It will not be long, and I will be gone from this world.

For me, there are two possibilities for departure:

1. Death:
• "Nothing is certain but death and taxes." (Daniel Defoe)
• "It is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment." (God: Hebrews 9:27)
2. Rapture:
• "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet* shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." (1 Corinthians 15:52)


• "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain 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." (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17)
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There are no other options! So, be ready for my departure.

• If by death: There are two simple steps to finalize my being here:
• Burry me;
• Read my Will and dispose of my earthly goods according to that plan.


• If by rapture: There are two possibilities:
• You are going too. In that case, the Lord will make all the arrangements.
• You will be "Left Behind." In that case – some big problems:

For those left behind after the Rapture,

• What will happen?
• The Will (Mine): My Will, and all others, might be worthless. So many people will be missing, there is going to be a massive backlog of Wills to be adjudicated, so getting to mine will probably take more than 3 ½ years. By then, there will be so much chaos and tragedy in the world, that courts will probably cease to function rationally. So, bid my stuff, "Goodbye!"



• The Peace: Some obscure man will suddenly appear on the world scene with the "answer" to what just happened. He will present a spectacular plan for world peace. Most will be so wanting a solution to the world’s problems that they will believe "A Lie."


• The "New World Order" will be here and most will love it. As this is written, leaders throughout the world are talking about this coming "New Word Order" with its world "Peace." Leaders are working to achieve its arrival. News media and propaganda dissimulators throughout the world are on board and promoting it as "The Answer."
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  The World will then come under the dictatorship of the "Man of Sin" with his "New World Order" and the world will become more vile than ever imagined.
• The references to God or a god, will be gone, ignored or eliminated.

The "Man of Sin" will define himself to be God. He will ultimately sign a 7 year peace treaty with Israel and for some reason will break it after only 3 ½ years. The first 3 ½ years will be a time of general peace among nations because the "Man with the Answers" will be so astoundingly charismatic, awesomely wise, and spectacularly capable of leadership and will rule with total control over the "New World Order."


2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."

• The Wrath of God will be unleashed when the "Man of Sin" breaks the treaty.

Why the Wrath? God’s wrath will fall upon a wicked world that has continually rejected Him, His Commandments, and His plan of salvation.


Read the Book of Revelation, Chapters 4 – 19 for an account of God’s wrath being unleashed upon the vileness of the wicked world.
(It may well be that some of the "plagues" during this period will be caused by the people themselves whom God allows to generate catastrophic phenomena. (A Question: Might a prediction of human generated climate change and massive famine become a reality?)

The termination of the time of Wrath will be the Second Coming of Christ as


"KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
(See the Book of The Revelation, Chapter 19:11-21)

World events seem to be moving toward the "end times" events very quickly.

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What to do NOW?

• Get ready for your departure.
• Departure can be by death.
• Everyone will die and this will be the termination of their life on the planet. The body will cease to function, will decay, and the molecules will be changed or utilized by various means.

However, physical death is not the termination of a person’s real life. The real "person" will live forever. There will be a RESURRECTION of every human who has died from the beginning: Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth, Noah, Abraham, everyone!

• Death for those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord will mean an immediate presence with God Himself. The Apostle Paul stated: "Absent from the body, present with the Lord." (2 Corinthians 5:8)


• Death for those have continued in their sin and did not accept God’s free gift of forgiveness and eternal life, will mean to be condemned forever and each will stand before God’s Judgment. Their name will not be found in the Book of Life.
  (Revelation 20:11-15)


• Departure can be by Rapture.
• Rapture Ready: If you know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, you are ready for the Rapture. Many of the old line denominational churches do not teach that there will be a Rapture. However, every person who has accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord will be taken to be with the Lord by the Rapture. This event will go across denominational lines and their varying views of the Second Coming of Christ. Each individual who is Rapture Ready – will be taken to be forever with the Lord. Church membership will not be the criteria for departure at the Rapture.


• Not Rapture Ready: To be both Death and/or Rapture Ready:

Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3:3)

Jesus also stated: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36)

God's plan of salvation is simple:

• God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to this earth to die, to take our place, for the penalty of sin. Therefore, the price of forgiveness is fully, completely paid by Christ’s death. "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
• God now offers forgiveness and eternal life, as a gift, to any individual who will:
• Admit being a sinner. (have not kept God’s commandments) God states: "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" (Romans 3:23)
• Repent. Means turn from sin - to God..
• Accept Christ’s payment for sin. (Romans 5:6 ". . . Christ died for the ungodly."
• Accept Christ as Savior and Lord of your life. (Romans 10:9, 10)
• Accept the fact that doing this, with sincerity, means that God now makes you His child, you are born into the family of God, a child of God, sins forgiven, with God’s Holy Spirit now living in you. (Romans 8:1 & Romans 10:13)
• Accept the fact that you now need to find out what God has said for you and to you. God’s Revelation to you is in the Bible. Beginning to read from the Gospel of John is best. In the Book of John, you will read many of the things that Jesus said, and especially what He did by His death and Resurrection.
  Psalm 119:11 "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."

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No one knows WHEN the Rapture will occur but each person needs to "BE READY."
Jesus said, "He that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out."

Also He said, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give your rest." (Matthew 12:28)
The Bible also says, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; . . .." (2 Corinthians 5:17-19)

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* The "Trumpet" link to Zola Levitt's commentary provides a clear message of the end times.
While not all biblicists fully agree with his views, a majority do see the Trumpet Feast as a clearly indicated time for
the Rapture.
We do not know the day, nor the hour. But, keep in mind that the Trumpet Feast is a two day celebration.
Thus, we do not know what day, and certainly not the hour.
However, the Rapture can be at any moment of God's choosing.
The "Feast Days" may only be symbols, not the actual day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The word, RAPTURE, means "caught up." All the believers in Christ throughout the world will be "caught up" in an instant to be with Christ forever.

(1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."

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 You are going too? Many church groups do not teach this doctrine. However, all believers ("born again" into the family of God) will be "caught up" to meet the Lord in the air. "And so shall be ever with the Lord." Even though a believer in Christ as Savior may neither believe in nor expect the Rapture, he/she will be caught up with the Lord! This will be without any protest!!! So all believers, millions around the world, will be GONE from this planet.

(1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."

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"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 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 not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain 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. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)

 

"After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne." (Revelation 4:1, 2)

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2 Thessalonians 2:8-11 "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, . . . Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."

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(Revelation 19:11 - 22)
11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 14And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. 17And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. 19And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

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(Revelation 20:1 - 4)
1And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."

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(Revelation 20:11-15)
"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."

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(Romans 10:9, 10) "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."

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Romans 8:1 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

Rom 10:11-13 "For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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