Sorry to say, you are speaking of yourself. You are a false prophet leading your flock astray. You break Sabbath. Keep no Feast Days and substitute them for Pagan traditions while making up lies to why it is okay. You will be so confused when you hear the WORDS of the Master, "I never knew you." You teach lawlessness and are disobedient to THE VOICE. I'd love to show you Truth, but I believe your arrogance and pride will keep you from listening.
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I agree! Too many today trying to impose public prayer! (Matthew 6:5-8) too many people saying the pledge of Alligence (Matthew 5:33-37) too many people defending themselves (Matthew 5:39) too many people marrying divorced women (Matthew 5:32) and too many men wearing hats in church! (1 Corinthians 11:7) IT'S NOT BIBLICAL!
Yep. Just like Paul described it would be in 2 Thess 2 and in the book of Timothy. Jude says those false teachers sit and dine with us as foxes in sheeps clothing. Waterless clouds. I’m looking up! Our delivered from the coming wrath is on his way! 1 Thessalonians 1:10 🎺
Many are being baptized Muslims are converting, people in Communist countries, where no religion is allowed. God is changing lives. My Son-in-law from England, typical easy going Brit. Sweet, smart, Great Hubby and Father. From a family of non-believers and a few Catholics in name only. Just got baptized about 3 weeks ago. He is raising my 3 grandbabies. So grateful to God. Pray Revival can happen world wide and within your family. Thank you Jesus.❤
@@pennythpmas5787 , I don't think the Bible talks about Revival prior to rapture but it does talk about apostasy, however I guess you could pray for a gigantic gleaning of the remnant especially your neighbor family and friends.
Looking back 41 years ago, when I was just eleven years old, I realize now that my faith in God was pure and innocent. Despite not fully understanding Him and without questioning the details, I trusted Him wholeheartedly.
Wow that's just the way I feel...I'm 63 and don't understand what went wrong and how so many "MANY" have corrupted the purity and simplicity of what I remember... God is God I am part of God I want to and do truly love God and want to do Good and be good..now everything is so different so many names for God and new things added to God and the word.. again I saw your post and it hits home... God is still the same as we remember
I feel the same way, I think back all the time about my childhood and how I knew and trusted in God back then even though I didn’t under it all yet. When I think about this I pray and tell God thank you for blessing me with parents and family who are all Christians who took my brother and I to church and taught us about the lord. I’m so thankful because I cant imagine how hard it must be for those who are struggling with life right now and do not know or love Jesus, yet.
Luke 18:17 “Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Amen, help us Lord to follow you wholeheartedly
@@krystalwatts9675that sounds like me. My parents didn’t go to church when I was little. A church bus would come and take kids to church. That’s how I took my little 5 year old self. I had rapture dreams at that age, not even knowing what that was. As I got older, I’d get ready for school in the morning (4-5th grade) and I’d watch The Praise the Lord (PTL) show instead of cartoons. lol I’m telling my age but that was the show with Jim and Tammy Baker. They later changed the name to the Jim Baker show and I was disgusted. They were raising him up instead of God.Then he had a big fall from grace. I marvel at how the Holy Spirit gave me discernment at 11 yrs old 😳. I can’t remember a day that I didn’t love Jesus. It’s been 55 years and I’m excited that He may come for us soon and get us out this increasingly evil world!! I’ll see you at the Lords supper . ❤
I am born again and i believe every word of the Bible. Thank you Jesus for everything you’ve done from the cross to saving my wretched soul turning me from sinner to saint
Do you understand the words written in your comment? Are you still learning from men who preach for gain in temples made from hands or on the internet? If so, you are yet a sinner and not a saint. We simply cannot understand any of the scriptures until we put our faith in God and not men. As it is written, we are under tutors and governors UNTIL the time appointed by the Father. As it is written, let God be true but every MAN a liar. When God chooses us and calls us out of this darkness of religious teachings, we experience the true rapture by hearing the voice of the Son of God and are raised from death to life, from carnally minded to spiritually minded. As it is written, to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. This guy is just another false prophet like ALL of the others that preach for profit in temples made with hands. These false prophets are literally everywhere you turn. When we receive the Spirit of Christ we will be at odds with ALL who still warm a pew or turn to a UA-cam preacher. Christ comes WITHIN us, the kingdom (reign) of God is WITHIN us. If we experience this we will have absolutely nothing to do with churchianity except to expose the hireling shepherds who preach for gain and the many false doctrines they preach because everything they teach is from their carnal understanding of scripture. They simply cannot preach the truth because they have yet to receive the SPIRIT OF TRUTH that guides us into all truth.
Men are not okay : There is the dispensation of the law and there is the dispensation of Grace, law and Grace do not mix. You have to study to show yourself approved to God. There's before the Cross and then there's after the Cross, big big difference. Jesus died and rose again four us, this is where salvation comes from and nowhere else. By the shedding of his blood we became new creatures in Christ we became a part of the body of Christ, we are now living in him, he's now living in US. He not only is the Messiah to the Jews but he is also the head of the body of Christ. Through his death and Resurrection we have been forgiven of all sins past, present and future never to be remembered again. Also he does give us the word of God for the renewing of our mind. We have a new spirit but our flesh still needs to be conformed.
Wow 😲 .. this is what I've been thinking.. is anyone left...... Come back Jesus.. we need you... Thank you for this opportunity. God bless us all 🙏🏼✝️ amen 🙌
Rapture is a misreading of Matt 24:37-40. Evangelicals don't read scripture contextually so they ignore context here. the Trib happened when Rome destroyed Jerusalem in 70Ad. It was a 3.5 year period under Nero as the "man of sin and lawlessness". Nero was the Beast. The Mark of the Beast was allegiance to Ceasar. Right hand and forehead is a Deuteronomy 6:8 term. The whore of Babylon was the Sanhedrin in cahoots with Rome. All OT reference to New heavens and new earth and new Israel/Judah/Jerusalem was talking about the new Church age and Church its self. Romans 11 shows us how salvation left the jews due to their rejection and came to the world. the gentile world is the branch grafted in. The only thing ahead is a global revival of most of the planet coming to Christ as one church body in faith in Christ alone before the end. Habakkuk 2:14, Isaiah 101:9. Its a wheat field, not a tear field. Then the final second coming and judgment.
Have you seen car crashes were people were missing from there cars? Plane crashed with missing pilot's? Family members missing. No, rapture has not happened.
Hallelujah... I am a pastor here in Tampa and boldly stand for HIS truth in a firm, yet loving way...there are way too many label wearers and not enough of HIS faithful servants that are willing to STAND
Many believe they know the lord but many of them will be saddened at the end when the lord says depart from me for I know ye not. The world is in great deception right now and each and every one of us needs to have a close personal experience with the only person who ever truly cares for us enough to die. I pray you all have this experience
Rapture is a misreading of Matt 24:37-40. Evangelicals don't read scripture contextually so they ignore context here. the Trib happened when Rome destroyed Jerusalem in 70Ad. It was a 3.5 year period under Nero as the "man of sin and lawlessness". Nero was the Beast. The Mark of the Beast was allegiance to Ceasar. Right hand and forehead is a Deuteronomy 6:8 term. The whore of Babylon was the Sanhedrin in cahoots with Rome. All OT reference to New heavens and new earth and new Israel/Judah/Jerusalem was talking about the new Church age and Church its self. Romans 11 shows us how salvation left the jews due to their rejection and came to the world. the gentile world is the branch grafted in. The only thing ahead is a global revival of most of the planet coming to Christ as one church body in faith in Christ alone before the end. Habakkuk 2:14, Isaiah 101:9. Its a wheat field, not a tear field. Then the final second coming and judgment.
Nooooo, if I'm still here we haven't gone yet. Total faith in God dying for my sins and coming back 3 days later, Thank You Jesus for your loving Grace and I'm keeping the Faith we're going soon! Hallelujah! So ready to go! 🙌🎺🕊️
I wanna believe that too. But I worry because if we so much as have a little anger in our hearts or unforgiveness, will he still leave us here to resolve our issues or continue working on us in Heaven. I try to release it all or give it to God, but sometimes it just sneaks up on you.
@@moni6058 God would say, oh ye of little faith. We are all works in progress, we have all sinned, probably every day. He paid for each and every one of those sins on the cross, that's it. If we were perfect He wouldn't have needed to die on the cross. It's not about what you do it's about what He did. He loves you so much, he's not going to leave you behind, He died for you. And through faith and Grace we are saved, not by our works. Even when we have little faith He has big faith. I do understand what you're saying, that is the evil one getting in your head, when he tries to get in my head I rebuke it in Jesus Name. It's the simple message of His saving grace, don't make it about what you do when it's all about Him and what He did. Ps. If it makes you feel any better I get frustrated at this point almost everyday because of all the attacks, the warfare is intense. I complain too that he hasn't taken us yet, the Jews walked around for forty years because they were complaining, but that was also before He died for our sins. You will go, keep your relationship with Him, that's it, the simple truth. Love you, see you in the clouds ❤️🤗🙌🎺🕊️
Colossians 2:10-13 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
@@moni6058Keep trying to do better. It doesn't mean you are not saved. We are still battling our flesh while we are still in it. We must keep striving! Jesus loves you.❤
The problem is most people don't want to hear the truth because they might have to change their live style or they are convicted and instead of changing their ways they complain about that person
I agree! Too many today trying to impose public prayer! (Matthew 6:5-8) too many people saying the pledge of Alligence (Matthew 5:33-37) too many people defending themselves (Matthew 5:39) too many people marrying divorced women (Matthew 5:32) and too many men wearing hats in church! (1 Corinthians 11:7) IT'S NOT BIBLICAL!
