UPDATE: I included this excel spreadsheet comparing scripture for scripture and outlining the events up to the Day of the Lord, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. King James bible only – the rest are corrupted!
For the most part, I have been hammering on the fact that we – the saved, the elect, the believers in Christ – will not get raptured from the earth until after the Antichrist (also referred to as son of perdition, the man of sin in 2 The. 2), has revealed himself after setting up as god in a rebuilt temple of Jerusalem and demanding the whole earth worship him and take the mark of the beast or be put to death. This is known as the “abomination of desolations”. This event occurs in the middle of Daniel’s 70th week, otherwise known as the last 7 years of life on this earth as we know it. At the end of Daniel’s 70th week is the “battle” of Armageddon, where Jesus destroys the Antichrist, False Prophet, and Satan by basically speaking the Word of God. It is not really a battle per se, it is covered in only one verse. If you have ever asked yourself “Why doesn’t God just snap his fingers and all the bad people die?”. Well the “battle” of Armageddon is pretty much exactly that! Except Jesus does it just by speaking the Word of God. On that same day, Jesus’s 1000 year kingdom is established.
The Rapture occurs 75 days after the abominations of desolations event. You might be saying to yourself, “But Dan, now you are date setting!” Of course! I mean think about it! The Antichrist is revealed and hunting down Christians for slaughter at this point, do you really think it matters that you can guess at an approximate date for the return of Jesus less no flesh be saved? This is the time of Great Tribulation of the saints in Christ. Jesus himself told us so in Matthew 24 (and Luke 21, Mark 13, etc) of the order of events of the “end of days”:
Matthew 24:
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
So Jesus flat out told us that after the Antichrist reveals himself for what he is, that we will be subjected to persecution for his name and “For then shall be great tribulation“. This is the period of time that Jesus-believing Christians in all the earth will be delivered up and demanded to submit to the false Christ, to take the mark of the beast or be killed. This time lasts about 75 days, or 2 1/2 months. How do we derive 75 days time period for this most awful time for Christians on this earth?
We derive this time from the Book of Daniel which gives us many of our timelines within the last 7 years. The timelines are a puzzle of sorts. The wise reader must place the timelines within the final 7 years, and if done correctly, it all makes sense. I believe Pastor Anderson has done that correctly better than anyone I have ever seen. I have read all the relevant scriptures myself many times and they seem to make perfect sense.
Again, a link to his 22 Hour video series on the Book of Revelation if you really want to understand end times prophecy. He also has a Book of Daniel video series.
Since most Pastors, probably a majority, preach a “pre-tribulation” rapture – in that Christians will be whisked away prior to the start of Daniel’s 70th week, they get end times biblical events COMPLETELY wrong. And thus they preach, for the most part, the entire last 7 years “is for the Jews who practice antichrist Judaism”. This erroneous assumption is largely based on a Zionist outlook in thinking that today’s modern antichrist-Judaism religion is somehow still special. This is false doctrine. The #1 antichrist religion of Judaism was cursed by Jesus himself in the last chapter Matthew 23:
39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Zionism is a creature of the late 19th and 20th century. It is a deception of Satan. God allowed Satan to engineer the gathering of the followers of Judaism to reform Israel as a nation. It is not blessed by God. But it IS setup to be cleansed by Jesus. Notice how I am careful not to say “Jews”. This is a loaded term. Brian Shilhavy discusses it in his article here. So, instead of saying “Jews”, which is an implication on individual’s free will, I will say #1 antichrist religion of Judaism. This religion rejected the real Messiah, Jesus, thus they deserve to be ranked as the #1 antichrist religion. Islam is the #2 antichrist religion because they teach that Jesus came, but was merely a prophet, and not even as great as Mohamed. Therefore Islam deserves the ranking of #2 antichrist religion of this world. It is no accident that they both prominently occupy all of modern Jerusalem and indeed all of the Holy land areas.
