I now think it will be Pentecost, 2001.
Long ago, not finding answers to some burning questions, I laid my hands on my open Bible and asked the Lord to show me everything he wanted man to know about it. I have studied intensively for over 36 years. Once at twilight, when tired of typing all day, I grabbed my Bible by the heel, threw myself down across the bed and said to myself, "Why am I doing all this work? It will probably never be published anyway." Suddenly, I was staring down at my open Bible. In that darkened room, with draperies closed and no chance of a stray light reflection from anywhere, there was a rectangle of light on one verse, Jeremiah 50:2. In awe, I read,"Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not."
Honoring my prayer beyond anything I could have hoped for, God opened the eyes of my understanding. One night, I awoke with a start. Terrified, my heart beating like a bird trying to get out, I heard a masculine voice say, "Be still and know that I am God." My heart quieted instantly. I was still until daylight, but it was about 20 years before I realized that God opened the eyes of my understanding that night. The light dawned while I was reading Job 33:15 in the Septuagint: "when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed:) then opens he the understanding of men."
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In Revelation 3:3, Jesus said, "If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come on thee....He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."
Christians, if you have an ear to hear, you will realize that Jesus made an astonishing statement to you. Turning the above verse around, it shows that if you DO watch, Jesus will NOT come on you as a thief, and you will KNOW what hour he will come on you. This is very important now that the Rapture is near at hand. You must know exactly what to do to keep from being left behind. See How Can We Escape? later on in this document.
He will come to take His Bride to Heaven in the Pre-Trib Rapture. There will be a Pre-Wrath Rapture for the remainder of the Body of Christ (the Tribulation saints) on the 2,300th day of the shortened Tribulation.
When Jesus said, "But of that day and hour knoweth no man" in Matthew 24:36 and Mark 13:32, the word translated "knoweth" was present tense. IT APPLIED TO THAT DAY AND NOT TO OUR DAYS HERE AT THE END OF THE AGE. Do you know that the Jewish month and day of the month of the Second Advent were already in the Old Testament?
The Jewish month and day of the month of the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ are found in Ezekiel 29. Verse 17 sets the month and day of the month. Then verse 21 shows that the king will bud forth on that day. The Lord said,
In the first month, in the first day of the month...In that day (Nisan 1) will I cause the horn (king) of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth (i.e., 'the Word') in the midst of them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
As John 1:1,14 explains, "the Word was God...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." In light of the no-man-knows scripture, the above is amazing. This clue was already in Scripture, but not recognized, when Jesus said that no man knew. Christ will return as the King of kings and Lord of lords on the same month and day that all the other Israelite kings officially took office. Nisan/Abib 1 is the beginning of the Jewish REGNAL year and SACRED year. The Plan of the Ages sketched by the Lord is perfect and logical. This is the best time he could have picked.
In the New Testament, Jesus clearly stated that ALL things were foretold and that NOTHING was hidden that would not be known. That includes the dates of the Rapture and the Second Coming. He said,
But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things (Mark 13:23).
there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known (Matthew 10:26).
Nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest: neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad (Luke 8:17).
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known (Luke 12:2).
And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear (Mark 4:22).
Daniel recorded many time clues, but they were sealed until this time of the end in which we are living. Daniel 12:9,10 says, "The words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end...none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand." Do you have ears to hear? Are you wise? Then you can understand, now. The wise virgins can understand.
The baby church was not to understand the times and seasons, but there would come a time when the church could understand. The last thing Jesus told his disciples before he ascended was, "It is not for you (apostles) to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power (exousia, authority according to his own choice). But ye shall receive power (dunamin, miraculous ability under or full of the power of the Holy Spirit), after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." (Acts 1:7,8). The Holy Spirit helps the wise understand. The church had the power to know after Pentecost, yet had to wait and watch until the last generation was born. Now, the last generation can "know all things." I John 2:18,20,27 says,
Little children (the last generation), it is the last time (time of the end)...ye have an unction (anointing) from the Holy One, and ye know ALL things....the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you...the same anointing teacheth you of ALL things.
I believe it has been possible to figure out the timing of end-time events since the Six-Day War of 1967. However, for those skeptics who think we cannot know and are not watching, they too will know after the Spirit of Christ comes to Rapture the church on Pentecost.
In I Thessalonians 5:4-6, Paul told the Christians, "But ye, brethren are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch." Jesus told us 23 times to watch. Understanding time depended on it. What we were watching for was the Sign of the End of the Age. That made it possible to figure out the dates of all end-time events.
