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Is the rapture true or false? Does the Bible talk about a rapture?
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- Опубліковано 15 лют 2017
- The rapture theory has become very popular among Christians, but popularity is not what determines sound doctrine. Our doctrine must always come from the Word of God alone and not the imaginations of men. The Bible is our source for truth and doctrine, so we need to find out if the rapture theory is Biblical or not.
There are a number of variations about the rapture, such as pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, or post-tribulation, but the general idea is that all Christians will be taken up to heaven at some point during the last days.
It is sometimes referred to as the “secret rapture” because they believe it will come suddenly and without warning. They teach that the rapture could happen at any moment, so we must always be ready because no one knows the day or the hour.
So, where did the rapture doctrine come from?
There is no documented evidence of anyone teaching the rapture prior to the late 18th century. That means for the first seventeen hundred years of Christianity no one was teaching the rapture. No one!
Darby is also called the “father of dispensationalism” because he was so instrumental in spreading the belief that God changes the rules and the way He interacts with people during different periods of time.
Darby taught that the prophetic timetable had been paused at the founding of the church and that the unfulfilled Biblical prophecies will not take place until after the Rapture of the church. He also taught that the Rapture would be a “secret” catching away that could happen at any moment without any signs or warnings.
Does the Bible really teach that believers will be raptured up to heaven?
Scripture references:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
Revelation 20:4-6
1 Corinthians 15:51-55
Matthew 24:29-31
Matthew 24:37-42
John 17:14-17
Matthew 13:30
I simply enjoy the teachings, and at the end of the day I could care less about rapture or no rapture, my only goal is to be counted worthy at the end, and be allowed into the kingdom....no argument required.
If the Bible says it is there then it should be of your concern because of preparations needed. If its a post trib then sir without any prep and getting caught by surprise when Jesus himself was warning you left right and centre in His bible then I am sorry to say that mindset is ignorance and you probably will be a machine nephilim human hybrid with a 666 on the forehead unsavable by the blood when the tribulation ends as a result of claiming ignorance. Learn this stuff please.
Tzebra Gaming whether you can care less or not, the truth does matter.
you're not worthy, christ alone is worthy, thats the only way you're worthy, its being in christ and having his righteousness, its not earned or worked for, its not something you have by lawkeeping or "not sinning"...the ones who are worthy are the ones with a faith that only looks to christ accomplisment, his atonement, his perfect life and death and blood and ressurection, being worthy is simply being in christ, having a saving faith, its not living a certain way, its believing a certain way.
@@westoftherockies You say; “…having a saving faith, its not living a certain way, its believing a certain way.” But, really it is both, as John said; “let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he (Jesus) is righteous.” 1 John 3:7. If you are not living the faith, how can it be true faith?
As, , being worthy is “more than” simply being in Christ, as you say. Otherwise,
Why would Paul plead, “That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.” 1 Thessalonians 2:12,
Why did Jesus admonish; “Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” Luke 21:36.
Again Paul speaking of ":worthiness"; “that you would walk worthy of God,” 1 Thessalonians 2:12.
Again; “that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God,…” in 2 Thessalonians 1:5
and
“Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling,…” 2 Thessalonians 1:11
Again; “That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,…” Colossians 1:10. Pleasing? For what?
As no doubt only Jesus “the Lamb that was slain (is) to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing”. Revelation 5:12. But, those who believe in him must be doing righteousness, or they only deceive themselves, 1 John 3:7.
Interesting that Paul would say; “ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober” 1 Thessalonians 5:6. Here he speaks of “be sober” just as he used it in Titus 2: 12,13 “live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;”
No, without being watchful, prayerful, and sober we could miss it.
I think being "worthy" is connected to "endurance" as- You don’t earn your salvation by endurance, you prove you have the real thing by your endurance!
Christ is coming, but oh...by the way....no rapture, no resurrection day for the body of Christ. Although Christ is the head of the church. No, no, no, no need for that, oh no!!!😬 No rapture. That is sickening. 🤢🤮 That way I don't listen to people.😬
I truly believed in a pre tribulation rapture for many years. Now that my eyes are truly open, I can plainly see how I was misled. Thank you for this teaching. It confirms what I had already seen.
In reference to the days of Noah, Matt. 24:37-44, you said the wicked were all taken away in judgement, which infers that those left behind are the righteous. If your interpretation is correct then please explain who this passage was meant for... the wicked or the righteous? If you say the righteous, why would it be necessary that they should be warned since they are going to be left behind anyway, which is a good thing according to your theory? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever nor does not it fit the context of the passage!
this man is a false teacher....
What groom is going to make his wife (the church) suffer pain before becoming together ? So why would God have us go through the trib?
Mike Saunders true! God saved noah and his family from the flood and lot’s family from the rain of fiery brimstones. He did not allow them to suffer. Same is true to His beloved bride, his church
@@Dusty2040 refine in the fire
Edna Maria Monteiro
Very basic English how can you be a ALIVE and REMAIN, REMNANT, SURVIVE, all those words means something happened to the others so what happened to those others for there to be the ALIVE and REMAINDER, SURVIVOR to be the ones LEFT?
I never believed that the rapture was a correct doctrine. I have seen this as a developed doctrine to be a comfort blanket so we can escape persecution. The reason I never believed is because our brothers and sisters have been facing extreme persecution around the world ever since the time of Christ and they were not zapped away from it, if they died in Christ then they will see him in a twinkling of an eye. Your explanation is incredible and I thank you for this video in Jesus name! God bless you brother
Well said I just was call all kinds of names by a person who claimed to be a Christian because I was telling another person that pri-tribulation rapture was a false doctrine that never was biblical
Rev 12 proves a pre-Trib rapture of the Church
@Splender_Majesty Only the Bible is infallible and you are believing in the other gospel which Apostle Paul said you will be accursed. Repent before it is too late. Our doctrine must come from the word of God.
@@veritasmuy2407 your notion is erroneous as rev12 talking about the woman and the dragon and satan thrown down on earth and there is not a single verse that speaks of your interpretation.
@@93556108 the Woman of Rev 12 is the physical nation of Israel/12Tribes as described in Genesis 37:9-10. The End Time prophecies of Revelation (after chapter 4) are for the JEWS/Israel, not the Church (Romans 11:25-32).
"Our doctrine must always come from the word of god... And not the imaginations of men." .....?
..., exactly!!! Great truth!!!🤔
Matthew Chapter 24
( events that are happening right now prior to the return of Christ )
1st. Thessalonians Chapter 4 and 5
Yes that's why you should reject the "pretrib fable".
LOL... and then he reads 1 Thes 4:17 “We who are ALIVE and remain...” and he says “Paul was talking about the resurrection of the dead.” Epic FAIL in logic.
@@KJKP how?
I know, he is twisting the word around badly. There is something wrong with this man Lex. This is not the first time I have seen him do this!!
I have always known this was a false teaching. My oldest sister got so upset with me when I tried to tell her this was a lie. I pray she and my other two sisters see the truth. Thank you so very much for taking the time to do these videos!
I agree that the Rapture is a false teaching, but it isn’t a danger to their mortal soul to believe in it, just as it wouldn’t be a danger to ours to not believe in the rapture even if it were sound teaching. It isn’t an essential dogma
@@jorybrosted7298
It will sadly cost those who believe in it to get the mark of the beast and ultimately lose salvation once and for all eternity.
Also the "great falling away" Jesus talks about in the bible prior to his return. Will be the christian who believe in rapture but will lose faith once they realize their still here during the great tribulation.
Its a dangerous and very satanic theory.
Revelation 12 proves a pre-Trib rapture of the church.
@@veritasmuy2407 no
So did mine
This video lead me to a path of freedom. I was taught false doctrine my whole life. After a little John Darby research I am now free from the false rapture doctrine.
Excellent scriptural breakdown. Rapture is so dangerous b/c it may lead many who are not on good soil to lose faith in Messiah as we go through the tribulation. (re-shared)
I agree the rapture teaching is dangerous because the people who believe it might lose their faith and turn away when tribulation comes.
Brother IDK how (must be Ruach Hakodesh) that I got your feed NOW.. I am also a Watchman and I am so blessed to have received your good ministry.. so I am re-sharing to my circles and public (circle me google* also my UA-cam channel I don't make video but I am passing along all the good Meat.. Amen (we are going home soon amen until then we fight the good fight ) Shalom..
ps Your beard is beautiful very very
Exactly...God is not an author of confusion. Unlearning the rapture is a way of preparing for what's about to come and become the wise man who builds his house upon the rock.
