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The Second Advent vs. The Pre-Trib Rapture in a Nutshell

07 Monday Oct 2019

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Bible Prophecy

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The Day Is Coming

1-2 Note well: God’s Judgment Day is on the way:
    “Plunder will be piled high and handed out.
I’m bringing all the godless nations
    to war against Jerusalem—
Houses plundered,
    women raped,
Half the city taken into exile,
    the other half left behind.”

3-5 But then God will march out against the godless nations and fight—a great war! That’s the Day he’ll take his stand on the Mount of Olives, facing Jerusalem from the east. The Mount of Olives will be split right down the middle, from east to west, leaving a wide valley. Half the mountain will shift north, the other half south. Then you will run for your lives down the valley, your escape route that will take you all the way to Azal. You’ll run for your lives, just as you ran on the day of the great earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. Then my God will arrive and all the holy angels with him. – Zechariah 14:1-5, MSG

A White Horse and Its Rider

11-16 Then I saw Heaven open wide—and oh! a white horse and its Rider. The Rider, named Faithful and True, judges and makes war in pure righteousness. His eyes are a blaze of fire, on his head many crowns. He has a Name inscribed that’s known only to himself. He is dressed in a robe soaked with blood, and he is addressed as “Word of God.” The armies of Heaven, mounted on white horses and dressed in dazzling white linen, follow him. A sharp sword comes out of his mouth so he can subdue the nations, then rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the raging wrath of God, the Sovereign-Strong. On his robe and thigh is written, King of kings, Lord of lords. – Revelation 19:11-16, MSG

51-52 But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I’ll probably never fully understand. We’re not all going to die—but we are all going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes—it’s over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we’ll all be changed. – 1 Corinthians 15:51-52,  MSG

15-18 And then this: We can tell you with complete confidence—we have the Master’s word on it—that when the Master comes again to get us, those of us who are still alive will not get a jump on the dead and leave them behind. In actual fact, they’ll be ahead of us. The Master himself will give the command. Archangel thunder! God’s trumpet blast! He’ll come down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise—they’ll go first. Then the rest of us who are still alive at the time will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the Master. Oh, we’ll be walking on air! And then there will be one huge family reunion with the Master. So reassure one another with these words. – 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, MSG

1-3 I don’t think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen. You know as well as I that the day of the Master’s coming can’t be posted on our calendars. He won’t call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would. About the time everybody’s walking around complacently, congratulating each other—“We’ve sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!”—suddenly everything will fall apart. It’s going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman. – 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3, MSG

11 “Then, after three and a half days, the Living Spirit of God will enter them—they’re on their feet!—and all those gloating spectators will be scared to death.”

12 I heard a strong voice out of Heaven calling, “Come up here!” and up they went to Heaven, wrapped in a cloud, their enemies watching it all. – Revelation 11:11-12, MSG

6 “In the middle of the night someone yelled out, ‘He’s here! The bride-groom’s here! Go out and greet him!’

7-8 “The ten virgins got up and got their lamps ready. The silly virgins said to the smart ones, ‘Our lamps are going out; lend us some of your oil.’

9 “They answered, ‘There might not be enough to go around; go buy your own.’

10 “They did, but while they were out buying oil, the bridegroom arrived. When everyone who was there to greet him had gone into the wedding feast, the door was locked. – Matthew 25:6-10, MSG

Recently, I have been reading several Facebook postings in which some “Christians” declare that the prophesied pre-Tribulation (pre-Trib) Rapture of Christ’s saints (the Bride of Christ) will not be done secretly. These “Christians” claim that every eye will see this Rapture. Now, while many people in the Tribulation may see the mid-Tribulation (mid-Trib) Rapture of the two witnesses who were killed and resurrected from the dead (see Revelation 11:11-12), the mid-Trib Rapture is neither the same as the pre-Trib Rapture of Christ’s Bride (the overcomers/saints) nor the Second Advent (Christ’s prophesied Second Coming).

Christ’s Second Advent (His Second Coming) happens when His feet touch down on the Mount of Olives and it splits (see Zechariah 14:4). Every eye will see Him, as Christ returns to earth with His saints/overcomers (see Revelation 1:7, Revelation 19:11-16). He comes back to bring judgment – God’s poured out Wrath – for those who have rejected Him (Christ) as their Savior.

This Second-Coming event is NOT the same as the pre-Trib Rapture of Christ’s Bride (saints/overcomers) event. Scripture clearly states that during the pre-Trib Rapture – when the Bride is caught up/taken up in the air (raptured) – Christ (the Bridegroom) meets His Bride in the air and on a cloud (see 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, Matthew 25:6-10). This pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Bride of Christ (when the dead in Christ and those who are alive at the time the Bridegroom comes for His Bride are removed off this earth) is imminent – can happen at any time – and it will happen in secret because He will come for them like a thief in the night (see 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3). In contrast, His Second Advent (Christ’s Second Coming) happens near the end of the seven-year Tribulation, and every person who is alive on earth at the time of Christ’s second bodily return will see Him coming with His Host of saints.  

