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The "Rapture Theory"?
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* Picture: "Waiting for the Rapture that never comes." from: The R apture of the Saints By Duncan McDougall.
Introduction to the subject:
The Rapture
There is a 130 year old false doctrine that has grown by leaps and bounds in the the last 30 or so years within the various 'Protestant type' denominations of Christianity. And that is known as "The Rapture Of The Church." I refer to the churches that take part in it as 'Protestant type' because it is impossible to narrow it down to any one specific denominational belief. Unlike, say, the false doctrine of Purgatory, which is immediately identified as a Catholic dogma. Various forms and modifications of Rapture theories are followed by the Baptist, Pentecostal, Methodist, Evangelical, Charismatic, Catholic Apostolic Churches (Irvingite sect), and others independent and hard to categorize. It is said that approximately 50% of Christian Churches teach some form of a Rapture Doctrine. This false doctrine though veiled in it's tenants, we simply refer to as the 'Rapture Doctrine' or the 'Rapture Theory'. It incorporates many catch phrases such as the: "Rapture of the Saints", "Rapture of the Church", "Catching away of the Saints", "Taking up", "Gathering together in the clouds" These are all terms used by the Rapturist (one who believes in a Rapture theory) describing their belief that prior to the prophesied Second Advent of Jesus Christ, a certain group of Christian people will be pulled off the earth to meet the Lord in the sky.Then, depending on which of the many variations of the Rapture theory you go by, those left on the earth will suffer at the hands of an antichrist and his by then corrupted world for a period of 3½ or 7 years (or some say a shorter time). Then , they say, will come the Second Advent of Jesus Christ. This does violence to the Biblical end-time chronology (as well as Scripture) in a most irresponsible way. The Second Advent of our Messiah Jesus Christ is in fact Biblically sound Doctrine, it will happen! However, the Rapture theory fabricates a pre-Second Advent advent, which is not in the Bible. In essence, what they have done is that they have made three advents out of the true two Advents of Jesus Christ as found in among other places, {Zech 9:9+10}. It is a falsehood created by man and added to God's Word. In this Bible study we will thoroughly debunk the Rapture lie and explain not only it's dubious origins, but also it's cause and effect, and the extreme danger that such a false doctrine poses for God's children. It will be observed by the reader that the false Rapture doctrines so closely mimic the true plan of God for these end times that it is difficult for those not fully versed in the Scriptures to determine were the truth stops and the crafty lie starts, if the only Bible teaching that someone has received came from a Rapture teacher, does it not stand to reason that their every knowledge of Scripture will turn upon a 'Rapture of the Church' type interpretation? They probably mean well, but their discernment has been compromised by satan's lies slipped in among the truth; Oh how satan loves to blur the lines between the truth and a lie!: "Who changed the truth of God into a lie..." {Rom 1:25}. The Rapture 'doctors' (those who create, fabricate, and perpetuate the many different Rapture theories) have searched the Bible over and have found a finite number of Scriptures that they were able to pull violently out of context, twist and mould, reshape and join unnaturally one to the other until they have formed a new product, a new doctrine, seemingly supported by Biblical Scripture, but in reality nothing more than satan's 'house of cards,' built on a foundation of sand, a perversion of God's true end-time plan. We shall also discover not only the satanic origin of such doctrines, but also the immediate spiritual danger to the Christian who is haphazardly seduced by the lie. It is our intention, with the Scriptures, to take down satan's 'house of cards' and and reveal the beautiful truth of God's Word that is standing right behind it, with and by the grace of God. As we have shown through other In-depth Bible Studies on this website, satan (as the antichrist) has a plan to deceive every different 'group' of peoples, all different faiths and belief systems and each specific religion on the planet. Would you really think that satan would do it any other way? In this present Bible study we shall only concern ourselves with satan's plan to deceive the 'Protestant type branches' of Christianity into worshiping him (satan) as the false messiah (antichrist). For as we shall discover through this study, the false Rapture theory is a plant from satan, it is a deception and a lie. In port Glasgow, Scotland, in the Spring of the year A.D. 1830, a bedridden woman had a revelation on her sick bed, supposedly from God, in where she was shown what has become to be known as "The Rapture Of The Church." Prior to this day, the concept of an 'at any moment, fly away doctrine' (Rapture) was unknown. Within the first few paragraphs of her monumental Scripture-riddled statement. Ms. Macdonald makes an ominous statement about her vision, in that at first, at the time of the vision, it felt as though there was "Great darkness" and "Error" about it. This is something they will not teach you from the false pulpits of the beguiled Rapture Churches. Christian beware! Below, we have quoted from the first few paragraphs of her infamous 'Rapture of the Church' revelation, taken from Ms. Margaret Macdonald's own handwritten account of her 1830 pre-trib revelation, as included in Robert Norton's Memoirs of James & George Macdonald, of port-Glasgow (1840), pp. 171-176. And also found in The restoration of Apostles and prophets; In the Catholic Apostolic Church (1861), pp. 15-18, and also found in The incredible Cover-up by Dave Macpherson, Appendix A:
Ms. MacDonald then goes on to outline a series of 'visions' now known as the Rapture Doctrine. The spirit world is very real, but there is the Holy Spirit of God and there are satan's evil spirits, demons and the like. This is why the Bible strictly prohibits the conjuring up of spirits and communicating with the dead (Necromancy). Margaret Macdonald might well have been visited by a spirit on her sick bed that day, an evil spirit!
