The Big lie of the "Rapture"

It is so difficult when people are caught up in tradition! Doctrines based on single verse scriptures , quoted totally out of context are preached all over and accepted as the truth without testing it!

That is why most church goers never see the promises and the power of God manifesting in their lives!

99% of all church goers are so far away from the truth and that is why God is using Prophets and men of God to bring restoration!

There is not one book about the rapture or on end times that is not fear driven and that lasted longer that 4 years! Every time when the time came (dates they “prophesied” for the rapture to come, they just extend the dates in the next books and no one ever take them on) Theses people are liars ! The Bible says that when a person prophesy something and it does not happen , that person is not from God and  a false prophet!

It is so important to declare the Bible with the Bible (There must be scriptures to declare scriptures) It is also important to read the Bible in context.

I would like to begin by saying that God is not a man that He can lie!

Psa 37:9  For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait and hope and look for the Lord [in the end] shall inherit the earth. [Isa. 57:13c.]

Psa 37:10  For yet a little while, and the evildoers will be no more; though you look with care where they used to be, they will not be found. [Heb. 10:36, 37; Rev. 21:7, 8.]

Psa 37:11  But the meek [in the end] shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. [Ps. 37:29; Matt. 5:5.]

Psa 37:18  The Lord knows the days of the upright and blameless, and their heritage will abide forever.

Looking at these verses it looks like the Lord says that we (the righteous) will inherit the earth and it will stay forever!

Psa 37:20  But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke] and as the glory of the pastures. They shall vanish; like smoke shall they consume away.

Above quoted from the Amplified Bible – Please read also the King James Version and the Bible in Basic English!

 Psa 37:29  (BBE) The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.

Mat 5:5  Blessed are the meek! For they shall inherit the earth.

Jer 8:13  I will surely consume^5486,  them, saith the LORD:there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

 In  Jeremiah , the chapter above you will see that God says through His prophet that the unrighteous will be taken away ( Not the righteous). The word “consume” in the Hebrew Strongs concordance nr 5486 means “To snatch away” or to rapture

H5486

סוּף

sûph

soof

A primitive root; to snatch away, that is, terminate: - consume, have an end, perish, X be utterly.

When you go to other translations like the “Old Afrikaans” translation you will find that the direct translation says” I will gather the unrighteous and will Rapture them”

God is not confused or schizophrenic! The problem is that we sit with people teaching fear driven stories that they use to make money with!

Psa 24:1  A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Psa 50:12  If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.

We are washed in the blood of Jesus to rule as Kings on the Earth!

See Rev 1:5 & rev 5:9&10

Rev 1:6  And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Rev 5:9  And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Rev 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

This is so awesome! So many people also teach the book of revelation to be futuristic and fearful book. Revelation is a fulfilled book and shows exactly what happened on Golgotha and the three days thereafter! (More about that later).

I want to ask this question. If Revelation is a futuristic book and there is something like the righteous that will be raptured, why are we then made Kings and Priests to rule on earth? Are we coming back after the rapture????????

People must wake up and read the Word of God instead of reading other peoples books!

However, this is only my introduction. Below follows a teaching of Prophet Kobus van Rensburg of Spirit Word Ministries in South Africa! When you worked through the teaching you will be filled with the truth and joy!

RAPTURE - TRUE OR FALSE?

THE DISOBEDIENT ARE SWEPT AWAY

Matthew 24:37 (Amplified) As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

The days of Noah refers to two or three other things too. It is not only about the flood.

Matthew 24:38,39 (Amplified) For just as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, [men] marrying and [women] being given in marriage, until the [very] day when Noah went into the ark. And they did not know or understand until the flood came and SWEPT THEM ALL AWAY - so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

In the days of Noah the disobedient ones were swept away.

Matthew 24:40 (Amplified) At that time two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left.

It is the disobedient that were swept away in the days of Noah. So in the days of the coming of the Son of Man two men will be in the field. It is important to realize that they were in the field. One was taken and one left.

Matthew 24:41,42 (Amplified) Two women will be grinding at the hand mill; one will be taken and one will be left. Watch therefore [give strict attention, be cautious and active], for you do not know in what kind of a day [whether a near or remote one] your Lord is coming.

There were two women at the mill. One is taken and one left behind. There were two comings. One was near and the other one remote.

Matthew 24:43 (Amplified) But understand this: had the householder known in what [part of the night, whether in a night or a morning] watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be undermined and broken into.

If they knew they would have watch for His coming is like a thief.