Once again, The pre-Trib Rapture is the event in which Christ returns to the earth but stays in the air and on a cloud. He will return, at that time and in that manner, because He will be fulfilling God’s Promise to remove all His saints/overcomers from the earth before Father God’s Wrath (the Tribulation Period) begins to pour out on the earth. The Second Coming (the Second Advent) is the event in which Christ returns to the earth (with the clouds – with His Host of raptured saints/the armies of Heaven). Christ will return to earth, at that time and in that manner, because He will be fulling God’s Promise to send the Lion of Judah to the Hebrews/Jewish people. Christ, as the Lion of Judah, will be bringing the Tribulation Period to an end by defeating the Antichrist and his evil world empire in the Battle of Armageddon.   

Selah (pause and calmly think about that). Shalom . . . .

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More Than Fire Insurance (Amended)

01 Saturday Dec 2018

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Devotional

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“by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.” ~ Ephesians 2:15-16, ESV

It is sad to say, but so many Christians become Christians only because they want to qualify for God’s Fire Insurance Policy—Jesus Christ. If we are true believers in Christ, then it needs to be apparent to us that Christ wants to be more to us than the One who is our Ark of safety (the One who saves us from the fire damage the Tribulation Period’s trumpet and bowl judgments and the Lake of Fire cause).

That’s right! Christ wants to be more to us than someone who saves us from the end-time Wrath of God, as well as saves us from the Lake of Fire’s eternal punishment. He wants us to recognize Him not only as our Savior but also as our Brother, Advocate, Healer, Lord, and so much more. In other words, Christ not only wants us to have an eternal life with God but also an abundant life right here on Earth. He wants us to live an incredibly wealthy life—a life full of God’s Favor, Love, and kindness, as well as a life full of the Oneness and the Peace that are in the Godhead.

This spiritual truth is why Christ’s Death does not just reconcile and restore us back to a right relationship with God—does not just provide our Ark of safety that saves us from any fire damage. Incontestably, by sacrificing His Life, Christ also succeeds in destroying the whole system of the Jewish Law—that system which establishes the wall of hostility that separates Gentiles and Hebrews. By breaking down the wall that separates us—Hebrews and Gentiles—Christ also creates peace between us, by making ALL nations and ethnicities One Body of believers.

Now, we who are Gentiles are no longer outsiders by birth. We no longer live in this lost world without God and without hope. Indeed, we now are members of God’s Household of Faith and joint-heirs with Christ. As such, we not only have access to the Fullness of Christ, which is the Fullness of the Godhead, but also Christ wants us to use this Fullness in this life.

Let us come into God’s Presence to thank Him for all that He already has done for us, and let us thank Him for everything He is going to do for us. Let us also begin to use the fullness of the Godhead that is available to us because of Christ’s Finished Work on the Cross. Shalom.

Keep it real…Live it out…Watch it work!

~ This slightly modified devotion is from my Keeping It Real: Daily Renewing The Mind 2015 one-year devotional.

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Sanctified for the Mission—Preaching the Gospel, Discipling, Encouraging Fellow Believers, Glorifying God and Christ

04 Tuesday Nov 2014

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Faith and Wisdom

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GO And Make Disciples of All Nations

Now I’m returning to you.
I’m saying these things in the world’s hearing
So my people can experience
My joy completed in them.
I gave them your word;
The godless world hated them because of it,
Because they didn’t join the world’s ways,
Just as I didn’t join the world’s ways.
I’m not asking that you take them out of the world
But that you guard them from the Evil One.
They are no more defined by the world
Than I am defined by the world.
Make them holy—consecrated—with the truth;
Your word is consecrating truth.
In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world,
I give them a mission in the world.
I’m consecrating myself for their sakes
So they’ll be truth-consecrated in their mission. ~ John 17:13-19, MSG

Isn’t it wonderful that Father God’s grand design for Christ Jesus is now a good and finished work—a real, absolute, and unchangeable reality? He performed every part of the mission God had assigned to Him, and, in doing so, He pleased, praised, and glorified God. As a result, His finished work earned Him the right to return into Heaven to His Glory, to His Throne, and in His place of Honor, which is at the right hand of God.

