graphic by Bill Lane
Apocalyptic Hope ..... Seventh Trumpet Part One
The Seventh Trumpet
Sounds for the Rapture in Rev. 11 ........... part 2
WHEN
WILL THE MIDNIGHT RAPTURE TAKE PLACE?
Our Lord tells us in Ephesians 4:30 that we are sealed by the
Holy Spirit until the "Day of Redemption". There are 4
different days of redemption :
1. Good Thursday (Calvary) The Day Jesus died on the Cross.
see.....www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/crucified.html
2. The day we became Born-Again, repenting of our lifestyle.
(personal)
3. "the Day of Christ" rapturing His BRIDE. To be
fulfilled in the future.
............(2 Thessalonians
2:2..... KJV Authorized, only)
4. National Day of redemption for the Nation of Israel.
....Yom Kippur a
future day of fulfillment ? Romans 11:26
#1.
and # 2..... Personal Redemption was obtained for
us at Calvary. The Blood of our Passover Lamb re-deemed us from
Satan's power. That cleansing blood became activated the day we
were Born-Again. When we confess our sins to Jesus, our sins are
then covered over (kippur) by His redemptive Blood.
Romans 3: 24, 25 and Hebrews 9:12 and Rev. 5:2--9 and 1 Peter
1:18, 19
#
3.
And there is the day of redemption for the Church, the Bride of
Christ...the collective Body of Believers, Messianic Jew and
Converted Gentile. It is called "the day of Christ". It
is an unknown day until we are in that
season. At that time we
will then know both the day and the hour,
as we see it.
Please see "The Midnight Hour " www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/midnight.html
What signs point out for us the season of the Rapture ? Well in 2
Thess. 2:1, 2 it speaks of "our gathering together unto
Him". That day can only happen when the following incidences
occur.....
THESE THINGS FIRST
2 Thessalonians Chapter 2
tells us that when this obvious APOSTASY ("falling
away") all around us solidifies,
(
United Religions Initiative ; and when
Israel forsakes looking for a spiritual Messiah and settles for
one who comes in his own name instead ( a
political messiah) John 5:43)
and then also when we see "the man of sin" SITTING
in the temple SHOWING himself as God, then we can get ready to go
in the Midnight Rapture.
However, we must wait on those 2 events, first.
Also, 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5 tells us that we will hear the
announcement of "Peace and Safety" (Security)
first, "then sudden destruction
cometh upon them" ( those asleep ). This "sudden
destruction" could possibly mean war (first 6 trumpets).
Since our Rapture is at the time of the Seventh Trumpet, World
War 3 will have arrived.
( the Gog-Magog war of Ezekiel 38 and 39 and Revelation 8 and 9
). Hopefully we will rise at that time. ( Going up
simultaneously, as did Lot escape Sodom on the SAME day as
judgement fell.) Luke 17.
2 Thessalonians
1:7,8 indicates that it is most likely a
simultaneous event of rapture and war. Here is what that verse
says:
"And to you who are troubled rest with us, when
the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty
angels,
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and
that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ".
We do know that Jesus does not tarry. "For yet a little
while, and He that shall come, will come, and will not
tarry." Hebrews 10:37
We must
be looking up, hastening that day, occupying
till He comes, keeping our eyes on
Jesus (Hebrews 12:2) and being ready with purified lives.
Scripture tells us that Christ will come at a time "ye think
not", for those not
watching.
(Matthew 24:44)
THE THESSALONIAN LETTERS
Most people believe that the Rapture must be tied to an Israeli
Feast Day. But since the Church is NOT Israel, that need not be
so.
The Thessalonian Letters tell us very clearly that first there
will come an :
1. Apostasy "falling away" ..... a DECLARATION
made by apostate religion;
(Includes Israel forsaking her true Messiah, and instead
preferring a political
diplomatic messiah-man.)
2. and then will come "the man of sin" sitting in the
temple as God ...a DEMONSTRATION
3. and there will also be an announcement of "Peace and
Safety"...a PROCLAMATION
before we can go in the Rapture. All three must take place
first......then the Resurrection- Rapture
graphic
by Bill Lane
For
now, these are the days of "Preparing for Our Lord's
Coming"...