@@agentleman777 The Bride will go through the great tribulation? "Therefore comfort one another with these words"?
Yes, you are 100% right, Lex! All it takes is studying for yourself impartially. Problem is, most of us study it with already preconceived ideas of what certain terms and words mean, or we read it WANTING them to mean something they never meant to be.
Don't rely on a single scrupture to understand God's Word as you illustrate.
Excellent and accurate teaching!
I was saved in December 1971 and believed in a pre-tribulation rapture because that is what I was taught at that time.
In about 1973 I heard Pat Robertson teach that Jesus comes back for His church "After the tribulation of those days" and it upset me so much that I studied the subject to prove Pat was wrong.
By 1974 after studying Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 17 and 21, Daniel, Revelation and both books of Thessalonians and 1 Corinthians I discovered that Pat was correct and now believe that the pre-tribulation theory is not accurately portrayed in the Bible, but is a teaching of man, that was inspired by the evil-one to deceive the body of Christ about the last days.
Sadly those who believe in the pre-tribulation rapture usually don't study eschatology as they believe it doesn't pertain to them and the study of end times is not necessary as they will be raptured before the 7th trumpet.
It makes sense that a Jesuit would be at the instrumental in creation of this doctrine.
A Jesuit didn't create the "pre-Trib rapture" doctrine -- Jesuits believe that when Jesus returns, he will "co-rule" with the Roman Pope and come "high up" Roman Saints -- which totally contradicts Holy Scripture. The Rapture/Harpazo of the Church is clearly shown in Rev 12.
@Levi Pattar I agree. It is the Woman/ISRAEL that goes thru the horrors of the last 3.5 years of persecution by Satan (Genesis 37:9-10, Rev 12:1)
@Levi Pattar
And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
Revelation 15:7-8 KJV
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 KJV
That day shall not come unless a falling away and the man of sin revealed the son of perdition.
What day? The day of the coming of the Lord Jesus and our gathering unto Him.
No pretrib and stop using rapture it is correctly called resurrection.
So glad to hear someone teaching the truth..God wants us to have life and have it abundantly..We will be 'caught up' with the lord in a spiritual way via heart and mind.
Pray that you would be found worthy to escape the things that shall come to pass and to stand before the son of man
Talking about the 7 bowl and vile judgements. In a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. The dead in Christ shall rise then those who are left shall bw caught up in the air to be with the Lord.
😂 your yoda pic.he looks like a cute green onion man doesn't he..👍
@@josephgibson6365 yeah in John 6:40
Amen
ex nihilo AMEN. WAITING, WHILE WATCHING AND WORKING til I hear HIS voice. Take care.
May HaShem God continue to Bless you for bringing forth light to those in darkness as Yahshua said I'm the light life and the truth
Thank you for this great teaching. I was misled early in my Christian walk concerning the rapture, but thanks to a Christian co-worker who many years ago encouraged me to investigate for myself, I eventually came to the truth found in the word of God.
this is very misleading teaching...
After attending a SUPER conservative Baptist college, I have, for YEARS, lived in fear of the rapture. I was always told by these folks I wasn't good enough, and at 18 you believe what super "christians" tell you.....it has taken me 40 years to understand the truth! Funny, I am less afraid of the tribulation than I was of an unknown rapture.....Thanks for preaching truth and helping us all to GROW in our faith!!!
Even if it happens it's good
Even if it doesn't happen it's still good
Coz we are going to meet the Lord at the resurrection
So no need to worry
He is always there with us
I think what is important is that we know that Satan reigns before Jesus and that is the big issue with pre tribbers. They think they are excluded from prosecution and hard times and what happens when they are not taken up when Satan reigns? They may lose faith and bow down to a false God I think this is where the problem lies. It’s important to know that We are to testify for God during those times before Jesus does come.
@@jesseenixon This is exactly right in my experience, it's not just that it is a lie, but that it sets up a greater deception.
@@christiaansmit3569 exactly
“This can’t be the Antichrist because I’m still here”
It’s incredibly dangerous
Thank you sir for another great teaching. I like to use Proverbs 2:21-22 as another resource. v.22 "But the wicked shall be cut from the earth, and the transgressors shall be plucked out of it". Shalom
Absolutely great message I grew up Penecostal and always feared the rapture as I was taught as a child definitely had questions because I clearly couldn’t find one in the Bible , my theory is those who go through the tribulation expecting a rapture might grow weary thinking that God has let them down??
Maybe due to false teachings?
I like the name of your channel. Unlearning the lies is exactly what I am in the middle of doing. I want the truth no matter where that leads me!
Just as in the days when Jesus walked the earth, the Jewish people were looking for their Messiah. Many of them missed Him, even though He was right there among them. Many of these who missed Him were the learned ones, the religious leaders who had studied Torah all their lives. So, just as they were stubbornly clinging to their predictions concerning the Messiah, we have people today stubbornly clinging to their predictions of end time events. To those who present their predictions (concerning what will happen and what will NOT happen) with such confidence, I say, "You don't KNOW. You THINK that you know, but you don't KNOW." So, check your confidence already, as you may fall into the same category as the learned men of old who missed the Messiah.
Really good insight
Amen!
Do you mean alll the false precictions by the false date setting pretrib. false prophets? For the predictions of the Bible are sure and wil come to pass.
true ... this guy is a false teacher though
John 1:11 ; He came to His own and they have not receive Him.
As I sit and study the gospels for the first time, nothing tells me that there will be a rapture. Thank you for doing this study. I prayed that the Lord would show me his truths as I read. And when I realized no rapture, I wanted to see if I was missing something or if others agreed.
I guess you missed the first few verses of John 14 where Yeshua alluded to it in His Jewish wedding references.
But the catching away, is a NT "mystery" (something hidden in the OT, revealed in the NT) because it wasn't until a decade+ later that the early Jewish believers understood salvation and God's Kingdom was for the gentiles too! How could they understand the catching away of the church-age believers yet?
Where is the church in Rev 4 through 19?
There are going to be more than 200,000,000 saved (b/c God counted that size army, but believers are countless) during the Tribulation because they will be desperate to be on the right side after having been exposed to the gospel but never having accepted it and watching their friends disappear, because there will be 144,000 evangelists, because of the 2 witnesses, because their will be angels proclaiming the gospel around the earth.
But the "church" has to be out of the way for God to deal exclusively with Israel, otherwise they would be relying on us, good people in the USA for example, to rescue them from the arab invasion, rather than solely God. Who could have saved the Israelites standing on the shore of the Red Sea at the mouth of the canyon will Pharoah's army breathing down their necks from behind and the deep blue sea in front of them? ONLY GOD. All other options must be exhausted for National Israel in order to come back to YHVH and Torah.
You are so right also I would only stick with the KJV.
@@sigalsmadar4547
1) The Jewish wedding included the betrothal agreement. This made the marriage legally binding, though not yet consummated. Israel was betrothed to YHVH at Mt. Sinai.
The groom would provide a place for the bride. Often simply a room in the parental home, but a place.
His return was never certain as it usually depended on the completion of gathering the harvest. *After the harvest*, the groom would return to the bridal city. When the watchmen on the wall saw him approach, *they sounded the call*. Then, all invited guests would leave the city to greet the groom on the road. They gathered around him and escorted him BACK to the city they just left. It was the typical greeting for any VIP. The Palm Sunday parade was a picture of His coming for his bride, (Both redeemed Jew and the grafted - in church.)
2) In order for a mystery to be revealed, it must actually be revealed! In order for a mystery to be revealed, it must be previously unknown. Unheard of.
Daniel was promised a rescue for *all those* who were in *The Book of Life*.
Jesus said that the elect would be gathered from the air and from the earth (the dead are resurrected from the earth first, then the redeemed survivors from the air.)
So: The escape could not be the mystery!
("But", you say, "Those elect and redeemed are just Jews and the 'untouchables' called 'The Tribulation Saints'." POPPYCOCK! There is no caste system in the Bible. No place for such classism and antisemitism in God's kingdom. No promise of a different treatment for Jews, gentiles, and "Johnny - Come - Latelys." -just the promises that all are equal, and that God is no respecter of persons, and the parable showing the good shepherd leaving the safe ones alone to seek and save the straggler. The one who obeyed "last.")
No, *the rapture itself was no mystery*.
Maybe the mystery was that it would happen before the pampered western church has to experience any discomfort?
No. If that was the mystery Paul "revealed" HE FORGOT TO REVEAL IT!!!
Instead, He just gave them an Olivet Discourse summary. He retold what Jesus had said.