Matthew 24:44 (Amplified) You also must be ready therefore, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not expect Him.

His coming is when no one expects Him.

THE FAITHFUL BELIEVING SERVANTS WILL REMAIN

Matthew 24:45-51 (Amplified) Who then is the faithful, thoughtful, and wise servant, whom his master has put in charge of his household to give to the others the food and supplies at the proper time? Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is that servant whom, when his master comes, he will find so doing. I solemnly declare to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant is wicked and says to himself, My master is delayed and is going to be gone a long time. And begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour of which he is not aware. And will punish him [cut him up by scourging] and put him with the pretenders (hypocrites); there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

Blessed is the servant who is busy. For the unfaithful servant it will be like a thief and he will be put out. In the days of Noah, the disobedient ones and unbelievers were swept away and the faithful ones were left behind and inherited the earth. In the days of the coming of the Son of Man there will be two in the field. It means that they are servants. One will be taken and one left. There will also be two at the mill, so they are working and one will be take and one left. Who will be taken? He then says the one that is a busy, faithful servant will be blessed. He will set him over the work. He will be left in the field and at the mill. The unfaithful ones will be taken out and put out where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

Most people will be shocked now because they think that they will be taken away. It is time for the church to get peace. The ones that are busy serving will be blessed. He will be left in charge of the work. He will be left to work more and better.

There were also two comings. The one was far and the one near and if they knew when it was, they would have watched over their belongings. 90% of all this is not in the future. It was when Jesus came to the earth. He came to the house of Israel and they did not expect Him at that time. John 1:11 says that He came to His own and they did not receive Him. Jesus said over and over that He must be delivered up and rejected. All the parables of the wedding feast, the marriage and the bridegroom were fulfilled when Jesus came. They came to John the Baptist and asked him if he was not jealous because Jesus was baptizing more people than he was and he replied that the friend of the Bridegroom is happy that the Bridegroom was there. Then he said that he must decrease so that the Bridegroom can increase.

There were foolish people and there were wise people. There were people like Simeon and Anna, but the most of the house of Israel rejected the coming of Jesus as the Messiah. They were foolish and to them Jesus came like a thief in the night. Jesus came like a thief 2000 years ago and took the Kingdom from the Israelites and gave it to the whole world to those that accept Him. He called the people that come to Him and believe in Him, Zion (Matthew 21). Till today the Israelites and Jews do not know that the Kingdom was taken from them.

Numbers 16:27-32 (Amplified) So they got away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents with their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. And Moses said, By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I do not act of my own accord: If these men die the common death of all men or if [only] what happens to everyone happens to them, then the Lord has not sent me. But if the Lord causes a new thing [to happen], and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol (the place of the dead), then you shall understand that these men have provoked (spurned, despised) the Lord! As soon as he stopped speaking, the ground under the offenders split apart. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households and [Korah and] all [his] men and all their possessions.

The unrighteous people were taken away and the righteous stayed behind. In Sodom and Gomorrah the unrighteous were taken away and the righteous are left behind to occupy and go on with the work of God. God made man and placed him on the earth to rule on it. It is always the people that oppose the LORD that are taken out of the way.

IN JESUS’ GENERATION THE UNBELIEVERS WERE TAKEN AWAY

Luke 17:26 (Amplified) And [just] as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the time of the Son of Man.

It is the same story as in Matthew 24.

Luke 17:25,26 (Amplified) But first He must suffer many things and be disapproved and repudiated and rejected by this age and generation. And [just] as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the time of the Son of Man.

In the days of Noah he preached to the people of his generation and they did not receive him and the word that he preached and they perished. The same thing was when the Son of Man came to earth. He preached about the gospel of the Kingdom and they rejected Him and they perished.

There is so many false preaching about the days of Noah, but here we see clearly that as they rejected the preaching of Noah so they rejected the preaching of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:27-30 (Amplified) [People] ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. So also [it was the same] as it was in the days of Lot. [People] ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, and they built. But on the [very] day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed [them] all. That is the way it will be on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

The unrighteous were taken away in the days of Noah and in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. The day of the Son of Man talks about the crucifixion and it talks about the time after that till 70 A.D when Jerusalem was burned down by Rome. Not one of the prophecies was unfulfilled upon that generation. 90% of all the days of Noah and the Son of Man were fulfilled. The persecution and tribulation that were prophesied were for the Jews in that generation and it was not for the world. There is not a place in the Bible that says that the tribulation was for the whole world.

