UPDATE ADDED 3/6/24

People get hung up on the wrong things.  Maybe forget the word RAPTURE.  It has been given a bad RAP.  Don’t label it anything at all.  Just know that GOD’s GRACE is sufficient for you.  He loves you and he does not want to see those who love him suffer.  Or, even for them to watch the ones they love suffer.  Watching your loved ones suffer is a punishment reserved for the most evil beings.  God made the Fallen Angels watch their children suffer, as punishment for the horrible things that they did to His creation.

YOU CAN TRUST GOD.  He will deliver you through all that is coming.  If you will keep your eyes on HIM.  Don’t listen to the world.  They are deceiving you.  Do not look to the letter of the WORD… LOOK TO THE HEART OF GOD.  GET TO KNOW HIM.  Man’s understanding of God’s word may seem to make sense to the carnal mind…but the SPIRIT of GOD’s word is revealed to our spirit by the HOLY SPIRIT and is foolishness to the world.

I have posted the following scriptures before.  But, I think it would do you well to visit them again.  Even those who have strong faith, it NEVER hearts to reinforce you faith with the WORD OF GOD!!

THERE IS A DELIVERANCE COMING FOR GOD’S PEOPLE.  Call it RAPTURE if you like.  But, if the word RAPTURE causes you to stumble…throw it out!   But, focus on the grace, love and compassion of our Heavenly FATHER.

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1 Thessalonians 5

5 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

² For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

³ For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

⁴ But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

⁷ For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
NOW, once you receive the gift of salvation from your sins, it is yours… So what are we to be saved from when God’s Judgement and wrath are poured out on the earth?? We hope to be saved from what is coming on the EARTH.   Just as God spared those who knew Him from the flood.  God WILL spare those who know him from what is coming upon the EARTH!!

⁹ For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

¹¹ Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

¹² And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

¹³ And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

Those who are WATCHING AND WARNING people, are serving GOD and laboring for the salvation of others.  You should esteem them for the LABOR’s SAKE.  Whether you agree with them or not.  GOD is well able to lead them adn to correct them if they stray from His truth.  YOU SHOULD PRAY for them.  when he says they are OVER YOU, it does not mean that the rule over you, or that God loves them better than you.  It means that they are a covering for you.  They are laboring on your behalf.  They are praying for you, and for all who are lost.  Every ounce of them goes toward the labor with which their heart is burdened.  They moan, weep, and travail for the lost.  Their whole being is focused on how to get the message out in a way it can be received by those who are perishing.   I thank GOD everyday for those who are laboring, speaking the TRUTH in a world that HATES the TRUTH and LOVES THE LIE.  We need more laborers.  Pray that GOD sends workers into the Harvest Field, because it is HARVEST TIME!!

Luke 21

⁸ And He said, “Take heed that ye be not deceived, for many shall come in My name, saying, ‘I am Christ,’ and, ‘the time draweth near.’ Go ye not therefore after them.

⁹ But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified, for these things must first come to pass. But the end is not at once.”

¹⁰ Then said He unto them, “Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,

¹¹ and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines and pestilences. And fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

¹² But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, and you will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake.

¹³ And it shall turn to you to bear testimony.

¹⁴ Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand what ye shall answer.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

¹⁶ And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolk and friends, and some of you they shall cause to be put to death.

¹⁷ And ye shall be hated by all men for My name’s sake.

¹⁸ But there shall not a hair of your head perish.

¹⁹ In your patience possess ye your souls.

²⁰ “And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

²¹ Then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let them that are in the midst of it depart out, and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

²² For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

²³ But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

²⁴ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

²⁵ “And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress among nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring.

²⁶ Men’s hearts will fail them for fear and for looking upon those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

²⁷ And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

²⁸ And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.”

²⁹ And He spoke to them a parable: “Behold the fig tree and all the trees.

³⁰ When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

³¹ So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the Kingdom of God is nigh at hand.

³² Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

³³ Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.

³⁴ “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that Day come upon you unawares.

³⁵ For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

³⁶ Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

NOW, tell me please, why would GOD COMMAND US to pray that we may be accounted worthy to escape the coming tribulations, if it were not possible to escape???

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“FOR AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH”

³⁶ But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

³⁷ But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

³⁸ For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

SO, how was it in the days of NOAH?  How would we know?  Well because it is written in the book of JASHER which the Word of GOD references several times.   Let’s take a look at some of the key points from the book of JASHER concerning the days of NOAH.

