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Marking the Times Episode 59: The Rapture

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In this episode Dr. Hitchcock answers your questions relating to the Rapture. Will we have enough time to realize what is happening during the rapture? What will happen to children born during the Tribulation?

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  2. Are you having a difficult time defending the Pre-Tribulational Rapture of the Church, in these, the Last Days of the Last Days of Human Leaders?

    Here are some Resources for those of you who need some good tools for defending the Pre-Tribulational Rapture of the Church here in the 21st. century!

    I just finished two excellent book resources that I would recommend that will help you in your defense of the Pre-Trib. Rapture. As you may or may not have noticed during The Covid19 Plandemic the Position of the Pre-Trib Rapture is under attack or being mocked. So I felt it was necessary to give out some resources that can help you in your defense.

    1. Ed Hindson and Mark Hitchcock's book: "Can We Still Believe in the Rapture" is excellent! You can google it or go to Amazon to review its Description.

    Here is Michael J. Michael Vlach's review: "I have read several helpful books on the rapture, but this one is at the top. Mark Hitchcock and Ed Hindson make a compelling exegetical, theological, and historical case for a Pretribulational rapture. They also take on the best and most current arguments from those who oppose the pretribulational rapture view. Adherents of a pretrib rapture will be encouraged. Those who disagree will have to interact with the arguments in this book."

    2. The Falling Away – Spiritual Departure or Physical Rapture by Dr. Andy Woods. A 2nd. look at 2 Thessalonians 2:3. Excellent resource that makes you think, is the "Apostasy", in 2 Thessalonins 2:3, "Falling Away" or is the word better Translated, "Departure". My own position as changed and I am with Andy Woods. I think it is better translated, "Departure", like, "We depart at the Rapture before the "Man of Lawlessness" is revealed. I believe the church has been falling away from Truth for thousands of years so it is difficult to figure out what do you mean by the "Great Falling Away", how much more will the church fall away?. Right now I am holding on to the argument that Dr. Andy Woods presents that the word is better translated, "Departure".

    3. Another great resource and incredible tool is: The Pre-Trib Research Center: https://www.pre-trib.org/. This is Tommy Ice's site and it is full of articles and research on Defending the Pre-Trib. Rapture Position, in these, The Last Days of the Last Days of the Administration of God's Grace during the Church Age.

    4. Another Resource is of course our group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/DefendersofDispenPretribPremill/. We have incredible Admins., great resources, documentation, etc. Please refer people to our group that need help in Defending the Pre-Trib. Rapture Position. I started this group a long time ago. It did not really go any where. We had about 3 or 4 people in it. Now we are 2.1k. strong!!.

    I hope this will encourage you during this most unusual time in "HIS", Story. The Chinese Communist Party's Wuhan Virus" is allowing us to do some more research into how close we are to the coming of the Lord for Us, especially before the coming "Flood" of the Tribulation Period.".

    We will follow our brother, Enoch, soon enough!

    "Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God three hundred years after the birth of Methuselah and had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And [in reverent fear and obedience] Enoch walked with God; and he was not [found among men], because God took him [away to be home with Him]." – Genesis 5:22-24, Amplified Bible

    Maranatha!

    Bob Roman, fellow, Admin, of the group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/DefendersofDispenPretribPremill/?fref=mentions, Sunday, October 4, 2020.

