The Biblical Proof and Reasons for the Rapture of the Church.

It has been said that the idea of a ‘Rapture’ keeps Christians from →serving God. (As if they needed any help.)

Let’s look at that idea…

‘AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH’

Jesus spent 3 years carefully instructing a body of disciples, who separated themSELVES from the masses, by choosing to climb the mountain to hear him¹;

The Disciples (unlike the masses)² would routinely ask at his mouth - ‘What do you mean by that?’ Whereupon Jesus would explain to the disciples the parables that he never explained to the masses- leaving them to do what they do best... guess.

The Disciples would ask him - ‘Why do you only ever speak to ‘them’ (the multitudes) in parables (dark sayings)..³ ?

To which Jesus would reply - “For, to YOU (the disciples) it is given to know the Mysteries (secrets) of the Kingdom of God’.

But ‘to ‘them’ (the multitudes) it is not given.” (True to this day. Which in a nutshell explains the 45,000 denominations of Christianity. As many mens’ opinions as there are, there are denominations.)

After a season of training, the Lord Jesus Christ sent 12 Apostles out to duplicate the ministry he’d spent nearly 3 years demonstrating - to preach the Good News of the Gospel, teach the Scriptures, HEAL the SICK and and CAST OUT DEVILS.⁴

After that, he sent out SEVENTY⁵ Disciples⁶, and authorized them in like fashion⁷; who returned to him flabbergasted.. saying:

“Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name.” Luke 10:17

To which the Lord prophesied, ‘I beheld satan as lightning (he was the light bearer) falling from heaven’. Who, lucifer, just like Capernaum⁸, was once ‘exalted to heaven’, (as are so many nations in the world today) but will be ‘THRUST DOWN TO HELL’. (Ditto the places like Capernaum that were visited by Jesus but refused to believe. Certainly his saints will not be in these places in the time approaching when this verse comes to pass).

Then adding the most overlooked words in the Bible -

“Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions,

and over all the power of the enemy.

And nothing shall hurt you.’ Luke 10:19

This verse was forgotten out of hand, when the Christians were being slaughtered by lions, by the rack, by the Inquisition, by Romish torture, by Stalin, by Mao, by Pinochet, and by zionist devil worshippers, right down to the present time.

By all though? No. There has been a David in every season. Hus was burned at the Stake, but Luther lived to start a revolution. Tyndale was crucified, Boenhoffer too, but other great men of God lived to tell about it and burn fires of Revival in their day.

2020 was the year the USA died and transitioned to Babylon - a celebration marked by the explosion of ‘transitioning’ by young and old throughout a nation - which like Capernaum, had had the Gospel in its midst, but according to the Scriptures will be thrust down to hell.

When the Great Tribulation begins, in which the performance of these things is promised.. like Sodom before it, and the flood of Noah, God is pledged to protect His own. He led out Lot, and He rescued Noah. He will withdraw His Church.

Did you think Christ will leave his Church here for the slaughter at Armageddon? Then Paul also lied when he said we are ‘saved from the wrath to come’. (Romans 5:9 and I Thessalonians 5:9)

No. No more than God would ‘gather His Israel’ into the Land - in ADVANCE of Armageddon.. What foolishness! (My commentary on God’s timetable of Gathering Israel into the land, is on the schedule here to be released. Stand by).

This is where I wish to say, that in rescuing me from this world, and teaching me of himself from the Volume of the Book, Christ brought me to a ministry where I learned how to research the Bible.. where I first learned about a Rapture. Since then, in the nearly half century that I have researched God’s wonderful matchless Word, I have never been led of the Lord to discount the truth that he would be removing his Church from earth before its near destruction, even as he removed Noah from earth and Lot from Sodom under the same circumstances -

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HIMSELF drawing the parallels between the 2 events saying -

‘But as the days of Noah were, SO SHALL BE the coming of the Son of man.’ Matthew 24:37

Was Noah and his family left here to swim? Or was he marvelously lifted up above the flood of destruction? That PARALLEL should be noted well, by anyone doubting the same happy result for Christ’s born again Church.

‘MAKES THE SAINTS LAZY’.

The claim of a Rapture being deleterious to service, rather suggests research that fails to distinguish between people who call themselves Christians, and those who truly mimic Christ. Disciples have always worked. The multitudes have always failed to. It has nothing to do with God’s stated Doctrines.

