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In the Christian community we talk a lot about prayer but how many of us know the proper Biblical way to pray? In Matthew 6:5-15 Jesus clearly teaches us how to pray. I believe that if you follow the model that Christ gives us it will help you have a more productive and fruitful prayer life.

On this channel I have made a lot of videos talking about how close we are to the rapture of the church. Rather than making more videos about various signs pointing out the obvious that we are living in the last days I want to discuss where we are going when the Rapture does occur. How much do you know about heaven? If someone were to ask you to describe heaven could you? And would that answer be based on scripture or things that you have heard that you can't be 100% certain are in scripture? I think it is important that we are ready to answer this question because if we are witnessing to someone we need to be able to give a better answer than some type of vague well heaven is a much better place than this earth and you won't ever be sick.

In part one of this series we looked at where heaven is and we saw in the third heaven there is a City. In todays video we take a closer look at that city. If you have ever had to move and are looking to buy a new house one of the first things you start with is you look at neighborhoods you are interested in living. In Revelation 21&22 John is giving us the Brochure for the New Jerusalem. Remember the Reason for doing this study is to stop being hyper-focused on WHEN the Rapture will take place, rather to encourage the Body of Christ WHERE we are going at the Rapture. If this is somewhere you would like to go one day but don't know how I implore you to check out this video. https://youtu.be/G6q4zmzhUKA

Part 1 we discussed where heaven is and saw that in the 3rd heaven there is a City Part 2 we Looked at this Celestial City and talked about its size and it’s construction In today’s video we are going to meet the inhabitants of the New Jerusalem and get a look at life in that City. Remember the Reason for doing this study is to stop being hyper-focused on WHEN the Rapture will take place, rather to encourage the Body of Christ WHERE we are going at the Rapture.

I may pull parts of this video out later and make it multi part but there are 2 main sections I am going to talk about these converging signs and give my understanding of them and why so many content creators are making errors Then I am going to go through some popular rapture scriptures and point out the erroneous assumptions I believe many are making. I will add time stamps later to make it easier to jump around through this video. Part 1 0:00 We see Converging Signs but where are they converging signs Part 2 Let's review some proper rapture scriptures 32:15 2 Peter 3:8-10 One Day as a 1,000 Years. Does this scripture prove that Christ is coming back in 6000 years after the the creation of the world 44:27 Matthew 24 : 36-44 No one "knows the day or the hour" "comes like a thief" Beware date setting and speculation 1:10:01 I make a side note are content creators the John the Baptist's of today 1:18:32 2 Thessalonians 2 : 1-12 Will the Great lie Help the world enter a new normal? 1:32:34 Matthew 24 : 45-51 What does watch, be ready mean? 1:37:30 1 Thessalonians 5 Does this tell us we should know the date because this was written after the Cross 1:43:48 Matthew 16 : 1-4 Why did Christ rebuke the Pharisees? 1:48:03 Daniel 9 : 24-27 What does the Prophecy actually say 1:52:41 Daniel 12 : 11-12 Revelation 11:3; 12:6 What do all these days tell us?

I have been working on several other projects for my channel and I don't want anyone to think I am oblivious to what is going on in Israel. I personally believe that this war MAY be a fulfillment of Psalm 83 with the countries that are involved. The truth is when you are in a prophecy it is harder to know for sure that is the prophecy you are in until you have gone through the prophetic event. I will not be using this platform to speculate and give a play by play run down of this war as it unfolds. I am not qualified to do so and I have access to the same information you do. I do not have inside contacts at the IDF to source information from and I am in the United states not Israel. If you are looking for more in-depth analysis from a Christian Worldview; I would recommend the following channels: @beholdisrael @pastorjameskaddis @thebalaganconnection7129

