Posted on 02/23/2021 12:14:39 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Here are 16 differences between the Rapture and the Second Coming:
The Rapture will be before the Tribulation Period—The Second Coming will be after. At the Rapture, Jesus stays in the air—At the Second Coming, Jesus comes down to the earth. At the Rapture, the Church goes up to heaven—At the Second Coming, the Church comes down to the earth. At the Rapture, the living saints are caught up to heaven—At the Second Coming, the living saints remain to repopulate the earth. At the Rapture, the Mt. of Olives is untouched—At the Second Coming, Jesus touches down on the Mt. of Olives, and it splits in two. The Rapture is followed by the reign of the Antichrist—The Second Coming is followed by the reign of the Christ. At the Rapture, the physical character of the earth is unchanged—At the Second Coming, the physical character of the earth is changed (Jerusalem will be elevated). At the Rapture, Satan will go on a rampage—At the Second Coming, Satan will be bound and chained. At the Rapture, Jesus will remove peace from the earth—At the Second Coming, Jesus will establish peace on earth. The Rapture is a secret event (Like a thief in the night)—The Second Coming is a public event (Every eye will see Jesus). At the Rapture, the Church will be removed from the earth—At the Second Coming, the lost will be removed from the earth. The Rapture is before the Marriage of the Lamb—The Second Coming is after the Marriage of the Lamb. At the Rapture, Jesus comes for His Church—At the Second Coming, Jesus comes with His Church. There are no signs of the Rapture—There are many signs of the Second Coming. At the Rapture, Jesus rescues His Church—At the Second Coming, Jesus rescues Israel. The Rapture demonstrates the grace of God—The Second Coming demonstrates the wrath of God. Here are some recent events that are related to Bible prophecy:
One, God gives people that ignore Him (men that sleep with men, women that sleep with women, etc.) over to a reprobate mind (Rom. 1:24-28).
He will allow them to reach a point where they cannot make sound decisions.
On Feb. 10, 2021, it was reported that a hospital in the U.K. has started saying “chestfeeding” instead of “breastfeeding”; “human milk” instead of “breastmilk”; “parent,” “co-parent,” or “second biological parent” instead of “father.”
The growth of the LGBTQ community seems to be causing an increase in unsound thinking.
Two, on Feb. 12, 2021, it was reported that Israel ranked seventh in Bloomberg’s list of the 60 most innovative economies.
The U.S. dropped from 9th last year to 11th this year.
Think about it: The U.S. didn’t even make the top 10.
Three, on Jan. 20, 2021, the great prophecy teacher, Jan Markell, made some profound statements about the coming Great Reset, called the Great Reset global socialism and/or Marxism, and said its goal is to take the world to global godless government.
She rightly said the Great Reset will abolish Christianity, cash, private property, national sovereignty, and more, and the Biden/Harris administration cannot wait to implement it.
If silence in the pulpits over the destruction of Christianity is not lukewarmness and unsound thinking, what is it (Rev. 3:15-22)?
Four, concerning deceit, on Feb. 10, 2021, it was reported that German officials have found internal documents showing that Germany’s Interior Ministry paid people to create fear in the nation to justify Covid lockdowns and other restrictive measures.
Interior Ministry officials were pushing a political agenda and paying people to scare their citizens to justify what they were doing.
Five, on Feb. 12, 2021, Iran announced that it will join the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEC), a regional trading bloc of nations that includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia.
On Nov. 15, 2020, 15 nations, including China, agreed to make the ASEAN EC the largest regional trading bloc of nations on earth.
On July 1, 2020, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) went into effect.
These regional trading blocs of nations are being patterned after the E.U.
According to the Bible, Ten Kings will appear before the Antichrist appears (Dan. 7:7-8, 24).
I have long contended that the U.N. will be divided into 10 regions or 10 regional trading blocs of nations (E.U., USMCA, ASEAN EC, GCC, etc.) with one leader over each region before the Antichrist rises to power.
These regional trading blocs of nations have been coming on the scene for years.
It is my opinion, based on past reports, that the 10 regional trading blocs will each pick a leader that will turn out to be the 10 Kings.
