Only through FAITH can you be taken by RAPTURE

Christianity is a belief that is based on faith and believes that God is the Creator.

So, the authors of the Bible used faith as the main topic in the Bible for many
 times 

to remind the believers that they should always keep and use their faith, 

so as to have a right relationship with God; to be called righteousness in front 
of God; and to have various blessings promised by God.

Romans 10:9

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your 
heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 5:1;

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God 

through our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 3:18:

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe 

stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's 

one and only Son.

If we wish to be pleased by God, we need to have the faith so as to fulfill the 
conditions of the promises of God’s Words. Taking actions can prove 
that you have faith.

Hebrew 11:6:

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who 
comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those
 who earnestly seek him.

Hebrew 11:1-2:

1.Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we 
do not see.

2.This is what the ancients were commended for.

Mark 11:24

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have 

received it, and it will be yours.

Moreover, in the end of days, the Book of Revelation predicted the time 
that the wrath of God will be descended to punish the people on earth. 
All Christians will be caught up to heaven first and be with God; 
they don’t need to experience the great disasters.

For those who can be caught up to heaven, other than the basic criterion 
that they should be the Christians, they also need to be watchful, 
to believe that God will come at any time in this sinful generation. 
As sons of the day, they will not be judged as the people on earth, 
but indeed they will be saved by faith and to escape from God’s wrath.

1 Thessalonians5:1-2, 8-0

1.Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you,

2.for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief 
in the night.

8. But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on 
faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

9. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation 
through our Lord Jesus Christ.

There are three teachings about the rapture in the present theology.

The first one talked about the rapture before the disaster mentioned above. 

They believe that all the Christians and the Christians who are watchful 
will be caught up to heaven and escape from God’s wrath.

The second one is the rapture in the middle of the disaster. They believe 
that those believers need to experience the great disasters with the people 
on earth together for a period of time. For those who pass various tests 
in the disasters and still keep loving God, they will be caught up to 
heaven by God. They believe this because there are verses in the Bible
 talked about the rapture in the middle of the disasters.
 One of the examples is the 144,000 people.

  

Revelation 7: 4, 13-14

4. Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 
144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

13. Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes--who are they, 

and where did they come from?"

14.  answered, "Sir, you know." And he said, "These are they who have 
come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes 
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

The third one is the rapture after the disasters. Basically, they believe that no one 

can escape from God’s wrath and judgment. All the people will experience the great 

disasters together. For those who do not die in the disasters, they can enter the Kingdom 

of God in the Millennium prepared by God.

Zechariah 14:16

Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will 
go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, 
and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Indeed, Pastor Wind have mentioned in the previous sermons that 
people will be caught up to heaven before the rapture, 
in the middle of the rapture and after the rapture.

But, the time for the rapture is decided by our faith and the level of our faith.

The Book of Zechariah mentioned that there are people who will be 
caught up to heaven before the rapture. And the criterion is that 

they should become the Christians who will never sleep in their belief 
and to be watchful for the coming of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with
 them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be 

with the Lord forever.

Revelation 12:5:

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron 

scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

There are also people who will be caught up to heaven in the middle of 
the disasters. Just like the parable of the Ten Virgins that Jesus mentioned, 

for those virgins who are sleeping, some of them have prepare the oil, 
some of them are not. For those clever one who have prepared the oil, 
although they will experience the disasters for a short period of time 
when the disasters happened, they can be caught up to heaven later.

For those foolish virgins who do not prepare oil, they will suffer 
in the disasters.

Indeed, when will you choose for the rapture?
 Is it in the middle of the disasters, 

after the disasters or you will be a watchful Christians, 
who believe that you will be 

caught up to heaven before the disasters and escape from God’s wrath?

The Temple of Solomon - prefiguring the "man child" in Revelation

Haggai 2:6-9

"This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.

I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD Almighty.

'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD Almighty.

'The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. 'And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty."

The ten plagues shook the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. The Israelites were able to take silver and gold from Egyptians before they left, owning the desired of all nations since Joseph was the prime minister.

Exodus 11:1-2

Now the LORD had said to Moses, "I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.

Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold."

The Israelites established the first house for God in the desert, that is, the Tent of Moses. Furniture in the tent, such as the ark, the censer, the lampstand and the robe, needed to be made of gold so that they might show the glory and nobility of God.

People could observe the seven feasts set up by the Lord after the establishment of the tent, celebrating three times a year. In fact, these feasts make up the timetable for the child to grow up.

Deuteronomy 16:16

Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles. No man should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

The Israelites entered Canaan, defeated 33 cities there and established Israel. Their military power was the greatest when David was the king. Nations paid tributes to them every year.

Israel was very wealthy when Solomon was the king. The most glorious temple, the Holy Temple of Solomon, was built at that time.