EDIT: Thanks for the comments! God Bless Us All. I digress; It's terrifying to be lost, but I've been confirmed by my Father's words, through the blood of his son, Jesus Christ; Fear not!!!! ISAIAH 41:10 - It's like a nice warm blanket on the coldest night 🙏 When I was a kid my mother would tell us about the rapture and despite what that meant it sounded scary. Now as an adult it's even scarier thinking about missing the rapture and being left behind. It would obviously indicate that I wasn't saved but thinking I was. It's terrifying actually.
@@Heyblomharvestbut it's real. My highschool friend also tell me about the rapture and I got the anxiety. When I pass highschool I'm feel more better.
Some days i really feel that. Nobody seems to want to discuss scripture, doctrine, feels that even though scripture speaks against remarriage while your ex is still alive they are waiting for God to give them a new wife. It's very discouraging, but God has it in hand.
Me my self have went through a divorce I am a Christian I didn't ask God was this person who I should marry I did it My way I made a big mistake We are not robots God let's us make our choice God tell us as Christian not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers I was married then I became a Christian I went through hell my husband was a alcoholic I dealt with domestic violence with him I chose not to leave him God didn't tell me to stay nor told me to leave it was my choice after 23 years he became a Christian he went to be with Jesus Christ 3 years later I waited 9 years and got into a relationship with a narcissist I realized now I didn't love my self this marriage lasted 5 years I didn't seek God I made the mistake on my own I needed to be healed of physical and mental abuse after divorce got into another narcissist relationship look like I would have learned from my other mistake God for gave me then I had to forgive my self I am not a victim because I chose to move on I now with Jesus Christ help I am in the healing process sign Smith Jesus Christ is real people I never would have made it with out his help
The remnant is here and we are doing our best to hold it together. We are the light of the world. Mark, you are rare, that’s what you are. Don’t change for anyone! God bless you and keep you always, in Jesus name ❤
So very true. When I tell people it’s not about religion but about a relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and that we need to repent from our evil ways and turn to Christ, because He died for our sins, paying our sin debt in full and He rose from the grave, conquering death and is now seated at the right hand of the Father. People are like, wait, what… Just seek Jesus! He’s all that matters.
the bible is clear The antichrist comes first and a great fallen away Plus when Christians are being exterminated then jesus is literally at the door 👍🏻 You are freaking out over nothing
Believe in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, our Good Shepherd before it's too late for us, repentance is key for all of us because we all fall short of the glory of God❤️, Amen
Yet we have millions of people claiming different interpretations of almost every passage in the Bible. NOW WHY IS THAT?????? I listened to a pastor who told me not to believe him but to go to the Bible. So then after going to the Bible and getting a different answer, the pastor then tells me I am wrong and calls me dogmatic. I now see very clearly that we are pretty much still living in the days of the Pharisees, who crucified Jesus Christ because he spoke TRUTH.
“So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” - Matthew 13:27-30
Rev:6 verse9 to 11 Rev:7 verse 2 to4 Rev:7 verse 9 to 11 Rev:13 verse 14 to 18 Rev:14 verse 6 to 10 Rev:20 verse 4 to 5 And just because it is good to be happy keep this in your minds eye's Rev:12 to 18 l love ❤️ Christ and can hardly wait to meet him .God Bless and keep you all.
An experiment. - do we READ what we see or read into what we were told? Daniel 7:13-14 ESV "I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. [14] And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. Who is the son of man? Who is the ancient of days? Which direction is the son of man traveling? What event is this???
Christians will NOT go thru the tribulation marked with Gods wrath to destroy the wicked ones. In this life all ppl will have tribulation..but we will be removed before the great tribulation starts.
Finally more people who know we have to be in the tribulation. No wrath unless we drink from the cup of his wrath. Than if course you never believed Christ in the first place.😊
@@suepooh3822 Yes. They will. In fact, the revealing of the identity of the beast is the beginning of the tribulation. That is why Jesus told His followers to flee for the mountains when they see that event take place. Matthew 24:15-16 The description of the abomination of desolation is in 2 Thessalonians 2:4. I know folks think that they are special. But, all those Christianese slogans like, "God's not gonna beat up his bride" are not based on the Bible. Tribulation is not YHVH's wrath. It is the beast persecuting the world. When it's over, YHVH's wrath is poured out on the beast and his followers.
@@the_jeremiah_16_19_project the beast is persecuting the world NOW. Wen it says flee to the mountains its talking of the ones left behind...the trubulation saints and the jews will flee to Petra
I'm waiting too. Could be months or years. But the deeper into it we are, the more confident Christ is that much closer and there is no other alternative to what the Bible says. Christ is Lord.
@kimmiesplace7458 / LOL! That’s funny 😂 I know I’m forgiven and that I’m saved, but I can’t help to feel like, “Am I really deserving?” None of us are, truthfully! That experience is going to be so scary for those that are left behind 😢
I am in the most Wonderful church. Pastor, board members, congregation are some of the most warmest people. In Sunday school it’s sometimes an open forum to get other people involved on the service topic ❤.
Jesus Christ is coming soon guys, seek him while he may still be found he loves you and does not want any of us to perish He died on the cross of Calvary for us, was buried and Rose on the third day❤ John 3:16 For God loved the world in this way:[a] He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
@@eduardoordonez241 I know to Whom I belong; where I am and where I’m going. My faith is not in some pastor that tickles the ears of the lost. If you believe this guy, that says a lot about your own faith.
Uh… that’s not The Word he’s spreading. Study for yourself and show thy self approved. He won’t be standing at the judgement seat with you. You’re on your own.
An experiment. - do we READ what we see or read into what we were told? Daniel 7:13-14 ESV "I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. [14] And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. Who is the son of man? Who is the ancient of days? Which direction is the son of man traveling? What event is this???
@HillbillyBlack that's the event we are waiting for. Now is the time to spend time with God.i need to walk with him daily.spend time in the word daily.
@@cd0130 there’s plenty of end Times passages in scripture related to the second coming but Daniel isn’t one of them. If you read it exegetically it does not read like an end times event. The only way you can get that is if you forced other passages in scripture or current events into the text. Which is an eisegetical nightmare on its own. "I saw in the night visions, and behold, WITH THE CLOUDS of heaven there CAME one like a son of man, - on or with the clouds of heaven comes the son of man. and he CAME TO the “Ancient of Days” - The ancient of days is the designation of Yahweh. Just as the son of man is the definition of Jesus. and was PRESENTED before HIM. - So the son of man is presented before the ancient of days. This is an up arrow not a down arrow. Jesus is ascending into heaven on the clouds of heaven being presented before God. [14] And TO HIM was GIVEN dominion and glory and a kingdom, And to him, the Son of Man, is given dominion and glory and a Kingdom So if you read this carefully, nowhere is anything referencing the end of time other than the term “ancient of days” which is an old testament terminology for Yahweh. Yahweh is presenting Yeshua the kingdom. Notice time frame context in Mark 1:15 ESV and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." The kingdom is here already. What you are waiting for is past tense. You are in it now
The rapture will happen but not yet first the anti Christ has to show up bring in the mark of 666 after the 6 th trumpet war then AC will reveal himself then rapture. Revelation 20 4--5
Do not be afraid ❤️ We can know for certain we did not miss The Rapture because our precious innocent children are still with us.❤️ Let us pray that we use this time wisely and truly get our hearts right with Christ 🙏
He abandoned his church. He is steeped in pride and arrogance, and he draws attention to himself, not to Christ. Real men of God don’t abandon their families and run away from their problems. Please be careful who you listen to🙏
I felt this so hard, Lord please help your children to see it's better with you and to come for us quickly. I just want to be in your presence Lord. This world has become so dark, and we miss you.
What if we stand across the street of a church that we feel is not teaching what they should be, and hold a sign to those going in or out for their service asking them things like "Why isn't your Pastor teaching you about the Rapture?". Rather than be keyboard activists let's get up and do something! I have a sign on my passenger side rear window for everyone to see while I'm driving or parked anywhere. Seriously, PLEASE, LETS DO SOMETHING. 🙏
I feel just the opposite. I’m closer to Jesus when I don’t watch those people in church walk out and start the sin of gossip even before they get in the car. My Bible and I do just fine.
@@hikerhobby1204 Totally agree. Too many want a social club and really don't want the 'inconvenience' of taking up their cross and walking with Christ!
@@stephenhagen234 Thank you! I often wonder if it’s me? I thought when we gave our life to Jesus we were to under go “sanctification.” It frustrates me to listen to them. Then again, I don’t do well with hypocrites.
@@hikerhobby1204 Light has NO fellowship with darkness. The last church I went to most lived in the wealthy part of the county, drove expensive newer cars, wore expensive clothes, and on and on. And they make sure that you knew those things are important to them. That is not what God has called us to. God has very serious intent toward conforming us into the image of Christ. Make no mistake about it, if you mean business with the Lord and seek Him like your life depended upon Him (and it does) He will bring you closer to Himself than the others just going thru the motions. That's what He wants with you. A serious love relationship that glorifies Him!
