The True Rapture
Praise Jesus today everyone.
The last couple days I was praying and talking to Jesus about some
questions I had in regarding the gathering together of the saints in the
air. And this “snatching up”, or this
“being taken up”. And I did a bit of
research on this, because we know that the word “rapture” isn’t in the Bible,
but that idea certainly IS in the Bible, it is a Scriptural teaching about the
rapture. But a lot of the teachings
around the rapture that the Christian church has taught are very VERY poor, for
example, the Christian church teaches; “Just believe in the rapture and you
won’t have to go through great tribulation, you will be snatched out BEFORE
this time period…” And we know that
Jesus didn’t teach that, for example, if you look at Matthew chapter 24, you
see Jesus talking about the great tribulation, if you look at verse 21 Jesus
says; “For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not been since
the beginning of the world until this time nor EVER shall be, and unless those
days were shortened, no flesh would be saved, but for the elect’s sake, those
days will be shortened.” So, you hear
about the elect and these days being shortened and the tribulation, so then the
question is for a lot of people; “Well, WHEN are we going to go up and be with
the LORD?” And what Jesus says about
this in verse 29 is; “Immediately AFTER THE TRIBULATION of those days, the sun
will be darkened, and the moon will not give it’s light, the stars will fall
from heaven, and the powers of the heaven’s will be shaken…” So, it’s directly AFTER the tribulation that
these things are happening. “Then the
sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the
earth will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of
heaven with POWER and great glory. And
He will send His angels with a sound of a great trumpet, and they will gather
together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the
other.” So, this gathering together, or
this being “caught up” together, when the angels are gathering everyone is NOT
BEFORE the tribulation, but if you look at verse 29 immediately AFTER the
tribulation of those days. See, all of
these tribulations and trials that happen in the world, happen for our
refinement, for the purification of Jesus’s Church, you and I absolutely WILL
go through great tribulation, NONE of us are going to escape trials and
tribulations and great tribulation on the earth, ALL of us go through that. So, this belief that the Christian church has
been teaching, that we will not suffer persecution, that we will not go through
trials and tribulations, that we will be caught up, that we will be saved from
that, IS ALL A LIE.
But what we WILL be taken away from
IS THE JUDGMMENT OF GOD THAT HAPPENS NEXT.
After we have been taken out of the world and the Holy Spirit retracted
from the world, the world is NOT going through trials and tribulations anymore
that just happen by men or their persecution (men inflicted grief) But what the
world will experience is the hand of GOD’S judgment, and it’s NOT for the sake
of refining His Church anymore but it is for judgment and punishment for
sinners who refuse to REPENT! And at
this period of time there will be NO MORE CHANCES for ANYONE to repent on the
earth. When all the true saints have
been pulled up to heaven, the world will mourn, they will see the sign of the
Son of God coming on the clouds with POWER and great GLORY, and they will have
NO MORE opportunity to repent or confess their sins, they will KNOW that they
are the damned, exactly like how all of those who were shut out of Noah’s Ark
were mourning when they were drowning.
They were probably saying; “Please give us another chance God.” But there was no more chance or opportunity for
salvation. The night had already come,
the rain was coming down and the floods coming up and the whole world was
drowned, ALL of them died in the flood.
And the same thing is going to happen again, but it will be with
FIRE. We need to be prepared because the
door (to life eternal) is closing. I
want to share with you a few things that the Lord showed me while praying about
the rapture, and one of them is, interestingly enough, the meaning of the word
“RAPTURE”, if you look this up, the Greek idea of rapture, what it means is “We
are taken away” or “We are caught up”.
And this idea of being TAKEN, it reminds us when Jesus speaks about the
end, He speaks about this in Matthew
chapter 24, when He says; “Two men will be in a field, one will be TAKEN, and
the other left, two women will be grinding at the mill, one will be TAKEN, the
other will be left…” And I prayed about
this and I said; “Lord, where are they being taken to, I don’t care where in
the world this is happening, I know it is world wide…” And the Holy Spirit of God showed me that this
is the exact same question that Jesus’s disciples were asking, and I had never
thought of it like that, because I had always thought that the disciples were
asking; “Where Lord, where will this take place.” But the disciples were actually asking;
“Where are these people being taken TO?”
