THE RAPTURE
Wherever you stand on the rapture whether preteribulation (God’s people will be taken up before the tribulation to be with the Lord), mid (God’s people will be taken up to be with the Lord somewhere in the midst of the tribulation) or post (God’s people will be taken up to be with the Lord after the tribulation) we must know with certainty that Jesus is returning very soon. We must be about winning as many people to Christ as God gives us.
Although many people have already died and their fate (eternity) is sealed (once a person has left this world (died) we don’t pray for them any longer because they have made their decision and will spend eternity in either heaven, if they accepted Christ into their hearts, or hell if they rejected him) we still operate with the concept of emptying hell and filling heaven (in other words we want to get as many people as we can into heaven rather than see them go to hell)
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 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.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Darkening-Sun-Moon-And-Stars
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024&version=NIV
PRAY:
Father, we pray for the lost that they would give their hearts to Jesus while there is still time.
Pray for every person that comes into your thoughts today to be saved and be in the center of God’s will for their lives.
If they are lost pray for them to be saved and in the center of God’s will.
If they are already saved pray for them to be in the center of God’s will (spirit, soul, body, emotionally, financially, materially and in every other way.
WHO CAN ACCURATELY EXPLAIN OR DESCRIBE THIS BEAUTIFUL HOLY CONCOCTION, AS IT WERE, OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT UNLESS IT BE REVEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT? It is only by revelation from God mixed with faith in God (See Hebrews 11:6) and
“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear” (Hebrews 11:3). Also, it is by revelation that we recognize the real Jesus.
“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 16:13-17).
PRAY:
Father, we understand that a person can only come to Jesus if you draw them (See John 6:44) and Jesus, that a person can only come through you to get to the Father (See John 14:6). Dear God, we also understand that you move by your Spirit (YHWH – Yahweh;
“Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH,” the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus. The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton.”
STUDY: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” Genesis 1:1-2 King James Version). Here you see the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit).
Please read verses 3 through 25 to how the Father and the Son by the Holy Spirit created everything else first before creating Adam and Eve in verses 26 and 27.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Genesis 1:26 – 27).