Just as the young girl below who though she was visiting with the Mother Mary. Observe below as satan fulfils the Scripture: "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light" {2 Cor 11:14}:
For whatever reason, it just seems as though evil spirits have an affinity for women and children, evident by the majority of false 'Mother Mary' sightings being by women and children. You should find it no small coincidence that both the Rapture Doctrine and Mother Mary worship were channeled through demons in the same year, A.D. 1830; the Rapture doctrine in the Spring of 1830, and Marian worship on July 18, 1830 (see below).
The year 1830 was indeed spiritually significant, however evil, in ways we probably will not ever fully comprehend. For along with the Rapture doctrine that shall take down the Rapturists, and the the Marian worship that is destroying the Catholic faithful, 1830 also witnessed the first publishing of the demonically channeled Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith and the founding of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cult, which among other things, teaches that Jesus Christ and Lucifer were brothers, and that we can all aspire to become gods (eerily reminiscent of New-Age theology). Another such significant year or time frame revolves around the year 1948 which saw the establishment of the United Nations (1948-1950), the birth of the World Council of Churches (the largest such ecumenical body), the Nation of Israel once again being established (May 14, 1948), the coming to power of the modern Chinese Communist Party by Mao Tse-tung in October 1949, the Dead Sea Scrolls recovered (1947-1956), and 1948 also saw the first of our modern computers - the Super Computer E.N.I.A.C. (first to figure Pie out to 2,037 characters),... But back to the Rapture theory, why did satan choose women to unleash two of his greatest deceptions (the Rapture theory & the worship of the deceased person Mother Mary) on the Christian Churches? We can't know for sure other than that is their custom. You will remember that in Genesis chapter six, the Fallen Angels came after the women and impregnated them, siring the Giants. And in {1st Cor 11:10} the Bible warns women to have power (a covering to protect) on their heads to protect them from the angels. Women don't need protection from God's Angels, but from satan's Fallen Angels they do. See The Rebellion Of Satan And if you don't know what satan did to Eve in the Garden of Eden then you might benefit from our study: What Was The Real Sin In The Garden Of Eden?!. Hint: Adam and Eve weren't munching on apples, and Cain was satan's (the serpent's) biological son. Cain and Abel were Fraternal Twins. Evil angels (The Fallen ones) are very sexual beings, perverted yes, but the Fallen Angels in Genesis chapter six even traded eternal damnation for the opportunity of impregnating flesh women: "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose" { Gen 6:2 } and to document that there was a sexual union: "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God [Fallen Angels] came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." { Gen 6:4 } . The punishment for this is spoken of in the book of Jude: "And the angels [the Fallen Angels] which kept not their first estate [Heaven], but left their own habitation [came to earth in Gen 6:2], he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." { Jude 1:6 } . I apologize for the digression, but it seemed like a good place to mention the danger females can be in during the end times. Although, in {1 Cor 11:14} it tells us that the Fallen Angels will also go after men as well, "Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?" { 1 Cor 11:14 } (The word 'hair' is covering, a covering from the Fallen Angels, just as the woman is to have that covering over her (power) in verse 10 of that Scripture. I know that this isn't commonly taught, and perhaps it is shocking to tender ears, but then a lot of Biblical things aren't "commonly taught" and are "shocking" to those unlearned in the Scriptures (no offence intended). But the statements that I have just made are in the Scriptures for those who study deeply, as opposed to those who just 'skim the surface' of God's Word. Worship is worship, and Bible study is Bible study, they are both important to the Christian, especially in our time. For the Lord God has said: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" { Hosea 4:6 } ! Like I said, the Fallen Angels and evil spirits are perverted, and look at their influence in the world now, what with the incredible push for Church sanctioned homosexuality; And they will have it, and very soon at that! But the Bible warns us that the Fallen Angels are coming back in the final days: "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him" { Rev 12:9 } (Locust Army). If this is something that you never have been taught nor have studied before then you ought to get started, for we are living in the final generation. But let's get back to the subject of satan disguising himself and deceiving the peoples:
After Macdonald's vision was made known in town, two preachers heard of it, repackaged it as their own and sold it to the world. Hence, the ungodly Rapture 'Doctrine' is born in the Spring of A.D. 1830. There is some indication that the Roman Catholic Jesuit priesthood had some hand in this but as of now I cannot satisfactorily document this. It seems that God's people just love to 'latch-on' to some new thing, some new revelation, some new doctrine. But in their desire to be 'special' or 'more inspired' than the next Christian they set them selves up to be deceived by satan. Satan works best within the vanities of man:
Now as we have stated before, there are many variations of the Rapture theory. There is a Pre-millennial, an a-millennial, and a post-millennial Rapture theory. And then within the pre-millennial theory you have four further divisions: pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, post-tribulation, and the two-stage Rapture. The very fact that they all can't even agree on when their Rapture will happen should raise a warning beacon to all intelligent Christians; As it is written: "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." { 1 Cor 14:33 } . In this study we shall only cover briefly the differences in all the variations of the Rapture theory. It is not necessary to our study for us to distinguish every little thing different between all the Rapture theories because they are all wrong. Let me explain. The Rapture theories all unanimously state that Christ shall remove certain Christians from the earth, and then at a later time He will come back and have His Second Advent and remove everyone else. They have fabricated a two-stage Second Advent! But as we shall learn in this study, when Jesus Christ does return at His Second Advent, all people living on the planet shall be changed into their spiritual body at the very same time, 'saint' and 'sinner' alike: "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye" { 1 st Cor 15:52 } and the millennium period (the thousand years of Revelation 20:3-7 & Ezek chapter 38 onward) shall commence. After that comes Judgment day {Rev 20:12-13} and the casting into the Lake of Fire (Hell) of the evil ones {Rev 20:14-15}, and the eternal Heaven age for the overcomers {Rev 21:1-4}.
You can see from the above Scripture that there is no secret Rapture of selected Christians, hence the use of the word "all" in verse 51. Those that sleep (dead) are raised first because it already had happened to them (raised to their spiritual body at the moment of their death, but they are yet to be judged) and we ALL who are alive at His coming are changed to our spiritual body at the return of Jesus Christ at His prophesied Second Advent. You will also notice from verse 52 above that this event happens at the LAST TRUMP. There are only Seven Trumps {Rev 8:7-11:19}; the antichrist comes at the SIXTH Trump, and the true Jesus Christ returns at the SEVENTH Trump - the last Trump. We shall cover this verse more in depth later in this study, and we shall show that the Rapturist will be worshipping the great deceiver antichrist at the Sixth trump and sadly will be quite surprised when the True Christ returns at the Seventh Trump - to say the least! "Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not." {Luke 12:40}.
