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Caption transcript for Roadmap to Armageddon: “The Rapture” (2/10)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:07 male: Most people think and misunderstand prophecy
• 00:10 thinking that the second coming and the Rapture
• 00:11 are of the same event.
• 00:12 They really are not.
• 00:14 male: I hate to think about it, but I suspect that when that
• 00:16 shofar, that trumpet blows on that day, that there would be
• 00:20 congregations across this world, still half full of people.
• 00:23 male: Sure it will come like a thief in the night to the
• 00:26 world, to the children of darkness.
• 00:28 And we are the children of light and we're not meant to be
• 00:31 caught unaware.
• 00:32 ♪♪♪
• 00:39 David Hart: We are in our series: Road Map to
• 00:41 Armageddon and we're so glad that you've joined us today.
• 00:44 Kirsten Hart: Today, if I'm not wrong is all about a word that
• 00:48 is never found in the Bible, the Rapture, is that right?
• 00:52 Joshua Colson: The Rapture, I thought somebody might bring
• 00:54 that up.
• 00:55 It is about the Rapture, but there is a word that's in the
• 00:57 Bible, in the Greek called "harpazo."
• 00:58 Kirsten: I had to set you up.
• 01:00 Joshua: I knew you would set me up with that.
• 01:01 Caleb Colson: It's okay, there's no English words originally
• 01:02 in the Bible, it was in Hebrew and Greek, so.
• 01:06 But this is very important guys, you know, we've taught as the
• 01:09 Bearded Bible Brothers online for years about the Rapture, but
• 01:12 right now this moment in history is the most important time to
• 01:15 talk about that.
• 01:17 The church needs to know the truth because we are so close to
• 01:20 the coming of Yeshua.
• 01:21 There's no time left.
• 01:23 It's time to learn the truth.
• 01:24 David: And I believe you're heading to Nazareth right now
• 01:26 for teaching?
• 01:27 Caleb: That's right, it's gonna be interesting.
• 01:28 David: Let's go there now.
• 01:30 ♪♪♪
• 01:39 ♪♪♪
• 01:43 Caleb: Oh, good morning, Josh.
• 01:46 I know today is about the Rapture, but I can't really
• 01:50 figure out a location to speak from that brings home the
• 01:53 soberness of that event.
• 01:57 Joshua: Don't try to make my breakfast a Bible
• 01:59 lesson, brother.
• 02:00 I put Jesus's food in my mouth in Jesus's homeland.
• 02:03 My food is already holy brother, I don't need a Bible lesson yet.
• 02:06 Oh, it's Jeff, he has our mission.
• 02:11 Dr. Jeffery Seif: Ok, guys, here we go.
• 02:13 You are at the edge of the world.
• 02:15 We're gonna look at the end of the world as the church
• 02:18 knows it.
• 02:19 Fascinating stuff.
• 02:21 When Yeshua came the first time people weren't ready.
• 02:23 You know, when it comes the second time, we see the
• 02:25 same problem.
• 02:26 He's gonna come unawares.
• 02:28 We're gonna look in Thessalonians in a moment but
• 02:30 take us to the site of Nazareth.
• 02:33 That's where Yeshua began and what a fitting place to look at
• 02:36 his beginning when we consider his end.
• 02:39 Caleb: Jeff's right.
• 02:40 That's where we need to go to talk about the Rapture.
• 02:43 We're going to Nazareth.
• 02:44 Joshua: Sure Nazareth, why not?
• 02:47 I mean, it went so well for Jesus last time.
• 02:54 ♪♪♪
• 03:04 Joshua: 1 Thessalonians 4:16 through 18, "For the Lord
• 03:08 himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
• 03:11 an archangel and with the trumpet of God.
• 03:14 And the dead in Christ will rise first.
• 03:17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
• 03:20 them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
• 03:23 And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
• 03:26 Therefore comfort one another with these words."
• 03:30 Joshua: Hey guys, the teaching of the Rapture has literally
• 03:33 been a part of the church since Paul.
