There are still conflicting opinions about the Rapture, the "snatching away" of every true Christian out of this world. To our enemies, apparently, this is no problem at all. The Luciferians will simply murder us all at the same time. No?

Others explain that rapture will come after the Apocalypse and the Church will be left to endure the greatest judgment and suffering ever, in all past and future history. Still others truly believe that our loving Lord would never let His Bride, His Church, enter the Apocalypse, to enter JUDGMENT.

In my previous writings I believed that more prophecies must first come to pass. That was an error. These prophecies must be fulfilled before our Lord’s coming as King of Kings (NOT sudden) and NOT necessarily before the RAPTURE (unexpected, SUDDEN). Rapture can come anytime (Rev 3:10, King James ONLY).

How do we know that there WILL BE any RAPTURE? What do you say?

The prophets of the Old Testament spoke about our Savior as King of Kings and as Sacrificial Lamb, practically in the same breath. Obviously there were enormous differences implicit in the same prophecy.

The Jewish priesthood could not distinguish, or would not distinguish, that there must be two different comings, two different events.

Today, as the second coming is clearly approaching, again there are strong differences implicit within the same prophecy. Two different events, if you please. One is the calling of the church out of this world (rapture, SUDDEN COMING OF CHRIST); the other coming (SLOW COMING) is for the uttermost destruction of Satan's rule and Satan's people, globally.

DID GOD HIMSELF DESCRIBE, IN 1 THESSALONIANS 4:14-18, THE 'CALLING OUT' OF THE CHURCH, THE RAPTURE? Or is it the Wedding Feast of the Lord?

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Dead rise first? As Christ rose? Then our Lord is talking here about a PHYSICAL RESURRECTION, extended to spiritual beings. Living Christians will be transformed, receive a BODY like that of Jesus.

Mark 13:32 32: But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

THE REMAINING QUESTION IS WHEN WILL RAPTURE OCCURR?  Is it our Lords Marriage? Examine the parable of the TEN VIRGINS. We are told that only the Father God knows when. But, we are told it is to be BEFORE the great temptation (Rev 3:10).

For what it's worth, in Israel, by custom, a betrothed (Bride) abode with her family, while the father of the groom prepared everything. Only when the father said it is time, then the son went to bring the bride.

WHAT IS THE CASE FOR RAPTURE (LORDS WEDDING FEAST) BEFORE UTTERMOST PERSECUTION?

(1) THERE IS A SOLEMN PROMISE OF GOD IN REVELATIONS 3:10 (King James ONLY)

"BECAUSE THOU HAST KEPT THE WORD OF MY PATIENCE, I ALSO WILL KEEP THEE FROM THE HOUR OF TEMPTATION, WHICH SHALL COME UPON ALL THE WORLD, TO TRY THEM THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH".

What does it mean "to keep Gods Word"? It means to study, know and obey the BIBLE. It means to clean up our life with the Bible. Then teach it to your whole family. Then teach it to everybody you can reach (teach the public: "on your gates").

"The hour of temptation shall come upon the entire world, upon all", is a FUTURE, GLOBAL EVENT. God promises to keep his own out of it. This could not possibly occur if "His Own" had to live right through the apocalypse.

How to keep Gods word is OUTLINED in Deuteronomy 6:6-9. How do YOU keep the Word? The WORD is the Bible, The Word of God. How do you keep it? How did God command us to keep it? If you do not keep the "Word of My Patience", what's going to happen to YOU?

God means HIS WORD. Mark it well, not anything about the Bible, or the "Catechism" or any alleged addition or "new religion" will do. Read about the "Signature of God". God marked every verse in the BIBLE with HIS SIGNATURE- with a mathematical base in every verse, with codes and chains of info, with prophecy. Nothing else has this. No other "religious" or any other writing, no Sect or Vatican's ex-cathedra pronouncements have this Signature of God.

(2) ONE FUTURE COMING OF CHRIST JESUS IS TO BE SUDDEN (QUICKLY), like a thief in the night, totally unexpected. I believe the unexpected, sudden coming is only for His church, for Rapture.

Another, different, future coming is to be announced with a veritable countdown of 7 years. The 7 year countdown for the events of the apocalypse is in no way sudden. The latter is an exact countdown, very organized and detailed, of 7 years, once it starts, before the coming of Christ, as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

The sudden coming is only for his church.

(3) THERE IS A PRECEDENT OF SAVING THE JUST. Out of every major/total destruction God saved his remnant. He saved Lot out of Sodom; He saved His only remnant, Noah and their families, out of the flood.

(4) AFTER THE THIRD CHAPTER OF REVELATIONS THERE IS NO MORE "CHURCH" IN THE BIBLE. After the third chapter NO Christian CHURTCH is left in the entire remaining Book of Revelation. Only the Bride is mentioned in due time and new believers coming out of the holocaust.

All of the New Testament centers on the Church of Christ, right up until the end of the third chapter of Revelations. The absence of the Church during the entire apocalypse can ONLY be interpreted as a real, physical absence. The pardoned don't go into judgment, where judgment is carried out. The apocalypse will be a judgment of truly unimaginable proportions.