It says that that day won't overtake us as a thief in the night (unexpectedly), it does NOT say that that day will not overtake us at all! Why would God warn us, whom "are not in darkness" and whom "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night" to be careful of Christ's return if we "brethren" are to already have been Raptured out before it happened? And if we are gone prior to the Second Advent then how could it be possible "that that day should overtake you as a thief"? This Scripture is not written to un-saved sinners or to satan worshippers, or to Muslims, or to Hindus..., it is written to God's servants, brethren of Apostle Paul in Christianity. Why would God warn us if we weren't going to be here for the event?! He would not! The answer is because nobody is being Raptured out of anywhere! But many will be deceived into worshipping the false christ (antichrist - satan) because they haven't been taught that satan comes first claiming to the true Jesus Christ prior to the Second Advent. When satan comes here as the false messiah the Rapturist will have been conditioned to run up to him with open arms, for now, they will think, safety and salvation are here, it is their day for rewards and peace - or is it? The Scripture says: "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape" (verse 3 above). That is why God warned us. They (those deceived) will even unknowingly deliver up their unbeliever relatives and people that will deny this false christ antichrist to satan for conversion, albeit they do so in ignorance; for they will think that they are interceding for them to the true Jesus: "And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death" { Luke 21:16 } . This is the Great Tribulation spoken of, and that is where their false Rapture doctrines shall lead them. But the Rapturists aren't the only ones that the antichrist will deceive, it is written that he (satan - antichrist) "deceiveth the whole world" { Rev 12:9 } . There is a certain pitiful irony in the fact that they call their Rapture doctrine the "Rapture of the 'Saints'." I could point out that it is more than a little presumptuous to go around calling oneself a Saint...Especially when the Rapture Saints will be worshipping satan (antichrist) when our True Messiah Jesus Christ returns to the earth at His prophesied Second Advent, although they will be doing so unawares. These Rapturists are not evil satan worshipping people, they are good Christians who truly do love the Lord Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father, but they will do it in ignorance because they have allowed satan and his false ministers to deceive them with false non-Biblical teachings and the lies of men instead of the truth of God's Word. Even many ministers that teach Rapture doctrines simply teach what they have been taught and ignorantly pass on the lie like the plague - satan's plague. We shall not even mention all the false religions of the planet, but will specifically concern ourselves with Christians in this study. The first Christians deceived by satan are the clergy, which has already been long since accomplished, the Seminaries have been compromised and teach much false doctrine. Then those ill taught clergy are used to deceive the rest of the world. It is their shame that the Scripture speaks of, as they realize that they have led their entire flock into the bed of satan: "And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb" { Rev 6:16 } . They really didn't mean to, sad isn't it? Have you ever wondered just who it is that runs and finances the Seminary Colleges that produce our Clergy. But think about it, most Christians could not care less about studying God's Word, they find it easier to go to services once a week and swallow every word from the mystery man at the pulpit without checking it out for themselves in God's Word, the Bible. Satan can reach the whole world by deceiving and/or corrupting a small number of souls who are the teachers/preachers within all the world's religions including Christianity. Can you think of a more effective plan? And as it is written, satan DOES have a plan. God warns us of that plan in the Bible that we don't read, but rather we instead listen to satan's deceived false teachers/preachers - Duh!
