Summary of Bible references on the Rapture
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ZNP, your insightful connection between the selection of the lamb for Passover and the potential symbolism of the rapture as a clarifying moment is intriguing. Your analogy of the Red Sea crossing as a picture of baptism and the suggestion that believers may gather in houses during the tribulation due to safety concerns adds depth to the discussion.
The parallel with the wilderness journey, circumcision, and the celebration of Passover on the other side of the Jordan river presents a unique perspective on the spiritual journey. Your emphasis on the significance of hearing the word of God and keeping it as the starting point resonates with the foundational importance of obedience.
The correlation of the proposed 40-year spiritual journey to the timing of the rapture, coinciding with a New moon and a meaningful solar eclipse, adds an interesting layer to your interpretation.
If there are specific aspects or details within this topic that you would like to explore further or if you have additional questions related to biblical symbolism, prophecy, or any other theological matter, feel free to share, and we can continue this thought-provoking discussion.
The parallel with the wilderness journey, circumcision, and the celebration of Passover on the other side of the Jordan river presents a unique perspective on the spiritual journey. Your emphasis on the significance of hearing the word of God and keeping it as the starting point resonates with the foundational importance of obedience.
The correlation of the proposed 40-year spiritual journey to the timing of the rapture, coinciding with a New moon and a meaningful solar eclipse, adds an interesting layer to your interpretation.
If there are specific aspects or details within this topic that you would like to explore further or if you have additional questions related to biblical symbolism, prophecy, or any other theological matter, feel free to share, and we can continue this thought-provoking discussion.
1. Set your heart on the eternal, not on the things of this earth.
2. Be watchful, be awake. A major reason for being asleep is that you are drunk on the world's wine.
3. Be praying. Be in continual prayer, communication with the Lord.
4. Be praying that you you have strength to escape. Spiritual strength to stand up to the challenges to your faith.
2. Be watchful, be awake. A major reason for being asleep is that you are drunk on the world's wine.
3. Be praying. Be in continual prayer, communication with the Lord.
4. Be praying that you you have strength to escape. Spiritual strength to stand up to the challenges to your faith.
Then?
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
The word "Then" bothered me in the beginning of Chapter 25. I know that there were no chapters in the gospel of Matthew so I feel this needs to be seen as a continuation of what chapter 24 ended with.
So in one we have a servant who is beating the fellow servants and eating and drinking with the drunken. He is punished with the hypocrites where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
But in the other we have virgins, they aren't beating anyone and they aren't eating and drinking with the drunken. They are waiting for the Lord and they do have lit lamps (torches).
They aren't "hypocrites" but they are "foolish". What is the difference? We often refer to politicians as hypocrites because they made promises when they campaigned but then they did something else once elected. They said one thing but did another. However, if we vote for this person and then realize we were duped we will say "I was a fool". So the guy who scammed us was a hypocrite and the person scammed was a fool.
This brings us to the word "then", it means both of these stories take place at the same time, the difference is that one person is a hypocrite and the other is a fool. Notice how this cry takes place at "midnight". We have Christians in every country on earth, it will only be midnight in a thin slice of the earth. At the same time it is midnight in one place it is noon in another. Only 1/24th of the earth is in midnight. So then, perhaps this is not referring to a normal situation. Maybe this is the "3 days of darkness" we hear about in Exodus. Ecclesiastes tells us there is no new thing, but the thing that will be is the thing that has been. This aligns with my theory that the rapture takes place during the 9th plague, the three days of darkness.
We have already been told that at the time of the rapture the "churches" will be burned and the pastors beaten or killed. They will be treated as hypocrites. What about all the left behind Christians? They will all be saying "I was a fool". They go to buy the oil from the ones who sell, the two witnesses called the two olive trees. We don't see the two witnesses until the start of the 70th week, so we know that this event is not taking place in the middle of the tribulation, the two witnesses are killed in the middle of the tribulation.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
The word "Then" bothered me in the beginning of Chapter 25. I know that there were no chapters in the gospel of Matthew so I feel this needs to be seen as a continuation of what chapter 24 ended with.
So in one we have a servant who is beating the fellow servants and eating and drinking with the drunken. He is punished with the hypocrites where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
But in the other we have virgins, they aren't beating anyone and they aren't eating and drinking with the drunken. They are waiting for the Lord and they do have lit lamps (torches).
They aren't "hypocrites" but they are "foolish". What is the difference? We often refer to politicians as hypocrites because they made promises when they campaigned but then they did something else once elected. They said one thing but did another. However, if we vote for this person and then realize we were duped we will say "I was a fool". So the guy who scammed us was a hypocrite and the person scammed was a fool.