The MYSTERY was the thing that was previously *unknown*, that Paul actually did reveal. Not only did he reveal a real mystery, but it was also (unlike the idea that the mystery was a pre-trib escape from the planet) actually grammatically consistent with the entire letter he was writing to the church.
The subject he was expounding on was DEATH! Many in the church were mourning their martyrs. They knew there would be a resurrection, but they also knew well that the resurrection came at the end of the age. They were afraid that the ones who had died had missed any chance of reigning with Christ. (There were also false teachers going about teaching that it was all spiritual, and that there would be no physical resurrection.)
Paul wrote to reassure them *and* he revealed the true *mystery*. While death is virtually 100% inevitable, still *not every single believer would have to die*. The (few) who remain alive will be instantly translated into immortal bodies, complete with a sanctified, perfected nature!
I don't know about you, but to me that beats being flown to heaven to party while the people the LORD loves are dying.
We all need to read the Bible and stop accepting what others tell us unless they are teaching from God’s words. Not many read it and this is why they follow the wrong teachings. God bless you brother for your words to instruct us and to let us know what
God said.
The first church felt persecuted and under tribulation in those days, and were expecting Christ to return soon, to meet Him in the clouds. Maybe it's true if we see the events unfold quickly like days.
BUT, what if the sequence of events last years or months in between?
What if when Christ returns with a shout, He will not come down to earth yet, but judge the earth first, fulfilling the prophecies about Israel over a period of time, until it is surrounded, and He descends with the saints, breaking the mountains apart, destroy His enemies, and establish His rule?
Read the scriptures and prophecies in context and you may get a better understanding. My pastor is very adamant about that and about hermeneutic Bible study. Word studies can be beneficial, as well. Superficial reading of the scriptures can give one a wrong picture of what is going on. Become a “Bible journalist” - who is speaking? Why is the speaker saying what is being said? Who is being spoken to? Why do they need to hear what the speaker is saying to them? What happened before that caused a wrong understanding among those who are being spoken to? What were the customs of the day and the area? So much to consider!
@kathleentietsort111 you are so correct! It is exegesis of the Scripture.
Been about this one for years and the more I hold to the context of the scripture, comparing scripture with scripture, the more obvious a post tribulation becomes. Thank you for your thoughtful and straightforward exegesis.
Thanks brother. Keep studying
you are wrong, post-trib is no trib at all...
Lex, I've appreciated the several videos of yours that I have seen so far. (On Hell, and Sexual Immorality...), but I think you unnecessarily oppose any kind of 'rapturing' with the resurrection, as somehow inherently incompatible. Any rapture believer who believes they go to some disembodied eternity in some heaven away from the earth primarliy has problems with the teaching of the resurrection (and eschatology, the new earth, etc), and the problem is not so much a problem with believing that we will meet Him in the air.
To believe that Christians are raptured/rescued/snatched away (harpazo) in some kind of way for a time does not entail that those passages are not about the resurrection. Jesus returns at at thereby fulfills the Feast of Trumpets (the resurrection day, the hidden day, the long day, the day of coronation of the king, etc) , and at the last trump, we shall all be changed.
Thank you for this, all my life growing up in the Christian churches so many things never made sense... God is really opening my eyes and I think the eyes of many people to dispel the lies in the false teaching I'm so amazed and so angry at the complacency and the false witness of the Christian church in America, and in my opinion I believe the Christian church in America has always been false..... Thank you Yeshua for revealing the truth
Thank you sooo much i never did believe in the rapture and thank you for souch good and simple teachings many blessings
you have been deceived for some time now, read the comments to know more... this man is a false teacher
Matthew Chapter's 24 & 25
1st. Thessalonians Chapter's 4 & 5
@@ednamariamonteiro2818 no he is not listen to it again with an open mind
@@ednamariamonteiro2818 study the galilean marriage tradition. Its exactly like the rapture and tribulation. Look up the 2020 movie before the wrath
Edna Maria Monteiro the "pretrib rapture" is taught by MANY with MANY teachers, MANY books, MANY sermons and even MANY movies all of them will lead you to the "apostasia" falling away before the coming of Christ!
Matthew 24
5 For MANY shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall DECEIVE MANY.
2 Timothy 2
18 Who concerning the TRUTH the have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
2 Timothy 4
3 For the time will come when they WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE; but after their wn lusts shall they HEAP to THEMSELVES TEACHERS, ;
having ITCHING EARS;
4 And they shall TURN AWAY THEIR EARS FROM the TRUTH, and shall be TURNED UNTO FABLES.
I really appreciate the clarity of your teaching and how you go verse by verse explaining. I've convicted by some of your videos to live a holy life. Thank you!
false teaching
@@ednamariamonteiro2818 Then what is rapture ? A false doctrines it is.
Edna Maria Monteiro Jesus answered the question concerning his return in Matthew 24:29 he said IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION OF THOSE DAYS! Jesus IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION!
And in Matthew 24 he tells you in verse 3 to 5 and to TAKE HEED becuase MANY shall come in his name and DECEIVE MANY the "pretrib rapture" is taught by MANY going about DECEIVING MANY!
Proof of the what Jesus was warning you about!
Thank you for your proper exegesis! Blessed are you for upholding the truth.
Revelation 3:21 (KJV) To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
you say that but when youre being tortured endlessly by the government for being Christian during the tribulation you will denounce god. You are NOT as strong as Jesus or the disciples.
@@JMRabil675 If God's Holy Spirit is in me then I can do anything. I fear the one who can destroy my soul not the ones who can take my human life
@@JMRabil675 do not bash him and his strength. All things are possible through Christ. We get our strength form God. True Christians will die for Christ before denouncing him.
@@mbrimer6346 Exactly. Jesus also said he has overcome the world.
The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead will be the same spirit that will quicken our mortal bodies.
So on his own, he will denounce God. But anyone who has the spirit wont
Good sound doctrine, brother. I hoop many eyes will open up. Once you see it, it is so Obvious !!
This is an extremely important message!
Joh 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
One of the explenations I have heard on John 14:2-3 is that the mansions are incerupted bodies. See 2 Corintians 5 starting with verse 1.
@@SGOV86 The word "mansions" is a bad translation. it is better read, "rooms, apartments, or dwelling places." There is no such thing as a HOUSE full of Mansions.
Where is the place Jesus is preparing, and what, where is "My Father's House"?
EVERY time the term is used in the Bible, it refers to the Temple.
Jesus is preparing the place. It's called, "The New Jerusalem." It is being PREPARED in Heaven, but the text says *nothing* about it staying there, nor does it imply that we will go to it in the sky. John saw it come DOWN to earth.
"Where I am, there you will be also." Where will He and "His Father's House" be? On Earth. In Israel. The place from which He, and His redeemed, will reign.
"Temple" means the place where (a) God dwells.
@@DianaSzucs-jv7yo I thank you very much for the clarefication. God bless you.
No Rapture! The end! 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 is always forgotten about in churches who push the Rapture because it throws their lie under the bus!
The Apocalypse of John/Revelation was so hotly contested by the early church that it nearly did not make it into the Biblical canon. The Eastern Orthodox church does not accept it to this day. It was probably more a book of comfort to Roman-persecuted Christians than it is a book of future prophesy.
Thank you so much for letting God speak through you, and God bless you for that! He has answered my prayers about this through you! I have asked Him in prayer to please explain to me the truth about the rapture, and He has opened the Word to you to spread it to us in the form of a solid, compact en extremely clear Bible study. This is not the first time, I must say. He has given me so much understanding about many things through you, and I am very grateful for it. I guess it just proves how broad the concept "Church" actually is :)
It's funny how they put Greek mythology in there by the term Hades instead of the word grave.
Nice. I could never understand how the meek could simultaneously inherit the Earth and raptured never to return to the Earth
i had enough faith to levitate up off the ground. This did happen.but only in a dream.all these years believing this since a child.looking out the window waiting for JESUS CHRIST to come back and give me a John 14:2 experience. Not so now hey😢
The rapture is real he is wrong the word is harpozo its a great catching away.
dont be dismayed, study more :)
Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people "twist" to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures......2nd peter chapter 3 nkjv
Thank you Brother for the truth and you works , for we love the Truth and live by it .
Hi I've really never studied hardcore on the subject of the rapture. My eyes are now open. Thank you
Thanks lex ! I was planning to tithe , after learning that scriptural truth . I will give an offering from my heart
In reference to the days of Noah, Matt. 24:37-44, you said the wicked were all taken away in judgement, which infers that those left behind are the righteous. If your interpretation is correct then please explain who this passage was meant for... the wicked or the righteous? If you say the righteous, why would it be necessary that they should be warned since they are going to be left behind anyway, which is a good thing according to your theory? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever nor does not it fit the context of the passage!