Backing up just a little, in John 17:13-19, Christ Jesus’ mission on Earth is about to be completed, and that is why for protection purposes our Lord is turning over to our Heavenly Father His initial followers, as well as future disciples—all the believers who have received regeneration, salvation, and the Word of God—so that Father God can preserve them (keep them in perfect or purified condition—sanctify them), while they remain in this world. It is just like a good Shepherd to put the care and preservation of His sheep before His own safety and care, even though He is much aware of the immediacy of the Cross, and even though He knows the horrible death He’d have to face before He would be able to leave this world and return to the safety and purity of Heaven. It is exactly this knowledge that has Christ Jesus tenderly praying to Father God on behalf of ALL of His disciples, but specifically for His contemporary followers.

In His prayer, Christ Jesus isn’t asking Father God to translate these disciples right then and there, like in the manner of Enoch and Elijah, nor is He asking Father God to allow them to bypass earthly afflictions and sorrows by experiencing death in its common form. The Lord doesn’t pray for them to be taken out of this world right then and there, because He has GREAT work for them to do. If they were to be taken off of this Earth, there would be no one left behind to preach the Gospel of Christ so that sinners might be reborn and saved. Then too, if His present disciples were to be removed off the Earth at that time, there also would not be anyone left to encourage and edify the remaining saints (Mary the mother of Jesus, the other Mary’s, and other friends and followers of Christ Jesus, who later were in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost). Once again, Christ Jesus Himself is about to be crucified, resurrected, and raptured into Heaven. Thus, it is in His interest (for Christ Jesus’ legacy; everything He has handed down to His disciples) that His original followers should live on the Earth for a little bit longer, primarily so that, in addition to their Gospel preaching, their holy and righteous empowered and disciplined lifestyle also would be glorifying Father God and Christ Jesus, as well as witnessing to Father God’s unregenerate, unsaved chosen people and to the world’s lost souls.

Therefore, instead of praying for His disciples’ immediate removal, Christ Jesus expresses His concern for their safety and care, and by extension ours (meaning all of us who, after being reborn, saved by Grace, and justified, like the first-century disciples, would be left behind in this cold world to continue the Lord’s work). Since Christ Jesus knew that He soon would be crucified and that shortly after His resurrection would be leaving this Earth (would be raptured), He wanted to make sure that His current left-behind followers would have everything they needed to survive and thrive in this sin-sick world—a malignant world that would hate all of His followers just because they have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior, and have accepted His Word as the absolute Divine Truth.

This knowledge is why the Lord wasn’t praying that His present-day disciples, nor His 21st-century followers, never would have to know afflictions, sorrows, exclusion, rejection, storms of controversies, adversity, or that they, nor we, never would be vilified, slandered, rebuked, reviled, abandoned, forgotten, or pushed aside, and so forth. There is no doubt that Christ Jesus also knew that these listed sufferings, which He Himself experienced, would be part and parcel of the Christian experience.

So then, for the Christian experience reason, the above stated hurts and sufferings, which are NOT the Tribulation Period’s Wrath of God but rather the centuries of persecutions committed by mankind, are precisely why the Lord knew that in order for His disciples, then and now, to be able to combat this world’s Evil and avoid sinning they all would have to be sanctified so that they would be able to continue to honor His legacy—continue to be holy and righteous saints who would pass on to future generations of believers His Gospel and His discipleship (His Word, teachings, and the good works He performed), until the end of the Age of Grace. Thus, just like the first-century disciples/believers had to receive the Holy Spirit’s sanctifying power before they could be mighty witnesses for Christ Jesus—before they could begin their mission of finishing what He had begun, which is the Great Commission (cf. Acts 1:8; see also Matthew 28:16-20)—we today also must receive the Lord’s prayed for sanctification.

This Holy Spirit-assigned process is the necessary infilling (Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues) that will guarantee we eventually will become Christlike and then, like Him, will be raptured off of this Earth, when our mission here is finished. Our removal at that time will mean that we are officially in the Lord’s rest, enjoying our eternal life with Christ Jesus in Heaven, without ever having to go through the prophesied Tribulation Period.

Praise the Lord! Sanctify us, right now, Holy Spirit! AMEN.

~ from Faith and Wisdom: A Rhema Word in a Dry and Thirsty Land (2006); edited

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Countdown to the Rapture

26 Monday Jan 2009

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Bible Prophecy

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Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one … lift off! No, this is not the usual countdown for a NASA rocket. This is the countdown to the Rapture.

On the prophetic timetable, the very next event to happen is the Rapture. For that reason, these are not just the times that try men and women’s souls; these are the times in which the fulfilled prophetic signs become God’s warnings to men and women about the future of their souls.

Since the Holy Bible repeats the pattern that God follows before He judges or punishes mankind, then true believers know that just as it was before The Flood in Noah’s days, just as it was before fire and brimstone rained down on Sodom and Gomorrah in Lot’s day, and just as it was before many other biblical events took place, God will not begin Daniel’s 70th week (The Tribulation Period) without warning people that the most horrific times in human history are about to begin. Thus, through many prophetic signs, God constantly is warning 21st century people that He once again is about to judge or punish mankind … indeed the entire Earth!

