Luke 17:32 "Remember Lot's wife". Why would Yeshua command rememberance
of such an event. BECAUSE LOT's DEPARTURE WAS A SPRINGTIME EVENT, as was
the Departure from Egypt, as was the departure (return from exile) from
Babylon (See Ezra, Neh.), as will likely be the rapture. In Levitucus
all offerings are to be salted: Lev 2:13 "`Every grain offering of yours,
moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant
of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with
all your offerings you shall offer salt.". We are to be salt,
but if the salt lose its saltiness, it is worthless: Matt 5:13 ""You are
the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it
be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except
to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.". Judgement begins with
the house of God, just as it began with Lot and His family: 1 Peter 4:17
"For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and
if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the
gospel of God?".
It is clear that Lot's wife was called into judgement. In this call "she
appeared before God as "unsalted", that is to say unacceptable and hence
cast out her salt as it was worthless in His sight. This admonition is
recorded because the rapture is MORE than just a "catching away",,,, IT
IS JUDGMENT DAY FOR "BELIEVERS". Some will be caught up to be with the
Lord, some will literally become pillars of salt as tacit sentinles to
God's judgment!! LOT's WIFE IS A DIRE WARNING,,,,, KEEP YOUR
LAMPS FULL OF FIRE AND BRIGHTLY BURNING!!!
In the Septuagint version the following Greek word for the English word
“removed” is “airo”, from which English obtains the word airplane. It
means literally “to sail away upward”. A pretty direct picture of the
rapture:
Isaiah 57:1
See how the just man has perished (redeemed would
be a better translation), and no one lays it to heart: and
righteous men are removed,
and no one considers: for the righteous has been taken
up out of the way of injustice. 2 His burial shall be
in peace: he has been removed out of the way.
The word “visitation” could possibly refer not only to Christ’s
37 year stay on earth during His incarnation, but perhaps also to the
rapture:
Isaiah
10:2-4 (American Standard Version)
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to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people
of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make
the fatherless their prey! 3 And what
will ye do in the day of visitation,
and in the desolation which shall come from far? to
whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 They shall only bow down under the
prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Numbers 16:28
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all
these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. 29
If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after
the visitation of all men;
then Jehovah hath not sent me.
Job 10:
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and
flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews. 12
Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And
thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. 13
Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this is with
thee:
Jeremiah
8:12
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were
not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall
they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they
shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah
10:15
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish.
Jeremiah
11:23
and there shall be no remnant unto them: for I will bring evil upon the
men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Jeremiah
23:12
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness:
they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring
evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith
Jehovah.
Jeremiah
46:21
Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for
they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand:
for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of
their visitation.
Jeremiah
48:44
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth
up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him,
even upon Moab,
the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah
50:27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them!
for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah
51:18
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish.
Micah
7:4
The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn
hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come;
now shall be their perplexity.
Luke
19:44
and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they
shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not
the time of thy visitation.
1
Peter 2:12
having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak
against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold,
glorify God in the day of visitation. Since
Peter's writing is long after Yeshua's incarnation, the "visitation" above
cannot refer to it (Jesus' incarnation). Thus the "visitation" spoken
of here cannot be the milennial kingdom as that is much more than a mere
visitation. The most likely event is the rapture.
There are other very interesting passages in deuterocanonical books:
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in the time of their visitation they shall shine,
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Their
offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled,
which hath not known the sinful bed: she shall have fruit in the
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Therefore
even upon the idols of the
Gentiles shall there be a visitation: because in the creature
of God they are become an abomination, and stumblingblocks to
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Ecclesiasticus
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Before
judgment examine thyself, and
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Ecclesiasticus
(Sirach) 34
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If
they be not sent from the most High in
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