Jesus will destroy both religions and by implication, the followers of both! So that is why it is important to be saved to Jesus as time is running out. Once the door is shut at the rapture, your fate is sealed and you will have to endure God’s wrath. Jesus spoke many parables on “shutting the door” and he was referring in many instances about the rapture day for the believers, and great wrath for the unbelievers. The wise and faithful will be let in, the unbelieving are locked out. This is exactly how the rapture day, The Day of the Lord, will work.
I have discussed this before in an article Who is Ushering in the Antichrist? (Brian Shilhavy has many articles on this subject too I recommend you check them out. Home – Created4Health
I urge you to watch Pastor Anderson’s film, Marching to Zion, here. He DESTROYS the twisted genealogy false doctrine. If you really want to understand, using scripture alone, how we as Christians were grafted in to form a complete nation of the followers of Christ – which includes ALL old testament believers, and yes saved Jews! – watch his excellent sermon here on “replacement theology.” Satan has made sure that term – replacement theology – is something that must be viewed as “bad”. It is not! We, as Christians, are citizens of the nation of spiritual Israel and brothers in Christ with the old testament saints!
So why am I harping on this point? Because it is the main reason that majority of Pastors teach the pre-tribulation rapture (or not at all). They have been duped – by all the corrupted (by Satan!) bible colleges that they attended – into teaching that today’s antichrist religion of Judaism is somehow special. It is false! If you cannot get past this key point, you will FAIL in bible end-times prophecy which is why when you search the internet for end-times teachings they sound great but they are full of shit to be honest once they start babbling all the regurgitated hogwash born from a few false doctrines. They all base their teaching on “today’s Jesus-rejecting Jews are special” and thus they ALSO view the ENTIRE New Testament through that warped lens. Jesus is not happy with these Pastors and teachers who have failed not only “bible prophecy 101”, but one of the core teaching of the New Covenant, the New Testament.
People, without really thinking, assume Jesus was absent from the Old Testament. No! He is the Word of God and he created the earth! He is the Alpha and Omega! He is the LORD. And anyone that called on the name of the LORD and believed on the LORD was saved. Salvation in the Old Testament worked the same way as it does in the New Testament, by the blood of our LORD Jesus the Messiah. The Old testament faithful looked forward to the cross of Jesus, we look backwards. The Old Testament saints also had to hear the word of God (from other men and the LORD himself on some occasions), call on the name of the LORD, and believe! They prayed to the LORD just like we pray to Jesus as they are one and the same, duh! People think the Israelis of old somehow got a free pass. No! There are plenty of Old Testament individuals of the 12 Tribes of Israel burning in hell because they rejected the LORD. It works the same way now except we have the name of the Son and it is Jesus. God did not change the rules of salvation, yet so many are taught exactly that, and they screw up the end times prophecy as a result. If you are saved, you are a citizen of (spiritual) Israel no matter when you lived!
So does that mean today’s Jews worship the same God? NO! For it is taught in the New Testament countless times that if you do not have the Son, you do have the Father. Jesus himself said this to the Pharisees that they did not believe in Moses (they still don’t), they did not believe on Abraham, and thus they could not believe on the Son and thus have not the Father either. If today’s Jews pray to a God, it is NOT of the Father God of Jesus, the Son. And they do NOT have the Holy Spirit. And we already know they reject Jesus. And thus it can only be of Satan which Jesus mentioned twice in his Revelation. He pretty much said people who call themselves Jews worship Satan. He used the term, they are of the “synagogue of Satan”. It is pretty clear how Jesus and God the Father feels about this. You can surely believe that the Jews do not have the Holy Spirit. You either have the entire trinity of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, or you have nothing!
THE RAPTURE DAY OUTLINE
If you have watched the above links I provided, you probably have a great grasp on the rapture and don’t need to read any further. However my article is on the rapture and the 144,000 and my personal views so I will continue for those who do not have the time nor understand. I will however say that understanding the rapture properly is based on several key biblical doctrines:
1 We, the elect – Christians – are coequal citizens of the spiritual nation of Israel with all the saints of the world including the Old Testament saved. Election is by grace, not race! Dispensationalism and the resulting pre-tribulation rapture is simply false doctrine.
