So the "rapture" will happen in 2018 now?
and whats the point of the seven years if shits gone and all the christians took of to heaven?
Is it like a seven year hell or does that come later on
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I don't know when the rapture will take place. I just clarified the assumption about the date of when the world could end. Meaning that the world can not end until 7 years after the rapture. No matter what year the rapture takes place, it will be 7 years after that event that the world will end.
Therefore
IF the rapture took place in 2018 the earliest date that the world would end would be the year 2025. But again, I don't know when the rapture will come! I am watching and praying everyday so that I will be ready whenever that day comes because there will be many people who will not be ready on that day and thus they will be left behind like the 5 foolish virgins in Matthew 25.
There must be 7 years left after the rapture because that is what the Bible declares. The last 7 years of this worlds history will accomplish the following:
1. The 70th week of Daniel! Which is when God will turn His attention back to the nation of Israel in order to fulfill all the Old Testament promises that He gave to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. The whole house of Israel will be reunited back in the land of Israel during the tribulation. Many of the people who will be left behind on the cloudy day will understand that they are part of the 12 tribes of Israel and will go to the land of Israel. In the process of the 7 year tribulation 2/3 of the nation of Israel will die while 1/3 of the nation will survive until the end by accepting the Lord Yeshua Ha Mashiach (Jesus the Christ).
2. To judge a world that has rejected King Jesus by loving sin more than righteousness.
3. To pour out His wrath upon those who refuse to repent of their sins despite experiencing never before seen catastrophic judgments that will take place during the end times.
4. To bring an end to sin and usher in the establishment of everlasting righteousness.
5. To give the world what they want, which is a world where God is silent for a "brief time". Thus allowing the people who are left behind to be ruled by the fallen angels without restraint. The head of the unholy trinity in the last days will be Satan who will give power to the Antichrist and False prophet in order to deceive mankind into worshipping him when the mark of the beast is issued.
6. To fulfill the everlasting rule of sowing and reaping. Meaning that the world has sowed wickedness, therefore it shall reap destruction.
7. To give mankind one last chance at receiving salvation by accepting Jesus Christ as their LORD and Savior.
There's a whole lot more, but that is the bare bones of it. The end times will be the most terrible time in human history. God said that there was never a time like it before it and there will never be a time like it after it. But there will be countless people who will come to faith in Jesus Christ during this time because they will realize the error of their ways during the pouring out of earth shattering judgments.
The only caveat is that people who come to Jesus Christ during this time will be killed like sheep headed to the slaughter house. The greatest persecution of all time will take place during this time because the devil will be ruling without restraint. True Bible believing Christians will be raptured and thus the restraining influence of the Holy Spirit that indwells all born again believers will be removed from the earth, which will subsequently be filled by the powers of darkness when they are kicked out of heaven permanently and confined to the earth for the last 7 years of human history. Right now in our day and age there is still "law and order" to a degree because the restrainer of evil has not been COMPLETELY removed; but yet we still see how wicked it is today because of the devastating effects of sin.
Imagine how evil it will be when ALL the light is removed from the world? You can't even imagine it! It will be like driving 200 mph without any brakes on your vehicle and no traffic lights, stop signs, or laws on all roads, freeways, and highways. No holds bar!
The only law and order in the last days will be to KILL everyone who does not have the mark of the beast. It will be a continual non stop purge of people who reject the Mark of the Beast and place their faith in Jesus Christ.
I wouldn't roll the dice though by saying "I'll just wait till WW3 happens" because:
A) There's no guarantee that you'll even survive the cloudy day. Over a billion people will die when the end begins.
B) If you survived the cloudy day, the world that you see today will be no more. It will be worse than the book of Eli, mad max, and the purge combined.
C) the Bible will be outlawed, there will be no true born again believers to help teach you, and deception will be so great that many will be deceived. The Jehovah witnesses, mormons, and all the other religions today are just a taste of the deception that will take place after the cloudy day.
D) The effects of the cloudy day will just be getting started. Radiation will be everywhere, nuclear winter will be settling in, everybody will be bald headed, everybody will be wearing sackcloth, food will be scarce, water will be at a premium.
E) The bottomless pit will be opened soon after the cloudy day......thus the misery of mankind will only be getting started.
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"9“And on that day,” declares the Lord GOD,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
11“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD,
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the LORD.
12They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD,
but they shall not find it." Amos 8:9-12