Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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Lord Jesus according to your word we pray that the enemy would see this take place before their eyes. We pray for a judgement that is just, fair and true.

You are God, they are not!

You are the Savior of the world, they are not!

They are hate, You are love!

The Islamists are trying to blackmail America into not fighting against them.

9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

The are trying to extort funds from America to continue funding terrorism around the world.

11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

Lord Jesus we appeal to the Great I Am who sits supremely ruling over all! In all these judgements we pray that God, the great I Am would be glorified. May the fear and dread of You fall on all of this evil society.

Lord they are threatening to kill, rape, pillage and take hostages just as Hamas did in Israel.

13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; 15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. 16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord. 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: 18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.

You are the alpha and omega, the first and the last, the bright and Morning Star. You are the hope that they cannot destroy. When they see this may terror grip their heart. You are the truth they cannot crush, the living word they cannot destroy! May they break their hands and their wrists when they fight against You. Jesus, You are the power within your children, You are the boldness inside them for things to come. When they speak may these cause ten thousand to flee before them.

Lord Jesus you are the voice within us that will not be stopped, may we run through them exposing them to be a paper tiger. Lord Jesus you are the strength for us to face death because we will not refuse your Holy name. When their henchman see this may they fall down on their knees and declare that Jesus is truly in our midst. You are the Lord. You are our provider. You are our Peace. May our testimony shine bright in these dark days that all the unbelievers would see and know that Jesus is Lord and the Antichrist is none of these things.

Jesus is the judge, the righteous judge over all these things. May the world see this and may they also see that these elites and Satan worshippers are not. May they see that they are powerless against the Lord Jesus and against His right hand of justice. Finally, may they see through our testimony, through the word they cannot stop that everything they are doing is only allowed because it will fulfill God's written word.
 

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Israel 🇮🇱 Surrounded 🇵🇸 By These Nations First 4 Seals In Revelation 6

 

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Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

Warning to all these nations looking to devour Israel.

4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

5 Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Rebuke of Israel for walking after vanity and becoming vain. No difference between them and the world.
 

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As goes Israel so goes the US

Jeremiah 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.
 

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Original context is not the only way to understand the scripture. The Bible is new and living and we can live by every word, they are a lamp to our feet, and they are all good for instruction that the man of God may learn.

Yes, original context is an important tool, but some who subscribe think they can eliminate any reference to today by saying that this was spoken to people thousands of years ago. Hence it is used by the enemy to negate the word of God as being relevant to you today. That is clearly false.
 

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What is to come dream 5-30-23 @ 4:09 am (Remake 10-19-23)

 

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The LORD is FIERCELY ANGRY with IRAN and will CAUSE a DISASTER!

 

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The Tomorrow of 3 Days of Darkness 1-9-23 @ 2:06 PM (Released 10-19-23)
 

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Does Lazarus rising from the dead prefigure the pre-tribulation rapture?

Let's consider the first 12 chapters of John. I am going to look at this assuming that Lazarus prefigures the pre-tribulation rapture.

Chapter 1 — Jesus is revealed as both God and Man, as light overcoming darkness, as the eternal Son and the Lamb of God.

Chapter 2 — Two events that introduce this — there is a wedding “before Jesus’ time” and there is the cleansing of the temple. I would say that Jesus’ time refers to “The Day of the Lord” which refers to the last 7 years of this age. The cleansing of the temple is like the rededication of the temple in Hanukkah and will be fulfilled during the tribulation. So then we see the pre-tribulation rapture followed by the first half of the tribulation.

Chapter 3 — Nicodemus — a baby is born — the man child.

Chapter 4 — Samaritan woman — We are sinners saved by Grace and living water will flow out of our innermost being.

Chapter 5 — Lame man at Bethesda pool rises and walks and takes up his bed. We go from being sinners saved by grace to walking with the Lord in ministry.

Chapter 6 — we discover that Jesus is the manna from heaven, the true bread that we can feed on every day.

Chapter 7 — Feast of tabernacles is where we are heading, at that time we will be able to drink pure living water from the springs of life.

Chapter 8 — Woman caught in adultery — this is the condition of the church at the end of the age during the apostasy. They don’t just listen to the Lord but they listen to the government, worry about their tax status, put pictures of Xi up in the sanctuary, etc.

Chapter 9 — The man born blind is healed and kicked out of the synagogue. At this time we see a persecution on the true believers, a “cancel culture” that accuses the Bible of being sexist, homophobic, and condemnatory. There is a polarization of the people of God with the official religion persecuting and shunning Jesus and His believers.

Chapter 10 — More on the man born blind — Jesus leads us out of organized Christianity and the apostasy. We discover all kinds of saints around the world on Youtube and the internet. The watchmen talking about the signs of the Lord’s imminent return are no longer welcome in organized religion.

Chapter 11 — Lazarus (Eleazar) is raised with the bride. Jesus is revealed as the resurrection and the life during the rapture before the tribulation.