2 The Rapture occurs after the Great Tribulation, a little past the midpoint of Daniel’s 70th week (last 7 years). After the abomination of desolations. After the Antichrist has taken complete power and demands worship and the mark of the beast.
3 The Rapture day is known as the Day of the Lord, or the Second Coming of Christ. ALL will see and know. The saved will be happy, the damned will try and hide in the rocks. It will not be a secret. But to the unlearned and unwise and unsaved, Jesus will come as a thief, a total surprise!
4 The Day of the Lord will start with key celestial events: sun and moon darkened, stars are darkened, earthquake, etc. The entire planet is then lighted up from the coming of Jesus in the clouds. Every living thing on the earth, under the earth, and above the earth will know it is the Lord Jesus. IT IS NOT A SECRET RAPTURE! Jesus’s second coming will not be a secret to anyone!
5 The dead in the LORD Christ rise first at the rapture. This is a bodily resurrection from the dust of the earth that results in a glorified body that rises up and meets the corresponding soul coming down from heaven with Jesus. This includes all old testament saints, ALL believers of the Lord Jesus Christ! Yes Abraham will be raised on that day!
6 After the dead rise in their new glorified bodies, then those that are alive and remain are caught up in the clouds with Jesus as told in 1 Thessalonians 4. The alive are transformed in a twinkle of an eye as they come up. Anybody left alive will have a new glorified body just like the dead. All will be caught up in the clouds with Jesus and we then depart to heaven in our glorified bodies to wait for 3 1/3 years while Jesus pours out his wrath on those left on earth.
7. Shortly after the rapture – on the same day – God’s wrath begins to pour our on earth for 3 1/3 years starting the very day of the rapture. Just like in the day of Noah and Lot. They were saved on the same day as God’s wrath poured out. The rain started that day, Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed by fireballs as Lot was running away. Jesus himself reminds us this is how it will be on his Second Coming.
8. The rapture is the first resurrection and the only resurrection (besides Jesus himself) to occur prior to the 1000 year Kingdom on earth.
DISCUSSION OF THE RAPTURE – THIEF IN THE NIGHT
There is so much to discuss so I will try and keep the scope limited. The purpose of this article was not persuade you on when the rapture will occur, nor to convince you through scripture on all the details I outlined above although I will provide some as appropriate. I wish to however just put my personal thoughts on things based on scripture and my “common sense” of how the rapture day will go down.
The first thing I want to discuss is the much heralded “I will come as a thief” that people (and most Pastors) so like to babble on about. What they don’t realize that in all the time that statement is referenced in the bible, it is not taken in full context. They leave out the surrounding verses explaining WHY it will be as a thief at his Second Coming. Here is a similar passage in Luke 21. Instead of using the parable of a thief, Jesus calls it “as a snare”.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Jesus is warning us that we must be alert and wise. That we must not get caught up in drunkenness and sin and the end of days. And hey, it’ll be hard not to drink when the world is going to literal hell all around you, Christians are being served up for Nero’s Coliseum games, and wondering, what is happening, where is our salvation? And since the Pastor lied to you (unwittingly) and said no one would have to face any trouble (tribulation) it is easy to get dejected and fall into great sin. If this happens you will not be ready for His Second Coming and will be caught unawares and you will face shame when Jesus does finally come and an angel has to literally drag your drunken ass out of the house because you weren’t ready! Lot dilly-dallied in Sodom and finally the angels that were sent to destroy the city grabbed him and dragged him out. Think he didn’t feel stupid afterwards? This is one reason I am writing this post, to make you wise! This hopefully earns me credits in the millennial kingdom for I have much to be ashamed about and realize I have wasted my life here on earth but it is not too late to learn.
So no, Jesus will NOT come to you as a thief if you are ready! And here is the famous “thief” passage of 2 Thessalonians 2, except read ALL the verses and it is pretty clear what the Apostle Paul was saying:
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
Paul is saying the wise and ready will NOT be caught unawares as a thief. That we should know perfectly well Jesus will come as a thief to those who are ignorant of scripture, ignorant of Christianity, willfully ignorant that Jesus even exists.