And here’s the really interesting part of this, when Jesus gives His
answer to His disciples to where they are taken, it is a twofold riddle, and
depending on which way you take it or which side you are on, BOTH are the right
interpretation. So, if these people that
Jesus is talking about, when He’s answering their question of WHERE ARE THEY
TAKEN TO, if they are taken into judgment, if they are being taken to HELL,
like how all of those who missed the Arc were TAKEN in judgment, they were
TAKEN away, they were TAKEN by the storm, so if these people that Jesus was
speaking about were being taken away into HELL, then they are not just a body,
but they are a corpse, and a corpse has a very negative connotation, it’s NOT
the Body of Christ, but it is a DEAD BODY, and some interpretations are written
that Jesus said that; “Where the corpse lies, there the vultures will be
gathered.” A vulture also has a very
negative implication spiritually. A
vulture represents a demon, it represents death. And so, if you are being taken in judgment,
and you are asking “WHERE LORD?” Or where are this people being taken? THEN, they are being taken in judgment, and
they are taking your dead corpse to HELL, vultures representing demos, demons
are allowed to feast on your flesh and to take you to judgment, take you to
hell. BUT, on the flip side of this
riddle, if they are being taken into everlasting life, and the question is;
“Where are they taken.”, then they are being taken as a BODY, which is the Body
of Christ, and they are being taken on the wings of the Eagle up to the cloud
of witnesses, which is in the heavens.
So, whichever way you interpret this is going to be right. But it is hinged upon whether you are part of
the Body of Christ or the body of Satan, the body of the WORLD. So Jesus gives this riddle in a twofold
manner that it can mean two things and it is BOTH where ALL the world will end
IN THE END. Either we will be on the
cloud of witnesses that will be with Jesus Christ for ever and ever, caught up
to be with Him, or we will be taken down to Hell, into judgment for all
eternity, that was supposed to be for Satan and his angels/demons. We’re going to spend either eternity in heaven
or in hell. And we have to choose to go
with Jesus into everlasting life. I know
there are a lot of deceptions about the rapture. People think that you have to believe in a
pretribulation rapture, that you have to believe that Jesus is going to snatch
you up before things get really bad on this earth, and if you don’t believe
that then you won’t be raptured. But
Jesus never spoke about that, and He never expected us to understand His whole
plan or to understand all doctrines perfectly.
But Jesus is always looking at our hearts, and if our hearts are
prepared, if we have made our hearts and pure before the Lord, because HE is
purifying us and putting on our white garments, then whenever He calls, we will
be prepared. A lot of people will not be
prepared, but they have been putting their faith in the rapture and they will
go their entire life, up to their death, and when Jesus comes, when they go to
meet Jesus, He will say to them; “Away from Me, you who commit iniquity, I
don’t know you.” And they NOT have been
prepared to meet the Lord. But I want to
be prepared to meet Jesus, I want Him to say; “Good and well done my faithful
servant…” I want to enter into His
presence with thanksgiving. One of my other
questions about the rapture that I was praying about to the Lord is; “How is it
the Apostle Paul spoke about souls sleeping.”
Because I know that souls don’t soul sleep, and this is evident by when
Jesus was speaking about how God is the God of the living, not the God of the
dead, and also many saints have seen the afterlife and came back to report how
they saw people there; such people as King David, other great men of faith and
even their own family members in heaven.