SM Agree, not only that, if it is like in the days of Noah, then Noah was saved by the Protection of God and the Ark. He will protect the saints.
yes!! this is a false teacher, a mason, a deceiver!!!
Why was it necessary to warn Lot? Why was it necessary to warn Nineva? Why was it necessary to warn Noah and why did Noah warn the people? In each of these cases God put before the people the choice between life and death. Each one of these the people could obey or not. Each one of these there was judgement on those who did not prepare and heed the warning. Noah would not have been saved if he did not prepare and build the Ark like he was commanded to do.
@@ednamariamonteiro2818 you sound very much like those who accused Jesus before the crucifixion. They had no evidence, but condemned him anyway. So where is your evidence that the guy is a mason?
Jaco Veldsman That is correct! And that is my point! The passage has nothing to do with the wicked as this guy proclaims. It is a warning to the righteous believers because some of them will be left behind at the Rapture. Does this mean that those who are left behind will enter into the 7yr Trib? Absolutely not. What most saints fail to realize is that the 7yr Trib does not commence immediately following the Rapture. Surely, those saints that miss the Rapture will have to experience martyrdom but this transpires before the 7yr Trib ever gets underway. These unfortunate brethren will have to die for their faith. That is the cup reserved for them to drink of! So there will be a Pre-Trib Rapture but understand that it will be a Partial Pre-Trib Rapture at that!
YES YES YES!!!I have been trying to get friends and family is see that we are the ones left behind
WOW! Brother!!! You have set truth in order, line upon line and precept upon precept!!! Thank you Jesus!!! Yeshua HaMashiach!!! Hallelujah!!! Keep it coming!!!! I love it!!!😊❤🙏💯
He has twisted Holy Scripture -- and refused to rightly divide the Words of God. There is a huge difference between Groom Jesus returning for his Bride/Church "in the air" -- VERSUS. -- Jewish Messiah Jesus' SECOND Coming TO EARTH to battle at Armageddon to rescue ISRAEL.
You need to study deeper there is no rapture
Thanks again! Very instructive and already posted it at Facebook.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Exactly
We will be spared the Day Of The Lord..not the tribulation.
Paul,the apostle to the Gentiles, spoke of the revelation THE MYSTERY, kept hidden since the world began, but now is revealed. The rapture is not the same as the resurrection,as they were revealed since the world began. Your use of "secret"is incorrect. Mystery refers to a divine secret hidden in the mind of God until it was first revealed to Paul for him to reveal to the world. Since Paul's ministry, Jews who believed in Messiah taught against the words of Jesus as revealed to the apostle Paul. Read your bible for Truth(Jesus is the truth) not to prove your doctrines!
Dear brother,how You can explain 1 Tessalonians 4:15 than, many thanks
+Milan Kovacik
Very simple, those who have died already will experience the glorification of their bodies FIRST, will be resurrected and be taken up, and then those who are still alive will experience the same in their living state (that is, the glorification of their bodies, NOT resurrection) and will go up and meet them and both will be taken up together to meet The Lord.
The word of God is not always meant to be complicated but simple. What part of that verse do you find unbelievable? Here's the whole passage in context:
"13Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For 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. 17After 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. 18Therefore encourage one another with these words."
appostol Paul himself ve thought that He will be alive when Jesus will come back at the second time , I see that very clearly !!! we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord . Guys no rapture just second coming,Bible is very clear with this and than also check when is mention harvest in revelation , what must past before harvest ?.Nobody will be raptured earlier than that time,everybody ll go tru untill ,Rev 14:9-20 . I agree with this opinion because it is biblical.Pre trib Rapture is non biblical doctorine and whoever believe that will be surprised when nothing happen,Lots of people will lost their faith and fall away from Jeshua and the true church because nothing happen what they believe, They will thing this way-NO RAPTURE NO GOD-that because of false teaching and doctorine of pre trib rapture!!! We will see
Daniel Kaser there is no rapture only the resurrection on the last day, Jesus isnt a yoyo
I can say this is one of my favorite channels. The truth will set us free. Bless be Yahweh
This man has some great vidoes with doctrine to back it up. Havent looked into him 100% but some of these videos have great info.
Rev 12 proves a pre-Trib harpazo/rapture of the church.
@@veritasmuy2407 no it doesn't.
Revelation 12 is talking about Israel. Notice the 12 stars represent the 12 tribes of Israel, the man child is Jesus who came of Israel. ( The woman here in revelation identical to the description of Israel in Joseph's Dream in Genesis )
The earth protects Israel , and Satan goes after the remnant of the womans seed those who hold the testimony of Jesus Christ. In the next chapter 13 the beast takes power 3.5 years and overcomes the saints ( those who hold the testimony of Christ)
It definitely does not explain a rapture as far as I know!
Please explain?
@@j-rad2613 I agree with you -- the Woman of Rev 12:1 is the physical nation of Israel/12Tribes as described in Gen 37:9-10. But the Jewish Woman/Israel has a painful birth of the Child/Jewish Church. The Child is the Church (Head/Jesus, Body/Believers, Col 1:18). The Child/Church is HARPAZO'd/raptured/taken by force up to God -- the word harpazo is also used in 1Thes 4:17 speaking of the rapture of the church. In Acts 1:9, Jesus was NOT harpazo'd/taken by force/snatched up to God -- Jesus was "epairo" which means "to lift up, rise up". So Rev 12:5 isn't talking about Jesus, its talking about the rapture of the Church.
@@j-rad2613 those that hold the testimony of Messiah Jesus during the last 3.5 years, are JEWS that have repented and believe (Rev 15:3, Rev 7, Hosea 5:15, Matt 23:39) -- they will suffer great tribulation of Rev 13 during those last 3.5 years (Matt 24:21, Jeremiah 30:7,11). The Millennium is very Jewish -- Jewish Messiah Jesus will reign from his father David's Jewish throne in Jewish Jerusalem with those Jews that were killed for not taking the "mark" (Rev 20).
@@j-rad2613 read Romans 11:25-32 -- there is coming a point in Time when GOD is FINISHED/COMPLETED gathering in the Gentiles (rapture), and then GOD focuses on delivering Israel bcuz of God's promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (tribulation).
I'm sorry but it was mentioned by the apostle Paul as well as John.
Stop reading other authors and read the Bible.
Jason Wayne ^ this is the result of not reading scripture in it’s full context and only taking one verse and building a theology around it. There is no rapture in the Bible.
@@warrenchristianvision2314 Revelation 3:10
10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
@@chadlee243 , you quote a proclamation to a group of people who have now been dead for many many years. This is not a proclamation made to all , it was made to those followers that were in Sardis.
@@dw2369 The word of God is for all who have ears to hear.
@@johnathonmorris850 it is addressed to the 7 churches and says it will shortly take place...is God a liar? Revelations was written to the 7 churches 2,000 years ago it was not written to those living in 2020. It also says do not seal up this prophecy because it is about to take place.
Just like all of Pauls epistles were written to certain people so was Revelations.
This video is great...short and too the point. Lex @unlearnthelies can you do a video on dispensationalism??
Ancient church fathers
Cyprian, A D 250
Treatise of Cyprian 21-26- we who see that terrible things have begun, and know that still more terrible things are imminent, may regard it as the greatest advantage to depart from it as quickly as possible. Do you not give God thanks, Do you not congratulate yourself, that buy and early departure you are taken away, and delivered from the ship wrecks and disasters that are imminent? Let us greet the day which assigns each of us to his own home, which snatches us hence, and sets us free from the snares of the world, and restores us to Paradise and the kingdom.
Epistle 55 - the antichrist is coming, but above him come as Christ also. The enemy goes out and rages, but immediately the Lord follows to avenge are suffering and our wounds the adversary is in raged and threatens, but there is one who can deliver us from his hands.
Thank you Mr.Meyer for clarification of the truth
Dear brother, thanks for the commentary, however, you seem to miss the point on one issue and on the other i'm not clear where you stand. On rapture, you are right in saying Christs' coming is post tribulation, however, as you quoted in the scripture, Paul said the living will not preceed the death, then went on to say the dead shall rise first then those who are alive will be changed and be caught up together (to join those already caught up). So according to the scripture, those that meet Christs' condition for rapture and are not dead will be changed and caught up. Now on the issue of relating Noah 's generation been taken away and rapture's taken away. Remember, that who is taken away depends on who or what is taking them away. The flood came to take those that qualify for destruction (outside the ark) with it, in like manner Christ will come and take away those who qualify to be with him. The flood is to destroy the wicked but Jesus came to save the righteous. Logically speaking (according to the scripture), they are operating from different sides of the fence, so the target people are also different. Shalom
About your video of the rapture.
