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Welcome to Be Not Deceived. This is episode two, and we're welcoming you welcoming you to join us as we study the doctrine of the rapture. And I have pastor Rick Baudry here with me who is gonna help us along. And he is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton in Bremerton, Washington. And we love you so much and we thank you so much for having such a working knowledge of the Bible. And we're going to explore with you today what the Bible says about the doctrine of the rapture, even though the word rapture is not in the Bible, but that we would be caught up, caught away in the clouds. And I thank you for being here today. Thanks for having me. And that we are so excited that this is such a great topic. I've had so many people ask me, can you please talk about what the Bible says about pre trib, mid trib, post trib, no rapture at all? And people are hungry to hear what the truth is. And we just explored the first episode in what is truth and how the Bible is our foundation, and we can trust it. So I'm really excited to now dive into the scriptures and and see what the Bible says about the rapture and how we can look forward to this glorious event that is for us believers. Alright. Well, I'm excited. I'm very excited. Thank you for having me. I recently was at a pastor meeting, and they pointed out that only 6% of the people that call themselves Christians believe that there even is a rapture. Wow. And and then some other data that I'm hearing is only 2% of churches are teaching bible prophecy, which 27% of the bible's prophecy. So what's happening is what the bible calls calls a blessed hope in Titus two thirteen, looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great god and savior Jesus Christ Right. By rejecting the doctrine of the rapture or putting the rapture at the midpoint of the tribulation or pre wrath or at the post trib or whatever, you're taking away the the glory from God, and it's not a blessed hope anymore. It's it's, you know, it's doom and gloom. It's like it's like, you know, they're not excited about the Lord could come at any moment. You know? Yeah. Instead, they're angry that he hasn't come just yet. They don't seem to like the left behind series of Tim LaHaye and them years ago. And because he hasn't come just yet, let's just throw it all out. Yeah. Let's not be real. That's ready for the tribulation period because, you you you rapture people are just escape artists, you know, and you guys don't wanna go through the tribulation period. Well, I'm here to let you know. You're right. I don't wanna go through the tribulation period. Going through we don't wanna do that. We don't wanna go through the tribulation period. But I am here in the state of Washington, and I haven't moved to Idaho or Montana Mhmm. Or any of these place people trying to escape Mhmm. You know, the political climate here. Yeah. So we are here where we're supposed to be doing what we can, but we wanna provide hope, that blessed hope, that in light of all these things, it's not doom and gloom. Jesus said, when you see these things begin to come to pass, then look up for your redemption draws nighs. So we wanna establish, first of all, that it's it's a glorious hope. It's a glorious truth. Why would you wanna bury this truth? Why would you wanna try and go through the tough times ahead, you know, in and of your own strength? Right. Know, if God says you're not subject unto wrath, you know, why not teach people and get people excited about the soon return of Jesus, right? I wonder if they just don't realize that, like you said, that you're taking away God's glory in what he has set up to happen, because of impatience or not, or being taught something totally different, like Preterism, which is kingdom now philosophy or theology, which I've heard a lot recently that that God is not not coming back for us to catch us in in the air, but but heaven is meeting earth. It's come down to to to to the earth, and then we're here to then clean the earth up, to usher in the second coming of Christ. So they're kind of skipping the rapture altogether. Can we think of any scripture that proves that? Right? Where is the scripture that proves that? I don't know any verses of the Bible that prove that, but the New Apostolic Reformation, NAR, and others are ascribing to that with a replacement theology in place of Israel. So Israel's being bombed right now, and they're bombing. Big war's breaking out. Yeah. But they just think that the church has replaced Israel, and Israel's irrelevant. It doesn't matter. You know? Yeah. You really have to you really have to redefine a lot of words in the Bible to askew it to your own belief system or your own way of thinking to be able to make that even feasible in your mind, and I don't believe it is actually feasible. But there is a lot of people following that way of thinking unfortunately and they and I do believe that they feel like that they are grasping a more a more more spiritual understanding beyond the Bible even or enhanced Bible. So new revelation? Have new revelation? They have apostles, current apostles, so they not just that there's no rapture, but there is current apostles and prophets and and things that are, I don't believe scripturally