Chapter 12
— Jesus meets with the church in Bethany to eat dinner. The humiliated religious leaders plot on how to kill the disciples during the tribulation.

The first thing I'd point out is that chapter 1 is an introduction to the whole book, which means we could look at this as 1 chapter and 20 chapters. The first ten chapters culminate in Lazarus being raised just like the rapture would be a culmination for the believers in the pre-tribulation rapture. You don't see a tribulation prior to this but you do see an apostasy and a cancel culture. Saints are ostracized and "led out of the sheepfold" by Jesus. So then we see a difference, before Lazarus is raised the saints who follow him are only a small fraction, most stay with the "sheepfold" of the organized religion. But after Lazarus is raised the leaders say the whole world is following Him.

Now if we go back to chapter 2 we see two things -- wedding in Cana where the water is turned to wine and we see the cleansing of the temple. The pre-tribulation rapture is where the water is turned to wine, think of 1% following the Lord, then after the rapture you have the other 98% and this stampede helps cleanse the temple.

The other thing I'd point out is that I was always taught you want to be in the pre-tribulation rapture, it is like being the valedictorian or salutatorian at graduation. OK, but graduation includes the other 98 students as well. If you look at the gospel of John it would appear that this is a two pronged strategy. It is like a military campaign where you begin with the navy seals and rangers, but then follow that up with the marines, navy and army.
 

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Samson Option

Israel calls their nuclear option the "Samson Option" where Samson pushed out the pillars and the temple fell on him while he said "let me die with the Philistines". I find this very interesting because this could be what turns Damascus to a ruinous heap, and so not only do you have the longest continuously inhabited city in history turned to a ruinous heap as a fulfillment of prophecy, like Methuselah's death being the signal for Noah to enter the ark, if they destroy it with the Samson option that is a second reference to the rapture.
 

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2Thessalonians 3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
 

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2Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Christians don't issue "Fatwas". We don't take revenge, we leave that up to the Lord. However, we aren't door matts either. If someone does not obey the fellowship of the apostles we note that and do not have fellowship with them. If someone denies the tenets of the faith we might clarify that this is so (note that) and stop debating and responding to them. You should tell people why and it shouldn't simply be "I disagree with you" but rather "this is what the fellowship of the apostles commands and I have noted that you do not obey that". For example Paul lists the works of the flesh, if someone were living in sin that would be an example. This does not refer to someone who has publicly confessed having sinned and repented of it, that is according to the commands of the apostles.
 

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2Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Christians don't issue "Fatwas". We don't take revenge, we leave that up to the Lord. However, we aren't door matts either. If someone does not obey the fellowship of the apostles we note that and do not have fellowship with them. If someone denies the tenets of the faith we might clarify that this is so (note that) and stop debating and responding to them. You should tell people why and it shouldn't simply be "I disagree with you" but rather "this is what the fellowship of the apostles commands and I have noted that you do not obey that". For example Paul lists the works of the flesh, if someone were living in sin that would be an example. This does not refer to someone who has publicly confessed having sinned and repented of it, that is according to the commands of the apostles.
CANCER ALERT--JESUS WON'T TOLERATE DISLOYALTY IN HIS BODY

 

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Pride -- a whore's forehead

Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
 

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Treacherously

Jeremiah 3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord.

Treacherously means secretly, fraudulently. A woman who is "departing from her husband" will still play the part of the wife as she carries on her affair secretly behind her husbands back.

This is what we see with the apostate church. They will come to the meeting and pretend to be good Christians yet as soon as the meeting is over they are rushing home to watch the game.

They don't spend time with the Lord, they spend time with a hundred other things. Do you think all these people with their heads buried in their phones are reading the Bible or watching a sermon? Yet they will dress up on Sunday and put on a show.
 

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1,260

The two witnesses have a ministry that is 42 months long. If the rapture is October 29th and their ministry begins one week later that would take you to Passover 2027. This is if you use prophetic months that are 30 days long. This comes to 1,260 days.

Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
 

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Why 30 AD Still Makes The Most Sense Rapture Hopefully Soon

 

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Israel at war!? God showed him BOMBS coming to AMERICA foreign troops!

 

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I have been praying about the Lord’s word that the end of the age would be like the days of Noah. When Methuselah died, the longest living human, Noah and his family entered the ark. This was a prophecy fulfilled that when Methuselah died the end would come. Therefore I have been praying to know what the similar prophecy is concerning our days and I think my prayer has been answered, Isaiah 17:1. Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, we have this prophecy that when it becomes a ruinous heap (just like a dead body) we will have this “day” that is described four times in Isaiah 17. If we saw riots break out when they thought Israel had bombed the hospital, imagine what will happen if they obliterate Damascus, it will be like the days of Lot. Then I discovered what is known as the “Samson option” for Israel where they liken their nuclear bomb to Samson pushing out the pillars and saying “let me die with the Philistines”. That event is a type of the rapture! The church is the pillar and base of the truth, when the church is removed the world system collapses and becomes a “ruinous heap”.