I watched your video about the rapture twice, and felt the urgency to get things clear for myself about this doctrine, since I consider it of great importance, and I used to consider you a good master of the Scriptures. I respect you, but as a believer, I took this matter seriously. I have to admit you made me doubt it, but I took the time to carefully read the passages in the Bible that you mention, and I personally come to the conclusion that there is a rapture. My honest conclusion, after reading and analizing the verses in their whole chapter contexts.
I encourage you to carefully read them. To me, in all given portions of the Word, it's pretty clear: first the dead will rise, THEN US, will gather with the Lord in the clouds. Also, we'll be TRANSFORMED from a animal body to an incorrupted, espiritual one.
The reference you make about the angels gathering and taking the good plants INTO the Lord's barn. Also mentioning, from Yeshua Himself, that the angels Will gather us from the 4 corners. It's not even implicit, all this is plain and explicit.
Please reconsider your opinion, because I think you are misleading people and bringing confusion.
Luke 17:22-37 and Matthew 24:26-28, 36-51 is pre-trib without a resurrection. Life is normal (eating, drinking, etc), then a flash of light and believers leave their flesh on earth. Nobody will be planting, building, etc when Jesus comes in great power and glory at the end of the age (Matthew 24:29-31). Everybody is hiding in cave (Revelation 6:15-17). 1 Thes 4:13-18 and 1 Cor 15:50-52 is post-trib. It looks like there is only one resurrection (John 6:39,40,44,54; John 11:24; Revelation 20:5).
he's a false teacher
Thank you brother for your clear explanation about rapture. Keep up your good work and pray many will be enlightened
Well, you don't distinguish between teachings to Israel and those to the Church. For instance, the Matthew passage was uttered in the days when the Church did not exist, and in fact, was not even imagined yet. So that part could not be addressed to it. In fact, it's addressed to the "elect" of Israel, not to the Church. Your supposition that God only has one trumpet, and all trumpet-blowing means the same thing is not justifiable. It's just presumed. There's more thinking to be done here.
but it says Jesus returned with his saint's, so how could he gather them after tribulation if he comes back with them
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Bless you …………
Ecclesiastes 9:2
“All things come alike to all:
there is one event to the righteous,
and to the wicked;
to the good and to the clean,
and to the unclean;
to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not:
as is the good,
so is the sinner;
and he that sweareth,
as he that feareth an oath.”
One Event…….
Those who are to be resurrected will be brought back with HIM, then we who are still alive will be changed. So...there is no conflict. The souls of those (redeemed) who have already passed are those who come back with CHRIST.
He returns with saints who take part in the First Resurrection, and in order to be a part of the First Resurrection on has to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. Pray to the original Hebraic name of God, Elohim (stands for the Father and the Messiah), and that is how you get baptized in the Holy Spirit. Baptism of the Holy Spirit means God (Elohim) literally breathing the Holy Spirit into you. Chances are you're none of you are baptized at the moment. The name that you pray to matters.
Here is a link on the name Elohim: www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_of_G-d/Elohim/elohim.html
Ancient church fathers
Ephraim the Syrian, A.D.373
On the last times 2- ... because all Saints and the elect of the LORD are gathered together before the tribulation which is about to come and be taken to the Lord...
Just Truth the thing is what did Jesus say? Isn’t he our Lord and savior? All throughout the NT it says after the tribulation. Trust Christ not traditions of Men.
Felipe The Mouse show me your scriptures to back up your viewpoint.
People fear hearing the truth, but truth be told. Todah Rabah brother... keep the fire blazing
Good Job brother. I am starting to see this.
Rev 12 proves a pre-Trib rapture
@@veritasmuy2407 wrong.
@@luisvargas9893 nope. its RIGHT... shall we go verse by verse to prove it ??
HINT: the Woman of Rev 12 is the physical nation of Israel/12Tribes as described in Genesis 37:9-10.
thank bro. im being enlightened here. God bless you .
no, this is deception, this man is a false teacher!!
@@ednamariamonteiro2818 why, ya spreading lies. read the scriptures, don't believe of a man that made it in 1830. if your saying he wrong then, your saying the bible is wrong. as it does not teach it. Do, not judge him as he speaks the truth. Pray to go to show ya the way. instead of calling people false teacher. remember there many false teachers rising up. Don't be caught up in ya feelings, read it up as well ask jesus/god if the rapture is true. as well make sure it from him. the devil can trick people, because when there is no rapture many people will think they have not been save as well left behind. that how the devil will get them.
Charito please continue to read the scriptures for yourself. Many religious nut jobs will try to sell you Christian snake oil about rapture. You will know them by their fruit. Those who subscribe to rapture doctrine are unstable, and don't study God's word and walk contrary to Him. They reject His laws, His Christ, and His word. The rapture is a manufactured madness.
@@ednamariamonteiro2818 you make it sound like belief in a Rapture is somehow an essential part of salvation, and THAT is false. Whether there will or will not be a “rapture”, the essence of salvation is faith in the lord Jesus Christ, n’est ce pas? This man is not teaching falsehoods at all in that manner. The belief in rapture only began about 200 years ago. So, based on your logic, the first 1,800 years of Christians were false teachers?
@@gears265 Or they simply will get the mark of the beast because "according to their theory the mark can only come when the privileged westerners will get raptured up" =eternal damnation for those who take the mark. :(
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Yes! Jesus is coming for his Bride! He will keep us from the wrath to come. The 7 year tribulation is “Jacobs Trouble”.
The wrath isn’t the tribulation, it’s the day of the lord
Rev.13:7 and it was given him to make war with the saints.
How can he make war with the saints if we are gone????
Good question!!!
Yes I know so that's why I believe that we are still here in the tribulation, cos Jesus said in Matthew 24 : 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days , the sun will be darkened and the moon shall not give her light , and the stars shall fall from heaven, and powers of heaven shall be shaken.
30 and then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn , and they shall see the son of coming in the clouds of heaven with great power and glory:
31 and he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. We all go through the great tribulation and then the dead in christ will rise first , then those who are alive in christ on the earth will be caught up together, to meet the Lord in the air . Trust in Jesus till the last trumpet sounds , jesus has promised to come for us!
@@Turtleback8024 ⁰
Praise Yashua!!! Thank you for the knowledge and understanding.
and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Genesis 5:24
the scripture records that Enoch was not found because God took him, or "translated" him. The Bible does not say that Enoch went to heaven when he was translated. Instead it says he was not found.
Certainly Enoch was "translated," but what does the word "translate" mean?
The original Greek word for "translate" is metatithemi. According to Arndt-Gingrich's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, 1969 edition, the primary meaning is to "convey to another place . . . transfer" (p. 514).
The same Greek word is rendered "carried over" in Acts 7:16. Here we read that after Jacob died his body was "carried over"-transported, translated-to Sychem where he was buried! That's what your Bible says! Jacob was transported or translated to the place of burial!
That is why Moses said that God took Enoch. God removed-translated-him so that he was not found. God took Enoch and buried him!
In Deuteronomy 34:6 we read also how God took Moses from the people after which he died and was buried by God. "But no man knoweth his sepulcher unto this day." God removed Moses-God translated him-and he was not found either!
So Enoch was not made immortal after all! He was taken away and was not found. All his days were three hundred and sixty-five! That's as long as Enoch lived.
Notice another proof that "translate" does not mean to make immortal. It is found in Colossians 1:13: the Father "hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son." Here the Bible says that Christians are already translated-but Christians still die! We are not immortal bodies, but mortal flesh and blood. Although we were once part of the darkness of this world, now we are translated, removed from darkness in to the light of the Kingdom of God.
Didn't Receive the Promise
Enoch is included by Paul (in Hebrews 11) among the fathers who obtained a good report through faith; but "these all, having have obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise" (Hebrews 11:39). What promise? The "hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began" (Titus 1:2).
So Enoch therefore is one of "these all" who have not yet obtained the promise of eternal life and inheritance. Enoch and all the worthies of old will receive the promise of eternal life at the return of Christ, the same time Christians obtain it (Hebrews 11:40). That is yet future!
Since Enoch has not yet inherited eternal life he must be dead! This is exactly what Paul writes in Heb. 11:13! Paul says Enoch died! Notice it! "These all died in faith, not having received what was promised." Who were these "all"?