Six, in his first three weeks in office, Pres. Biden called the leaders of several nations (Canada, UK, China, Russia, France, Japan, etc.), but he has not called Prime Min. Netanyahu of Israel.
Some Israeli and media officials believe Biden is deliberately snubbing Israel.
California Representative Ro Khanna believes Biden is sending a message that he will radically change America’s relationship with Israel if it doesn’t stop building settlements on the West Bank and recognize Palestinian Statehood.
Some of the concern may have started when Biden’s Sec. of State, Antony Blinken, said Biden would not adhere to Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights (he may have backed off on this).
Biden’s resumption of relations with the P.A. and his decision to resume economic aid to the P.A. have not helped.
On Feb. 11, 2021, Biden’s Press Sec., Jen Psaki, was asked, “Does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies?” She did not answer the question.
During the Tribulation Period, the whole world will hate Israel, and that includes a godless U.S.
Seven, some U.S. citizens, especially young Americans, think Socialism is a good thing.
I recently read a 6-month-old CBNNEWS.COM article about a Christian named Georgian Banov who escaped Socialism in Bulgaria and made his way to America.
Banov reminded people that the USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (notice the word “Socialist” because some historians estimate that Joseph Stalin may have killed as many as 20 million people).
According to Banov, there was no such thing as “Soft Socialism.”
It is an anti-God, anti-Christ system of government that rules with an iron fist.
Citizens were poor, most didn’t have enough to eat, they were spied on, they lived in fear, and those that complained (or supposedly complained) about the government were arrested or they just disappeared.
Those who are calling for Socialism in America need to pray that they never get what they are asking for.
We are living in prophetic times, and a Socialist/Marxist world government is looming that will be more evil than what Banov experienced.
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Dr. Andy Woods has a great series on the Rapture on YouTube. It is his Sunday School lessons. The main service he is teaching Genesis. All good.
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Good stuff and pretty much right on. Good job. Many are confused about these things. Good to give God’s Word clearly to bring comfort to the saints.
The Rapture can come tomorrow at 9:30 PDT or it can come on the afternoon of March 3, AD 99,000,339. The Bible doesn’t say when it will come and tells us not to speculate about that.
Learning to keep my eyes open more.
Here’s a little different look at the summary...
The Rapture
• Begins the Tribulation Period (Daniel’s 70th Week) followed by the reign of the Antichrist, God judging and punishing the world using Satan to do so.
• Jesus comes for the Church in the air and takes the Church to heaven
• Jesus will remove peace from the earth
• Approaches secretly like a thief in the night
• The Church and the Holy Spirit will be removed from the earth
• Launches the Marriage Supper of the Lamb
• The day or the hour is unknown to all except the Father (but saints should know the times and the seasons). The times of the Gentiles are not precisely counted.
• Jesus rescues His Church before the Wrath of the Lamb.
The Second Coming
• Ends the Tribulation Period (Daniel’s 70th Week) followed by the reign of the Christ, God binding Satan with chains.
• Jesus comes with the Church down to the earth, touches down on the Mt. of Olives, and it splits in two
• Jesus will establish peace on earth
• Approaches openly and every eye will see Jesus
• The lost will have been removed from the earth
• Ends the Marriage Supper of the Lamb
• The day and the hour is known. The times of God’s People, Israel, are precisely counted (Daniel 9:24-27).
• Jesus rescues Israel after the Wrath of the Lamb.
As previously posted, here is where I think we are in God’s timetable and Biblical Prophecy.
Well, we are between Daniel’s 69th Week (the death of Christ) and 70th Week (the coming Tribulation) and we are in the intervening 2000 years for the Time of the Gentiles which all signs show is quickly coming to an end. We are definitely in the End Times but not yet in the Seven-Year Wrath of the Lamb (the church will never been here for that (1 Thess. 5:9)).
However, notice that Scripture says, “In the last days I will pour out of my Spirit upon ALL flesh” (Joel 2:28). Now we know that, the Holy Spirit will be absent for the earth during the horrific seven -year tribulation (Daniel’s 70th week - even though during that time miraculously “all of Israel will be miraculously saved” (Rom 11:26)).
