The Book of Daniel - The Pre Tribulation Rapture

[Music] it would be so amazing if every single one of you could open up your Bibles and know where the rapture teachings are and then if you were able to explain what the rapture is and when it happens in first Corinthians chapter 15 Paul has been teaching about the resurrection body when he gives this pretty amazing teaching on the rapture of the church and so we're in first Corinthians 15 we're gonna start reading in verse 50 where Paul says now this I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God nor does corruption inherit incorruption flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven did you know the same 17 elements that combined together to make dirt are the exact 17 elements that make up your body remember God breathed into the dust of the earth and formed a human being and he named him Adam so your body was not only made out of Earth but it was made for the earth and as soon as your body would leave this atmosphere it would die and God wants to bring you into his presence into the heavens one day and in order to do that he's gonna give you a new spacesuit a new glorified body able not only to withstand the atmosphere but mostly to be able to stand in his very presence because remember he told Moses if you were to fully see me you die you can't handle me and God's gonna bring us to a place where we can actually handle the intensity the holiness the purity that radiates out of the face and being of God in verse 51 he goes on to say behold I tell you a mystery everyone say a mystery now our definition of mystery is a little bit different than what mystery means in the biblical sense mystery when that word comes in the Bible it means it's unknowable from apart from divine revelation it has to be something God reveals to you and he teaches you someone may communicate as a human being but it's gonna go right over your head unless god is the one who makes you understand and so this was a revelation that God personally gave to the Apostle Paul so what is the mystery the the end of verse 51 says we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed now the first thing I want you to notice is that there's two classes of people here there's believers who died and there's believers who don't die it says we shall not all sleep now all throughout the New Testament it uses this term sleep as a softer way to describe the death of the believer Jesus is the first one who introduced this phrase on the story of Lazarus in John chapter 11 so when Paul says we shall not all sleep he's saying not every Christian is going to die that there will be a final generation who will be transformed given their resurrection bodies before they ever face death everyone say that sounds good look at verse 51 again it says behold I tell you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed verse 52 in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed now remember Paul's mentioned two classes of people in the text the first group are believers who have died who are right now in heaven the second group believers who have not died and will still be living on the earth when this event takes place we notice here that at the rapture there will be a trumpet that we hear be have your ears open throughout your days especially when it's a little cloudy in the twinkling of an eye which means really quick the Dead will be raised incorruptible first so those who are already in heaven will be raised with their glorified body first but then we who still happen to be alive on the earth will also be changed it says it will happen in a moment twinkling of an eye so it happens very very rapidly in succession it seems the Dead will be given their bodies then in that blink of an eye we will then be given our bodies the word changed is an interesting word it says we shall all be changed it's the the word where we end up getting the English word metamorphosis and a metamorphosis means a change of form it's the same exact word used to describe when a caterpillars body changes into the form of a butterfly we will be transformed in a literal sense and so here it is Church there will be a generation of believers who will not see or taste death and it is probably more than likely going to be us our generation who will be taken from the earth immediately given new bodies and this future event is what we call the rapture why do we call it the rapture well next I want to take a look at the Bible's most detailed description of the rapture so flip with me to 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 why do we call this event the rapture will learn this here now the letter of first Thessalonians was a letter written to a group of Christians check who had not even been saved for a year we would call them brand-new believers they hadn't even been walking with Jesus for a year and yet Paul talks about the rapture to the Thessalonians more than any other Church he writes to so if God expected these brand-new believers to understand this doctrine then we also should too so we begin first Thessalonians chapter 4 beginning in verse 13 Paul says I do not want you to be ignorant brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep lest you sorrow as others who have no hope now first noticed not knowing about the rapture will bring you three things ignorance sorrow and the lack of hope verses 14 and 15 says for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so God will bring with him every one say with him those who sleep in Jesus for this we say to you by the word of the Lord that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep so at the rapture Jesus will bring with him those who are asleep now this corroborates perfectly with what we just saw in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 that Jesus will bring with him the Saints who have already died their spirit is in heaven right now