RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH  

By dear Brethren, see how I write you big so you can see what others haven’t seen. I do not do this for my benefit but yours. That you might mature in Christ Jesus. I have been with you and still place a special emphasis on being with rather than doing for, so have gone through it that you have. For what benefit if it were not for you that I write this big? I do not write you new laws but it that some of you have heard. I have had among you that some of you say that there will no end! If it is so, what are we preaching? If actually He did not die, what is the gospel about? Or what is its meaning? Then all are lost, gone for ever! All these, we can say, are therefore for vanity! Like a passing wind. This is a false doctrine, my conscience tells me so and you also know that. Christ came, died and resurrected. For I feel that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen, which we have witnessed, concerning Jesus’ second coming, has drawn too nigh!

Second coming of Christ

Jesus says, I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you (John 17:11, John1: 1-5, 10-12, 14.).  So, coming from the Father and going back Him was not something accidental to Jesus. Even before Cross, he had known. And by the way, He is described in Isaiah 53 and a reflection is seen in Acts 8:32-33. He now says, I’m coming back quickly, but how will it be?

The Bible links Jesus Second coming to various occasions. This is what we expect.

The Lord (Jesus) Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of Archangel (Michael) (Daniel 12:1) and the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive (holy Christians) shall be transformed and be caught up together with them (raised dead and Christ) in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). In other words, the Trumpet will sound, the dead in Christ resurrect, and then those who are Holy will be changed and meet Christ in the air. The Trumpet, to your surprise, will be a Spiritual voice and only those who died or are living in Spirit will hear it. This is what Isaiah; the Prophet saw and said, (Isaiah 26:19-22). ¹⁹ But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise-let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy-your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead. Wake up means resurrect as Jesus used when resurrecting Lazarus.

This will be similar to the way Jesus was resurrected from the Dead. 1 Corinthians 15:50-55 ⁵¹ Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep (dead), but we will all be changed— ⁵² in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed, ⁵³ For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

For Jesus says (Matthew 24:40)... ⁴⁰ Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. ⁴¹ Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. You see that? Similar incidence is described in Matthew 25, where at midnight hour the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Midnight is used to show that a new day has come for it’s at midnight that the day changes.  The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT. He picks others. Though 10 were waiting but takes five. He further compares this with the time of Noah.

Tombs will be left open (all will see). The taken saints will then enter the wedding of the Lamb of God (Mathew 25). The door to salvation will be shut (Mathew 25:10; Gen 7:16). The lord himself will close it.

This will result in a total confusion; Pilot taken, the plain crushes, Father taken, a child reports, your partner taken, you run to the police, so and so is missing, driver taken accidents occur, just to name a few. The Holy Spirit will be taken away and the Antichrist will then emerge. He will say, OK, this is a total confusion, let us number them, to see who is who and who is missing. The 666 comes. In other words, in a layman’s language, this is the Tribulation that will take 7 years. The first three and half years, will be pre-tribulation and then the next three and half years, great tribulation. After the first, three and half years, those who will die holding on the testimony of the Lord will be resurrected again, those who refuses the 666 mark. As a matter of fact, Matthew 24 illustrates it all. You see the falsehood in Matthew 24: 22, they will deserve you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. Those who refuse the mark will be butchered.

This is what Isaiah saw (Isaiah 26:19-21). Come, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you hide yourself as if were for a little moment until the indignation/wrath is passed. These are the rooms that Jesus said he was going to prepare (John14:1-3) for the wedding supper of the Lamp of God. This little while means seven years. Indignation is tribulation. Do you understand? Look, I’m revealing it that you have looked for long.

After seven years, Jesus comes and takes those who died in their testimony for Christ. Then Hell that you have heard appears now, the great judgment where Satan will be bound. After seven years Christ comes back on mount Zion. The beheaded saints will resurrect. The Satan is casted in bottomless pit and shut up for a thousand years (Revelation 20:13). New heaven and earth is created (Revelation 21:1-10). This is the New Jerusalem.

One will be forced to worship the Satan (Revelation 13:18) that will come. If you refuse, they behead you. God becomes interested in 144 thousand Jews (already chosen) who will allow them to be beheaded. God will send His Holy Spirit to confuse the remaining Christians to worship the devil. The Lord Himself will confuse you. Antichrist will be very powerful and perform great signs (Revelation 13:12). He (Antichrist) will blasphemy God, His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven (Revelation 13.6)

Unless you receive the mark 666 on the forehead or on right hand, you will not travel or buy or sell (Revelation 13:16). During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them (Revelation 9:6). There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people (Daniel 12:1)

Comprehending the gravity of tribulation, No one desires to enter there, but how long still for these things to happen? When will rapture take place? How close is it? Who is the Antichrist? He is the man living presently, as I write. Where is he living? All these, you will get in my next writing.

I have only written it that you can understand, but there is more embedded in teh second coming of the Lord.

So, my advice to you Brethren, watch out that no one deceives you, watch. Be extra cautious that the time does not catch up with.

If you want to receive the Lord Today, repeat this prayer.

Salvation Prayer

Lord JESUS, I am a sinner and I repent of all my sins,
Please wash my sins with the Blood of JESUS today,
I receive you into my heart today as my Lord and Saviour,
Write my name in the Lamb's Book of Life,
Please send me the Holy Spirit to help me
live in holiness, and please protect my heart,
In the Name of JESUS, I am Born Again today.

Amen.

Shalom, Shalom, the Lord Bless you. Amen.

Your Brother in Christ 
Justus Otieno

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