sound. So how is it that maybe you can explain how is it that we can't have prophets today or apostles that are beyond above and beyond what we have in the Bible? Or correct me if I'm if I'm saying it wrong. Well, the the qualification for an apostle in a general sense, you know, Barnabas is an apostle, is one that sent. We can be an apostle by definition of one that sent, but the apostle, the definite article, one of the apostles, the qualifications, they had to see the risen Christ. And so Paul was an apostle born out of due time in that the Lord appeared to him on the road to Damascus. And so he he is included in the, you know, of the 12. Peter was concerned because, you know, Judas, a son of perdition failed, so who are gonna bring in? Mhmm. And before the holy spirit was poured out upon them, they were casting lots to try and to determine who would take the place of Yep. Who's gonna take the place? So it fell upon Matthias. Mhmm. And then later, what's interesting is after Pentecost, after the Holy Spirit came upon him, they never needed to cast lots again, like an old testament way of trying to determine God's will. Right. They never needed to cast lots again. In chapter 13 of the book of Acts, we hear the, as they're praying and fasting, the elders there in Antioch, Pisidia, they're they're praying. And as they're praying, the holy ghost saith, separate unto me Barnabas and Saul for the work where have I called them. You see what I mean? So the The Holy Spirit is upon them. Yeah. The Holy Spirit's, you speaking to them. So so they're being led by the word of God and by the Holy Spirit, the apostles. So with the death of the apostles, there's no new apostles that take their place in that office of an apostle. Mhmm. But in the general sense of going and being sent, Paul talks in Romans 16 of junia, and it's in the feminine, who is of note among the apostles. So she's she's either well regarded by the apostles or she's one that's been sent. They're recognizing that she's done a good work and being sent. So today, in order to gain authority, much of the the heretical church is trying to ascribe these offices. You know? Like, I I'm I'm not a pastor teacher, but I'm an evangelist or I'm and which might be true Yeah. In Ephesians four, but but not an apostle, not in the sense of the qualification of having seen the risen Christ Right. And prophet. First Corinthians fourteen three, the the prophet speaks toward edification, exhortation, and comfort. So as we're speaking forth God's word, there's a there's a work of prophecy, the word going forth, but the prophets being a prophet, having the office of a prophet means you have to be 100% accurate if you're gonna foretell, if you're gonna tell events that are up ahead. Yeah. So if you're in that group, the NAR group or the kingdom now, and you want the second coming of Trump, and you begin to prophesy and tell everybody on YouTube, hey. I I believe Trump's coming, and America's gonna be great once again and all that. If that doesn't happen Yeah. We need to roll you out and stone you Yeah. Because you're a false prophet. And that happened a lot. Oh, yeah. There was quite a few of those YouTube prophets. Yeah. And James warns us, be not many teachers or masters because you're gonna have the greater judgment come upon you. And so they seem pretty casual about being able to prophecy. I pulled up on YouTube, the 50 prophets or who prophets or dreams about America and, there was 50 that somebody put together just recently. Really? That was quite fascinating, that they were I had a dream, my whole family, even my children had had prophetic dreams and about America and about the judgment that's coming or different things that really had no biblical substance to them. But they were very spiritual sounding. But you have to back what you what you say with the Bible. How does it how does it line up? How does it how does it pass the test? So we we we were reminded of Acts seventeen eleven of the Bereans, they were more noble in that they searched the scriptures to see whether those things were so. Mhmm. So when you have an experience or a dream or a vision or whatever, we're instructed to analyze it, look at it, and test it, prove all things, hold fast that which is good. Mhmm. So first of all, we we say, well, where is that in the Bible? Mhmm. We're told to take every thought captive, every thought, every idea captive to the obedience of Christ. Right? Right. So in second Corinthians 10, take every thought captive, take every imagination and high thing that exalts itself, you know, above the above God and bring it into captivity to the obedience of Christ. So people can have dreams. They can have visions. They can have all those things, but then I'm gonna take that, and I'm gonna bring it to the scripture, the filter of God's word. I'm gonna say, where is that in God's word? So let me give you an example. Let's say somebody's in the ministry of slaying people in the spirit. Mhmm. Where do I see people being so called slain in the spirit? Put your hand on their forehead and boom, they're falling over. In the Garden Of Gethsemane, I see where Jesus is there and they come and they're looking for Jesus. He asked them who you, you know, who you looking for? Jesus of Nazareth, I am. And they fall