Because God does not want anybody to perish, He will do all that He can to ensure that born again, saved believers in Jesus the Christ will be redeemed/delivered/rescued/saved from God’s wrath (judgment) that is soon to come upon this Earth. Indeed, God will do whatever must be done in order to keep His enemy from plucking the Body of Christ out of His hand, which means God will do whatever it takes to shake loose any existing complacency, stinking thinking, and wrong behaviors that have an iron grip on so many of today’s Laodicean-like church members.

The increase in these and other strangleholds is why the Body of Christ is living in a time when the CHURCH Age is coming to an end. For sure, these end times also are why the Body of Christ must stay alert, watching for the promised cloud-gathering sign to be fulfilled, because when all has been said and done, because God has given sufficient warnings, there will be no one who will be able to say that he or she never had a clue! Therefore, because the Rapture can happen at any time, true believers also must do as their Savior tells them to do. They must “…look up, and lift up [their] heads; for [their] redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28, KJV).

Now, since the time of Jesus the Christ, there have been hundreds of prophecies that have been fulfilled, but those that have been fulfilled in the 21st and 20th centuries should cause people to stop and take notice. For example, globally, the prophesied signs that pertain to an end time societal breakdown are being fulfilled, daily.

God prophetically warns through His Word that, as the end of the Church Age draws near, there will be an increase in the number of people who will have no regard for the law or morality. These people will be greedy, selfish, violent, immoral, hedonistic and rebellious. Consequently, all of these lawless and immoral people will have something else in common—problems with a total breakdown of the family and great despair (see 2 Timothy 3:1-4, 6; Mark 13:12; and Matthew 24:12).

Add to the behaviors listed above the fulfilled sign of an increase in the number of people who practice homosexuality. Daily, homosexuals in all walks of life are openly expressing their “gay” lifestyle. Moreover, there are many learned individuals who maintain that because homosexual men and lesbian women were born this way they do not choose their “gay” lifestyle. Indeed, even some men and women who say they are “called” of God to preach and teach His Word now are saying that homosexuals and lesbians have a divine right to be who they are for they are gifts from God (reference here is to the You Tube video clip in which “Being Gay is the Gift of God” is the discussion topic on Oprah’s Spirituality 101).

Add to this increased lawlessness, immorality and homosexuality the use of drugs, which rapidly is increasing among the lower class, middle class, and upper class individuals. The Apostle John writes in Revelation 9:21 that, even during the Tribulation Period, the left behind lawless and immoral people: “Neither repented…of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts” (KJV). The word “sorceries” in this verse is the English translation of the New Testament Greek word “farmakeiva,” which is transliterated as “pharmakeia,” and pharmakeia means pharmaceuticals or drugs. Thus, in these end times, no one can say that there is not CURRENTLY already an out of control drug problem for which there seems to be no solution.

Moreover, what today’s true believers are able to discern is that all of these aforesaid societal problems are the very same societal problems that were witnessed in Noah and Lot’s days, and these same societal problems were the reasons why God cleansed the world with The Flood and then later totally destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the humans, animals and vegetation in those cities. What today’s true believers also are able to discern is that since these same transgressions are running rampant again, the end result will be the same: God is going to judge or punish the people who neither obey His commandments nor believe in Him or His Son. Again, God forewarned the people in Noah and Lot’s days about the very judgments or punishments that would come upon them, and yet the masses did not heed God’s warnings!

Besides these increased societal signs, God has fulfilled in our time other prophetic signs: the rebirth of Israel; an increase in media covered global-political events; an increase in upheavals in nature; an increase in rampant diseases and epidemics; an increase in spiritual apostasy (increases in doctrinal and moral departures in the CHURCH and increases in the number of people who will turn from the Lord to Satanism … see 1 Timothy 4:2-3, 2 Timothy 3:5, Matthew 24:12, and 1 Timothy 4:1); an increase in the number of people who mock the end-times prophecies; an increase in false Messiahs, false prophets, and false teachers; an increase in technology; a knowledge explosion; and an increase in the desires to want to use  nuclear weapons. The fact that all of these prophetic signs are and have been happening simultaneously in our time should shake loose any complacency, stinking thinking, and wrong behaviors that might have a stranglehold on believers in Christ.

Whether we want to believe it or not, time is running out. The Rapture of the true CHURCH is the only prophetic event that needs to be fulfilled before the Temple is rebuilt, the Antichrist signs a peace agreement with Israel, and the Tribulation Period begins with its seven seals’ judgments and ends with Jesus the Christ’s bodily Second Coming—when every eye sees Him coming in His glory, and He sets His feet down on the Mount of Olives. The Rapture countdown, thus, has begun, and every living person who is not in the Rapture will be left behind to suffer during the Tribulation Period. Yet, no matter what some people believe and teach, God does not want any person to have to experience the Tribulation Period, because He knows that the Tribulation Period will claim countless lives!