The last forty-year generation began with the Sign of the End of the Age, when Israel grew four leaves in the Six-Day War of 1967, Sinai, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and West Bank, fulfilling the fig tree parable. When the disciples asked what would be the sign of his coming and the end of the age, Jesus answered with this parable:
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch (Israel) is yet tender (she was 19 years old), and putteth forth (ekphue, puts forth, produces, sprouts) leaves, ye know that summer is nigh (the war was June 5; summer began June 21): So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it (the Rapture) is near, even at the doors (plural, symbol of the two Raptures). Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled (Matthew 24:32-34).
The other account of the parable, in Luke 21:29-32, is a bit different:
Behold the fig tree (Israel), and all the trees (nations); When they now shoot forth (probalosin, push to the front, throw or cast forward; i.e., attack and shoot), ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Instead of speaking of growing, it focuses on the warfare, Israel and the nations pushing and shooting at each other. This happened in the Six-Day War of 1967.
The year of the Six-Day War, 1967, plus one 40-year generation equals 2007, the end of the age and the beginning of the Millennium, when the Jews in the wilderness will return to their promised land. This parallels the days of the Exodus, when Israel was first born as a nation. Those 19 year olds were considered the young. They were the ones that went into the promised land after 40 years in the wilderness. Truly, the Lord "made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel" (Psalm 103:7).
In modern days, Israel was reborn in 1948. That + 19 = 1967, the Sign of the End of the Age. This fit the Fig Tree Parable. "When his branch (modern Israel) is yet tender ('apalos,' young, i.e., can be no more than 19), and putteth forth leaves...This generation (that saw the fig tree grow) shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." 1948 + 19 = 1967 + 40 = 2007.Jesus said that the Tribulation would be shortened or no flesh would be saved. In "the vision of the evening and the morning" (Dan. 8:26), Daniel 8:14 shows that the shortened Tribulation lasts 2,300 days (lit., evenings, mornings). This includes the time when the Jews sacrifice in their new temple plus the time when they do not because of the desecration by the False Prophet in the middle of the seven-year period. If you count backward from the Jewish Tishri 1, 5768, using Jewish inclusive reckoning, you will end on Sivan 6, the Feast of Weeks in 5761, our 2001. I am convinced that this is when the shortened Tribulation will begin. I expect a seven-year peace treaty to be confirmed (gabar, made strong, binding, i.e., be signed, ratified) that day by the Beast (a Roman) and the False Prophet (an Israeli).
There is now only one time, before the 40 years of the last generation run out, that the period between those two feasts contains the required 2,300 days (evening-mornings, as in Genesis 1:5) for the shortened Tribulation.
Therefore, it seems that we now have only one choice for the shortened Tribulation, from the Jewish Sivan 6, 2001 to Tishri 1, in 2007. In l998, Pentecost is on Sunday, the correct day for the Rapture (Rev. 1:10), and according to the Jewish Talmudic calendar, there are no more times before the forty years from the Sign of the End of the Age expire that Pentecost again falls on "the Lord's day," Sunday.
The Lord is an excellent mathematician. It looks to me like he has narrowed it down so that we have no other choices in this time frame for the Tribulation than 2001-2007, or for the Rapture on a Sunday Pentecost than Sivan 6, in our 1998. This will be May 31 on both the Hebrew and Jewish Talmudic calendars. Everything seems to fit perfectly.
(Note: Of course, the Rapture did not happen on May 31, or June 7. Since the Orthodox calendar, which I knew nothing about until after may 31 passed, figures every Pentecost on Sunday, which is in line with Lev. 23, we are not limited to Pentecost 1998, as I had thought.)
It looks like the shortened Tribulation will be 2001-2007. The Rapture has to take place before it begins for in Revelation 3:10, the Lord promised to keep us "FROM the hour of temptation (peirasmou), which shall come upon all the world, to try (peirasai) them that dwell upon the earth."
Some expect the Rapture on Pentecost. Others expect it on the Feast of Trumpets because that feast has had no fulfillment so far. I think both camps are right in a way. There are two Raptures. This contributes to the confusion about when the Rapture will take place. I believe that the Pre-Trib Rapture of the Church will be on Pentecost and that the Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Tribulation Saints will be on the Feast of Trumpets.
The first Rapture is in the "Come up hither" of Revelation 4:1. The second Rapture is in Revelation 7:14: "These are they which came out of great tribulation." Separating the two is the Tribulation found in Revelation 6, which starts out with the Beast riding forth on a white horse and ends with "the great day of his wrath is come."
