“But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came blood and water. And he saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knew he saith true, that ye might believe.” John the Apostle also replied later in his epistles, “This is the that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ, not only by water but also by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness because the Spirit is truth.” ⁷⁷

Agnostic doctrine in the Gospel of Thomas and other Gnostic scriptures, and even Islam believes these heresies. Because the members of the clergy that taught the Prophet Mohammed gave him the same information.

Now, this part is for those who aren’t religious and couldn’t care less about whether we Christians leave or not. Some confused sacred fool would go somewhere to let the rest of the world have a little fun, they may say.

To tell you the truth, why not a theory to “escape in the rapture?” Remember that person who came on the first day of getting an A+, and all they did was open those beautiful long shapely to the Dean of Students and her professor to give them something special?

Everybody else did it the old fashion way. Read, took notes, and studied. So, earn their grade. However, Miss Thang just whored her way through and cheated, right? The same would be valid for the other five Church Eras of the world church, the goats. (Matthew 25:31-46) Christians feel they can act up any way they want (whore around with the world system), and because God loved them, they get to go to heaven and escape in the rapture. While only suffering a spanking in the Judgment Seat of Christ. 

However, according to the Bible, blessed Hope is to be a comforting factor for those dead in Christ. My saved relatives and friends who went to the grave await the return of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, we will both join him in the air. The dead in Christ first, and then the living. To go into the wedding feast of the Lamb of God.⁷⁸

Now my friends look at it from this standpoint. Christ and all first-century saints suffered death without the honor and courage of their faith. Nobody took their life because they molested children, stockpiled weapons of mass destruction, or drank arsenic-laced Kool-Aid ™. Thinking it was the end of the world.

When Christ Jesus returns, will he see a church of faith or fear? The doctrine of dispensationalists and phraseologies is not found in the gospel of the Apostles and the prophets. However, this doctrine came from the Catholic Apostolic Church and Miss MacDonald’s trance-like vision, which took place in the Spring of 1830. 

While she lived in Port Glasgow, Scotland, no other Christian theologian, writer, or Church Father wrote about this in history, “escape in the rapture” from the 5^th to the 19^th century. As I said before, her revelation was in a book by R.N. Norton and printed in London in 1861.

As Christ said, the traditions of men make the Word of God of no effect, ⁷⁹ because it puts a false hope in something that Christ Jesus didn’t say. Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” ⁸⁰ Now, we in the Western Hemisphere have become the new era of Christianity, and we have adopted the “escape rapture” theory. Because those ignorant fishermen and ordinary people back then weren’t educated, we are more likely to have our college degrees.

I heard one of my professors at Oral Roberts University say this same statement when Doctor Newman, professor of theology at Oral Roberts University. His tenure was from 1993-1995. He was on television explaining why this generation of Christians needed a new translation of the Bible. The Western Hemisphere Church of Jesus Christ is too chicken to be victorious and does it the way the New Testament saints passed their test.

I am a man of the sword, and I believe if you attack me. I will fight to my last breath because I have qualms about defending my right to exist. I am no martyr, and I am a soldier. Moreover, I have shocking news—this isn’t for anyone not confessing to Christ as Savior and Lord—read this statement and say what you want, but we live in that age. 

The book of Revelation chapter six, verses nine through eleven of the Modern King James Version, reads: 

“And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with loud voices, saying. When, Master, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth? And white robes were given to each one of them. And it was said to them that they should rest for a bit until both their fellow servants and brothers (those about to be killed as they were) should have their number completed.”

John the Apostle

Some in my profession may say this is metaphorical language and doesn’t apply but say what you want. If you claim Christ as your #1 religion, when the manure hits the fan, and it will, we will see if you are in the back of some cave crying your eyes red or if Jesus is the sweetest name you know.” Or ⁱ will you bow to whatever statue, robotic idol, or microchip implanted is set before you?

I know what I’ll do, and there is no shame here. I will be like the kid in the Bible running to the hills, living off the land. Jesus Christ even said that our flight isn’t on the Sabbath during the Winter, nor that your wife isn’t nursing a child.⁸¹ Minister William Britton concluded that no record of the “escape rapture” theory was ever preached before 1830, when the escape rapture was created in the time of the Church Era of Philadelphia (1790-1906). 

On April 30, 1831, Mrs. J.B. Cardale, who had joined Irving’s church, had uttered a personal revelation in a home prayer meeting, echoing Miss Margaret MacDonald’s disclosure of a pre-tribulation rapture. It was from this supposed revelation,” said Britton, then continued, “The modern doctrine and phraseology arose.”  These are just some things to think about why the pre-tribulation rapture divides many camps and denominations. With more questions on this subject this is Michael Tsaphah of the Chronicle.

CHAPTER NOTES:

77) John 19:34, 35 1 John 5:6 KJV

78) Matthew 22:2-14 

79) Mark 7:8

80) Proverbs 13:12

81) Matthew 24:20