Hope Even Though There Is No Pre Tribulation Rapture: 2

Hope Even Though There Is No Pre Tribulation Rapture

The Apostles Weren't Looking For A Pre Tribulation Rapture

The Damaging Theory Of A Pre Tribulation Rapture

Does Revelation 19:6-9 Show Us A Rapture?

Does 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8 Show Us A Rapture?

Does Luke 17:26-30 Show Us A Rapture?

Does Mark 17:34-37 Show Us A Rapture?

Does Revelation 4:1 Show Us A Rapture?

Is There A Pre Tribulation Rapture? Part 3

Is There A Pre-Tribulation Rapture? Part 2

Is There A Pre-Tribulation Rapture? Part 1

Depressed?

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Matthew 11:28

But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, Galatians 5:22

There seems to be an awful lot of people that I know who are depressed; these are people with good jobs, wealth, health, good marriages, and people who have great families. Relax! If you are feeling depressed you are not alone at all. It doesn’t mean that you aren’t saved or that you have sinned. It also doesn't mean that our Father has forsaken you. Actually what you’re feeling is our Father at work within you. You heard me right, it is our Father at work within you. It has to be Him, because our Father never leaves us or forsakes us and greater is He that is us than he that is in this world, 1 John 4:4. What so many are feeling is our Father causing them to hate the things of this world. He is growing in us a spirit that will bring us completely out of what the Book of Revelation calls Babylon, which is the worlds corrupt system. You have to hate something to truly come out of it and never look back! This is what this feeling of depression is causing us to do. There is no peace in worldliness and most of us depend and trust in the world. 

I then heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out from her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, neither participate in her plagues. Revelation 18:4

I truly believe that the depression that is being felt by so many is actually our Father changing our attitudes towards this world. I do not believe that we are in the end times quit yet, which is the last 3 1/2 years of this earth. But I do believe that we are being prepared to usher in the end times. To do this we have to totally be separated from worldliness. We have to come out from relying on money, food, pensions, insurance, doctors, medicines, and clothes for survival. Our Father is allowing us to actually get depressed when we think of these earthly things, whether we have them or not.

Our Father is taking us to the exact same place that Jesus was when He was here on the earth as a man. We are being groomed by the Holy Spirit to supply food when we have no food, Matthew 24:44-45. To give when we have nothing to give. To take us to this place of miraculous service, our Father has to cause us to hate the world and all that it has. So the depression that so many are feeling is actually leading them to lose all faith and trust in the world. This is a good thing. Because it will lead us to placing all of our trust and hope in our Father and then we can truly serve those who are in the world.  

End of Times Matthew 48-51

⁴⁸ But if that servant is wicked and says to himself, My master is delayed and is going to be gone a long time,

⁴⁹ And begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken,

⁵⁰ The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour of which he is not aware,

⁵¹ And will punish him [cut him up by scourging] and put him with the pretenders (hypocrites); there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

Let’s talk about a loving Father’s punishment here. Does a loving Father get even with his kids, or does He correct His children?

For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes. Hebrews 12:6

Our Father loves everyone. So the Truth is that our Father disciplines everyone. So the question is does He discipline most of His children by sending them to an eternity in Hell?

But if any person’s work is burned up [under the test], he will suffer the loss [of it all, losing his reward], though he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has passed] through fire. 1 Corinthians 3:15

The Truth is that many people will have to pass through the fires of Hades and their reward of being the Bride will be lost. Yet these people will be saved from the Lake of Fire. Our Father will have disciplined them and just as with the Rich Ruler, Luke 16, they will come to have a loving heart that cares for others above themselves.

Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth. 1 Timothy 2:4

Our Father is God; He gets what He wants!

[Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

Jesus was successful on the Cross, He was very successful. Our Lord will cause all men to come to the knowledge of the Truth and they will be set free.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

Our Father has made all of us to totally need Him for everything. We will all mess up. We will all be disciplined by our Father. Some of us will have to go through Hades and only be a guest. Some of us will be disciplined here on the earth and we will be the Bride. But our Father will have mercy on all of us and allow us to live with Him for all of eternity.  

End of Times Matthew 24:45-47

45 Who then is the faithful, thoughtful, and wise servant, whom his master has put in charge of his household to give to the others the food and supplies at the proper time?

Ask yourself: who is in charge of all of God’s stuff, us or Jesus? Jesus is the Head right, He is the Shepherd, He is the Lord of Lord's, He is the Master, He is the Vine, He is the King of Kings, and He is the Alpha and Omega. The Truth is also that we are now one with Jesus, the One Who is in charge of everything, amen!