@@hikerhobby1204 Cultivate your worship of Him. "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise" ~Psalm 100:4 Start thanking Him for the many, many, wonderful things He has done for you and provided for you. Tell Him you love Him. Sing worship songs to Him. (Michael W. Smith "WORSHIP FOREVER" released in 2021 is on UA-cam) It is another realm of experiencing the Presence of God.
Hmmm saw some quotes saying '... one will be taken and the other remain' (paraphrased), and it was the evil one taken and the good one that remained. Remember, the false Messiah (AntiChrist) will come first. If the AntiChrist has not come, and you hear the Christ has returned, understand that is NOT Jesus. Read ALL of the bible without cherry picking. If one quotes something go and read before the quote, the quote, then after to be certain it is not out of context. Jesus said 'My sheep know my voice' He has told us we will know Him. Be sure you are one of His "sheep".
The wheat an tares explain it very well,along with a good understanding of Matthew 24. I don't understand why people think we won't be here when the anti Christ is revealed.
Thank God I'm not alone..I've known this for years .the rapture is the biggest lie the devil has decieved many through false teachers..there are many ways, different scriptures explaining his return .he's coming back in and through his remnant..col:1:27 Christ in you the hope of GLORY..we are the body of Christ,he is the head of the body .his kingdom come his will be done on earth as it is in heaven..the kingdom of heaven is within us .Jesus said it .
And here's one that knows something folks. We're few and far between. I don't see why these people don't understand. My Bible says MANY will be deceived. 90% of Christians believe in rapture 10% don't. Mmmmm..... I'm in the 10%. Show me the word rapture in an approved Bible. What's that? Can't do it... Wake up folks! And before you quote me 1 Thessalonians 4:16 why don't you read 2 Thessalonians 2. Jesus WILL come back but you better know how and in what order.
For being uploaded on April 30, 2023, this short is extremely prophetic in several ways, especially considering what Mark Driscoll is going through right now...
Well, having the entire weight of the Assembly of God denomination going after him for calling out that circus act is going to feel like his own, personal "tribulation." I pray that he draws closer to God in this troubling time.
So far, publicly (at the event,) he made his 'observation' in a seemingly calm way. In the public conversation afterwards, he maintained a loving attitude, while still not recanting what he'd said, even though it looked like Lindell was holding him hostage. Now that several bigwigs are attacking his character from the pulpit, I hope Mark Driscoll refrains from retaliation, remains calm, and trusts the Lord to vindicate him. That alone would prove to me that Driscoll spoke at that conference out of obedience to God, and nothing else.
I’m a real Christian since 1977 when I read the book Run baby Run by Nicky Cruz and surrendered by life to the Lord Jesus Christ and was filled with the Holy Spirit and the Bible became an open book to me and my Spiritual Food. I’m still going strong in secret prayerlife and praying with other Christians and street preaching using good Gospel tracts (All Nations - the Heart of Man and The Two Roads) and If people ask me what church I go to I say: I’m a Bible Christian, I read the Bible, I pray the Bible and I live the Bible. I’m still around. Just this morning had wonderful time street preaching in a neighbouring town. Expecting the Lord any day now for many years but going strong.
Please point out the scripture that says "Rapture" in any translation? Not the made up by John Darby scriptures either. Not the ones "they"say means the rapture either. Rapture doesn't even mean how it's used in that false doctrine. 2 Corinthians 15:50-52 Specifically says at the last trumpet,the dead in Christ will raise and all left alive will be called up. Left alive from tribulation are the alive and dead in Christ is all believers who have passed away, including the martyrs. Which the martyrs are in between the 5th and 6th seal and trumpet .... would have to have been the abomination of desolation by then. 7 trumpets are referenced in Rev. 8 or 9 when they are issued to the angels. Revelation 22:19 whosoever adds or takes away a single word from this prophecy writes their name out of the book of life! No word "Rapture" in any translation, Enough said. There's no rapture, only a first resurrection. It's a false doctrine created by John Darby in 1830. Just look up the history of rapture doctrine. It wasn't even a subject of conversation before 175 years ago.
@@MathiasVIKING0403 Sorry but you're echoing a lie. Darby DID NOT invent the rapture as you claim, in fact it's been disproven time and time again that the belief in the rapture was modern. The earliest writings of the rapture go to before Christ and can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls!! We also have other writings as far back to 100 A.D. ( research Irenaeus of Lyon 120A.D.-200A.D just for starters). It's amazing what a quick search with Google can bring up without any effort what so ever!
@MathiasVIKING0403 I agree with most of what you said except it's NOT just the First Ressurection (which debunks pretrib, because it is the FIRST ressurection after the First Fruits Ressurection of Christ). But at the time of the 6th seal you have the First Ressurection of the Tribulation Saints ( the multitude). But you also have the First Fruits Redemption of the 144,000 (voice of many waters) who are alive and remain. They will remain and go through the wrath being protected by God. When Christ returns after the wrath He comes with His ressurectsd Saints (tribulation saints). He doesn't come with the 144,000 also because they are still here. During the 1000 year reign of Christ there will be the 144,000 and the Tribulation Saints with Christ.
@@assaultbravo14 if their protected,they are not experiencing the "wrath" . ,God judges all mankind at once. Just like the flood. Revelation 20 explicitly says this. Those in the first resurrection don't experience the second death. This implies one judgment.
@@assaultbravo14 my real problem with all this( Rapture) nonsense is that most just go along with whatever some preacher says without ever checking to see what the Bible says for themselves. That means they are learning from a person who didn't validate the doctrine their teaching either. And the cycle of Satan's influence just keeps gaining momentum.
Thank you Pastor Mark, you are a man of God!! I was a Jezebel spirit for many many years and because I listened to what you said and what you have been saying my heart was totally convicted and I have repented and seek the lord in all things because someone who had a Jezebel spirit well that does not go away in one day!! Everything you said about a Jezebel spirit that was me, so I work daily to unlearn that behavior!! My mother is a high priest of a witch coven and a lesbian, I was married to a good Christian man and I left him and started a 15-year relationship with a woman, and my daughter is in a relationship "married" with a woman for about 16 years now. I know you must be a very very busy man but if you could pray against that
◄ 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ► NIV 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
You should read also the verses before, especially verse 16. Then it's clear Paul speaks in 1. Thessalonians 4: 13 - 18 of the Day of Judgement or the day when Jesus Christ comes back with power and glory visible for all around the whole world as judge over all humans and the world, not of an event like the rapture.
While we're on the topic of being a real Christian. If you are a true follower of Jesus, how much time/effort/thought are you putting in to helping make life better for people living with disabilities just like Jesus did? It's a very powerful fruit that provides honest and reliable discernment. Peace.
We must be born again. You are born again when the Holy Spirit in you don’t let you sin anymore. When you still sin you are not born again. 1 John 2, 1 John 3, Romans 6:6, Romans 8, Gal 5, Eph 4 , Eph 5 and Titus 2:14! To become born again you have to repent and ask Jesus forgiveness for your sins or ask Jesus in your heart
You can't miss the Rapture. There isn't one-only the Day of the Lord. Christ ends the Tribulation at his second coming, "Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us to the effect that the day of the Lord has come." (Thes.)
2Th 2:3 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;
@@Chuck-- Right. What's your point? Looks like we are closing in on the Day of the Lord. I see signs of the apostacy. Has the son of Perdition been revealed?
I love Jesus anyone who is reading this accept Jesus as your lord and savior be saved and spread the gospel before its not to late. May the person who is reading this have good health and have a good life, and may Jesus come into their life. JESUS IS REAL, BELIEVE IN HIM, OUR KING AND GOD.
I very much appreciate your spiritual spine and having the fear of the Lord to stand for His truth rather than succumb to the pressure and praise of men. Stand strong and finish strong sir.
Really you and my pastor Phil Hooper at Abundant LIFE lees summit Mo are the only 2 pastors that I think goes strictly by the Bible and doesn’t cave in to all the nonsense in the world and in the modern church! Thankful for you both .
Matthew 24: 36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of [a]heaven, but My Father only. Daniel 9: 27 The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven, but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration, until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him.” Daniel 12 :11-12 “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.” How can no man know the day or the hour, when the Bible clearly states 1335 days from the abomination?
Sometimes I do “feel” like evil is winning. I have to remind myself that our lord and savior has already won and his will , will be done. I have to stop getting caught up in the worry, fear and hate that this world fuels!
Amen! Especially the part about “the board”, aka Deacons, who won’t deal with obvious false teaching going on under their noses. Either they don’t see it as false, or else the teacher is a “good-ole-boy” who they refuse to confront.
I just watched a video of a woman saying the rapture comes after the tribulation. I had a rapture dream, but there was no reference to a date/time so I'm not sure what to expect now because everyone has a different opinion on it. Some churches don't even know what the rapture is. I'd love some feedback...
