Signs In Unexpected Places

Rapture Ready ^ | 10/27/25 | Jonathan Brentner

[Roman_War_Criminal]

As the time of Jesus’ appearing approaches, our understanding of Bible prophecy continues to grow.

For example, we have much greater clarity today regarding the mark of the beast (see Revelation 13:16-18). The combination of technical advances in the following areas during the past twenty years not only makes it possible for one man, antichrist, to control worldwide buying and selling, but also increases its likelihood of happening in the not-too-distant future:

5G cellular technology that may increase to 6G. The creation of gigantic databases. Artificial Intelligence (AI). Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Other biblical signs of the times are popping up in unexpected places.

The Many

For several years, one word in particular from Daniel 9:27 puzzled me:

“And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.” (emphasis added)

It’s clear from the context, as well as from Isaiah 28:14-18, that this “covenant” will include the nation of Israel. But why the reference to the “many”? One clue from the text and another from just a few weeks ago might just explain it.

In the Hebrew, the sense of “make a strong covenant” is that of taking an existing agreement and making it better. This suggests that the antichrist will use an existing framework and strengthen it when he puts in place the agreement referred to in Daniel 9:27.

The other clue comes from the deal that recently sought to end the Gazan War. President Donald Trump included many other nations in his peace initiative as a way to make it more appealing to both sides. Please know I am not saying President Trump is the antichrist or that this deal is not the one referenced in the above verse. We will not be here when the antichrist inks this deal. But is it not possible that the antichrist will copy the current arrangement when he makes his deal? Just this past week, Vice President JD Vance said the current peace accord with Hamas would serve as a model for future peace agreements in the Middle East and elsewhere.

The Witnesses

In Acts 1:8, Jesus gave this command to His followers:

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

The church began in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost and spread to the entire world, just as Jesus instructed. In recent years, and in particular after the massacre of October 7, 2023, many are boldly proclaiming the Gospel message in the city of Zion. In recent Understanding the Times broadcasts, Davie Tal, former Israeli Army officer and prophecy expert, described the many ways that Israelis are hearing the good news.

I am also aware of other ministries, such as The Joshua Fund, founded by Joel Rosenberg, actively witnessing for Jesus in Jerusalem and the rest of Israel as charitable organizations.

Why is this prophetically significant?

First, we know that the remnant of Jewish people who survive the Tribulation will turn to Jesus shortly before He returns (Zechariah 12:10-13:1). They will recognize Him as their Messiah amid much weeping and repentance. Having escaped the antichrist’s terrors, they will realize their mistake in trusting this charlatan and turn to Jesus.

In Matthew 23:37-39, Jesus spoke of the day when the residents of Jerusalem, the Jewish people, would welcome Him with shouts of “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” I believe the impact of active Christian ministries in Israel is already preparing the Jewish people for what will happen at the end of the Tribulation (although many are already turning to the Savior).

Second, the presence of the two witnesses, recorded in Revelation 11:4-13, tells us something will change between now and when they begin their ministry during the first half of the Tribulation. Because the Lord charged His church with the task of being His witnesses in Jerusalem, the presence of other witnesses in Jerusalem signifies the absence of the church at this time.

The transfer of the Acts 1:8 mission from the church to these two witnesses in Jerusalem strongly supports a pre-Tribulation Rapture.

The Lie

In 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12, Paul wrote that during the Day of the Lord, God would send a “strong delusion” among those who refuse to “believe the truth” so they would “believe what is false.” What might be the lie that many will believe after the Rapture?

In recent years, speculation has grown among students of Bible prophecy that the elite of the world will explain the disappearance of so many as an alien abduction. As possible verification of this, the claims of UFO sightings have grown from that of small mobile aircraft to that of gigantic alien vessels. Much speculation exists regarding 3I/Atlas, which has a width of up to seven miles. It’s unusual nature has many people speculating that it’s not a comet, but rather an enormous alien spacecraft.

Its gigantic size would accommodate the disappearance of a great many people. 3I/Atlas, and other similar large alien vessels receiving much speculation in our day, would make a suitable alternative to the truth regarding the Rapture. And based on what I read on social media and elsewhere, many would believe such a lie.

When we add these things to the multitude of other signs of the approaching Tribulation, we recognize today for what it is: the season of Jesus’ appearing to take us home. We do not know when the Rapture will occur, but if ever there was a time to eagerly watch for it, this is it!

[Roman_War_Criminal]

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Maranatha!

[Jeff Chandler]

Fun Fact: The idea of a rapture as it is defined in dispensational premillennialism began the same year the Book of Mormon was published — 1830.

[GingisK]

5G cellular technology that may increase to 6G

You do know that this merely relates to using additional frequency bands in order to satisfy the growing need to provide bandwidth to the growing usage of media and telemetry, don't you? It also heralds changes in messaging protocols. 5G is not nefarious as promulgated by morons scattered about the Internet. It is simply how growing reliance on communications must be handled.

[bigcat32]

What about Paul? He wrote about it.

Thessaloninas 16-17

16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

[equaviator]

I once read some men's room graffiti that stated "Jesus saves...at the Chase Manhattan Bank". I didn't get it then and I don't get it now.

[Philsworld]

Different rapture. The rapture that dispensationalists believe in, what will secretly happen before Christ’s 2nd coming (rapture), is not mentioned anywhere in the bible. It is pure fantasy, which comes from Catholic Futurism.

