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@watcher0516

I was lost - now I am found. I was broken - now I am restored. I was confused - now I see the LIGHT Thanks be to you, King of Kings & Lord of Lords ๐Ÿ•Š๐Ÿ•ฏ

Somewhere in time ๊ฐ€์ž…์ผ Ekim 2018
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To ALL, This will be in 3 parts...so bear with me everyone. I do not know how this is going to go. Some may understand, some may not, some may think I am crazy and some may see these words I am going to write and find clarity. First, my name is Brenden. So anyone who does not know me, nice to meet you. I am not one to shove what I believe in anyone. I used to be the type that argued with people about my beliefs or opinions. I would get frustrated when others couldn't see my point of view. I was upset because I have always felt that I can boil an opinion down to its truest form for others to see. Constantly arguing with people wore me down. I became someone who just remained silent and capitulated to others despite my opinions. They remained concealed. I was never overtly religious. Yes, I attended church services at United, Catholic, Anglican and Missionary churches and knew I believed in something. The world around me made it hard for me to believe in anything GOOD when everything around me was EVIL. Then October 7th happened. Watching reports come in on Thanksgiving weekend made me realize that it was time for me to commit to something, for me to say 'enough is enough' I did this mostly for my step dad and his family who are Jewish and who always showed me compassion, gave me strength and welcomed me into their family. I knew that October 7th was going to be the continuation of a deep-rooted hate that has been stifled over the years. Maybe stifled isn't the right word. It was hidden from view. I made connections with those who felt the same as me. I read posts from families of the victims and hostages. It broke my heart. Who could do this to innocent people? Who has the right? No one!! Christmas came and something ignited in me. I felt something inside me telling me it was time to inspire people, to give hope to those who fight for goodness and light and who fight on this platform against the evil that we all see. Many of you have read my posts or poems or comments. They all have meaning to me and maybe after reading this you will understand more about me. After Christmas, the dreams came. Hostages in tunnels, bags over their heads while being moved. Sometimes bags on their feet so there were no footprints. Voices shouting in a language I could not understand, children crying, pushing and shoving... On the wall in one of the tunnels...I saw Yeshua and another word in that started with E. I thought it was Eliad...but I am not sure. I had at least 2 of these dreams and only told a handful of people. I am now sharing with the entire world despite how insane it might sound. My next dream was about a man in a park. Detailed in my poem that I will share. Simply called The Man. It will be posted after this. After that I have had dreams of King Solomon...just he and I. No words but very calming and then the last one was King Solomon, myself and Jesus. Or at least that is what I perceived. It may have been the same man from the park. I know that in Judiaism there is no belief in Jesus but there is belief in the Messiah. Regardless of who I was dreaming of or my beliefs, it happened. I was in a room, a sheet or blanket blowing in the breeze, a bright light from beyond that sheet and a candle lit room...wooded inlays and sandstone... 'The time draws near, you will be here' are the words I was told. I was shaken by this and fearful. I am still fearful of it. I also have found a new strength from it and want to share that strength with all of you. I have always believed that GOOD will triumph over evil. I have always believed that LIGHT will vanquish the darkness. I have always believed that the TRUTH will always dissolve a lie. A friend once mentioned that I am one of the most optimistic people he has ever met. Maybe this answers why. 1/
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A Watchman ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ•Šโœ๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๋ฆฌํŠธ์œ—ํ•จ
๐Ÿ”ฅโš” Gods_WarriorUSA โš”๐Ÿ”ฅ
"I was asked, 'What theology is this?' Good question โ€” and one worth knowing, because a lot of people hold some form of this view. This is known as Preterism (from the Latin praeter, meaning โ€œpastโ€). It is closely related to what is often called Replacement Theology (also known as supersessionism or fulfillment theology). Preterism teaches that many (or all) of the major end-times prophecies in Scripture โ€” including the Great Tribulation โ€” were fulfilled in the past, specifically around the events leading up to and including the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70. A common claim is that the Great Tribulation happened around 64โ€“68 AD. It was directed against the saints of God (believers at the time), but those days were cut short for the sake of the