3 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. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Again, Christians who read and study their bible will not be caught as a thief, not be surprised. The fact that I am explaining this to you means you won’t be either when that time comes huh?
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Again, he talks about sobriety. It is important that we not be drinking like drunkards at the end of days, it will be shameful. Instead, put on the Armor of God and await salvation, even if unto a physical death.
Being caught unawares is an important concept and Jesus pounds it home in the Gospels in the form of many parables. For it is not only talking about the actual rapture day, but salvation itself. For many people, who are casual Christians, not actually saved – but not hostile to the Christianity religion – don’t bother to actually get serious about whether they actually have placed any faith on Jesus at all. They dilly-dally and then when the Day of the Lord comes – the rapture – the door is slammed shut on them and it is simply too late. They must face the wrath of God.
Many parables talk about how the Lord of the house is gone and when he comes back he found his servants not ready. And he slammed the door shut on them and more or less said “I never knew you”. How many people are in that situation? And even if they go to church? How many Catholics are actually saved when they are bowing down to statues of Mary and the Pope? Confessing to a man in women’s robes in a closet? How many of them will say, “but didn’t we do righteousness in your name? Don’t we deserve to come into the door to heaven?”. And Jesus will say to many of them “I never knew you”.
So the rapture is an important event obviously. It is the time when all Saints – the saved – are caught up with Jesus in the clouds. All who ever died in the name of the LORD Jesus Christ ever on this planet. Yes, Abraham and King David will be resurrected in a glorified body on the same day along with your dead Christian aunt or grandfather! Their souls – spirits – are in heaven of course and their spirits will come down with Jesus and meet up with their glorified bodies being raised from the physical earth. Real bone and flesh, yet not like ours, rather it’ll be a glorified body, incapable of fleshly sin we inhabit at this time.
DAY OF THE LORD CELESTIAL EVENTS
Revelation chapter 6 is the key celestial events clueing us in that the Second Coming is upon us:
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 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:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
So the Day of the Lord has MAJOR celestial events, and it will be worldwide that no one will mistaken it for something else. Of course, think of all the non-Christians billions of people who have no clue what the bible says. Yet one thing is likely true: They have all heard of Jesus no matter the religion or what nation they reside in. If we make to this day alive, and when we see all these celestial events, get outside and look up to the sky for our salvation is at hand!
Chapter 6 ends with verse 17 above and chapter 7 starts with the rapture:
THE RAPTURE AND THE 144,000 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL
Now that you know the Old Testament saved – the believers – are resurrected at the Rapture, this explains the 144,000 12 Tribes of Israel rather easily yes? Of course it does! Revelation chapters 7 picks up after the celestial events:
7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
This is the beginning of the rapture event. The 4 angels are basically stopping the jetstream from blowing because after all, there are real bodies coming up from the earth into the clouds. The “stars of heaven fell to earth” in REV 6:13 are not only the real stars being blotted out of their light, but (I believe) it refers to angels coming down to earth to help collect those who remain alive. As discussed above, if you are passed out in drunkenness, you’re going to need an angel or 2 to drag your fat ass out of the house to where you can be caught up in the clouds.
7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Ok that is the 144,000. And who are they? Well I didn’t include all the verses due to space, but they are 12,000 virgin males from each of the 12 tribes of Israel = 144,000. And as you can guess, these are NOT living anti-Christ Jews (virgin! LOL) walking the modern earth, but rather RESURRECTED real ancient old testament saved being bodily, glorified resurrected. Their souls come down from heaven just like the rest of all the earth’s saved dead! They meet with their glorified, reassembled body of flesh and bones and since they will be walking on the earth during the 3 1/3 years of Jesus’s wrath, they have to be “sealed” with a special mark by the angels as they enter their new bodies. Then they are deposited on earth I assume all over dispersed to preach the word of God since all the saved people are now gone! The seal in their foreheads ensures they will not be harmed by the coming 7 trumpet and vial judgements.