I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and was born from a Virgin and died on the cross and was raised by God on the third day and is coming back to get his church amen
Orthodox Christian Teaching on the Rapture: Is the Rapture in the Bible? Question: A friend of mine has been reading the Left Behind books that have all of this stuff about the “Rapture” in them. Is there really going to be a “Rapture” like these books talk about? Answer: No. The “Rapture” refers to a passage in First Thessalonians 4, where Christians are “caught up” in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” Many Christians believe, and the Left Behind books promote, that this being “caught up” to meet the Lord will occur before the Great Tribulation sometime in the near future. Christians will simply vanish, meet Jesus somewhere in the air, and then return with Him to Heaven to await the end of time. But notice, in verse 15, Paul says that “…we who are alive, who are left,” shall be caught up. This is a very important point to stress to rapture enthusiasts. Those who are “left” get caught up to meet the Lord. Keep that in mind as we look at these next couple of Scripture passages. The Left Behind books get their name from a passage in Luke 17, and a similar passage in Matthew 24, which compares the coming of the Lord to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. Matthew 24 puts it this way: “As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man…[they ate, they drank, they married] and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man. Then two men will be in the field, one is taken and one is left. Two women grinding at the mill, one is taken one is left.” “One is taken, one is left” - the Rapture right? Jesus takes the Christians and leaves behind non-Christians! That’s how rapture enthusiasts interpret these passages. Well, you need to say to them: “Not so fast, folks.” Two problems with the Protestant “Left Behind” interpretation: First, in the passages from Luke 17 and Matthew 24, Jesus’ coming is compared to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. Let’s think about that for a moment. After the flood, who was left? Noah and his family - the good guys. The bad guys were taken and the good guys were left behind! After Sodom and Gomorrah went up in smoke, who was left? Lot and his daughters - the good guys. The bad guys were taken and the good guys were left behind! The second problem with the “Left Behind” interpretation, has to do with what I mentioned above: 1 Thessalonians 4 says that those who are “left” get to meet Jesus in the air. You want to be left behind. Why? Because those who are left behind get to meet Jesus on His return to earth. Again, when you put 1 Thessalonians 4 together with Matthew 24 and Luke 17, it becomes quite apparent that the good guys are the ones left behind to meet Jesus. And, if you need further proof of that, there’s a passage in Matthew 13 that pretty much seals the deal. Matthew 13:39-43, “…and the enemy who sowed them [the bad seed] is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. The Son of man will send His angels and they will gather out of His kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.” So when Scripture says that “one is taken and one is left,” as it does in Luke 17 and Matthew 24, it is not talking about the Rapture, it is talking about the harvest at the close of the age. The ones who are taken, as it says in Matthew 13, are the evildoers. The angels have taken them and tossed them into the furnace of fire. So, the Left Behind books got it exactly 180 degrees wrong. The ones taken are not the good guys, they are the evildoers. The ones who are left behind are the ones who get to be caught up in the clouds to meet Jesus in the air at His Second Coming, when He will bring all of the angels and saints with Him and there will be a new Heaven and a new earth. In other words, there will be no Rapture like the one the Left Behind books talk about. The Left Behind books teach the opposite of what Scripture actually says. Additional comments: The real issue (not often clear in people’s minds) is not the idea of a rapture (Christians being taken up or ‘translated’ to be with the Lord) but rather the timing of the rapture in relation to the Lord’s second coming. The controversial (and quite obviously erroneous) idea is what is called the pre- or mid- tribulation rapture. The effect of this non-biblical idea is that at some point before “the end of the age” (before the Lord’s second coming), Christians would disappear from the world, leaving behind a lot of people who would then face the awful years of the tribulation. This is well expressed in the bumper sticker: This idea, however, is neither biblical nor credible. The idea that not just many cars but also jetliners would be left without drivers and pilots is simply beyond credibility, and by no means called for by a sound reading of the Bible. Perhaps the most compelling argument against the pre/mid tribulation rapture theory is that no Christian believed it or even knew about it for the first 1800 years of Christianity. When it comes to Christianity, the “faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3), there is simple rule: “if its new, it just can’t be true!”
This is a mark of the end time church , there is a great following away of the true faith. I Thank God for you Pastor Driscoll, and for the sound doctrine you teach. 👍🏽
I feel like we are ALL losing and slapping our Lord in the face. I look across the land and I feel terrible for our God. Nothing about our modern lives glorifies him.. I just hope these demons in the church will be cast into the abyss
Ah, what a grace-filled, life-giving message. Most people are terrible Christians, if at all, and we’re the better ones who actually care about God and His purposes. Thank God there are churches like yours who heave condemnation at the “others” in your world. One thing the church hasn’t done well enough throughout history is condemn and take the moral high ground. And it’s so refreshing and healthy to see a pastor call out his peers and call them apostates. I really like that whole concept of not throwing stones when you’re living in a glass house.
Jesus Christ is the way and the truth.Saved me from alcoholism after 16 years in darkness and drunkeness.I feel we will soon be in rapture.The pawns are falling into place in middle east around Israel.
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Sorry to say, you are speaking of yourself. You are a false prophet leading your flock astray.
You break Sabbath. Keep no Feast Days and substitute them for Pagan traditions while making up lies to why it is okay.
You will be so confused when you hear the WORDS of the Master, "I never knew you."
You teach lawlessness and are disobedient to THE VOICE.
I'd love to show you Truth, but I believe your arrogance and pride will keep you from listening.
You should know! 😑
Amen
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Very few pastors and churches are speaking the truth like this. Apostasy is everywhere.
I agree! Too many today trying to impose public prayer! (Matthew 6:5-8) too many people saying the pledge of Alligence (Matthew 5:33-37) too many people defending themselves (Matthew 5:39) too many people marrying divorced women (Matthew 5:32) and too many men wearing hats in church! (1 Corinthians 11:7) IT'S NOT BIBLICAL!
Yep. Just like Paul described it would be in 2 Thess 2 and in the book of Timothy. Jude says those false teachers sit and dine with us as foxes in sheeps clothing. Waterless clouds.
I’m looking up! Our delivered from the coming wrath is on his way!
1 Thessalonians 1:10
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@@BIG_Z_69 isn’t everyone unqualified to speak for the creator of the universe? They're all just preaching what was preached to them.
So Sad, Very True
Many are being baptized Muslims are converting, people in Communist countries, where no religion is allowed.
God is changing lives.
My Son-in-law from England, typical easy going Brit.
Sweet, smart, Great Hubby and Father.
From a family of non-believers and a few Catholics in name only.
Just got baptized about 3 weeks ago.
He is raising my 3 grandbabies. So grateful to God.
Pray Revival can happen world wide and within your family.
Thank you Jesus.❤
Amen indeed ❤ God bless you and your family!! Keep spreading the Word!
@@pennythpmas5787 , I don't think the Bible talks about Revival prior to rapture but it does talk about apostasy, however I guess you could pray for a gigantic gleaning of the remnant especially your neighbor family and friends.
1 Peter 3:21
Praise God ❤🤲🙏
@veeforteeto5976 eh? Says when the gospel is preached to the whole earth then the end will come...
Looking back 41 years ago, when I was just eleven years old, I realize now that my faith in God was pure and innocent. Despite not fully understanding Him and without questioning the details, I trusted Him wholeheartedly.
Wow that's just the way I feel...I'm 63 and don't understand what went wrong and how so many "MANY" have corrupted the purity and simplicity of what I remember... God is God I am part of God I want to and do truly love God and want to do Good and be good..now everything is so different so many names for God and new things added to God and the word.. again I saw your post and it hits home... God is still the same as we remember
The world has and is changing not God
I feel the same way, I think back all the time about my childhood and how I knew and trusted in God back then even though I didn’t under it all yet. When I think about this I pray and tell God thank you for blessing me with parents and family who are all Christians who took my brother and I to church and taught us about the lord. I’m so thankful because I cant imagine how hard it must be for those who are struggling with life right now and do not know or love Jesus, yet.
Luke 18:17 “Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Amen, help us Lord to follow you wholeheartedly
@@krystalwatts9675that sounds like me. My parents didn’t go to church when I was little. A church bus would come and take kids to church. That’s how I took my little 5 year old self. I had rapture dreams at that age, not even knowing what that was. As I got older, I’d get ready for school in the morning (4-5th grade) and I’d watch The Praise the Lord (PTL) show instead of cartoons. lol I’m telling my age but that was the show with Jim and Tammy Baker. They later changed the name to the Jim Baker show and I was disgusted. They were raising him up instead of God.Then he had a big fall from grace. I marvel at how the Holy Spirit gave me discernment at 11 yrs old 😳. I can’t remember a day that I didn’t love Jesus. It’s been 55 years and I’m excited that He may come for us soon and get us out this increasingly evil world!! I’ll see you at the Lords supper . ❤
I am born again and i believe every word of the Bible. Thank you Jesus for everything you’ve done from the cross to saving my wretched soul turning me from sinner to saint
Amen✝️🙏❤
Amen ✝️🛐❤️🔥
Do you understand the words written in your comment? Are you still learning from men who preach for gain in temples made from hands or on the internet? If so, you are yet a sinner and not a saint. We simply cannot understand any of the scriptures until we put our faith in God and not men. As it is written, we are under tutors and governors UNTIL the time appointed by the Father. As it is written, let God be true but every MAN a liar. When God chooses us and calls us out of this darkness of religious teachings, we experience the true rapture by hearing the voice of the Son of God and are raised from death to life, from carnally minded to spiritually minded. As it is written, to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. This guy is just another false prophet like ALL of the others that preach for profit in temples made with hands. These false prophets are literally everywhere you turn. When we receive the Spirit of Christ we will be at odds with ALL who still warm a pew or turn to a UA-cam preacher. Christ comes WITHIN us, the kingdom (reign) of God is WITHIN us. If we experience this we will have absolutely nothing to do with churchianity except to expose the hireling shepherds who preach for gain and the many false doctrines they preach because everything they teach is from their carnal understanding of scripture. They simply cannot preach the truth because they have yet to receive the SPIRIT OF TRUTH that guides us into all truth.