The Rapture of the Tribulation saints takes place between the breaking of the sixth and seventh seals, but after the very day the seven trumpet judgments are to hit Earth has begun. These are saved so as by fire, as when the Lord saved Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego from the fiery furnace. They were told, "ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire" (Daniel 3:26).
Yes! the first Rapture is the "First of the Firstfruits." At Sinai, the Lord said,
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year...the feast of unleavened bread...the feast of harvest (Pentecost), the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering (Feast of Tabernacles), which is in the end of the year...Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD....The first (i.e., Rapture I) of the firstfruits (all those "redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God," Revelation 14:4) of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God (Exodus 23:14-19).
I feel like shouting, "We are the first of the firstfruits!" and Pentecost is when "The FIRST of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God." This seems to be Rapture I. The Bride of Christ is the "FIRST" of the entire Body of Christ, which is the whole "firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb."
In other words, the entire firstfruits is the Body of Christ, but the first of the firstfruits is the Bride of Christ. It looks like the Bride is taken to Heaven in the Pre-Trib Rapture on Pentecost. The remainder of the Body of Christ is caught up to Heaven in the Pre-Wrath Rapture on the Feast of Trumpets, the 2,300th day of the Tribulation.
I have learned some new things while writing my third book, Revelations 2000. One, thanks to Bruce Baber suggesting some time ago that the feet of Christ were significant, is that the two Raptures that I recognized when I wrote Exit: 2007, the first of the Church saints and the second of the Tribulation saints, are like the two feet of the Body of Christ. One is expelled from Earth and born into the new world (Heaven) a little ahead of the other. The "righteousness of saints" makes the difference which Rapture we participate in.
Bruce has good insight on the subject of two Raptures. I just received a letter from him stating that Enoch and Elijah's translations foreshadow the two Raptures. I love to learn something new. I think he is right. Many of the participants of the first Rapture are Gentiles, as Enoch was, and many of those in the second Rapture are Israelites, as Elijah was.
Hidden in scripture are secrets that are likenesses or duplicates of things that have happened before. History repeats itself by the Lord's design. In the oldest book in the Bible, Job told us that "THE SECRETS OF WISDOM...THEY ARE DOUBLE TO THAT WHICH IS!" (Job 11:5,6)
For example: the church was born on Earth on Pentecost Sunday, and it looks like it will be born into Heaven on Pentecost Sunday. (More on this later.)
I believe that the Rapture has to be on Sunday, the first day of the week. That is why the book of Revelation was written on Sunday. John became in the spirit on the Lord's day, Sunday, in Revelation 1:10 when he played out the Rapture. He stood on the isle of Patmos, which means mortal. He was mortal then quickly became in the spirit. The first thing he heard was the trumpet-like voice of the Lord. Then John turned (in Heaven) and saw Christ (in Heaven) holding the seven stars (angels of the churches that have just been raptured) in his hand and with the candlesticks (the raptured churches) surrounding him. It was a preview of the Rapture of Revelation 4:1. Both times, John heard the trumpet-like voice of the Lord showing that both passages were talking about the same event.
This is when "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: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air" (I Thessalonians 4:16,17).
After the Rapture, the first thing we will hear the Lord say will be "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is (at the Rapture), and which was (at the First Advent), and which is to come (at the Second Advent), the Almighty" (Revelation 1:8).
The Rapture will probably take place during the night, which for the Jews PRECEDES the daytime. Remember that it will be Jerusalem time. Their days start at 6:00 P.M. the preceding day, our time. You may also need to find out how many hours they are behind or ahead of you in your time zone to calculate the correct day where you are located.
Pentecost means 50, and Israel became a nation in 1948. The year 1948 plus 50 equals 1998, a perfect time for the Rapture. The Lord teaches by likenesses. In 30 A.D., Christ ascended on the 40th day, but the Holy Spirit waited until Pentecost, the 50th day, to descend on the Church. That was the birth of the Church on Earth. Why did he wait until the 50th day? Was it to demonstrate that the birth of the Church into Heaven will be on Pentecost within the 50th year after Israel was reborn as a nation on Earth? I think Christ will descend to pick up the Church on Pentecost just as the Holy Spirit descended on the Church on Pentecost in 30 A.D.