Isaiah 54:9(a) (Amplified) For this is like the days of Noah to Me…

Isaiah 54:1-9 (Amplified) SING, O barren one, you who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child! For the [spiritual] children of the desolate one will be more than the children of the married wife will, says the Lord. Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; spare not; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you will spread abroad to the right hand and to the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear not, for you shall not be ashamed; neither be confounded and depressed, for you shall not be put to shame. For you shall forget the shame of your youth, and you shall not [seriously] remember the reproach of your widowhood any more. For your Maker is your Husband-the Lord of hosts is His name-and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth He is called. For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken, grieved in spirit, and heartsore-even a wife [wooed and won] in youth, when she is [later] refused and scorned, says your God. For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion and mercy I will gather you [to Me] again. In a little burst of wrath I hid My face from you for a moment, but with age-enduring love and kindness I will have compassion and mercy on you, says the Lord, your Redeemer. For this is like the days of Noah to Me; as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

This is talking about two groups of people.

Galatians 4:24-27(a) (Amplified) Now all this is an allegory; these [two women] represent two covenants. One covenant originated from Mount Sinai [where the Law was given] and bears [children destined] for slavery; this is Hagar. Now Hagar is (stands for) Mount Sinai in Arabia and she corresponds to and belongs in the same category with the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage together with her children. But the Jerusalem above (the Messianic kingdom of Christ) is free, and she is our mother. For it is written in the Scriptures, Rejoice, O barren woman…

Galatians 4:30,31 (Amplified) But what does the Scripture say? Cast out and send away the slave woman and her son, for never shall the son of the slave woman be heir and share the inheritance with the son of the free woman. So, brethren, we [who are born again] are not children of a slave woman [the natural], but of the free [the supernatural].

Hagar stands for Israel that was God’s people, but they rejected Jesus Christ. The people that say yes to Jesus now are His people. There are two categories and two comings. Jesus came to the house of Israel as a thief because they did not expect Him and took the Kingdom from them. The people that God was angry with till then, the heathen people, God now turned to them. Now God tells them to break out in singing. All nations shall now expand and break out. The church is going to be the greatest force on the earth.

Isaiah 54:13,14,17 (Amplified) And all your [spiritual] children shall be disciples [taught by the Lord and obedient to His will], and great shall be the peace and undisturbed composure of your children. You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God's will and order): you shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication, which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord.

The days of Noah are like the days of Sodom and Gomorrah and that is the people that does not believe the preaching is taken away, but those that believe are left behind to go on with the work of the LORD. Also it means that God will not be angry again. God says that He binds Himself to another people and He calls them Zion. They will increase and expand. Nothing will hurt them and harm them.

The church became confused and that caused them fear and trouble. The prophecy that was for the house of Israel was not for Zion, the church of God. The Israelites were the people that rejected Jesus and crucified Him. We did not crucify Him. We accepted Him as LORD and Savior. Do not get caught up by guilt trips that you have crucified Jesus. You did not. You received Him into your heart. The Pharisees crucified Jesus. They were a religious group that did not receive Him. Not even the Romans wanted to crucify Jesus. People that preach the end times that are going to be perilous do not want the people to go and read their Bibles. They preach with banners, boards and charts. They preach world affairs and scare the people instead of leaving God’s peace with the people because of the good news of the gospel. When you start reading the Bible, the truth sets you free. Matthew 5:5 says the meek are blessed for they shall inherit the earth.

CAUGHT UP

1 Thessalonians 4:13 (Amplified) Now also we would not have you ignorant, brethren, about those who fall asleep [in death], that you may not grieve [for them] as the rest do who have no hope [beyond the grave].

God does not want us to be ignorant concerning them that are gone. They are asleep, but we have hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:14 (Amplified) For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him through Jesus those who have fallen asleep [in death].

Jesus is going to bring the people that fall asleep in Christ with Him and not take us away.

1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 (Amplified) For this we declare to you by the Lord's [own] word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede [into His presence] or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep [in Him in death]. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a LOUD CRY of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first. Then we, the living ones who REMAIN [on the earth], shall simultaneously be caught up along with [the resurrected dead] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall be with the Lord! Therefore comfort and encourage one another with these words.

God will come with a shout to the people that expect Him and not like a thief in the night. He came like a thief to those that did not want Him. There is no such thing as a rapture of the people of God. It is an imagination of some one that does not know the scriptures. Those that are alive and remain, He will come to them with a shout.

