Posted on 04/26/2021 6:40:36 PM PDT by ransomnote
I have been thinking about the videos I've watched by YOUTUBE channel Dr. Barry Awe. I'll link the most recent below.
He studies the bible to understand God's design and timing of the End Times. I'm really struck by his Bible - he holds it up to the camera and you can see every line is marked with a variety of hi-lighters with notes on the margin. In his search for the Rapture date, he has found links between stories in the bible that I was unaware of. He's learned the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and in an earlier video talks about the symbolism of individual 'letters'. When he recites extended portions of verse (unfortunately, none of that in today's video) I am moved by his love and reverence for God.
I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, but I am convinced of his love for God and his passion for the Word of God. He believe's he's found a way in which all the feast days can be fullfiled in a way that harmonizes with all other references in the Bible to the Rapture (e.g., the sun moon and stars testify) if the Rapture is mere days away. He's made other videos speculating on earlier dates for the Rapture and has been wrong, and he says he's just happy to follow where God leads him, and I'm happy to follow along with him. :)
He says if he's wrong in this video about the timing, he'll keep following and studying in order to 'stay awake' for the return of our Lord. He helps cultivate my love for the Word of God and sometimes I'm astonished to learn the meanings in terms or parables, that seem to have been there all my life but I am now only encountering.
I have to think more about the parallels he proposes for some stories in the Bible which he presented today (Joshua, Johah, Noah etc.) I think they are likely true but I haven't really contemplated them yet and have to soak in my understanding. I may have to watch the video a 2nd time (and make notes?)
I would like to watch a video in which he reads more from the bible, and talks through the study he's done on specific lines and passages. It may be that such information is only interspersed in Rapture study content, but as the attention shifts around the content, I find myself wanting to watch a study in which he dissects an entire book of the Bible or a large chunk of text. I think he's done some of those and I'm eager to watch them, and to hear his love for the Lord come through his jokes, studies of the Word, passionate recitation of verses, and messy hi-lighter pages.
He uses a lot of off-beat humor that will, I think, alienate some potential viewers. To me it's an expression of his love for God and his resulting happiness and I now enjoy it, like the personality of a friend, but it took some getting used to at first. If I am having a somber day, I sometimes HAVE to skip the antics and get to the 'message' because I don't have his energy. Other times, his goofy humor and fearlessness in enacting it lure me out of a down mood, like an uncle who knows that persisting will lift mood.
I find him authenticly energetic and joyful and I appreciate him, so I thought I would share the link. This video has two clips of a humor skit ( a renactment of an 80's music video with a flashlight held at the bottom of the screen in a dark room- I forget the name of the band) that I didn't 'get', and I must warn you that as a chiropracter, he uses a model skeleton as a 'co-host'. Really.
But, I've gotten so much outo of his videos, I hope to learn to study as intensely as he does, and darken the pages of my Bible with hi-lighter because he's convinced me that the most unassuming lines of text come to life with prayer and persistance.
Most AWESOME RAPTURE REVELATION Ever!🤯🤠🥳 - YouTube
ransomnote: I paused to write a statement of faith below which is optional reading and not part of the above post. These things aren't for everyone and I have to say mine is like countless others, but if you're interested in that kind of story, then read on.
Statement of faith: I am evangelical Christian. I believe in the Trinity and salvation through faith, not works.
I came to faith when I was 10 years old and had fallen in love with what I now call, the 'God of the flannel board.' Sunday school classes typically featured flannel board presentations of Bible stories and it was clear to my 10 year-old self, after having seen many such stories, that the defining characteristic of Jesus was love, there was nothing He would not do for us .
I attended many toxic churches in my youth (11 - 15), where God was portrayed as loathing us and where we were nothing but a disappointment to Him. There were a few good churches though (16 yrs old - 18 yrs old).
At a good church, a friend of the family walked me through a classic little black and white pamphlet (I forget the name - was it The Four Spiritual Laws?) which talked about the meaning of salvation. The little drawings featured ourselves seated on on a throne, versus God seated on the throne, and I think there were a few more scenarios.