elect. Key Distinctions in Preterism: โ€ข Partial Preterism believes most (but not all) prophecies were fulfilled by AD 70. Many partial preterists still expect a future physical return of Christ and a final judgment. โ€ข Full Preterism (also called โ€œconsistentโ€ or โ€œhyper-preterismโ€) claims all prophecy, including the Second Coming, resurrection, and final judgment, was fulfilled in AD 70. This view is widely considered heretical by orthodox Christianity because it denies a future, visible, bodily return of Christ and a future bodily resurrection. From a dispensational premillennial / futurist perspective (which I and many of you hold), this teaching distorts Scripture for several reasons: โ€ข Scale of the Tribulation: The Bible describes the Great Tribulation as a global, unprecedented catastrophe (Matthew 24:21; Revelation 6โ€“19). The events of AD 70, while horrific and locally devastating, were not global in the way Scripture portrays. โ€ข The Second Coming: Jesus described His return as visible and glorious to the whole earth (Matthew 24:30; Revelation 1:7). This did not occur in AD 70. โ€ข Israelโ€™s Role: Preterism often leads to (or overlaps with) Replacement Theology โ€” the idea that the Church has permanently replaced Israel in Godโ€™s plan, with no future national restoration for the Jewish people. This contradicts the clear teaching that Godโ€™s covenant promises to Israel are irrevocable (Romans 11:29). Both the Old and New Testaments support a future role for national Israel. The strongest biblical case for premillennialism is Revelation 20:1โ€“7, which repeats six times that Christ will reign for a literal 1,000 years. After the Tribulation, the Lord will return, establish His kingdom, and Israel will be restored to her intended place as a blessing to the nations. The Church will reign with Him. The Church has not replaced Israel. While God is currently working primarily through the Church in this age of grace, He has not abandoned His chosen people. One day He will restore Israel according to His promises (Romans 11). #Preterism is #ReplacementTheology #TheTribulationIsAFutureEvent #BiblicalTruths
๐Ÿ”ฅโš” Gods_WarriorUSA โš”๐Ÿ”ฅ tweet media๐Ÿ”ฅโš” Gods_WarriorUSA โš”๐Ÿ”ฅ tweet media
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No it is pretty much right on the mark, friend. Scripture interprets scripture.... Man always seeks to put words in GOD'S mouth, telling HIM what HE meant to say while the words HE spoke through the Prophets is quite enough for all of us to understand. There is no need to muddy the crystal clear waters of GOD'S word with man made interpretations and fantasy.... ๐Ÿ•Š
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Order of the Cloistered Hermeneutic
Paula White and the White House If you even care about the Faith Office and Paula White, it reveals a desire for the government to be "Christan" which is nonsense. The Church Age is ending and the coming Antichrist Regime is coming. Time to flee from the Postmillennial nonsense.
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You are indeed correct in your acknowledgment of who the reigning king of the world is. It is not hard to see at all when you look at all the evil and hatred going on. The evil we see and hear about does cloud the judgement of others, whether they are religious or not. That is how the great deception takes root. For the believer, it will come from others who speak words that sound like the truth but are twisted in order to beguile the unsuspecting believer. The closer we get to the time of tribulation, the more we will see and hear from those who are trying to put their belief in front of others. One may even say that this post is trying to do that. It will come to a point when those who are not well versed in the scriptures will not see the danger that these people represent. In the end, Jesus returns and reigns on Earth for the Millenia and then for eternity after the last battle with the adversary. He does not come back to Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Berlin or Rome. He comes back to Jerusalem, To HIS home, To HIS people. Gathering HIS children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wing. The time draws near.... ๐Ÿ•Š
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Order of the Cloistered Hermeneutic
Let's recognize that the king of the world is presently the Devil. Jesus returns to change that. This is not blasphemy. The teachings of Amillennialism and Supersessionism have clouded the minds of so many believers. Jesus is destined to reign on earth, literally, and this will be at Jerusalem.
Eli McGowan@elimcgowan

Every earthly King, President, Prince, Ayatollah, Prime Minister, and Emperor is subject to the perfect law of God.

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Matthew Thomason
Matthew Thomason@Matthew56193629ยท
@abbythelibb_ Yup. To the point where Messiah said that if a man had believed in Moses and the prophets, he was considered to be a believer in Yeshua, who was that Messiah they wrote about. And also the "Angel of The LORD" in the OT.
