THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS - SEPT. 21 - 2017
IT AMAZES ME HOW PEOPLE CANNOT PUT SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE!!
THOSE WHO TEACH THE "SECRET" RAPTURE STUFF, ARE PEOPLE WHO JUST DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE THE MENTAL WHERE-WITH-AL TO PUT SOME PRETTY CLEAR SCRIPTURES WITH PRETTY CLEAR SCRIPTURES.
WE HAVE PAUL TELLING US IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15 ABOUT THE LAST TRUMP. THIS CHAPTER IS COMMONLY CALLED THE "RESURRECTION CHAPTER."
"BUT IF THERE IS NO RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, THEN IS CHRIST NOT RISEN. AND IF CHRIST IS NOT RAISED, THEN IS OUR PREACHING IS VAIN, AND YOUR FAITH IS ALSO VAIN....... AND IF CHRIST BE NOT RAISED, YOUR FAITH IS VAIN, YOU ARE YET IN YOUR SINS. THEN THEY ALSO WHICH ARE FALLEN ASLEEP IN CHRIST ARE PERISHED. IF IN THIS LIFE ONLY WE HAVE HOPE IN CHRIST, WE ARE OF ALL MEN, MOST MISERABLE......BUT NOW IS CHRIST RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND BECOME THE FIRST-FRUITS OF THEM THAT SLEEP......BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER, CHRIST THE FIRST-FRUITS; AFTERWARDS THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING!........
BEHOLD I SHOW YOU A MYSTERY; WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP [YES DEATH IS A SLEEP, NOT AN AWAKE, AS JESUS TAUGHT IN JOHN 11 AND THE DEATH OF LAZARUS], BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED. IN THE 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. FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL SHALL PUT ON IMMORTALITY" (1 COR. 15).
NOW IF WE AT DEATH ALREADY GO TO HEAVEN, TO WALK ABOUT, TO SEE, TO HEAR, TO TALK, TO LIVE, WE HAVE ALREADY BECOME IN-CORRUPTIBLE. SURELY NO ONE BELIEVE WE ARE IN HEAVEN AS A PHYSICAL BEING. SO IF WE ARE ALREADY AT DEATH IN HEAVEN AS IN-CORRUPTIBLE, WHY ARE WE YET TO BECOME INCORRUPTIBLE AT THE LAST TRUMP AND WHEN CHRIST RETURNS.
COMMON LOGICAL SENSE WOULD TELL YOU THIS TEACHING OF GOING TO HEAVEN OR HELL AT DEATH, IS ILLOGICAL WITH WHAT THE APOSTLE PAUL IS TEACHING HERE.
PUTTING IT IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS: WHY BOTHER WITH A RESURRECTION IF WE GO TO HEAVEN AT DEATH AND ARE ALREADY INCORRUPTIBLE.
SOME REALLY STUPID, INEPT, THEOLOGIANS SAY "WELL YOU ARE A DIS-EMBODIED SPIRIT" - NOW WHAT ON EARTH DOES "DIS-EMBODIED" SPIRIT MEAN. JESUS SAID "GOD IS A SPIRIT" [JOHN 4:24]; DOES THIS MEAN GOD HAS NO BODY OF ANY KIND? I PROVE IN OTHER STUDIES THIS IS TOTALLY A BRAINLESS IDEA, NOT BACKED BY THE BIBLE.
DOES "DIS-EMBODIED" MEAN WE ARE THERE IN HEAVEN BUT NOT THERE; WE SPEAK, WE HEAR, WE W ALK AROUND, WE CONVERSE WITH ENOCH, ABRAHAM, MOSES, JOSHUA, DAVID, ALL THE PROPHETS, AND ALL THE SAINTS OF PAST AGES, BUT WE DO NOT SEE THEM, BECAUSE WE ARE DIS-EMBODIED SPIRITS.
THIS KIND OF TEACHING IS UTTERLY SPLIT-MY-SIDES LAUGHABLE!
NO WONDER MANY LAUGH AT THE BIBLE, WHEN SUCH TEACHING IS PRESENTED TO THE WORLD.