Men are not okay : There is the dispensation of the law and there is the dispensation of Grace, law and Grace do not mix. You have to study to show yourself approved to God. There's before the Cross and then there's after the Cross, big big difference. Jesus died and rose again four us, this is where salvation comes from and nowhere else. By the shedding of his blood we became new creatures in Christ we became a part of the body of Christ, we are now living in him, he's now living in US. He not only is the Messiah to the Jews but he is also the head of the body of Christ. Through his death and Resurrection we have been forgiven of all sins past, present and future never to be remembered again. Also he does give us the word of God for the renewing of our mind. We have a new spirit but our flesh still needs to be conformed.
Beware of false prophets.they are evil. Watch the movie left behind. I saw all four movies. People, are you ready? I am. God is good.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
Wow 😲 .. this is what I've been thinking.. is anyone left...... Come back Jesus.. we need you... Thank you for this opportunity. God bless us all 🙏🏼✝️ amen 🙌
Rapture is a misreading of Matt 24:37-40. Evangelicals don't read scripture contextually so they ignore context here.
the Trib happened when Rome destroyed Jerusalem in 70Ad. It was a 3.5 year period under Nero as the "man of sin and lawlessness". Nero was the Beast. The Mark of the Beast was allegiance to Ceasar. Right hand and forehead is a Deuteronomy 6:8 term. The whore of Babylon was the Sanhedrin in cahoots with Rome.
All OT reference to New heavens and new earth and new Israel/Judah/Jerusalem was talking about the new Church age and Church its self. Romans 11 shows us how salvation left the jews due to their rejection and came to the world. the gentile world is the branch grafted in.
The only thing ahead is a global revival of most of the planet coming to Christ as one church body in faith in Christ alone before the end. Habakkuk 2:14, Isaiah 101:9. Its a wheat field, not a tear field. Then the final second coming and judgment.
False tesching@@HillbillyBlack
Amen. Thanks. Facts, we really need Jesus ❤
Have you seen car crashes were people were missing from there cars? Plane crashed with missing pilot's?
Family members missing.
No, rapture has not happened.
I believe every word of God 🙏❤️🕊️
I do too!!
I believe every word of Thanos
Then you probably shouldn't believe in the rapture
Then why do you believe in a rapture??
Because god said its going to happen@@7bag7
Hallelujah...
I am a pastor here in Tampa and boldly stand for HIS truth in a firm, yet loving way...there are way too many label wearers and not enough of HIS faithful servants that are willing to STAND
I believe the gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen.
The king jàmes version?
Many believe they know the lord but many of them will be saddened at the end when the lord says depart from me for I know ye not. The world is in great deception right now and each and every one of us needs to have a close personal experience with the only person who ever truly cares for us enough to die. I pray you all have this experience
Rapture is a misreading of Matt 24:37-40. Evangelicals don't read scripture contextually so they ignore context here.
the Trib happened when Rome destroyed Jerusalem in 70Ad. It was a 3.5 year period under Nero as the "man of sin and lawlessness". Nero was the Beast. The Mark of the Beast was allegiance to Ceasar. Right hand and forehead is a Deuteronomy 6:8 term. The whore of Babylon was the Sanhedrin in cahoots with Rome.
All OT reference to New heavens and new earth and new Israel/Judah/Jerusalem was talking about the new Church age and Church its self. Romans 11 shows us how salvation left the jews due to their rejection and came to the world. the gentile world is the branch grafted in.
The only thing ahead is a global revival of most of the planet coming to Christ as one church body in faith in Christ alone before the end. Habakkuk 2:14, Isaiah 101:9. Its a wheat field, not a tear field. Then the final second coming and judgment.
Nooooo, if I'm still here we haven't gone yet. Total faith in God dying for my sins and coming back 3 days later, Thank You Jesus for your loving Grace and I'm keeping the Faith we're going soon! Hallelujah! So ready to go! 🙌🎺🕊️
I wanna believe that too. But I worry because if we so much as have a little anger in our hearts or unforgiveness, will he still leave us here to resolve our issues or continue working on us in Heaven. I try to release it all or give it to God, but sometimes it just sneaks up on you.
@@moni6058 God would say, oh ye of little faith. We are all works in progress, we have all sinned, probably every day. He paid for each and every one of those sins on the cross, that's it. If we were perfect He wouldn't have needed to die on the cross. It's not about what you do it's about what He did. He loves you so much, he's not going to leave you behind, He died for you. And through faith and Grace we are saved, not by our works. Even when we have little faith He has big faith. I do understand what you're saying, that is the evil one getting in your head, when he tries to get in my head I rebuke it in Jesus Name. It's the simple message of His saving grace, don't make it about what you do when it's all about Him and what He did.
Ps. If it makes you feel any better I get frustrated at this point almost everyday because of all the attacks, the warfare is intense. I complain too that he hasn't taken us yet, the Jews walked around for forty years because they were complaining, but that was also before He died for our sins. You will go, keep your relationship with Him, that's it, the simple truth. Love you, see you in the clouds ❤️🤗🙌🎺🕊️
@@moni6058 btw we heaven, He makes us perfect.
Colossians 2:10-13
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
@@moni6058Keep trying to do better. It doesn't mean you are not saved. We are still battling our flesh while we are still in it. We must keep striving! Jesus loves you.❤
Jesus Christ is our savior Yeshua!❤
The problem is most people don't want to hear the truth because they might have to change their live style or they are convicted and instead of changing their ways they complain about that person
I agree! Too many today trying to impose public prayer! (Matthew 6:5-8) too many people saying the pledge of Alligence (Matthew 5:33-37) too many people defending themselves (Matthew 5:39) too many people marrying divorced women (Matthew 5:32) and too many men wearing hats in church! (1 Corinthians 11:7) IT'S NOT BIBLICAL!
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AMEN. YESSSS. EXACTLY. I feel this is what the Holy Spirit revealed to me.
@@LatrineDerriere Oh, okay.
@@ladennayoung2939 it's what the holy spirit revealed to me through scripture!
Whoever needs to hear this, Jesus loves you and is still with you❤✝️💜💜💜
God bless you Pastor for standing up for the truth ! And for preaching the truth ! God bless you abundantly !
God told Elijah more or less "get over yourself Elijah I have other believers, and I always will"
EDIT: Thanks for the comments! God Bless Us All. I digress; It's terrifying to be lost, but I've been confirmed by my Father's words, through the blood of his son, Jesus Christ; Fear not!!!! ISAIAH 41:10 - It's like a nice warm blanket on the coldest night 🙏
When I was a kid my mother would tell us about the rapture and despite what that meant it sounded scary. Now as an adult it's even scarier thinking about missing the rapture and being left behind. It would obviously indicate that I wasn't saved but thinking I was. It's terrifying actually.
You’re deceived if you believe the rapture.There is no rapture, the false christ will come first to rapture you away the true Christ will come after.
It’s not a bad thing to have the fear of God like this.
@@Heyblomharvestbut it's real. My highschool friend also tell me about the rapture and I got the anxiety. When I pass highschool I'm feel more better.
Search the scriptures.. for in them you THINK you are saved
Good doesn't lie. He's forgiven you of your past. Ask him to forgive you of today. Then forgive yourself.
Some of us are still here!!! Let’s pray during these times that we have as much time as possible to help others know Jesus Christ. Love you all! ❤✝️🙏
Some days i really feel that. Nobody seems to want to discuss scripture, doctrine, feels that even though scripture speaks against remarriage while your ex is still alive they are waiting for God to give them a new wife. It's very discouraging, but God has it in hand.
Hopefully(your Last sentence)
Thats all I can say to it
Amen
That’s exactly what I see to.
Even FB friends who say they're Christians don't say a thing!! Yet, i will share until i die!
Me my self have went through a divorce I am a Christian I didn't ask God was this person who I should marry I did it My way I made a big mistake We are not robots God let's us make our choice God tell us as Christian not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers I was married then I became a Christian I went through hell my husband was a alcoholic I dealt with domestic violence with him I chose not to leave him God didn't tell me to stay nor told me to leave it was my choice after 23 years he became a Christian he went to be with Jesus Christ 3 years later I waited 9 years and got into a relationship with a narcissist I realized now I didn't love my self this marriage lasted 5 years I didn't seek God I made the mistake on my own I needed to be healed of physical and mental abuse after divorce got into another narcissist relationship look like I would have learned from my other mistake God for gave me then I had to forgive my self I am not a victim because I chose to move on I now with Jesus Christ help I am in the healing process sign Smith Jesus Christ is real people I never would have made it with out his help
JESUS IS COMING HE IS COMING
So nice to hear someone who actually knows what they are talking about
He doesn't u just like to hear what you want
@@lowtier_sakura3898 GO AWAY TROLL!