So when will God pour out his spirit on ALL flesh? NOW, before the Rapture, before the Tribulation. That’s another reason why I think we’re at the threshold of Luke 14:22-23, the last worldwide incoming of souls who will be spared from the unimaginable horror of what’s coming.
Well researched eschatology but with one other possibility, that the rapture will occur when the two witnesses are killed by the Antichrist but are resurrected after three days (Mid-Trib). The dead in Christ will rise first, then believers who are alive will be translated, blessed to have not experienced death.
Here the sequence of events listed in Revelation are not in chronological order. The seven seals are opened (Daniel’s sealed scroll), to prepare the way for the trumpets and vials of God’s vengeance. But the occurrence of the trumpets and vials overlap, drying of the Euphrates, 200 million soldiers from the East, etc, in quick succession when the Second Coming is near. The first 3.5 years will be a false peace as the two witnesses deliver their message for the world to repent. The second 3.5 years will be like hell on Earth. Men will seek death but it will flee from them. Still, those who do not have God’s mark on their forehead will refuse to repent of their sins.
I’ve seen a vision of the return of Christ, on a clear sunny day. The sign of Christ will be a great comet that the entire world will witness, bright enough to be seen during the day. The armies of the Sons of Light will ride on the comet’s tail. The sky and the sun will be darkened and the moon will turn to blood. Fire will consume the entire Earth as Christ’s armies defeat the sons of darkness. The animals will pant for lack of water. Then when all seems lost the entire Earth will be restored in an instant with green meadows and clear water, clear air, blue oceans teaming with life. All will rejoice and be satisfied and the animals will be safe. Jesus Christ will set up his kingdom on the Earth for a thousand years. But this is a great mystery.
I asked how long O Lord before your coming. A voice from heaven said “I have heard your prayers and have seen your tears.” “Therefore, as Hezekiah asked for more time, I have given 15 years to the inhabitants of the Earth to prepare for the end of days.” This vision was received in the fall of 2019 and the promise of an additional 15 years was received in the summer of 2020. Blessed are those who keep oil in their lamps, they will be ready.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
-Frank
> The Bible doesn’t say when it will come and tells us not to speculate about that.
Nobody knows the day or the hour but those who diligently study the signs in heaven, on the Earth and in the seas, like the sons of Issachar, they will understand the season of our deliverance.
-Frank
But the Book of Revelation continually announces itself as a timeline, so your fast and loose license is not justified. The Two Witnesses die 3 1/2 years into Daniels' 70th Week - the Tribulation - after 1/2 of the world is dead.
So, no, the Church is not appointed to wrath (the 7-year Wrath of the Lamb) (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
Add that the unbelievers want the rocks to fall on them to hide them from the face of Christ.
Add that the unbelievers want the rocks to fall on them to hide them from the face of Christ.
From where is the underlined piece?
Mark13:32 says “However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.
can't see anything about the "sons of Issachar"
While nobody can know the exact hour and day Luke 21 gives multiple sights to look for to know Christ’s return is drawing near. Jesus concludes by saying: “Luke 21:28 (ESV): Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Matthew 24 covers much the same territory but I believe the passage in Luke is clearer.
Ok, but what about these sons of Issachar?!
Just a point about Luke 21. In Luke’s version of the Olivet Discourse, specifically Luke 21:20–24, there are details that were entirely fulfilled in 70 A.D. the New Scofield Reference Bible says that as well.
And 25 to 28
25 “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 26 People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
Luke 21:5-36 deals with the answer to the question: WHEN WILL THE TEMPLE BE DESTROYED?
Luke 17:22-37 deals with the answer to the question WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN OF YOUR COMING AND OF THE CLOSE OF THE AGE?
I believe Luke 21.25-28 is clearly talking about the return of Christ - v. 27 makes this clear. I think Luke’s version of the Olivet discourse does a much better (or perhaps I should say clearer) job of distinguishing between the destruction of the Temple and the return Jesus than Matthew does. Throughout the Old Testament we also are warned that the end of times (or “day of the Lord”) will be accompanied by signs of the sun, moon and heavens. This seems to be a constant throughout prophecy. With regard to your question in your other post I have no idea what the Sons of Issachar is referring to. you’ll have to ask him about that. I am very much with you on the error of “date setters” and the practice of newspaper exegesis.
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