DEATH IS TOTAL DEATH.....BLACKNESS.....SLEEPING.....NO DREAMING OF ANY KIND; IT IS SILENCE. THIS SO-CALLED "NEAR-DEATH-EXPERIENCE" IS.... WELL YES NEAR DEATH..... BUT IT IS NOT DEATH! OH THEY SAY THE MACHINES OF MEN REGISTER THE MIND AS BRAIN DEAD, THE HEART HAS STOPPED, AND THEN THEY COME BACK TO LIFE WITH SOME FANCY DREAMS OF HEAVEN OR WHATEVER. THEY WERE NOT DEAD IN THE BIBLE'S TEACHING OF DEATH; THEY WERE INDEED "NEAR-DEATH-EXPERIENCE." WHAT MAN'S PHYSICAL MACHINES TELL US IS ONE THING; WHAT GOD TELLS US DEATH IS, IS ANOTHER THING ALTOGETHER. WHEN YOU REALLY DIE YOU ARE REALLY DEAD, YOU ARE ALSEEP AS JESUS SAID IN JOHN 11. AS LAZARUS WAS REALLY DEAD, AS DEAD CAN BE.
WELL THE SUBJECT OF DEATH IS A LARGE ONE; ALL GONE INTO IN DETAIL ON THIS WEBSITE UNDER "DEATH AND RESURRECTION."
BACK TO THE TRUMPETS.
WE CHRISTIANS ARE RESURRECTED, MADE IMMORTAL, AT THE SOUND OF THE LAST TRUMPET. IF IT IS LAST, THERE HAS TO BE OTHERS BEFORE THE LAST.
THE BOOK OF REVELATION GIVES US 7 TRUMPET SOUND BEFORE JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH, THE SO CALLED "SECOND-COMING."
IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15 THER IS NO TEACHING OF SOME "SECRET" COMING OF CHRIST BEFORE HIS COMING IN VISIBLE GLORY. IT JUST AIN'T THERE!
TURN NOW TO 1 THESSALONIANS 4.
WE PICK IT UP IN VERSE 13:
"BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU IGNORANT BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP (AGAIN IN CONTEXT DEATH IS SLEEP), THAT YOU SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHERS WHICH HAVE NO HOPE. FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SO THEM WHICH SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM [PAUL DOES NOT SAY "FROM HEAVEN" - HE GOES ON TO EXPLAIN HOW THEY WILL COME WITH HIM - WE SEE A CONNECTING WORD - "FOR" IN THE NEXT VERSE - THIS IS HOW HE WILL BRING THEM WITH HIM - "FOR"]
FOR, THIS WE SAY UNTO YOU BY THE WORD OF THE LORD, THAT WE WHICH AS ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD SHALL NOT PREVENT [PRECEDE] THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP. FOR [HERE'S ANOTHER CONNECTING WORD TO EXPAIN WHAT PAUL HAS JUST SAID; HE EXPLAINS HIS THOUGHT AS HE PROCEEDS], 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 THES. 4:13-17).
WE ARE WITH THE LORD IN THE CLOUDS, IN THE AIR, OF THIS EARTH. WE SHALL FOREVER BE WITH HIM, BUT PAUL DOES NOT SAY WHERE THE LORD SHALL GO AFTERWARDS. THE LORD HAS COME, NOT SOME "SECRET" INVISIBLE COMING, FOR HE HAS COME WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCH-ANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMPET!
YES THE LAST TRUMPET OF 1 COR. 15!
WITH THE LAST TRUMPET OF THE 7 TRUMPETS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION! SEE IT, MARK IT - REVE. 11:15-19. THE TIME WHEN REWARDS ARE GIVEN TO THE SAINTS. THE TIME, AS WE HAVE SEEN, OF THE RESURRECTION AND INSTANT CHANGE OF 1 THES. 4 AND 1 COR. 15. THE SAINTS OF PAST AND PRESENT BEING IMMORTAL, CHANGED FROM CORRUPTION TO IN-CORRUPTION, FROM MORAL TO DIVINE [SEE 1 JOHN 3:1-3].
THERE IS NO TALK IN ALL THESE PASSAGES OF SOME FANCY "SECRET" RAPTURE TO HEAVEN BY SOME "SECRET" COMING OF CHRIST, THAT NO ONE KNOWS, HEARS, OR SEES, BUT PEOPLE ONLY SEE THE CLOTHES ON THE GROUND OF PEOPLE VANISHING INTO THIN AIR. THE BIBLE TEACHES NO SUCH THING AS THE "SECRET" RAPTURE!!
OKAY, LET'S GET SOME FURTHER INSIGHT INTO THE TRUMPET SOUND, THE RESURRECTION, AND THE COMING OF CHRIST.
TURN TO MATTHEW 24.
