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It is all the rage to see the rapture in 2 Thess. 2:3. The claim is made that apostasia meant "departure" not "apostasy" and that all the early translations featured "departure." This view is based on a shallow investigation of the subject. The Middle English word "departure" meant dissension, not physical departure. The versions cited all inform us (in footnotes, marginal notes, introductions, prefaces) that they meant "falling away" or "apostasy" when they used the word "departure." We still use this word this way today. Furthermore, I examined all 283 instances of apostasia from its first use in Archimedes' Sand Reckoner until 500 AD. Not once was the word ever used for physical departure. Apart from a handful of rare and unrelated technical senses, it was used exclusively for political rebellion (10% of the time) and religious apostasy (90% of the time).

Continuation of our Daniel study. Invite friends. Let's dig deep into the word of God, not just doctrinally and prophetically, but looking for spiritual principles that we can apply to our lives.

Sometime in the near future every real Christian --- every born-again Christian --- in the world will vanish. This event is called the rapture of the church. The Lord has promised to removed every Christian from the planet prior to pouring out the judgments of the last days. Are you ready for this event? Are you born again? Will you go up in the rapture? If you are not ready, turn away from your self-righteousness, religion, and sin, and trust the Lord Jesus as the only way of salvation. His death and blood is the only payment for sin that God accepts.

This gospel message starts with God's eternal plan, covers the fall and restoration in the garden, and demonstrates that God loves the whole world, that no man is so bad that he is beyond the reach of the gospel, that the only condition of salvation is faith, and that those who believe are adopted into the family of God as children and heirs.

This is the first session of our weekly Daniel Bible Study. I anticipate this study taking maybe 16 weeks. The study will normally be on Friday nights, but may bump earlier in the week if I am traveling.

There is much confusion on this subject. I will show from the Scriptures that Israel will indeed be under the law during the Tribulation but will be saved by grace alone through faith alone, no different than now. Salvation always has been by grace through faith. Men were saved under the law in the OT, but they were not saved by the law or by works.

The indications of the end of the church age suggest that the church is near the end of her sojourn, and the indications of the tribulation suggest that the hour of trial is rapidly bearing down upon the world. These two classes of signs conspire to inform us that the window for the rapture is rapidly closing. Soon and very soon the church is going to meet the Lord in the clouds before the tribulation falls upon the world like an angry bear.

The tribulation will be an awful time of ever increasing judgment on earth. And it will be a time of the most powerful satanic deception ever that will lead to the world worshipping the antichrist. But, at the same time a tremendous revival is going to occur amongst Israel and amongst the Gentiles. Join Pete Garcia and I as we delve into this fascinating subject.

I will demonstrate from the context of the passage that God is here comparing Israel and her prophetic convergence in the last days to a fig tree as it progresses from greening up to leaves to harvest.

There is no doubt that Christmas has been commercialized. There is no doubt Christmas has been amalgamated. There is little doubt that Christ was born in the fall. But does this mean that Christmas is intrinsically pagan? Does this mean Christians should forsake Christmas?

Powered by Melon https://melonapp.com Will the wedding supper happen shortly after the rapture? Or will it happen at the second coming? This will be a deep dive into what the Bible says.

Powered by Melon https://melonapp.com PLEASE START AT 4:50. I HAD AUDIO TROUBLES THAT DELAYED THE START. No event in church history ever rocked Christendom like the rapture will rock Christendom. No Sunday in church history ever saw such spiritual upheaval as the Sunday after the rapture will see.

Do the two witnesses testify during the first half of the seventieth week or the second half. I answer ten common arguments for them testifying during the first half and offer six strong reasons why they testify during the second half.

It is commonly believed that the two witnesses are Enoch and Elijah. But this view is based on a mistaken understanding of Hebrews 9:27. I give a couple reasons why Enoch doesn't fit. And I give six arguments why Moses and Elijah are the best fit.

The Bible clearly teaches that the church shall inherit the universe as the heirs of God and coheirs with Christ. They shall enjoy interaction with physical creation but will not by limited by it. I believe this implies that we will explore and investigate the nearby galaxies.

At the time of the rapture of the church, the world will be experiencing the same relative normality that she has been experiencing for the past two thousand years. She will not experience anything that leaves the territory of normal trials and encroaches on the territory of tribulation-grade trials.

The Bible exhorts us to encourage one another with the precious truth of the rapture. We shall soon depart the sewer of this world for the glories of the New Jerusalem. This encouragement is not diminished for those believers who will be snatched from the midst of persecution (as our dear brethren in China and North Korea are facing). And it will not be diminished if we in America face hard times and persecution ourselves.

It is fairly common for folks in our day to insist that Luke 17:26-29 teaches that the church will go up in the rapture in relative ease and comfort, that she won't see hard times. Is this view true?

There are many different stage-setting events in the whirlwind of prophetic convergence swirling in the world which point to the soon coming of our Lord. My favorite sign in the bunch is the rise of the Russian juggernaut. Mother Russia shall lead a horde of nations in an attempted invasion of Israel that will be thwarted by God himself. The Psalm 83 War and the Russia-led horde of Ezekiel 38-39 are the tribulation events that are closest to the rapture, and therefore they cast the longest convergence shadow on the time of the rapture.

Many folks in our day don't fully appreciate the power of the word of God. Some go so far as to call it dead letter apart from the annointing of the Holy Spirit. Some preachers say that preaching the word of God itself, no matter how accurately and passionately, has zero ability to convert or convict or educate unless there is some special work of God or the Holy Spirit present. This is all a mistake. While we ought to have as much of the filling and power of the Spirit as we can get, the power of the word stands on its own and does not depend on us.

Haggai 2:7 calls the Lord Jesus the desire of the nations. Jesus is the embodiment and ultimate source of all the deepest heart desires of mankind. The believing tribulation remnant will experience this fulfillment at the second coming. The church gets to indulge this blessing early at the rapture of the church.

In my red heifer video I claimed that Mishnah Parah 1:1 required the red heifer to be three years old and that three years meant three years. Friends pointed out that the Temple Institute held that the red heifer only had to be two years old. Many suppose that this difference boils down to the interpretation of "three years" in Mishnah Parah. But this is not the case. In this video I explain the real reason why the Temple Institute is running with two years.

Can we calculate or deduce the timing of the rapture? Is it associated with a Jewish feast or a date on the Jewish calendar. I am convinced that the Bible gives us a resounding NO! In this video I explain why.

Five red heifers were recently delivered to Israel from Texas. Do these red heifers have prophetic significance? Find out in this video.

The Bible clearly teaches that in the day of the Lord the heavens shall roll like a scroll. When does this happen? After the millennium or at the second coming? Is this the universe getting rolled up and thrown away, or is this the heavens overhead getting renewed at the same time that the earth is getting renewed?