JASHER CHAPTER 4

16. And all the sons of men departed from the ways of the Lord in those days as they multiplied upon the face of the earth with sons and daughters, and they taught one another their evil practices and they continued sinning against the Lord.   (all mankind turned away from the Laws of GOD)

17. And every man made unto himself a god, and they robbed and plundered every man his neighbor as well as his relative, and they corrupted the earth, and the earth was filled with violence.
(The world was full of VIOLENCE: Wars, gangs, sexual abuse, rioting, arguing and fighting, divorce, abortion)

18. And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice, and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals.
(There was no justice.  Courts, governments, rulers, religious leaders; all were corrupt.  They corrupted all FLESH, messing with the DNA.)

19. And the Lord said, I will blot out man that I created from the face of the earth, yea from man to the birds of the air, together with cattle and beasts that are in the field for I repent that I made them.

20. And all men who walked in the ways of the Lord, died in those days, before the Lord brought the evil upon man which he had declared, for this was from the Lord, that they should not see the evil which the Lord spoke of concerning the sons of men.

READ THAT PASSAGE AGAIN PLEASE.  “ONCE MORE WITH FEELING” as the director used to say.  GRT THOSE WORDS INTO YOUR HEART, SPIRIT and YOUR HEAD!  

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JASHER CHAPTER 5

2. And in the one hundred and seventy ninth year of the life of Noah, Cainan the son of Enosh died, and all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. 3. And in the two hundred and thirty fourth year of the life of Noah, Mahlallel the son of Cainan died, and the days of Mahlallel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died. 4. And Jared the son of Mahlallel died in those days, in the three hundred and thirty-sixth year of the life of Noah; and all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died. 5. And all who followed the Lord died in those days, before they saw the evil which God declared to do upon earth. 6. And after the lapse of many years, in the four hundred and eightieth year of the life of Noah, when all those men, who followed the Lord had died away from amongst the sons of men, and only Methuselah was then left, God said unto Noah and Methuselah, saying, 7. Speak ye, and proclaim to the sons of men, saying, Thus saith the Lord, return from your evil ways and forsake your works, and the Lord will repent of the evil that he declared to do to you, so that it shall not come to pass. 8. For thus saith the Lord, Behold I give you a period of one hundred and twenty years; if you will turn to me and forsake your evil ways, then will I also turn away from the evil which I told you, and it shall not exist, saith the Lord. 9. And Noah and Methuselah spoke all the words of the Lord to the sons of men, day after day, constantly speaking to them.

18. And Noah was five hundred and two years old when Naamah bare Shem, and the boys grew up and went in the ways of the Lord, in all that Methuselah and Noah their father taught them. 19. And Lamech the father of Noah, died in those days; yet verily he did not go with all his heart in the ways of his father, and he died in the hundred and ninety-fifth year of the life of Noah. 20. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy years, and he died. 21. And all the sons of men who knew the Lord, died in that year before the Lord brought evil upon them; for the Lord willed them to die, so as not to behold the evil that God would bring upon their brothers and relatives, as he had so declared to do. 22. In that time, the Lord said to Noah and Methuselah, Stand forth and proclaim to the sons of men all the words that I spoke to you in those days, peradventure they may turn from their evil ways, and I will then repent of the evil and will not bring it. 23. And Noah and Methuselah stood forth, and said in the ears of the sons of men, all that God had spoken concerning them. 24. But the sons of men would not hearken, neither would they incline their ears to all their declarations.

JASHER CHAPTER 16

16. And all the sons of men that were left upon the earth, became exhausted through evil on account of the rain, for the waters were coming more violently upon the earth, and the animals and beasts were still surrounding the ark. 17. And the sons of men assembled together, about seven hundred thousand men and women, and they came unto Noah to the ark. 18. And they called to Noah, saying, Open for us that we may come to thee in the ark–and wherefore shall we die? 19. And Noah, with a loud voice, answered them from the ark, saying, Have you not all rebelled against the Lord, and said that he does not exist? and therefore the Lord brought upon you this evil, to destroy and cut you off from the face of the earth. 20. Is not this the thing that I spoke to you of one hundred and twenty years back, and you would not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and now do you desire to live upon earth? 21. And they said to Noah, We are ready to return to the Lord; only open for us that we may live and not die. 22. And Noah answered them, saying, Behold now that you see the trouble of your souls, you wish to return to the Lord; why did you not return during these hundred and twenty years, which the Lord granted you as the determined period? 23. But now you come and tell me this on account of the troubles of your souls, now also the Lord will not listen to you, neither will he give ear to you on this day, so that you will not now succeed in your wishes. 24. And the sons of men approached in order to break into the ark, to come in on account of the rain, for they could not bear the rain upon them. 25. And the Lord sent all the beasts and animals that stood round the ark. And the beasts overpowered them and drove them from that place, and every man went his way and they again scattered themselves upon the face of the earth.