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/prepare.html
LONGING
"We picture a maiden whose lover left her for a voyage,
promising on His return to make her His beloved Bride.
Many told her that she would never see Him again. But she
believed his word. And evening by evening she went down to the
lonely shore, to hail and welcome the returning ship which was to
bring again her Betrothed. And by that watchfire she took her
stand each night, praying that the winds would hasten on the
sluggish sails….that He, Who was everything to her, might
come.
Even so, our Blessed Lord, Who has loved us unto death, has gone
away to the Holy Land of Heaven, promising on His return to make
us His happy and eternal Bride. Some say that He is gone forever,
and that here we shall see Him no more. But His last word was, "Yea, I
come quickly".
And on that dark and misty beach sloping out into the eternal
sea, each true believer stands by the love-lit fire, looking and
waiting, and praying and hoping for the fulfillment of His word:
and calling ever from the soul of sacred love,
"Even
so, come Lord Jesus".
And one of these nights, while the world is busy with its gay
frivolities, and laughing at the maiden on the shore, a Form
shall rise over the surging waves, as once on Galilee, to
vindicate forever all this watching and devotion, and bring to
the faithful and constant heart a Joy, and Glory, and Love
unsurpassed."
---
from "The Apocalypse" by J.A. SEISS
Darkness; then , 42 days later departure ( 6 weeks later )
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=99371
The Bridegroom Soon Will Call Us
http://www.ingeb.org/spiritua/thebride.html
HE IS COMING
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9774/jesus.html
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/s/w/swinglow.htm
Some Sweet Day My Lord Will Come
http://tch.simplenet.com/htm/s/o/somsweet.htm
Thou Art Coming
http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/t/t163.html
When Each Others Face We See
http://tch.simplenet.com/htm/w/h/wheneach.htm
Greek Orthodox Praise
http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/J_akathist.htm
Loving Promises
www.thinkwow.com/8promises/fall_in_love.htm
How the New-Agers will explain our disappearance
http://www.redmoonrising.com/newage.htm
There
is a crown of righteousness awaiting
for all those who LOVE HIS APPEARING 2 Timothy 4:8
HE
IS COMING
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9774/jesus.html
"Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast,
that
no man take thy crown" Rev.3:11
(
let NO ONE dissuade you
from the soon-coming rapture of Believers )
We
must feed our faith, and starve our doubts.
“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me
where I am,
and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you
loved me before the creation of the world.”
John 17:24
Sorrow
looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.
Author unknown
"and
unto them that LOOK FOR HIM shall He appear"....Hebrew 9:28
The Day is Near
http://www.horizonsnet.org/sermons/end_is_near.html
The Dead in Christ shall rise First....
http://www.s-g-m.net/rise.htm
The Rapture...Warren Doud
http://www.realtime.net/~wdoud/topics/rapture.html
Possible
TIMELINE for the Rapture
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/6seals.html
Scripture
Verses
http://whatsaiththescripture.com/Promises/Promises.HIS.Coming.html
"Cast
not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence
of reward.
For ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of
God, ye might receive the promise.
For yet a little while, and He that shall come, will come,
and will not tarry."
Hebrews
10: 35-37
Articles on the
Rapture: ( complete list
of 11 rapture-articles )
Enoch and Elijah ...raptures
proven in Scripture
Sheaves ...."
evening, midnight, cockcrowing and morning" .... Mark 13:35
The Seventh
Trumpet ... the Midnight Rapture ....one long
day
The Blessed Hope ...false
doctrine of immanency
Coming to Terms .... explaining
the words that concern the raptures
2 Thessalonians
2 .... man of sin sitting in temple first,
before the rapture
The Cockcrowing
Rapture ......" one will be taken and the
other left "
The Maiden on the
Shore
by
J A Seiss ..." I come quickly"
"I tell you in that night there shall be two men in one bed
( living in shelters , or work camps, or prisons) the one shall
be taken and the other left"
Luke 17:34-36
"Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken and
the other left"
"Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be
taken and the other left." Matthew 24: 40, 41
Every country in their turn surrenders up their living, faithful
believers around the clock.
Salvation
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm
Bible www.blueletterbible.org