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:31-32

At that time [when that day comes] you will know [for yourselves] that I am in My Father, and you [are] in Me, and I [am] in you. John 14:20

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:8-11

But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17

Our Father has placed Jesus in charge of everything and our Father has also made us one with Jesus. So the glorious Truth is that we cannot help but to be used by our Father to give food and supplies during the time of need of the last days. Jesus will cause us to be faithful in this act of love, Hebrews 12:2. The Holy Spirit will cause us to be wise to do it, 1 John 2:27. Jesus will Shepherd us to give to those who hate us and who are despitefully using us, Hebrews 13:20. 

46 Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is that servant whom, when his master comes, he will find so doing.

We will be found giving to those who hate us and who are in need because our Groom will insure that we are. In Christ we are always blessed beyond expression, 1 Peter 3:14. Jesus always causes us, His Bride, to be more then conquerors. 

47 I solemnly declare to you, he will set him over all his possessions.

Jesus will insure that we are one with Him in all of His Authority.

And You have made them a kingdom (royal race) and priests to our God, and they shall reign [as kings] over the earth! Revelation 5:10

I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: John 17:22

End of Times Matthew 24:42-44

42 Watch therefore [give strict attention, be cautious and active], for you do not know in what kind of a day [whether a near or remote one] your Lord is coming.

We may not know the exact hour, but we are empowered with the Holy Spirit to know the season, of our Lord’s return. Our Groom will not overtake us as a thief would overtake an unsuspecting person. The Truth is that we will be intimately acquainted with our Wedding Feasts Plans. 

43 But understand this: had the householder known in what [part of the night, whether in a night or a morning] watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be undermined and broken into.

44 You also must be ready therefore, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not expect Him.

Sounds like Jesus places a ton of responsibility on us here, doesn’t it? I mean I have heard these verses preached dozens of times and the sermons always tell me that I better get it right. But as always the Truth sets us free from all fear. The first thing to alwaysremember is that without Jesus we can do nothing.

I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. John 15:5

The next thing to remember is that our Father will always cause us to be more than conquerors.

Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. Romans 8:37

Amid all things, which includes even keeping watch, Jesus empowers us to be successful. Jesus never will leave us and He never will forsake us, Hebrews 13:5, especially during the end times. During the last 3 1/2 years of this age in earths history there will be many mighty messages that we are used by our Father to preach, Acts 2:17, Revelation 10:1, 14:6. During the end times our Father will be using us to preach the gospel of the Kingdom to every tribe, tongue, and nation, Matthew 24:14. This is the one sign that will show us that our Groom is ready to return. We will not be overtaken as by the thief. We will be walking in the full power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Before our Lord returns we will be glorious, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, Ephesians 5: 27. 

There is no fear in the perfect love of our Father, 1 John 4:18. So there is no fear for us messing up during the end times. In Christ our yoke is always easy and our burden is always light, Matthew 11:30. Jesus will always cause us to be faithful and wise. The Holy Spirit will always teach us all things and He will always bring to our remembrance everything that Jesus has ever said, John 14:26.

Faith comes for us by hearing these Truths and the Truth sets us free.

End of Times Matthew 24:40-41

40 At that time two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left.

41 Two women will be grinding at the hand mill; one will be taken and one will be left.

So often in my life I have heard these verses used to say that there is a pre-tribulation rapture. However, this parable is also told to us in Luke 17. In Luke the disciples ask Jesus specifically where these people would be taken.

Then they asked Him, Where, Lord? He said to them, Wherever the dead body is, there will the vultures or eagles be gathered together. Luke 17:37

Jesus tells the disciples that the ones who are taken will be taken to Armageddon.  

And the rest were killed with the sword that issues from the mouth of Him Who is mounted on the horse, and all the birds fed ravenously and glutted themselves with their flesh. Revelation 19:21

Let them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my granary. Matthew 13:30

Now let’s get into some meat here. Many of us believe that the people destroyed at Armageddon are people who took the Mark of the Beast. We believe this because of Revelation 19:20, where it tells us that those who take the Mark of the Beast will be destroyed at Armageddon. But what exactly is the Mark of the Beast? We are told that if we take this Mark, we will be destroyed. We are told that there is no coming back from it once we accept it, Revelation 14:9-10. But the Word never tells us exactly what it is? Go and look in the scriptures, you will not find a definitive description of the Mark of the Beast? I use to guess at what it was, but the Word never tells us plainly. Isn’t it funny that our Father tells us that if we take the Mark, then we are doomed, but then He never tells us what it is?  Could you imagine me telling my kids that if they committed the act of ABC then they would be cast out from my home and never be allowed back in, but I never tell them what the act of ABC is? I would be a terrible parent for placing such fear in my kids. So why would our Father not tell us plainly what this unforgivable act of taking the Mark is? Our Father is not about fear, He is about Love, 1 John 4:8. 