At my Church we are starting a new Wednesday Night Study reviewing the Book “Why I Believe” by Chip Ingram © 2017. You can get this book at one of these retailers. (I have no financial interest in you buying this book) https://livingontheedge.org/product/why-i-believe-study-guide/ https://www.christianbook.com/believe-straight-answers-honest-questions-christianity/chip-ingram/9780801074417/pd/074417?event=ESRCG https://www.amazon.com/s?k=why+i+believe+chip+ingram&crid=1FEUOMP47DUK3&sprefix=Why+I+Believe+%2Caps%2C103&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_5_14 I have not read this book and my Pastor wanted to do something on Apologetics What is Apologetics? It is the reasoned arguments or writings in justifying why you believe in something. Christian apologetics are why we Christians Believe what we believe. Is it just blind faith or do we have good reasons for believing what we do? In this day and age we aren’t lacking for information but rather we are bombarded with tons of information and our challenge today is to use to discernment to determine what is good information. If you are like me, you were raised in a predominately Christian American atmosphere. Most of us take for granted certain truths because our parents believed them, their parents believed them, and on and on. But what happens when you are confronted with someone who does not believe? Do you have an answer for why you believe the things you do? Or are you intimidated by challenges to your belief and run away from that situation as fast as you can? I welcome you to join me on this personal Bible Study as we review this book by Pastor Chip Ingram. At my Church we will be discussing each chapter so for this YouTube I will introduce discussion points that you can use to discuss either in the comments section or with people local to you. (I have had a few viewers mention that they live in areas where they don’t have a good church to go to. I am not familiar with Pastor Ingram, but I trust my Pastor that this will be a good resource into this topic. I have done a previous video 3 years ago discussing worldviews that I will link at the end of this video. https://youtu.be/1oJW546k0IQ?si=5LfqAx3SH4c7ix3u . If someone is adamant that there is no such thing as God and we are here as the result of some cosmic accident I am not claiming that this study will convince them, but it should equip you to give a reason defense for why you believe what you believe. I will also link videos from Pastor Ingram since this is his material if you rather hear this straight from him. (See Video on YouTube for these Links)

We are continuing our Review of the Book “Why I Believe” By Pastor Chip Ingram. I will not be recapping previous episodes, but I will add these episodes to a playlist that I will link at the end of this video along with a link to Pastor Ingram’s video for you to review. Of the major religions of the World ours is the only one I know of where our Savior died for our sins and was raised again on the third day. Buddha died and supposedly reached a higher plane Muhammed was carried off into heaven by a horse But Christ was crucified on an old Roman cross and after three day resurrected Himself back to life and after about 40 days following His resurrection ascended to heaven. Join me as we discover in part 2 if we have an answer to did Jesus really rise from the grave or is this a myth? Here is the link for that site I mention in my video from GotQuestions.org https://www.gotquestions.org/prophecies-of-Jesus.html

We are continuing our Review of the Book “Why I Believe” By Pastor Chip Ingram. I will not be fully recapping previous episodes, but I will add these episodes to a playlist that I will link at the end of this video along with a link to Pastor Ingram’s video for you to review. In the last episode we were discussing the resurrection of Jesus. Pastor Ingram in Chapter 1 of his book “Why I Believe” began giving us 7 reasons why we should believe the Jesus of the Bible was an actual historical figure who literally died and was raised again. In chapter 1 he gives us the first 4 reasons Reason 1 The Historicity of Jesus of Nazareth Reason 2 The Character of Jesus is Unquestioned Reason 3 The Works f Jesus Went Unchallenged Reason 4 The Identity of Jesus was Confirmed In Chapter 2 Pastor Ingram is going to give us the 3 remaining reasons. (Note: I am going through this book just like you would, and I must confess at this point I don’t know why Pastor Ingram split these reason like this. I am not an author but if I were writing this book personally; I would have either covered all 7 reasons in one chapter or dedicated a chapter to each reason and would be making more robust arguments for each reason. Part 2 of this series was 1 hour and 5 minutes long. I added a lot of my own reasoning following his outline because I agree with Pastor Ingram. The resurrection is such an important thing that if we are not rock solid on that then any other argument for our faith is pointless.) There are those that have said that Jesus didn’t really die and that his death and resurrection were faked by his disciples. Some like Author Dan Brown who is famous for his book “The Davinci Code” took this idea and wrapped it in a fiction that Jesus survived the cross and married Mary Magdalene and had children by her. In this video we are going to explore the question did Jesus REALLY die? After all if we are putting all our faith in the resurrection of Christ it is hard have a resurrection if there was never a death.