Don't get me wrong here, there are many good men and women of God who teach truth at any consequence, but then you also have those who teach whatever they are told to teach (by God knows who) for three meals a day, a room, and a pension. The Bible calls them 'hirelings" who forsake the flock {Jn 10:11-16}. Forsake God's children and He will forsake you! Satan is no dummy, he revolted in the first earth age wherein he caused one third of the souls (God's children) to join him in revolt against God: "And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven..." {Rev 12:4} . Satan failed to overthrow God (of course!), and God abruptly ended that age {2nd pet 3:5-8} & {Jer 4:23-27}. But satan has fine-tuned his plan for this age, compare the "seven crowns" {Rev 12:3} to the "ten crowns" {Rev 13:1} . If you do not understand this, put it on a shelf in the back of your mind and let's continue on in this study. Thank God that the He whom judges us: "knowest the hearts" {IKing 8:39}, and: "trieth the hearts" {Prov 17:3}, and: "pondereth the hearts" {Prov 21:2}, and: "knowest the hearts of all men" {Acts 1:24}, and: "searcheth the hearts" {Rom 8:27} . In other words, God not only looks at our actions, both good and bad, but He also takes into account why we did what we did. We are not to judge the souls of others, God judges, but we are to discern where there is false teaching going on so that we may escape the deception. God is all knowing, and there is a certain innocence in ignorance; there are many sins that we each have committed in our lives that, if we knew then what we know now, we would not have done them. Forgiveness is freely given by the grace of God to ALL whom ask it in Jesus Christ's name. And there is only ONE: The Unforgivable Sin. If you have sinned, and we all do, then repent to God for that sin, in the name of Jesus Christ. It is just that simple, but it is certainly not free, for Jesus Christ paid an awesome price for our forgiveness! And yes, false teaching is a sin. I suppose that perhaps it is tempting, even seducing to them maybe, to believe that they will be pulled off of this earth as such holy saints (Raptured) before the troublous times, before they must stand up for the Gospel, before they must put more into their faith than mere lip-service, tithes, and hymns, before they must stand for the true Christ against the antichrist, so that others, by their teaching and witnessing, might have access to the truth in the critical last days of this age during the final assault of that vile one satan upon the children of God, our brethren. But where would we ourselves be today if John the Baptist was Raptured out before he suffered to preach Baptism and pave the way for the Messiah Jesus Christ, even baptizing Him? What if Apostle Paul wanted to be 'gathered in the sky' before he was to bring the Gospel to the Gentiles? And St. John, imagine if he insisted on partaking in a "catching away of the Saints" before he was arrested and imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos? Who would have written the book of Revelation - an unsaved sinner? A heathen? - I should think not! You get the idea; who will do God's work on the earth in the end times if all the believers are floating around on clouds? There will be no Rapture, God's servants shall serve Him on this earth during the time of the antichrist. As for me, even if there was a Rapture, I wouldn't go, I would stand and fight for my Lord, God willing and with His grace of course. The Disciples all left Christ when He was betrayed and arrested in the Garden of Geth-sem'-a-ne. Will God's servants once again desert? I pray not, for Christ never deserted us, and God shall never leave nor forsake us. God has always used man to help mankind, and when He did He strengthened them. God didn't need little David to slay Goliath (a giant like those we spoke about earlier from the Fallen Angels impregnating flesh women), but to His glory He used him. God didn't need Moses to lead His children out of captivity, but He used him, God didn't need Debra to defeat Sisera, but He used her. It's just the way God does things, he wants us to help each other, He wants us to care. But God is in control of all things, he always has been, he always will be. To Him we say: "Thy will be done" {Mat 6:10}!