Pretty simple huh? Not hard to understand, yes? The reason Pastors teach that the 144,000 are from living Jews on this earth is because they have improperly identified the rapture event as being in Chapter 4 of Revelation and ignoring everything else. And the reason they have to place the rapture event in the wrong spot is because they have exalted the false antichrist religion of Judaism which God hates. This erroneous exaltation of modern antichrist Judaism results in a LOT of twisted scripture, both New and Old Testaments resulting in a completely twisted interpretation of end times events that they can only view through the false lens they have blinded themselves to – that the modern #1 antichrist religion of Judaism is somehow “special”. (And hence the Jews are special – false!)
See how that is better explained when I leave out the loaded term of “Jews” and just point out “Judaism” instead? Are you getting what I am saying? The Jews don’t need to be exalted they need to be saved! And to be saved they first need to hear the truth! Israel was allowed to be reborn but it was not by God’s doing it was by Satan! Yet it is all of God’s plan.
And it is because Satan has tricked all the Pastors – through corrupting the bible colleges long ago – into teaching incorrectly about the rapture and Judaism. Surprising? No! Everything in this world is pretty much a lie at this point and modern Corporate Christianity is no different! It has been corrupted by the devil! The devil has set a snare for all the people who believe this pre-trib crap and oh how many will be confused when they see the literal heads start to roll in the great tribulation!
But Dan, what if YOU’RE the one who is wrong! Ok, lets think about that. Hmmm, if they are correct in the pre-trib rapture…. Hmmm, ok, I’m outta here with the rest of the saved and no harm done huh? Just an oopsie! LOL!
And if THEY, the Pastors who teach the pre-tribulation rapture are wrong (they are), it is a disaster of major proportions and the saying “being overcome as a thief in the night” now makes a LOT of sense yes? How many will be running to and fro searching for the truth when they have been brainwashed into believing that Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13 and practically ALL of Revelation is “only written for the Jews”? And oh yeah, the Old Testament was for the Jews and hmm, what exactly is for us Christians again? Can I have ANY of the bible? Oh, just the 14 epistles of Paul? Oh how generous! *sarcasm off* It is ridiculous!
So I have an audience and am compelled to keep writing these types of articles.
THE RAPTURE IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION (THE ONLY RESURRECTION PRIOR TO THE 1000 YEAR KINGDOM OF CHRIST)
Of course, I’ll keep hammering the main point on why bible prophecy is taught so wrong; Judaism is to be condemned, not exalted. God is going to wipe it completely out, even the dispensationalist Pastors can admit that. So why do we give honor to this false religion and think that God will reform it magically? At any rate, Pastors caught up in this false dichotomy of “the practitioners of Jesus-hating Judaism – modern living Jews – are still somehow God’s people”. A full 66 generations since Jesus walked on this earth and God commands us to ignore genealogy and somehow all the modern Pastors do not heed that command. They somehow think that thousands of German and Polish (white people) nobleman that CONVERTED to Judaism in the 1700 and 1800’s – whose descendants now live in modern Israel – are blessed because…. “race”. I digress. Again, Pastor Anderson gives it much better justice in his sermon here.
At any rate, you’ll hear many Pastors teach about multiple resurrections, that the Old Testament saints are resurrected at the end of the 7 year period and not with us saved “Christians” (all the saved are Christians!) at the rapture. Let me get this straight so you’ll understand this: There is only ONE resurrection event prior to the 1000 year millennium of Christ and IT OCCURS on the Day of the Lord – i.e. – Rapture day. The bible tells us specifically in Chapter 20 of Revelation:
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
So what can the above verses tell us? Well, if you wrongly have your “antichrist Judaism = Special” lens on, it will not compute. And again, that is the majority of Pastors in today’s world. (Let alone what Catholics and Mormons teach!). But if you know when the rapture occurs (after the Antichrist demands all take the mark of the beast) then the answers are simple. Logic locks in the correct answers.
Verse 5 tells us the first resurrection includes those who did not take the mark of the beast (verse 4). And this clues us in that indeed the resurrected in the rapture occurred 3 years earlier on the Day of the Lord. It is no accident that verse 4 purposely mentions those who did not take the mark. Jesus is clueing us in on when the first resurrection event took place – after the abominations of desolations just like Jesus mentioned in Matthew 24!
