. Take the vaccine, if you don't know that there is anything wrong with taking it then it is not sin that you took it. Right now what everyone knows is that we are to "do unto others as we would have them do to you". If you don't want others making healthcare decisions for you then you should not be mandating health care decisions for others.
 

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The Dead in Christ Rise First

Many have shared that Enoch was born and raptured in Sivan 6 which is Shavuot, hence they expected the rapture to take place on that day. However, I would argue that Jesus ascension took place on that date.

Here we learn that Joseph was born on Tammuz 1. Joseph is very clearly a picture of the dead in Christ who will rise first. Perhaps that is telling us that this event, the dead in Christ rising will take place on Tammuz 1.