Resurrection and rapture

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RAPTURE TIMING
A Biblical Study on End Time events in regards to the
RESURRECTION
Resurrection of the dead and the Rapture or Gathering
of the Saints just after the Mid Tribulation period.
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September 2016
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Contents & Order or events:

1 Resurrection of the dead
2 Christians changed
3 demons released
4 Satan cast to the earth
5 Israel accepts Messiah
6 Final Harvest
7 The Rapture
8 Rapture Timing

1-4 Combined

Isaiah 26
The context of this chapter is God’s provision during a time of darkness and God’s
judgments on the earth (8, 9,16)

5 For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low. He lays
it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.

17 Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in
pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth
wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants
of the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake
(watch) and sing (rejoice), ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs,
and the earth shall cast out the dead (Rephaim/evil spirits). (see Isaiah 18:4)
20-21 Come, my people, enter thou into your chambers (rooms), and shut your doors
about thee: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be over
past. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the
earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more
cover her slain.
Keep note of the topic about the Woman with child near to delivery above for later.

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Verse 5 is talking about Satan and his kingdom in the heavens which will be thrown
down onto earth (to the dust).

Here in verse 19 we see the resurrection of the dead at the same time as Christians
being changed (as dust) while demons will be loosed on the earth.
‘The dead’ in English is mistranslated from ‘Rephaim’ which really means departed
spirits of the Rephaim (giants) which are the demons or evil spirits actually.

This is directly connected with what St Paul says in:

1 Corinthians 15
51-55 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed. 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put
on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that
is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory?

“Death is swallowed up in victory” above is a direct quote from Isaiah 25 where it says:
Isaiah 25
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from
off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth:
for the LORD hath spoken it.”

Notice the allusion to the rapture using the words “off all the earth”.
I can only find in one other instance of the terminology “the Lord God will wipe away
tears from off all faces” where it says in:

Revelations 7
17 “and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes” which relates to the 2nd group
in heaven suddenly appearing just after the 6th Seal is opened, or start of the Day of the
Lord but before the 7th Seal judgments.

The number of this group are sealed just prior to this in verse 4.

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4 Devil and his Angels cast down

Isaiah 24
The context of this chapter is about God’s wrath on earth due to the inhabitants
breaking God’s laws and defiling the land. It mentions the earth being utterly destroyed,
made desolate, with the earth’s axis tilting upside down and most of the inhabitants
burned.

21 “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the
high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth”.

This links God’s wrath or Day of the Lord to the punishing of the ‘host of high ones’ as
being the Devil & his angels. It is not just a repetition about the kings on the earth but
something different.

Compare Isaiah 24 to Revelations:

Revelations 12
3-4 “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great fiery red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And
his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth…”

7-9 “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the
dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their
place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old
serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast
out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

12 “Woe to the inhibiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down
unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he hath but a short time.”

Notice how verse 3-4 is talking about literal events in the heavens while its spiritual side
is mentioned separately in verse 7-9 with the devil and his angels being cast down.

This adds evidence that all prophesy has a dual fulfillment –the literal and spiritual.

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5 Israel accepts Messiah

Israel will initially accept the false Messiah or Antichrist. Soon after this comes
judgments mainly via water from God for this at Mid Tribulation, then they will quickly
accept Jesus Christ. This is mentioned in Isaiah 28:

Isaiah 28
15 “Because ye have said, we have made a covenant with death, and with hell are
we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not
come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves”.
17-18 “hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the
hiding place”. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your
agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass
through, then ye shall be trodden down by it”.
21 “For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wrath as in the
valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his
act, his strange act”.

This means the acceptance of a false Messiah or antichrist will not be accepted but
bring swift punishment from God. Then they will repent and turn to Christ.

What happened in Perazim? – well God defeated the Philistines for King David in
mount Perazim soon after becoming King by a breach of waters where it says:

1 Chronicles 14
11 “God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of
waters”

Isaiah 28 subject matter is against Israel and Ephraim/Judah and this topic is repeated
in Hosea 5. Judgment via heavy floods is mentioned where it says:

Hosea 5
10 “I will pour out my wrath upon them like water”.
15 “I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek
my face: in their affliction they will seek me early”.

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6 Final Harvest

I believe there will be a good outcome from the 3 Days of Darkness for Christians
mentioned in the Bible once completed:

Isaiah 60
1-4 Arise, shine; For your light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon
you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people;
but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles
shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising…

5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and your heart shall fear (awe/dread), and
be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted (turned) to you,
the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee”..
7… they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of
my glory. Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
8

Please note the connection of the floods to the Gentiles is a dual meaning of being both
a literal catastrophic event as well as symbolic of masses of Gentiles coming.

In other words, mega tsunamis and floods will occur first then many Gentile conversions
will happen with God’s house being glorified as gold and silver. Soon after this a
rapture is mentioned in verse 7 using the words ‘fly’, ‘cloud’, ‘doves’ and ‘windows’.