• 03:36 He's literally been teaching it since then.
• 03:37 But recently, the idea of a rapture has
• 03:40 fallen from grace amongst the church.
• 03:41 Now, what do we mean when we say the church?
• 03:43 We're talking about those who believe
• 03:44 in Yeshua, whether you're Jewish or whether you're a grafted
• 03:47 in Gentile.
• 03:48 During COVID, the Western church was really rocked.
• 03:51 They got really nervous about what was going on and began to
• 03:54 believe that we're living in the tribulation now.
• 03:57 But guys, we're not living in the tribulation.
• 03:59 We serve a loving God, a good God who has made a way of escape
• 04:02 for us, so that we don't have to go through that tribulation.
• 04:05 So everyone who is in Messiah, who is with the bride, will be
• 04:08 spared from the horrors of that seven years.
• 04:10 Caleb: That's right.
• 04:11 And I find it interesting even in
• 04:12 Revelation chapter 1 through 3,
• 04:14 Yeshua is addressing the church, the Bride at first and then
• 04:17 throughout the entire Book of Revelation, it's quiet, there's
• 04:20 like crickets chirping.
• 04:21 It's all about the Saints.
• 04:22 But then at the end, the Battle of Armageddon, Revelation 19,
• 04:26 guess who comes, Yeshua on a white horse and we the bride
• 04:28 follow after him.
• 04:30 So here we have a bunch of important scriptures we need
• 04:33 to read.
• 04:34 But this will back up that narrative that Josh said that
• 04:36 we're not reserved for wrath.
• 04:38 Joshua: So here we go.
• 04:39 Let's see if we can get into Nazareth's unscathed.
• 04:44 Joshua: Revelation 3:10, "Because you have kept My
• 04:47 command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of
• 04:51 trial which shall come upon the whole world to test those
• 04:54 who dwell on the earth."
• 04:56 1 Thessalonians 1:10, "and to wait for His Son from heaven
• 05:00 whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from
• 05:05 the wrath to come."
• 05:06 1 Thessalonians 5:9, "For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but
• 05:10 to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ."
• 05:16 Caleb: 1 Thessalonians 5, 1 through 10, Paul tells us that
• 05:19 we are the children of light and as being the children of light,
• 05:22 we are spared from the wrath of God.
• 05:25 But we are also meant to know God's calendar timing for the
• 05:28 events that are to come.
• 05:30 So for example, Josh, the Rapture of the Bride and the
• 05:35 Second Coming, we aren't meant to be caught unaware for
• 05:37 those events.
• 05:39 Joshua: Sadly enough, if Yeshua to come back today in the
• 05:40 clouds, some of us would be caught with their pants down,
• 05:43 proverbially, not knowing that he was coming.
• 05:45 So to understand how that might happen, we've come to the first
• 05:48 place Yeshua came where they missed it, here in his hometown
• 05:51 of Nazareth.
• 05:53 I'm not gonna lie, I truly expected like a musical number
• 05:56 to ensue when Caleb flailed his arms out like the
• 05:58 greatest showman.
• 05:59 But nobody cared.
• 06:02 Joshua: Luke 21:36, "Watch therefore and pray always
• 06:06 that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that
• 06:09 will come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man."
• 06:13 Joshua: Yeshua himself made a way for our escape.
• 06:15 He made a plan for our salvation.
• 06:18 But guys, let's be honest prophecy sometimes can
• 06:20 be confusing.
• 06:22 Take Isaiah, for instance, in the same chapter, you can find
• 06:24 something about Yeshua's Second Coming, his first coming, and a
• 06:26 prophecy for today.
• 06:28 Caleb: I mean, if he truly studied the Word of God and
• 06:31 cross referenced the scriptures, then it wouldn't be so con--
• 06:33 Joshua: Be sweeter.
