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Here are like top 5 Indicators of the times
we are living in:
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Apostasy in the Church
- It seems Church's have left sound doctrine and maybe for good.
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Matthew 24 -
Earthquakes - 6.0 Magnitude plus -
 The Years:
1890-1900= 1
1900-1910= 3
1910-1930= 4 (20 year space of time)
1930-1940= 5
1940-1970= 13 (30 year space of time)
1970-1980= 56
1980-1990= 310
1990-1994= 747
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Matthew 24
- Where
there would be wars and rumors of wars - Well there's been WWI
and WWII, if there is a WWIII, there will be no more World.
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Iran intent on
acquiring
Nuclear Power - the no-brainer is to get a Nuclear Weapon to
destroy Israel - This has got End of The World Overtones all
built in
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Knowledge Explosion:
Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel,
shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of
the end: many shall run to and fro (car and air travel is
the normal interpretation of this) and knowledge shall be
increased.
Well let's talk
about: "and knowledge shall be increased."
This is all taken
from Hal Lindsey -
www.hallindsey.org - on his show "The Hal Lindsey
Report" - 8/3/07 -
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More new
information will be generated this year than in the
previous 5,000 years - Is that crazy or what
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The Technical
Knowledge Explosion is governed by Moore's Law which
says computers will get twice as smart every 18-24
months
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Listen to this:
.......... At this Exponential Rate, It's
estimated before too long, that the Sum Total of Human
Knowledge will Double every 72 Hours
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The Amount of
New Technical Information is Doubling Every Two Years.
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By 2010 it is
predicted to double every 72 Hours.
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Predictions are
that by 2013, a Super Computer will be built that
exceeds the computation capability of the human brain
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 By 2049 a
$1,000 Computer will exceed the Computational
Capabilities Of The Entire Human
Species
All Theses
facts are mind numbing and a direct fulfillment of The
Angel's Words To Daniel.
So
where do we go from Here?????????????????????
I've got the perfect Answer -- The
Rapture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lol's
But I just thought of one other thing that
I want to quickly make note of : )
This is an observation of the times taken
from the TV. Have
you noticed on tv, like the History/National Geographic/Discovery
channels - I guess these shows are on - that they've like all but
used up every adjective to describe a Catastrophe?
They've described
everything problematic using one or more of the four Adjectives
below after the Bullet points to describe such things as these:
Solar Storm, Flooding, Earthquake, Storm, Tornado, Volcano?,
Tsunami, Comet, - I'm sure I've probably left out some disasters
too - There was probably an Asteroid show in there somewhere
too. - lol's
So all this just in it's own right,
shows we are at the end, because they don't have any more powerful
words to describe a catastrophe ( lol's - yeah but not really).
Uh-oh I think I just came up with a new word - Powerful
The Ultimate, Super, Perfect and Mega
Disasters will all happen after the Church is Raptured and all the
judgments in the Book of Revelation start to take place.
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All-right Ready for a really cool Rapture
Article!
This
is taken from a posting of mine from the Public Forums/Briefing
Discussion at:
www.omegaletter.com on 10/13/07 - I have the following as a Rapture article at this site
too.
(revised 1/6/8 & 5/17/08)
I was listening to a John MacArthur cd today
called the Abomination of Desolation. Good cd, part of the Jesus is
Coming 9 CD Wallet. He was talking about Israel going to lean on
someone for peace, and then how the Anti-Christ would betray Israel,
and turn on them at the Abomination of Desolation.
This is so true and this is so close to being a reality. Look at the
Dynamics in the Middle East and Israel, Israel I think is beside
herself in not knowing at all what to do, She is stumped. The
Anti-Christ is going to make Her the deal of the century sooner or
later, and deliver Israel from all their troubles and grant them
peace, however we all know it will be a covenant of death that God
says will be annulled.
I know everyone always says about Israel, never again, in referring
to the Holocaust, but when Israel makes their peace deal with the
Anti-Christ and he enters the new temple in Jerusalem and says he's
God (Abomination of Desolation) There is going to be another
Holocaust for Israel. It is going to happen again.
As far as the Rapture, I have to tell you, I've always been a bit
skeptical about the Rapture, but the last two months I guess I would
say, I'm fully convinced it is going to happen.
There is nothing anyone could do I think that could convince me
otherwise. For maybe 7 years I've always thought the Rapture to be
hard to believe. But with the major fundamental foundation of
Daniel's 70 Weeks Prophecy - of knowing the exact time Jesus will
return - compared to this verse in Matthew 24:44, "Therefore, be
ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man
cometh." (Matthew 24:44) (Rapture)
Here are Two
distinct/different Times:
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One Return of Jesus is Knowable!!! 7 Exact/knowable/specific/identifiable/countable Years from the Signing of a Peace Deal by The Anti-Christ with Israel.
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One Return of Jesus is
Un-Knowable!!! This return of Jesus is likened as to a thief
striking, occurring at an Unknown Time! Read
This Article
for a lot of verses in Watching for Jesus to Return.
