The Great Evacuation - or - the Rapture?

  I'm watching evangelist David Jeremiah and he is giving a sermon on the coming "evacuation", you know, the Rapture.  I have and do admire David Jeremiah as a bible teacher with talent and as a TV preacher is is tame compared to some.  Having said that I must deny his position concerning the doctrine of the Rapture and of the sister doctrine of Imminent return.  It is truly amazing to me how throughly these pivotal, false doctrines have become embedded as an unquestioned truth.  Strong bible teachers such as David Jeremiah get is wrong as to eventually be harmful to believers, expecailly new comers to the faith, leading into a false, and eventually disappointment when they find themselves in the middle of the GREAT QUAKE of Revelation 6:12. 

  Make no mistake, these false teachings will lead many into a darkness of disbelief and rejection of the truth and of the Savior -- they may even curse the Living God.  They will scoff, "where is this promise of His coming", as they shake their fists toward the heavens, as they scramble into the mountains and holes in the ground for fear of what appears to the the end of the world.  Having bought into the idea, the false idea, they will "escape" the Great Quake, the wrath -- they expect to escape the coming heavenly events plunging the earth into darkness.  They have relied upon false teachers, ignoring their own study of the Holy Word, laying a foundation of sand upon false hope doctrines of escape preached to them by teachers refusing to see the truth themselves they turn their lies into a new truth proving that old saying, "misery loves company" .

 I do not have the answer to everything but in rightly dividing the word of truth it is obvious to me that when the "resurrection" occurs, all believers, not some, but all will be changed and meet our Lord in the air at the sound of the Trumpet.  The Great event these preachers of security is the disappearance of millions of Christians -- suddenly -- waking people of the world up and making them mad while the luke warm chirstians sing, Woo is me, we should have listened to our righteous brothers now in heaven.  Please, let scripture speak -- be instructed by His Words from the pen of His Aspostle not some TV preacher.

  (1Co 15:51-54) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Please note, the wording does not say, "only some", and it does not say, "only those alive", and it does not say, "taken to Heaven".  No, those teachings only a few living are caught up to Heaven must make an assumption of something not written and then pressed that false view into service as scripture taught.  When the scriptures teach the "resurrection" the teaching of the "rapture" must be assumed.  The Resurrection Doctrine is being hijacked for a doctrine of false hope, a doctrine promising to keep you from ever having to suffer or be uncomfortable with coming events. Truth of the Scripture is used and twisted to get you to believe this "strong delusion", a deception people actually want to hear, they want to hear they will be removed to a safe place while the world goes to hell.  

The messiah says no man has gone to heaven, none, zero (John 3:13, 1 John 4:12, 1 Tim 6:16), making it plain that only He has been there, is from there, and is to return, going back to where He came from and it is only He that will return from there that we might be where He is and that will be here on thie earth.  Where? Earth? Yes, on this Earth as King of Kings.  Have you not read that the 12 Apostles are to rule over the twelve tribes of Israel?  This will be the restoration moving into the 1000 years rule of our Savior, on this Earth.  I am not making this up, I am not making assumptions -- I ask you to read the following verses in support of these truths -- (John 1:18, John 3:13, Matthew 19:26, Revelation 21:12, 1 Timothy 6:15, Revelation 17:14; 19:16)

Our Messiah's mission is to return to the scene of the crime, not as a broken individual carrying the sins of the world weight down by suffering, but rather as a powerful King of Kings, coming in power and glory given Him by our Heavenly Father, on a misson of Salvation, deliverance and restoration, and preparation -- preparing the Earth for the future arrival of our Heavenly Father (Revelation 22:1).  The book of Revelation last chapter show us the Fasther is present, the Unapproachable Light will be here and we will all be changed, evil gone.  We will not even have a need for the son as a power source and for light because He, our Father and the Lamb, Yahshua will be here together.  Why Earth?  Why not, if there plan is to move the Seat of Authority from one place to another who are we to question?  If the plan is for our Father to move His Power to a different place and He id not choose Earth as that place but picked someother part of the Universe the question would still be asked by the critics, Why here?

(Rev 21:7-8) He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God (Father) and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

Did you read that?  To those that overcome will be inheritors of the Kingdom and they will be His Sons.  Look at those excluded and you will see this is not politically correct, by the world standards, no, these are those preparing themselves for the flames of the fiery lake and eternal destruction, never to be heard from again.  From the "second death" there is no return.  Are you a participant in any of the above activiities?  Is your life determined by any of the above mentioned attitudes?  Notice, "unbelievers" are right behind the "cowardly".  Cowardly, according to Strong's Greek Dictionary, has it as the does the KJV as "fearful" and Strong's adds, "faithless".  Fearful and faithless would be someone, in my estimation, someone without enogh faith to believe our God can really save us.  This would be someone caught up in the end-times running to and fro looking for a place to hide, never turning in repentace to the wone that promises life and peace.  The "cowardly', again in my opinion, is not someone having lost courage in the face of adversity -- we cannot all be as King David, whom killed a lion and a bear with his hands -- but of the "cowardly" I think this would be those turning on their brothers and sisters in an effort to save themselves from the wrath of other men.  We saw such people during the Catholic Enquistions, turning their neighbors for greed and for fear of their own lives.  A real friend is one willing to die for his or her friends and YaHshua is a friend indeed.

When the Beast rules and Satan has given him and his government his power and authority will you have courage enough to stick with you brothers and sisters in the turth, even if it may mean your death?  Many believer of the past have done just that, so you would be in good company.  The Great Evacuation is not what many think and the timing of the event is so twisted by the false teachers as to make anyone doubt the Word. 

Peace, your servant, Dan

servant@yahshuaservant.com