After a review of ways we put ourselves, others or God in our lives as 'king', I was told that accepting Christs's sacrifice on the cross as payment for my sins, and chosing to put Him on the throne of my life (even though I mess up, a lot!), I could be saved from Judgement, and when I die, can be with the Lord.
After I turned from myself being my leader, and ask for forgiveness and God to be my leader, I was baptized. I went through the ceremony of being baptized when I was around 16 years old. For me it was a symbolic gesture to signify to my community, "I have faith in God and want to be counted as one of His followers.' The baptism brought me quiet joy, but as a teenager I sure struggled with having to walk forward in church and all the public attention shown me! Ah well, it is a public gesture of faith.
Life happens. Bad things happen. I never stopped believing in God but my mind wavered between the judging view of Him from my youth and the true view of Him loving us, prizing us, caring for us. The years of listening to toxic 'sermons' in my youth had laid down under -sea cables of distrust. But, since I viewed Him as almighty God, the last thing I was going to do was admit that such deep cables of disgust existed because that would be a shocking insult to Him (eh, like He wouldn't know unless I told him?).
As long as I hid such reservations, even from myself, my spiritual growth occurred at a snail's pace. I continued my faith in God because I believed He was real, and as the aspostles once said, "Where else would I go," but I knew my relationship with Him was not like that of others, who expressed such unguarded calm, steady depth.
I learned to avoid negative churches which quietly portrayed us as being less than grime and filth, but which permitted us to worship Him anyway out of sheer leniency, and to keep us from becoming even worse.
Positive churches which I found helped me to grow, but I seemed to seek churches which did not disrupt the silent disquiet I had from my youth. They were good and so I stayed. I guess I 'settled' for conditions which settled for my hamstrung faith, and I am grateful for all those in those churches who invested in tending me there as my faith grew.
I found an interesting church 20 years ago, amid the storms of life. I found it very strange that they kept talking about God's love quite that much. I mean, we know, right? That's why we're in church! Over and over again from many different angles. It always sprang up in every sermon! :) At some point I realized that this was, well, 'The Good News'.
It was not a church for those who recline in hamstrung faith. The challenges of my life matched the new skills and insights that church presented. I found it amazing that it's not just that going to church helped me feel nearer to Him, to lean upon His love, to feel the warmth that worshipping Him brings, and to be around like minded people of faith - it's that going to church HELPS! Yes, what a discovery! :D
Old beliefs rose, broke and fell under a constant barrage of God's love and fearless faith, and a church that provided an open door to both. Self perception disolved as reality set in. New ways of responding in life, body and mind.
There was a period of time that I stopped attending that church, which I think is odd because it was really transforming my life in a good way. I returned and found a prayer that works best for my secret under-sea cables of distrust, "God show me what I hide from myself." (from Psalms). WOW. Unancitipated changes to core understanding and perception. I got answers I think most people never get in life. Just for asking?!
The biggest difference is that am now fueled by the hope given us by Christ's sacrifice on the cross. I didn't realize it but most of my life I was very quietly hopeless in some regards, and it was because I lacked faith in the strength God grants us. Yeah, I wasn't paying attention for all those decades.
Amazed and humbled by a huge, recent blessing, I looked around the church during service one day and wanted all the people there to have what I had been given, and likely many already did (years ago), but in a large congregation I feared there might be those who, like I once was, were still unaware and burdened by under-sea cables of their own.
I am grateful to God for all the people He used, all the blessings He gave, to lead me through the 'fog of war' that is life, and for the sacrifice of His son on the cross for my sins so that I can look forward to being with Him one day. Grateful is too small a word here. It was only after so much hardship and struggle that in these latter years I came to know with all my heart, that He is the One I love most.
