RAPTURE:
SATAN’S SECRET WEAPON
The rapture
doctrine is one doctrine that is very common amongst Christians the world over,
and one that gives uncommon hope to the average Christian but I have come to
discover through prayerful and diligent study of the word of God that this
doctrine is false, and the hope which Christians have from this doctrine is
missed placed.
Not
only that this doctrine is false but is actually a well orchestrated propaganda
by the agents of devil to achieve an evil aim, this I discovered through
historical facts. They introduced it into Christianity and allowed Christians who got fascinated by it to carry on the work of promoting it.
I
also discovered through research, a secret technology which I call the GREATEST WITCHCRAFT INVENTION; which
some scientist that are satanic agents have created to make good the rapture
doctrine and further deceive many at a grand level. This technology is called
Project Blue Beam.
First
lets’ see how false is this rapture doctrine.
SUMMARY OF THE
RAPTURE DOCTRINE.
This
doctrine says that our savior will come secretly to take up his worthy children
from the world just before the tribulation that is prophesied to come upon the world. This according to the view will
prevent ‘genuine’ Christians from receiving the mark of the beast – the Antichrist.
After
seven years the ‘raptured’ saints will come with Christ in glory to destroy the
Antichrist, and some more christian who did not bow down to the beast during
the tribulation will join them. Before this second coming, Satan through the Antichrist will reign supreme on earth.
IT’S INCONSISTENT
WITH THE WORD OF GOD
It
will surprise you to know that this rapture thing is not found anywhere in the
bible. The scripture that is often used to support this evil doctrine is Matt
24: 40 – 42, wherein Christ said
“Then shall two be in the
field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Two women shall be grinding
at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Watch
therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”
Matt
24 : 40 -
42
This scripture is a summary of an
illustration which our savior gave concerning the end-time, showing that there will be two kinds of
people
i those who are ever ready for His coming.
ii those who are not.
Our savior used the story of Noah as the
illustration.
“ But as the days of Noe
were, so shall
also the coming of the Son of man be.
For
as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not
until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the
Son of man be.”
Matt 24: 37 - 39
In verse 44 of the
same scripture, Christ said
“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such
an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”
Another scripture that
is used to further this rapture doctrine is
“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.”
I Thessa 4 :
16 – 17
But Paul was
actually using this scripture to console the Thessalonians so that they don’t
sorrow in vain for brethrens who are dead.
“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.”
1 Thessa 4 :
13
He is saying that,
whether you are alive or dead as long as you are/were faithful when Christ
comes all of us dead or alive will meet Him; the dead first – who will be
raised immortal, and then those alive – who will be transformed.
But all this will
take place during the second coming of Christ which will take place after the
antichrist would have been revealed (or appeared) already and bible believing Christains
will be deep in the tribulation.
Look at this
scripture
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.
And then shall
that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his
mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even
him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonders,..” 1 Thessa 2 : 3, 4& 8, 9
This scripture is implying that
<Let
no one
Whether Pastors, Prophets, Bishops etc
<Deceive you by any means
Either using text message, false vision/prophesy, wrong doctrines etc
<For
that day
That is the second coming of our savior
<Will
not come except
The man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.
The man of sin or son of perdition is the ANTICHRIST. This antichrist will
exalt himself so that he will be worshiped. Remember Isaiah 14:13, Satan has
always wanted to be worshipped.
The second thing that the above
scripture is implying is that
Christ
will consume the Antichrist with the breath of His mouth and destroy him
(antichrist) with the brightness of his coming.
What 1 Thessa 2:3 4; 8, 9 means is that; the
second coming of Christ – our savior, will be after the antichrist has showed
up which also means that the great tribulation would have come upon us.
Mat 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since
the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Mat 24:22 And except those days
should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake
those days shall be shortened.
Our savior told us
how His coming will be like; and who and who will see Him.
“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.”
Matt 24 : 30
Everybody shall see
Him when He comes. So there is nothing like secret rapture or rapture before
tribulation. When Christ said that His coming is like a thief in the night, He
does not imply that he will come secretly but that He will come suddenly when
everyone least expects it and only the Father knows when. But His coming
everyone shall see it including those who rejected Him, and even the antichrist
whom He will destroy with the brightness of His coming.