Furthermore, because the Tribulation Period is designed in such a way to shake the left behind uncommitted and disbelieving out of their lethargy so that they finally will accept Jesus the Christ as their personal Savior and Lord to whom they totally surrender; and because the Tribulation Period is designed in such a way so that the uncommitted and disbelieving who remain uncommitted and disbelieving will receive their just punishment for deliberately choosing the Antichrist as their god, these are the reasons why God constantly is warning the world, but specifically the Body of Christ, that the Tribulation Period’s horrific times are right around the corner. The Tribulation Period’s seven seal, seven trumpet and seven vial judgments upon the whole Earth also are why God wants Christ’s Body to continue to “…look up, and lift up [their] heads; for [their] redemption draweth nigh.” God, thus, forewarns this world’s masses, and especially the Body of Christ, because He wants true believers to be on the alert and prepared for His cloud-gathering sign so that they will not be caught off-guard!

The only way anybody who is still alive will be able to be delivered from the wrath of God that is to come upon this Earth is for a divine intervention to take place. That divine intervention for the Body of Christ is the Rapture.

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one … lift off! Once again, the countdown to the Rapture has begun, so let’s make sure we are Rapture ready so that no matter whether we are alive or dead when Christ comes back in the clouds we will be caught up to be with Him forever more!

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Are We Close to the Battle of Armageddon?

13 Tuesday Jan 2009

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Bible Prophecy

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Battle of Armageddon's Bloodbath

And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, ‘Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.’ So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for 1,600 stadia. ~ Revelation 14:18-20, ESV

 

The Spirit of prophecy (or the Light of Divine Revelation), which refers to the Holy Spirit’s illuminations about the evil conditions in the world that prompt God’s judgment and punishment (Daniel’s 70th Week; God’s Wrath) upon the Earth, declares that believers are living in the time when the end of the Lord’s ekklesia AGE soon will happen. What is the proof of this opening statement? Jesus the Christ’s famous teaching known as the Olivet Discourse provides the evidence, which confirms for this current century of believers that they NOW are living when the promised Raptures will take place.

That’s right! The Word of God does mention more than one Rapture. However, even though the Rapture of the Bride of Christ is not discussed in the Olivet Discourse, it is alluded to; more important, the Rapture of the Bride of Christ will be the initial last days and end times’ RAPTURE that will take place long before the remnant of Judah signs the Turkish Antichrist’s proposed “covenant of death,” after which Daniel’s 70th Week starts (see 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; Isaiah 28:15, 18; Daniel 9:27).

Be that as it may; the primary passage and the parallel passages of Jesus the Christ’s Olivet Discourse are found in Matthew 24 through Matthew 25, Mark 13:1-37, and Luke 21:5-36. In His Olivet Discourse, Jesus the Christ catalogs for His disciples the various signs that will indicate the prevailing evil conditions that will be in the world prior to His Second Coming (His bodily return, when His feet touch the Mount of Olives; see Zechariah 14:1-4). Jesus the Christ specifically makes it clear that although these signs of the times will begin before Daniel’s 70th Week starts, the ultimate fulfillment of every one of these signs will take place during the last 7 years of Daniel’s 70 Weeks of Years, or the missing 7 years of his 490 years! Moreover, Jesus the Christ makes it clear that these signs (“beginning of sorrows”) are primarily for alerting ALL of His genuine believers/disciples, but primarily His Jewish disciples, about being prepared to depart from this Earth so that they will not have to face God’s Wrath, which will not stop until all of God and Jesus the Christ’s enemies are defeated at the Battle of Armageddon.

Once again, in the Olivet Discourse, Jesus the Christ is describing the Rapture to His original Jewish disciples. That’s right. Despite the fact that many last days and end times biblical prophecy scholars argue that, since no Hebrew prior to this point in time was aware of God’s mystery concerning the Body of Christ, and since no Hebrew was aware of God’s mystery concerning Jesus the Christ living inside every Body of Christ member, these are the main reasons why He, thus, isn’t talking at all about any Rapture, especially NOT the completion of God’s saved by Grace program (the Rapture of the Bride of Christ). Indeed, many of these same last days and end times biblical prophecy scholars say that the only Scriptures that address any possible Rapture of the Bride of Christ are John 14:1-4, 1 Corinthians 15:51-53, and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17.