• 06:37 Caleb: But now that we have the Ruach Ha-kodesh, the Holy Spirit
• 06:40 living in our hearts, we have the power to discern the
• 06:43 scriptures and the knowledge of all truth is revealed to us.
• 06:46 The prophecy is meant to be confusing to Satan.
• 06:48 In fact, Satan got the Romans to crucify Yeshua, but he didn't
• 06:53 know he was stupidly playing into Father God's master plan
• 06:56 for our salvation.
• 06:58 1 Corinthians 2, 7 through 8, "No, we declare God's wisdom, a
• 07:03 mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory
• 07:06 before time began.
• 07:07 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had,
• 07:11 they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory."
• 07:13 Joshua: It's a beautiful church.
• 07:15 This beautiful facility is where they believe that Gabriel
• 07:17 visited Mary and said, you're gonna be Yeshua's mom.
• 07:20 But my question is, did Gabriel say that at the nine o'clock
• 07:22 service or the 11 A.M.
• 07:24 service or all the services?
• 07:27 Caleb: That's right.
• 07:28 And Yeshua's first coming, he was quite misunderstood by not
• 07:31 just the Jewish people, but even his own neighbors in Nazareth.
• 07:34 The Jews believe that the Messiah had to be this great
• 07:37 warrior that was gonna conquer and vanquish the Romans and set
• 07:40 himself up as king ruling over Israel.
• 07:43 They didn't understand prophecy that first he had to come to
• 07:46 redeem the sins of mankind.
• 07:48 He would first come as a lamb, the lamb of God.
• 07:51 John 1, 11 through 12, "He came to His own, and His own did not
• 07:55 receive Him.
• 07:57 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become
• 08:00 children of God, to those who believe in His name."
• 08:04 Joshua: They just couldn't see that Yeshua was the Messiah.
• 08:06 All they could see was the same carpenter that grew up
• 08:09 amongst them.
• 08:10 It made me wonder if Yeshua was to come back today and walk
• 08:13 through these very streets, would they recognize him today?
• 08:21 Victor, do you understand the kind of things that my brother
• 08:24 tries to make me do?
• 08:26 Victor: Things like what?
• 08:27 Joshua: Well, things like we're in Nazareth today, right?
• 08:29 Victor: Right.
• 08:30 Joshua: And he wants me to walk around with a Jesus robe
• 08:32 on and see what people say.
• 08:33 Shalom.
• 08:35 We are here in the streets of Nazareth.
• 08:37 The streets where Yeshua grew up.
• 08:39 They didn't recognize Yeshua as the Messiah when he returned to
• 08:43 Nazareth, they recognized him as a carpenter's son.
• 08:46 Let's see what they think when they see someone like me walking
• 08:50 around in a robe, maybe looking something like him.
• 08:54 ♪♪♪
• 09:02 This is such a cool experience.
• 09:04 I actually used to put on a rope several times a year and walk
• 09:07 around the streets, Friday night, Saturday night and the
• 09:10 responses I got.
• 09:11 People coming up who were inebriated or said, I've never
• 09:13 been in church.
• 09:15 I didn't like church, but they all said I've heard of Jesus and
• 09:17 I think that guy's pretty cool.
• 09:22 Caleb: You hear that?
• 09:24 Praying to demon gods.
• 09:26 It's very sad, actually.
• 09:28 If I would be mad, or more in mourning, so many people are
• 09:31 lost, deceived, on their way to hell.
• 09:34 ♪♪♪
• 09:44 ♪♪♪
• 09:54 Caleb: Let's get back to the story, Josh.
• 09:56 After Yeshua was baptized, he came back to his hometown
• 10:00 of Nazareth.
• 10:01 And as was the custom on Shabbat, he went to
• 10:03 the synagogue.
• 10:04 And most people believe this was the synagogue that he went to,
• 10:08 this underground synagogue.
• 10:10 Let's go in there.
• 10:11 Joshua: Let's check that brother.
• 10:14 ♪♪♪
• 10:22 Caleb: So guys, the entire city was there at the synagogue
• 10:25 that day.