they are fully conscious they are fully aware soul sleep is not a biblical doctrine they are with Jesus to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord but they just don't have their resurrected bodies yet it's at the rapture that glorified bodies will be given to all the Saints verse 16 tells us for the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first there's some details to notice here at the rapture Jesus descends from heaven there will be a shout the voice of an archangel michael is the only archangel mentioned in Scripture so we assume that's Michael and then look it says in this text as well as in first Corinthians 15 that the rapture involves a trumpet I've told you the story of when I thought I was getting raptured right house I was driving home I was driving home from Utah to see my parents from Christmas vacation I happen to be driving on New Year's Eve because I don't do what I used to do on New Year's Eve before I was saved it's a great time to travel cuz especially going through Vegas is like everyone's gonna be on the strip I know traffic is gonna be open so I get home after a long night and I'm just sitting on the couch I'm think I'm flipping through like ESPN seeing what bowl games had played and I just totally forgot what day it was like a normal day for me and all of a sudden I heard a shofar it sounded just like an Israeli shofar horn like it blasts right and I throw my arms up and I get Holy Ghost goosebumps and I'm like I'm ready and then the horn kind of goes like and it makes this awful sound I'm like okay that's not you Jesus and I sat there shaking for about 5-10 minutes that moment was so real and I just I thought I was about to be with Jesus but you know what the Lord said well at least you know you're ready hey I'll take that I'll take that it says here in verse 16 the dead in Christ rise first so those who have been asleep are given the resurrection body first I have no problem with that they've waited they deserved it but remember that in first Corinthians 15 it says this all happens in a twinkling of an eye and then verse 17 this is important then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up everyone say caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and thus we shall always be with the Lord the key phrase I had you repeat it it's the word caught up you should underline that highlight it circle it put a box around it whatever you do this is the important word this is where we end up getting the actual word rapture now the New Testament was written in what's called the Koine Greek language it was the universal language of the world it's a very descriptive detailed language it was the perfect language God chose to write doctrine because it's very precise and very detailed and so the word caught up here is is one word in the Greek manuscripts it's the word harpazo when the Greek manuscripts were translated into Latin the word harpazo was translated into the word wrap Toros so wrap therosis in the Latin manuscripts in English it translates to this caught up so that's where we get the word rapture right here from this seventeenth verse now the word means to be snatched away suddenly like snatched away very suddenly and I I'm actually gonna need a friend for this I'm gonna call my buddy Matt Munoz community come right up here my friend to be snatched away suddenly okay I'm gonna hold my hand flat this is my chapstick okay and you are gonna try to snag it as fast as you can you're standing way too far away get closer got it thank you my friend don't steal my chapstick give them out of hand it's like that it's to be snatched very suddenly you can barely see it we're just here and we're gone that that's that's what just an analogy of how would they use this word back in the day harpazo wrapped arrows you would use that word in the context something got just snatched away very quickly and so we who are alive it will just happen like and there's always funny you know the old Kirk Cameron movie left behind like when the people go away like all their clothes are folded like night nicely and neatly and it's like wow did the Lord give you that cur cur so that was funny also notice that at the rapture Jesus only comes as far as the clouds at the rapture so when it's a really cloudy day just you know let it be an encouraging thing to you Jesus will not be seen by the world he will not be revealed to the world at that time which is much different than his second coming at the Battle of Armageddon the rapture is not the second coming the rapture precedes the second coming at the second coming he will be openly seen by the world and he's not coming to snatch us away he's coming to set up his kingdom and tear down the kingdoms of men it says will be caught up together with them the vehm are those people from heaven Jesus is bringing from heaven to the clouds it seems according to the text and then it says in the clouds we will meet the Lord our first introduction we'll be in the clouds and it seems like he gives us a resurrection body there and then he takes us up into heaven and that begins our foreverness in the presence of Jesus personally visibly intimately but we're not done though that this is an important verse the very last verse of the chapter and verse 18 says therefore comfort one another with these words so the purpose of looking forward to the rapture is for comforts that's why we say you know Jesus is coming back soon and it's something that I've experienced in my life that when someone tells me that it's not just flippant the Holy Spirit always does something even if I'm like I'm in a bad mood and I don't rate yagyuu well Jesus comes back soon but you know I'm having a bad day today you know the Holy Spirit man when someone tells me Jesus is coming back I don't get that it's just something in my heart where he's like I am and it's hard right now and it's tough and maybe your