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Abby Libby
Abby Libby@abbythelibb_ยท
Jesus is the Passover lamb. That's why God commanded the Israelites to paint blood on their doorways for the nails in his hands and the crown of thorns on his head. Jewish tradition is precious to me because it speaks of Jesus.
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Rich Toronto
Rich Toronto@rich_torontoยท
Weโ€™re in a huge pot of water right now. Not just us. Our cities. Our countries. Our civilization. Thereโ€™s a fire underneath the water, slowly boiling it. Some of us know where we are. We sense the fire underneath. We feel it getting warmer and warmer each month. Each week. Each day. And we know what will happen when it reaches a certain temperature. Weโ€™re telling the people who can stop the fire and get us out of the pot. We write letters to them, we call them, we email them, we tell them when we see them. We shout at them and say โ€œCanโ€™t you see??? Why donโ€™t you see???โ€ They donโ€™t answer us. They ignore us. They pretend they donโ€™t hear us. Or they tell us weโ€™re overreacting. We know what will happen to everyone in that water as the temperature increases. Weโ€™ve seen this play out far too many times before. Some will die sooner than others. Only a few at first. Maybe theyโ€™re in a hotter part of the pot. Or maybe thereโ€™s a flash of heat somewhere. Not a lot of deaths. But some. The people who can stop it still donโ€™t stop it. They still donโ€™t acknowledge whatโ€™s going on. They send thoughts and prayers. They say that โ€œthereโ€™s no space for people who would put you in a boiling pot of waterโ€, while they make the space, by allowing those people to do whatever they want, by sitting idly by while we are put into the pot. They say โ€œputting people in a boiling pot of water is unacceptableโ€, as they accept it. Then the deaths will continue to increase. As it gets hotter and hotter in the pot, more people will die. More often, and in greater numbers. This will continue until finally, the people who can stop it realize and acknowledge whatโ€™s going on. They will then, finally, yell โ€œstopโ€ and theyโ€™ll tell government officials and police to stop the water from boiling. But by then, the water may be too hot. By then, the people controlling the fire might be too strong, too emboldened, too powerful. By then, the people who had the power to stop everything, might not have that ability anymore. By then, it may be too late.
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Don't go in the water.... It seems to me Rich that by your post you are one of the few who realize that the water is not fit for us. You are warning others of clear and present dangers. At the end of the day if they do not listen, there is no blood on your hands. You did your part and I know you will continue to do so. This should be a message to all those who see what is going on and do not warn others... For when danger is present and the bell is not sounded, those who were asleep instead of on watch will be held accountable for their inaction. Chag Pesach Sameach my friend. ๐Ÿ•Š
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Matt
Matt@MattTestifiesยท
A lot of people talk about Jesus without really knowing who He is. He is not just a moral teacher, a gentle example, or a religious symbol people reach for when life falls apart. He is the Son of the living God. He is the Redeemer of the world. He is the one who entered mortality on purpose, bore our grief, carried our sins, conquered death, and rose again in glory. And His doctrine is not hard to find. It is faith in Him, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and a life of faithful discipleship. It is not distant admiration. It is not borrowed belief. It is not treating Him like a beautiful idea while refusing to let Him rule your heart. To know Christ is to come to Him. To trust Him enough to obey Him. To stay near Him long enough to be changed by Him. And when that begins to happen, something even deeper opens up. We begin to understand God. Because Jesus does not hide the Father. He reveals Him. If you want to know what God is like, look at Christ. Look at His mercy toward the broken. Look at His patience with the struggling. Look at His power over sin and death. Look at Gethsemane. Look at the cross. Look at the empty tomb. That is the character of God on full display. The invitation of the gospel has never been to just know facts about Jesus. It has always been to come unto Him, follow Him, and be remade by Him. And in knowing the Son, we come to know the Father too.