The Rapture according to them:
Rapture Positions Compared This chart provides a simple comparison of the four general positions that are taken in reference to the timing of the Rapture in relation to Daniel's 70th Week - the seven-year period at the bottom. Both the Pre-trib and Pre-wrath positions have question marks that indicate that there is no fixed time for when they say the Rapture will occur. Mid-trib places the Rapture at the halfway mark, or three-and-a-half years from the beginning of the 70th Week. Post-trib fixes the Rapture at the completion of the seven-year period.
The fundamental error in all the above 'Rapture' scenarios is that they all, in one fashion or another, believe that at some point in time only a portion of the people will be removed. First of all, they misunderstand the Bible when it says that "all will be changed" to read "will be Raptured' The change is a change of body, it is us going from our flesh body into our spiritual body. And this happens to ALL people on the earth at Christ's coming AT THE SAME TIME! It is the consummation of the age, which is the beginning of the Millennium. Read the below Scripture carefully and put out of your mind all that false 'Rapture' stuff. The below Scripture speaks of us going from our flesh body into our spiritual body. Those who are asleep (dead) have already changed into their spiritual body at the moment of their individual deaths. Their flesh corpse is the only thing in the grave. But those who shall still be living when Christ returns must also go into their spiritual bodies, but the are changed without actually dying a flesh death, they just discard these flesh 'Tabernacles' and the spiritual man emerges. For the in the Millennium we are no longer in our flesh bodies, but rather, we are in our spiritual bodies.
For the purposes of this study we shall concern ourselves mainly with what is called the 'Pre-Tribulation Rapture,' as that is by far the most common version of the Rapture theory today. It is the pre-tribulation Rapture that they speak of on the television religious programs. It is the pre-tribulation Rapture that the false 'forehead slapping' healing ministries speak of (those who prey upon the sick and crippled) who smack you on the forehead and claim to heal you in God's name - naturally you are to contribute a considerable sum of money to them, but you are not healed. God does not run circus side-show acts and He doesn't beg for mammon (money). God does heal people even to this day. There are documented cases of God intervening and healing a faithful servant. But there isn't a fee, and it isn't gaudy, it is done in private, and it most certainly isn't accomplished by a false teacher/preacher! How many times when Jesus Himself healed someone that He told them not to tell anyone?!? It is the pre-tribulation Rapture that the corrupt prosperity ministries speak of (those that con greedy people into giving them their 'seed offering,' or who tell the people to 'plant seeds of faith' i.e., $$$ into their ministries and God will supposedly 'supernaturally' pay those peoples bills and drop wealth and riches by the basket-full upon them from Heaven). These are greedy dead soul ministers ripping-off a greedy ignorant congregation whom deserve no better! Shame on them for imagining our Lord as a get-rich quick scheme or a magic lantern for lazy people to rub on for three free wishes. At what point will people realize that we are to serve God, not be served by Him? For our God does provide for us, but only for those who do the Lord's will.