prayers aren't being answered the way you want them to but there is a day when you will be face to face with your Lord and at that moment all will be made well amen so those are the two most descriptive passages in the Bible about the rapture there's there's many more but for the sake of time you know I kind of condensed all this in into what I felt like I could fit into one message and so what we're gonna do now is dive a little bit deeper and study what we call the pre-tribulation rapture because there are Christians who believe in the rapture you you have to if you study Scripture but there are some that teach that the rapture will take place during the seven-year tribulation period during the time when the Antichrist is on the earth ruling and reigning some people believe it'll happen right in the middle of the tribulation that's called a mid-tribulation rapture others believe the rapture will happen not take place until the very end of the rapture that is called a post tribulation rapture view calvary chapel takes the stance of a pre-tribulation rapture and the reason why is because if you study the bible forensic ly you'll see that all of the evidence points to a pre-tribulation rapture and so forensic science is taking all of the pieces of evidence that you possibly can and you dig and you dig and you dig and you gather every bit of evidence that you can and based on that evidence you make the most logical conclusion this happens in courts of law by the way and so we can do this with passages of Scripture especially the rapture so it's not just because Pastor Chuck was about it it's not just because Calvary chapel's about it me personally it does it doesn't matter this is like for sure I think that the other views you just kind of you can't answer all the questions that need to be asked if you believe the other view and you kind of tangle and you jumble up Scripture into kind of a pretzel in my eyes so if you're taking notes I want to give you guys today 7 reasons 7 reasons for a pre-tribulation rapture which means the rapture will take place before the Antichrist signs that peace covenant that ushers in the 7 years of tribulation on the earth 7 reasons everyone say let's go point number one is this doctrine is meant to bring comfort remember we just looked at this and I'm going to show it to you again after teaching about the rapture in 1st Thessalonians 4:18 Paul says therefore comfort one another with these words after teaching about the rapture he makes this that you should be comforted now if I were to tell you that you and I were gonna fall underneath the rule of the Antichrist watch the majority of the world die because of disease and war that we were gonna be on the earth to experience the full force of the wrath of God and that we were going to be brutally murdered at the hands of the Antichrist unless we can escape somewhere where his army can't find us now would that be comforting to you it's not comforting 60 million people lost their lives during World War two but based on the present population of the world and the numbers given to us in the book of elation over five billion people died on the earth during the seven-year tribulation period there will be more dead bodies on the planet then there will be living bodies that there won't be enough people to clean all the mess up and that's why Jesus said it's gonna be the worst time the world has ever seen and you and I are not going to be around for it because the rapture and that rapture is to meant to bring us comfort amen point number two for a pre-tribulation rapture is that God has not appointed the church to his wrath 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 9 God did not appoint us to wrath but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ now notice this chapter comes in the chapter right after 1st Thessalonians 4 so he's talking in context to the end times and guys the 7-year tribulation is going to be full full of the wrath of God like the world has never ever seen before and we get these descriptions from the seven trumpet judgments the seven bull judgments it's gnarly and it says here he has not appointed his church to wrath which means we won't be here for it and be reminded the only reason why you will not face the wrath of God is because Jesus Christ took the wrath of God in your place when he died for you on the cross so that you could be right with God so that you could be at peace with God so that you could have full entrance with a wide-open door into the kingdom of God never ever ever dealing with the consequences of your sin never have to face the wrath of God only the Welcome of God amen everyone say point three God delivers his people out of tribulation so I point you to second Peter chapter 2 verse 9 it says the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under the punishment for the Day of Judgment now this reference comes from the New King James Version which is a very good literal translation but this word that I've underlined is a very poor translation if you look at the original Greek the word temptations in the Greek language is the word Perez moss and Perez moss literally means tribulation not temptation also in the Greek language it's written in what's called the singular not plural which means it's one singular event so to reread this according to the Greek the way the Apostle Paul wrote it it would read this way the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of the tribulation and to reserve the unjust under the punishment for the day of judgment and you think like what the heck is the purpose for the rapture this thing it's so dramatic it's so bizarre it's it's it's something you don't see every day so it's like what's the purpose well the purpose of the rapture is it's how God delivers us from the wrath that he's going to be pouring out on the world during the seven-year tribulation how does God