And also in comparing the Rapture to Matthew 25 (The Kingdom of
Heaven) with the Parable of the Ten Virgins, of whom five virgins
(Christians) were waiting for the Bridegroom (Jesus) - Jesus said
that no one knows the day and the hour of His Return. This always
makes people to go and run and hide and say, "See no one knows when
Jesus is going to return, so who cares." However stopping here, and
not going further/digging deeper into the Word, is paramount to
spiritual suicide.
If we stop right there, we would never understand the times. We would
never take Jesus Words literally in Matthew 24 when He says: when
You see and hear of Wars and rumors or Wars, earthquakes, famines...
know that My return is Near - ( All these thing increasing with
intensity ).
Let me paint the most Beautiful gem deep foundation that I can :)
Pat is a good artist, huh
:) lol's
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Jesus said that no one knows the day and hour of his return, only
God knows. This may cause people to possibly to de-rail spiritually
speaking of looking for Jesus to return, which is wrong, because
Jesus says to look for Him to Return.
Digging deep, we look at Matthew 25
 The Church/Jesus relation is analogous to a Bride/Bridegroom
relationship, in the Parable of the Virgins, in keeping the
Bride/Groom relationship between Jesus and the Church, The BrideGroom (Jesus) does not know when He is to go and get His Bride
(The Church) to bring to the New Heavenly Holy City Jerusalem I
would say, because the Father is the one who would tell the Son when
to go and get the Bride. So that is why Jesus said he didn't know
when he was going to return, only His Father did. (In The Parable of
The Ten Virgins, When the Bridegroom goes to get His Bride at an
un-announced time, it is the Father who tells the Son when to go and
get the Bride - The Parable is likened to a Jewish Wedding in this
is how this happens and this exclaims a Kingdom of Heaven Spiritual
Truth)
So this is why the Rapture is totally real, totally important in
having the right footing in living the Christian life.
Otherwise the Christian life would just become aimless. We always
have to be on the alert, with oil in our lamps, in watching for
Jesus to Return "Therefore, be ye also ready: for in such an hour as
ye think not the Son of man cometh." (Matthew 24:44) This is the
Rapture.
I can say this with 1000% certainty, Because we know the exact date
Jesus is going to return to earth. We know this because God has laid
out a specific period of time of working out Israel's Final
Restoration which will occur at the end of the 70th Week of Daniel's
Prophecy, given to him by the Archangel Gabriel. The 70th Week
begins when the Anti-Christ signs a 7 Year Peace Deal with Israel
and "The Many" Finishing/Finalizing, Human History/and Israel's
Restoration.
7 Years!!!!! That's a specific amount of time, starting right at the
signing of a peace deal. Versus being commanded to watch for Jesus
to return, and to be ready.
If there's not a Rapture, we can all just sit back and wait for the
Anti-Christ to just sign a 7 Year Peace Deal, then we can get out
our calendars, and mark off 7 years to the Day, and that will be
when Jesus will be back. So we'll definitely know the time of Jesus
Return. I think what I'm trying to say is: we shouldn't marginalize
the Rapture!
From a Spiritual Point of View, The Rapture can't be marginalized,
because it is the most vital part of a Christian's walk and life
with the Lord, in always keeping loyal and faithful, and if not for
anything else, it's a blessed-hope, and that blessed hope is a
purifying hope, and staying loyal and pure is fundamental.
The
Rapture helps us to understand the times and gives
us the proper orientation towards Biblical Truth, in
knowing that we are definitely living in the end of
days, And most likely the end of the end of days.
With all the evidence
from: Knowledge explosion, to air travel, to earthquakes, to WWI and
WWII, And to the Sleeping Giant of them all, - Nuclear Weapons -
that can destroy the whole world:
The Teaching of The Rapture keeps
the Bible/Bible Prophecy in Proper Focus :)
God's Blessings!
Maranatha!
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Apart from the above we have this:
Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou
into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it
were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21
For, behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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These two verses are way awesome. What the
above verses are saying is this: God is saying to the
People/Jesus Bride, He Just Raptured, Go to Your Mansions in the New
Heavenly Holy City Jerusalem, while I judge/destroy the earth for
their rebellion/sin and failure to embrace my Son as their Salvation
for Eternal Life.
The Rapture is real and it is going to happen!
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One other cool thing, is that a lot of people may
say, well the Rapture is all made up, the word is not even in the
Bible. This is bad scholarship to say this and a bad
theological interpretation.
Let's look at where the word Rapture comes from
in the Bible:
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1Thessalonians 4: 16-18
16 For the Lord Himself shall descend
from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with
the trump of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the
Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with
these words.
Let me quote Todd from
www.raptureready.com
from
his article, which is linked to in the Rapture Section.
The word “rapture” comes from Paul's "caught up"
remark in verse 17. The words “caught up” are translated from the
Greek word harpazo, which means "to carry off," "snatch up," or
"grasp hastily." The translation from harpazo to “rapture” involved
two steps: first, harpazo became the Latin word raptus; second,
raptus became the English word “rapture.”
So to be honest we can just translate verse 17 this way:
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Then we which are alive and remain shall be Raptured up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and
so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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