I have a favorite prayer image that is bittersweet in that I turn to it in the most painful, difficult days of my life, and yet it always brings restoration in time. When feeling completely defeated or grieved, I imagine the times in my life when I had felt the same way as if lying on a battlefield face down, arms outflung, dying in persuit of something I could never win for myself, although I gave it every ounce of my strength. At this time, I pray, "Father in Heaven, please give me what I cannot win for myself. I have failed and You are the only One I turn to now, asking You, 'May I have this?' Father in Heaven, if it is Your will then please place it in my hands because I cannot gain this any other way. If it is not Your will, please comfort me and help me accept this loss, because Your will is best for me."
I think this prayer image is an amalgam of my metaphor for spiritual warfare as a battlefield filled with sword fighting as shown in the movie The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, when the character Edmund appears to be defeated; the statue of The Dying Gaul (symbol to me of our humility before God); both combined with the humbling gratitude I feel when God once again grants me victory at a time when all seems lost, or gives me something far better than I deserve. :)
20 years ago, I didn't know that God's strength means we simply never give up, either in the smaller battles of life, or the grand battle between Good and Evil. God WINS!
Well, if he knew his Bible he'd know that's an exercise in futility.
I guess it makes for a good hobby but Jesus made it clear that trying to determine when the end will come is a waste of time.
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.”
~Mathew 24:36~
Where in scripture are we told to search out the rapture date?
I appreciate your heartfelt message, including your statement of faith based on the continuing irrepressible love of God. I do not appreciate the rather harsh comments from people who seem to represent themselves as believers, or at least Biblically knowledgeable. Love above all. It isn’t difficult to perceive and receive a lot of love in your writing, and I thank you for that. You are right. We stay in the battle because The Father guides us...but as you understand, it is HIS battle, not ours against each other. So loving them, too, I hope they come to see and experience love as The Father offers without blemish. I notice that you do!
Lev 23 gives us God's rehearsal days or Moed's. This is His "appointed times to do things important in His story, or history. On Pentecost after His Resurrection, the church was born with the giving of the Holy Spirit. 3500 year before the Law was given on Pentecost on Mt Sinai.
What we are waiting for next is the rapture. The next Feast Day or appointed time is Trumpets. A clue here is the Jews call Trumpets many names and one of them is the "Day no one knows the Day or the Hour". All the Feast days except Trumpets fall in the middle of the month with nearly a full moon. Trumpets is the only day that always falls on a New Moon. They know approximately the day it will become visible so they post 2 priests on the Temple wall to watch for the New Moon. When they first see the New Moon, they start blowing the shofar. It could even be seen in the middle of the day. They blow the shofar 99 times and then the "Last Trump" is blown as a blast as long as they have breath.
Scripture tells us that after the Last Trump we will all be changed and rise. The only time we can hear the Last Trump is on Trumpets. The "First Trump" happens on Pentecost and the "Great Trump" is on Atonement. So we know that the Rapture will be on some future Feast of Trumpets after the Last Trump. Normally, there are 10 days from Trumpets to Atonement (Judgement Day). The Tribulation will be so bad, God will shorten the days to 7 years so some flesh will survive. Judgement Day will pass and Tabernacles will come with Jesus coming to live with His people for 1000 years.
Knowing God keeps His promises and He will keep His date with Trumpets, we just need to know which one. It could be a Jubilee year because many things spoken of in the Last days will have Jubilee themes.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
This points to the importance of the 7th day Sabbath. after 6000 years, we will have a seventh day rest for 1000 years. The Hebrew calendar says we are at 5782 I believe. That means it should happen in the next 200 or so years. The last Jubilee year was 2017 I believe. It doesn't have to be a Jubilee year for RAPTURE OR 2ND Coming, but it will be a year for restoration which is a Jubilee theme.