The parallel is good. The resurrection of Christ plus 50 equalled the birth of the church into the world. The resurrection of Israel plus 50 equals the birth of the church into a new world, Heaven. That would be a great Jubilee year for the church. If we count the Jubilee year from May 14, 1948, as Israel is doing, it will last from May 14, 1998 to May 14, 1999. A Pentecost Rapture fits within that time slot. The Israelites wandered 40 years in the wilderness, yet the Jubilee was not celebrated until the 50th year. These numbers are similar to the 40 days after the Resurrection and yet the Holy Spirit waited to descend on the 50th day. The year 1948, when Israel was reborn, plus 40 equals 1988 plus 10 equals 1998. Daniel 1:12 says, "Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days." The number ten has another important application for the end-times, which I explain in Exit: 2007 and Revelations 2000.
Also, Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer type of Christ, chose Ruth as his Gentile bride on Pentecost, "the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest" (Ruth 2:23). This is significant since we are called wheat (Matthew 13:38), and "a kind of firstfruits of his creatures" (James 1:18). The barley may represent the Jewish segment and the wheat the Gentile segment of the Church. Since the Rapture is likely to happen in the 6,000th year since Adam left the Garden of Eden (Jewish 5758, our 1998), it seems significant that Boaz gave Ruth "six measures of barley" (Ruth 3:15). In 28:11, Isaiah said, "with stammering lips and another tongue will he (the Lord) speak to this people," and in these latter days, the Jews have heard the gospel of Jesus Christ from the Gentiles. Is the wheat given six measures of barley?
Pentecost is "the firstfruits of wheat harvest" (Exodus 34:22).Nehemiah said it was a time "to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees (i.e., all nations), year by year, unto the house of the LORD: Also the firstborn of our sons" (Neh. 10:35,36).
The first trumpet of the Bible sounded on Pentecost the day the Ten Commandment were given at Sinai. Jewish tradition says the first trump sounds on Pentecost, the last trump on the Feast of Trumpets and the great trump on the Day of Atonement. These tie in well with the Rapture of the Bride of Christ when the first trump sounds and the Rapture of the remainder of the Body of Christ on the Feast of Trumpets. The great trump probably applies to the Lord's acceptance of the remnant of Israel. We can also see another similitude: God espoused Israel at Sinai on Pentecost (Jeremiah 2:2,3).
***There is another good tie in for Pentecost. On that day in 30 AD, the church was FILLED with the Holy Spirit. At the Rapture, the church that is FILLED with the Holy Spirit will, I believe, be sure to be chosen as the Bride of Christ. Ephesians 5:18 says to "be filled with the Spirit." It is important. Our lamps should not be going out. They should be brightly lit with the oil of the Holy Spirit, as they were in the church on Pentecost in 30 A.D.
I think the Rapture of Enoch and the days of Noah apply to the first Rapture before the Tribulation, and that the Rapture of Elijah and the days of Lot apply to the second Rapture on the first day of the millennial Day of the Lord just before the wrath of God is poured out. The first day is peaceful. The second is not. Fire falls that same day.
"I appreciate the reference. The signs all show that the Tribulation approaches. The Rapture of the Bride of Christ will precede it. I thought, because of the parable of the barren fig tree in Luke 13:6-9, that it would be on Pentecost in l998, but whenever it is, it can't be very far off."
Jesus demonstrated the gap between the Rapture and the beginning of the Tribulation in the parable of the barren fig tree. In Luke 13:6-9, he said,
A certain man (Christ) had a fig tree (Israel) planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon (at the Rapture), and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down (i.e., during the Tribulation).
If the Rapture takes place on Pentecost in l998, these four years, figured by Jewish inclusive reckoning, would end on Pentecost, also called the Feast of Weeks, in 2001. This would be a perfect time for the Seventieth Week of Daniel to begin.
I now see that the fourth year in this parable could possibly be the first year of the Tribulation. War comes at the breaking of the second seal. It is possible that the first seal is the first year and corresponds to the fourth year in the parable of the barren fig tree.
The following is an interesting capitalization. When telling where Heaven is located, I typed these words,
When Rapture I is at hand, Christ calls himself 'the bright and morning star' in Revelation 22:16. When the Second Coming is in view, he is called 'the Sun of righteousness that will arise with healing in his wings' in Malachi 4:2. Why the difference? An obvious reason is because the Rapture happens before the Second Advent, just as the morning star is seen before sun up, but there is more to it than that. It looks like he has planned to snatch us up on Pentecost when HEAVEN IS A BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR. It is a morning star five months out of every year.
