Neil Lipken (22 July 2018)
"Could the Rapture be as near as this fall?"


 I really think this fall is shaping up to be a major potential time for the Rapture.   We don't know, and we will have to wait and see, but a number of things are definitely lining up:

1.   Peace & safety talk-------- summits with Kim Jong-Un and Putin----- I know President Trump means this for good, but nevertheless it still is peace & safety talk!

2.   Israel is being challenged by Hamas.   I really think Hamas would like to draw in Hezbollah in Lebanon, and that would draw in Iran--------- things are heating up!-------- perfect for the "sudden destruction" associated with the Rapture!

3.   The "Kushner / Trump" comprehensive Middle East peace plan is to be released to the public in either August or September----- right in time for Rosh Hashanah, which is a high possibility time for the Rapture.   As we know, after the Rapture there will be a "false peace".

4.   The surprise element----- the stock market keeps going up and up------ most (and I mean Trump supporters!) believe good times are here again and things will just keep getting better and better ------- "at such an hour as ye think not".   Actually America's enormous debt is still present, and does not bode good times.   True American debt including entitlements is estimated to be somewhere between 60 and over 100 trillion dollars.

5.   2018 on the timeline is huge----- we are still in Israel's 70th year since 1948------ "this generation shall not pass".

6.   We are still reasonably close to the 2014-15 lunar eclipse tetrad and the Sept. 23rd, 2017 Revelation sign in the skies.   The lunar eclipse tetrad should be associated with a huge event, and I believe for the 2014-15 tetrad it should be the Third Temple.   But the Rapture must happen first so the Daniel 9:27 covenant can be made to allow Third Temple construction to be initiated.    If the Rapture was to happen this fall, and then Third Temple construction initiated, hundreds of years from now people would look back and 2014-15 and 2018 would appear to be nearly on top of one another on the timeline.   This would not be the case if the Rapture happened in say the late 2020's or 2030's, or actually even the early 2020's.

7.   The New World Order / Deep State hates President Trump.   If he has become a Christian (and I think that is very likely), he would go in the Rapture and allow the smooth, deceptive arrival of the antichrist on the global scene.

8.   Apostasy in the churches is virtually at an all time high.   Penetrating preaching of the true gospel is by and large absent.   Pastors want to keep people happy, and just present positive messages, ignoring "unpleasant" things in the Bible.   They don't want to rock the boat.   Sin and repentance, the reality of hell, the narrow path to Heaven only through Jesus, denial of self and taking up one's cross and following Jesus, being persecuted for Jesus and suffering for Jesus, and living a holy life are ignored in the churches.   These are topics that might make someone in the church unhappy, and the pastors wouldn't want to do that!   As we are told in Revelation chapter 3, the end time lukewarm Laodicean church!   Being lukewarm keeps everyone happy, and no one gets upset!   That makes Sunday lunch much more pleasant!

9.   Much of TV and the movies from Hollywood has become truly filth.   The stars of early TV and movies (most are no longer alive) would be aghast!   "Andy of Mayberry", "Lassie", "Father Knows Best", etc. are long, long gone!   "Entertainment" is now saturated with evil and the occult! 

10. The "gay agenda" is running rampant in our schools, in the New World Order / Deep State, and in Hollywood.   Just like Sodom!   And God destroyed Sodom after Lot was taken out.   Our last President was a gay Muslim Marxist.   What a wonderful combination!

11. Don't forget the well over 50,000,000 babies who have been murdered in the United States alone since Roe vs. Wade in 1973.   The global total is much higher!   Don't think judgment on that is not coming from God?

Neil

P.S.   I have had direct contact with four pastors of "believing" churches in the Carmel / Noblesville area who are outright hostile to end time Bible prophecy!   Just like the days of Noah as we are told in Scripture!   Who listened to Noah?   NO ONE except 7 family members!   And did not Noah have the true message from God?!   Same situation today!   Mockers are all around us!




    PASTOR NUMBER 1

    Several years ago a pastor told me that if he knew the Lord was returning at the Rapture on a Monday, he would not tell his church congregation the day before on Sunday!   For four years I taught end time Bible prophecy in a small room at that church prior to the main service.   A number of times the study group tried to put information about the course in the church bulletin.   Each time this pastor would remove the material about the course from the bulletin!   He did not want that in the church bulletin!

    PASTOR NUMBER 2

    I met with this pastor for the very first time at a breakfast.   I told him that I taught end time Bible prophecy, and wanted to know his "take" on the topic.   As soon as I said that about 10 minutes into our breakfast, he told me that I would never be allowed to teach at his church.   I had not asked him anything about teaching at his church, I just wanted to know about his thoughts on end time Bible prophecy.   I then brought up Israel's return in 1948 after an absence as a free, independent people for over 2600 years prior to 1948.   Then he got quite upset and said that the Israel over in the Middle East has nothing to do with the Bible.   I then pushed things a little further.   I told him that with the exception of Luke, all who wrote the Old and New Testaments were Jewish.   He did not like that at all, and I am pretty sure I detected some antisemitism.   By the way, antisemitism in churches is not uncommon at all!

    PASTOR NUMBER 3

    This pastor I called by phone to get his thoughts on end time Bible prophecy.   Here is what he told me.   He believes that the prophecies in the Bible are way too vague, we cannot understand them, and this topic should definitely not be taught in the church as it would only cause dissension!   He was in a bit of a hurry with the phone call as he had just arrived at the golf course to play golf.

    PASTOR NUMBER 4

    This pastor I also spoke with by phone..   He told me that Israel's return in 1948 was an event of major historical importance.   I then asked him if he believes that we are therefore living right now in the End Times.   He would not answer my question!   I then quoted him the parable of the fig tree from Scripture (Israel is God's fig tree----Hosea 9:10), and that the generation to see Israel's return would see all end time events fulfilled.   Well, guess what?   He rejected the parable of the fig tree to mean that!   This pastor wants no part of the fact that we are living in the End Times, but does accept that somehow 1948 was important.




    Well, there you have it!   These are pastors of "believing" churches in the Carmel / Noblesville, Indiana area.   Prior to 1948, the last time the Jewish people were living in their land as a free, independent people was 721 BC, 2669 years back into the past!   We are now 70 plus years into these End Times of this present dispensation, the Church Age.   Scripture tells us that the days of the coming of the Son of Man (Rapture) are JUST LIKE the days of Noah---- Matt. 24:37-39.   Noah had the true message from God obviously!   But who would listen to him?  Only 7 people within his own family, no one else!   Is it therefore any surprise that late in these End Times even "believing" pastors are rejecting the truth of the times we are living in?!

    Take a close look at Matt. 24:39:    "AND THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY; SO SHALL THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.."    !!!!!!!    Spiritual blindness to the times we are living in!