Summary of Bible references on the Rapture

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1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

The seven year period known as "the tribulation" or "the seventieth week" or "the Day of the Lord" refers to the Lord's judgment on the Earth. According to Peter this judgment must begin with the house of God. Hence, I view the rapture as that judgment. On the one hand some will be judged as good and faithful servants and others will be cast out with the judgment "I never knew you" or "foolish virgins" or "Lazy servant".
 

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Cast Your Eyes Upon Macron & The Middle East 6-20-25@2:47 PM Shared 6-21-25

 

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Operation Midnight Hammer

Jeremiah 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

“Operation Midnight Hammer” is the name of the operation that “broke Elam’s bow”, the operation that demolished Iran’s nuclear capability. Repeatedly President Trump, Secretary of Defense Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff declared that there is no other military on earth that could do what the US did. They have proclaimed that it was “the hammer of the whole earth” that destroyed Elam’s bow in Jeremiah 49. Well, next up on Jeremiah’s list of prophetic occurrences is the destruction of Babylon, the “hammer of the whole earth”, that is the USA. It should be obvious to all that you can’t control the Middle East as long as Israel stands, and you can’t defeat Israel as long as the USA stands.
 

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The word of the Lord against the USA

Jeremiah 50:1 The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

I have shared extensively on why I believe that the Great Babylon refers to the USA and Chaldeans refer to elite warriors, the US military. Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yQatkwB8A2Xi6og2WRxNvfw3CEV0n2_n/view?usp=sharing

2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

This is going to be front page news, all the newscasters will be shouting this news out. The mockers and scoffers make fun of “newspaper prophets” but it is clear from this word that this prophecy being fulfilled is front page news. Bel and Merodach are two idols in Babylon. Bel would refer to the US economy, one major idol in the US is the economy, the job, the house with the picket fence, the big fat retirement account, etc. That will be confounded. The word means perplexed, amazed, confused and bewildered. Imagine what happens if all banking records are destroyed! It would be total confusion. Merodach means pure Lord and the other idol in the US is our military might. Trump, Hegseth and the Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff all expressed the fact that they see the US military as the supreme might on this earth.

3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

If you go North of the USA you come to Canada. It is completely implausible to suggest Canada will come and attack the US. North of Canada is the North Pole. However, if Russia attacks the US you could say they are coming over the North pole. I have even heard they have nuclear submarines in the arctic ocean which could fire at us, so that would certainly be an attack “coming out of the north”.

4 In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God.

Israel was divided into two kingdoms, you had the ten tribes known as “Israel” to the North, and you had the two tribes known as Judah to the South. I liken this to the USA representing the ten tribes and Israel representing the two tribes. Today 49% of Jews live in Israel and 49% live in the US. Once the Great Babylon is destroyed economically and militarily the Jews in the US will flee to Israel. They will go weeping because without the US it would seem the world will annihilate Israel. And, they will seek the Lord because they will realize we can no longer trust in our own strength.

5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

After World War 2 many Jews went to Israel realizing that if they continued to live among the nations they would be wiped off the face of the earth. The only place they had a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten is with God in Israel. Many false prophets are trying to preach that God has forgotten that the covenant with the Jews is perpetual, that God is not faithful. But many other Jews sought safety in the US, they will discover when the Great Babylon is destroyed that there is no safety outside of the covenant that they have with God. They were the ones that forgot, they were the ones who didn’t consider that the covenant was perpetual. So they will return to Israel to join themselves to the Lord holding onto the promise that it is a perpetual covenant and that God has not forgotten.

6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

That is very true of Jews in the US.

7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

Again, that was true of the Romans, of the Spaniards, the Russians and the Germans.

8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

Again, this is the point of the destruction of the US, to get the Jews to leave and return to Israel. That means that NYC, California and Florida will be destroyed as the three major places where Jews reside in the US. The he goats at the front of the flock are leaders who are not afraid. The Targum translates this “as princes at the head of their people”.