over. Mhmm. But that's it. I don't see the I don't see apostles, the disciples running around with a ministry of slaying people in the spirit or waving their coat and people falling, you know, and things like that. So soaking up laying on on graves. Right. So soaking up the the power that that previous people have had, supposedly Yeah. They're able to deceive people because most people don't have today. We're living in a time of a famine for the word of God, and that's your show is be not deceived. So you're able to deceive people that don't know the truth. Yeah. If they don't know the truth, they can very easily be deceived by the wicked one. Right. Because it sounds good. It feels good. It An appeal to their senses. And it yeah. I was gonna say the senses. Yeah. That is exciting, the glitter dust, the flags that are done and the diff you know, I had a personal experience going to Spokane years ago with the NRA and that that whole the NRA was good. Did I say the NRA? NRA is good. That's a good one. Said NRA. I I mean National Rifle Association. No. NAR. NAR. Sorry. I never get that right. New Apostolic Reformation. So Kingdom Now with Bill Johnson and and Yeah. And I spent three days there, and it was quite eye opening where I could perceive right away that that Bill Johnson was quite the manipulator of people's emotions and very theatrical, not not believable at all, biblically, in my in in my experience and and very false he had a lot of false humility up on stage. It's not me, it's not me, it's the work of God, but here everybody stop and look at the feather falling from the ceiling of conference center, and everybody hushed. So it was really working the crowd, working the people into the frenzy that appeals to their senses and leads a lot of people astray because once you get jazzed or energized by that kind of spirituality, which I see as mysticism, it's hard for people to stop because it's like an adrenaline rush, I bet. I mean, I could imagine, but I experienced that myself and I didn't realize that that was what it was going to be. I thought it was a Christian conference and the people I went with I loved because they were my friends, but definitely was eye opening first time. And I'm glad I experienced it because I could have that testimony of how off it was, how deceived people are, and they're continuing to be deceived. And even our local churches that we might have seemed sound or sound in doctrine are incorporating so much of the Kingdom Now teaching, and especially with the rapture. So and Bill Johnson, he has a book and a teaching that is called the Raptureless Church. So he is definitely a driver Is a book like that? He's a driver of teaching the church that the rapture, the doctrine of the rapture is not right. So he's more authoritative than the Apostle Paul and of Jesus and of the Bible itself that, you know, clearly teaches the rapture of the church. Right. So let's look into some scriptures that will help us follow what church. Wow. Yeah. So there's no blessed hope then except unless Bill and the guys can usher in the kingdom age. Wow. Right? Wow. They're really heavy hitters. Well, I'm I've enjoyed studying prophecy. Pastor Chuck, my pastor, loved to teach prophecy, very consistent over the years. And we I know he would love right now if he were alive to see a lot of the prophecies being fulfilled every day. But according to Isaiah fifty seven one, guys like him, the Lord has taken home so they don't have to see the evil to come. The evil that we're seeing, would overwhelm them, the enormous he's been with the Lord for ten years, but the enormous amount of evil that's intensifying as the beast system is being set up, the tribulation period, the final seventieth seven of Daniel, the final seven year period of time before Jesus does return is coming into view. It's it's coming into place with the technology in regard to the economic system. Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18, we're watching a central bank digital currency. We're watching this, you know, on the horizon. And that's one thing that the Bible predicted. Nobody would be able to buy or sell without, you know, this mark on their right hand or their forehead, and never before has that technology been there. And now it is. It We is couldn't even imagined. Right. It's right here. How is that possible? It's right here. Globally. It's right Yeah. Yeah. It's ready for the whole globe. It's real. And Chuck used to talk about it the day that, you know, that these things would come, but the technology wasn't there yet. Yep. And then a one world government that the Bible's laid out for us with Daniel two, Daniel seven, Revelation thirteen and seventeen where the world is divided into 10 regions and a king, you know, over each region. Yeah. And then that the world would reach a place where wars, rumors of wars, and breaking out, and then the globalist these these globalist would, you know, have a solution. They'd have their guy emerge. The Bible describes him as the antichrist that would have the the peace treaty that he signs with the nation of Israel. So Israel's being bombed right now. They're bombing. Wars breaking out Yeah. On different fronts. And if this escalates, it's escalating to a point that the world's gonna need a savior, gonna