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HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE RAPTURE
Facebook ^ | July 4, 2017 | Charles Meek

Posted on 07/05/2017 5:32:05 PM PDT by grumpa

As soon as you perceive that the time for the rapture may be near, please do the following in context with Matthew 24 (since we must maintain our scriptural foundation):

1. Locate the nearest mountain. (If you are in Kansas, sorry, but you are in serious trouble.) — "Let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains."

2. Make sure you have a full tank of gas so you can leave your city of residence — "Let those in the city get out."

3. If you are temporarily out of town, think twice about returning home — "Let those in the country not enter the city."

4. Make sure you live upstairs — "Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house."

5. Don’t have children — "How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!"

6. Pray it happens in the summer — "Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath."

7. Make sure you are a farmer that has his cloak — "Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak."

8. Don’t attend a marriage ceremony — “And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage. . . .”

9. But most importantly, don’t take your time machine back in history 2,000 years because Jesus said it would happen while some of his contemporaries were still alive: “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.” (Matthew 24:34; see also Matthew 10:23; 16:27-28; 26:64; Revelation 1:1-3; 22:6-20)


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10. To better understand what the rapture really is, see my article:

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=D3BD424B0B25B83F!11116&app=Word

1 posted on 07/05/2017 5:32:05 PM PDT by grumpa
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To: grumpa

“Pray it happens in the summer —”

I live in Central Texas and South Louisiana.

At around 11:00 a.m. each day of the summer, it feels like a rapture.


2 posted on 07/05/2017 5:38:26 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: grumpa

Placemarker ...


3 posted on 07/05/2017 5:41:11 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

How to prepare for the rapture? Be pure.


4 posted on 07/05/2017 5:54:56 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: grumpa
https://youtu.be/JHg9yku3LSA
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

5 posted on 07/05/2017 5:55:15 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: grumpa
For further study, if interested: http://www.pre-trib.org/articles/view/differences-between-rapture-and-second-coming
6 posted on 07/05/2017 6:01:40 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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And another, for those interested in what is coming: http://www.pre-trib.org/articles/view/matthew-2431-rapture-or-second-coming
7 posted on 07/05/2017 6:04:38 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: grumpa

Only one way to prepare. Repent, ask Jesus Christ to forgive you and enter your life as Lord and Savior. Then look up! For your salvation draweth nigh. Trust in Christ and Him only


8 posted on 07/05/2017 6:06:03 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

Amen and lines 1-10 apply to Israel when they flee during the tribulation, because they realize the false savior the Antichrist is coming to destroy them.


9 posted on 07/05/2017 6:21:30 PM PDT by Rodm
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To: Mom MD
Only one way to prepare. Repent, ask Jesus Christ to forgive you and enter your life as Lord and Savior. Then look up! For your salvation draweth nigh. Trust in Christ and Him only

That covers it.

10 posted on 07/05/2017 6:35:47 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Boardwalk

How to prepare for the rapture? Be pure....

BINGO...


11 posted on 07/05/2017 6:46:24 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: grumpa

Isaiah 26

19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.


12 posted on 07/05/2017 6:47:47 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: ealgeone
Only one way to prepare. Repent, ask Jesus Christ to forgive you and enter your life as Lord and Savior. Then look up! For your salvation draweth nigh. Trust in Christ and Him only

That covers it.

Every Day... Several times per day.

13 posted on 07/05/2017 6:48:08 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: grumpa

“..the time for the rapture may be near..”

LOL


14 posted on 07/05/2017 6:54:51 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: grumpa

Your #9 is ... off the mark.


15 posted on 07/05/2017 7:03:33 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: grumpa

You are in error early on in your essay linked. The brigal Party goes out to meet the Bridegroom AND RETURN TO THE FATHER’s HOUSE, not the Earth ... unless the father you refer to is the prince of the power of the air.


16 posted on 07/05/2017 7:08:56 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: grumpa

I’ve been to the dentist! Going to the afterlife with clean teeth, or my mother would be so embarrassed.


17 posted on 07/05/2017 7:13:01 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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To: grumpa
Your errors stem from conflating the Luke Temple Discourse with the Olivet Discourse delivered to Peter, James, John and Andrew only, and regarding only Jews and Jewish believers.

In 70AD 'the Abomination of Desolation did not stand int he Holy of Holies proclaiming himself god. The Roman soldiers stood their banners at the gate, not in the burned down Temple. The devastation fo the Temple was so complete, Vespasian ordered the rubble 'kilned for the gold' melted from the stone surfaces. Orders had been givent o preserve the Temple, nut it burned utterly.

18 posted on 07/05/2017 7:14:48 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Tax-chick

I thought that was ‘put on clean underwear before you go out’, not ‘make sure your teeth are clean’ ?


19 posted on 07/05/2017 7:16:11 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: grumpa
The reason for the Pre-Tribulation Rapture is at least two-fold:

1- For the Bride of Christ, The Body of Christ to be outta here when the wrath of God is poured out in ever increasing severity

2- the evangelizing of humanity will be done by a chosen 144,000 JEWISH evangelists; Daniel's seventieth week, according to GOD, is to 'put an end to sin in Israel'. The Tribulation is about Israel, for the Age of Grace has ended with the snatching away of the Bride of Christ. And to be clear, the Rapture is not a hidden or secret event. It will cause devastation to civilization unseen in all of human History.

20 posted on 07/05/2017 7:52:58 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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