• 10:27 Everybody knew who Yeshua was.
• 10:28 In fact, he was the town carpenter.
• 10:31 He was the one who took care of business for them.
• 10:34 And so it wasn't an accident that they're like, hey,
• 10:37 here's Yeshua.
• 10:39 They handed him the Torah scroll to read for that day.
• 10:43 And Yeshua found a part in a passage which was prophetically
• 10:46 spoken that he would fulfill.
• 10:51 Joshua: "And when he opened the book, he found the place where
• 10:53 it was written, 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he
• 10:56 hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent
• 11:00 me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
• 11:03 captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty
• 11:08 those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of
• 11:12 the Lord.'
• 11:13 That he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant,
• 11:15 and sat down.
• 11:16 And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were upon him.
• 11:19 And he began to say to them, 'Today the scripture is
• 11:24 fulfilled in your hearing.'"
• 11:28 Caleb: Let's just say they were none too happy about Yeshua
• 11:32 saying that.
• 11:34 And in fact, they wanted to kill him, this friend of the
• 11:36 community and they decided to do just that.
• 11:41 Luke 4:28 through 30.
• 11:43 "So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things,
• 11:46 were filled with wrath and rose up and thrust Him out of the
• 11:49 city: and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their
• 11:51 city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff.
• 11:55 Then passing through the midst of them.
• 11:57 He went his way."
• 11:59 Joshua: See, I'm about breaking things down, easy to understand.
• 12:02 So let's look at this.
• 12:03 Yeshua comes back to Nazareth, his hometown, he goes to
• 12:07 synagogue, he reads Torah.
• 12:09 They don't like what he has to say.
• 12:11 They take him up on this hill because they're gonna throw him
• 12:15 off and kill him.
• 12:16 And then he turns invisible and walks right through.
• 12:19 Let's check out this precipice that they were gonna throw
• 12:21 Yeshua off of because it's pretty gnarly.
• 12:23 ♪♪♪
• 12:32 Caleb:This is where they took Yeshua, Mount Precipice.
• 12:36 Out of their own ignorance, they were ready to murder their own
• 12:39 Messiah, the Messiah for all the world.
• 12:43 And Yeshua looked out at this great valley behind me, the
• 12:46 Jezrel Valley, the valley of Armageddon.
• 12:48 He saw his future a place where he would return one day and
• 12:52 vanquish evil once and for all.
• 12:54 It's chilling guys.
• 12:56 Scripture tells us that then Yeshua, he literally turned
• 12:59 invisible and walked through the crowd and they couldn't
• 13:01 kill him.
• 13:03 Joshua: The question we wanna ask you today is, will you be
• 13:05 ready when Yeshua comes for you?
• 13:08 Whether he comes in the clouds and the Rapture for you or the
• 13:10 Second Coming?
• 13:11 Are you going to be ready?
• 13:14 He's gonna be seen by the whole world as described here in
• 13:16 Matthew 24:30 which says, "The sign of the Son of Man will
• 13:20 appear in heaven.
• 13:21 And then all the tribes of earth will mourn, and they will see
• 13:24 the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven in power and
• 13:28 great glory."
• 13:29 Caleb: They're weeping and wailing because they know that
• 13:32 their doom is sealed.
• 13:33 You see the second coming of Yeshua, the entire world
• 13:37 sees him.
• 13:38 Most people think and misunderstand prophecy thinking
• 13:40 that the second coming and Rapture are of the same event.
• 13:42 They really are not.
• 13:44 Because the whole world sees him at his second coming.
• 13:47 And in fact, even the beast is anticipating it.
• 13:49 He knows the exact day he will arrive before the Rapture,
• 13:52 Yeshua will come like a thief in the night, like in the days of
• 13:55 Noah and no one will be prepared.
• 13:57 At least not the wicked.
• 13:58 But we want to look at the Jewish telling of the story of
• 14:01 the Rapture and how we can be prepared in our hearts for when
• 14:05 he comes.