THE RIGHTEOUS AND SINNERS SHALL BE TOGETHER
Christ clearly
taught that there will be no separation of the righteous and the wicked until
the end of the world. In the parable of the wheat and tares, He said;
“Let both grow
together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the
reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn
them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Matt 13 : 30
To avoid confusion, Christ explained
“The field is the world; the good seed are the children of
the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the
end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire;
so shall it be in the end of this world.
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the
kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.” Matt 13 : 38 -
43
What our savior is explaining is
that
A. the righteous and the wicked shall be
together in the world.
B. the wicked will be destroyed first.
C. after the wicked have been destroyed “
then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father.”
FALSE SECOND CHANCE
The rapture gives
false hope. According to the doctrine, if you miss the secret rapture, you can
make it in the second coming of Christ. First we need to understand that our
God – Yahuwah, has shown us tremendous grace and mercy. Remember that “All have
sinned and come short of the glory of God” but our Father out of love that we
cannot fully comprehend gave us His “only begotten son that whosever believeth
in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”
And this son of God
– Yahushua the anointed (Christ) gave His all for us – dying our death, going
to hell for us and ascended for our justification. That whosoever believeth in
Him and forsake their sinful ways shall be saved and the gift of eternal life
shall be theirs.
Remember also that
the result of our sin and rebelliousness is death – eternal damnation.
What more do we ask
for before we give ourselves totally to Him? Eternal life is so simply and
freely given to us that its simplicity has become a stumbling block and
foolishness to the proud and highly learned, who are heading to destruction as
a result of their hard-hardheartedness by which they reject so great a sacrifice made
for them and have rather chosen destruction.
Like Thomas who
wanted to see the resurrected Christ before believing that He is alive, even so
some people want to see Christ before believing in the promise He made. They
want to see the fulfillment of the promise before they believe in the promise.
They have no faith. To such Christ is saying to them
John 20:29b … . blessed are they that have not seen,
and yet have
believed.
And then He added
“He that is unjust, let him be
unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is
righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy
still.
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
Rev 22 : 11 - 12
There is no second
(or is it third) chance. When Yahushua came from heaven to save men by laying
down His life as atonement for sin, that was the second chance given to man.
All those who reject Him for whatsoever reason are doing so at their own peril.
When our savior
comes in fulfillment of the promise He made to us (John 14: 2 - 3),
He will reward those who deserve to be rewarded and the others will be bundled
into the lake of fire. And that will be it.
“ …blessed are they that have not seen,
and yet have
believed. “ John 20 : 29b
HOW IS THE RAPTURE SATANIC
ORIGIN
OF DOCTRINE
The
rapture doctrine was never taught during the time of the apostles nor after
them. It was also not taught by the early church just before the apostate Roman
Catholic Church took over. During the time of the Reformers too the doctrine
was not taught.
A
Jesuit priest named MANUEL DA LACUNZA
(1731 - 1801) laid the foundation of what is today known as the rapture
doctrine.
He
wrote a manuscript using the pen name Juan
Josafa Rabbi BenEzra, the manuscript is titled La Venida del Mesias en Gloria y Magestad (The coming of the Messiah in
Glory and Majesty.)
The manuscript was
published in 1791. He wrote under a pen name to obscure the fact that he was a
catholic priest in order to give the book some kind of acceptance within the
Protestantism - his intended audience. All this was part of a plot to take the
pressure off the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope. It was known during the
time of the reformation that the pope was the supreme embodiment of the spirit
of Antichrist and the Catholic Church is the harlot woman of Revelation seventeen.
This understanding was responsible for bringing believers out of the Catholic
Church.
EDWARD IRVING
A ferry Scottish
preacher named EDWARD IRVING (1792 - 1834) came in contact with the writing of
the Jesuit priest and was deeply moved by it. He translated the work from
Spanish to English (ie The coming of the Messiah in Glory and Majesty). It was
him who started in 1830 to publicly preach the doctrine of Secret Rapture of
the Saints.