need somebody to Yep. Broker a peace treaty. And need help. And and that's gonna be the antichrist. But before that can happen, in second Thessalonians two, that which restrains this guy from emerging, Although we can see the tribulation period, the technology, the governmental system wanting to merge because that globalism they want. Right? Yeah. They don't like nation states. And then thirdly, the Abraham the Abraham house of Abraham, the one world religious system. Right. And so that's emerging. So you're watching these three things happening right before our eyes. It's coming into view. And the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum Well, and they have the well, you know, no other time in history have we had a World Health Organization have such overreach over the entire globe. Exactly. Ever. And it's not a political group that's been elected. These are guys that Bill Gates funds and supports, and these guys get the allegiance of governments. The governments acquiesce to them. Yeah. They Their edicts, their mandates, their COVID nineteen, and all that. Yeah. And so they're wanting to sign a treaty and give sovereignty over to them because they have to circumvent the constitution that we have and everything. Mind blowing. So you're watching it. You're watching emerge. It's coming. And the globalists are are are they've they've shown their their hand. They've they've shown unlike before Right. Where they were in the behind the curtain, they are now we know them, we know them by name, we know the bankers by name, we know the players by name, Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates in there too, the elitist and the You all know Harari. I can never say his name very well. And then the the young the all of all of these, like Trudeau and in New Zealand and Australia and in California, a lot of these global leaders have already been trained at the Young Global Leader Center That's it. With Clout Schwab. So they've been groomed, they get their talking points, and they all at once do what they're told to do with the COVID. Yeah. Was That was a mystery, you know, a lot of people didn't realize that they had already gone to the young global leader conference or training. Training it was mind blowing to think that why is so many of these leaders in lockstep? And because it was a well planned out for decades plan. And we are just reeling through the lies of COVID and we need to protect and save ourselves through lockdowns and getting the jab and doing the things that they're telling us to do, because it's the right thing to do, but they have already plotted it all out. Yeah. They're working we fight not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities who are watching their boldness, like you're talking about, to put this in place. And so as we're looking at it, we're going, hey, this is what the Bible prophesied. Yeah. This is all coming together. So like pastor Chuck would see that he'd just be, wow. This is it's really happening right now in real time. You know? Yeah. Revelation seventeen seventeen says that God puts it in their heart of these guys to do his bidding. They're setting the stage Yeah. Stage being set for Jesus to return. So the stage isn't being set for these false prophets to usher in the kingdom. Right. No. The world reaches a place, the Bible says, where there's perilous times Mhmm. Where people's hearts are failing them for fear. Yeah. A time where Jesus says in Matthew 24, except those days be shortened, no flesh would be saved. Right. So all of this utopian, pie in the sky, we're gonna be as God stuff ends miserably for them. And the only thing that saves the planet is the return of Jesus. Right? That's the only thing. King of kings Right. Of So that's where our hope is. He's the one we're looking to. And the prophecies are lining up like incredibly for students of prophecy. Only 2% of churches teach prophecy. Only 6% believe in the rapture. Wouldn't you believe that God's going to catch you away, saint, you know, the church before he pours out his wrath on a Christ rejecting world, you know, for a seven year period of time. Right. You know? It's mind boggling to me that people would be antagonistic or angry about a pre trib rapture. Where's their hope? What are they hoping in? Right. They have to polish up the world. They have to endure. One person that had said, what makes us think we're so special that we won't have to go through the tribulation, the the great tribulation? What we're so special? Yeah. What makes us Christians think we're so special? Because he he says that we're not subject unto his wrath. You differentiate between tribulation, which Jesus promised us. Mhmm. You shall receive tribulation. Mhmm. But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. The word tribulation speaks of pressure. So there is a greater oppression and pressure upon us as human beings. That's kind of the the powers of darkness are encroaching the salt as it loses its savor. It doesn't have the power to stave off the corruption. Then the evil powers are emboldened to take more ground. They're always trying to advance their agendas. They're bolder. Right. And so but what's frustrating for the globalist is they can't keep the pedal to the metal. People are waking up. The reason people