Revelation and the Rapture
Revelation is and has been happening since Christ left, Revelation is repeating the same prophecy, the rapture is a deception introduced by those associated with the office of the beast, the notion that there are other worlds and beings on them is part of the blaspheme spoken of in Revelation 13:6.
Now in much detail:
-Revelation
In Revelation John sees a vision very similar to what Ezekiel saw.
Revelation 4:3 - Ezekiel 1:28
Revelation 4:7 - Ezekiel 1:10
Ezekiel sees a view from the ground, John sees a view from the air.
John is having a vision: Revelation 4:2 "I was in the spirit".
Johns vision is similar to the vision Ezekiel had,
but he also sees 24 elders circling the throne.
And what is happening in Revelation is similar to the book of Daniel:
Daniel vision 1 ending :
"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed"
Daniel 2:44
Daniel Vision 2 ending :
"Until the Ancient of days came,
and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints obtained the kingdom"
Daniel 7:22
Different visions but describing the same ending, visions about the same ultimate thing; the establishment of Gods kingdom.
And Daniel 9 to the end gives details about that same end.
Revelation is following the same pattern, but with a few more visions.
Revelation also clearly repeats the same ending throughout the book:
The End Number 1: (seals)
"the great day of His wrath is come" Revelation 6:17
Revelation 6:12-13 - Matthew 24:29
Revelation 6:15-16 - Matthew 24:30
"the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them,
and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters"
Revelation 7:17 (Revelation 22:1,17)
The End Number 2: (trumpets)
"And the seventh angel sounded;
and there were great voices in heaven,
saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord,
and of his Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever"
Revelation 11:15 (Revelation 19:16-21, 20:1-5)
"And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, (Revelation 20:13)
and that Thou should give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great;
and should destroy them which destroy the earth" Revelation 11:18
The End Number 3: (Revelation 12 13 14)
"And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman,
that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood" Revelation 12:15
"And after 62 weeks shall Messiah suffer the death penalty, but not for Himself,
and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;
and the end thereof shall be with a flood,
and unto the end of the war desolations are determined" Daniel 9:26
"And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe."
Revelation 14:15 Matthew 13:30 The harvest, the end. (Revelation 19:11-14)
"And another angel came out from the altar,
which had power over FIRE,
and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth;
for her grapes are fully ripe."
"And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress"
Revelation 14:18-20
(fire being a key term, this is figuratively talking about Revelation 20:12-13)
The End Number 4: (vials)
"...which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty" (Revelation 19:19)
"Behold I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame"
"And he gathered them together to a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."
"And the seventh angel poured his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, it is done"
Revelation 16:13-17 (Revelation 19:1-19)
Each ending of each vision,
is a description of the same end we get details of in Revelation 19 through 22.
Therefore it should be clear that Revelation is repeating itself.
Each vision is a retelling of the same prophecy,
each vision gives different details of the same repeated prophecy.
And the end of Revelation gives specific details of the end of the prophecy.
Another way we can see that the prophecy is being repeated is in the following verses:
"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit"
Revelation 9:11
"when they shall have finished their testimony,
the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them
and shall overcome them and kill them"
Revelation 11:7
"the beast that you saw was and is not,
and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit"
Revelation 17:8
-Rapture
Some claim that Revelation 4:1 is the 'rapture'.
"After this I looked, and behold a door was opened in the sky;
and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me;
which said come up hither, and I will show you things which must be hereafter"
But John is having a vision, he is seeing a vision in the sky, very similar to what Ezekiel saw in Ezekiel chapter 1.
He is "in the spirit" Revelation 4:2, he is not physically taken to the city of heaven.
And the trumpet from 4:1 can not also be the trumpet from 11:15.
And because of such, yet trying to hold onto the view that 4:1 is the rapture,
people then will say there are two raptures.
But as shown above Revelation 11:15 is referring to the end,
the time when the kingdoms of the world become the kingdoms of the Lord,
which is the beginning of the 1000 years as described in more detail in Revelation 19:19 through 20:4.
-A Clear timeline
And most notably, it is clear that the seals of Revelation began to be opened,
when Christ ascended and sat down at the right hand of the Father.
Revelation 5:5 specifically tells us that Christ prevailed to open the seals.