Then too, there are those last days and end times biblical prophecy scholars who believe and teach that Matthew 24:1-2 primarily describes the 70 A.D. events, which were the fulfillment of all the biblical prophecies concerning the destruction of the Jewish Temple, Jerusalem, and the scattering of Israel’s Jews. Now, while the Romans did destroy the Temple and Jerusalem in the year 70 A.D., as well as slaughtered and scattered the Jews in this same year, 70 A.D. was NOT the last time Jerusalem would be trampled under by Gentiles, nor the last time the Jews would be slaughtered and scattered. In the year 135 A.D., the Romans once again slaughtered and banned/scattered the Jerusalem Jews, ran a plow over Jerusalem, started rebuilding the city as a Roman colony, changed Jerusalem’s name to Aelia Capitolina, and changed Israel and Judea’s names to Palestine.   

Additionally, there are those last days and end times biblical prophecy scholars who believe and teach that Matthew 24:40-41 and the parallel passage in Luke 17:34-36 are not about any Rapture, but rather these verses are just about the end of the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. In particular, said scholars believe and teach that these mentioned Scriptures are about the “Tribulation” survivors, who will be taken off the Earth, and those who will remain on the Earth near the Lord. The only problem with this belief and teaching is that these end times biblical prophecy scholars say the ones who are TAKEN off the Earth (or received near Jesus Christ, as another verse says) are those who will take the Mark of the Beast, and the ones who are LEFT on the Earth are those who will NOT take the Beast’s Mark. These abovementioned beliefs and teachings will be explained a little later.

It should be noted here that these believed and taught last days and end times biblical prophecies that deny any Raptures and deny that Israel’s scatterings continue after 70 A.D., and/or contradict the “Tribulation’s” taken and left individuals all fall apart, when they are examined in light of Jesus the Christ’s Olivet Discourse. How so? Well, because in His Olivet Discourse, Jesus the Christ positively shows the similarities between a watchful, prepared believer and the watchful, prepared homeowner. The Lord says that if the good homeowner knew when his house would be burglarized, he would have been prepared and would have stayed alert, while he waited for the intruder, so that the good homeowner could stop the thief from entering his house.

In essence, the Lord is saying that the thief in the night only catches the unprepared, unwatchful, and extremely careless stewards (servants) by surprise! Contextually speaking, for example, in the Scriptures that describe two in the field and two at the mill, with one of each pair being “taken” and the other of each pair being “left” (cf. Matthew 24:40-44), the Lord most definitely is saying that when His true believers are prepared and alert, watching for His return, they will not be caught off guard! That is to say, the Lord is making it clear that His true believers can be understood to be the Bride of Christ (the resurrected dead in Christ, which would include the Lord’s Olivet Discourse hearers—His first century Jewish disciples—who in the future would be lifted up to meet Christ Jesus in the air right before the alive in Christ would be raptured), as well as understood to be Daniel’s 70th Week’s 144,000 Jewish evangelists, the alive sifted like wheat left behind unprepared believers in Christ, and the “Tribulation’s” converted but martyred Jewish and Gentile believers.

Here is why the above statements about what Jesus the Christ is teaching in Matthew 24:40 and 41 are true. In these Scriptures, the English word “taken” is translated from the Greek word paralambano, and paralambano means to “receive close or near to”; moreover, this paralambano is the same word used for the English word “receive,” which is found in John 14:3. In this last mentioned Scripture, Jesus the Christ specifically uses the same paralambano word that He uses in His Olivet Discourse, when He tells His Last Supper disciples that He will “…come again and receive…” them unto Himself. Thus, if the ones in Matthew 24:40 and 41 are indeed the ones some last days and end times biblical prophecy scholars believe are never raptured, but were LEFT on Earth after never taking the Mark of the Beast, while the Mark of Beast recipients are the ones Jesus the Christ TOOK off the Earth, then that would mean that this paralambano word in John 14:3 would have a totally different meaning. Yet, it doesn’t, because the meaning of paralambano is the same in Matthew 24:40 and 41, and John 14:3.

Jesus the Christ, thus, is saying in both His Olivet Discourse and in His Upper Room’s Last Supper message that He will: paralambano the field and mill workers right along with His original disciples (those who, once again, by the last days, will have become the dead in Christ who will be resurrected and taken or snatched out of harm’s way right before the alive in Christ are raptured. The Lord will “take” off the Earth AND “receive” “close or near to” Himself the resurrected dead and raptured alive in Christ Bride of Christ, the raptured alive 144,000 Jewish evangelists, and the resurrected martyred converted and/or sifted like wheat Tribulation believers!

Now it should be obvious that the apostle Paul also is using a similar meaning of taken or paralambano, when he speaks of the Rapture (harpazo) of the Bride of Christ (cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17). She (His Bride) will be taken or snatched out of harm’s way, and without doubt the greatest harm’s way will be the unparalleled Wrath of God, which takes place during Daniel’s missing 70th Week (the last 7 years of Daniel’s prophesied 490 years).