Genesis 7:1,17-23 (Amplified) And the Lord said to Noah, Come with all your household into the ark, for I have seen you to be righteous (upright and in right standing) before Me IN THIS GENERATION.

The flood [that is, the downpour of rain] was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted [high] above the land. And the waters became mighty and increased greatly upon the land, and the ark went [gently floating] upon the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed so exceedingly and were so mighty upon the earth that all the high hills under the whole sky were covered. [In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher, as the high hills were covered. And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved upon the earth-fowls and birds, [tame] animals, [wild] beasts, all swarming and creeping things that swarm and creep upon the land, and all mankind. Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils were the breath and spirit of life died. God destroyed (blotted out) every living thing that was upon the face of the earth; man and animals and the creeping things and the birds of the heavens were destroyed (blotted out) from the land. ONLY NOAH REMAINED ALIVE and those who were with him in the ark.

Noah and the righteous people remained, but the unrighteous and unbelievers were destroyed. Noah and his people were lifted up upon the waters and they remained on the earth to go on with the work of God. Now those who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them. He is talking about the people that are coming with Jesus, Who died in Christ. Hebrews 12:1 says that we have a cloud of witnesses that surround us. Those who will come with Jesus are now in the cloud. A cloud represented a group of people. The righteous people are part of the cloud. When Jesus come those that are in the cloud with Him will come with Him and those that are alive and remain on the earth will meet them in the cloud.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 (Amplified) Then we, the living ones who remain [on the earth], shall simultaneously be CAUGHT UP along WITH [the RESURRECTED DEAD] in the CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD in the air; and so ALWAYS (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall BE WITH THE LORD!

We shall ever be with the LORD, but not in a cloud. The Bible does not say that from there they will go to heaven. The context here is that Jesus is coming down. The word caught up means to be in a state of amazement because you will meet the LORD. In 2 Corinthians 12 Paul says that he was caught up, but he does not know if it was in the spirit or in the flesh. He saw things that he cannot explain. To be caught up means that you will be lifted up into a state and not be part of the consuming fire that will consume the unrighteous on the earth. They will be taken out of the way, but we will remain on the earth. The left behind ones is the righteous people.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-5 (Amplified) BUT AS to the suitable times and the precise seasons and dates, brethren, you have no necessity for anything being written to you. For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord will come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night. When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape. But you are not in [given up to the power of] darkness, brethren, for that day to overtake you by surprise like a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we do not belong either to the night or to darkness.

For those that live in darkness Jesus will come as a thief in the night, but for those that are in the light and expect Him, we will be caught up in a state of amazement to see Him. The days of Noah are not something for the church that lives in the light to fear. The left behind ones is the faithful righteous people. The evil resisters are the people that will be taken away. They are the ones that do not believe the preaching of the Word. God is not the author of fear. He has not given us a spirit of fear. The preachers that preach the rapture of the righteous are not open to hear the truth of the Word. They believe that Jesus is coming, but also say that we are going. So somewhere they are going to miss each other. There is confusion in the rapture preacher’s camp. They prophesy that dates of His coming and the church’ going, but they have missed the dates all together up till now. The house of Israel did not recognize the coming of Jesus and till today they do not receive Him. For them it was like a thief in the night. The righteous is left behind.

Kelly Varner wrote a book called “Whose right it is” and there he proves that he book of Daniel was fulfilled the day that Stephan was stoned. Jesus ministered three and a half years and from then to the stoning of Stephen were also three and a half years. The tribulation came upon that generation and ended when the temple and Jerusalem were burned down. Creation is waiting for the Christ people to be revealed and not for the anti Christ. The knowledge of the glory of God shall fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. Acts 3:19-21 says the Son of Man is sitting at the right hand of God till all that was prophesied by the prophets are fulfilled. Then the heaven will release Him to come back to earth. Jesus is waiting for all to be restored, revived and renewed. Those who are alive and remain will hear a shout. For the others He will come like a thief in the night and quietly take them away.

With love in Jesus Christ

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If you are not sure that you are born again,

If you have never come to a place where you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour,

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Pray the following prayer :

Dear Jesus,

I  know that I am a sinner. I know and believe that God send You, His Son, to die for my sin and to show me how to become a Son of God!

Please forgive me my sins. I accept You as my only LORD and Savior.  I reject all other gods and idols. Please come into my life right now. Wash me in Your blood. Thank You that you never think of my sins again. Thank You that I can be Your child now and that nothing can pull me from your hand! Thank You that I can have Life! Live for ever and never die!

Amen! 

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