There is a fair lie in the
scriptures! FORE!!!!! Methinks the
penalty for the Church to escape the hazard/trap
of the Great Tribulation is 3 and
1/2 strokes/years. I'm sure you've
heard the old saying,
"Three and a half strokes,
and you're OUT!!!!!!"
And here's why. When
you hit the golf ball, it goes forward, toward
the flag. Jesus is Adonai Nissi, The LORD
our Banner. Adonai Nissi comes to the
skies of Earth on 1 Tishrei 5776, but He
does not physically touch down until 10 Tishrei,
5776. This means that the "Rapture
golf ball" must be placed before the Great
Tribulation, the second half of Daniel's 70th
week, in order to constitute a fair lie--by
the Book.
He who walked on water
without sinking can surely fight the Battle of
Armageddon from the air. There's a
phrase: "Air superiority."
The rapture some speak of as being
at the end of Daniel's seventieth week is the
sideways translation of all people, saved or
damned, that are alive on 10 Tishrei 5776.
Immediately after Jesus sets foot on the Mount of
Olives, it splits in two. [Songs 2:17, Joel 3:2, Zechariah 14:4] Then
begins the Judgment in the Valley of Decision. [Joel 3:14]
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On the other hand, Christ’s
First Coming saw a Rapture of sorts.
It is written,
"As
for me, I know that my [fn]Redeemer
lives, And [fn]at
the last He will take His stand on the [fn]earth.
"Even
after my skin [fn]is
destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
"Whom
I [fn]myself
shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not
another. My [fn]heart
faints [fn]within
me!"
Job 19:25-27
This passage might well have
been fulfilled for Job
on Passover, when Jesus set the
captives free, on Friday, 3 pm Jerusalem time,
April 3, 33 AD--when He said, "It is finished."
It is written,
"The tombs broke open and the bodies of many
holy people who had died were raised to life.
"They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus’
resurrection they went into the holy city and
appeared to many people."
Matthew 27:52-53
Clearly, all the saved to
this point in time [27 Shevat 5772—the evening
of 20 February 2012] are of the same heavenly
fold.
It is written,
I have
other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I
must bring them also. They too will listen to my
voice, and there shall be one flock and one
shepherd.
John 10:16
In this way, we know that all who
have ever been saved up to the time of the
Pre-Wrath Rapture will get resurrected according
to their ranks.
[1 Corinthians 15:23]
At this point, some get
hopelessly confused, as if they had not the Holy
Spirit to guide them. “Those that are Christ’s
at his coming” obviously can only speak of we,
today, who are alive and waiting for the
Rapture.
For it is written,
“…[T]he
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed.”
1
Corinthians 15:52b
This is
what is meant by rank.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5001&t=NASB
Please note what Joel 2:16
says:
"Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring
together the elders, gather the children, those
nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave
his room and the bride her chamber."
Joel 2:16
This speaks only of the
saved living at the end of the age, wherever
they are, and whatever they are doing. But
in parallel to that, the timing of the gathering
is the same as the Bride returning to the Earth
with the conquering Groom.
Why is the bridegroom in his
room? Why is the Bride in her chamber? It is
because both are getting ready to leave
heaven. They have to cover their heavenly
togas with armor. They have to don physical
swords. [Revelation 19:7-16]
The Bride was taken to
heaven 3 and 1/2 years before, in 2012 [I hope,
cross my fingers.]
Of course, Jesus told
us that the time of Jacob's trouble would be
shortened.
"How awful that day will be! None will be like it.
It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he
will be saved out of it."
Jeremiah 30:7
"And except those days should be shortened, there
should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake
those days shall be shortened."
Matthew 24:22
And just who are these,
"elect"???
"For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect,
I have even called thee by thy name: I have
surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me."
Isaiah 45:4
So then, the elect are on
the Earth when Jesus returns, but they are
redeemed [Eretz--true]
Israel.
Baruch HaShem Adonai Nissi,
Mike C.