• 14:06 1 Corinthians 15:51 through 53, "Behold: I tell
• 14:10 you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
• 14:13 changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
• 14:17 last trumpet.
• 14:19 For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised
• 14:21 incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.
• 14:23 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
• 14:28 must put on immortality."
• 14:31 Joshua: You know, our founder, Zola Levitt was one of the first
• 14:33 Messianic Jews to show how the seven feasts of the Lord that
• 14:37 were shadows that point to the Messiah were actually fulfilled
• 14:40 by Yeshua so that his people could know that he came as
• 14:45 the Mashiach.
• 14:46 Caleb: That's true, Josh.
• 14:48 Yeshua died on the Feast of Passover.
• 14:51 He was buried on the Feast of Unleavened Bread,
• 14:53 on the Feast of First Fruits, Yeshua rose from the grave,
• 14:58 on the Feast of Shavuot, Pentecost,
• 15:00 he sent the Ruach Ha-kodesh, the Holy Spirit.
• 15:04 Now, if Yeshua went through all the trouble of fulfilling the
• 15:07 spring and summer feast to the very day, don't you think he
• 15:10 might try to fulfill the last fall feast on the same day?
• 15:14 Will Yeshua return for his bride on Yom Teruah, The Feast
• 15:18 of Trumpets?
• 15:19 Will he defeat the wicked and judge the nations on Yom Kippur,
• 15:24 the great day of atonement?
• 15:26 Will he begin Tabernacling with man on the Feast of Sukkot, and
• 15:31 begin the Millennial Reign?
• 15:32 Joshua: You know, Matthew 24:36 says that of this day, the
• 15:36 angels don't know.
• 15:38 That the only one who knows when he's going to return in that
• 15:40 moment is the Father.
• 15:42 Caleb: So how can you know the day or the hour if you don't
• 15:47 know the day that he's gonna return on Rosh Hashanah?
• 15:49 It's very confusing, Josh.
• 15:51 You know, ancient Jewish Rabbis from centuries ago and
• 15:54 commentators explained that this phrase, "No man knows the day or
• 15:58 the hour was a very common Jewish idiom.
• 16:00 It's like a saying that was said and correlated with Yom Teruah,
• 16:04 the Feast of Trumpets.
• 16:06 In fact, we know that, that day was also called Yom Ha'Keseh,
• 16:09 the day of hiding or the hidden day as is described in
• 16:12 Psalm 81:3.
• 16:13 Why does it mean that Josh?
• 16:14 It's because this feast occurred on the New Moon and the blowing
• 16:18 of the shofar, which began the feast could not occur until the
• 16:22 moon was visible.
• 16:23 That tiny little sliver of a moon.
• 16:25 And thus there had to be watchmen that were set to
• 16:29 identify this new moon.
• 16:31 Two watchmen, two witnesses would have to verify, they would
• 16:34 go before the Sanhedrin and testify, they saw this new
• 16:37 moon appear.
• 16:38 I find that very interesting Josh, because those Rabbis also
• 16:42 said that this Yom Teruah, this Feast of Trumpets was a hidden
• 16:48 day of one of two days that was hidden to mankind.
• 16:52 It was inherently linked.
• 16:53 They said with the revealing of Messiah.
• 16:55 First was the day of your death, the second day would be Yom
• 16:58 Teruah, the day of the revealing of Mashiach, the Messiah.
• 17:03 Joshua: You know, Colossians 2, 16 to 17 explains that New Moon
• 17:06 Festival is a shadow of the Messiah.
• 17:08 Now, let's say you don't believe any of this.
• 17:10 Alright, let's say that everything that we said, you
• 17:12 say, no, it's no man knows the day or the hour.
• 17:14 We're still told that to understand the season of the
• 17:17 Messiah's return, we look to Israel as the fig tree
• 17:21 explaining the signs of the times.