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Terri Green
Terri Green@TerriGreenUSAยท
โ€œWe command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right nowโ€ โ€” Special Adviser to the White House Faith Office
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David
David@Apostle_Davidยท
The Wednesday the Lamb Was Chosen Again Morning breaks quietly. The world wakes as if nothing is wrong. People rise, work, scroll, speak, and sleep under the illusion of peace. But beneath the surface, a battle rages, not loud, not visible, not political, but spiritual. Jesus never said the last days would be defined by the noise of war. He said they would be defined by the silence of deception. โ€œTake heed that no man deceive you.โ€ โ€” Matthew 24:4 The danger of this hour is not what people fear. It is what they do not fear. There are days in history that announce themselves; days of crisis, days of disaster, days of upheaval. But the most important days rarely look important. They look ordinary, unremarkable, forgettable. Yet Scripture shows again and again that God moves most decisively on days that felt like any other day. Noahโ€™s neighbors woke to a normal morning until the first drop fell. Lotโ€™s city rose to a normal sunrise until the fire descended. Israel gathered manna on a normal day until the cloud lifted. The disciples walked a normal road until the risen Christ joined them. Jesus warned that the final hour would feel the same: โ€œAs in the days of Noahโ€ฆ they knew not until the flood came.โ€ โ€” Matthew 24:37โ€“39 The danger was not the flood. The danger was the normalcy that blinded them to it. The Weight of Yesterday 14 Nisan - 15 Nisan Most people woke yesterday without a second thought. Another Wednesday. Another spring morning. Another ordinary date on the calendar. But heaven does not see it as ordinary. Because yesterday, Wednesday โ€” was 14 Nisan turning into 15 Nisan, the biblical crucifixion day. The same weekday. The same festival timing. The same prophetic alignment. Exactly as it was 1,997 years ago. Not approximate. Not symbolic. Not poetic. Exact. The same Wednesday that held the Lamb on the altar now mirrors itself in our generation. The same Nisan 14 that saw the blood poured out has returned in its appointed cycle. The same Nisan 15 that opened the tombโ€™s countdown has arrived again. Most will never notice. Most will never pause. Most will never feel the tremor beneath the soil. But the remnant does. Because days like this do not come often. They are not accidents. They are not coincidences. They are markers. They are the quiet fingerprints of God on the fabric of time. โ€œThese things were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.โ€ โ€” 1 Corinthians 10:11 Why Today Matters More Than It Appears? Most people assume today will look like yesterday. They assume the world will continue as it always has. But Scripture says the final shaking comes in the midst of routine. โ€œWhile they are saying, โ€˜Peace and safety,โ€™ then sudden destruction comes upon them.โ€ โ€” 1 Thessalonians 5:3 The enemy hides his movements in the noise of daily life. He buries deception beneath familiarity. This is why today โ€” this very day โ€” carries weight. Not because of catastrophe, but because of alignment. Not because of crisis, but because of timing. Not because of fear, but because of fulfillment. Today is the day the remnant must stay awake while the world drifts into a false calm. Today is the day to discern what others dismiss. Today is the day to hear what others ignore. Today is the day to stand where others sleep. โ€œToday, if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts.โ€ โ€” Hebrews 3:15 And so we stand in a moment most will overlook, a Wednesday that mirrors the very Wednesday when the Lamb was lifted up, Nisan 14 turning into Nisan 15 exactly as it did 1,997 years ago. The world treats it as ordinary, but heaven remembers. Time itself bears witness. The alignment is not for fear, but for awakening; not for speculation, but for sobriety; not for noise, but for nearness. For on a day like this, when history folds back upon itself, the Spirit calls His people to stand alert, to walk in truth, and to recognize that the same God who appointed the hour of the Cross has appointed the hour in which we now live. This is not just another day. This is a day that echoes with the footsteps of the Lamb, and the remnant hears the sound.
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I did a lot of thinking yesterday. Thinking about what happened all those years ago. How the blood of the Lamb cleansed me as I have taken it into my mind, heart and soul. It is almost as if I have taken it and painted the doorposts of my heart with it as a sign of faith between the LORD and myself. An oath, an allegiance, that I have belief in the LORD. I have long believed, well not really long, since I am young to the LORD, that the passover foreshadowed an event coming in which all those who have the blood of the Lamb in them, on them and with them, will be saved. Just as the Israelites were saved on the first Passover. Spared from wrath. To all those who see these words, understand. ๐Ÿ•Š
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Matthew Thomason
Matthew Thomason@Matthew56193629ยท
@FunkFun53239659 Oh, Rapture is not in the bible? You sure?