Other things we know is there needs to be a Temple for the Antichrist to desolate so I believe it will be before the 3rd Temple is built. If the 3rd Temple gets built, we should be gone by then or my Bible reading is wrong. In Rev 4:1, John said I heard a voice behind me "like a trumpet" that said "come up here". IMO, that is the Rapture of the Bride of Christ. The elders sing the song of the Redeemed in chapter 5, so that would be Christians. Another name for Trumpets is Ha Kiddushin or Messiah’s Wedding. We have to be there to get married. There may be some sign in the Heavens to announce the Rapture, but we always have to recognize the difference between Rapture and the 2nd Coming. There doesn't have to be any sign at all before the Trumpet Blast. There are many signs for the 2nd Coming, but by then it's too late for believers to catch the train out of here. IMO, the first seal cut by Jesus is the advent of the Antichrist, then the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse. The 5th seal is the death of saints that are left behind from the Rapture. They are the foolish virgins of Mat 25. They are servants not the Bride of Christ. The church At Philadelphia is the Bride that misses the Tribulation.(Rev 3:10) All other churches will experience the Antichrist because Jesus had something against them and they fell short. The ones that don't take the mark but die for Christ will be in Rev 6:9-11. You can die for Christ "spiritually" at Baptism, or die for Him physically in the Tribulation, but eventually you must die for Christ to live forever.
Mat 16:25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
If you take the mark you will die of plague and go to hell.
Some of the alternate names for Trumpets are:
Rosh HaShanah or New Year’s Day (Jews believe the earth was created on this day)
Yom HaTeruah or Day of Awakening (this day is an alarm for earth)
Yom HaDin or Day of Judgment
HaMelech or Coronation of Messiah
Ha Kiddushin or Messiah’s Wedding
Yom HaZikkaron or Day of Remembrance
Chevlai Shel Mashiaach or Birth pangs of Messiah
Yom Hakeseh or The Hidden Day (this is what Christians can’t seem to learn)
Yom Teruah or Day of Blowing (a trumpet can call you to assembly or blow alarm for others)
It is known as the time of Jacobs Trouble because the Tribulation will start here.
The Day of the Awakening Blast will cause the Rapture of the saints. Whether the Tribulation starts on the same day or year as the Rapture, we don’t know.
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Scripture mentions Trump? I should have known.
As an example of what you are asking, Daniel was told in chapter 9 to measure the time between the time Nehemiah was told to repair Jerusalem and the time the Messiah rode a donkey's colt into the Temple announcing His Kingship over the Jews. That time would be 69 weeks of years x 360 day Hebrew calendar year= 173,880 days. If the Jews were counting their days, they would have know it was their Messiah riding that colt on that day. The Pharisees even scolded Jesus to stop the people from singing Psalm 118 to the coronation of the King and Jesus said if they don't the rocks would cry out. Zech 9:9 was an important prophesy the Jews were supposed to be looking for. The next verses tell the tale of not looking for prophesy.
Luk 19:41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
Luk 19:42 saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Luk 19:43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,
Luk 19:44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."
38 years later in 70AD, Jerusalem and the Temple were completely destroyed. Jesus held them accountable to know Biblical Prophecy. This one verse is the most definite prophesy that proves that Jesus is Messiah. They missed it.
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Sorry, I don’t know “B4L”.
Hey, just sayin. God's man and all that.
Where in the Bible do you find the rapture?
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/1%20Thessalonians%204:17
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
-ESV
Blessings.
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"Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.Could be now. Watch and pray. Jesus only says that one cannot know the day or the time of day. What He does not say is that the year or season of the year cannot be predicted according to the Biblical signs that are regularly taking place.
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Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh" (Mar_13:33,44 AV; cf Mt. 24:35).
One such sign is as follows:
"Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" (Mt. 24:32-34 AV; bolding for emphasis).So, what generation (length 100 years max?) would this be?
Perhaps Matthew 24:7-14 (AV) would give a clue:
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.Could that not be now?
Scripture is clear a rapture will accompany the return of Jesus. (The parousia). The idea that some rapture will occur prior to the return of Christ finds no support in scripture.
If he thinks he has found a date of the rapture, he will be 100% wrong, guaranteed.
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