For this reason, it is extremely important for people to understand that the English word “left” in Matthew 24:40 and 41 is translated from the Greek word aphiemi, and aphiemi means to forsake. This aphiemi word, then, is the reason why Jesus the Christ would NOT be keeping those near to Him (would not be receiving unto Himself) those whom He has “forsaken” or LEFT behind. In other words, Jesus the Christ isn’t saying that He is going to keep the ones near to Him on Earth He has forsaken, because the forsaken ones are the ones that He intentionally LEFT on Earth because they were not holy and righteous enough to be raptured (taken). If He, in the context of the above-stated Matthew verses, is NOT coming back to receive close to Himself those people He LEFT behind who didn’t take the Mark of the Beast, then that means that said Scriptures are not about the end-time survivors of the Tribulation (wheat/sheep and tares/goats), but rather about the Rapture and Resurrection that take place in end times AND, by extension, the Rapture and Resurrection that take place in the last days!

In other words, without doubt, those last days and end times biblical prophecy scholars, who are teaching that the ones “taken” in Matthew 24:40 and 41 (and the parallel Scriptures) are the unbelieving “Tribulation” tare and goat survivors who received the Mark of the Beast, are without doubt also saying that the ones who are “left” (forsaken) are be the ones the Lord will “receive” to Himself on Earth. Said scholars certainly have it twisted, to put it mildly!

There can be no doubt that these last days and end times biblical prophecy scholars’ understanding of the words “taken” and “left,” thus, is not biblically sound! For this reason, in the full context of Matthew 24:40-51, it is clear that Jesus the Christ, first and foremost, specifically is prophesying about God’s prepared and watchful Bride, the remnant of Israel (the pure and holy elect 144,000 evangelists), who will be the ones “taken” (or raptured) off of this Earth so that they can remain near to God in Heaven, while the Time of Jacob’s Trouble happens on Earth (see Jeremiah 30:3-11)! Moreover, there can be no doubt that Jesus the Christ also is alluding to the Bride of Christ (the resurrected dead in Christ who have been lifted up to meet Him in the air before the alive in Christ are raptured), because the Word of God describes this Rapture as the initial Rapture that takes place in the last days. These believers will depart from this Earth before Daniel’s 70th Week ever begins. The apostle Paul writes:

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For the Day will not come until after the Apostasy has come and the man who separates himself from Torah has been revealed, the one destined for doom. ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:3, CJB

The word Apostasy, which is Apostasia in the Greek language, has been poorly translated in many English translations as rebellion and/or the falling away, when its primary meaning is “departure” which, in context, refers to the gathering of the Lord’s Bride, or the Rapture of the alive in Christ Body of believers. Indeed, prior to the “authorized” King James Version of the Bible, “departure” was the accepted translation for Apostasia. For this last reason, based on context, it should be clear that the apostle Paul definitely is saying that the “departure” (Apostasia, in Greek) of the Bride of Christ (or Rapture) will precede the revelation of the Antichrist! Since the revelation of the Antichrist happens within the first half of Daniel’s 70th Week, this alone proves that the Bride of Christ experiences the initial last days’ Rapture, especially since apostle Paul mentions four distinct times in the Word of God about how the Lord’s Bride is not supposed to suffer from the Wrath of God, which begins during the first half of the seven year “Tribulation” Period.

Perhaps this above-stated Divine Truth about the Rapture of the Bride of Christ is why, before Jesus the Christ gets to the Matthew Rapture verses, He says that believers who spiritually are able to discern the signs of the time will be the ones who will recognize His end-time signs and, therefore, will know that the end of the Age (NOT the end of the world) is near (see Matthew 24:32-34). There can be no doubt that the believers Jesus Christ says will be able to discern the signs of the times are both God’s Bride (the Jewish remnant who will be living in Israel when Daniel’s 70th Week begins) AND the genuine Bride of Christ. Once again, Daniel’s 70th Week includes the horrific Time of Jacob’s Trouble AND the Battle of Armageddon.

For the record, this end of the Age Jesus the Christ prophesies about refers to the end of the years that God has determined He would deal with mankind. Furthermore, the end-time signs that Jesus the Christ says will indicate that the end of this Age is drawing near are: increases in the number of wars and rumors of wars; increases in the number of ethnic groups rising up against other ethnic groups, and kingdoms against kingdoms; increases in the number of famines, epidemics, diseases, earthquakes in diverse places, abnormal weather patterns, and other pattern abnormalities in nature; increases in the number of false Christs, false prophets, and false teachers; and increases in the number of Jesus the Christ haters, Christian haters, and human race haters. Additionally, Jesus the Christ says that when the ones who are able to discern spiritual matters see these aforesaid INCREASES happening in the world SIMULTANEOUSLY, then they will know that the end of the Age is near!