Matthew Thomason@Matthew56193629

Overcoming Objections to the Rapture โ–ถ๏ธ1. The word Rapture is not in the bible? Rapture is a Latin word; the New Testament where the mystery of the rapture is revealed was written in Greek. The Greek word is 'harpazo' that was translated into Latin as 'rapture' by Jerome. It means "catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force)". โ–ถ๏ธ2. The mystery of the Rapture is not revealed in the bible? Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, revealed the rapture to us. Same Paul who gave us the gospel direct from Jesus: "Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changedโ€”ย in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 "Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 4:17 โ–ถ๏ธ3. Not promised by Jesus? "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." John 14:3 Jesus said to her [Martha, Lazarus' sister], โ€œI am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?โ€ John 11:25-26 "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth." Revelation 3:10 โ–ถ๏ธ4. Invented by dispensationalism and Darby in the 1800s with a Scofield bible? Ask yourself, do the first century bible verses above speak of the rapture? Does Jesus promise he is coming back for his living believers? Does Paul reveal that we will not all die, but those of us who are alive and remain will be snatched up to meet Jesus in the clouds? Does John write the Revelation after being snatched up to the third heaven himself, giving the Philadelphian church the promise of the rapture prior to the tribulation hitting? So why would anyone believe the rapture was invented by Darby in the 1800s using a Scofield bible, and not just taught by Darby from the regular bible, unless they do not want to have the blessed hope? โ–ถ๏ธ5. Why do people choose not to have the blessed hope? For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. Titus 2:11-14 โ–ถ๏ธ6. No Christian believed in the rapture for 1500 years? Irenaeus, 180 AD Irenaeus refers to the Churchโ€™s being โ€œcaught upโ€ before the tribulation. โ€œAnd therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is said, โ€˜There shall be tribulation such as has not been since the beginning, neither shall beโ€™ (Mat 24:21). For this is the last contest of the righteous, in which, when they overcome they are crowned with incorruption.โ€ Origen, 229 AD: "Those whom we spoke of as dead have special need of the resurrection, since not even those who are alive can be taken up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air before the dead in Christ first rise." (Commentary on John, 20.233) Rufinus of Aquileia, 404 AD: "And do not marvel that the flesh of the saints is to be changed into such a glorious condition at the resurrection as to be caught up to meet God, suspended in the clouds and borne in the air." (Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, 46) Augustine, 426 AD: "And why should it seem to us incredible that that multitude of bodies should be, as it were, sown in the air, and should in the air forthwith revive immortal and incorruptible, when we believe, on the testimony of the same apostle, that the resurrection shall take place in the twinkling of an eye, and that the dust of bodies long dead shall return with incomprehensible facility and swiftness to those members that are now to live endlessly?" (City of God, 20.20) โ–ถ๏ธ7. Sure, but that was not a pre-trib rapture; the pre-trib rapture was invented by Darby in the 1800s with a Scofield bible using dispensationalism and swinging a dead cat over his head. The Doctrine of Imminency is the doctrine that the rapture precedes the tribulation. Falling away first, Restrainer removed from the earth, rapture, tribulation, reveal of the Antichrist in the middle of the tribulation, Second Coming at the end. That it what is has always meant. The Doctrine of Imminence has never meant that the rapture happens on some random day and time, and could have happened at any time in the past. All of these early Christian authors believed in the imminency of the rapture: Clement of Rome (35-101), Ignatius of Antioch (died 110), The Didache (a late first-century anonymous Christian treatise), The Epistle of Pseudo-Barnabas (circa 70-130), and The Shepherd of Hermas (second century) all reference Christโ€™s imminent return. [Even] J. Barton Payne (a post-tribulationist) concluded that โ€œbelief in the imminence of the return of Jesus was the uniform hope of the early church.