The Hebrew word for 'gross' here is only mentioned one other time in the old testament
in Jer 13:16 which speaks about the God's punishment of the Jews. It also mentions a
time compared to birth pains and linking the darkness to the 'shadow of death' (Isaiah
9:2 & Psalms 44:19). Isaiah 9:3 is linked to "according to the joy of harvest..."

An interesting link about the Exodus to God's temple, where Christians can be likened to
Gold & Silver in God's heavenly temple – see Hagg 2:5-9 also Psalms 119:119.
Here Israel 'spoiled the Egyptians' and took away with them Gold & Silver for the
Lord's temple. I believe this can be likened to the Final Harvest with a mass conversion
(spoiling) from the world to Christ just after God's water judgements on the world
(Egypt) via 'Leviathan' which will come again at a mid-tribulation period.

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7 The Rapture

Christ told His Disciples that “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you
might be also”. This we understand to be the Rapture or Gathering of the Elect.

The 2nd group suddenly appearing in Heaven as the Raptured Saints as they are clothed
in white and given palms in their hands and crowned by Christ Himself. We can see the

same thing in Revelations 7:

Revelations 7
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all
nations, and kindred’s, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and
before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried
with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sits upon the throne, and unto
the Lamb….
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, who are these which are arrayed
in white robes? and where did they come from? And I said unto him, Sir, you know.
And he said to me, these are they which came out of great tribulation, and have
washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, are
they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he
that sits on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither
thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb
which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living
fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Notice how they were not complaining about being martyred for their faith nor were
they given white robes as the previous ones from the 5th Seal were, but nonetheless
had white robes anyway. They had the victory as they had palms in their hands –
why? - Because they are the Raptured Saints who had white robes while on earth
washed by the blood of the lamb.

If they came out of the Great Tribulation before the 7th Seal judgments and were not
martyred, then the only possibility is that these are indeed the Raptured Saints.

It does mention that they underwent some tribulation however to get there like some
hunger, thirst & heat.

In regards to the timing – it is mentioned by St Paul in 2nd Thessalonians:

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8 Rapture Timing

St Paul mentions the Rapture or the Gathering timing will not happen until after the
Antichrist is revealed:

2 Thessalonians 2
1-4 “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be
troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of
Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not
come, except there comes a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition; Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or
that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that
he is God”.

The Jewish temple is mentioned here that must be rebuilt before the Antichrist will
claim to be God and require to be worshipped. This is the abomination that causes
desolations as mentioned in the Gospels as the ‘Abomination of Desolations’ and
called by Christ as the start of the ‘Great Tribulation” period.

Also - notice how St Paul links the Day of Christ also known as the Day of the Lord to
the Abomination of Desolations here.

We will now prove that the ‘Great Tribulation’ starts at a Mid Tribulation period and
so, the Rapture will not be until just after the Mid Tribulation period and Final
Harvest.

Christ said to expect our redemption soon after the signs in the sun and moon (Sun
dark & moon to blood) with seas and waves roaring and Satan cast out which are all
Mid Tribulation events:

Luke 21
25-28 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and
upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves
roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which
are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall
they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when
these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your
redemption draws nigh.

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Proof 1
Abomination of Desolation = Mid Tribulation

Mathew 24
29-31 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 heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of
man in heaven: and then shall all 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 a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together
his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

‘After the tribulation’ here means immediately after the Abomination of Desolation
mentioned just previously in verses 15 to 28 by the Antichrist.

Daniel chapter 12 shows the timing of the abomination that causes desolations as
mid-way in the final 7-year period as well as the temple sacrifices stopped:

Daniel 12
5-11 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two (angels), the one on
this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river,
how long shall it be to the end of these wonders? And I heard the man clothed in
linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and
his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a
time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power
of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of
these things?” And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and
the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred
and ninety days.
Firstly, note each angel standing on opposite sides of the river with the main speaker
in the middle upon the waters means mid-way of the whole period in which he says
will be 3.5 times or 3.5 years as the number of days are mentioned as 1,290 - which is
3.5 years using 30 day months plus an additional 30 days.

Thus, we can say the abomination of desolation occurs at the mid tribulation period
and the total length of time being 2 lots of 3.5 years as the angels around the river
symbolized to make a full 7-year period. (Compare Rev 10:2).

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Proof 2
Daily sacrifices stopped = Day of the Lord

Daniel 12 (recap)
8 “And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end
of these things?”
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the
abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred
and ninety days.

Joel chapter 1 links the ceasing of temple sacrifices to the Day of the Lord:

Joel 1
13- “Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come,
lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink
offering is withheld from the house of your God.”
15 – “Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction
from the Almighty shall it come.”

It next mentions destruction and famine from crops failing in verses 16 to 20. Chapter
2 continues saying it is a day of darkness with earthquakes, the sun & moon going
dark with God’s judgments entering the houses like a thief with the stars not shining
saying:

Therefore, the Day of the Lord here is linked to the Mid Tribulation period which is
also just after the Abomination of Desolation and the revealing of the Antichrist by
about 30 days.

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