are waking up is because of podcasts like this Right. And others who are seeking to educate people. That's the work of the holy spirit. Amen. The holy spirit is working through the church in certain groups of people to study prophecy, to study the word of God, and to provide answers of the hope that's within us. Amen. That's what Peter tells us. Yeah. Provide an answer. People are looking for answers. So if we don't provide these answers, biblical answers, and point people to Jesus, then the false prophets are gonna get away with steering them, you know, a fallacy in wrong direction. Us 2% has to step up and show what the truth is. Exactly. There's narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few there would be that find it. So this church, this professing church at the end of the age here is a church that's that's apostatizing, that's rebellion and falling away from the truth, and has been for quite a while. And so there's a sifting taking place where we're watching more and more those who truly believe and those that don't. And it's not entirely evident. We don't know exactly. But but for those that are willing to suffer for their faith and continue in their faith and not give up, you know, those who are saying, well, you know what? They they haven't gone out from us. They're continuing in the faith, and they're continuing to follow the word of course. One thing I haven't heard over the last few days from any commentators in regard to Israel being bombed is nobody nobody has mentioned the enormous amount of Christians in Iran. None. This is the fastest growing church in the world. Isn't that amazing? Yeah. It's amazing. And and God is moving and working. That's awesome. And it's just mind boggling to me that nobody's mentioning the suffering and how difficult it must be to be a Christian in Iran right now. So we do agree with people. Being a Christian doesn't mean we're exempt from trouble. Doesn't mean I'm a Christian in China and I'm not suffering. In America, to be a Christian, it's the Bless Me Club. Yeah. Have not experienced we have not experienced the persecution throughout history, throughout church history that the rest of the world has, but we have to differentiate. The tribulation period is a time of God pouring out his wrath. There you go. And as he pours out his wrath, we're told in first Thessalonians one verse 10 that we are not subject unto God's wrath, that he saved us from the wrath to come. Mhmm. Now at the Cross Of Calvary, is in Gethsemane, and he's saying, father, if you're willing, remove this cup from me, that cup of wrath. Yeah. Jesus drank that cup of wrath. Nevertheless, not my will, but thy will be done. So the wrath that I deserved to go to hell, Jesus took upon himself. So he that knew no sin became sin, and God is just and holy and punishing his son in my place. That's what theologians would call a sociological wrath, a salvation wrath. So Jesus suffered that wrath, that just wrath that God pours out upon unbelievers. Right? Yeah. Upon sinners. So I'm saved from that already, but Paul says to the church of Thessalonica who has saved us from the wrath to come. What wrath is that? That's the tribulation wrath. Yeah. I've already been saved from the sociological wrath. This is an eschatological wrath, the last day's wrath Yep. That's Judging. Coming in the seven year tribulation period where God is gonna say to Bill Gates and Soros and Yuval Harari and all these guys, he's gonna say to him, you know what? You guys are so afraid of me. You're hiding in your bunkers in Revelation six trying to hide from the wrath of the lamb. There's nowhere to hide. Right. There's nowhere to run. Yeah. You know? You guys are caught. And time is It's too late. So it's great, great deception is upon the planet as so many people are being sucked into this this lie Yeah. That they can be gods. That's the lie, that they can be gods. That's what they're presenting. You could be as gods. Wow. So anyway, it's very exciting if you connect the dots. And the in first Hosanna, it's five verse nine. Paul is real clear. We're not subject under God's wrath. So that's how we differentiate between general tribulation pressure. When Paul was stoned at Lystra in Acts 14, he woke back up. You know, he was dead. They surrounded him. And he went back into Derbe and Lystra and Iconium, and let them know that we, through much tribulation, enter into the kingdom of God. Being a Christian doesn't mean you're not gonna be stoned or killed or martyred or whatever, but it's different. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers on them all. We're not presenting a Christianity that means you're never gonna suffer. Yeah. What we're saying is you're not gonna suffer God's wrath that's being poured out upon a Christ rejecting world. We suffer here because this is not our home. Exactly. The battle that the the devil is still in charge here on earth. To a degree, he's on a leash. He's on a leash, but he still the corruption is here. The earth is not new. It is not renewed. It is corrupting. Right. It is going down, not up until God It's not getting better. So we are gonna suffer through the devil hating us, demonic movements that are out there in our communities that are not liking it when we speak the truth, and then just people in general not liking their sin being exposed. If America collapses onto communism, if the communists take over America and we have no more constitution to protect us, and our god given and inalienable rights of the Bill of Rights are null and void Yeah. Hell's gonna break loose in America. And that's not the tribulation period. Right. That's just simply a demonic system of government that prevailed over this beautiful, wonderful Constitution. Constitution and this this this form of government of a constitutional republic governed by We the People. Right? Right. And if if we don't preserve this this last vestige of of of freedom Mhmm. The globalists want to bring the whole world into tyranny, into into slavery under them. Right. And so if that were to happen, if I'm a Christian in China in the fifties, and the globalist, the Rockefellers fund Mao Zedong, and they strangle, and they they starve Chiang Kai shek, who was our friend, and lots of evangelists, lots of Christians in China. Yeah. And if they succeed in toppling the government of Chiang Kai shek and and supporting the government of Mao, Mao's gonna kill 60,000,000 of his own Chinese people. Yeah. And they're gonna have a one child policy. They're gonna be the beta test for the globalist with the social credit scores And they're in inhumane organ Just harvesting, there in India. All of Now if you're a Christian in China today, you're under the radar. Yeah. You're you're suffering. Don't even know how many millions of people, Christians, are being killed in China and and North Korea and these other countries. So America, the only reason we've had this wonderful, wonderful season of prosperity and and blessing Right. Is because America was founded upon a Judeo Christian ethic, upon the old and the New Testament, and the church was once strong. And that restraining influence of the church kept at bay the Illuminati and all the different groups that are trying to take us down. Yeah. Well, at the end of the age here, the power within the church is waning because the church has lost its It's weakened because the church doesn't know the truth. The word. The church and nor lives according to the truth. Right. So those documents and all those things that are there to protect us are going to crumble because of deception. They're gonna deceive and of inactivity, because the salt, when it loses its savor, it's good for nothing but to be trodden under the foot of men. But God's still sovereign, and until the rapture, as weak and anemic as we are, we're still a restrainer against the Antichrist emerging. He can't emerge till the rapture happens according to second Thessalonians chapter two. Right. So we're watching the apostasy. We're watching the great falling away. Jesus described this apostasy to the church of Laodicea as being lukewarm, neither hot or cold. Yeah. And why? Because they were fat and happy. Yeah. Because they said, hey, we're rich and increased with goods in need of Yeah. You're you're you're Self sufficient. Hey, God must be loving me because look at how much money I got. Well, if your money, your idol, goes down, if the bond market and the stocks and bonds and everything go down Yeah. All of a sudden, uh-oh, uh-oh, what happened? That can change in It a can change in a second. Mhmm. And so Jesus said, no, your true condition is you're naked, poor, blind, and miserable. That's your true condition. Church of Laodicea. Yeah. Jesus is kicked out of that church. Right. He's on out that church. Out, and guys like you mentioned are all of a sudden authoritative, making a whole new Bible, a whole new eschatology. Yeah. We're gonna take the kingdom by storm. Yeah. Where is that? Have a Where is that? We have a new revelation Yeah. Of how what the Bible is saying. Yeah. It's crazy. So it's time to to help people realize that the rapture is real. Yeah. It hasn't happened yet. We are anticipating the pre trib rapture for the point that you just made that we are not to suffer God's wrath. It is not appointed to us to suffer God's wrath. And it just doesn't line up in the Bible to go up mid trib, you can count the days. So you know, you know. So you lose a doctrine of imminency. Yeah. No imminency anymore. You have just said Matthew twenty four thirty six, no man knows the day or the hour. Mhmm. Only my father in heaven, speaking concerning the rapture. Yeah. Right? So if along the lines you're saying, if the rapture was mid or post, I'd be able to count twelve hundred and sixty days from the midpoint and know that, alright, it's gonna happen on this day. Yes. But And that's in Revelation? Yeah. 13, I think. Well, it's abomination of desolation spoken about Daniel the prophet when you see Jesus said Matthew 24. And so Daniel spoke of the beast going into the temple after twelve hundred and sixty days of signing that peace treaty. Mhmm. And he goes into the temple that he helps Israel rebuild, and he declares himself to be God and demands to be worshipped as God. So if I'm a mid tribber, that's the midpoint of the tribulation period. You know, day you walk in. If I'm a post tribber, then I'm gonna count twelve hundred and sixty more days, three and a half years, forty two months. And I'm gonna say, well, that's the second coming of Christ. Yeah. And if it's the rapture that they