โ€ truthandtidings.com/2020/07/the-raโ€ฆ โ–ถ๏ธ8. But, Dispensationalism? Dispensationalism is the belief that God is not done with national Israel, and has a part to play in the end times. It is a system to understand the bible as a series of ways in which God has related to men over various dispensations. Innocence, Conscience, Human Government, Promise, Law, Grace/Church, Millennial Kingdom. Yet the overall arch has always been salvation by faith, through grace, from God. Dispensationalism is a biblically accurate system of understanding the bible when used as intended. The people screeching about "dispies" are Replacement Theology believers hiding in Covenant Theology, who say God is done with the Jews. They tend to be varying degrees of antisemites, preterists, amillennialists, etc. They should be tested to see if they are even saved [1 Corinthians 12:3]. They believe that God will violate the oath he swore to Abraham, and on Abraham's part as well, to deliver national Israel, as well as his oath to David, to make his throne in Jerusalem an eternal throne. Their slogan, "We are Israel now." โ–ถ๏ธ9. Sure, there's a rapture, but it's mid-trib aka pre-wrath, not pre-trib. Oh? What is that based on? The Seventh Trumpet judgment providing the last trump? Or one of the other Trumpet Judgments? Or maybe the first part of the tribulation isn't as bad as the second, and only in the second half does God unleash his wrath on the world? What is the "last trump" Paul wrote of? Paul died in the mid-60s AD, decades before John revealed the Seven Trumpet judgments in the Revelation of 97 AD. So what did Paul and his audience take "at the last trump" to mean? Did Paul not reveal a mystery? How does that work with the trumpet judgments, when he died before the Seven Trumpet judgments being revealed? Perhaps the last trump to Paul and his audience immediately triggered the last blast of the Feast of Trumpets, the trump loud enough to raise the dead? ๐Ÿค” Jesus unseals the title deed to the earth, a seven sealed scroll. Jesus releases the four horsemen of the apocalypse at the beginning of the tribulation. Two billion people die in the first half of the tribulation; they know the wrath of the Lamb is upon them in the seal judgments as they hide under mountains, unsuccessfully. That's a comfort, thinking you're going to be here when that happens? โ–ถ๏ธ10. Sure, there's a rapture, but it's post-tribulation, not pre-trib. Post-trib, like mid-trib, is neither comforting nor logical. Comforting is true rapture belief, per 1 Thessalonians 4:18: Therefore comfort one another with these words. Not comforting is to be on a planet under God's wrath, when we were not appointed to wrath, but to salvation, and half the world is going to die. Try to wrap your head around that fact. What's coming is worse than a global flood. Bible says so. If the rapture is at the second coming, post-trib, U turn rapture, all believers are translated, Jesus wins at Megiddo, holds sheep and goat judgment of the nations, yet there are no sheep. Because they've all been raptured. Yet sheep are present at the sheep and goat judgment in Matthew, as having done good deeds to the least of these, my brethren the Jews, washing their robes, refusing the mark of the beast, and having a testimony of Jesus. So while all the sheep are raptured in this erroneous view, all the goats get thrown into hell, leaving no human on earth capable of reproducing and populating the Millennial Kingdom. Yet in the bible, the Millennial Kingdom contains people numerous as the sands of the seas. That cannot be reconciled with a post-trib rapture. โ–ถ๏ธ11. What's all this about the Feast of Trumpets? The feast called the "Hidden Feast", as no man knows the day nor hour it begins? Does that phrase ring a bell? Tired of the mantra 'NO MAN KNOWS THE DAY OR HOUR SO DON'T EVEN GO THERE?" Me too. Saying "the rapture is at the last trump of the Feast of Trumpets" states no KNOWLEDGE of exactly what day or hour that will be. The start of the month of Tishri, and so the start of the feast of trumpets, relies on the barley harvest in Jerusalem and on witnesses of a new moon sighting in Jerusalem. Two variables in God's control, and not ours. So no man, including me, KNOWS the day nor hour. Just know that Jesus fulfilled 4/4 spring feasts when he came to earth, on their appointed times, and he will fulfill 7/7 feasts by the time he's done, on their appointed times, leaving neither jot nor tittle unfulfilled. Below is what Chabad has as their current understanding going back as to what the Feast of Trumpets is to accomplish. Anything look familiar, Christians? Conclusion The only rapture happens prior to the tribulation, per the Doctrine of Imminence. That is comforting. That is promised. That is what is going to happen. Make sure your salvation. Make sure you have faith enough to be raptured, and be found worthy to stand before Jesus at the bema seat judgment in heaven, for reward. One of those rewards is a crown for looking for his glorious appearance, aka the Rapture. Make sure you still believe what you believed to be saved. Make sure you have enough faith/oil for the journey. Get you one of those crowns in heaven. You'll be happy you did. And be on high rapture watch immediately, and for the next few weeks, expecting at any moment your Lord is coming to snatch you off planet and into heaven.