Christ died and physically rose from the dead.
Matthew 27:37-50,
Matthew 28:1-7,
Luke 24:37-39
Afterward He physically ascended up beyond the sky.
Acts 1:9-11
And is set down at the right hand of the Father.
Hebrews 12:2
At the right hand of the Father is a scroll.
Revelation 5:1
The book of Revelation says Jesus prevailed to open the scroll.
Revelation 5:5
The time of Jesus literally ascending was around 33ad ~ 50ad.
(as per historical record)
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Revelation states that some of it had happened already.
"and there are seven kings, five are fallen, and one is, the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space"
Revelation 17:10
[ these kings were in the office of beast #1,
eventually someone in that office will seem to be wounded to death and healed, (Revelation 13:3) and after that point he is eighth. (Revelation 17:11) today the fact that this person is a king is kept secret ]
Jerusalem was destroyed in 70ad
(as per historical record)
The inquisition and the crusades happened around 1090 ~ 1600,
some of this time period is called the dark ages.
(as per historical record)
Napoleon went out conquering around 1700's ~ early 1800's
(as per historical record)
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The world began to be even more at war with each other starting in the 1900's
(1918 ww1 1939-1945 ww2, Hitlers time was clearly red)
(1948-1967 war concerning Israel)
(1967 to present day ongoing military occupation and conflict in and around Israel)
(in the past it was called the 50 years war, it will reach 70 years in 2037)
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And that leads us to present day.
The worlds economy is collapsing now.
A cashless society in which no one will be able to buy or sell
without their identity involved, is on the horizon.
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Electronic tattoos are on the horizon.
A.i. is learning more and more everyday.
We of this time can more clearly envision what the image and mark of the beast may be.
Certainly it will have something to do with modern technology and modern 'science'.
Revelation says that the beast will open his mouth in blaspheme about what is outside of the sky: Revelation 13:6.
Daniel also alludes to that there will be falsehood related to the stars: Daniel 8:10,12, 25.
Paul told us that the anti-Christ arrives with much deception: 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
"Whose coming is after the working of Satan,
with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among them that perish, because they received not the love (Matt 7:12) of the truth, that they might be saved. (they choose to deceive rather than love)
And for this reason God shall send them strong delusion such that they believe The lie (Genesis 3:4) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
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The rapture deception
One of the deceptions is the notion of a 'rapture', a time when people disappear leaving the rest behind.
"by your sorcery were all nations deceived" Revelation 18:23
By your pharmakia were all nations deceived.
"Whereas you saw iron mixed with clay,
they shall mingle themselves with the seed of man, but they shall not adhere one to another even as iron does not mix with clay."
Daniel 2:43
Nano robots, smaller than cells in the body, tiny pieces of metal that can be remote controlled.
(see the Ted Talk held in Israel in 2013)
What was initially designed for good health purposes is being used by evil men for deceptive satanic purposes.
Injected with such technology a person can become overrun with the bots,
and their immune system tries hard to get them out. But at just the right amount,
the person can live fine and the bots can do various tasks, the bots can also get hot.
Using this technology it is possible to burn a person from the inside out.
The result is a plasma burst from inside out,
as the individual cells of the body heat up and burn really fast.
Using such technology the evil doers plan on making a so called 'rapture' happen.
And after many years of deceptive indoctrination, many people will be fooled by it.
Believing the 'rapture' has happened,
they will then be led to believe that the new tyrant that comes to power is the anti-Christ.
(perhaps he will be in power shortly before the so called rapture)
Believing that ww3 is against the anti-Christ, when the beast, a prominent religious king,
gets wounded and healed, they will be led to think that something from God has happened to him, that he is a martyr healed from death by God.
And believing all those deceptions, they will be willing to listen to the beast.
The beast will be speaking blaspheme about what is in heaven, Revelation 13:6
And will usher in the false prophet, one claiming to be Jesus.
Due to the grand deceptions, many will fall for their lies.
But those heeding the scriptures carefully, can not be deceived.
"Wherefore if they shall say unto you,
behold he is in the desert; go not forth;
or behold he is in the secret chambers; believe it not" Matthew 24:26
No one knows the day or the hour of the Lords return, and the Lord does not return in secret of any kind.