Think about this, who are we told about in the Bible that cannot be forgiven? The answer is the fallen angels, Hebrews 2:16. Where exactly are these fallen angels now? We are told in Revelation 12:9 that they are here on the earth. So do angels look like people? They sure do. In Hebrews 13:2 we are told that we may be entertaining them and be unaware of it. In Genesis 6 we are told that angels actually had children with the daughters of men. So the fallen angels are down here right now and they look like men. 

Darnel, or another word for darnel is a tare, is a false wheat. It looks like wheat, but it produces no fruit. A tare is not a wheat that has gone bad, it has always been a tare. Wheat is wheat and a tare is a tare. The tares are gathered first at Armageddon because they took the Mark of the Beast. We are never told what the Mark of the Beast is, but we are told that a third of the angels did side with satan and that they cannot be forgiven. We are told that the angels are here on the earth right now. We are told that they have mated with men and we are told that we can actually see them. 

So what I am coming to believe is that the Mark of the Beast cannot be taken by humans, but only by angels. If humans could take the Mark of the Beast, then wouldn’t our Father plainly tell us what it was? This study could go on for days. I just wanted to start the discussion here. But I believe, and this is just what I believe, and I share the scriptures constantly as to why I believe this way, is that the ones taken first are the fallen angels that have been living amongst us. They took the Mark of the Beast when they sided with satan and they are being delivered to their doom at Armageddon. If you believe differently that is alright. I use to believe differently. The Holy Spirit however will bring us to a clear understanding of what the actually Mark is, amen. 

End of Times Matthew 24:37-39

37 As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

The Truth is that the world will get more and more evil as the end times approach. The guests of the Wedding Feast will trust more and more in themselves and their own abilities as the end approaches. They will become more smug about their own strength and will as the day approaches and they will punish those of us who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to not trust at all in ourselves. Even though we will be hated by our future guests, we will we will be strengthened with the full power of the Holy Spirit to bless them as they curse us, Luke 6:28. The Holy Spirit will cause us to forgive them even though they may kill us, Acts 7:60. And our Father will cause us to feed those who hate us and He will glorify us to give them water to drink as they despise us, Matthew 24:45. 

38 For just as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, [men] marrying and [women] being given in marriage, until the [very] day when Noah went into the ark,

39 And they did not know or understand until the flood came and swept them all away—so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Ask yourself: did our Father kill all of these sinful children of His with the flood only to leave them suffering eternally in Hell? Did our Father kill His kids so that He could get His justice on them?

In which He went and preached to the spirits in prison, [The souls of those] who long before in the days of Noah had been disobedient, when God’s patience waited during the building of the ark in which a few [people], actually eight in number, were saved through water. 1 Peter 3:19-20

Our Father doesn’t get even with His children for being bad. Our Father doesn’t get justice over His children. Our Father corrects us and gets His justice over sin. The people in Noah’s day were very bad. So our Father ended their fleshes ability to be bad and He sent their spirits to Hades to be corrected. He did this so that their souls could be saved. Why else would Jesus go and preach to these people? Did Jesus go to Hades to just preach to these people to tell them that they really messed up and that they really blew it. Did He go there to rub salvation in their faces? Or did He go to Hades to set the captives free? 

Look at Jesus’ parable of the Rich Ruler and Lazarus, Luke 16. The Ruler was an absolute jerk on this earth. He died and was sent to Hades. When the ruler was in Hades he finally saw the Truth. His flesh no longer blinded him from what is right and wrong, Romans 6:7. When the rich man saw the Truth he began to have compassion on those people who were still in their flesh on the earth. Hades wasn’t a place for our Father to get even with His disobedient child, it was a place for our Father to correct him. The ruler began to place the needs of others above himself in Hades. 