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Overcoming Objections to the Rapture โ–ถ๏ธ1. The word Rapture is not in the bible? Rapture is a Latin word; the New Testament where the mystery of the rapture is revealed was written in Greek. The Greek word is 'harpazo' that was translated into Latin as 'rapture' by Jerome. It means "catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force)". โ–ถ๏ธ2. The mystery of the Rapture is not revealed in the bible? Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, revealed the rapture to us. Same Paul who gave us the gospel direct from Jesus: "Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changedโ€”ย in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 "Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 4:17 โ–ถ๏ธ3. Not promised by Jesus? "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." John 14:3 Jesus said to her [Martha, Lazarus' sister], โ€œI am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?โ€ John 11:25-26 "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth." Revelation 3:10 โ–ถ๏ธ4. Invented by dispensationalism and Darby in the 1800s with a Scofield bible? Ask yourself, do the first century bible verses above speak of the rapture? Does Jesus promise he is coming back for his living believers? Does Paul reveal that we will not all die, but those of us who are alive and remain will be snatched up to meet Jesus in the clouds? Does John write the Revelation after being snatched up to the third heaven himself, giving the Philadelphian church the promise of the rapture prior to the tribulation hitting? So why would anyone believe the rapture was invented by Darby in the 1800s using a Scofield bible, and not just taught by Darby from the regular bible, unless they do not want to have the blessed hope? โ–ถ๏ธ5. Why do people choose not to have the blessed hope? For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. Titus 2:11-14 โ–ถ๏ธ6. No Christian believed in the rapture for 1500 years? Irenaeus, 180 AD Irenaeus refers to the Churchโ€™s being โ€œcaught upโ€ before the tribulation. โ€œAnd therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is said, โ€˜There shall be tribulation such as has not been since the beginning, neither shall beโ€™ (Mat 24:21). For this is the last contest of the righteous, in which, when they overcome they are crowned with incorruption.โ€ Origen, 229 AD: "Those whom we spoke of as dead have special need of the resurrection, since not even those who are alive can be taken up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air before the dead in Christ first rise." (Commentary on John, 20.233) Rufinus of Aquileia, 404 AD: "And do not marvel that the flesh of the saints is to be changed into such a glorious condition at the resurrection as to be caught up to meet God, suspended in the clouds and borne in the air." (Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, 46) Augustine, 426 AD: "And why should it seem to us incredible that that multitude of bodies should be, as it were, sown in the air, and should in the air forthwith revive immortal and incorruptible, when we believe, on the testimony of the same apostle, that the resurrection shall take place in the twinkling of an eye, and that the dust of bodies long dead shall return with incomprehensible facility and swiftness to those members that are now to live endlessly?" (City of God, 20.20) โ–ถ๏ธ7. Sure, but that was not a pre-trib rapture; the pre-trib rapture was invented by Darby in the 1800s with a Scofield bible using dispensationalism and swinging a dead cat over his head. The Doctrine of Imminency is the doctrine that the rapture precedes the tribulation. Falling away first, Restrainer removed from the earth, rapture, tribulation, reveal of the Antichrist in the middle of the tribulation, Second Coming at the end. That it what is has always meant. The Doctrine of Imminence has never meant that the rapture happens on some random day and time, and could have happened at any time in the past. All of these early Christian authors believed in the imminency of the rapture: Clement of Rome (35-101), Ignatius of Antioch (died 110), The Didache (a late first-century anonymous Christian treatise), The Epistle of Pseudo-Barnabas (circa 70-130), and The Shepherd of Hermas (second century) all reference Christโ€™s imminent return. [Even] J. Barton Payne (a post-tribulationist) concluded that โ€œbelief in the imminence of the return of Jesus was the uniform hope of the early church.