Otherwise comically known to me as: The Rupture of the Rapture! LOL After having written one hundred and forty three articles at EzineArticles on The Truth - Yashua Anointed (The Lord Jesus Christ), you may be wondering if there is anything mainstream Christianity teaches that I am in agreement with? No, hardly anything? Why is that? Why, because 98% of their pastors, ministers, teachers and misinformed wretched laity are not qualified to teach The Word of God.
They're not qualified because they, being solely men of the meaningless Cainite-Judeo-Christian Religion, rely on Judaism (graceless obedience aka salvation by works), religious fabrications, myths, fables, lies and fanciful stories, mostly handed down to them by their whore mother i.
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The Mother of Harlots in Rome.
The crucial problem for Protestant mainstream denominational (demon-inational divided) Christianity is that it has never truly severed its spiritual roots and connections with The Whore in Rome.
What links them together, like an umbilical cord, is the pagan heathen trinity, so Protestant mainstream Christianity, as the Whore's daughter, remains continually contaminated by her deceptions and with her evil sins.
This means, too, that mainstream denominational (demon-inational divided) Christianity has adopted similar evil habits to her mother with similar myths, lies, fabrications, fanciful stories and fables of her own, from which forms part of what the Holy Scriptures call the "traditions of men" both modern and old.
These vain traditions, in turn, render the Word of God to none effect and it is in these very things that Protestant mainstream Christian pastors, teachers and their followers place their faith instead of reading and studying the Holy Scriptures for themselves and allowing Yashua Anointed (The Lord Jesus Christ) to teach them directly through His Holy Spirit.
Many of these teachers are cloned, brainwashed and conditioned in so called Bible Colleges and Seminaries so there tends to be unanimity in their flawed understanding of The Word of God.
One of their repetitive failures is to erroneously assume things that are not even written in the Holy Scriptures and then give them jargon type names or headings in order to try and give them some sort of sales pitch validity; totally laughable of course, but that is exactly what they do and have done with this perverted idea of The Rapture - which, incidentally, I will unravel and expose for the fraud that it is before I even get to part two.
Moreover, there is no better example of this 'assuming of things' than with this Rapture idea and, as far as I know, it is only mainstream demon-inational (divided) Christianity that teaches it.
It is not something taught by the Roman Cult and again, as far as I know, it is not taught by any of the other wretched cults either.
So where does it come from or originate? Well, for a start, up until circa 1830 no one would have even heard of The Rapture, so if you were to have asked a Christian say from the sixteenth century this question: When The Lord returns will you be raptured? He or she would have looked at you blankly and scratched their head in bewilderment not knowing what the blazes you were talking about! The reason for this would be because it's not in the Holy Scriptures - DOH!! Likewise the same scenario would apply if we had mentioned The Trinity to first century believers, and they too would have wondered what you were talking about.
In fact, they would have had you thrown out of The Church as a counterfeiter or a blasphemous mongrel dog; and quite right too.
These examples of man's tinkering with the Word of God are just expressions of his intellectual vanity.
Vain arrogant religious men cannot resist it; they have to add their useless ego ridden penny-worth to things and to add them to something that needs no additions i.
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The Truth - Yashua Anointed (The Lord Jesus Christ).
All The Lord requires is proper understanding of His Grace filled Gospel Message.
So who fabricated this rapture nonsense? Answer: a man by the name of John Nelson Darby who taught that the return of Yashua Anointed (The Lord Jesus Christ) to this earth would come in two stages or two phases, which is a blatant lie and not Scripturally sound or correct.
This theory is based upon the misinterpretations of Matthew 24:37-44 and Luke 17:26-36 and in combination with 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 which I will copy here: 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 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.
I will be returning to these non-rapture "First Resurrection" Holy Scriptures in Part 2.
OK, so let's have a closer look at the Holy Scriptures which these silly mainstream Christians interpret as their Rapture.
First in Matthew's account: Matt 24:37-44 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Then in Luke's account we have: Luke 17:26-36 And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Before we get started on expounding the detail of these verses we need to set the twofold stage for this prophetic passage of Holy Scripture and the message Yashua Anointed (The Lord Jesus Christ) is giving us here.
Once we have done that The Rapture humbug will have already been disproved.
In the first instance we are dealing with two groups of people - those who are saved and those who are lost, i.
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Noah and his family who were saved or redeemed and the rest of mankind on the earth at that time who were lost and were taken.
We are then projected forward in time to The Lord's return to this earth in the future in the last days, but the two groups involved now have changed considerably.
We are still dealing with those who have been saved and chosen but the others are not lost in the same way as those in the days of Noah.
In the verses that follow in Matthew 24:45-51 The Lord tells us who He is referring to: Matt 24:45-51 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Notice the 'lost' here are not the lost as in Noah's days, both groups are now servants.
We have wise and faithful servants and then we have evil servants.
Evil servants are servants who were once wise and faithful but have gone astray, so these people are not the lost as in the unsaved in Noah's time, they are people who were/are called by the Father to His Son, but stop believing.
They stop believing and turn on their former brothers and attack them as many here on BIN attack me.
This is the backdrop to this passage of Holy Scripture and those that are 'taken' or separated from those that are 'left' are all servants of The Lord Jesus Christ - good and bad, so this episode has nothing to do with separating believers from unbelievers or the saved from the unsaved.
As I said earlier, just by setting the stage from Matthew 24, I would prove the Rapture was just humbug.
In the second instance we must understand that 'taken' means 'taken'.
If 'taken' as in the days of Noah means taken as in the flood or in a fearful sense for punishment, then it means exactly the same thing in the end times events.
'Taken', therefore, in Matthew 24:40 therefore means the exact opposite of what Rapture people would have us believe and, in turn, means being 'left' is not as they would have us believe either.
If we then add in the prinple meaning of the parable of the wheat and tares it is the tares that are taken and burned and the wheat that is left and stored in The Lord's barn.
Again, before I get into the meat of these Holy Scriptures, you will notice immediately the meaningless KJV additional words, written in italics, which also confirm mainstream Christianity's penchant for wanting to add things which are wholly unnecessary and in some cases perverted.
Notice in verses 41 of Matthew's account and in verse 35 in Luke's account: two 'women' and in the Greek manuscripts there is no mention of women at all, just 'two grinding at the mill' and 'two in the field' not two men.
There is definitely no mention of 'two men in a bed' but rather 'two in one bed'.
I will leave you to ponder on the mindsets of the evil individuals that corrupted the Holy Word of God in such a vile manner.
Needless-to-say I do not have to expound further on the fact that the King James Version of Holy Scriptures is far from perfect and don't think you can escape these errors by putting your faith in modern translations either for, they are a hundred times worse!! OK, we will now deal with the major errors of these two passages of Holy Scripture.
First up is the context of previous verses where Yashua Anointed sets the tone by mentioning the comparison of our present last days with that of those days leading up to the flood, where, and notice, the wicked were 'taken' or The Lord 'took them all away'.
In the Greek manuscripts this word is 'airo' pronounced 'ah'ee-ro' which means: From Strong's Concordance: G142 airo - ah'ee-ro - a primary verb; to lift; by implication to take up or away; figuratively to raise or remove.
In Luke's account it uses the word 'destroyed', but either way it means The Lord removed them from His sight - they were 'taken' - literally to their deaths.
Yet in the end time verses that follow, the word 'taken' is used as well.
Moreover, the Rapture people would have us believe that it means something completely different i.
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people being taken or lifted up to be with The Lord - not taken to be destroyed or harmed in anyway but, rather, taken to heaven.
I presume this is what they believe and want us to believe, but do the Holy Scriptures say that? All will be revealed in Part 2.