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Yep… she just wants to feel warm & fuzzy. But she’s just as lost as ever.
The remnant is here and we are doing our best to hold it together. We are the light of the world. Mark, you are rare, that’s what you are. Don’t change for anyone! God bless you and keep you always, in Jesus name ❤
So very true. When I tell people it’s not about religion but about a relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and that we need to repent from our evil ways and turn to Christ, because He died for our sins, paying our sin debt in full and He rose from the grave, conquering death and is now seated at the right hand of the Father. People are like, wait, what…
Just seek Jesus! He’s all that matters.
I tell people the same thing and they listen.
You are not the only one, I tel myself! Jesus will rapture those who are His! We win in the end
Rapture is false
One here in Kansas City. We need to unite and help reach the lost.
God bless you brother Mike. ❤PEACE to you.
Or just read the holy bible, doesn't say anything about a pretrib rapture
We network with everything else. Let’s network and start a movement together.
As soon as everyone has had a chance to hear the gospel. Keep putting the message out!
Praise God that His Mercy and Grace extends far beyond anything we can comprehend. Clearly the Harpazo is near! Maranatha!!!
WE NEED TO BE PREPARED
I almost feel like this too. There's certain people who I know if they're gone, I'm in trouble. I check in to make sure they're still there😮😮.
Get the Truth bro, put your Faith in God.
Be saved and stop worrying about them.
Jesus Christ returns to earth just once. Pre-trib is not in the Bible and church history has never taught this.
the bible is clear
The antichrist comes first and a great fallen away
Plus when Christians are being exterminated then jesus is literally at the door 👍🏻
You are freaking out over nothing
Believe in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, our Good Shepherd before it's too late for us, repentance is key for all of us because we all fall short of the glory of God❤️, Amen
God said many are called and few are chosen. Your ok stand fast be strong the Holy Spirit will guid us all.
He said exactly what I’ve been thinking. 😮
Yet we have millions of people claiming different interpretations of almost every passage in the Bible. NOW WHY IS THAT?????? I listened to a pastor who told me not to believe him but to go to the Bible. So then after going to the Bible and getting a different answer, the pastor then tells me I am wrong and calls me dogmatic. I now see very clearly that we are pretty much still living in the days of the Pharisees, who crucified Jesus Christ because he spoke TRUTH.
“So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”
- Matthew 13:27-30
Fewer and fewer, but we are here❤
Rev:6 verse9 to 11
Rev:7 verse 2 to4
Rev:7 verse 9 to 11
Rev:13 verse 14 to 18
Rev:14 verse 6 to 10
Rev:20 verse 4 to 5
And just because it is good to be happy keep this in your minds eye's
Rev:12 to 18 l love ❤️ Christ and can hardly wait to meet him .God Bless and keep you all.
He’s excellent man - fell , repented, restored by great men of God , and coming back for many more rounds , best is yet to come for Pastor Mark !
By God not man , Man cant save or restore themselves, Only Jesus which who is God can save and restore us only
An experiment. - do we READ what we see or read into what we were told?
Daniel 7:13-14 ESV
"I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. [14] And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
Who is the son of man?
Who is the ancient of days?
Which direction is the son of man traveling?
What event is this???
We're to look always for Christ's return & be ready.
We are spared God's wrath not tribulation, but tribulation is cut short or no flesh would make it.
Christians will NOT go thru the tribulation marked with Gods wrath to destroy the wicked ones. In this life all ppl will have tribulation..but we will be removed before the great tribulation starts.
Finally more people who know we have to be in the tribulation. No wrath unless we drink from the cup of his wrath. Than if course you never believed Christ in the first place.😊
@@TexasVicky Gods not gonna beat up His bride before He takes her.
@@suepooh3822 Yes. They will. In fact, the revealing of the identity of the beast is the beginning of the tribulation. That is why Jesus told His followers to flee for the mountains when they see that event take place. Matthew 24:15-16
The description of the abomination of desolation is in 2 Thessalonians 2:4.
I know folks think that they are special. But, all those Christianese slogans like, "God's not gonna beat up his bride" are not based on the Bible.
Tribulation is not YHVH's wrath. It is the beast persecuting the world. When it's over, YHVH's wrath is poured out on the beast and his followers.
@@the_jeremiah_16_19_project the beast is persecuting the world NOW. Wen it says flee to the mountains its talking of the ones left behind...the trubulation saints and the jews will flee to Petra
Brother don't you dare 🛑 Stop preaching truth !!! Absolutely amazing 💯💥🤛🏾💪🏾
I believe, the Rapture haven't come because I'm still here
You think you’re more worthy than Paul?
@@QuantumArchangelGabriel none are worthy on our own, It's only by the GRACE OF GOD!
I'm waiting too. Could be months or years. But the deeper into it we are, the more confident Christ is that much closer and there is no other alternative to what the Bible says. Christ is Lord.
It’s not coming bro.
Religion is man made.
@kimmiesplace7458 / LOL! That’s funny 😂 I know I’m forgiven and that I’m saved, but I can’t help to feel like, “Am I really deserving?” None of us are, truthfully! That experience is going to be so scary for those that are left behind 😢
I am in the most Wonderful church. Pastor, board members, congregation are some of the most warmest people. In Sunday school it’s sometimes an open forum to get other people involved on the service topic ❤.
Jesus Christ is coming soon guys, seek him while he may still be found he loves you and does not want any of us to perish
He died on the cross of Calvary for us, was buried and Rose on the third day❤
John 3:16 For God loved the world in this way:[a] He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
But He IS NOT coming back for a RAPTURE. You got it all wrong.
@@wandaday3778 whether there's a rapture or not you need to be ready
@@eduardoordonez241
I know to Whom I belong; where I am and where I’m going. My faith is not in some pastor that tickles the ears of the lost. If you believe this guy, that says a lot about your own faith.
@@wandaday3778I honestly don’t know who to believe
Amen! Keep spreading the Word!
Amen
Uh… that’s not The Word he’s spreading. Study for yourself and show thy self approved. He won’t be standing at the judgement seat with you. You’re on your own.
Not everybody that goes to church is going in the rapture. Many will miss it even so-called pastors.
An experiment. - do we READ what we see or read into what we were told?
Daniel 7:13-14 ESV
"I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. [14] And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
Who is the son of man?
Who is the ancient of days?
Which direction is the son of man traveling?
What event is this???
@HillbillyBlack that's the event we are waiting for. Now is the time to spend time with God.i need to walk with him daily.spend time in the word daily.
@@cd0130 there’s plenty of end Times passages in scripture related to the second coming but Daniel isn’t one of them. If you read it exegetically it does not read like an end times event. The only way you can get that is if you forced other passages in scripture or current events into the text. Which is an eisegetical nightmare on its own.
"I saw in the night visions, and behold, WITH THE CLOUDS of heaven there CAME one like a son of man,
- on or with the clouds of heaven comes the son of man.
and he CAME TO the “Ancient of Days”
- The ancient of days is the designation of Yahweh. Just as the son of man is the definition of Jesus.
and was PRESENTED before HIM.
- So the son of man is presented before the ancient of days. This is an up arrow not a down arrow. Jesus is ascending into heaven on the clouds of heaven being presented before God.
[14] And TO HIM was GIVEN dominion and glory and a kingdom,
And to him, the Son of Man, is given dominion and glory and a Kingdom
So if you read this carefully, nowhere is anything referencing the end of time other than the term “ancient of days” which is an old testament terminology for Yahweh.
Yahweh is presenting Yeshua the kingdom.
Notice time frame context in Mark 1:15 ESV
and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."
The kingdom is here already. What you are waiting for is past tense. You are in it now
The rapture will happen but not yet first the anti Christ has to show up bring in the mark of 666 after the 6 th trumpet war then AC will reveal himself then rapture. Revelation 20 4--5
@@davidortega357 I agree, but those are dark times. Take faith in Christ.
Do not be afraid ❤️ We can know for certain we did not miss The Rapture because our precious innocent children are still with us.❤️ Let us pray that we use this time wisely and truly get our hearts right with Christ 🙏
Despite the controversy surrounding him, I like a lot of his sermons.
Controversy?
Controversy? He's the only real person ive heard in a bit. Preachers like him are truly far and few so we better keep SHARING THE GOSPEL
@@ladennayoung2939
He was a Pastor over a mega church in Seattle and got canceled.
He can be a bit rough around the edges.
He abandoned his church. He is steeped in pride and arrogance, and he draws attention to himself, not to Christ. Real men of God don’t abandon their families and run away from their problems. Please be careful who you listen to🙏
That is an awesome backdrop. Man just put your faith in Christ.
I felt this so hard, Lord please help your children to see it's better with you and to come for us quickly. I just want to be in your presence Lord. This world has become so dark, and we miss you.
Amen to that! I’m So homesick & this world is Dark
God is never left without a witness even if it feels like we’re the only one. God is on the move.
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What if we stand across the street of a church that we feel is not teaching what they should be, and hold a sign to those going in or out for their service asking them things like "Why isn't your Pastor teaching you about the Rapture?". Rather than be keyboard activists let's get up and do something! I have a sign on my passenger side rear window for everyone to see while I'm driving or parked anywhere. Seriously, PLEASE, LETS DO SOMETHING. 🙏
Instead of putting up signs condemning people,
why not go into the church, develop relationships and live the gospel?