WE SEE JESUS TALKING TO HIS DISCIPLES, THEY ARE TO FLEE AT SOME POINT FOR GREAT TRIBULATION WILL COME ON EARTH AS NEVER BEFORE EXPERIENCED. THEY ARE TO PRAY THAT THEIR FLEEING IS NOT IN THE WINTER OR ON THE SABBATH. YES THE WEEKLY SABBATH OF THE 4TH OF THE GREAT TEN COMMANDMENT IS BEING OBSERVED AT THIS TIME OF THE END OF THIS AGE. MARK TELLS US ALSO ABOUT THIS GREAT PERSECUTION OF GOD'S PEOPLE - MARK 13: 9-13. LUKE ALSO TELLS US ABOUT THIS END TIME PERSECUTION OF SAINTS - LUKE 21:12-19.
BACK TO MATTHEW 24 AND PICK IT UP IN VERSE 29:
"IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION OF THOSE DAYS, SHALL THE SUN BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON SHALL NOT GIVE HER LIGHT, AND THE STARS SHALL FALL FROM HEAVEN, AND THE POWERS OF THE HEAVEN SHALL BE SHAKEN. THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN; THEN SHALL ALL OF THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH MOURN, AND THEY SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY! AND HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS WITH THE GREAT SOUND OF THE TRUMP, AND THEY SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER" (verses 29-31).
THERE IT IS AGAIN..... THE RESURRECTION OF THE SAINTS FROM AROUND THE EARTH, AT THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, GATHERED TOGETHER BY THE ANGELS, TO MEET CHRIST IN THE CLOUDS, IN THE AIR OF THIS EARTH, ADN TO THEN BE WITH HIM FOR EVER.
AS I SAID, THE APOSTLE PAUL DID NOT STATE WHERE CHRIST WOULD GO AFTER HE'S GATHERED ALL THE SAINTS OF PAST AND PRESENT TO HIM, IN THE CLOUDS.
WE HAVE TO LOOK TO OTHER PASSAGES TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION FOR US.
AND WE FIND THE ANSWER IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 14.
"BEHOLD THE DAY OF THE LORD COMES..... AND I WILL GATHER ALL NATIONS AGAINST JERUSALEM..... AND THE LORD SHALL GO FORTH, AND FIGHT AGAINST THOSE NATIONS..... AND HIS FEET SHALL STAND UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WHICH IS BEFORE JERUSALEM ON THE EAST..... AND THE LORD MY GOD SHALL COME, AND ALL THE SAINTS WITH HIM..... BUT IT SHALL BE ONE DAY, WHICH SHALL BE KNOWN TO THE LORD..... AND THE LORD SHALL BE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH....." (verses 1-9).
YES IT SHALL BE ONE DAY, ONLY KNOWN TO THE LORD, OR GOD THE FATHER, JUST AS JESUS TAUGHT, THAT ONLY GOD THE F ATHER KNEW WHEN THAT DAY WOULD COME, NO ONE ELSE WOULD KNOW; BUT YOU'LL NOTICE IN THAT ONE DAY OF HIS COMING, HIS FEET WILL STAND UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. THERE IS NO 3 AND 1/2 OR 7 YEARS, OR 1,000 YEARS INTERMISSION; IT IS ONE DAY, AND HIS FEET TOUCH THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
THERE IT IS QUITE SIMPLE WHEN YOU SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, WHEN UP PUT ONE VERSE WITH THE OTHER. IT IS INDEED A ONE, TWO, THREE.
THERE WILL COME A TIME OF GREAT TRIBULATION ON THE EARTH, THE LIKE AS NEVER SEEN BEFORE; THERE WILL BE A PERSECUTION OF THE TRUE SAINTS OF GOD, THEY MUST FLEE. JERUSALEM WILL BE TRODDEN DOWN OF THE GENTILES. ALL IN THAT AREA MUST FLEE TO THE HILLS [LUKE 21]. AFTER THE TRIBULATION THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME. THERE WILL BE 7 TRUMPET SOUNDS. THERE WILL BE GREAT SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. THEN THE LORD SHALL APPEAR, THE ANGELS WILL GO FORTH TO GATHER THE RESURRECTED SAINTS OF ALL AGES, AND THE ONES LIVING, WHO WILL BE CHANGED TO IMMORTALITY; THE ANGELS WILL GATHER THEM AND BRING THEM TO CHRIST IN THE COULDS, IN THE AIR. AND ALL WITH CHRIST ALL SHALL COME WITH HIM TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS PICTURES ALL OF THIS.
WE CONTINUE TO PRAY "THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN."
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