Many tell me though that the ruler was told that the chasm was too big and so the ruler could never get out of there. But look at what Jesus was telling us in His parable, the chasm was too big for man to get people out of Hades. The ruler was calling on Lazarus and Abraham, not on Jesus. Only Jesus holds the keys to Hades, Revelation 1:18. Jesus went to Hades and set the captives free from Noah's time and He will do it again on the Last Day. The people who have been sent to Hades will see Jesus and they will call on Him to save them. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord, Romans 14:11. When those who have been released from Hades call on Jesus for help, do you really believe that as they are saying to Jesus that He is Lord, that He will then tell them to go to Hell? Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8. Jesus never condemned people on this earth when they cried out to Him, so He cannot do it on Judgment Day either. If He would, then He would not be the same as He was yesterday. 

I am telling you all that Jesus was very very successful by going to the Cross. His love has covered all of our sins, 1 Peter 4:8. 

End of Times Matthew 32-36

32 From the fig tree learn this lesson: as soon as its young shoots become soft and tender and it puts out its leaves, you know of a surety that summer is near.

33 So also when you see these signs, all taken together, coming to pass, you may know of a surety that He is near, at the very doors.

We are not permitted to know the exact time that Jesus will physically return to the earth, Matthew 24:36. But we are empowered with the Holy Spirit to know the season of our Lord’s return. Far too many of us look at wars, famines, economics, and natural disasters as the signs of Jesus’ return. These things are only the beginnings of the sign. The sign of Jesus’ return will be the power of the Kingdom of Heaven being shown throughout the entire world at one time.

That He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless]. Ephesians 5:27

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father. John 14:12
 

When we see our Father using us to do the works that Jesus did and even greater works, look for Jesus to return. When we see people stop worrying about what denomination you belong to, look for Jesus’ return. When we see the power of our Father working through us causing the guests to say peace and safety, look for Jesus’ return, 1 Thessalonians 5:3. These glorious things are not happening now everywhere and all at once, but they will. Our Father’s power working through us will be heralded in with a loud trumpet cal and the world will clearly hear and see the Truth. 

34 Truly I tell you, this generation (the whole multitude of people living at the same time, in a definite, given period) will not pass away till all these things taken together take place.

35 Sky and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

Our Father hears our prayers and they are sweet to Him. There is coming a time when He will answer the prayers that the Holy Spirit is empowering us to pray about Jesus’ return. When that time comes our Father will send His angel into the Holy of Holies to take the full power of the Holy Spirit and He will pour it out on us, Revelation 8:5. When that times comes the Truth will be proclaimed from us and it will be loud as thunder, our Father will show miraculous things through us to light up the world like lightening, and the earth will shake from the power of our Father being shown through us. When we see these things, then we will know that the season of our Groom’s return is near. It will absolutely happen and it will be glorious.

36 But of that [exact] day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

End of Times Matthew 24:31

31 And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect (His chosen ones) from the four winds, [even] from one end of the [universe to the other.]

Jesus is telling us here that He will not lose any that He has been given. The message of the Kingdom is eternal and it is powerful and it extends to wherever our Father is, and our Father is everywhere.

And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should not lose any of all that He has given Me, but that I should give new life and raise [them all] up at the last day. John 6:39

Now the question is: how many has Jesus been given?

[Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

Jesus has been given the authority over all mankind, all of us. Not just a select few of us, not just some of us, but all of mankind. But that is not the powerful part of this Truth. The powerful part is that He went to the Cross so that He could be glorified, so that He could give eternal life to all that He has been given charge over. And Jesus has been given charge over all of us. 

After this I looked and a vast host appeared which no one could count, [gathered out] of every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages. These stood before the throne and before the Lamb; they were attired in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. Revelation 7:9

No one can count how many Jesus has been given, because He has been given all of us. But not all of us are called to be His Bride, Matthew 22:14. More people will be His guests. They will not rule and reign with Jesus, but they will be allowed to be with us in eternity who are called to rule and reign with Him. 

And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests. Matthew 22:10 (When you go on to read all of this parable, notice that all but one guest is allowed to stay for eternity. This also shows us that Jesus keeps all of us but Judas, John 17:12.)

There will be both good and bad guests that will spend eternity with us. Now all of us will be cleansed from the wages of sin when we get there. Both those who did good and those who did bad will spend eternity with Jesus, Who has been given all. A Bride is not a guest at her own wedding. And what good is a wedding feast if there is no one else there but the Bride and Groom? So to make it a real celebration our Father brings all there. Not all will be the Bride, many will be guests, but amen all mankind will be there. This is why Jesus tells us that He will collect His people from all over the universe, which includes Hades.  

But if any person’s work is burned up [under the test], he will suffer the loss [of it all, losing his reward], though he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has passed] through fire. 1 Corinthians 3:15

Jesus was very successful. He is far more successful then satan, Romans 5:15.