@@mountnman3609 How long would that take, and how do you do that with many churches? I'm one person with only one life. That would take foreverrrrrrr.
I like that idea!
If Jesus hasn't returned, we haven't missed it. Every eye will see
Exactly how I feel. Especially on Sunday mornings going to church. People are still sleeping instead of going❤❤ to church.
I feel just the opposite. I’m closer to Jesus when I don’t watch those people in church walk out and start the sin of gossip even before they get in the car. My Bible and I do just fine.
@@hikerhobby1204 Totally agree. Too many want a social club and really don't want the 'inconvenience' of taking up their cross and walking with Christ!
@@stephenhagen234 Thank you! I often wonder if it’s me? I thought when we gave our life to Jesus we were to under go “sanctification.” It frustrates me to listen to them. Then again, I don’t do well with hypocrites.
@@hikerhobby1204 Light has NO fellowship with darkness. The last church I went to most lived in the wealthy part of the county, drove expensive newer cars, wore expensive clothes, and on and on. And they make sure that you knew those things are important to them. That is not what God has called us to. God has very serious intent toward conforming us into the image of Christ. Make no mistake about it, if you mean business with the Lord and seek Him like your life depended upon Him (and it does) He will bring you closer to Himself than the others just going thru the motions.
That's what He wants with you. A serious love relationship that glorifies Him!
@@hikerhobby1204 Cultivate your worship of Him. "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise" ~Psalm 100:4
Start thanking Him for the many, many, wonderful things He has done for you and provided for you. Tell Him you love Him. Sing worship songs to Him. (Michael W. Smith "WORSHIP FOREVER" released in 2021 is on UA-cam) It is another realm of experiencing the Presence of God.
This current US leadership is so upside down that it’s unrecognizable.
It’s hard to have any optimism let alone a glimmer of confidence.
Our optimism and hope are to be put in the Lord Jesus Christ, and Him alone.
Hmmm saw some quotes saying '... one will be taken and the other remain' (paraphrased), and it was the evil one taken and the good one that remained. Remember, the false Messiah (AntiChrist) will come first. If the AntiChrist has not come, and you hear the Christ has returned, understand that is NOT Jesus. Read ALL of the bible without cherry picking. If one quotes something go and read before the quote, the quote, then after to be certain it is not out of context.
Jesus said 'My sheep know my voice' He has told us we will know Him. Be sure you are one of His "sheep".
The wheat an tares explain it very well,along with a good understanding of Matthew 24. I don't understand why people think we won't be here when the anti Christ is revealed.
Thank God I'm not alone..I've known this for years .the rapture is the biggest lie the devil has decieved many through false teachers..there are many ways, different scriptures explaining his return .he's coming back in and through his remnant..col:1:27 Christ in you the hope of GLORY..we are the body of Christ,he is the head of the body .his kingdom come his will be done on earth as it is in heaven..the kingdom of heaven is within us .Jesus said it .
@@micah6817 True
And here's one that knows something folks. We're few and far between. I don't see why these people don't understand. My Bible says MANY will be deceived. 90% of Christians believe in rapture 10% don't. Mmmmm..... I'm in the 10%. Show me the word rapture in an approved Bible. What's that? Can't do it...
Wake up folks! And before you quote me 1 Thessalonians 4:16 why don't you read 2 Thessalonians 2. Jesus WILL come back but you better know how and in what order.
@@mandovapehater6988 correct
My Pastor at Cornerstone in Evansville preaches all the Bible and truth, thank you Jesus for my Pastor
Which Bible does he use ?
❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰It only seems like enemy is winning🙂He is good at Illusion🔥🙌☝🏻😉
Did we miss it.??? I love our Lord Jesus. Bless his name.❤. May he reign forever.❤❤❤❤
For being uploaded on April 30,
2023, this short is extremely prophetic in several ways, especially considering what Mark Driscoll is going through right now...
Well, having the entire weight of the Assembly of God denomination going after him for calling out that circus act is going to feel like his own, personal "tribulation." I pray that he draws closer to God in this troubling time.
So far, publicly (at the event,) he made his 'observation' in a seemingly calm way. In the public conversation afterwards, he maintained a loving attitude, while still not recanting what he'd said, even though it looked like Lindell was holding him hostage. Now that several bigwigs are attacking his character from the pulpit, I hope Mark Driscoll refrains from retaliation, remains calm, and trusts the Lord to vindicate him.
That alone would prove to me that Driscoll spoke at that conference out of obedience to God, and nothing else.
I’m a real Christian since 1977 when I read the book Run baby Run by Nicky Cruz and surrendered by life to the Lord Jesus Christ and was filled with the Holy Spirit and the Bible became an open book to me and my Spiritual Food. I’m still going strong in secret prayerlife and praying with other Christians and street preaching using good Gospel tracts (All Nations - the Heart of Man and The Two Roads) and If people ask me what church I go to I say: I’m a Bible Christian, I read the Bible, I pray the Bible and I live the Bible. I’m still around. Just this morning had wonderful time street preaching in a neighbouring town. Expecting the Lord any day now for many years but going strong.
Every true Christian is raptured.
Please point out the scripture that says "Rapture" in any translation?
Not the made up by John Darby scriptures either. Not the ones "they"say means the rapture either.
Rapture doesn't even mean how it's used in that false doctrine. 2 Corinthians 15:50-52
Specifically says at the last trumpet,the dead in Christ will raise and all left alive will be called up.
Left alive from tribulation are the alive and dead in Christ is all believers who have passed away, including the martyrs. Which the martyrs are in between the 5th and 6th seal and trumpet .... would have to have been the abomination of desolation by then. 7 trumpets are referenced in Rev. 8 or 9 when they are issued to the angels.
Revelation 22:19 whosoever adds or takes away a single word from this prophecy writes their name out of the book of life! No word "Rapture" in any translation, Enough said.
There's no rapture, only a first resurrection. It's a false doctrine created by John Darby in 1830. Just look up the history of rapture doctrine. It wasn't even a subject of conversation before 175 years ago.
@@MathiasVIKING0403 Sorry but you're echoing a lie. Darby DID NOT invent the rapture as you claim, in fact it's been disproven time and time again that the belief in the rapture was modern. The earliest writings of the rapture go to before Christ and can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls!! We also have other writings as far back to 100 A.D. ( research Irenaeus of Lyon 120A.D.-200A.D just for starters). It's amazing what a quick search with Google can bring up without any effort what so ever!
@MathiasVIKING0403 I agree with most of what you said except it's NOT just the First Ressurection (which debunks pretrib, because it is the FIRST ressurection after the First Fruits Ressurection of Christ).
But at the time of the 6th seal you have the First Ressurection of the Tribulation Saints ( the multitude). But you also have the First Fruits Redemption of the 144,000 (voice of many waters) who are alive and remain. They will remain and go through the wrath being protected by God. When Christ returns after the wrath He comes with His ressurectsd Saints (tribulation saints). He doesn't come with the 144,000 also because they are still here. During the 1000 year reign of Christ there will be the 144,000 and the Tribulation Saints with Christ.
@@assaultbravo14 if their protected,they are not experiencing the "wrath" .
,God judges all mankind at once. Just like the flood. Revelation 20 explicitly says this. Those in the first resurrection don't experience the second death. This implies one judgment.
@@assaultbravo14 my real problem with all this( Rapture) nonsense is that most just go along with whatever some preacher says without ever checking to see what the Bible says for themselves. That means they are learning from a person who didn't validate the doctrine their teaching either. And the cycle of Satan's influence just keeps gaining momentum.
Thank you Pastor Mark, you are a man of God!! I was a Jezebel spirit for many many years and because I listened to what you said and what you have been saying my heart was totally convicted and I have repented and seek the lord in all things because someone who had a Jezebel spirit well that does not go away in one day!! Everything you said about a Jezebel spirit that was me, so I work daily to unlearn that behavior!! My mother is a high priest of a witch coven and a lesbian, I was married to a good Christian man and I left him and started a 15-year relationship with a woman, and my daughter is in a relationship "married" with a woman for about 16 years now. I know you must be a very very busy man but if you could pray against that
Jezebel spirit curse I sure would appreciate it!
No, it hasn't happened yet.
I’m a Christian … I’m still here, it’s pretty close!
◄ 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ►
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After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
You should read also the verses before, especially verse 16. Then it's clear Paul speaks in 1. Thessalonians 4: 13 - 18 of the Day of Judgement or the day when Jesus Christ comes back with power and glory visible for all around the whole world as judge over all humans and the world, not of an event like the rapture.
@@dismas6992exactly right. The 7th and last trumpet of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
While we're on the topic of being a real Christian. If you are a true follower of Jesus, how much time/effort/thought are you putting in to helping make life better for people living with disabilities just like Jesus did?
It's a very powerful fruit that provides honest and reliable discernment.
Peace.
We must be born again.
You are born again when the Holy Spirit in you don’t let you sin anymore.
When you still sin you are not born again.