Paul tells us: Abel, Enoch, Noah, and the patriarchs and their wives. Hebrews 11:1-12 lists those who had faith and Enoch is included among them. Then in verse 13 Paul proved that they had not inherited the promises by saying: "These all [including Enoch] died in faith."
But what about Paul's saying that Enoch "should not see death"?
Which Death Did Enoch Escape?
Enoch lived only three hundred sixty-five years. Then what could Paul possibly have meant by saying: "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found because God had translated him"? This verse nowhere says that Enoch did not die. Rather, it says that Enoch "should not see death." But what does it mean?
Remember, there is more than one death mentioned in the Bible. There is a first death, and there is a second death (Revelation 20:6). Which death did Paul mean?
The first death is appointed unto men (Hebrews 9:27). That death cannot be humanly evaded. It is inevitable. That death Enoch died, as we have already proved.
But Paul was not writing about that death. The phrase "should not see" is in the conditional tense of the verb, having reference to a future event. It is not in the past tense, that he "did not see" death-but that he "should not see death." So this death that Enoch escaped by being translated is one that he can escape in the future on certain conditions!
Did Jesus ever speak of a death that might be escaped? He certainly did! In John 8:51 Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death"-shall never see-that is, suffer-the second death! And again in John 11:26, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die"-or "shall not die forever."
This death is one that can be escaped on condition that men keep the saying of Jesus and believe Him. This death is not the first death, because Christians who keep Jesus' sayings die this first death. Then the death which Enoch should escape must be the second death which will never touch those who are in the first resurrection (Revelation 20:6). And Enoch will be in the first resurrection because he met the conditions!
Enoch had faith. He believed God and walked with God, obeying him. In keeping the sayings of God, Enoch kept the sayings of Jesus too; because Jesus did not speak of Himself, but spoke what the Father commanded Him (John 14:10).
Thus Enoch met the conditions so that he should not see death. The second death shall never touch Enoch, because of his faith and obedience.
@@pattygreen5229 enoch and elijah did not see death read the book of enoch
@@lindafischer1004 The book of Enoch is NOT in the Holy Scriptures. I stick to the Bible ONLY. Anything else is ADDING to God's word. Also, concerning Elijah:
There are three heavens mentioned in the Bible, not just one! And if, as Jesus said, no man, which included Elijah, had ever ascended to the heaven in John 3:13, where He came from, then the heaven into which Elijah was taken was a different heaven! Which one was it?
The third heaven is the heaven of God’s throne, where Jesus is today. Jesus, being the High Priest of God, is the only one who has the right to be in that heaven with the Father.
Notice why! Hebrews 8:1-5 explains that the original earthly tabernacle under the Old Covenant, with its most holy place, or compartment, was the type of the throne of God in heaven. Only the high priest-type of Christ as High Priest now-was allowed to enter!
The second heaven represents the expanse of this great universe-the space where we find the sun, moon, stars, comets and planets. How often do we find the Psalmist admiring the "heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon, and the stars, which Thou has ordained" (Psalm 8:3; Genesis 1:15-17).
Beside the heaven of the stars, we find that the atmosphere, the air that surrounds this world, is also called heaven. Birds fly "in the midst of heaven"- certainly not God’s throne in heaven-for we read in Genesis 1:20 of "fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." In blessing Jacob, Isaac said; "God give thee of the dew of heaven:’ and Moses joyed that the "heavens shall drop down dew" (see Gen. 27:28 and Deut. 33:28).
This first heaven, from which dew comes, means the atmosphere, where the clouds and the wind roam. Everyone of us is right now breathing the air of heaven!
Since Elijah could not have gone to the heaven of God’s throne, then to which heaven did he go?-for the Scripture reads: "and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven" (II Kings 2:1, 11).
The answer ought already be quite obvious! Elijah "went up by a whirlwind into heaven"-not to the heaven of God’s throne, but into this earth’s atmosphere, the first heaven.
There could be no whirlwind in any other place but in the atmosphere surrounding this earth-in the first heaven, in which the birds fly. You certainly have seen the great lifting power of a whirlwind, haven’t you?
The new king of Israel was another son of Ahab, Jehoram, or Joram as he is sometimes called. The beginning of his reign marked the year of the removal of Elijah (II Kings 1:18 and 3:1). During this king’s reign Elisha was the recognized prophet of God (II Kings 3:11). In the fifth year of Joram king of Israel, the son of the king of Judah began to reign along with his father in Judah (II Kings 8:16). His name also was Jehoram. The first thing he did to establish his kingdom rule was to put his relatives to the sword lest they should claim the throne from him (11 Chronicles 2 1:4). For nearly six years he followed the ways of the nations about him and did evil in God’s sight.
Almost ten years had now expired since Elijah was taken from the people. But what do you think was about to happen? A Letter Comes from Elijah!
Yes, after this wicked rule by the Jewish king, God chose Elijah to write a letter and have it sent to the king!
The contents of the letter are found in II Chronicles 21:12-15. In part it reads: "Because thou hast not walked in the ways of. . . thy father . - . but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel.. . and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, which were better than thyself. . . thou shalt have great sickness by disease."
From the wording of the letter, it is clear that Elijah wrote it after these events had occurred, for he speaks of them as past events, and of the disease as future. Two years after the king became diseased the king died-having reigned only eight short years (II Chronicles 21:18-20).
This proves that the letter was written about ten years after Elijah had been taken to another location by the whirlwind.
God used Elijah to convey the message because he was the prophet of God in days of the present king’s father-and the son was not going in the ways of his obedient father, Jehosophat.
The letter he had others deliver was recognized as his-proving that he was known to be alive someplace. Just how much longer he lived, the Bible does not reveal. But in that "it is appointed unto men once to die"-Elijah must have died somewhat later. See Hebrews 9:27. All human beings born of Adam, and that includes Elijah, must die-for we read: "In Adam ALL DIE" (I Corinthians 15:22). Elijah was a man "subject to like passions as we are" (James 5:17)...subject to human nature and death! The prophet, being mortal flesh as we are, could not have lived much beyond his seventy years.
To suppose that God gave him the power of an endless life of nearly three thousand years already is to read into the Bible what is not there! He was mortal, subject to death, and after being lifted into the atmospheric heavens, spent the remaining years of his separate life at some little-known location on the earth, living as every human being, before he naturally died.
@@pattygreen5229 it is in the ethioan bible the catholics took it out of the bible
@@lindafischer1004 I am not a Catholic. I have never heard of the Ethiopian bible, but I looked it up.
Do you actually read the New Testament?
He reads just enough to twist it around and deceive ppl
Breaking News Update how does he twist it, when there’s enough evidence for a post tribulation
If you do you will not believe in a pre tribulation rapture
Early authors of the Christian church never mentioned the "pretrib rapture" fable one great set of books written by John Foxe called the "Foxes book of Martyrs" tells of Christians enduring in the faith unlike Christians of today that believe in the fable of the "pretrib rapture" that do not endure such as the Chinese Christians that fell away from the faith during the cultural revolution of Mao Tse Tung because they were taught the lie from the western churches according to Corra Ten Boom!
My mom believes very strongly in the rapture. I think this idea has become some kind of psychological crutch as the world deteriorates and disturbing news comes out daily. I did show this video to her, but she was offended by the phrase “unlearn the lies.” Maybe misunderstandings would be a better term than lies, since some rapture believers and teachers seem to be sincere in their belief.
So, the "Church" shall indeed suffer the wrath of God during the "tribulation?". So, the belief that the church is not appointed to wrath is false?
Ancient church fathers
Itenaeus, AD 170
Against heresies 5.29 when in the end that church will suddenly be caught up from this, it is said, there will be tribulation such as not been since the beginning nor will be
Tertullian AD 207
Against Marcion. 5.16
He (Paul) says those who remain unto the coming of Christ along with the dead in Christ, Will rise first, being caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. By the mouth of Isaiah, it was said long ago who are those who fly like clouds on to me, and doves with their young ones? Isaiah 60.8
Just truth, first if all I am not against you but I, as a brother felt that I want to share what I have learned. These excerpts only prove that the early Catholic church had a couple of "father's" who denied or ignored other scripture, following traditions of men, the very leaven that Jesus warned about. These "father's" didn't in any major capacity convince the church pre or post protestant movement that the rapture was Biblical by any stretch of the imagination by their "self proclaimed authority". If one honestly does a word study and reads within the context of scripture, the rapture is simply not Biblical/scriptural. I don't believe that God intended for ANY contradiction in his letter to us. IF God sends two witnesses in scripture, IF by spirit and truth, then when we read a translation that seems that there is a contradiction, then we NEED to do a deeper study and rightly divide what men say and what God or a scribe has written of God's inspired word. We are not enemies. Satan is our adversary (Ephessians 6). He has tried to take away from God and wear the crown since his rise to protect the mercy seat. He tried twisting truth when he tempted Christ. He has worked to remind those who are called of their fleshly desires and to make them proud and to develop traditions apart from God's purpose.