This video was recorded 9/20/2023. Last week I warned not to get swept up in all the excitement and hype around the feast of trumpets. Now that the feast of trumpets have come and gone a lot of people may be feeling disappointed and discouraged. This is not an "I told you so" video. In this video I am encouraging my fellow content creators not to double down and set and speculate on more dates and instead focus on sticking to scripture and confine any speculation to the scripture and sound doctrine. Folks being wrong about the feast of trumpets doesn't mean the Lord is not coming back or prove the pre-tribulation position is in error. I also play clips from 2 videos. one @GodAMinuteGoJesusGo and one from @Soothkeep

This is a speculation video. I have no idea who the anti-christ is but I think I have found a good pop culture analogy for what the rise of the Beast will look like. In George Lucas' Star Wars Saga especially the prequels we see the rise of a random senator to galactic emperor. I draw several parallels between what we know from scripture and this fictional universe. Let me know what you think. By the way if any of you content creators out there with more resources and time want to use this idea to make a better video feel free to do so.

One of the biggest misconceptions on Salvation is that you have to speak in tongues to prove that you have the Holy Spirit. The Bible clearly teaches that you receive the Holy Spirit when you accept Christ as your Savior. Tongues is just one of many spiritual gifts and to elevate this gift to the level of an evidence of the filling of the Holy Spirit is wrong. These teachings can drive people from the Faith thinking they are not good enough and they give up and is used to scare others that they will not be raptured. This is a more informal video. Do your own research. Scriptures to read 1 Corinthians 12-15 Romans 8:9 Ephesians 1 :13-14 Here are some examples of tongues: https://www.youtube.com/live/ZxB_zc0US4I?si=BQEnevcwwe0GlYEE https://youtu.be/gvzSDCYA33I?si=BPIn1h52mZoMBciq https://youtu.be/GQfofUCBypk?si=SDuEV_kc6IPUGrzA https://youtube.com/shorts/P5tiQw8ohxE?si=yYAnuXGjxr-537JN

In a few of my videos I have mentioned the Rapture would be A if not THE triggering event to push the world into the Tribulation. In these videos I have thrown out some numbers and in this video I show my work. This will be a very technical video and will have a lot of slides so you will probably want to watch this video rather than listen to it. You may also want to watch this on a computer so you can see all the data I am sharing and you may want to make sure to watch this is full screen. According to the US Census Bureau’s International Data base the world population is about 8 Billion. Several pieces of this dashboard for my calculations later. You can see the link on your screen and I will put this link in the description of this video if you want to do your own math. Source https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/idb/#/dashboard?menu=countryViz&COUNTRY_YEAR=2023&COUNTRY_YR_ANIM=2023 Most of my viewers are in the United States and I am in the US so I like this data source because you can choose which country to look at. In my previous videos I have mainly talked about global number but I will also calculate an estimate for the US. Not all countries are equal. Source https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/idb/#/dashboard?menu=countryViz&COUNTRY_YEAR=2023&COUNTRY_YR_ANIM=2023&CCODE_SINGLE=US&CCODE=US Believers – Something to keep in mind when I get to my calculations all the statistics, I have looked up estimate the Global Christian population between 2 and 2.6 Billion. I don’t like to source data from Wikipedia but if you know how to use Wikipedia you can look at all the references for the wiki article. I think these numbers are overly generous see Matthew 7:21-23 21 I am being very conservative in my estimations because throughout scripture believers are portrayed as the smaller group. See Matt 7:14, 9:35, 9:37, 22:14; Luke 10:2, Luke 12:32, Luke 13:22-24 Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country#cite_note-:0a-3 Though there is no specific passage that mentions an “age of Accountability” The Clearest example of this is 2 Samuel 12:21-23 Children – This is very individual to the child. Romans 1:20 tells us that “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.” so indirectly if a child does not have the capacity to recognize God they would have an excuse though they aren’t innocent. Also Consider Matthew 19:14 “but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” Mentally Disabled Using the sources below I am going to assume 1-3% of global population Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9805697/#:~:text=Globally%2C%2092.8%20million%20individuals%20or,107.6%20million%20individuals%20with%20ID https://ijpds.org/article/view/1342 https://www.inclusivecitymaker.com/disabled-people-in-the-world-in-2021-facts-and-figures/

