Until now, what do we know?
We have researched a few things. Lets look at the major things that we now know.
And until now we know this:
- The rapture is clearly described and it a particular sequence of events:
- Christs comes down from heaven to the clouds with a shout and with the Trumpet of God.
- Those who were asleep in Christ will rise first.
- Then those who are alive and remain shall be snatched in a blink of an eye.
- We have good evidence that the saints are not appointed to wrath. Meaning if the wrath comes, the saints are raptured and gone.
- The rapture is performed after the Last Trump. This is an event indicator, but we cannot place it in (relative) time as yet.
- The Great Day of the Lord, which seems to contain the Wrath of God is also known as:
- The Day or time of Wrath
- The Day of the Lord
- The Great Day of the Lord
- The wrath to come
- ...
- We live in the end of days - all the time indicators that Jesus gave in Matthew 24 can be verified, and is really only applicable for this time and no other. Side note here is, it is the beginning of sorrows. So more is coming.
- The timeline cannot really by anything else than 6 divine days = 6000 years, for the Day of the Lord is to start with the 7th divine day (of completion). But we don't really know what year we are in since the day of creation.
- We know the signs of the coming of the antichrist:
- FC00 - The man of sin stands in the holy place
- FC01 - let those in Judea flee into the mountains
- FC02 - let those who are on the house tops not go down to take anything out of his house (why would they be on the house tops?)
- FC03 - let those who are in the field not go back to get his clothes
- FC04 - but wow to those who are pregnant or who are nurturing babies in those days!
- FC05 - For then there shall be great tribulation such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be...
- We know that the great tribulation starts when the antichrist will discard protection covenant of 7 years for Israel, and will attack Israel after 3,5 years. Some churches see the 3,5 years as tribulation because they associate these years with the first 4 seals. This is to be investigated if there is any proof of this.
- We know the signs of the END, after the great tribulation:
- AT00 - Sun will be darkened
- AT01 - The moon will NOT give its light
- AT02 - The starts will fall from heaven
- AT03 - The powers of the heavens will be shaken
- AT04 - The Son of Man will appear in heaven...
- AT05 - He will send His angels with a great trumpet sound (= the Trumpet of God?)
- AT06 - Angels will gather the elect
- No one knows the day and hour when the Lord comes, we will know by signs, because no one knows what year it really is from the day of creation. Nowhere in the Bible until so far I have read is His coming associated only with the end. In my view, if some can show Himself, then He has come, and Jesus is clearly visible to everyone in the whole world at the 6th seal. The is absolutely no doubt that the presence of Jesus will go unnoticed, when the Day of the Lord starts, He has come!
- Why no one knows the day or hour is because we do not really know in what year we are in since creation. And 7th day starts after 6000 years. Therefore we need to study the time line and also check up the Jewish calendar as they claim to have the calendar since the creation. If their calendar is correct, we would have to wait a few hundred years...
- As "the rapture" itself is not as much referenced in the Bible as an event, (only once), it has some aliases just like the Day of The Lord. But in logic, it comes down to the same thing. If you are not appointed to wrath, then how will you not be part of the wrath as judgement comes down on a global scale? Yes, you need to be taken out of it. So other references for the rapture are:
- Not appointed to wrath
- not a appointed to the wrath to come
Further Study
The calendar of the Jews however is said to be starting from the creation date, and is now at 5785. If this is the right calendar then we will not get to see the rapture. But is it the right calendar?