Daily Devotional, Year 2 – DECEMBER 2 (Apocalypse NOW! Part 11: “Pre-Trib Rapture, The Ultimate ‘House of Cards!'”)
By admin On February 9th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – DECEMBER 2
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Apocalypse NOW!
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Part 11:
“Pre-Trib Rapture, The Ultimate ‘House of Cards!'”
To read Part 1, click here…SEPTEMBER 5 (Apocalypse Now! Part 9: Has Judgment Day Begun? Part 1)
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There are many in today’s Christendom, who are wildly enthusiastic about 
the idea of the so-called “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”.
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Yes, this idea became popular in the 1960’s because of a million-seller book, “The Late Great Planet Earth”.
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And there are many who even get so bold as to claim it to be more than just a theory, but rather, a solid Bible truth!
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The Late, Great Planet Earth cover – Wikipedia – Non-Free Media Rationale
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WHAT IS THIS PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE?
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And the main tenet of this so-called Pre-Tribulation Rapture, is that God’s faithful Elect will disappear just prior to a 7-year period of tribulation.
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One moment they will be here. And the next moment they will simply disappear, while everyone else must carry on with apocalyptic events.
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Shoppers in Toronto – cropped image – Wikimedia – share-alike license
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A HOUSE OF CARDS?
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The Pre-Tribulation Rapture is the “ultimate house-of-cards”, as the saying goes!
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And this is what makes it a house of cards: if you take away this theologian-contrived name, “The Rapture”, this entire house-of-cards comes tumbling to the ground!
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Because, once a Christian gets back to the Bible and the Bible only, the name, “The Rapture”, must be discarded!
It is a name NOT found anywhere in the Bible.
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House Of Cards Bridge – wikipedia – public domain
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CYRUS I. SCOFIELD
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You see, the name, “The Rapture” was used by Cyrus Scofield (coined perhaps, by John Darby) to prop up the false doctrine of two separate Returns of Christ.
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And the very place in the Bible that he went, to concoct this name was in 1st Thessalonians 4:15-17…
“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord…
that we which are alive and remain unto THE COMING OF THE LORD…
shall be CAUGHT UP together with them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
(Condensed for brevity)
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So, the proper name of this event here IS NOT “caught up”, but rather, “The Coming of the Lord”!
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John Nelson Darby – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
Cyrus Scofield – 1920 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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“Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”
Revelation 3:10
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One problem is that this above promise was made to a church which existed back in the 1st Century A.D.!
And so, did God Rapture that 1st century church out of the world?
Absolutely no mention of that anywhere in the Bible!
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Well, then, how did God fulfill His promise to, “keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world?”
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Obviously, God eventually took them all in death, as is written…
“none considering that the righteous is taken away
from the evil to come.”
Isaiah 57:1
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Yes, in all ages, God has taken away the merciful men in death, to spare them, “from the evil to come!”
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PLAGUES UPON THE EGYPTIANS
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Now is there any other way in which God keeps His people from the wrath to come?
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Oh yes, just look how God poured out His bowls of wrath upon the Egyptians just prior to the Exodus but kept the children of Israel from those plagues!
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Did God Rapture them away?
Oh no! But God did spare His people from those plagues, simply by causing those plagues to fall all around them, but not on them!
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Tissot – The Plague of Locusts – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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EXODUS, A PICTURE OF THE 7 LAST PLAGUES
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This example of Israel during God’s plagues upon the Egyptians, is a picture of what will happen in these last days!
These judgments will indeed fall, but not on true worshipers of God!
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asteroids – Leonids-browse – cropped and altered image – nasa – Abe & Hajime Yano
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CHRIST RETURNS ONLY ON, ‘THE LAST DAY’
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Well, just what is the bottom line?
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The bottom line is, that the Bible only speaks of one Second Coming…
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment:
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;
and unto them that look for Him
shall He appear the second time
without sin unto salvation.”
Hebrews 9:27, 28
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Yes, this resurrection takes place on the Last Day…
“Whoso eateth My flesh,
and drinketh My blood,
hath eternal life;
and I will raise him up at THE LAST DAY.”
(see John 6:39, 40, 44, 54).
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So, this above passage from John 6 tells us exactly when the resurrection of the righteous will take place: “on the last day!”
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“THOU ART MY HIDING PLACE”
Psalm 32:7 & 119:114
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And so, let us all be found hiding safely in His “secret pavilion” during that time of trouble which is now coming upon us…
“For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion:
in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a Rock.
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me…”
Psalm 27:5, 6
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ABOVE PICTURE: Hide Thyself in thy Chambers – inspired by Tornado Over Kansas by Curry
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TO READ PART 12, CLICK HERE…
DECEMBER 12 (Apocalypse NOW! Part 12: “Peace, Peace, When There is No Peace!”)
Antifa @ Protest Trump in Phoenix – 8-22-17 – Wikipedia – GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to study, study, study, that I may be fully armored with the armor of God. Help me to find that perfect peace…
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…”The Abomination in the Apostate Church”,
or you can also read this shorter article…February 9th (Waiting For The Church to Shine!)
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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MICHAEL, THE SOLDIER
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God is revealing this bright and beautiful constellation in a way that has never before been seen.
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Michael the Soldier battles against the Dragon:
“And there was war in heaven:
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon;
and the dragon fought and his angels,
And prevailed not;
neither was their place found any more in heaven.”
Revelation 12:7, 8.
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… Flood Waters of Satan-Introduction
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TOMORROW…
DECEMBER 3 (Deserted Island Theologian, Part 4: Rethinking John Calvin on Limited Atonement))
John Calvin – by Holbein – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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EXCERPTS FROM THE OPEN FORUM 
QUESTION/ANSWER RADIO TALK-SHOW…
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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this Open Forum #20, a small 30 minute sampling of the late Harold Camping’s nearly 50 year-long series of 90 minute nightly talk shows…
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ABOVE PICTURE: Holy bible – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons lic.
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