Now that we are getting a breather, I hope all our frens here know that there is a bigger party elsewhere and please do not miss this one. Trump is U.S savior, but the true savior of the world is Jesus. The big party I am referring to here is the 2nd coming.
Now, some people might not believe in the rapture and I have not until recently. I dug through the Bible to see if I can find evidences of what might be. Here is what I have found.
Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man
Based on those verses, here's some of the information regarding the time of Noah.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. My understanding of it was, mixing of DNA. Are we there now? Yes, we are.
Genesis 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually With all the info on Epstein, Diddy, trafficking, adrenochrome, and the corruption going on, I would say we are here.
Matthew 24:38. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark.. This means people were just happy and going about their business. They are not locked-down, groaning and moaning about being oppressed or having lots of struggles. It's good time for the people. They were lured into a sense of complacency.
1 Peter 3:20 who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine long suffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. That means very few people understood what is going on. They were not awake but "woke." Not sure if that's the right word but I am just going to say it.
Mark 13:32. “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. This one is very easy to understand. No need for a brain-dead to explain. LOL**
Luke 17:28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Jesus mentioned not only the day of Noah, but he also mentioned the day of Lot. What were the days of Lot like?
Genesis 10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. - If you look up these cities, you will find that they were warring. We are watching that right now with this election.
Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.
Genesis 18:20 And the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, 21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.” - Those 2 cities were exceedingly evil. Abraham or at the time, Abram even implored God not to destroy them.
There were mobs of men who were trying to gang rape and performing strange sexual acts to the two angels staying at Abraham. These men were not just a mob of young teenagers who did not know right or wrong. According to these verses,
Genesis 19:4 Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house.
Jude 1:7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
they should have known better. Does this remind you about what we are hearing now coming out of all the Freak-off parties? This actually remind me about our cities. Try going to the streets of San Francisco Tenderloin, Seattle, or Portland downtown and you will not only suffer this, you might not even be alive.
But here is a very interesting thing about these people.
Genesis 19:11 And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.
Are we seeing that right now? They seem to be walking around in blindness. They followed the mobs and did these bad stuffs.
But here's the good news for those of us not suffering blindness though.
Revelation 3:8-11 See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. 9 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. 10 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.
Now this paragraph to me is very clear. Jesus is saying to the church of Philadelphia that he knows they have kept his commandments and work very hard. He will kept them from going through tribulation. To me, Jesus is very kind to all of us. If we miss the boat (rapture), he gives us a second chance. The 2nd chance is a lot harder to go through. Tribulation is no fun.
According to what Jesus said in the gospels. I think we are very close. I just hope we are not complacent and miss the boat and the big party because during the time of Noah and Lot, they were partying and having fun. Noah told them about the flood and no one listened. Jesus came and most people had not idea except for the wisemen. Eight during the time of Noah, and several wisemen from the East were actually watching for Jesus to come.
If I can help even one person here to not miss the boat, I will be happy here. Thanks for listening to a brain-dead.
I know God laid this on your heart to share and I thank you my friend for encouraging people to keep their focus on the truth of the Word of God and to be ready for the return of the one and only King of Kings and Lord of Lords. This is the most important truth that any person can believe. People will let you down...they are fallible...but God will never turn His back on us...He loves us with an everlasting love and has provided a way so that we can be reconciled with Him for all eternity. One of my great concerns from Revelation is the great deception that will deceive even the elect. Remember that deception is cloaked primarily in truth, which is why it is so easy to be deceived...even by the elect. We must be vigilant in all things...God has revealed so much to us but He will come like a thief in the night...being ready to give account of why we should be accepted by God to spend eternity with Him is the most important thing we could ever do in our life.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 KJV
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The Midnight Cry by Gold City Quartet is one of my favorite songs...it is so inspiring...it just fills me with joy to look forward to this great and awesome Day of the Lord...Maranatha
https://youtu.be/98ggFkg_H_E
Thank you. We all need to be the watchers.
About that rapture bit, though, I don't think that's biblical- it was a Schofield thing, invented relatively recently and pushed very hard for I don't know what reason. But revelation had been accepted for centuries as a fall-of-Rome description, 7 cities on hills etc. Parallel to His coming though, but no rapture. Just rough times.
I know that's what I have been told for long time but it looks like with some of the information I posted, it's a possibility.
I would rather believe that than the hard time.