Even Christ was raptured before the wholesale destruction of Jerusalem. And we, in him, identify with everything that ever came upon him. Even his crucifixion, as Paul did say:

‘I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live.’ Galatians 2:20

There are other examples that we will get to. But the idea that a Rapture makes the disciples to be lazy, just waiting to leave, could not be farther from the truth. That notion may describe the masses who, now, as in the Lord’s day, do nothing but chase him when it’s time to be fed, or healed (Sadly, some don’t even do that). But otherwise are not out in the white fields.

The masses are the unprofitable servants of Matthew 25:29.

The disciples, on the other hand, deserve to be removed before the coming holocaust of earth, for as faithful servants, they have had their share of persecution.

People need to be SURE they are disciples. Time is running out. The Sound of Trumpets is fast approaching. How do I know? Even had The Lord not told me as much many times in the last 12 years.., he has told it to many others. He told Yitzhak Kaduri a 106 year old Rabbi - the most influential in Israel in his day - shortly before he died., that ‘he would return soon after Ariel Sharon would die’. Kaduri was born again. He will be Raptured. And Sharon died Jan 11, 2014. 11 years ago… 11 again - and counting.

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THE BIBLICAL PROOF OF A RAPTURE

Some of the most studious Biblical researchers deny the fast approaching event in which Christ removes his Church from earth. Here’s a reviewer’s comment on Amazon, about a book written by Rick Wiles⁹ (A man I otherwise admire the courage of) in which Wiles denies the fact of a Rapture:

“In the modern church, lulling Christians to sleep in anticipation of the rapture. Well, Pastor Rick lays all of the proof, backed by scripture, out in front of you. It's up to the individual to pick up the book, read your Bible and pray that God shows you the wisdom. Jesus IS coming back....but only ONCE! Not some secretive little "Pssttt, come up here and don't tell the others" event.” Reader Review

Let’s look at this reader’s review - which is a reflection of a what some Christians seem to believe:

1. ‘A Rapture lulls Christians to sleep.’ Rapture or not; many Christians are in a permanent state of slumber. No doctrine needed one way or another. Even this person commenting is slumbering, or he would have examined the Scripture’s proofs of the Lord’s coming for his church before the Great Tribulation.

2. Secretive little.. ‘don’t tell others event’… Is not found in the Bible. What does he think a Trumpet sounds like? They’re loud for a reason. The event will be accompanied by Trumpet blasts. MILLIONS of unbelievers will hear the Trumpets, see people rise into the clouds, as Elisha saw Elijah leave, and as the 120 disciples saw Jesus leave, and become instant Christians~! This will happen ALL over the world. People from ALL religions will ‘come to Christ finally’ instantly Manifesting the REVIVAL of the Millennia! Except for them, the Ark door is already closed. They will have to be covered in their own blood to win heaven.

3. “Jesus IS coming back....but only ONCE!” Scripture please? Rather, the Scriptures describe in detail TWO returns. ONE for His CHURCH - where we meet him in the clouds¹⁰; and a RETURN to earth to rescue ISRAEL where his feet touch down on the Mount of Olives, and together with his HOST of tens of thousands of SAINTS¹¹ Christ will put down the armies of antichrist.

(NOTE on word ‘Saints’ It is the Greek word for ‘Holy ones’, and is ONLY ever used for the ‘saints of Christ’, the ‘born again believers’. It can be an adjective ‘describing angels’, but it is never used as a NOUN put for angels. These ‘holy ones’ returning with Christ, are his army of born again believers, that have risen in the Rapture - who were ‘Called, Chosen, and Faithful’. ¹²

There are more than 70 uses of Hagiois for ‘saints’ of the Lord.

I served in the US Army. Basic training precedes ALL deployments. The Lord Jesus Christ - as the Captain of the Hosts of Heaven, is going to train his army of saints before engaging. We’ll be up there, not playing harps, not sipping Celestial Seasonings tea - but training hard for the battle of the ages.

Let’s take a look at both of Christ’s returns, and all the Scriptures that DESCRIBE and EXEMPLIFY the RAPTURE of the saints, to happen before the rise of Antichrist., as this missive continues..

1. Matthew 5, 6, 7

2. Isaiah 30:1,2

3. Matthew 13:10,11

4. Luke 9

5. NOTICE the precise use of Numbers in Scripture. 70 is ‘7’ - Spiritual Perfection - times ‘10’ (governmental perfection). Numbers are used by God in Scripture with the same precision as He used words.

6. Some translations read ‘72’, though I have checked this in the Septuagint Bible and some Russian translations (which are translated from old Greek Texts), and in the 1599 Geneva Bible, and they all say ‘70’. So I’ll have to agree with that.

7. Luke 10

8. Luke 10:15

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10. a secret hidden in God until it was revealed to the Apostle Paul.

11. Jude 20

12. Revelation 17:14