We in the Christian Content Creator Community especially those of us interested in Biblical prophecy talk about, debate, speculate about things like the rapture, the tribulation, the antichrist, the mark of the beast, the millennium reign, etc. In today’s video I want to go back to basics and ask a simple question. Why is the Lord going to allow this world to go through a period which we call the tribulation? I mean the world is bad enough. Surely if He wanted; He could come back today defeat the forces of evil lock satan up in the bottomless pit and take His rightful place on His Throne. Surely God must have some purpose for putting the earth through this. This is what we will explore. You may want to read Daniel 9 in it's entirety

It seems like today every Jewish holiday prompts calls from the Content Creator Community to watch for the Rapture on that Date. I explore this topic and ask if we should be expecting the Rapture of the Church on a Jewish feast.

If you are interested in Bible prophecy no doubt you have run across videos about stars and constellations and blood moons. Are there any Heavenly signs pointing us to the rapture of the church? I explore this topic in this video.

In this video I speculate that there is a gap of time between the Rapture and the Tribulation. Sorry if this video is a little long and rambly but there are so many pre-trib watchers out there on YouTube taking every news article and tying it to scripture. They are getting worked up and working up their viewers that the rapture must happen before X and they are pointing to things that are only 2 or 3 months away. I believe all these things confirm we are living in the last days but what people are missing is it takes time to roll this stuff out. The pieces are there but they need time to organize. Remember the thing a few years ago they wanted everybody in the world to have? It took months to develop the thing and then months to deploy the thing. If the rapture happens today (here are the numbers I was sharing in the video): - 80 Million disappear if only 1% of the population is Christian - There are 385K babies born globally every day so I estimate that means right now there are 97 Million pregnant women - According to UNESCO there are 656 Million Children under the age of 5 - 1% - 3% of the global population suffers from a severe mental disability. Conservatively in a moment in a winkling of an eye 900 Million to 2.45 Billion people would disappear from this earth. - How many of those left behind would be killed as a side effect of the rapture? Wrecks, fires, crime (if you are having surgery soon and don't know if you are saved make sure your surgeon is an atheist) - Will countries mistake the rapture as some new first strike weapon and retaliate? - What about Babylon? Some of the scriptures Babylon could be symbolic but Revelation 18 and especially verse 21 makes me think that Babylon will be the new world center because they are rebuilding it now and verse 21 says it is never to be inhabited again. Below are some sources you can check out and I deliberately did not include any Christian sites https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/03/24/babylon-is-coming-back-to-life-with-its-famed-ishtar-gate-to-be-restored-by-this-summer https://www.wmf.org/project/future-babylon https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/world/middleeast/babylon-iraq-archeology-conservation.html - What about the Jewish Temple? How long will that take to build? Even if a lot of it is pre-fabricated there still has to be some time involved. Before construction can even start something has to change in Jerusalem to even allow the temple to be on the temple mount. - If you wanted everyone to switch to a CBDC While you are dealing with all the chaos from the rapture do you really think everyone could switch in 45 days if the rapture happened today from the recording of this video to the SDG summit on Sept 18th and 19th. If anything the rapture might delay this meeting. They also have another one of these 9/22&23/2024 in NYC the summit of the future https://sdg.iisd.org/events/summit-of-the-future/ . Here is an event calendar https://sdg.iisd.org/events/calendar/ so you guys that want to set dates can find the most Biblically Prophetic one that is near a feast and get everyone worked up. I say this in the video but I am going to type it in the description here. THERE ARE NO SIGNS FOR THE RAPTURE! EVERYDAY AND EVERY MINUTE IS POTENTIALLY THE MOMENT OF THE RAPTURE!. (Sorry for the all caps but I know some will say I am using the doctrine of imminence to push out the rapture indefinitely.) We have to stop assuming everything has a direct scriptural correlation. These news stories show us the mindset of our world leaders but they will still need time to organize. NOTE: This video was prerecorded August 3, 2023