And verse 6 seals the deal. It says that all these in the first resurrection will reign with Christ for 1000 years on earth (in glorified bodies resurrected at the rapture 3+ years earlier). And this of course includes the Old testament saints!
So the obvious conclusion is that the Old Testament believers in the LORD (Christ) were resurrected on rapture day, which was 3+ years earlier. King David and Abraham and King Solomon will be bodily resurrected on the same day as your dead Christian grandma. And scripture clearly tells us the dead rise first before the living. So if your still alive and see a bunch of points of light and bodies ascending up to the clouds, know that your time will come, be patient and shout out and call on the name of the Lord Jesus just for good measure!
And how do we know there are no other resurrections prior to the 1000 years? Well that’s easy. The next verse also clues us in:
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
LOL! The 1000 years happens in one verse. And when it is expired more events happen. So thus, we have only the first resurrection prior to the 1000 year reign of Jesus on this earth. And it obviously included Old Testament saints! And when was that resurrection? The rapture! What was our other clue that the rapture included the dead old testament saved? The 144,000 12 tribes of Israel! Duh!
It is all very simple once you take off the “false doctrine lens of antichrist Judaism = special” all of bible prophecy is then easier than you realize. Heck, I have only been reading the bible seriously for the last 3 months, but I was never corrupted with false preaching because I had never attended church! So there ya go. An empty vessel being filled up with grounded bible teaching. And to be honest I credit Pastor Anderson (who by the way is hated because he actually teaches what the bible says and not what we want it to say). You can find all his sermons here and do a search and you will run across many on You Tube although many have been banned.
12 APOSTLES JUDGE THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL AND THE NEW TESTAMENT SAINTS AFTER THE RAPTURE AND PRIOR TO JESUS’S 1000 YEAR KINGDOM
Incidentally who is on the thrones in Verse 4 above? It is the 12 Apostles of Jesus judging the 12 tribes of Israel (and the New Testament saints). These are more clues that the Old testament saints are included in the rapture! Jesus told his Apostles they would be judging the 12 tribes in Matthew 19:
28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
“Regeneration” means resurrection! Thus it is the resurrected 12 Apostles who are the ones in Revelation 20:4 sitting on the thrones judging the resurrected 12 Tribes of Israel. The judging is not one of damnation, it is one of heavenly rewards! It is the dolling out of rewards to the faithful. The judges are the Apostles and they will each judge a tribe of Israel. New Testament Christians will also receive their rewards and find out who gets to rule a nation or who gets assigned to a city block or maybe just in charge of trash collection. Either way, this throne judgement is just the pre-dividing up and organizing of the coming 1000 year Kingdom on earth. Deciding who will be ruling what parts. For many millions, maybe even billions of unsaved people will be left on earth after God’s wrath. And they will be ruled over like a rod of iron!
Again Revelation 20:4:
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
See how it all meshes together?
WHAT WILL THE RESURRECTION BE LIKE?
Ezekiel 37 foreshadows the bodily resurrections. Naturally Pastors will teach that this is about the modern physical nation of Israel being reborn in 1948 but that is again, hogwash. You decide:
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
“these bones are the whole house of Israel”. YES they are!
And they include all the saved Christians of the New Testament! Together we ALL form the whole house of Israel at the end of days. The unbelievers, whether Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist or whatever will burn in the Lake of Fire for all eternity. The resurrected 12 Tribes of the Old Testament WILL be reunited in the promised land just as God said he would! They are resurrected at the rapture and will reside in the Holy Land in the 1000 year kingdom!
I happen to think the resurrected 12 Tribes will live and rule from where modern Israel and the real Holy lands reside. Someone like me will probably rule over some city block in Europe or wherever. I don’t think it too much matters, that is another topic for another post.
