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‘Rapture’ Likely To Occur By 2021, Claims World Bible Society President
Eurasia review ^ | October 4, 2012

Posted on 12/10/2021 1:36:36 AM PST by Cronos

The End Times are nearing, and the ‘Rapture’ could happen within 10 years, according to the World Bible Society President. Dr. F. Kenton Beshore. More specifically, Beshore claims that the “Rapture” is likely to occur between now and 2021 and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ from 2018 and 2028. (Related article: “The ‘End-Time’ Is Really A Good Time – OpEd“)

The ‘Rapture” is the belief by some Protestant Christians that prior to the Second Coming of Christ, faithful Christians will be “caught up,” and removed from the Earth. Pre-tribulation rapture theology — such as espoused by Beshore — was developed in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren and popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.

Beshore says he’s releasing his estimate at this time of global economic, political and spiritual crisis in hopes of inspiring believers to get prepared for the greatest opportunity for worldwide evangelism in the last 2,000 years.

As part of this effort, Beshore says his Costa Mesa, Calif.-based ministry is printing millions of copies of the 45-page Jewish Scriptures to distribute to Jews worldwide before the seven-year Tribulation period. Beshore hopes Jews will read the books containing Biblical prophecies about Jesus’ first and second comings and become some of the “144,000 Billy Grahams” described in Revelation 7 that will lead billions to Christ during the Tribulation.

“There are 144,000 Jews during the Tribulation who are going to turn to the Lord,” says Beshore — the 86-year-old father of Kenton Beshore, pastor of Mariner’s Church in Irvine, Calif., one of the nation’s 25 largest churches. “Now, we are all going to be gone (following the Rapture).”

“But if we can get our Jewish Scriptures into their hands now, the Holy Spirit will lead them to them at the right time. They may have set them aside, but they will read them, turn to the Lord and lead billions and billions to Jesus,” said Beshore.

For his prediction, Beshore updates some of the material used in the 1970’s Hal Lindsey book, “The Late Great Planet Earth.” In the book, Lindsey claimed he had unlocked the secrets of the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24-25 in which Jesus described the signs of his Second Coming.

Lindsey suggested the generation that witnessed the 1948 rebirth of the nation of Israel — purportedly symbolized by the fig tree — would see the return of Christ. Lindsey wrote a biblical generation is “something like 40 years” — suggesting that “within 40 years or so of 1948, all these things could take place.”

But when 1988 came and went without Jesus’ return, Lindsey came under heavy criticism, ministers shied away from teaching Bible prophecy and many became skeptical about predictions regarding the Second Coming. They noted Jesus’ admonition in Matthew 24:36 that no one would know the “day or hour” of His return.

While no one knows the exact date, Beshore argues people can know the “times and seasons,” or the approximate timeframe, by watching for the signs Jesus described of his return.

In terms of the prediction in The Late Great Planet Earth, Beshore argues Lindsey’s interpretation of the parable of the fig tree was right, but he was wrong about the length of a biblical generation.

Instead of 40 years, Beshore says Psalms 90:10 reveals a biblical generation is actually 70-80 years: “The days of our life are seventy years, or perhaps eighty, if we are strong.”

Therefore, Beshore believes the Second Coming will occur sometime between 2018 and 2028, or 70 to 80 years after 1948.

Taking into account the seven-year Tribulation period, Beshore expects the Rapture — the belief that Christians will be miraculously removed from the Earth prior to the Tribulation and Second Coming — to occur sometime between now and 2021.

But before the Rapture occurs, Beshore says certain events must still take place.

Beshore says five of these events are taking place now — the “falling away” or apostasy of the church, an increase in travel and knowledge, the rise of anti-Semitism, development of “Mark of the Beast” technology and that Israel is dwelling safely before an attack by a coalition of Russian and Islamic nations.


TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; General Discusssion; Other non-Christian
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To: ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; BDParrish; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; mitch5501; MamaB; ...

Ping.


21 posted on 12/10/2021 3:07:59 AM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Cronos

Reminds me of the movie Fletch Lives with Chevy Chase :D


22 posted on 12/10/2021 3:08:27 AM PST by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: alexander_busek
"I like how the Jehovah's Witnesses have "fudged" their previous prediction about the Second Coming occurring as soon as the last generation of WW I has passed away by moving the goalposts and claiming that the "last generation" won't really have completely passed away until the last person who knew someone belonging to the last generation has passed away! Talk about equivocation!"

They have a history of such: http://peacebyjesus.net/thebibleandsocalledjehovahs-witnesses.html#watchtower

23 posted on 12/10/2021 3:09:45 AM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Cronos

The End Times are here again, and again, and again. People are starting to wise up.


24 posted on 12/10/2021 3:11:25 AM PST by Babba Gi
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To: Cronos

All I want in this regard is fire and brimstone to fall on DC.


25 posted on 12/10/2021 3:11:32 AM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: Cronos

I’m sticking with Isaac Newton’s prediction of when the end of the age occurs. Around 2070. He was pretty smart.


26 posted on 12/10/2021 3:29:06 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: HighSierra5

I thought the Barackolypse would occur when the Kenyan Obamanation that causes desolation was the illegitimate POTUS.


27 posted on 12/10/2021 3:39:28 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: Cronos

Here we go again!


28 posted on 12/10/2021 4:18:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fso301

Only 3 weeks left!


29 posted on 12/10/2021 4:19:14 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Cronos

This is rich. An article posted by someone who believes in Purgatory.


30 posted on 12/10/2021 4:21:13 AM PST by Old Yeller (1776 em all. Let God sort it out.)
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To: skr
Since this was WRITTEN October 4, 2012, it is DEFINITELY time for an update!

Thanks, Cronos, for I might have been watching the ball drop and missed The End in all the excitement.

31 posted on 12/10/2021 4:21:30 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fso301

False prophet promoting a false teaching created by one line in scripture.


32 posted on 12/10/2021 4:24:21 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Old Yeller

Purgatory...another non-scriptural concept designed to enrich the Catholic Church.
I am seeing so many parallels between Big Gov and Big Religion.

Its almost like once they get to a certain level, they need to implement controls to keep people from realizing all the corruption within it.


33 posted on 12/10/2021 4:32:57 AM PST by Zathras
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To: fso301

Jesus comes at the same time as the rapture. Proof this guy is a total fraud


34 posted on 12/10/2021 4:43:05 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: fso301
Yet another in a long line of false prophets.

Affirm.

35 posted on 12/10/2021 4:45:03 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Cronos

Well.....it better hurry!!!!


36 posted on 12/10/2021 4:49:20 AM PST by ontap
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To: Ymani Cricket

Did you mean Ante-Nicene fathers?


37 posted on 12/10/2021 5:04:26 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Cronos

Pope Francis is ready for a time such as this. Does he support your views too?

Neither does this guy. See what I did there?


38 posted on 12/10/2021 5:10:05 AM PST by zek157
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To: zek157

Meaning does Francis support your views on buggery, communism false gospel of Christ, etc., etc.,

This guy you found doesn’t speak for me either.


39 posted on 12/10/2021 5:15:55 AM PST by zek157
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To: skr
Trying to outguess God is absurd.

Not to mention a sinful act in and of itself. Just another delusion of The Liar.
40 posted on 12/10/2021 5:26:48 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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