1 John 2, 1 John 3, Romans 6:6, Romans 8, Gal 5, Eph 4 , Eph 5 and Titus 2:14!
To become born again you have to repent and ask Jesus forgiveness for your sins or ask Jesus in your heart
There is no person on Earth who does not sin, probably daily. No one is righteous.
@@CalebTheSeeker
So then the scriptures I gave you are lies?
@@jandrost4664
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
-- 1 John 1:10
@@CalebTheSeeker
I didn’t say that!
@@CalebTheSeeker
I was a big sinner until the day I was born again
No one will miss the Rapture, U either go or U stay, but EVERYONE will know.❤😊
He's coming for a church without spot wrinkle or blemish. Stay ready. Our redemption draws near.
I really thinknim written in jesus book. When i call out to him he always helps me. I dont know how i lived without him ever!!
I believe the rapture is going to happen anytime!
According to false prophets the rapture was supposed to happen in 1988 according to Doctor Vernon mcgee
On the out side it seems like we’re losing but inside we’re winning
You can't miss the Rapture. There isn't one-only the Day of the Lord. Christ ends the Tribulation at his second coming, "Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us to the effect that the day of the Lord has come." (Thes.)
100%
Yes!!
2Th 2:3 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;
@@Chuck-- Right. What's your point? Looks like we are closing in on the Day of the Lord. I see signs of the apostacy. Has the son of Perdition been revealed?
@@drivebyquipper My point is as yours...there is no pre-trib rapture. Another verse to back that up.
I love Jesus anyone who is reading this accept Jesus as your lord and savior be saved and spread the gospel before its not to late. May the person who is reading this have good health and have a good life, and may Jesus come into their life. JESUS IS REAL, BELIEVE IN HIM, OUR KING AND GOD.
God is a very patient God and doesn't want to lose anyone. We're getting very close though
You cannot worship money and God. You can only serve one master.
Churches have been teaching a pre tribulation rapture . Believers in Christ will go through the great tribulation
This is the same lack of courage and truth in the catholic church. Pray for us
The biggest problem he mentioned yet did not address; there should NOT be a "throne" in a church! Pastors are SERVANTS! Not kings! Not celebrities!
Truth. Boldness. Uncompromising. Uninviting worldly acts into His church. A Rare gem.
I very much appreciate your spiritual spine and having the fear of the Lord to stand for His truth rather than succumb to the pressure and praise of men.
Stand strong and finish strong sir.
Really you and my pastor Phil Hooper at Abundant LIFE lees summit Mo are the only 2 pastors that I think goes strictly by the Bible and doesn’t cave in to all the nonsense in the world and in the modern church! Thankful for you both .
The rapture is at the end, 1 Corinthians 15:52 says so. Blessed are those who endure til the end.
Matthew 24: 36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of [a]heaven, but My Father only.
Daniel 9: 27 The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven, but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration, until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him.”
Daniel 12 :11-12 “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.”
How can no man know the day or the hour, when the Bible clearly states 1335 days from the abomination?
The rapture has happened yet! We are getting closed for the rapture! We should all hear the 7 trumpets with 7 angels of God coming down to earth!❤
Sometimes I do “feel” like evil is winning. I have to remind myself that our lord and savior has already won and his will , will be done. I have to stop getting caught up in the worry, fear and hate that this world fuels!
Prays for Humanity, all Christians and non-Christians
Yes i feel this way...this man is speaking alot of inner thoughts
Amen! Especially the part about “the board”, aka Deacons, who won’t deal with obvious false teaching going on under their noses. Either they don’t see it as false, or else the teacher is a “good-ole-boy” who they refuse to confront.
I know the feeling, I am feeling the same way Pastor.
I just watched a video of a woman saying the rapture comes after the tribulation. I had a rapture dream, but there was no reference to a date/time so I'm not sure what to expect now because everyone has a different opinion on it. Some churches don't even know what the rapture is. I'd love some feedback...
I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and was born from a Virgin and died on the cross and was raised by God on the third day and is coming back to get his church amen
1 Kings 19:18
“Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.”
Orthodox Christian Teaching on the Rapture:
Is the Rapture in the Bible?
Question: A friend of mine has been reading the Left Behind books that have all of this stuff about the “Rapture” in them. Is there really going to be a “Rapture” like these books talk about?
Answer: No. The “Rapture” refers to a passage in First Thessalonians 4, where Christians are “caught up” in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” Many Christians believe, and the Left Behind books promote, that this being “caught up” to meet the Lord will occur before the Great Tribulation sometime in the near future. Christians will simply vanish, meet Jesus somewhere in the air, and then return with Him to Heaven to await the end of time.
But notice, in verse 15, Paul says that “…we who are alive, who are left,” shall be caught up. This is a very important point to stress to rapture enthusiasts. Those who are “left” get caught up to meet the Lord. Keep that in mind as we look at these next couple of Scripture passages.
The Left Behind books get their name from a passage in Luke 17, and a similar passage in Matthew 24, which compares the coming of the Lord to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. Matthew 24 puts it this way: “As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man…[they ate, they drank, they married] and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man. Then two men will be in the field, one is taken and one is left. Two women grinding at the mill, one is taken one is left.”
“One is taken, one is left” - the Rapture right? Jesus takes the Christians and leaves behind non-Christians!
That’s how rapture enthusiasts interpret these passages. Well, you need to say to them: “Not so fast, folks.” Two problems with the Protestant “Left Behind” interpretation: First, in the passages from Luke 17 and Matthew 24, Jesus’ coming is compared to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. Let’s think about that for a moment. After the flood, who was left? Noah and his family - the good guys. The bad guys were taken and the good guys were left behind! After Sodom and Gomorrah went up in smoke, who was left? Lot and his daughters - the good guys. The bad guys were taken and the good guys were left behind!
The second problem with the “Left Behind” interpretation, has to do with what I mentioned above: 1 Thessalonians 4 says that those who are “left” get to meet Jesus in the air. You want to be left behind. Why? Because those who are left behind get to meet Jesus on His return to earth. Again, when you put 1 Thessalonians 4 together with Matthew 24 and Luke 17, it becomes quite apparent that the good guys are the ones left behind to meet Jesus.
And, if you need further proof of that, there’s a passage in Matthew 13 that pretty much seals the deal. Matthew 13:39-43, “…and the enemy who sowed them [the bad seed] is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. The Son of man will send His angels and they will gather out of His kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.”
So when Scripture says that “one is taken and one is left,” as it does in Luke 17 and Matthew 24, it is not talking about the Rapture, it is talking about the harvest at the close of the age. The ones who are taken, as it says in Matthew 13, are the evildoers. The angels have taken them and tossed them into the furnace of fire. So, the Left Behind books got it exactly 180 degrees wrong. The ones taken are not the good guys, they are the evildoers. The ones who are left behind are the ones who get to be caught up in the clouds to meet Jesus in the air at His Second Coming, when He will bring all of the angels and saints with Him and there will be a new Heaven and a new earth.
In other words, there will be no Rapture like the one the Left Behind books talk about. The Left Behind books teach the opposite of what Scripture actually says.
Additional comments:
The real issue (not often clear in people’s minds) is not the idea of a rapture (Christians being taken up or ‘translated’ to be with the Lord) but rather the timing of the rapture in relation to the Lord’s second coming. The controversial (and quite obviously erroneous) idea is what is called the pre- or mid- tribulation rapture. The effect of this non-biblical idea is that at some point before “the end of the age” (before the Lord’s second coming), Christians would disappear from the world, leaving behind a lot of people who would then face the awful years of the tribulation. This is well expressed in the bumper sticker:
This idea, however, is neither biblical nor credible. The idea that not just many cars but also jetliners would be left without drivers and pilots is simply beyond credibility, and by no means called for by a sound reading of the Bible.
Perhaps the most compelling argument against the pre/mid tribulation rapture theory is that no Christian believed it or even knew about it for the first 1800 years of Christianity. When it comes to Christianity, the “faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3), there is simple rule: “if its new, it just can’t be true!”
This is a mark of the end time church , there is a great following away of the true faith. I Thank God for you Pastor Driscoll, and for the sound doctrine you teach. 👍🏽
Yes, "falling away " 😢
I just started listening to your you tube show, your bearing fruit God bless 🙏🙏
No my paw is 100. And he’s still here thank the Lord
God is still giving out his Grace, just look what he did at " Burning Man" in Nevada this week.
I feel like we are ALL losing and slapping our Lord in the face. I look across the land and I feel terrible for our God. Nothing about our modern lives glorifies him.. I just hope these demons in the church will be cast into the abyss
Ah, what a grace-filled, life-giving message. Most people are terrible Christians, if at all, and we’re the better ones who actually care about God and His purposes. Thank God there are churches like yours who heave condemnation at the “others” in your world. One thing the church hasn’t done well enough throughout history is condemn and take the moral high ground. And it’s so refreshing and healthy to see a pastor call out his peers and call them apostates. I really like that whole concept of not throwing stones when you’re living in a glass house.
Jesus Christ is the way and the truth.Saved me from alcoholism after 16 years in darkness and drunkeness.I feel we will soon be in rapture.The pawns are falling into place in middle east around Israel.
I know a lot of Christians that don't know their faith and avoid the Gospel but will talk for hours about football .
“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”
- Matthew 15:8
LoL....exactly my thoughts. I have wondered exactly the same thing.