On a television 'prosperity ministry' program recently, they actually televised a service of theirs wherein the entire auditorium of their faithful, stood-up, reach down to the ground and pulled an imaginary object to their hearts yelling in cadence "Money, coming to me." How can these people possibly have allowed themselves to have been seduced into imagining that this is how God would have His church services to be held? These people were all well-dressed and well groomed, they obviously had enough. But in their greed they were not worshipping God in this ministry service, they were there to fatten their pocket books. Their slickster Pastor was the only one getting rich, for they were all encouraged at the end of the service to write a check 'for God' to have something to bless (filled out to, and cashable by that ministry of course). They've been caught up in their own greed and laziness and ripped off; Good for them! This is a popular television ministry who will not be named by us. The above are also 'Rapture' teaching churches. And there are many poor deceived souls who believe that they are doing a good work for God by financially supporting these and other types of false ministries and false preachers/teachers, but in reality they are helping to spread satan's lies, confidence games, and false doctrines to other unwary Christians. Then they wonder why God isn't blessing them! God will not bless you if you are aiding and abetting the work of satan, in fact the Bible tells us that we become just as guilty as the liars from those false pulpits if we help sustain their schemes:
Financially supporting a teacher of false doctrine is certainly even more that bidding him "God speed" (which is simply a form of blessing them in their deeds). Enough about that.
A picture of this Rapture, according to them, as it is taking place; And then an illustration of how the antichrist shall deceive them (the Rapturists)
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Lets take a real close sobering look at the events of the supposed Rapture. Lets take a look into the future till that imaginary day, lets envision this "rapturing" as it is taking place according to them:
OK back to reality, How on God's earth could the twentieth century Christian actually have let himself be fed this trash? Why do they think God gives them the Gospel Armor if they will be gone when the antichrist gets here?!? Answer - because they won't be gone, there will be no Rapture, we will all be here when the false christ (antichrist) comes. Our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit will strengthen God's Elect, whom are men and women that withstand satan's deception until the true Messiah Jesus Christ' arrival at His prophesied Second Advent.
And again the Bible says:
But what is in store for those people who have been deceived by the false Rapture doctrines when the antichrist comes? If you happen to be someone who believes that Jesus Christ is going to come to earth and Rapture you away before the Tribulation of antichrist, then read your spiritual epitaph below, for you shall be, and are now being deceived:
Unfortunately, most Christians will be woefully unprepared for satan's most diabolical plan yet - as the fake messiah, the impostor who is prophesied to come first before the true Messiah Jesus Christ. There shall be no 'Rapture'. The word Rapture does not even appear in any Bible version (to date). The Rapture is a lie strait from satan's camp to disarm the Christian and cause him/her to willingly lay down their Gospel Armor. Let's examine Ephesians 6:10-18 where we are told about the Gospel Armor:
The above is but one Scripture of many that states that God's Elect shall stand against the deceptions of the antichrist. What about you, will you stand with the Gospel Armor on and in place? Or will Jesus return at His true Second Advent to find you serving the false messiah satan? We shall cover more of these Scriptural warnings and instructions as this study progresses. Now the way that the Rapture teacher will try to invalidate all of the warnings of God is to say something like that God was only talking about the evil that is in the world now, and not about the evil of the Great Tribulation. This is deceiving and will cause good Christians to be effectively spiritually disarmed when the antichrist does come, as well as woefully ignorant about what they are supposed to do. But come on, are you to believe that God wouldn't mention standing against the greatest evil feat of satan (the Tribulation)?! And are you to believe that Jesus Christ was only making small talk when He said:
Can you really read the above verse and yet still believe that God's Elect will not be on earth during the Great tribulation?!? Come-on Rapturist, snap out of it! By the way, above in verse 22, we see that the tribulation has been shortened by the grace of God. So the whole seven year, and three and a half year calculation that all Rapture theories are based upon is incorrect. If the Rapture false teacher doesn't even know how long the Tribulation is that they say you will be spared from, and they cannot even agree as to at what point it occurs, then how can you believe everything else they say about it! They, the Rapture teachers, have built a doctrine (Rapture) not on the foundation that is Christ, but rather on a foundation of lies and false teaching. Their foundation will fall when the satan's flood of lies are unleashed (the Great Tribulation):