GOD SAYS THE SUFFERING WILL BE GREATER THAN IT EVER WAS OR EVER SHALL BE AGAIN.

(5) IN RAPTURE WE MEET OUR SAVIOR IN THE AIR. Jesus, coming at the end of the tribulation, is on the ground. This doesn't look like the same event.

(6) JESUS SAID IT WOULD BE AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH AND LOT, when He shall come again. Life would be "normal" for its time, marrying and giving in marriage, no warnings. There was no warning when the flood came and carried them away. This event without warning can only refer to the rapture, a time unexpected, like a thief at night.

When Jesus comes to destroy all the works of Satan, life WILL NOT be as usual, the world would have come through the entire apocalypse, a time of unimaginable disaster, and facing universal, global, death. Evil will destroy itself. "If these times were not shortened, no life would have remained" "But for the sake of the elite, these times will be shortened". (Elite means Israel and all survivors coming to Christ during apocalypse). The rich and powerful will hope the mountains to fall upon them, to hide them from the wrath of the lamb (Rev. 6: 15-16). THESE EVENTS WILL IN NO WAY BE UNEXPECTED.

The above is not an unexpected coming, like "a thief in the night". "Unexpected" can only be for Rapture.

WE are saved by faith in Jesus, not by faith in the rupture. Thus rupture would seem not very important? Not so, especially if it involves your presence, dear reader, inside the coming holocaust.

(7) THE BIBLE DECLARES THAT THE ANTICHRIST CANNOT COME, BECAUSE "HERE IS ONE WHO HINDERS, UNTIL HE IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY".

May I say, it is the HOLY SPIRIT, residing in the corporate body of believers today, who hinders, until the church itself is taken out of the way.

May I say, the Antichrist cannot appear until the church is taken out of the way.  The entire thrust of scriptural opinion favors a time BEFORE the beginning of horrors.

How ready are YOU?

SOMETHING ELSE - ABOUT THE WONDERFUL WAYS OF GOD. Examine Genesis 18:20-32:

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
23 AND ABRAHAM DREW NEAR, AND SAID, WILT THOU ALSO DESTROY THE RIGHTEOUS WITH THE WICKED?
24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom FIFTY RIGHTEOUS within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
28 Peradventure there shall LACK FIVE OF THE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
32 AND HE SAID, OH LET NOT THE LORD BE ANGRY, AND I WILL SPEAK YET BUT THIS ONCE: PERADVENTURE TEN SHALL BE FOUND THERE. AND HE SAID, I WILL NOT DESTROY IT FOR TEN'S SAKE.

Ponder that.

Will those who love God go into the holocaust?
You make up your own mind.

With infinite love God gave us a Savior, to pay our penalty and a Bible, a guide and light on our path! The Bible is a love story; written with blood, upon a wooden cross; the story of God's love for you.

Men are not lost because they are sinners; THEY ARE LOST BECAUSE THEY HAVE REJECTED THE JESUS OF THE BIBLE, who died for them. If you are not yet completely committed to Christ, know that our Savior needs to be invited. He is a gentleman. He knocks on the door of your heart (innermost being). Everybody can have the other one (Satan) automatically; that one never knocks. He pushes his way.

Any CONCEIVABLE sacrifice is worthwhile to find the BIBLICAL Christ Jesus and to belong to Him. If you want Him, pray now with me, "DEAREST LORD JESUS, FORGIVE ME MY SINS. I REJECT ALL NON-BIBLICAL RELIGION. COME INTO MY LIFE AND BE THE RULER OF MY LIFE. HELP ME TO LOVE YOU MORE EVERY DAY AND TO OBEY YOU WITH ALL MY STRENGTH AND TO READ YOUR BIBLE DAILY, EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE."

If you do this, and mean it, with an open heart, this prayer will never fail. It will become the greatest thing you will ever have, and it will last forever. Even in this life it will be the greatest happiness you'll know, and a light upon your path. Conversely, to FAIL in this, it will be the GREATEST DISASTER you will ever have, both here and hereafter.

Something most especial is waiting for those who seek the immense goodness of our Lord. God Himself said, that "The ear has not heard, and no eye has ever seen, neither can man even imagine the HAPPINESS which God prepared for those who love him" (1 Cor. 2:9, para. phrased, if you please).

APPENDIX

There is a Christian program on TV which completely denies the concept of any early Rapture. According to them all Christians join the Lord after the END, after the seventh Trump.

Observe again, that THE LORD HIMSELF shall sound announcing rapture. This must never be confused with the SEVENTH TRUMP, where AN ANGEL, not Christ Jesus, sounds later in Revelations. These are two different and separate events.

Christ Jesus can come anytime, suddenly and quietly “like a thief at night” to remove His Church.

Examine 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 on the subject of calling out the church (RAPTURE, snatching away): 

“16 For the LORD HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God

(The voice of Christ shall become like a TRUMPET SOUND – the Rapture occurs at the end of Christ’s pronouncements, at the last trumpet sound of Christ;  this is not be confused with the SEVENTH TRUMP, later in Revelations, where an ANGEL- not Christ Jesus - sounds a trumpet) 

and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words”.

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