The
 “HARPAZO”
                                                 By Pastor F. M. Riley
                                                 March 3, 2021
    “For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent {precede} them which are asleep.
    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 shall rise first.  
    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],”  1 Thess 4:15-17.  
INTRODUCTION
    The two English words, “caught up” in this passage are translated from one Greek word, “harpazo.” Most of our readers are aware that this Greek word means to “catch up” or “catch away.  See Strong’s Concordance No. 726.  
    However, there is more to the meaning of this word, than simply to “catch up.”  And it is this depth of meaning which  I want to emphasiz in this study…….
DIGGING A LITTLE DEEPER
    A lengthy definition of this Greek word is given in Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, pages 74-75, No. 726, according to the same number used in Strong’s Cordance.  
   The full definition given is too long to write out in this brief study.  The usual meaning of  being “caught up” or “snatched away” is there, which most of our readers understand.  But are our readers aware that the word “harpazo” also means “to snatch out of IMMINENT IMPENDING DANGER?
    A hypothetical example….A huge semi truck is coming down a road at high speed.  Suddenly a little child steps out into the road right in the path of that huge truck.  There is no way for the truck to stop in time to avoid hitting and killing the child.  But at the last instant the child’s big brother makes a running dive, gabbing the child and rolling to the roadside just out of reach of the huge tires on the truck rolling past. The child is saved.  Folks, that is exactly what our big brother, the Lord Jesus Christ, is preparing to do for His church and believing people.  Glory to God!  .   
     What this definition in Thayer’s Lexicon tells us, is not only that the Lord’s church and believing people are to be “caught up” [raptured] out of this present evil world, but also that we will be “caught up” just in the nick of time to save us from the destruction and death the wicked are  planning to begin  pouring out upon humanity in the next few days.  .  
AND WHAT WOULD THAT BE?  
    I have reports laying on my desk as I write, that the final big push to take over this country, and likely the rest of the nations of the world, is to BEGIN TOMORROW, MARCH 4TH.  Now what could that be?  
    Five things immediately come to mind…..
1.     The continuation of the Covid virus, by introducing the
more deadly strains of the virus in all the large cities in America, and around the world.  
2.        The stated goal of the New World Order, being in the planning stages since 1973, has been to reduce the population living on the earth.  Humanity on the earth is now approaching eight billion people.  These wicked world planners want it reduced to no more than five billion.  That means killing off three billion people, and they couldn’t care less how it is done.
    Think the Coronavirus has been bad?  I have received reports that the world planners intend to replace the Covid 19 virus with the EBOLA virus on March 25th,, just twenty-six
days from today,  The EBOLA virus is likely the most deadly virus known to mankind today.  Those who contract EBOLA die horrible deaths.
3.       Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham, has written a scathing expose of a bill brought before Congress, referred to as the “Equality” act.  If this bill is approved by Congress, and becomes Law, it will impose a Communist government upon this entire nation.  Brother Graham’s entire expose was published on rhe Internet, and can still be read by our readers, UNLESS it has been removed.  Such censorship does happen, more often than many want to believe.
4.      It has long been the goal of Communism to remove God, Christ, the Bible, Christians, and Christianity from off the face of the earth.  Just as soon as they are in control of the government, which could now be within a few days, the slaughter of Christians who refuse to  renounce  their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ will begin.    
5.    What else may be imposed upon the American people before the end of this present month?  How about…….
    More lockdowns to destroy the entire economy?
   How about suddenly closing the banks with no prior warning, allowing the government to “legally” steal the people’s money?
     How about suddenly shutting off all electrical power, thereby depriving the people from all contact with one another, while the wicked world planners do their dirty work?  No Internet, no TV, no phone service, no lights; no electrical energy for anything.  
    How about confining people to their homes again, so the people cannot resist, or even get to a hospital when needed?
    How about making the vaccinations mandatory for everyone?  Every so-called “news” broadcast since last March has reported on the number of Covid 19 victims who have died after contracting the disease.  But not a word is ever said on the “news” about the number of people who have died, and are still dying, after taking the vaccination.  
    Even as I write, the so-called “Equality” act is being debated in Congress (if it has not already been passed);  That bill will take away all personal liberties, imposing censorship under penalty of arrest, for anyone daring to speak out against it.  This will mean the incarceration of thousands of people who dare  to criticize those who are in positions of power in  the government.  
    Our readers may or may not be aware that near every large city in America, there is a concentration camp.  The Deep State began building these camps way back around 1970.  For  what?  For whom?   Take a guess!
    What our readers are seeing happening today is a plan of wickedness and evil being carried out which has been in the planning stage for many years.  
THE GOOD NEWS
    Has this study been depressing, frightening, even bringing some readers to tears?   Well, cheer up and look up!   I  have good news for every reader who  has been truly  saved by the grace of God.
    Our big Brother and Redeemer, Jesus Christ the Righteous,  who gave His life’s blood for our salvation, is coming to  rescue and rapture His church and believing people to glory, just in the nick of time, before the wicked can destroy  us, Romans 5:9; 1 Thess 1:10; 5:9=10.   
    The Lord Jesus promised His church that what happened to His church and believing people in the bitter “Dark Ages” will never happen to them again.  Read it for yourself in Rev. 2:24.  
     Our Lord is coming to rescue and rapture His church and believing people out of this path of imminent DANGER and destruction before the end of this present month.  Three days after Passover. March 30th; Nisan 17 on the Jewish calendar.  
    You won’t need to pack up to make the trip.   We will not be taking anything from this present vile world with us when the rapture {harpazo} occurs, 1 Timothy 6:7.  Just make sure you are prayed up, and ready to go, 2 Peter 1:10-11.  
     I want to meet every reader at the table of the Lord in Heaven after the rapture, Matthew 26:26-29.  Please don’t disappoint me.  In the love of Christ Jesus,
           Pastor F. M. Riley
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