deliver us it's through the rapture everyone say point for the tribulation is a specific time meant for the nation of Israel remember that Jacob was Abraham's grandson and God later named changed his name to Israel and then his twelve sons ended up becoming the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel so when God refers to Jacob in the Bible he's always dealing with Israel and so Jeremiah chapter 30 verses four through seven says now these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel no one else and Judah for thus says the Lord we have heard a voice of trembling of fear and not of peace ask now and see whether a man is ever in labor with child so why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor and all faces turned pale alas for that day the day of the Lord is great so that none is like it and it is the time of Jacob's trouble but he shall be saved out of it the tribulation is the time of Israel's trouble and remember believing Jews will be preserved and saved in the rock fortress of Petra in Jordan during that time also remember from our study in Daniel chapter 9 when we looked at Daniels 70th week that last week that lasts shabooey that last seven-year period of time is solely meant for Daniels people the Jews it is not a time meant for us Gentiles it is not a time meant for the church we will be raptured out of here the fifth reason this is one of my favorites the fifth reason for a pre-tribulation rapture is because of the picture we find in Jewish weddings now I don't know if you've ever studied the Jewish wedding before but it teaches us many things the rapture being just one of many but we know that we are called the Bride of Christ therefore everything God did in Old Testament Judaism between a man and a woman getting married all is a picture it is all a foreshadow it is all a story of what will come between Jesus the groom and us his bride so this is very special this is so cool so it starts with did you know that a Jewish father would choose a bride for his son now as Americans that we're you know we're like oh maybe if you're a parent you're like hey that sounds pretty good I got some neighbors I really like and their kids are great man maybe we could arrange this for the most part though we're kind of glad for our freedom but this is just the culture this is the way they did it they they they didn't think much differently about it now the reason why a Jewish father would choose the bride for his son is because of this picture because we have a Heavenly Father who has chosen us for his son to be his bride and then what would happen is the sons father would pay a price it was called a dowry and this dowry would purchase the girl away from her former father now our Heavenly Father has paid a price to purchase us away from our former father who was Satan and we were purchased with the very blood of God the most expensive valuable priceless gift in the tangible realm of the universe is there anything you can touch and feel in this universe that is more expensive that is more costly than God's own blood poured from his body that's what God laid on the table of purchase to show you and me how precious how valuable we are to him you're loved by God at this purchase an official wedding contract was signed as a guarantee of the future wedding now American weddings we sign the contract after the wedding right we do it opposite but according to Jewish weddings the contract was signed as the guarantee there will be a future wedding now you and I have an official contract as well in fact if you have your Bible you hold it in your hands this is God's contract to us that we belong to him we are his we are his bride that we will be with him in intimacy forever and ever and ever amen now this next little thing is is it's kind of weird the bride and groom would not see each other for a whole year you imagine that you say you're about to get married to this chick and it's like man I could what's she doing I don't know they wouldn't see each other until their wedding day and that might be weird to our culture but think of the picture of how Christ is unseen by us Peter says although you've never seen him you love him and your hearts are full of joy so it serves the picture the contract has been signed we don't see him in this period of time just like the Jewish bride didn't see her groom and then during that whole year the bride would wear a veil over her face whenever she went out in public she was veiled and the vel signified I'm taken but it also was symbolic that even though she couldn't see her groom clearly or she was veiled from seeing him she was hoping in the day when he would take the veil off and she could behold him face to face and that's true with us we are veiled from seeing Jesus clearly first Corinthians 13 says we behold as in a mirror dimly we can only see partially but one day we will be see face to face and one day we will see him clearly and like that veil we are taken we are taken and we will see him he will remove the veil and show us himself his father his spirit and his kingdom and his throne that will be fully beheld by our own two eyes one day also this is interesting during this whole year of waiting the bride was preparing herself by making her own wedding dress now the material she used for the dress was given to her by her future husband's father so this father not only paid the dowry but he'd have to give her the materials that she needed to make her own wedding dress and what does that speak for you and me well we are being prepared to see Jesus whatever is happening to you whatever is going on in your life whatever God is answering and not answering of your prayers whatever trials whatever victories whatever policies leading you on it is for one reason alone you are being prepared to give glory to Jesus and to be prepared as a bride to see him face to face that is your calling your