Another
preacher who was a contemporary of Edward Irving named JOHN NELSON DARBY was
the one responsible for popularizing the doctrine through his writing. The
doctrine soon spread to America and was popularized there by C. I. SCOFIELD
through his Scofield reference bible. The
Scofied Bible was responsible for firmly establishing it among protestant bible
schools and from there it became popular amongst Pentecostals. This appealed to
evangelicals who carried on the preaching without checking out the truth of it
through the word of God.
IN
A NUTSHELL
In
a nutshell, the Catholics concocted it, and sold it to the Protestants and from
there to the evangelicals/Pentecostals. Catholic cannot produce anything
godly/holy for it is the sit of Satan and the headquarters of his deception
activities. What you need to realize is that, it wasn’t taught by Christ or by
the apostles or the reformers.
WHAT DOES SATAN
STAND TO ACHIEVE WITH IT
Satan
gives false hope so that his ultimate aim will be achieved – destruction. You
will notice that this rapture thing has become very popular in this end-time
through false prophesies and purported visions of some so called ‘men of God’
who claim that we will be ‘raptured’ before the antichrist comes, giving false
hope to Christains.
Satan
is increasing his deception activity using both his human agents and demons
that appear as ‘angels of light’ and ‘ministers of righteousness’. People are
speaking from the mouth of familiar spirits yet they think God is showing them
some vision of rapture.
MY
SECOND DISCOVERY
I
discovered that scientist at NASA
have created a very demonic technology called BLUE BEAM or PROJECT BLUE BEAM. This
will be discussed more in the next article but let me just mention here that the
technology can
1. Make selected
people disappear as if they were raptured.
2. Make it look as if
Christ appeared on the sky or any person in that matter.
3. Make it appear as
if you were hearing God speak to you.
This
whole thing sounds unreal but it is true.
In
promoting the idea that there is an event called rapture of the saints Satan
seeks to blind the eyes of Christains; to condition your mind enough to believe
in it, so that when the Project Blue beam is launched, it will appear as if
rapture has taken place and as if you missed it and then you will be
susceptible to bow to the beast (submitting to the government of the
antichrist) without knowing that you are doing so; and that translates to mean
that you will drink from the cup of wrath of God. So the rapture thing is like
propaganda to prepare the way for project blue beam.
FINALLY
There
is nothing like rapture of saints before tribulation. There is only a second
coming of Christ which will take place not before the tribulation or before the Antichrist shows up as I have shown through the word of God but after the Antichrist has been revealed to the world.
It
is equally erroneous and misleading to teach and believe in rapture as it is
not to believe that Christ is coming again literally as He had promised in John
14:2-3.
Him
who has promised is able to fulfill his promise – even the devil knows this, and
He is able to keep us from the persecution that will fall upon the world, He is
able to keep us to the very end. So there is nothing to fear for He who is for
us is mightier than them against us.
PROMISES OF GOD FOR
US IN THE END-TIME
Several
promises has been made for us in this end-time upon which we should hope and
have faith. The psalmist expressed one of such promises in Psalm 46.
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help
in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though
the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;”
Psalm 46: 1 - 2
Verse 11
of the same Psalm 46 says
The
LORD of hosts is with us; the God of
Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Others promises
are
“…lo,
I am with you alway, even unto
the end of the world. Amen….”
Matt
28:20
Also
“Because
thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of
temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon
the earth.
Behold,
I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.”
Rev
3:10-11
The
above scripture is a powerful scripture and a warning. It is assuring us of the
presence of our savior till the very end. The scripture below sheds more light.
“And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the
world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
I
have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not
of the world, even as I am not of the world.
I
pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou
shouldest keep them from the evil.”
John
17:13-15
Our
savior was praying for us all – his disciples then and we now, that our
heavenly Father keeps us from evil till the very end.
So
there is no need to fear as we enter the years of great deception and
tribulation. Let the Antichrist show up, and the tribulation come; we shall be
here doing one thing: communicating the love of Yahushua.
“…lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen….”
Matt
28:20