
A Watchman ๐จ๐ฆ๐โ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ
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A Watchman ๐จ๐ฆ๐โ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ
@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 ๐๐ฏ











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Overcoming Objections to the Rapture โถ๏ธ1. 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)". โถ๏ธ2. 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 changedโย 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 โถ๏ธ3. 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], โI 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 โถ๏ธ4. 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? โถ๏ธ5. 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 โถ๏ธ6. No Christian believed in the rapture for 1500 years? Irenaeus, 180 AD Irenaeus refers to the Churchโs being โcaught upโ before the tribulation. โAnd therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is said, โThere 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) โถ๏ธ7. 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 Christโs imminent return. [Even] J. Barton Payne (a post-tribulationist) concluded that โbelief in the imminence of the return of Jesus was the uniform hope of the early church.โ truthandtidings.com/2020/07/the-raโฆ โถ๏ธ8. 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." โถ๏ธ9. 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? ๐ค 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? โถ๏ธ10. 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. โถ๏ธ11. 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.