describe of he's gonna take the saints up with him in the clouds and then come right back down Yeah. Then I know the day. You know the day. So there's no eminency. Yeah. There's no there's no point of only my father knows the day and the hour. Yeah. So the emphasis upon watching, the emphasis upon living a life of purity. Right. Lose Yeah. Anticipation. Mhmm. That's awesome. That's perfect. It's so we have to define the tribulation. What is the tribulation period? The tribulation period is in Daniel nine twenty seven, and it's the signing of the peace treaty with the Antichrist with the nation of Israel, which is miraculous because they've been out of the land for close to two thousand years. Yeah. But Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven is fulfilled so that Israel can come back into their land and their rebirth on 05/14/1948. So there's a point in time where Israel's been regathered in unbelief, and according to Romans 11 verse 25, blindness in part has happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in. Mhmm. So we're in what's called a church age. The church started at Pentecost and continues to this point right here, and the church age will end with the rapture. The tribulation will begin with the signing of the peace treaty, two different events. Right. And so the tribulation period of people are what's the tribulation period? The tribulation period is the seventieth seven of Daniel. Mhmm. This is what's called the time of Jacob's trouble. This is where God takes, and he purifies a one third remnant. Two thirds are gonna die in the tribulation period of the Jews, according to Zechariah thirteen eight and nine. A one third remnant is going to be purified going through the fire of the tribulation. The pressure. The pressure, all of it. And Jesus told them, you're not gonna see me again until you say Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. And they're gonna be with no other options. They're gonna know that the antichrist has deceived them, and with his armies converging upon them according to Revelation 12 going after the woman. Mhmm. And she's fleeing Jerusalem. She's lost ground, the nation of Israel, can't hold Jerusalem from the armies of the Antichrist. Armies of the Antichrist is looking back, and Babylon's just been hit. Yeah. It's taken out. Rather than going toward Babylon, he's gonna move toward the woman, Revelation 12, toward the nation of Israel. It's a trap that God's setting. Setting a trap for him. Yeah. And so the area of Basra, Isaiah 63, is where the nation of Israel, the one third remnant, ancient Moab, Southern Jordan of today. Jesus is going to return Petra. Yep. And Jesus can return according to the second Thessalonians chapter two, and he's gonna destroy the Antichrist. How? By the brightness of his coming and his sword of his no. Say it. Help me. Got it. Brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth. Right. And so he's going to come in the clouds, and we're gonna be there with him because we've been raptured. We've been raptured seven years before. Mhmm. So we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Yeah. That's the end. That's the that's the end of the tribulation period. So we just spoke of how it starts, and we talked about how how it ends. It ends with the second coming of Christ Right. As he's gonna intervene. And he said in Matthew 24, except those days be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for who? Elect's sake. For the elect's sake, those days were shortened. Intervenes. Which we distinguish? That's Israel. Yeah. The one third of church. Right? And when they say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, some people might be confused. What they're saying is Jesus is the Messiah. Mhmm. That is Very interpretation important. Interpretation of blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord is those one third remnant escape, they're protected in Basra, in Petra, by God, and they re they they catch the light bulb goes on Yes. And they say, Jesus is our Messiah. Amen. And then then Jesus comes in that second coming. That's so amazing. And and the reason he says that is that is that in his first coming on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, everybody's crying out, hosanna, hosanna, Hosanna. And he says in Luke 19, if you'd have known Yeah. In this thy day of your visitation, but now it's hid. Yeah. So in in Daniel, he says Messiah would be cut off. Mhmm. Cut off after sixty nine of those sevens or four hundred and eighty three years. So he says Daniel prophesies from the time of going forth to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of the Messiah, the prince, would be sixty nine seven year periods of time, which on March fourteenth four forty five BC, Artaxerxes gets the command to go and restore and rebuild Jerusalem Right. For the Jews that were held for seventy years in Babylon. Yep. Now Nehemiah gets to go back and Ezra gets to go back and Zerubbabel, and they get to go back and rebuild the walls and the temple and get things going again. The command went forth historically on March fourteenth, four forty five BC. Four hundred and eighty three years later, a hundred and seventy, let's see, hundred and seventy three, eight hundred and eighty days to the very day Jesus walked into Jerusalem Into Jerusalem. And they didn't recognize him as the Messiah. Yes. Right? Right. Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday. And Jesus said because you didn't know this day this day, this very day Mhmm. You know? And so he's weeping over the city of Jerusalem because he knows that in seventy AD, Titus would surround the city and destroy these people. Right. And how often I would have gathered you as the mother hen does gather her brood under wings, you would not. Your city has left you desolate. You're not gonna see me again until you say Blessed is he who comes in So the name of the so that is that one third remnant that's gonna be there at the They're regathered presently in unbelief. Jacob's They don't believe right now. Yeah. The believers are in Iran. Right. How do you how do you do that? That's amazing. God's word. In Israel presently, we love Israel. God's gonna bless those that bless Israel. But by and large, they're regathered in unbelief. They don't believe in our Jesus. Right? It's amazing. But they they are being called. They're being led by by the spirit to to go back to Israel because it's Yes. Prophetically Yes. Gonna happen. But it's gonna take a major weapon. Trouble. It's gonna take a major, major, major series of events to bring them to the place where they have no other option. That's right. Right? Yep. They're absolutely last, you know? The very last. Then they recognize their Messiah is the one they crucified. That's amazing. Mean, have Isaiah 53. They have Psalm 22. They have Micah five two. They have so many prophecies, Old Testament prophecies, but they can't see. They can't connect with God. They don't recognize Jesus presently. Yeah. You see what I mean? Wow. I came into my own, and my own knew me not, he says. Yeah. Didn't know him. Jesus said, I come in my father's name, and, you know, you received me not, in in John five. Another shall come in his own name, in him you will receive. So they're gonna be deceived by the antichrist. They are. And their and the antichrist is gonna help them build the temple. But their eyes are gonna be open Yep. When he goes into the temple and declares himself to be god, demands him then their eyes are open. We've been tricked. They're like, what? Don't you hate when you realize you've been tricked? Yep. You've been deceived? The light bulb goes on, you're like, oh, no. You know? What have I done? Yeah. What have I done? And then the then all hell breaks loose on them. Right. And the world, and them especially. So this dispensation here, the church age starts out Jewish. The church is all Jewish in the beginning. Mhmm. And then it it extends toward the area of the Samaritans with Philip in Acts chapter eight, so you have half breeds. And then by the time you get to chapter nine, Paul's all the way to Damascus going after going after Christians. But the house of Cornelius in chapter 10, Peter's visiting there. So now the Gentiles are starting to respond to the gospel and less and less Jews. Yeah. But more and more Gentiles. So Paul's the apostle That's and the that mystery. So there's a very small number. They're they're the true vine we're grafted in, so we can't get all haughty about it. But God did not replace them. Paul pointed out Romans nine, Israel's past election. Chapter 10 of Romans, Israel's present rejection right now. Yep. Chapter 11, Israel's future restoration. Restoration. So the gospel goes forth to the Jew first, the priority to the Jew, and then to the Gentile. So the just shall live by faith. That's our emphasis. We're we're going and we're sharing and preaching and teaching the the good news. We're also students of prophecy, letting people know all throughout church history for two thousand years, be looking up. Jesus could come right now. He could come right now. Right. Living with expectancy, living with a sense of our Lord cometh, With you lampstands filled with oil and ready. Every Well, that's awesome. Thank you so much. This was such a great explanation and scriptures. I love that we have the opportunity to give the ones out here who have maybe disregarded the rapture because they they said my grandma used to believe in that and maybe I did too at one point and and, I'm not so sure about it nowadays because the church I'm attending is not teaching us this or any prophecy at all. So, but what better time in our world to bring that to light, to bring the scriptures to people's attention again, to begin to grasp the the doctrine of the rapture and embrace it, and use it as our blessed hope. I thank you so much, Pastor Thank you. We laid the foundation, one of the rapture. Exactly. The next one will go through the verses for him. There you go. Go through it systematic way to lay that to explain Lay it out. The biblical layout of the rapture. Yes. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks for having me. You're welcome.
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Be Not Deceived Podcast with Vicki Wiederrich
Be Not Deceived is a podcast dedicated to looking at Biblical truth and comparing it to the lies the world and the devil is telling to cause deception in the church and in our society at large in the present day. The devil is trying to deceive as many as possible, but God always wins!
