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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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”.
 

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The word of the Lord against the USA, part 2

9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

The North country would include Russia, North Korea and China.

10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.


There is a lot to spoil in the US. For example, 65% of Americans live within five miles of the ocean. If you wipe out that 5 mile ribbon around the US, then you would destroy our economy, and our ports, our navy, and many of our early warning systems. That opens the rest of the US up for spoil. There are many theories on who this prophecy is referring to, but remember they must be a preeminent military power with a lot of spoil. That eliminates Iraq and the Vatican. 150 years ago this could refer to the UK but no more. The only country that fits all the requirements is the US.

11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;


Look at the leftists in the US, look at the halftime show at the Superbowl, or awards ceremonies at the Grammies, or MTV or Oscars. Look at how Hollywood and the MSM mocks and ridicules Christians and Jews. Other than the US who has grown fat as the heifer at grass and bellows as bulls?

12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

The UK is the mother of the US. Once the US is destroyed as a military and economic power it will cause the UK to be confounded. London as a financial and insurance capital will be confounded. The US is the “hindermost” of nations. It means the last in a long line of nations. Once again, if you look at every single thing said about the Great Babylon at the end of the age it can only refer to the US and not to any other country.

13 Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.


This is the judgement, that it will not be inhabited. This indicates the attack is nuclear and due to the radiation no one can live there any longer. If the grid goes down in the US that will cause many, many problems, but one could certainly be to the existing nuclear power plants. We have 54 working nuclear power plants that potentially could go critical and have meltdowns.

14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.


This is not simply the US versus Russia. China, N. Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, there may be a long list of countries that join the attack.

15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

Consider the crimes the US has perpetrated on other countries. This indicates we will have drones overhead firing on gatherings of people. We will have puppets installed as leaders.

16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

This would make no sense talking about most other countries, but the US is a melting pot with people from all nations. We have tens of millions of people right now who are immigrants, some legal, some undocumented. But either way you are going to see a mass exodus out of the US due to this attack.
 

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The word of the Lord against the USA, part 3

Jeremiah 50:17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. 18 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

Everything we have seen since October 7, 2023 has been God punishing Assyria. What we have seen there we will see in the US. I hope that most Americans are clueless and shocked to learn of the tunnels in the US that are used for human trafficking. But like what we saw happen in Gaza, those tunnels and all those involved in this criminality will be thoroughly purged. Just as Hezbollah and the Houthis are proxies for Iran we will also discover that within the US government there are people acting as proxies for the globalists. They also will be thoroughly purged.

19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

This is what we learn in Revelation 12, the Manchild is caught up to heaven and the woman that gave birth to that child flees into the wilderness. 49% of the Jews in the world live in the USA and they will flee back to Israel, their true habitation.

20 In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

This is what we are seeing in the news. They desperately try to accuse Israel of war crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc. It is all false. In order to open a door for Satan to act you need to be committing a sin or covering up a sin. That is why they are so desperate to find something.

21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

Merathaim is thought to refer to “the land of the rebellious people”, a good description of the US. Others interpret it to mean the land that “hath exasperated me and provoked me to anger” another good description of the US. Pekod is thought to mean the land of visitation.

22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

The noise of warriors, bombs exploding, sirens wailing, etc.

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

The name of the operation that destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities was “Midnight Hammer”. During the press conference President Trump, Secretary of Defense Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff all talked about how the US was the preeminent army on earth, no one else could do what they did. They call themselves the hammer of the whole earth. Pride goes before a fall.

24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.

Right now Trump and others are boasting about how they laid a snare for Iran, how clever they were with the misdirection and tactics and technology. What they don’t see is that the Lord has laid a snare for the US. The US is like a cup of fine gold, that would refer to the word of God, that is filled with the wine of sorcery. Yes, the US has been the base for evangelical missions to go to the whole earth. Yes, the Gideon’s are based in the US and have distributed 2.6 billion bibles, that is the fine gold. But within that gold they also send out their multinational corporations, their military industrial complex, their pharmaceuticals and vaccines. Think about the pandemic. Imagine how many countries feel cheated and deceived.
 

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