As for me? Personally I believe, it is my prayer, to make it ALIVE to the rapture day. Perhaps all the pre-tribulation rapture Pastors get smoked (my funny way of saying they die) in the tribulation. I don’t wish that of course, but it would not surprise me. They are a stubborn lot and Jesus is probably not pleased that Satan has so easily corrupted the Word of God in all the false bibles that are being peddled and all the false doctrine because of the ill-fated belief that somehow modern Judaism is God’s special religion. It is not, it is damned. In fact, for 1800 years this was never taught in Christianity, the (correct) opposite was taught, that Judaism is an often evil antichrist religion. If you watched the movie Marching to Zion, the Jews were kicked out of 47 countries in 1000 years. That was no accident! Kicked out for predatory lending practices and teachings that Jesus was not the Messiah.
Note how I stayed away from the term “Jews” as much as possible. It is the religion that is loathed by God, not the people although there are a fair share of reprobate truly Satanic worshipping Jews in positions of great power, who are working hard on rolling out the red carpet for the Antichrist behind the scenes. I have Jewish co-workers and acquaintances, but they need to hear the truth if they are to be saved. Most of them don’t even practice anything but yet they are not Christians, and know not Jesus. God is not going to do it after Jesus shuts the door at the rapture. There is no guarantee the 144,000 save anyone let alone an entire nation of Jews. The actual biblical clues are that maybe 7,000 or less – a remnant – may get saved (by hearing from God’s special 2 witnesses) in Jerusalem during the wrath period. That’s my guess based on Revelation Chapter 11:
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
So after the 6th trumpet judgement, someone finally on earth gives glory to God. And it is only a remnant. We don’t even know if they were Jews. One thing I take from Revelation is that once the rapture occurs, there is really nothing of hope going on in the world. People are just dying by the millions in horrible deaths. And the saved in heaven are cheering it on! So that is the message of Revelation. One of both redemption and damnation.
I paint a horrible picture because FEAR of the LORD can get people saved. Or wake them up.
There is a second resurrection and this is of those who died after the rapture and are not resurrected until after the final battle of Satan in Gog and Magog that occurs after the 1000 years. The scope of this article is already large enough so we only really cover the rapture day, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Anyone who teaches anything different you must always consider if they are preaching through the false lens of “antichrist Judaism = God’s special”. You can tell very quickly. Once you realize they have this distorted lens on, you should take what they say and count in it being twisted as a result and look elsewhere.
AFTER THE RAPTURE
After the rapture we reside in heaven. Revelation 7 clues us in on when we appear in heaven. This is after the 12 tribes are sealed.
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
A great multitude, which no man could number of ALL nations, ALL kindreds, and people and tongues (languages) stood before the throne! This is us now appearing in heaven after the rapture!
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
One of the Elders asked John in his vision who are these and where did they come from? And John answers “how the heck should I know, your the one whos should know!”
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
And the Elder of course knew the answer and said they came out of the great tribulation. The raptured, saints of old and new. And it includes all old testament saints – the 144,000 was just one clue duh! Chapter 20 clues us in that this was the first and only resurrection prior to the 1000 year kingdom. Revelation is a puzzle but once you have the key, you can unlock it.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
So we are in heaven for about 3 1/3 years. We feast with Jesus at the wedding feast We are judged by the 12 Apostles for our rewards and assignments of rule in the coming 1000 year Kingdom. We get to meet lost loved ones. We hang out and cheer the destruction of earth by God! Then we come back to earth at the battle of Armageddon on white horses with Jesus leading the way. Not much of a battle, Jesus just says a few words and bam! They are all dead!
It’s going to be a grand time yes? That is why you don’t want to miss the boat ride to redemption!
Revelation 19:14 tells us when we come back to earth:
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
So yeah, not only do we get to hang out in heaven for 3 1/3 years at a marriage feast of the lamb (kind of like a wedding feast) but we get to come back on white horses out of the sky to come back to earth and watch Jesus kick Satan’s butt! It’ll be glorious!
It is ironic that the evil Satanic cabal carrying out bible prophecy by trying to usher in the New World Order of less than 500 million and them trying to live as transhumanism in immortality, will have the tables turned on them! For if you make it to the rapture alive (assuming you are saved) you will have never died on this earth. YOU, the meek who shall inherent all things, will be as an immortal, never having died which would be an honor I suppose. But if I am to die I can only hope is for the cause of Christ. That’ll bring glory and honor to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! Amen!