• 17:22 Caleb: That's right guys in Matthew 24, Yeshua's disciples
• 17:26 came to him, and they asked, how can we know when you're
• 17:29 gonna return?
• 17:31 What is the sign of the end of the world?
• 17:33 And he said, look at the fig tree, look at Israel.
• 17:36 It's the hourglass, the timetable that we know when he's
• 17:39 going to return.
• 17:41 As goes with Israel, so goes the rest of the world.
• 17:44 So what you may be wanting to know is will you take part in
• 17:47 that Rapture?
• 17:49 We wanna be taken in the Rapture guys.
• 17:52 And once we are, we go before the beam of the judgment seat of
• 17:55 Christ, we will be judged by Yeshua according to our works.
• 18:00 This is not a judgment of whether our salvation hangs in
• 18:04 the balance.
• 18:05 This is about what rewards we will get and what position we
• 18:07 will hold in Yeshua's kingdom.
• 18:09 And afterward, we get to enter the wedding feast, a seven year
• 18:13 wedding feast and marriage supper of the lamb.
• 18:15 In the seven years correlates directly with the seven day
• 18:19 wedding feast that occurred on the earth during Yeshua's time.
• 18:21 But all during this time, those who are left behind on the earth
• 18:25 will have to endure a seven year tribulation.
• 18:28 Joshua: Let's read the parable of the 10 virgins, "Then the
• 18:35 kingdom of heaven shall be likened to 10 virgins, who took
• 18:38 their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
• 18:41 Now five of these were wise, and five were foolish.
• 18:44 Those who were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil
• 18:47 with them: the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
• 18:50 While the bride groom was delayed, they all slumbered
• 18:53 and slept.
• 18:54 And at midnight a cry was heard, Behold, the bridegroom is
• 18:57 coming; go out and meet him.
• 18:59 Then all of those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
• 19:02 And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil;
• 19:05 for our lamps are going out.
• 19:07 But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there should not be
• 19:11 enough for us and you: but go ye rather to those who sell, and
• 19:15 buy for yourselves.
• 19:16 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who
• 19:19 were ready went in with him to the wedding: and the door
• 19:23 was shut.
• 19:24 Afterward the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, open
• 19:27 to us.
• 19:28 But he answered and said, Assuredly I say to you, I do not
• 19:31 know you.
• 19:32 Watch therefore, you know neither the day nor the hour in
• 19:36 which the Son of man is coming."
• 19:39 Caleb: That's chilling, Josh.
• 19:40 It's terrifying in a way.
• 19:42 Do you know that the bride in that story represents
• 19:45 the church?
• 19:46 Jew and Gentile, they are one in Messiah.
• 19:48 Now for many years, pastors said that it's the the virgins that
• 19:51 represent the church.
• 19:52 But no, they represent the Jewish people.
• 19:54 It's terrifying that only half of those Jewish people who are
• 19:57 meant to be a light to the Gentiles, could lead that bride
• 20:00 to the bridegroom Messiah.
• 20:02 Only half of them had the oil of the Holy Spirit filling their
• 20:05 lamps, and were allowed into that wedding feast.
• 20:08 But the door was shut on the rest of them.
• 20:11 Joshua: I hate to think about it but I suspect that when that
• 20:14 shofar, that trumpet blows on that day, that there will be
• 20:17 congregations across this world still half full of people.
• 20:21 Maybe these people are counterfeit Christians.
• 20:23 Maybe they were never saved to begin with.
• 20:25 They never fully committed their lives to Yeshua, but for
• 20:27 whatever the reason, today is the day that you have a choice
• 20:32 to choose whether or not you will take part in that Rapture.
• 20:36 Whether or not you'll be left behind to endure the horrors of
• 20:40 the tribulation.
• 20:41 And if you've read what happens in this time, it's not a time
• 20:44 you want to be here for.
• 20:46 Instead, you want to be amongst those who made the choice in
• 20:50 advance to be taken away in that great moment, in that Rapture
• 20:55 with their Messiah.