Concerning the Bride of Christ’s departure, the Scriptures also are clear about what happens after Her departure (Rapture). There will be a brief interval, and during this time, the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple will take place, AFTER the signing of a bogus peace agreement between Israel and the Antichrist (see Daniel 9:27). Since the Jewish Temple was destroyed in 70 A.D., then there has to be a new Temple that will be built before Daniel’s 70th Week begins, because halfway into the 70th Week the Antichrist takes his seat in the Jewish Temple and declares himself to be god, and he also puts a stop to Temple sacrifices and offerings (see Daniel 9:27; Daniel 11:36; 2 Thessalonians 2:4).

When the seven year Wrath of God begins, which is the final years of God’s dealings with mankind in this world, it will involve God’s poured-out Wrath that begins with His seven seal judgments. Next will be His seven trumpet judgments, and finally His seven vials (or bowls) judgments. All of these judgments magnify in intensity and frequency, just like Jesus the Christ prophesies in His Olivet Discourse. When the Time of Jacob’s Trouble or the last half of Daniel’s 70th Week, which is filled with unprecedented horrors, closes out with the Lord’s Second Coming on the Day of Judgment, there also will be a huge Feast for the Vultures (God’s banquet for the fowls of the air). These vultures will feast off of the carnage from the granddaddy of all wars (the Battle of Armageddon).

Apostle John’s second harvest vision, as depicted in Revelation 14:17-20, metaphorically describes the Battle of Armageddon as a grape harvest ripe for Divine or Righteous Judgment and Punishment. In the apostle’s vision of this second harvest, the destined to be destroyed unsaved individuals are the ones being crushed in God’s winepress. As a result, the carnage from the Battle of Armageddon (God’s winepress) will cause the spilt blood to rise up to the horses’ bridles, and flow two hundred miles from Jerusalem!

Furthermore, the Battle of Armageddon is the end result of the initial war that the Antichrist wages against Israel and the Jewish saints (primarily those converted during Daniel’s 70th Week or Tribulation Period), a war that swiftly snatches the peace from the world that the Antichrist first convinces the world to believe he wants the nations he leads to have. This initial war with Israel and the Jewish saints will escalate until all of the Antichrist-ruled nations of the world, and those nations that are against the Antichrist, will take part in the greatest battle that this world will ever know—the Battle of Armageddon.

Once again, there will be much bloodshed, much butchery, during this final war on Earth! Humans will kill one another without giving a person’s life a second thought. Men and women will live like there is no tomorrow, and, sad to say, for too many, there will be no tomorrow (not another chance to be convicted about accepting the Word of God’s Truth, which is that ONLY Jesus the Christ is the Savior and Redeemer of this world, and the people in it). Indeed, the left behinders (the ones “left” behind or “forsaken” at the time of the initial Rapture—the Rapture of the Bride of Christ—who choose to worship the Beast (the Antichrist and his wicked political, religious, and economic systems) never will know peace again, for they will be thrown in the Lake of Fire!

Before experiencing an eternal life in the Lake of Fire, these committed unbelievers, as well as the converted/sifted Tribulation believers, will experience God’s righteous punishments and judgments (His Wrath), which cause the unmatched famine, starvation, food and water rationing, and inflationary prices that will come upon the Earth during Daniel’s 70th Week’s horrors. In other words, once God’s seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments are pour out, and after all of the nations in the world start participating in the Battle of Armageddon, fighting on one side or the other, the end-time amounts of food, water, gasoline, and other day-to-day necessities will become very scarce.

During the Battle of Armageddon, which primarily is about the Arabic Middle Eastern countries’ war against Israel, the food shortages, for example, will cause the end-time prices for a day’s ration of wheat and barley to skyrocket. The Bible suggests that a working-class family who pays the requested day’s salary for wheat only will be able to feed one person, while the day’s salary cost of barley will feed three persons! Needless to say, these starvation, thirst, and lack of comfort circumstances will make many people eager to pull the trigger (eager to kill more and more people so that there will be more for food, water, and so forth, for them)!

Again, prepared and watchful believers will not be troubled or perplexed by these horrific times that Jesus the Christ prophesies would be happening in the end times, because the Lord has assured His Bride (Body of Believers) that His Bride will be rescued (saved) from the end-time Wrath of God. That’s why He instructs His true believers to look up and know that their Savior’s return is near. Still, all of the end-time signs Jesus the Christ speaks about in His Olivet Discourse will be fulfilled before Jesus the Christ returns to this Earth as its rightful King and Lord.

Though no person who is of “sound” mind would want to experience any of the Daniel’s 70th Week’s horrors, the truth is that too many vacillating believers and way too many committed unbelievers will be left behind to live or die during this prophesied seven-year Tribulation. That’s why those individuals who need to do so should get their own “house” in order, NOW, because Daniel’s 70th Week, which also includes the Time of Jacob’s Trouble and time when the Battle of Armageddon will happen, is just around the corner!

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