being prepared to see Jesus to be a bride for him and you know what we've also been given everything we need in order to live a life of goodness and godliness and holiness because the Holy Spirit who proceeds and is given to us from the Father has been deposited within us so the father has given us all the material we need in order to prepare ourselves to grow to learn to become servants to become mature believers to be prepared to meet his son meanwhile during this year of waiting the groom would be building a room for he and his bride now this was an additional room an extension to the father's house you didn't go off and and just be like bye mom and dad like we're gone forever normally you know especially the boys would stay there with the father on the property and work you know it was an agricultural culture now this additional room it's like you know this is exactly what Jesus was talking about when in John chapter 14 verses 2 & 3 he said in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you the word you is a personal you it's not a holistic you it is you and you and you and you personally and you personally he knows exactly what you want he knows exactly what's gonna rock your world he yours won't be yours yours is yours and yours is yours I go to prepare a place for you individually and if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be also not beautiful what Jesus been doing in heaven he's been you know ruling and stuff but also I guess making some rooms I mean he is a carpenter now check this out this is interesting only the groom's father knew the exact day of when his son would go get his bride and in order to tell the son to go and get her he wouldn't you say hey dude it's time he wouldn't do that in order to communicate to his son it's time he would blow a trumpet a trumpet would blow and then there was this loud trumpet blowing party that proceeded after that so the dudes like yeah yeah it's time so he'd get all of his buddies all of his groomsmen and they'd get all cleaned up and they would parade with trumpets throughout town they wouldn't go like go get her too quickly because she'd hear it coming and have to you know you know take it take a bath and all that but it was just this whole long festivity of trumpet blowing and it was just like a fun thing man the Jews know how to party for sure and so this trumpet blowing party's coming from the father's house to her house and the bride would know he's coming because she'd hear the trumpet and it's the same for us at the rapture we hear the trumpet we should be expecting to hear that trumpet like he's Eve come and he's on his way and also isn't this interesting in mark chapter 13 verse 32 Jesus told us of that day and hour one knows not even the angels of heaven nor the son but only the father now Jesus is sovereign and sovereignly God he could choose to know if he wanted to but because he's God this is something he has laid aside from himself he has chosen to not know and not let himself know when he's coming back you know that means Jesus is sitting on the edge of his seat looking he's always looking this way because either the right hand right looking looking when him when am i coming and so no one knows the day nor the hour not even Jesus now even though the bride didn't know the exact day of her groom's arrival she did know this season because it was going to be approximately a year after the wedding contract okay so it wasn't like it was just random it was she probably knew around which month it was gonna be but she was not to know the day nor the hour and you know just like this says we don't know the day nor the hour but Jesus said we are to know the times and the seasons and in fact the Bible the New Testament talks about this a lot we should be aware of the world's condition and what season that we are in and so when you watch the news and you only see politics you're not watching it the right way you're not watching it from a kingdom perspective we're to know that day the seasons of when he's gonna come and we know a hundred percent we are in the last days amen there is nothing needed for the rapture to take place for a long time there were some prophecies that needed to take place before the rapture could come the most significant one being the nation of Israel being restored ever since 1948 it's been possible for the rapture to come now Jesus even said generation there will be one generation that will not pass away which points us to it being even sooner because 1948 was 71 years ago so how long is a generation anyways I don't know I mean God did say that no more will anyone ever live past the age of 120 he's forbidden people to live past that age and so I don't know 71 years under 20 years we got 49 years left when according to how we've pieced this all together according what Jesus taught it should be in that time frame it's coming soon we're in the last days now the groom would come take his bride and then he would he would take them into their private chamber there was no ceremony yet first he would take her into the private chamber the extension of the father's house and they would be alone and unseen for seven days not six not eight but seven days to become officially married to become one to get to know each other better to be alone with each other and so to at the rapture Christ takes us out of the world to be unseen by it's not for seven days but for seven years and the rapture of the church in the book of Revelation takes place in Revelation chapter four verse one we've studied this where there's a trumpet the church is gone were taken up in chapters four and five of Revelation we see the church worshiping before the throne and that seven-year period of when wrath is being poured out on the earth we are having our honeymoon so to speak with Jesus unseen in our private area just us and him our first little acquaintance with Jesus will be