They are not “soul sleeping” in the ground waiting around for the rapture. But if you read the Apostle Paul’s words you
may come to the conclusion that all the people of old, up from the point of
time that Jesus resurrected from the dead, up to the present time, that all of
the dead are sleeping, meaning that they are just dead in the earth, and then
on the final day, on the final judgment, Jesus blows a trumpet, and the dead in
Christ rise first, then AFTER the dead in Christ rise THEN we also will hear
that trumpet and go up to heaven. So, I
was praying about this; “How Lord, can the Apostle Paul say this, because I
know people are already in heave, those who have died in Christ are not just
soul sleeping, waiting for the rapture, they are already in heaven with
YOU.” And the Lord showed me that the
reason why these souls proceed us, or they go up first is because they have
gone BEFORE us, they have DIED before us.
See, all the people who went before us in the faith, such as my mom who
was a believer, who went to be with the Lord, all of these people had their
rapture, or their GATHERING up, their snatching up to heaven before we
have. And they certainly will NOT be
waiting in the dirt for their rapture until we have. If I die today, and the Lord snatches me up
and I am brought before Him, I can know that my mom is already in heaven, and
that those who have deceased in their physical bodies before me, are not just
waiting dead in the earth, but they are already WITH THE LORD. So, every single person who is caught up or
raptured, IT HAPPENS AT THEIR FINAL BREATH.
From our perspective it looks like nothing’s happening, no one’s being
raptured, nothing supernatural is happening, in our perspective people have
been dying for thousands of years. We
have to remember that from God’s perspective 1000 years is like a day. And all these things have been happening in
seconds for Him. So in God’s view, or
when He tries to explain the snatching up or a rapture, or a gathering of the
Church, a gathering of His saints, how it appears to us is; “All of this must
be happening at the same time…” And then
if you have seen Hollywood’s rendition of the rapture, it looks like everyone
just goes up to heaven all at the exact same time, when the trumpet blows, but
from God’s perspective IT IS happening pretty much at the same time, but from
OUR perspective, this whole thing, this rapture of the church, has been taking
2000 YEARS! You know, my mom died 5, 6
years ago, and other brothers in the faith have died 10, 20, 50, 80 years ago,
but their rapture, or their snatching up to the Lord to be in the cloud of
witnesses happened at THAT period of time.
And even if you look at the pictures of pictures of people being
raptured, if you look at people’s renditions that believe it all happens at the
same time, you will notice that there are souls higher UP in the air, and there
are souls lower down that are JUST leaving the earth. Now if it all happed at EXACTLY at the same
time, then all the souls should be at the same altitude. But the fact that there are some souls higher
than other souls indicates that those souls that are higher left their bodies
earlier than those souls that are lower down. (Indicating a progression of
departures throughout time)
In our
perspective of things, we can interpret everything to be natural; people have
just been dying, no one’s been raptured, nothing supernatural is
happening. BUT ONE DAY we are going to
see from the Lord’s perspective, if we are worthy to enter into His
Kingdom. And we will see that all these
things that we were doing, if we were doing them in the Spirit of GOD, were
supernatural. We will see things not in
this dim mirror that we see them now, but we will see them from our Father’s
perspective. And the big problem that
Christianity has right now is that they are not looking from GOD’S perspective,
they are looking from Hollywood’s perspective.
And they are looking from the perspective of all these false prophets,
who are soothsayers, who are preaching sensationalism, who are making people
have FALSE hopes, thinking that they don’t have to endure with Jesus or go
through trials and tribulations to the end, they have put all their hope in
this FALSE image of Jesus and all this false interpretation of the bible. But if we want to see from God’s perspective,
then we just have to pray and say; “Lord, show me what these things mean, help
me to understand who you are, I want to see from GOD’S perspective. I don’t want to see from men’s perspective or
my own interpretation of the Scripture, I want to see what is actually
happening. YOU are the Truth, YOU are
the Way, YOU are the Life!” And if we
start to make JESUS our Teacher, if we start to make His Spirit our guide, then
He will lead us in the truth, we won’t be deceived by people’s ideas of the
rapture, or their ideas about what will happen next.