Within the Context as clearly stated in this video, 1 Thessalonians 4 talks about the RESURRECTION. What other scriptures talk about the resurrection/harvest/Christ's return? A whole bunch. According to Ezekiel chapters 44-48, Zechariah ch 14, Isaiah 60, Revelations ch 20, Jesus will stand in Jerusalem to establish his millennial kingdom. The harvest spoken of in the parable of the wheat and the tares (Mathew 13) is the same event as the 7th trump. The tares ( wicked) are gathered first, and removed from His kingdom. The righteous, who bear fruit, who have oil stored (Mathew 25) and who have the seal of God in their minds and overcome the temptation to worship Satan will be those who Christ will choose as priests to teach those on the outside. Remember Satan's fall was pride. He persuaded angels and 1/3 of heaven to bow down to him before. He will do it again. 2 Thessalonians 2 is Paul's address to Thessalonica in regards of Christ's return. Some taught that Christ could return at that time. Everything seemed to line up with the signs of the time. Paul makes a simple and straightforward statement reminding them that Satan shows up before Jesus. No where in the Bible does it say we are secretly removed. Jesus did say that we are to make a stand, giving our testimony and that if we are willing to lose our lives that we would overcome Satan and reign with him. If Christians aren't prepared mentally or spiritually for Satan or make habits of producing spiritual fruit, then many will take his mark (half of the ten virgins in Mathew 25). He will show miracles in the sight of men. We will likely see this. Bottom line. The rapture is a doctrine that Satan wants Christians to believe, so that when he comes on scene millions will believe he is the saviour that they have been waiting for. 1 Thessalonians 4, Jesus returns (to the mount of transfiguration) on the 7th trump. Not the 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th. The seventh is the furthest trump spoken of in 1 Corinthians 15. This Mystery that not all will be resurrected but all will be changed into their celestial body at the LAST TRUMP should not be a mystery. God is true, he doesn't contradict truth. Men and false teachers who give in to Satan's lies have corrupted Gods word for their own gain. Don't believe me or any man without testing what'ssaid to God'sword. Test all spirits by rightly dividing whether it is God's true words in God's word. Yes, we will be plucked/caught up(harpozo) to meet Jesus. With the cloud of witnesses (see Hebrews 12:1). When we change to spiritual bodies, and are gathered to God's kingdom, we will be caught up from everywhere in the world to New Jerusalem. The word of God is a sword that cuts both ways. Jesus will judge and divide the sheep from the goats, and those who will be apart of his kingdom and those who will be on the outside where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
the sound of the trumpets CORRELATE to the Autumn FEAST OF TRUMPETS in the Hebrew calendar as this is the ONLY feast where nobody knows exactly when it will be in the time of Autumn. hence, nobody will know the time of day or hour BUT we do know that Yeshua's coming will be in Autumn on the Feast if Trumpets.
If His death and resurrection was all around the Spring Festivals/Feasts then His Coming for His Bride will be in the Autumn Festivals/Feasts as stated, above. it is true that every year NOBODY knows exactly which day or hour the Feast of Trumpets will begin. this is the only Hebrew day like this, fact.
food for thought regarding the actual day and hour of Yeshua's return ... understand the Hebrew calendar which was replaced by the Greek Calendar a few to more hundred years ago. the "Greek system" continue to change the way. once you understand the root words, Hebrew calendar and seek Yahweh with all your heart, then the truth will set you free.
ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in Truth of Yahweh's Discernment, Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding of His Living Word.
Amen Brother
Bless you …….
Matthew 24:50
“The lord of
that servant
shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,”
One of the unique features of the Biblical Jewish wedding was the time of the groom's arrival - it was to be a surprise:
• The bride took the betrothal seriously - expecting the at the end of the year long period of the betrothal.
• She knew the approximate timing - but the exact hour or day was uncertain.
• It was the father of the groom who would give the final approval for the marriage to begin.
Revelation 3:3
“Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch,
I will come on thee as a thief,
and thou shalt not know what hour
I will come upon thee.”
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This Church is ALMOST ALL Dead….
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ROSH HASHANAH - THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS
(THE WEDDING OF THE MESSIAH)
One final word concerning Rosh HaShanah: Many people believe that we "will not know the day or the hour of His appearing". They fail to realize, however, that this phrase taken from Matthew 24:36 is an actual common Hebrew idiom for Rosh HaShanah. Jesus' audience fully understood that what Jesus was saying was "I will come again on Rosh HaShanah at some point in the future". It would be like saying in America, "I'll see you again when we gather together to exchange presents." We automatically know that we are referring to Christmas. In like manner, we can expect to see our Messiah on some future Rosh HaShanah.
The Feast of Trumpets was known by those in ancient Jerusalem as “The Day That No Man Knows. "
Observed on the First and Second of Tishri, the celebration actually begins 29 days earlier: a series of over 90 trumpet blasts accrue for a final blowing of blasts on the climax of the celebration, the Teki'ah Gedolah, the Great Blowing.
This is the only time that the start of a month could be on the first day or the second day so it is known as …..
“The Day That No Man Knows. "
Don't know what year but this is the wedding day …
Bless you ………
Each year the Feast Of Trumpets starts on a different day. No man knows the day our hour because back in the Bible days it took 2 witnesses to see the first sliver of the new moon in the sky and had to report it to the Sanhedrin at which time they verified it and then the start of the Festival began with the sounding of Shofars(trumpets)...the Feast continued for 2 days.
Mark Dement So you expect this to happen at the last trumpet correct? Well then don't ignore what Revelation says in regards to the 5th trumpet. The beast ascends before the last trumpet. Furthermore his army stings for 5 months. Well beyond the time line of an Autumn feast. How can you expect the last trumpet without the fulfillment of the other 6 trumpets?
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." (Revelation 9:1-11)
Yes, we have much to learn, and much more to unlearn. Very good presentation. I believe you got every point right, even the last one about those taken and those left. So many respectable and intelligent people get that part wrong.
Psalm 91:7-16
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.
Thank you for sharing these truths. I have been confused due to being taught the lie of pre-trib. This makes Revelation make so much more sense.
Thank you Lex for this very easy to understand and follow teaching about such a false doctrine.
Rev 12 proves a pre-Trib rapture of the church
@@veritasmuy2407 No verse nor verses prove such thing. It's a convoluted, man-made belief in escapism. Rev. 12 more accurately tells of the astrological positioning at the moment of the birth of the Messiah on Sept 11, 3 bce.
@@getx1265 the Woman of Rev 12:1 is the physical nation of Israel/12Tribes as described in Genesis 37:9-10. The Child of Jewish Israel is the Jewish Church (Head/Jesus, Body/Believers, Colossians 1:18). *The Child is harpazo'd/raptured/snatched/taken by force up to GOD (Rev 12:5) -- harpazo is also used in 1Thes **4:17** to describe the taking by force of Believers in the rapture. Jesus was not harpazo'd/taken by force -- in Acts 1:9 Jesus was "epairo" which means "to lift up, rise up" -- so Rev 12:5 is talking about the rapture of the Church.* THEN Satan is kicked out Heaven to earth (Rev 12:7-9) and THEN satan spends the last 3.5 years persecuting the Woman/Israel (Rev 12:12-14) -- culminating in Satan making war with Israel (Armageddon, Rev 16:16) which ushers in the Second Coming of Jewish Messiah Jesus TO ISRAEL (Rev 12:17).
@@veritasmuy2407 the idea of a rapture didn’t even come into teaching until about 200 years ago. It is not sound doctrine, but I know it startles people who grew up in a church that taught this false teaching to find out that it is not sound or traditional to Christian doctrine for the first 1,800 years of the church. The good news is that belief in a rapture is not essential to your salvation, nor is non-belief in said rapture. Neither side adds to or takes away from ones faith in Jesus as Lord. That is the essence of salvation, nothing to do with whether or not there will be a pre tribulation rapture.