  3. Mark Hitchcock teaching the false Eschatological system known as Dispensational Futurism.
    Fact:
    1). The Rapture and the 2nd Advent are the same event; not two, temporally separate ones (1 Thes. 4:13-18, Jn. 14:1-3, 1 Cor. 15:51-55, are all speaking of events that will happen at the 2nd Advent…same event as the Rapture).
    2). There is no such thing as a 7-year period of "Great Tribulation". Indeed, the outpouring of the 7 vials of wrath will be tumultuous, but the idea that there is a "time gap" between the 69th and 70th weeks of Daniel's prophecy (Dan. 9:24-27) is totally fallacious, and without biblical warrant.
    The time prophecy of 1,260 days/42 months/'time, time, half a time' (all speaking of the same prophetic time period) has NOTHING to do with Daniel's 70th week.
    3). The Antichrist has been with us for over more than 1,000 years now. Biblical Christians used to know full well what the "little horn" (Dan. 7), the "man of sin, son of perdition" (2 Thes. 2:3-4), the "sea beast" (Rev. 13:1-10)…etc., was referring to. Futurism and Preterism have crept in to otherwise Bible-believing churches that are ignorant of the Historical issues involved in the discussions concerning Bible prophecy.
    4). The modern, nation-state that calls itself "Israel" is NOT the "Israel of God," and prophecy has nothing to do with the geographical nation that [falsely] calls itself "Israel".
    5). The Millennium (Rev. 20): Amillennialists are wrong; Postmillennialists are wrong; Historic Premillennialists are wrong; Dispensational Futurists Premillennialists are wrong.
    There is only ONE accurate interpretation of Rev. 20.

    Care to discuss any of these points?
    Let me know.

    Soli Deo Gloria

  4. I love it when he said " A lot of these things we don't know, there are some mystery in them." that was an honest confession. The truth is there are some children who parenting has really shaped them badly as much as they are young and innocents. Sin is sin whether you know or you don't know. But God judges justly, who knows whether children will be counted as though they never existed.

  7. In physics the smallest quanta of time is Plank time which is 10 to the -43rd of a second which is a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second. I think it will be as if we are on earth and next thing you know we will be in the clouds with Jesus. It will not be as if we are going up in the air, but we will be on earth and then in then with Jesus.

  8. Isaiah 53:5, he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed. For salvation, people just need to follow the way they did it in Acts? They were baptized in the water and of the spirit. Here's why! The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. If we are to follow him, we must do the same thing. Death= repentance, Burial = baptism, and resurrection = being filled and rising again from the dead. That's what Acts 2:38 is. We must obey the gospel, 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ… Matthew 7:21-23, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven; but he that DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER which is in Heaven. St John 3:3-5, EXCEPT a man be born of WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. We can't come up with our own gospel. Galatians 1:8-9, But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Don't be cursed. One way for all people. Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritan. Our salvation has to match-up with the scriptures and no scriptures on the subject can be taken away. Eternity is TOOO long to be WRONG! st John 5:39, Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. The gospels show what Christ has done on the cross for us. The book of Acts shows us the beginning of Christ's Church and how to enter the Church, obeying Acts 2:38. The letters were written to the Church to show us how to behave now that we are born again into the Church. It's better to walk alone than to walk with a crowd going in the wrong direction. Are we supposed to follow the teachings of the apostles? Acts 2:42, They continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrines. Ephesians 2:20, We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. Don't get Titus 3:5 mixed up with James 2:14-26, about WORKS. One is a WORK of your OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS OR GOOD DEEDS and the other is a WORK OF FAITH, Obedience to God's command. God told Noah to build an ark to be saved. Noah believed and responded by building the ark. Mark 16:16. If you believe in this message, help spread it in the name of Jesus Christ so people can get saved the right way. God bless you!

  9. This message came while I was drying off after taking a shower on Saturday April 6, 2019 at around 3:30 in the afternoon (this might not be exactly word for word, but it's close). Here's what came: 
    "The reason so many Christians are flocking to these false teachers and false prophets and other assorted teachers and preachers on YouTube is because they're hungry spiritually. And because what the teachers and prophets are teaching is devoid of the anointing of the Holy Spirit, their teachings are empty spiritually, so that when people listen to them it gives them a full feeling for a moment, but then not long afterward they're hungry again, so they run back for another feed. And this goes on and on. And they think that what they're doing is something good for themselves spiritually, when in fact the opposite is the truth."  