a seven year long worship session after the seven days they would come out to be seen by all and then the marriage supper the celebration would begin and it was a huge huge big thing you know no wonder Jesus first miracle happened at a wedding he's for Mary he's for this picture he knew the significance of it all and that is when the party begins and that is exactly what we find in Revelation chapter 19 in verses 7 through 9 let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready and to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen clean and bright for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints then he said to me write blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb awesome isn't it so many beautiful things in here one of those things is this points us directly to a pre-tribulation rapture it fits in the context of the picture we find in Jewish weddings everyone say point six just one more one more I was going to get through seven I don't think I have time but the the fiery furnace in Daniel chapter 3 we see an amazing picture of the Tribulation Period through types and shadows by the story of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego being thrown into the fiery furnace now I point this one there's I could have had probably 50 points for a pre-tribulation rapture and this one I picked to throw in there just because we've gone through Daniel now I personally heard Chuck Smith give a teaching on this and I was pretty blown away by the insight and everything like that where if you remember this story Nebuchadnezzar the wicked King is a picture of the Antichrist calling the whole world together to worship Him and remember the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar sets up and he commands the people to worship it well the Antichrist sets up a worship in Revelation chapter 13 and tells the world to worship it those who didn't worship the image were to be executed and that's the same command that the Antichrist gives in the book of Revelation and then Shadrach me and abednego would be a picture of the Jews who won't worship the Antichrist and who are hated by all the rest of the people who you know they showed allegiance to Nebuchadnezzar and the three Jews were thrown into a fiery furnace but they were not killed they were delivered by Jesus personally and that's the Jews in the tribulation thrown into this thing but divinely protected by God in miraculous ways now the amazing thing about Daniel chapter 3 is that Daniel the man is mentioned nowhere in the entire chapter which is interesting because Nebuchadnezzar gathered all the leaders from around the world it was a huge occasion all the leaders from they traveled the long ways and Daniel if he was there he would have been that fourth guy thrown into the fire practically he might have been out of town on some business for the king we don't know but he serves as a picture of the church because he's gone before it all happens while others are going through the fiery tribulation and the next one I was gonna say just very briefly you know the picture of Enoch one of the very first men to live on the Bible was raptured God was teaching us about the rapture at the very beginning of the bite it's not like this is a new thing he was taken because he pleased God he's a picture of the church not long after that Noah being a picture of the Jews is preserved in the arc while judgment comes on the world but before God judged the earth he delivered righteous Enoch and raptured him away so God's teaching us this picture in the order of things at the very very beginning of the Bible now there are lots of reasons I have against the teaching of a mid or post tribulation rapture but let me give you one just the most simple reason and it comes again from mark 13 in verses 32 and 33 remember Jesus says of that day and hour no one knows not even the angels in heaven nor the son but only the father take heed watch and pray for you do not know when the time is now this statement speaks against a mid-tribulation rapture because we know the tribulation begins the moment the Antichrist according to Daniel chapter 9 verse 27 signs a peace treaty that brings world peace on to the earth now from that moment you could just count exactly three and a half years to the middle of the tribulation and say okay Jesus he's going to be coming right now and remember the Bible gives specific numbers the Tribulation Period three and a half years of time are 1260 days so all you'd have to do is count and you could know the exact day or hour and it says you can't know it's the same with a post tribulation rapture all you have to do is count 1260 days from when the abomination of tribulation happens and you would know okay that's it but it says here we won't be able to know and so that's just one simple reason there's many others to close today I hope that wasn't too much information for you I hope you're tracking I was trying to go quickly through it all you know as the worship team as you guys come you know I just I think all of you are saved in here but I don't know I don't know where you're at I don't know if you've been walking with the Lord maybe some of you are doubting your salvation because the way you've been living in the confidence just isn't there the way used to I don't know your situation but I just want to give you a simple opportunity an invitation to receive Christ to open the door of your heart to receive him as your Savior as your Lord because all of this is going to happen all of it and you want to be the person ready how do you get ready you don't got to get religious there's no works you could do God is not expecting you to earn heaven heaven is not a paycheck it is a free gift that you're simply to take that gift and open it up and take it and receive it with all you gone [Music] you [Music]

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