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Signs of the Rapture: Are We Prepared for the End Times?

Explore biblical prophecies and signs of the End Times, including the emergence of a one-world government, false prophets, and natural crises. Learn how to live steadfastly and recognize the signs as the Day approaches.

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Signs of the Rapture: Are We Prepared for the End Times?

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  1. AS THE DAY APPROACHES What is the “Rapture”

  2. SIGNS WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE • ISRAEL AND JEWS FURTHER ISOLATION • EMERGING ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT • FALSE PROPHETS • CLASH OF WORLD VIEWS • THREATENING NATURAL CRISISES

  3. How do we prepare • Not forsaking the assembling of ourselvestogether, as the mannerof someis; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as yesee the dayapproaching. • Hebrews 10:25

  4. How should we then Live ? • Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. • 1 Corinthians 15:58

  5. “Nation against Nation, Kingdom against Kingdom” Talmudic Idiom meaning: a World-Wide Conflagration

  6. World War I

  7. One world Government • Is that the solution to World Peace? • How is the historical record of Government?

  8. Babel and Babylon • Let us build • Let us Reach Heaven • Let us make a name for ourselves

  9. “Let us…” • “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” • But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

  10. The Struggle for Control • “We will not have this man rule over us”

  11. The Great Tribulation • “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. • Revelation 7:14

  12. Something NEW is coming • Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. • There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. • All these are the beginning of birth pangs.

  13. “Unequaled Devastation” • For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. • “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive • Matthew 24:21-22

  14. What is Unique about Our Generation? • Israel is Re-established

  15. Restoration of Israel • And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. • And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them

  16. What is Unique about Our Generation? • Israel is Re-established • Potential for Total Annihilation

  17. What is Unique about Our Generation? • Israel is Re-established • Potential for Total Annihilation • Unified Banking System

  18. What is Unique about Our Generation? • Israel is Re-established • Potential for Total Annihilation • Unified Banking System • Universal Communication

  19. What about the Believers?

  20. “Caught Up” • “We who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” 1 Thessalonians 4:17

  21. “Caught Up” • Greek - harpazō - (ἁρπάζω) • Latin – “Raptura” – “Taken away” or “Carried off”

  22. Same word – “Caught away” • And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

  23. Same word for “Caught up” • “whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knows), such a one caught up even to the third heaven. • And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth), how that he was caught up into Paradise,…” • 2 Corinthians 12:2-4

  24. Same word for “Caught up” • “And her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne.” • Revelation 12:5

  25. Each time it means: Supernatural Disappearance And Visibly taken from earth

  26. Disappearance of Enoch • “Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.” • Genesis 5:24 • By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” Hebrews 11:5

  27. Disappearance of Elijah • As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. • 2 Kings 2:11

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