Heaven is literally a bright and morning star on Pentecost. Jesus promised the morning star to overcomers among the church saints. Therefore, it applied to the Rapture when he said, "I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches" (Revelation 2:28,29). Jesus called himself the morning star because he resides on it. Here, he was talking to the church saints who already possess him. Thus, he was referring to giving them something else, Heaven, a literal morning star.
Do you have an ear to hear? The promise of the morning star was given to the overcomers among the churches, not to the Tribulation saints. This is because Heaven will be an evening star when Rapture II takes place. A hint at when the Rapture will take place is the fact that a morning star is only seen between midnight and dawn.
Enoch, a Gentile, was translated before the Flood judgment. Noah knew the year the Flood would come (Genesis 6:3), and no fire fell when he entered the Ark. He had to wait seven days before the rain began to fall, and all the people saved in the Ark were married. In our days, I believe the Bride of Christ will be caught up before the Tribulation trial comes upon the whole world.
Here is an interesting sidelight. The following was in Perry Stone's magazine: "The Hebrew year 5758 spelled out in Hebrew is an acronym for the phrase 'the season of Noah'. In fact, the last two letters of the Hebrew year 5758 spell the name 'Noah'"
Elijah, an Israelite, had to contend with a Jezebel just as the Tribulation saints will. In the days of Lot, fire fell right after he left Sodom. The same day, as soon as Lot and his daughters were at a safe distance, an asteroid destroyed Sodom, Gomorrah and the cities of the plain and formed the Great Rift Valley. I believe the Tribulation saints will be caught up just before the Wrath of God is poured out on Earth. In Luke 17:26-36, Jesus said,
And as it was in the days of Noe (Noah), so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married (Rapture I is of the Bride of Christ)...until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed....I tell you, in that night, there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body (of Christ) is (in Heaven), thither will the eagles (high flyers, i.e., the Tribulation saints) be gathered together.
Isaiah 40:31 speaks of these saints flying: "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."
The Bride of Christ will go to Heaven in Rapture I. As a type, all the people on the Ark were married. Even the animals went in two by two. This correlates with Eve (the bride) being taken out of Adam's body (his rib). This represents the Bride of Christ being taken out of the Body of Christ, for Christ is the called the "last Adam" (I Cor. 15:45).
No marriage is listed in the account of the days of Lot, and none is listed for Rapture II. Fire and brimstone will fall that same day. Wouldn't you rather be part of the Bride of Christ and escape the Tribulation altogether?
The Holy Spirit had to indwell believers, Israel had to be grafted into her old rootstock and the Sign of the End of the Age had to appear. This ultimate key of knowledge has finally come to pass. The Bible gives all the clues to pinpoint the exact dates, and they are coming sooner than you might think.
First, you must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. To be certain about your salvation, pray and tell him you accept him as your own personal Saviour. Be sure you are saved.
Then to stay ready to go in the Rapture, make sure that there is no unconfessed sin erecting a barrier between you and our Holy God as you walk through the rest of your days. Use I John 1:9 as soon as you sin to get back in fellowship. That scripture says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." If you are sinless, you are wearing a white wedding garment and will be chosen as part of the Bride of Christ. Don't get left behind when the Rapture takes place. According to Revelation 7:14, the Tribulation saints will have to wash their robes in the blood of Christ before they can be admitted into Heaven.
And there shall in no wise enter into it (Heaven) any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie (Revelation 21:27).Back
We should not focus all our attention on occurrances such as the comet, Hale-Bopp, but it is interesting that it came near the Earth 4.210 years ago, before Noah's Flood, and lately drew an arc in the sky over Heaven. What is important is to be prepared for the first Rapture, which I now believe is coming on Pentecost, 1999. Remember, the Bride always wears white. Only the Lord knows how much of his Holy Spirit we have to have indwelling us to be caught up in the Rapture. However, he has told us not to quench the Spirit and to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We cannot go wrong if we are filled.
Do not neglect to tell family and friends how to be filled with the Holy Spirit so they will be ready whenever the Rapture comes. First comes accepting Christ. After that, keep all known sins confessed to God so he will cleanse us of all unrighteousness (I John 1:9). Then we are as wise virgins waiting for the "bridegroom" to come. We have the necessary oil of the Holy Spirit and will be caught up in the Rapture. Second Peter 1:4-11 gives us a list of things to add to our faith so we will never fail.
Remember one thing, even if our understanding of Scripture is faulty, every word in the autographed copies of Scripture is absolute rock-hard truth. You can stake your life on it.
I am not saying that end-time events have to happen when I think they will. This is just the way it looks to me. Search the scriptures and see if these things are so.
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