End Time Talk part 1: NO RAPTURE!

Shalom,

One of my missions for this blog is to educate people about the end of this age. Before we can really understand what is about to happen in the coming years we must understand the past. Too many have set aside the "tutor" called the Law and the Prophets, while some wrestle the Renewed Covenant Scriptures to prove a rapture.

The Hebrew prophets of give us much of the original material the writers of the Renewed Covenant were quoting from. Thus the two must be in unison. The problem with the christian teaching is that the Law and the Prophets ask us to expect a certain thing, then the christians adopt teaching that doesn't deal or match with the prophecy. But, buy stripping away the pagan coverings, with close scrutiny one does find that the Scripture works in tandem. Exactly in accordance with the Law and the Prophets.

We must come to the realization that nobody gets out early! There is not going to be an "elevator ride" to heaven before the real fun starts. How can I say this so confidently?

I could just say it will be the "last trump," but if you don't believe Sha'ul (Paul) then you'll not believe me.

Like many, I have studied the specific prophecies and have learned the pattern that YHWH uses all throughout the Scripture. One can sum up the Messiah's first coming with the spring feasts of YHWH, and the second coming will be like the fall feasts. If your not practicing these feasts you are unfamiliar with the pattern and have been lead astray. I encourage you to keep the feast!

There are two easy ways to understand the end times. One, the fall feasts and two, the Egyptian exodus. Here's the pattern: The believers will be in bondage, we will want to leave, but the Pharaoh (anti-messiah) will not let the people go. Just like Moses and Aaron, two prophets, we will see two witnesses saying, "let the people go".

When the Pharaoh and Witnesses show up it's not time to leave Egypt yet! That's not the pattern. It's time for the judgements, to get the attention of the world for their wickedness. We are saved in the wilderness!

Where does Scripture say that this is the pattern? Glad you asked. The whole chapter of Ezekiel 20 gives us the full story of the pattern. Here's just a portion.

Ezekiel 20

33As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 34And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 35And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 36Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. 37And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 38And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Do you see the same language from the first exodus being used? "... with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm..." You see, into the wilderness is where we go, not a rapture.

Sh'mot (Ex)13

17And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 18But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

The way we get delivered is not the short cut! It is by the way of the wilderness, through the tribulation. We are saved in our troubles, not from our troubles.

One powerful prophecy rapture teachers will not touch is this:

Daniel 9

³I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. ¹⁴And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

When Messiah comes on the clouds every eye will see him, there will be no "disappearances" like in "Left Behind". When He comes it is to set up his Kingdom! This is done at the end of the tribulation at the last trump.

Yahushua told us in Mark 13 "...But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, ²⁵And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. ²⁶And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

And again:

Matt 24

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

(If you read this chapter He does tell us about the end of the age/world, but it is not until after the tribulation when He appears:)

²⁹Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: ³⁰And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Why are these important, the Messiah told Caiaphas "...nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." (Matt 26:64)

By the Messiah's own mouth we see that the next time He comes it is to set up his Kingdom, not sneak a select few out of the Earth during it's most troubled time. More to come. -peace