[Jeff Chandler]

The pretribulational “Rapture” distinct from the Second Coming interpretation of Thessaloninas 16-17 only gained widespread popularity after 1830. It was not a believe held by Paul, the Apostles, the early Christians, the catholic church, the Roman Catholic Church, or the Protestant reformers.

[Jeff Chandler]

comes from Catholic Futurism

Actually, it came from the Second Great Awakening.

[fidelis]

Different rapture. The rapture that dispensationalists believe in, what will secretly happen before Christ’s 2nd coming (rapture), is not mentioned anywhere in the bible. It is pure fantasy, which comes from Catholic Futurism.

It has nothing to do with Catholicism. Many before John Nelson Darby (including some of the Early Church Fathers) held millennial views and there was one obscure Catholic priest in the 1800’s that wrote about something like it, but no one before Darby held today's pre-millennial Dispensationalist schema of the End Times before him. Not even the Reformers. It was almost entirely his own invention. The word from which we get "rapture" does appear in the Latin Vulgate in Thessalonians, but it simply means being "taken up". There Paul is referring to what will happen to believers on earth at the Second Coming of Jesus at the end of time.

[Migraine]

Fun fact: the 2nd Great Awakening is also closely associated with the year 1830.

Non-sequiturs, de facto, don’t hold water (a little latin lingo there).

[skr]

Someone was being extremely irreverent and stupid, that’s for sure. Jesus had no reason to have a savings account, even if there had been such a thing in His short time on Earth.

[equaviator]

All I could guess was that the “artist” was referring to the Catholic church’s bank account more than anything else.

[Ezekiel]

Unlike a call bell 🛎️, cobbled together is not the same as kabbalah (but then again, Solomon won that round because Hiram didn't get it about his Cabul cities. So close! It cost Hiram 120 talents of gold! ☉):

קַבָּלָה

Meaning
receipt, reception; acceptance

https://www.pealim.com/dict/3005-kabala/

Kabbalah or Qabalah (/kəˈbɑːlə, ˈkæbələ/ kə-BAH-lə, KAB-ə-lə; Hebrew: קַבָּלָה‎, romanized: Qabbālā, pronounced [kabaˈla] ⓘ; lit. 'reception, tradition')[1][a] is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism.[2] It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism.[2][3] A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal (מְקֻובָּל‎, Məqubbāl, 'receiver').[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah

"A call bell is a bell used to summon an attendant or give an alarm or notice.[1] The bell alerts and calls the attention of the attendant who hears it. They are sometimes called service bell, reception bell, or concierge bell."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_bell

I've lost track of the number of call bells pinging out there.

Let's see, there's the face-on view of the Milky Way:

Its central massive object is a supermassive black hole of about 4 million solar masses, which is called Sagittarius A*,[3][4][5] part of which is a very compact radio source arising from a bright spot in the region around the black hole, near the event horizon.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center

Then there was the ping sent from Tycho Crater when sunlight ☉ hit the monolith that the humans dug up. (There's even a 120 meter-wide boulder at the top.)

And of course right back to Kabbalah is the 231 gates diagram for all the letters of Creation:

(It's Hebrew year '86, פ"ו pei-vav.)

And more, even the stone at the head of the corner of the Blackstone Building (bldg addy itself being 120) right in the hub of "The Hub" (nickname for Boston), the very origin of the Revolution ☉.

This stuff it literal from every direction, 5 YOs would get it, yet people still just go around and around, circling the drain with their cobbled 'scholarly' opinions. No wonder a big surprise is coming for the "cliff" notes cults.

Signs In Unexpected Places

Right out of the blue. Not like folks haven't been told over and over and over again:

(Total round-up..)

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Are you commenting as a devoted Mekubbal or as a hobbyist?

[ducttape45]

Oh geez, here we go again. The article is a great article, but, as I see by the comments people are using it to (again) attack the validity of the Rapture of the Church.

People of FR, please, get a grip, stop splitting hairs, and stop attacking, or trying to debunk, Rapture teaching.

These are the times when we're supposed to be "encouraging" one another, not tearing each other down. Let's try to do more of that. Please...........

[spintreebob]

” one man, antichrist, to control “

How do you know it will be a man and not some AI terminator from Cyberdyne?

[Library Lady]

That has been disproved so many times. Why do people keep repeating it?

Here’s one source for you: Recent Pre-Trib Findings in the Early Church Fathers by Lee Brainard.

[Philsworld]

Nope. It’s directly connected with Catholic Futurism.

Francisco Ribera (Jesuit)
Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (Jesuit)
Michael Walpole (Jesuit)
Manuel De Lacunza (Jesuit)
Edward Irving: Republished De Lacunza’s book in English
Margaret McDonald (ecstatic utterances and member of Irving’s church.)
Samuel Roffey Maitland
James H. Todd
John Henry Newman
John Nelson Darby: Personally visited Irving on multiple occasions.
Arno C. Gaebelein
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield
Samuel Untermeyer
Lewis Sperry Chafer

[Philsworld]

——>It has nothing to do with Catholicism.

It has everything to do with Catholicism. It comes out of Catholic Futurism, which was an attempt divert criticism that they were the Antichrist power, which they are. You’re not fooling anyone.