Over the last couple of months there has been a lot of debate online over the Imminence of the Rapture and those that want to put a particular date on it. Those that hold to the doctrine of imminence have been linked to the Pharisees of Jesus’ day using the scriptures in Matthew16:1-4 and Luke 12 :54-56. The implication being that those that believe in Christ’s imminent return are somehow less faithful than those that speculate on particular dates. In this video I will attempt to explain why the Doctrine of Imminence is a good thing, how this scripture is being taken out of context and what it really means to be “watching” using modern day weather analogies. This video ran really long and I am sorry about that. It was not scripted (heck none of my videos are fully scripted out). For my fellow content creators that like to set dates about the last 15-20 minutes of this video are for you. I have spent a lot of time looking at your comment sections and am bothered by the disappointment I am seeing in your viewer. I hope you won't hate me for this part but I think we need to take the responsibility of being a Christian content creator seriously. I know there is a game we have to play to get our videos noticed and our audiences expect but what ever next date you have in mind; don't, just don't say it. I implore you to say Christ could come back any moment, you can report on the world system linng things up for the anti-christ but please for the love of God stop setting specific dates. I read nowhere in scripture where there is a special crown for those who accurately predict the Rapture. I know you think you are encouraging people but you are selling spiritual lottery tickets and telling folks if they buy your system they win the lottery when in reality when they don't win they are getting disappointed. When the Rapture happens I am sure we will look back on God's eternal Word and see "yep I see it right here". It's like military code breaking. Without the key to the cypher it is hard to see but on this side we are missing the cypher key.

They say content creators should never read the comments section. You took the time to watch my video and then spent even more time leaving a comment. One trend I have picked up on in the comments section is what a person believes about OSAS or Eternal Security influences how they see the Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ. This is a very divisive topic and my goal with this video is not to debate the merits or criticisms of each position. Truthfully if you have clicked to watch this video you probably have a strong opinion one way or another. I am not trying to convince anyone of a particular opinion but explain my position as I see it in scripture and how it affects my belief in the rapture. If you are not saved I have linked a video at the end that goes through the plan of salvation

One of the biggest philosophical questions of all time is why am I here? Why do I exist? Philosophy has debated this question for years but the answer has been in the Bible all this time.