I know on
the internet right now there are a lot of speculation when the rapture will
take place, people are saying that the antichrist or the man of perdition will
be revealed in a few years, I don’t know I think they are saying 2025 or
something, and then then think 3 years after that will be the rapture of the
church, and they make all of these assumptive ideas based on other people’s
knowledge of supposed revelations and they think they have the plan of God
figured out. Gut that’s not how it
works. No one can be able to foil God’s
plan. If people could understand God’s
plan, then certainly Satan would have been able to understand it, and certainly
Satan would have been able then to foil God’s plan, he would have been able to
kill Jesus, he would have been able to find the Virgin Mary and destroy her
before, but as it happened, EVEN THOUGH there was all these prophecies about
where Jesus would be born and WHEN He would be born and HOW it would take
place, NO ONE was able to foil God’s plan, all of those who were trying to kill
the baby Jesus, NONE of them was able to kill Him, He was protected by GOD, and
GO FIGURE, that GOD is MORE powerful than Satan and NONE of us know His plan. We will not be able to predict the future
using prophecies, we will not be able to navigate our life or other people’s
lives into eternity just using Scriptures or trying to figure out how all of
this stuff will take place. BUT, if we
are just HUMBLE before God and just say; “Jesus, I trust you, I want to hold your hand and go
with you, I don’t understand what is going to take place, I don’t understand
all these prophecies, but I do TRUST YOU LORD.
And I do give you my LIFE.
Everything that I am, I want to be a vessel to be used by YOU, I TUST
YOU, I trust your plan, I trust your way, and I will walk with you, even if I
don’t understand because I know that your plan for me is BEST.” If we can be as Children, walking with HIM,
then He will lead us and guide us into EVERLASTING LIFE, and we won’t have to
be worried about what people think or worried about navigating into eternity by
just reading more and more commentaries and more books and listening to what
prophets will predict with the next wave of (I don’t know), covid or the next
war or the next famine upon earth or the next prophet that comes out. We WON’T have to be worried anymore about
that stuff. A relationship with Jesus is
about walking with Him, and trusting Him. Walking by faith, not by sight, every
single day. Every single day denying
ourselves, picking up our cross and going with Him by FAITH. And if we live by FAITH then step by step we
grow spiritually. The Lord gives us
revelation as we walk with Him. And when
we trust Him and He knows that we trust Him, then He feeds us more of His
truth, He gives us more of His awesome revelation. And then we can encourage others because we
are being fed by the LIFE GIVER, not just by some regurgitated information from
a pastor or some old information from a bible study. So, I want to encourage you that the rapture
is real, it doesn’t happen as the Christian church is preaching, but THERE IS A
SNATCHING UP, THERE IS A GATHERING of the saint, there is a cloud of
witnesses. We WILL go be with the LORD in
the SKY like the eagle, we will raise up like the wings of the eagle, we are
the BODY OF CHRIST and we are the ones who are God’s Elect, IF we choose to
stay with Him and hold His hand to the VERY END. But those Christians who feel entitled, that
feel like they are the ones who are going to be raptured, not you, that they
will be sucked out of persecution, trials and tribulations, they are going to
have the scare of their life when they are LEFT BEHIND, when they stand at the
door knocking saying; “Lord OPEN TO US!”
and they are SHUT OUT and the Lord says to them; GO AWAY, I DON’T KNOW
YOU, you who commit sin and commit iniquity. It’s not about believing certain
doctrines that the church has taught, it’s not about being “right”, but it’s
about who we FOLLOW. It is about following
and knowing Jesus Christ, being led by His Holy Spirit. And if we are led by Him, even if we don’t
understand perfectly, even if our ideas of the Bible are a little bit off, it
doesn’t matter because Jesus is leading us, He will correct us, HE will
discipline us AND HE WILL LEAD US INTO EVERLASTING LIFE.
So, don’t
be discouraged by people’s ideas of the rapture, their different
interpretations. Don’t be discouraged by
any of that, but rather keep your eyes on Jesus, knowing that He will lead us
and guide us. He is the one that knows
His plan, we don’t have to know it. We
have to TRUST HIM and hold HIS hand to the VERY END! May the grace of Jesus be with you.