โ€ truthandtidings.com/2020/07/the-raโ€ฆ โ–ถ๏ธ8. But, Dispensationalism? Dispensationalism is the belief that God is not done with national Israel, and has a part to play in the end times. It is a system to understand the bible as a series of ways in which God has related to men over various dispensations. Innocence, Conscience, Human Government, Promise, Law, Grace/Church, Millennial Kingdom. Yet the overall arch has always been salvation by faith, through grace, from God. Dispensationalism is a biblically accurate system of understanding the bible when used as intended. The people screeching about "dispies" are Replacement Theology believers hiding in Covenant Theology, who say God is done with the Jews. They tend to be varying degrees of antisemites, preterists, amillennialists, etc. They should be tested to see if they are even saved [1 Corinthians 12:3]. They believe that God will violate the oath he swore to Abraham, and on Abraham's part as well, to deliver national Israel, as well as his oath to David, to make his throne in Jerusalem an eternal throne. Their slogan, "We are Israel now." โ–ถ๏ธ9. Sure, there's a rapture, but it's mid-trib aka pre-wrath, not pre-trib. Oh? What is that based on? The Seventh Trumpet judgment providing the last trump? Or one of the other Trumpet Judgments? Or maybe the first part of the tribulation isn't as bad as the second, and only in the second half does God unleash his wrath on the world? What is the "last trump" Paul wrote of? Paul died in the mid-60s AD, decades before John revealed the Seven Trumpet judgments in the Revelation of 97 AD. So what did Paul and his audience take "at the last trump" to mean? Did Paul not reveal a mystery? How does that work with the trumpet judgments, when he died before the Seven Trumpet judgments being revealed? Perhaps the last trump to Paul and his audience immediately triggered the last blast of the Feast of Trumpets, the trump loud enough to raise the dead? ๐Ÿค” Jesus unseals the title deed to the earth, a seven sealed scroll. Jesus releases the four horsemen of the apocalypse at the beginning of the tribulation. Two billion people die in the first half of the tribulation; they know the wrath of the Lamb is upon them in the seal judgments as they hide under mountains, unsuccessfully. That's a comfort, thinking you're going to be here when that happens? โ–ถ๏ธ10. Sure, there's a rapture, but it's post-tribulation, not pre-trib. Post-trib, like mid-trib, is neither comforting nor logical. Comforting is true rapture belief, per 1 Thessalonians 4:18: Therefore comfort one another with these words. Not comforting is to be on a planet under God's wrath, when we were not appointed to wrath, but to salvation, and half the world is going to die. Try to wrap your head around that fact. What's coming is worse than a global flood. Bible says so. If the rapture is at the second coming, post-trib, U turn rapture, all believers are translated, Jesus wins at Megiddo, holds sheep and goat judgment of the nations, yet there are no sheep. Because they've all been raptured. Yet sheep are present at the sheep and goat judgment in Matthew, as having done good deeds to the least of these, my brethren the Jews, washing their robes, refusing the mark of the beast, and having a testimony of Jesus. So while all the sheep are raptured in this erroneous view, all the goats get thrown into hell, leaving no human on earth capable of reproducing and populating the Millennial Kingdom. Yet in the bible, the Millennial Kingdom contains people numerous as the sands of the seas. That cannot be reconciled with a post-trib rapture. โ–ถ๏ธ11. What's all this about the Feast of Trumpets? The feast called the "Hidden Feast", as no man knows the day nor hour it begins? Does that phrase ring a bell? Tired of the mantra 'NO MAN KNOWS THE DAY OR HOUR SO DON'T EVEN GO THERE?" Me too. Saying "the rapture is at the last trump of the Feast of Trumpets" states no KNOWLEDGE of exactly what day or hour that will be. The start of the month of Tishri, and so the start of the feast of trumpets, relies on the barley harvest in Jerusalem and on witnesses of a new moon sighting in Jerusalem. Two variables in God's control, and not ours. So no man, including me, KNOWS the day nor hour. Just know that Jesus fulfilled 4/4 spring feasts when he came to earth, on their appointed times, and he will fulfill 7/7 feasts by the time he's done, on their appointed times, leaving neither jot nor tittle unfulfilled. Below is what Chabad has as their current understanding going back as to what the Feast of Trumpets is to accomplish. Anything look familiar, Christians? Conclusion The only rapture happens prior to the tribulation, per the Doctrine of Imminence. That is comforting. That is promised. That is what is going to happen. Make sure your salvation. Make sure you have faith enough to be raptured, and be found worthy to stand before Jesus at the bema seat judgment in heaven, for reward. One of those rewards is a crown for looking for his glorious appearance, aka the Rapture. Make sure you still believe what you believed to be saved. Make sure you have enough faith/oil for the journey. Get you one of those crowns in heaven. You'll be happy you did. And be on high rapture watch immediately, and for the next few weeks, expecting at any moment your Lord is coming to snatch you off planet and into heaven.
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