The Messiah said He would come, with His angels, after the tribulation.
Matthew 24:29-31
Mark 13:24-27
Any correct view of the rest of the prophecy,
must use the words of Christ as the foundation.
Paul indeed builds upon that foundation and a strong foundation in scripture.
The Lord did not specifically mention the dead rising in the above passages.
Paul gives us the specific information that the dead rise first, then the alive.
(1 Thess 4:16-17)
How can Paul conclude such? From scripture.
"Come from the four winds, Oh breath of life,
and breath upon these slain, that they may live"
Ezekiel 37:9-12
Paul was a Pharisee, they believed that such passages were a promise of actual resurrection,
while the Sadducees did not believe such passages were about resurrection: Acts 23:5-8, 26:5-8.
Ezekiel 37:9-12 is the promise of resurrection Paul is referring to in Acts 26:7-8.
(there is no other promise concerning resurrection of the nation given directly from God. In Ezekiel God says "Oh my people, I will open up your graves and bring you up out of your graves" in modern times there is much misunderstanding related to that passage, but my hope is that you will take it for what it says, let Gods word be true and every man a liar)
Therefore when the Lord said He would gather "from the four winds" (Matthew 24:31 Mark 13:27) one well versed in scripture as Paul was, and being of the Pharisees,
would understand that as a reference to the prophecy in Ezekiel, and therefore resurrection.
The Lord comes with His angels, and the dead and alive rise:
Matthew 24:30-31 Mark 13:27
(Ezekiel 37:9-10 "from the four winds" being a reference to resurrection,
"from one end of the sky to the other" being a reference to alive people.
but we could also say that Matthew 24:31 is the dead, and Matthew 24:41 the alive
and Paul makes it clear that it all happens in the twinkling of an eye, boom, we are just up there,
I think that it happens upon death, a saint will wake up from death on a horse high up in the air)
The Lord comes with His angels, and the dead and alive rise:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17,
2nd Thessalonians 1:7-10
"....with the voice of the arch angel..."
"... rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from the sky, with His holy angels"
Matthew 24:28-40
"For wheresoever the carcase is there will the birds be gathered together"
"immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the sky"(Rev 6:12-13)
"And He shall send forth His angels with the great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his chosen ones from the four winds,
from one end of the sky to the other"
"Then shall two be in the field, one taken, the other left"
(Matthew 24:40 and Luke 17:36)
Luke 17:37
"And they asked Him, Where Lord?
"And He said unto them,
Wheresoever the carcase is there will the birds be gathered together"
And we are given more details about it in Revelation 19:17-21
"....and all the birds were filled with their flesh"
His response in Luke 17:37 matching Matthew 24:28 shows us that the two passages are speaking about the same thing.
Taken altogether and in order, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 17,
1 Corinthians 15:51-58,
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17,
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 ,
2 Thessalonians 2:1-11,
we get the full understanding and order.
And Paul does mention angels arriving with Christ in Thessalonians.
There is no doctrine that can come up with a 'rapture' (a disappearance of people)
from scripture without taking things out of order and out of context.
Ezekiel 37:1-15 = resurrections
Ezekiel 37:15-24 = reign of the Messiah
Ezekiel 38 and 39 = Gog and Magog
Revelation 20:4-5 = resurrections
Revelation 20:5-7 = reign of the Messiah
Revelation 20:7-10 = Gog and Magog
Isaiah 26:19 = resurrections
Isaiah 27:1 = and the Lord slays two beasts on that day
Revelation 19:7-14 = marriage of the Lamb, which we know involves resurrections
Revelation 19:14-21 = and the Lord slays two beasts on that day
Backed by the order in Isaiah, we thereby know for sure how to understand Revelation 19,
resurrections then slaying of the beasts.
Job 38:17 = Christ dies and rises from the dead immortal
Job 38:22-23 = Hiterls loss largely due to the winter
.
Job 38:25 = Thunder, seventh angel beginning to sound
Job 38:33 = Reign
"for I know that my redeemer lives,
and He shall stand at the last day upon the land.
And even if worms destroy my body and I die,
yet in my flesh shall I see the Lord"
Job 19:25-26
And Paul did not call it the rapture, Paul called what he was speaking about, the resurrection.
2 Timothy 2:18