Rapture Septemeber 2008, page 20

Originally posted by DanielsMagi
If Revelation 6 is 2015 the 70th week of Daniel begins end of next month. So the rapture is in September.

Only if you are a "pre-trib rapture" kind of Christian. This view states that the rapture and the subsequent return of Jesus are separate events separated by a seven year Tribulation. But throughout Christian history it was commonly believed that the rapture and the return of Jesus are to be a concurrent event, occurring simultaneously. The "pre-trib rapture" view of eschatology has been popularized by the Left Behind books, but has certainly not been the prevailing view of the historic Christian faith, nor is it representative of the whole of evangelical Christianity today. It might happen that way and differing views of eschatology are not to be dividing lines between sincere believers. However, I ask you to consider that you might be wrong, mostly because having to undergo a Tribulation you were expecting to be delivered from might be a severe challenge to your faith, unless you were prepared for it beforehand. I believe this is why Jesus says, "Look! I have told you ahead of time!" in Matthew 24; so you can be ready for it.

I myself believe that Christians will have to endure the Tribulation and that many will be martyred. Almost everyone, Christian or not, will die. At the end, finally, for the sake of the elect and so that some flesh might survive, the days will be cut short. In Matthew 24, Jesus says that immediately AFTER the tribulation of those days the sun and moon will be darkened, stars will fall from the sky, and then Jesus will come back, sending His angels to gather His Elect. I believe the beginning of the Tribulation is upon us, and we do not get a pass just because we are Christians. Since the onset of the Tribulation is a gradual process and no one can point to an exact date, no one will know the exact day and hour of Jesus' return. But we can get a pretty good idea it's SOON if even half of these conspiracies and 2012 disasters come to pass (they are in some kind of order but obviously the sequence is not predictable, and some may not happen at all):

Financial markets crash/are closed because of panic

Dollar plummets/hyper-inflation

Fuel costs skyrocket

Job loss

Utilities and services stopped/cut off

Food shortages

Riots, looting, anarchy

U.S. Martial Law begins

Disarming the populace

Amero/One World Currency instituted

'Marking' of people begins

North Korea announces leader dead

Nuclear activity by North Korea/invasion of South Korea

China invades North Korea

Iran attacks Israel

U.S. refuses to intervene

More nuclear activity involving China and Russia

Nuclear terrorist attack on U.S. soil

Bird flu pandemic

Worldwide governmental ET/UFO disclosure

Project BlueBeam ET invasion or

REAL ET invasion

Worldwide martial law

One World government instituted

Sometime later:

Christianity outlawed (considered an extremist religion)

Other religions are blended together, those who object are arrested

Christians martyred

One World Religion instituted

The Abomination of Desolation (and nobody knows what this really is; there is scant evidence that this means a pig will be slaughtered on a newly rebuilt Jewish altar in Jerusalem).

Also: earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, famines, Niburu/Planet X impact, Pole Shift, etc.

Then everything will go quiet and the sun and moon will go dark. The sign of the coming of Jesus will be a worldwide event and all the earth will.... mourn. And THEN comes the trumpet blast.

Read it for yourself in Matthew 24. Set aside all the stuff you have heard from people, even scholars, trying to piece together bits of Revelation with bits of Daniel to fit their personal views. The trumpet blast comes AFTER the Tribulation. So get ready!

[edit on 26-10-2008 by OuttaHere]