• 20:56 Caleb: Paul said, Yeshua is gonna come like a thief in
• 20:58 the night.
• 21:00 And 1 Thessalonians 5, they said it'll be like a thief in the
• 21:03 night to the world, to the children of darkness.
• 21:05 You being the children of light are not meant to be caught
• 21:08 unaware that Yeshua is coming.
• 21:11 We are meant to be prepared and we're not meant to be
• 21:14 caught unaware.
• 21:16 ♪♪♪
• 21:20 ♪♪♪
• 21:28 Joshua: Such an amazing serious topic, but it's one that every
• 21:31 person on this planet has to make that decision.
• 21:33 Are you going to give your life to Yeshua?
• 21:36 Now, talking about the Rapture, we've said it's imminent.
• 21:39 Some people don't believe in it.
• 21:41 The doctrine has actually been in question now, as of late of
• 21:43 whether or not this is a recent doctrine, that only began in
• 21:46 the 1800s.
• 21:47 Caleb: That's right.
• 21:48 They say John Darby invented this doctrine, but it actually
• 21:50 goes back even further guys.
• 21:51 There are documents that have come to light that explain that
• 21:54 the early church Fathers taught this doctrine and to discuss
• 21:58 this, we went to an expert Lee Brainard, who's going to tell
• 22:01 you more about this.
• 22:02 Lee W. Brainard: There's a tremendous amount of evidence in
• 22:05 the early church fathers, particular the first two
• 22:07 centuries, but even up into the 5th and 6th centuries, there's
• 22:11 pre-trib Rapture references.
• 22:14 I was doing research for a different book and I stumbled
• 22:17 across a passage in Ephraim, the Syrian, which was a stunning
• 22:21 Rapture reference, can I just read one?
• 22:24 Caleb: Yes, go ahead. I'd love to hear this.
• 22:26 Lee: So here's one of the passages I found in Ephraim
• 22:27 the Syrian, "For the elect shall be gathered prior to the
• 22:31 tribulation, so they shall not see the confusion and the great
• 22:35 tribulation coming upon the unrighteous world."
• 22:38 Caleb: Wow.
• 22:39 Lee: It plainly states the Great Tribulation.
• 22:41 Caleb: And you found this in the Greek?
• 22:42 Lee: In the Greek.
• 22:43 Caleb: Yes.
• 22:45 And you were able to translate this, you have a knowledge and
• 22:46 study of these ancient languages, and that's just one
• 22:50 of many?
• 22:51 Lee: Yes.
• 22:52 Caleb: What time period was that from the Syrian?
• 22:54 Lee: The Syrian would have been writing in the early
• 22:56 4th Century.
• 22:58 Caleb: Early 4th Century, but you found earlier writings
• 22:59 than that?
• 23:00 Lee: Oh, yes, we found, there's four clear
• 23:02 Rapture references, pre-tribulation Rapture
• 23:05 references in the writings of Irenaeus who was in the first
• 23:07 half of the Second Century.
• 23:09 And we even have pre-trib Rapture references in the
• 23:12 Didache, which was written probably between AD 70, AD 100.
• 23:16 So it is likely written while the Apostle John was
• 23:20 still alive.
• 23:21 Caleb: Wow.
• 23:23 And for me who have never heard of Irenaeus, what's
• 23:25 his connection?
• 23:27 How do we, what's so important about this man?
• 23:29 Lee: Well, Irenaeus was a disciple of Polycarp, and
• 23:32 Polycarp was a disciple of John.
• 23:34 So Irenaeus in his book against heresies clearly states that he
• 23:39 learned his prophetic teachings from the elders who studied
• 23:43 under the apostles.
• 23:46 Kirsten: I for one, am so thankful for the difference in
• 23:51 Rapture, and Second Coming.
• 23:53 I'm thankful for the two of you giving us that insight because I
• 23:57 think in the church, we kind of, I don't know, there's so
• 24:00 many things.