    This in turn reminded me of something the Lord told my old mentor nearly thirty years ago, which was that the reason so many Christians are moving from church to church is because the sheep are hungry and can't find food. I'm pretty sure the Lord told him that back in the late 80's. Just now I had a remembrance of this verse of scripture in which the Lord told the prophet Jeremiah: 

    "My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace." (Jeremiah 50:6, King James Version).

    Back during the mid-90's outpouring of the Holy Spirit the Lord gave a prophecy in which he said that when the outpouring ended that the enemy was poised to retaliate against the outpouring by raising up the biggest onslaught of religious activity in the history of the Lord's Church (e.g. the YouTube religionists).

    He said therefore that what he wanted for Christians was for them not to be doing anything religion-wise, but to stay home and learn to hear the Holy Spirit speaking to them, and to develop a personal relationship with him in the quietness at home. He said that meant no going to church, no going to conferences, no running after teachers, and no getting involved in any religious 'good works' agendas. There were several verses of scripture that accompanied the prophecy, which are these: 

    "For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved: in in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not." (Isaiah 30:15, King James Version). 

    "Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10). 

    "And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you." (1 Thessalonians 4:11). 

    "Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." (Hebrews 4:11). 

    Back in June of 1995 I heard one of the Christian prophets speak this message, and toward the end of it he reemphasized that the Lord wanted for his people to forego doing anything religion-wise, and to stay home and develop a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit in the quietness at home. I think the reason he was so emphatic about it was because he knew that the Lord regarded it as a very important move against the coming religious onslaught.

    There are a couple of other verses of scripture that support this message, and which have to do with identifying the false teachers and false prophets who are parasites on the body of Christ, which are these:

    "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain." (James 1:26). 

    "These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him." (1 John 2:26-27). 

    I think it's worth mentioning that the Apostle James was one of the Lord's younger brothers and was regarded as having the preeminent authority among the Apostles, also that the Apostle John was the Lord's best friend.

    In the above verse the Apostle John plainly stated that Christians who have the anointing of the Holy Spirit don't need teachers, yet most Christians ignore it and go ahead and heap to themselves teachers anyway (per 2 Tim. 4:3-4), mostly because they're lazy spiritually and want for someone else to do for them what they should be doing for themselves. It's really very sad.   

    Furthermore, not only do these false teachers and false prophets not bridle their tongues, they do the opposite and allow themselves to be used as mouthpieces by religious spirits who drive them and drive them to never shut up. And by allowing themselves to be used that way by the demons they become parasites who end up leeching on the body of Christ. They exemplify King Solomon's statement that a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. (Eccl. 5:3).   Plus his statement: "The horseleach has two daughters crying, give give." (Proverbs 30:15), ("Donate, donate, donate, donate, donate," etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum). They should all shut up and go get real jobs like normal people do (if they had the leading of the Holy Spirit to have genuine love in their hearts for their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ that's exactly what they'd do). 

    I think it would be quite appropriate to close with this famous quote by Carl Sandburg: 

    "I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth, and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar."

  10. Hi Mark. If children and others can be saved during the tribulation, then the Holy Spirit must still be here which flies in the face of those pre trib'ers who believe that when the Holy Spirit stops restraining He leaves the world. and because He dwells in us that means we go too, in the rapture. But you have to make this assumption, and that is the Spirit leaves this world. Dangerous thing to make doctrine on assumptions. I myself put myself in no trib camp. I do believe we will see the man of lawlessness. And the idea that those with my view don't have the blessed hope as some say is absolute foolishness. In that case the apostles never had the blessed hope either. I have no idea when and how fast prophesies can happen so ill just watch and wait and carry on preaching the Gospel. your brother in Christ Jesus…. John

  14. It is comforting to believe all children will go to heaven, but not sure that is realistic based on the Hebrews conquest of Canaan. They were told to kill everyone, man, woman, child & cattle. Because the parents were evil, it is likely the children also would be evil had they been allowed to grow-up. The children have always suffered the judgment of God along with their parents, even when that judgment fell on Israel & Judah.