However, all the tents and the temple mentioned above are symbols of the church that will be established by the Lord Jesus later.

The church is the male child mentioned in Revelation 12. It’s the most glorious bridal church in the last days.

Revelation 12:5

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

The woman in this verse refers to Israel. Her male child represents the most glorious church in the last days. That will be a church snatched up to God like Enoch and Elijah. Like the Lord Jesus, they will rule nations with an iron scepter.

God will shake the heaven and earth, the sea and dry land to provide them with wealth to build a more glorious holy temple than Solomon’s.

Not only that, just like the building of Solomon’s holy temple, no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool will be heard when the most glorious holy temple is building in the last days until all works are finished.

1 Kings 6:7

In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.

When the temple of the last days is building, it will be just like the child hidden in the woman’s womb. No one outside could see him until he is fully grown and delivered.

The church that is expected to be great must have all kinds of power, wisdom, knowledge and wealth so that the greatest glory will be shown once the child is born and the Good News will be delivered widely.

This church will be caught up to God in a short period of time so that an even greater restoration will occur during the seven years of disaster.

The 2012 sermons are the final call to the child, for this is the time of Haggai, meaning that God is shaking the heaven and earth, the sea and dry land.

Therefore, God’s glory will be shown to human beings shortly. Rapture will come shortly too!

Haggai 2:6-9

"This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.

I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD Almighty.

'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD Almighty.

'The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. 'And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty."

"The Red Dragon" in the Book of Revelation

Genesis 3:14-15 

14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

Genesis in the Bible records that Eve was tempted in the Garden of Eden by the serpent and ate the fruit of the only tree forbidden to eat by God—the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God did not only punish Adam and Eve but also the serpent, that is Satan.

God also foretold that in the future the offspring of the serpent and that of the woman will be enemy to each other. The offspring of the woman will crush the serpent’s head and in turn it will strike his heel. Who are the offspring of the woman and that of the serpent?

In fact, the offspring of the woman refers to Jesus and his Church, because Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born by virgin Mary. Therefore, Jesus did not have a biological father. God described Jesus and his Church as the offspring of the woman.

But who is the offspring of the serpent? In fact, written as early as in Genesis 6, since Satan’s fallen angels are the serpent, the serpent’s offspring is created by the serpent breeding with women.

God sent the great flood to destroy all humans on earth in order to stop Satan’s and its angels from contaminating the bloodline of human. Only the righteous Noah and his family of 8 people were spared to keep the human lineage pure.

Genesis 6:1-4

1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

However, Satan never stops the plan of polluting the human lineage. After the great flood, the bible continues to record the existence of the serpent’s offspring. They were the occupants of Canaan in Joshua’s time; in David’s time, David also hit a few giants to death, i.e. Rephaim, including the famous giant Goliath.

Up to Revelation in the New Testament, this offspring of the serpent has grown up and become the red dragon in Revelation. And they can sweep away a third of stars in heaven, i.e. the downfall of the faith of church leaders who will lead a big group of Christian to follow the serpent’s offspring.

Revelation 12:3-4

3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads.

4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born.

The red dragon in Revelation 12 does not only refer to the event of the serpent’s offspring but also a specific time, just like the woman in the beginning of the same Chapter is also referring to a particular time. From past to present, the image of this woman is used to refer to a set time, that is the time of the annual rise of the sun with Virgo, i.e. the Feast of Trumpets every year, or even the Feast of Trumpets on 29 September 2011. Therefore, the concept of “The Interstellar‧Book of Revelation” must be used to understand Revelation completely

Revelation 12:1

A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

Revelation 12 not only uses the red dragon to describe Satan in the end times, planning to defeat the church and Christians through causing a third of Christian leaders to sin, but also the specific time and star configuration in the sky when this event happens. This heavenly sign is historically recorded by ancient civilizations and prophecies, including the Bible, ancient Egyptians and Sumerians, prophet Mother Shipton and Nostradamus. The sign is the red-dragon-like physical appearance of Planet X in the sky which visited the earth 3600 years ago and will visit the earth again in 2012.

As the woman described in Revelation 12, her appearance represents the beginning of travail. And the time the red dragon appears is also the time when Planet X appears in the sky and also the time when Satan will cause a third of church leaders originally qualified for rapture to sin and turn them into the serpent’s offspring.

However, Chapter 12 also mentions the third role at the same time, that is the child born by the woman and caught up at birth who will also rule all the nations with an iron scepter.

In the end times, will you choose to become this caught up child? Or stay behind to become the rest of this woman’s children to experience the 7-year tribulation?

Or you choose to ignore the end times and scoff at those prepared for Christ’s coming, and in the end, tragically become the serpent’s offspring and receive the beast’s mark with people in the world of 7-year tribulation?

Revelation 13:16-18

16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,

17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.