The second half of the Tribulation is shortened to five months in Rev 9:5 &9:10. They (the Rapture teachers) would know that except they teach that you don't have to understand the book of Revelation because "You will be gone, Raptured away before it comes to pass." Can't you see that you are being disarmed spiritually and set-up to fall and worship at the feet of satan as the impostor? Now once again, I must be emphatic in saying that most people (preachers/teachers) who teach the Rapture theory are not evil satan worshipping men. They themselves have been deceived and now they deceive others without even knowing it. So be kind on your preacher/teacher and show him the errors in the Rapture theory, they deserve the benefit of the doubt, just as you do, who may also have been deceived, deserve the assumption that you have been spreading satan's lies unaware. God has a reason for everything. Perhaps a person who comes out of the Rapture cult can have better success helping others out of it. God knows. And remember, false teaching is a sin like any other in the respect that you can take it to the cross and be forgiven by the precious blood of our Savior Jesus Christ, repenting and then go on with your life forgiven of that sin. As Jesus told the adulterous woman:
Please believe me, we get no joy in telling a good Christian (some of whom lead such decent God serving Jesus Christ loving lives that few could aspire to) that they have been tricked and deceived by satan and his false doctrines. But if I (and then you) do not teach the truth and expose the lie, then I (and those others who know) will be held accountable on Judgment Day. God's Word, His truth, is not be hidden away, it is to be shared so that it multiplies. That is the meaning behind the parable in {Lk 19:12-27} (The good servant and the wicked servant). Let me ask you to think about this. The Rapturist states that the Church isn't mentioned after Revelation chapter four (not true, it's in Rev 22:16, six verses from the end of the Bible), so therefore the church must be gone by that time - Raptured out of here. Then why did God give us the last 18 chapters of the Bible? I mean, if all the saved Christians are going to be frolicking in their reward on a cloud, then why write the rest of the book? The heathen don't read it, they don't believe it and they don't care. Do you think that satan is going to allow the setting up of Bible study classes during the Tribulation? And if he did, who would teach them if all the saved Christians are floating around in clouds? While we are at it, I guess we might as well throw out the book of Daniel and great portions of the other prophetical books, God must have made a mistake to include them in Scripture, after all, His 'saints' will all be Raptured blissfully away before the end-time warnings contained in them come to pass - right? Right? Wrong! God does nothing in vain, it is man who acts in vain:
In the above two Scriptures, what "doctrines of devils" are being spoken of here that are to come to pass in the "latter times"? Surely this isn't speaking of the religion of Islam (started in A.D. 600), nor Buddhism (600 B.C.), nor pagan religions (3800-3900 B.C.). No, those can not be that which "the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils." But in the Spring of 1830, a sick woman was visited by a demon, and she channeled the Rapture doctrine to the world. Could this be a "seducing spirit" that causes them to "after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears", and "turn away their ears from the truth", and "be turned unto fables"? Or maybe just a part of it. You judge. But the word "Rapture" does not appear in any Bible version (to date), and the concept is foreign to responsible Scripture exegesis.
The 'first' and 'second,' 'taken' and 'left': Where to, and by whom?:
There is a great repetitive and common theme all throughout Biblical end-time prophecy regarding 'two's;' Two events, one an imitation of the other and one before the other:
It is prophesied in many places in the Bible that satan (as the antichrist) shall come to this earth first before the Second Advent of Jesus Christ pretending to be Him, pretending to be the true Messiah. Many will be deceived by satan. For satan's plan so closely mimics the return of the true Messiah Jesus Christ that the unstudied in the Word will not be able to tell the difference. Now satan indeed has a different plan to deceive all peoples, but in this study we are concerning ourselves with satan's plan to deceive the 'Protestant type' branches of Christianity (not necessarily the Protestant Church per se), but those that broke from Catholicism during the reformation in the 16th century and then went on to adopt a 'Rapture' doctrine as Gospel in the 19th century. (Satan has already accomplished planting so much idolatry into the Catholic Church that they rival even the Pagan Babylonians). Basically, the Rapturist (those believing in a Rapture of the Church) are conditioned to believe that Jesus Christ is going to appear in the sky and draw the Church (Christians) off the planet into the clouds with Him before satan unleashes his brand of Hell on earth referred to as the Great Tribulation. Then those of us left on the earth will have to submit to satan or die. Then at the end of a predetermined time, Jesus will return with those same 'saints' (the Raptured Christians) and satan will be defeated. Sounds good right? But there is a problem, it is not written, it is not Biblical. But satan's plan is soooo close to the truth that it will be believable to most. Satan knows Scripture, he even quoted it to Christ in the wilderness, although he misquoted {Psalm 91:12} in {Matthew 4:6} by adding the words "At any time." Unfortunately, you will only finds satan's