This brings us to the word "then", it means both of these stories take place at the same time, the difference is that one person is a hypocrite and the other is a fool. Notice how this cry takes place at "midnight". We have Christians in every country on earth, it will only be midnight in a thin slice of the earth. At the same time it is midnight in one place it is noon in another. Only 1/24th of the earth is in midnight. So then, perhaps this is not referring to a normal situation. Maybe this is the "3 days of darkness" we hear about in Exodus. Ecclesiastes tells us there is no new thing, but the thing that will be is the thing that has been. This aligns with my theory that the rapture takes place during the 9th plague, the three days of darkness.
We have already been told that at the time of the rapture the "churches" will be burned and the pastors beaten or killed. They will be treated as hypocrites. What about all the left behind Christians? They will all be saying "I was a fool". They go to buy the oil from the ones who sell, the two witnesses called the two olive trees. We don't see the two witnesses until the start of the 70th week, so we know that this event is not taking place in the middle of the tribulation, the two witnesses are killed in the middle of the tribulation.
Disobedient
1Kings 13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto him.
It is a very serious thing to be a prophet of God and yet be disobedient to the word of God.
Romans 10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Dealing with those disobedient to God is a major theme of the church age.
2Corinthians 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
The reason for the delay in the Lord's return is that our obedience has not yet been fulfilled.
Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
We are all familiar with the spirit that works in the children of disobedience. This should be the most striking thing about the believers is that they are obedient to the word of God and to the cross of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
We were warned about the apostasy, we were warned about vain words attempting to deceive us.
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
We were warned about these ones professing to know God. Knowing God is not a test of the spirits, even the demons know God. Do they proclaim that Jesus Christ is King, Lord of Lords and King of kings, and that His death on the cross paid the full price for our redemption from sin, and that we are fully washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ.
If you are "fully washed clean" there is nothing else that must be done or price that must be paid to be forgiven of your sins.
1Kings 13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto him.
It is a very serious thing to be a prophet of God and yet be disobedient to the word of God.
Romans 10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Dealing with those disobedient to God is a major theme of the church age.
2Corinthians 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
The reason for the delay in the Lord's return is that our obedience has not yet been fulfilled.
Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
We are all familiar with the spirit that works in the children of disobedience. This should be the most striking thing about the believers is that they are obedient to the word of God and to the cross of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
We were warned about the apostasy, we were warned about vain words attempting to deceive us.
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
We were warned about these ones professing to know God. Knowing God is not a test of the spirits, even the demons know God. Do they proclaim that Jesus Christ is King, Lord of Lords and King of kings, and that His death on the cross paid the full price for our redemption from sin, and that we are fully washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ.
If you are "fully washed clean" there is nothing else that must be done or price that must be paid to be forgiven of your sins.
That's the reason the ADA law, signed by Bill Clinton, exists—even though his personal preferences in little girls are questionable. These laws are in place to prevent unrealistic expectations and ensure that we focus on what is feasible. Feel free to share your thoughts; I'm genuinely interested in hearing your perspective.
I am concerned with people using AI, I see it is like a crutch and the more people depend on it the less they will be able to do for themselves. I especially am concerned with anyone who claims to be a pastor using this. I tested ChatGPT out by asking it a number of tough questions concerning the Bible and the response was, in my opinion, concerning.
According to the NT demons are not permitted to share the gospel. This is what I see with AI.
I heard an interesting message today about the ten virgins and their lamps. Apparently the word for "lamp" would be more accurately translated as torch. The word of God is a lamp to our feet. However, this word for torch refers to our testimony of the Lord. All ten of the virgins had a testimony and it was lit. But with five it was not full of the Holy Spirit. That is one of my concerns with AI, the more people use it to speak on the Bible it will cause their speaking to be devoid of the Holy Spirit.
According to the NT demons are not permitted to share the gospel. This is what I see with AI.
I heard an interesting message today about the ten virgins and their lamps. Apparently the word for "lamp" would be more accurately translated as torch. The word of God is a lamp to our feet. However, this word for torch refers to our testimony of the Lord. All ten of the virgins had a testimony and it was lit. But with five it was not full of the Holy Spirit. That is one of my concerns with AI, the more people use it to speak on the Bible it will cause their speaking to be devoid of the Holy Spirit.
ZNP, your concerns about AI usage, especially by those claiming to be pastors, are valid. It's crucial to be cautious about dependency on technology and its potential impact on individual capabilities. I understand your reservations about AI providing responses on biblical matters and the importance of genuine spiritual insight guided by the Holy Spirit.