• 24:01 We jumble the Rapture with the Second Coming, and one isn't
• 24:05 distinct from the other.
• 24:06 And I'm like which one has the trumpet?
• 24:07 Is everyone seeing this?
• 24:09 So I'm thankful that you are kind of answering some questions
• 24:12 for us, and the importance of why we differentiate between
• 24:16 the two.
• 24:17 Joshua: Well, nobody wants to ask those questions, obviously,
• 24:19 you know that.
• 24:20 We saw the felt board in Sunday school and there was no two
• 24:22 separate felt pieces for that.
• 24:23 And nobody wants to feel weird, but they are very different.
• 24:25 And the harpazo, the catching away of the bride of Christ, is
• 24:30 going to happen before the tribulation.
• 24:32 And we get that assuredness in the Bible.
• 24:33 But we also hear Paul give us that when he's talking about the
• 24:37 church in Thessalonica.
• 24:38 Caleb: That's right.
• 24:40 So it's not just the church day back, you know, during the time
• 24:42 of Paul, the church at Thessalonica thought they
• 24:44 missed it.
• 24:45 They thought they missed the Rapture, they thought they
• 24:46 missed the Second Coming and they were confused
• 24:48 concerning eschatology.
• 24:49 Kirsten: Is it like that Larry Norman song, You've Been
• 24:51 Left Behind.
• 24:53 Do you remember that?
• 24:54 That's interesting that back then they thought, yeah.
• 24:56 Caleb: So in second Thessalonians 2, Paul had to set
• 24:58 them straight on the timing of certain events, which is
• 25:01 very interesting.
• 25:02 In verse 3, he says, "Let no one deceive you by any means; for
• 25:06 that Day, the day of the Lord of the Second Coming, will not come
• 25:09 unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin, the
• 25:13 son of perdition is revealed."
• 25:15 So people are saying, well, what does that mean?
• 25:17 He's talking about the final day, the beast has to come
• 25:20 before that.
• 25:21 And he said, well, what about the Rapture?
• 25:22 How do we know the Rapture happens before the beast?
• 25:24 The next verse tells us that.
• 25:25 Joshua: 6 to 8 says, "And now you know what is restraining
• 25:30 him, the beast, that he may be revealed in his own time.
• 25:32 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who
• 25:35 now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
• 25:39 And then the lawless one will be revealed."
• 25:41 Caleb: So what Paul is saying is there are certain, I would say
• 25:45 barriers, keeping the Antichrist from being revealed,
• 25:47 prophetic barriers.
• 25:49 One of those is with the capital H, the He, the Ruach Ha-kodesh,
• 25:52 the Holy Spirit that lives within us keeps the beast from
• 25:56 being revealed.
• 25:57 Because just one believer, I believe on this earth could stop
• 26:00 the beast from fulfilling his prophetic work.
• 26:03 And so we have to be taken out of the way for him to step out
• 26:07 on the scene.
• 26:08 That's pretty powerful.
• 26:09 Kirsten: I have so many questions, but we don't have
• 26:11 time for all of them, but I do wanna take the time right now to
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• 27:04 David: We are just about out of time today, but next week guys,
• 27:08 what else is happening?
• 27:10 Joshua: Next week is our third stop and this entire series is
• 27:12 about timing.
• 27:13 When is it happening?
• 27:15 How is it happening?
• 27:16 All the details.
• 27:17 Well, we believe that there's some precise timing about next
• 27:20 week's event, which is the Battle of Gog and Magog.
• 27:23 This is something that's talked about a lot nowadays with
• 27:25 everything that's going on.
• 27:27 So we're gonna clear up some of the details of when that's gonna
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• 27:31 Kirsten: And if I can also say a special thank you to Dr. Jeffrey
• 27:33 Seif who used to be sitting on the set for giving the guys some
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• 27:40 He did that very well.
• 27:41 David: Time to go.
• 27:43 Caleb: That's right.
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