@@jorybrosted7298 YOU: "the idea of a rapture didn't even come into teaching until about 200 years ago" -- *the harpazo/rapture of the Church was taught by the Original Church that wrote the NT (Rev 12, etc). This SOUND DOCTRINE of the Church rapture was discarded for 1000 years (Dark Ages, 500AD - 1500AD) when the Roman Vatican murdered all the true Christians, and began to add their own false traditions/doctrines ("Mary was sinless too !" and "Mary is co-redeemer with Jesus !" and "Mary is the mediator between Man and Jesus !" and "Mary is the defeater of Satan !" and "make statues of Mary" and "chant Mary's mantra/rosary over and over and over and over !" etc.).*
the Roman Vatican does not believe in the harpazo/rapture of the Church -- they believe that Jesus will return and the pope (with other Roman Church personages) will reign over the world with Jesus. This is a self-aggrandizing false Roman doctrine bushed forward by the Roman false doctrine that the Roman Church has replaced the physical 12Tribes/Israel -- debunked by Paul in Romans 11:25-32 and Rev 7, etc.
follow Rome if you must.
Beautiful thanks for breaking it down
Thank you. There are so many comments below from people who have so many different views. So in one way we'll never know. However, for me personally, the biggest issues is not will there be a rapture or not but rather do we live our Christian lives with fear and doom and gloom or do we have hope and glory in Christ. Too many Christians live their life in fear today.
The expression "rapture" is no where to be found in scripture!
Neither is “trinity “
@@Oldsalt1979 or "church"
...., no, it isn't..., but, the words "caught up" which means to be "taken up" are there in scripture and found in the Book of 1st. Thessalonians Chapter's 4 and 5
Bible is not found in the bible
Neither is 'Bible' found in the Bible.
I have been blessed by your video! I have shared it on Facebook, Thank you!
Thank you for such great insight 😊
Stay rooted in scripture daily, and supplement your self learning with some trusted men of God. Do not be alarmed or afraid if you struggle with this. Pray over it. We can disagree with some points and discuss them forever and that's okay.. The waters have been muddied. Your salvation has little to do with RELIGIOUS beliefs and everything to do with accepting Jesus for who he says he is and true repentance. Getting our hearts and minds right comes first.
All that aside, we must be spiritually prepared for anything this world throws at us. Clearly many Christians will be greatly persecuted and even executed and beheaded in the very last days. That just might be some or many of us. You ready for that? That is the faith, love, perseverance and dedication we are called to have!
God Bless!✌❤🙏
I was once a pre-tribber but then realized that no one REALLY has a real grip on how things will go down... Every group believes they're right and were so dogmatic about it! They say they're right and the others were wrong! I believe it's going to happen the way God says it's going to happen so leave it in His hands and pursue the relationship with Christ so that however it happens, you're close to Christ! If the church goes through the tribulation period, many professing Christians will fall away and be disillusioned and perhaps take the mark of the Beast (whatever that will be!)... I really don't know how things will be but so I must get closer to Christ regardless! I'll listen and watch your message though!
I was once a pre-trib rapture believer too, but the more I studied the Scriptures, the more I realized it was not true.
If you plan on being around during the tribulation...how can the anti christ do anything until after the Holy Spirit leaves with the church?
where does the Holy Spirit reside? Who do you believe is preventing the anti christ from taking center stage? When the Holy Spirit takes himself out of the way...where do all the Christians go?
I have always been taught. and truly believe that Christians (the Bride of Christ) will not be present on earth during the tribulation...we will be taken to heaven to be with Jesus during those 7 years before His Second Coming to earth with us to rule and reign 1000 years.
It would make sense that Jesus would take any children in the rapture that are below the age of accountability. "James 4:17 - Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." They will not go through the tribulation....just like all those that believe in Jesus...we are not appointed to the wrath of God. "1 Thessalonians 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ."
I don't have an answer for post tribbers because they believe they are going to be here to endure 7 years of God's wrath and the anti-christ and the mark of the beast. Christ Jesus suffered everything for us when He was crucified on the cross....what does Christian believe they are going to prove by going through the 7 year tribulation? The 7 year tribulation is for Israel and non-believers.
Those that accept Jesus Christ as their savior before the rapture need not to worry about anything. We are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus and not by works lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9
bible.org/seriespage/lesson-14-salvation-grace-through-faith-alone-ephesians-28-9
Thank you so much for this video you should do more videos by this Doctrine is so dangerous this Doctrine is very dangerous because people belief this and then do not get raptured out of this world and in tough times they might cease to believe
Not only that, but they believe the Antichrist cannot come until they’re raptured...making it easier for the Antichrist to deceive them
“This can’t be the Antichrist, I’m still here”
Amen and amen! I greatly agree with you the discussion amongst the body of Christ whether there is a rapture surely not but just the 3nd coming has been one of the most divisive doctrinal discussions ever. It seems as both camps are fighting each other with the word of the Lord saying their rendition and context is correct. However where will the ungodly be taken up to? This is a new one to me. My understanding is that many wicked will die from the judgements or plagues brought on by the angels. Yet some people will still be saved during the tribulation by the preaching of the 144,000 witness set apart of yhe tribes of Israel. All of Us in Christ surely wait for the 2nd coming and the resurrection of the dead.
God bless you my good brother for more and more about the bible truth
Our Apostle Paul tells us that by the word of the LORD; 2000 plus years ago about the rapture.
He tells us in the word; written way before any "discoveries" you quoted in this snip.
(1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) KJB
"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. (14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. (15) For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. (16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (18) Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
Mitchell Woodhouse Exactly, those who have died united with Christ will rise *first* . Now read Revelation to find out when the *1st* resurrection occurs.
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Matthew 14:27-32 i understood the complete opposite i also thought that it’s the godly who were taken away thanks for this enlightenment the Bible is the Truth 🙏
Matthew 14 is Jesus speaking ONLY TO THE JEWS, not the Church. Rev 12 proves a pre-Trib rapture of the church.
The return of Christ in Revelation 19 reads very different than the event of 1 Thess 4. It is a simple conclusion that these are separate events. It is consistent pattern of God to remove His own before He brings His wrath as He did with Lot. 1 Thess 4 is said to be an encouragement. If I was to be part of the event in Rev 19 I would not find that encouraging.
You contradicted yourself when reading Matthew 24.
In verse 31 it says He shall send his angels to gather His elect (Christians)
In 1 Thess 4:17 it says we shall be caught up to meet him in the clouds
Then you read Matthew 24:40 about one taken and one left behind and say that the wicked are taken and we are left behind.
You misinterpreted the Noah's ark metaphor for God's wrath. We christians are taken away by the Lord's angels to be safe from God's wrath and the wicked are left behind to face the trumpet and vial judgments. In Noah's ark the wicked were taken away by God's wrath in the flood and Noah and family were kept safe in the ark like how Christians will be safe with Jesus. Being left behind means facing God's wrath in both cases.
You can also read Revelation 7:9-14 about the great multitude in heaven who came out of great tribulation. Then comes the trumpet judgments
Only 52% of the earth ever has clouds at any given moment. 1 Thess 4:14 says Jesus returns with every Saint that has EVER lived. Some 30 BILLION to pick up maybe a billion. Make ready for the Tribulation people.
@@MeatTheBible
What billions? Are you joking?
"Narrow is the path and a few walk on it"
@@arsulagusicoBV no friend, I'm not joking. 1 Thess 4:14 Jesus returns with ALL Saints. How many do you think that is? Every child that has EVER died will return with Him to include aborted babies. Every believer. I submit that could be close to 100 BILLION Saints. What might you say?
@@MeatTheBible it means nothing to God who is omnipotent...
Meet†heBible it is estimated that about 100 billion people have ever lived so def not that high
Right on brother! It's the wise man who builds his house upon the rock (Jesus) who will not be swept away...and just like when we were kids playing musical chairs, the ones left win! Blessings.
Very good this msg is on point and valuable.
I was SO scared and thank you so much! my timeline now is like 2:19 AM
We meet him in the air and caught up in the rapture. 2nd coming His feet touch on the mt.
Vicki m did you listen to the video lol
That is after the 1000yrs of Jesus reign. Theres only 1st and 2nd resurrection of the dead. The first are the ones chosen by God. We can only go to heaven after the Judgement Day!
Ephraem's Teaching on the Pretribulation Rapture
For all the saints and Elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins. (On the Last Times, the Antichrist, and the End of the World, by Ephraem the Syrian, A.D. 373)
Thanks i will look it up
Well said. Thank you!
brother you are right on point those who search the scriptures with the understanding from the holy spirit will know the truth,jesus says in mat 24 that after those days of the tribulation every eyes shall see him coming in the clouds with is angels to gather the elect also revelation say these are they that came through great tribulation