There are a lot of competing differing views of the end times. I have been making a lot videos lately on the end times. Looking at my comments section on my videos one thing is clear. There are some people I am sure that are trolling me but the legitimate comments seem to come from folks that address competing view-points writing to me like I have never considered any other type of end time position. The purpose of this video is two-fold. 1. Allow my critics to know that I am indeed aware of their position 2. To give the most impartial presentation I can of the various end time views I am not trying to convince you I am right and you are wrong. I am just going to present the competing views This is not a salvation issue. If you know Christ as your Lord and Savior which ever of these views are correct He will take care of you. If you don’t know Christ as your Lord you need to repent of your sin or risk facing an eternity in Hell either through natural death or one of the end times scenarios described in this video. Postmillennialism This website gives a list of scriptures to support the postmillennial position https://www.samstorms.org/all-articles/post/the-postmillennial-view-of-the-kingdom-of-god Amillennialism Sermon from Sam Storms an Amillennialist https://www.samstorms.org/enjoying-god-blog/post/i-am-an-amillennialist--because-of--revelation-20 Why every Christian Should at least consider the Amillennial view https://georgebaptist.co.za/why-every-christian-should-at-least-consider-the-amillennial-view/ Premillennialism What is premillennialism? https://www.gotquestions.org/premillennialism.html Pros and Cons for Each View of Revelation https://koinos.church/pros-and-cons-for-each-view-of-revelation/ Millennial Views Comparison Chart https://theologue.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/millennialviews-comparisionchart.pdf Post-Tribulation Rapture What are the strengths and weaknesses of the posttribulational view of the rapture (posttribulationism)? https://www.gotquestions.org/posttribulationism.html Mid-Tribulation Rapture What are the strengths and weaknesses of the midtribulational view of the rapture (midtribulationism)? https://www.gotquestions.org/midtribulationism.html Pre-Wrath-Tribulation Rapture What are the strengths and weaknesses of the pre-wrath view of the rapture? https://www.gotquestions.org/pre-wrath-rapture.html Pre-Tribulation Rapture What are the strengths and weaknesses of the pretribulational view of the rapture (pretribulationism)? https://www.gotquestions.org/pretribulationism.html Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:03 Overview of the Various Views 04:00 Postmillennialism 07:28 Amillennialism 10:40 Premillennialism 15:45 Premillennialist views on the timing of Christ’s return and a call for Unity 20:00 Premillennialist Post-Tribulationist 23:18 Premillennialist Mid-Tribulationist 25:49 Premillennialist Pre-Wrath-Tribulationist 27:43 Premillennialist Pre-Tribulationist 31:00 Closing Comments

In the End Times It Will Be Like the Days of Noah and Lot. A lot of people who study the end times will use this verse and think that they are essentially the same thing. In this video I compare these two Historical Biblical events to see what they reveal to us about the last days and show how these events may illustrate the pre-tribulation rapture position

I have seen a lot of comments and argument over the concept of the Rapture. Disagreement is fine but the trend that concerns me is the vitriolic hatred towards people that hold my view. Do you believe that Salvation is by believing by faith that Christ died for your sins and that His shed innocent blood make atonement for your sins? I covered this in My Real Truth of the Rapture Series but few have watched probably because it is long (BTW it is long because I read a lot of scripture) and people today want quick easy answers so I will try to cover this as quickly as possible. To save video time I did not read a lot of scripture. Everyone that disputes you says that you are twisting scripture or show me the scripture. Don't take my word for anything. I am nobody. Here are Scriptures to consider Rapture (read the whole chapter lest I am accused of twisting scripture or taking it out of context): 1 Thessalonians 4 1 Corinthians 15 Hebrews 9:24-28 Revelation 4:1 Scriptures Rebuking Hateful argument James 3:13-18 1 Timothy 2:8 1 Timothy 6:1-7 2 Timothy 2:8-19 2 Timothy 3 & 4 Epistle of Titus Why we are arguing over details and dividing the Body of Christ?

It is common in the Bible Prophecy world that people use the term being a “Watchman” or “Watchwoman”. Where does this term come from and what is our responsibility and role today?

Sorry for the longer video but I covered a lot. (Look at this this way it would take you 9,912 hours to watch every episode of Ancient Aliens plus all the other shows like cosmos, the unexplained. This video is 45 minutes. I obviously have wasted a lot of my life :) ) Have you noticed say in the last five years there is more and more talk about UFOs (Now called UAPs “Unidentified Arial Phenomenon”) and aliens? What was once a taboo topic that only crazy people and conspiracy theorist talked about on AM talks radio shows like coast-to-coast AM and was the subject matter discussed in weird message boards and chat rooms of the internet and obscure documentaries streaming on independent platforms ; is now a legitimate main stream media topic. Now we have people and governments claiming to have contact UAP’s and Aliens. Does the Bible say anything about Aliens? If we as Christians believe the Bible is true then surely it must have something to say about aliens. Website for Parrot Analytics https://tv.parrotanalytics.com/US/ancient-aliens-history Thumbnail Image created with Bing AI Image Creator powered by Dall-E and PowerPoint.