added words in The Bible : Authorized King James Version, for all subsequent (except maybe the NKJV) 'newer' Bible versions have omitted the corrupted words of satan, thus robbing us of an insight into how satan operates to deceive. This is not the place to get involved in the subject, but all 'newer' Bible versions coming after the trusted King James Bible are made from the same corrupted manuscripts out of Alexandria Egypt (Codex Sinaiticus {Aleph} and Codex Vaticanus {B}); See: Adulterations in the Newer Bible Versions (NIV, NASB); Proof that the King James Bible (KJV) is the True Word of God. It should prove interesting that the words that satan added to Psalm 91 were "At any time," for that is a catch phrase amongst Rapturists. Many call their Rapture doctrine, the "any moment doctrine" meaning, to them, that the Rapture can happen at any time and that one must always be prepared for the coming, i.e., be a good person so you get Raptured out with the others. Is that just a coincidence? I don't know, but God does leave His people warnings. But anyway, let's see what Jesus says about those who are 'taken' first. They are not actually physically taken anywhere, but they are spiritually taken into the worship the antichrist. Let's see where they are taken and by whom. Below are Jesus Christ's own words foretelling the end-times events prior to the Second Advent. Let's take an expository view of the below Scripture. In all fairness I must state that this Scripture is in fact one of the Scriptures that the Rapture teachers have pulled violently out of context and refashioned into a Rapture doctrine. And to those who have been taught the Scripture in that way (Rapture) I ask you to clear your mind of that interpretation and try the below one on for size:
It is written that satan, the great deceiver, is prophesied to pull off his most grandiose deception of all time against the peoples of the whole world during the end of the end-time generation - our present generation.
This greatest of all satan's deceptions is called the Great Tribulation. In the Scripture below we see those who remained true to the Lord God TROUGH the Great Tribulation. They did not bow a knee to the antichrist, for that is what the first Tribulation is, the Tribulation of antichrist (satan) on earth acting as a Messiah, the false messiah. The Second Tribulation is Christ's destruction of satan and his misguided followers (once again we see a 'first' and a 'second' in prophecy, one is satan's, the other is Jesus Christ's). You will notice below in verse 14: "These are they which came out of great tribulation" that these are those whom have withstood the Tribulation and came out till the end loyal to the true Lord and they are rewarded. The Great Tribulation is the tribulation of deception perpetrated by antichrist (satan). They (the over-comers) are given white robes (a reward for a job well done). The average Rapturist gets all 'giddy' when they see words like: "taken" and "came out of," but this isn't talking about some Rapture, it is about overcoming, being faithful, standing fast for the true Lord. They themselves withstand the Tribulation and come out uncompromised and clean spiritually (hence the white robes), it is action on their part, not Jesus flying anyone away. Read the Scripture carefully:
In verse 4 above we see God telling His people to come out of Babylon, i.e.: confusion, the Great Tribulation of the false end time religion (satan's one-world system where-in he sets himself up as Lord {2nd Thes 2:3-4}). God is telling us to take action, He is telling us to make the right choice, He is not talking about some escape pod Rapture theory, He tells us to come out, He doesn't Rapture anyone. The action is on our part not His, for we see that if we do not do it we are punished: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." If this were speaking about some kind of Rapture, then God would do the action and we could not fail and thus would not be liable to the punishment of "her plagues". Right? We must so painfully scrutinize the specifics on Scriptures like the above because of the fact that the Rapturist has been conditioned (deceived) to believe that words like "Come out of her, my people" mean "I'm gonna Rapture you away". It is sad that satan's deception parallels so close to the truth, but yet so far, so as to be very seductive indeed to those who have not been warned by their preachers/teachers. You must come out of the tribulation by your action of not worshipping the false christ, the antichrist. The action is on your part. God likes for His people to have some salt, some character, He likes us to be strong not weak, but fear not, for God will help you.
We as Christians are to wait upon our Lord. Jesus is coming here at his Second Advent, we aren't going anywhere! Even the Millennial Temple {Rev 20:5-8} and Heaven itself {Rev 21:1-2} are going to right here on planet earth, not in some Rapture cloud or off in outer space somewhere. Jesus Christ returns the same way He left, at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem {Acts 1:9-12}. And we are instructed to wait for Him, not fall off to follow some impostor in the last hour, lusting for some imaginary escape! Wait!
Sadly, the rapture believing Christian, while they are good God worshiping, Jesus Christ loving Christians will have been deceived into worshiping the wrong messiah, the anti-messiah, the antichrist, that is to say satan in disguise. If that seems too remarkable to you, it shouldn't, you have been warned of this, for is it not written:
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