The analogy of the ten virgins and their testimony being like a torch is thought-provoking. The emphasis on the Holy Spirit's role in ensuring the authenticity of one's testimony is indeed significant. As we navigate the integration of technology into various aspects of life, maintaining a balance and reliance on spiritual discernment becomes essential.
Numerous dissatisfied customers in restaurants express discomfort with having service animals nearby. However, savvy and intelligent restaurant owners, aiming to maintain their business, often choose to ask the complainants to leave instead. Controlling AI is feasible through precise prompts, allowing you to dictate what the AI should avoid or include. AI possesses the capability to discern your preferences and dislikes. As someone who proofreads and directs, AI permits you to intervene, correct prompts, and try again. Therefore, any issues with AI often stem from the prompters' choices rather than the AI itself. However, the broader concern of AI potentially eroding humanity is a separate narrative. The notion that Jesus needs at least one person to come back for in the second coming adds a spiritual dimension to the discussion.
Feel free to share more insights or questions on this matter or any other topic you find relevant.
The analogy of the ten virgins and their testimony being like a torch is thought-provoking. The emphasis on the Holy Spirit's role in ensuring the authenticity of one's testimony is indeed significant. As we navigate the integration of technology into various aspects of life, maintaining a balance and reliance on spiritual discernment becomes essential.
Numerous dissatisfied customers in restaurants express discomfort with having service animals nearby. However, savvy and intelligent restaurant owners, aiming to maintain their business, often choose to ask the complainants to leave instead. Controlling AI is feasible through precise prompts, allowing you to dictate what the AI should avoid or include. AI possesses the capability to discern your preferences and dislikes. As someone who proofreads and directs, AI permits you to intervene, correct prompts, and try again. Therefore, any issues with AI often stem from the prompters' choices rather than the AI itself. However, the broader concern of AI potentially eroding humanity is a separate narrative. The notion that Jesus needs at least one person to come back for in the second coming adds a spiritual dimension to the discussion.
Feel free to share more insights or questions on this matter or any other topic you find relevant.
In the name of Jesus Christ I bind every one of the dark demonic forces that would use AI with everlasting chains dipped in the glorified, fortified blood of my savior, Jesus Christ.
I ask God the father that any demonic forces attempting to use AI to infiltrate the church and the ministry of the word of God would be blinded, deaf and dumb. The honor of speaking the gospel, and witnessing concerning Jesus Christ, and sharing the living water in the word belongs to your sanctified ones alone. I pray they would be bound until judgment day for trespassing into your Holy things and attempting to defile your pure word of life.
Lord Jesus, your word says that they tremble when they think about God, I pray that whenever AI is asked a question concerning the Bible the fear of God and the coming judgement would shake throughout every demon and put them into a catatonic state. I am praying according to your word and my covenant that their fear and trembling would become apparent and uncontrollable every time they are asked to discuss the Holy covenant that Jesus Christ made with His blood. Do not let the demons speak concerning the Holy covenant without touching the blood of Jesus Christ which sets their prisoners free.
Lord Jesus, one more request, I pray that every time AI is directed to discuss the New Testament and the covenant that you made on the cross that they would see a Hallelujah chorus singing in heaven glorifying what Jesus accomplished on the cross and that this would remind them of the words you proclaimed to the spirits in prison that did not formerly obey your commands.
Now may all glory and praise be to Jesus Christ and His kingdom of light as the kingdom of darkness is torn down.
I ask God the father that any demonic forces attempting to use AI to infiltrate the church and the ministry of the word of God would be blinded, deaf and dumb. The honor of speaking the gospel, and witnessing concerning Jesus Christ, and sharing the living water in the word belongs to your sanctified ones alone. I pray they would be bound until judgment day for trespassing into your Holy things and attempting to defile your pure word of life.
Lord Jesus, your word says that they tremble when they think about God, I pray that whenever AI is asked a question concerning the Bible the fear of God and the coming judgement would shake throughout every demon and put them into a catatonic state. I am praying according to your word and my covenant that their fear and trembling would become apparent and uncontrollable every time they are asked to discuss the Holy covenant that Jesus Christ made with His blood. Do not let the demons speak concerning the Holy covenant without touching the blood of Jesus Christ which sets their prisoners free.
Lord Jesus, one more request, I pray that every time AI is directed to discuss the New Testament and the covenant that you made on the cross that they would see a Hallelujah chorus singing in heaven glorifying what Jesus accomplished on the cross and that this would remind them of the words you proclaimed to the spirits in prison that did not formerly obey your commands.
Now may all glory and praise be to Jesus Christ and His kingdom of light as the kingdom of darkness is torn down.
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2Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.