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1. To Fulfill Jesus' Promise to the Apostles. Jesus /Yeshua promised to take us (the believers that are alive at the time of His coming) to be with him. |
John 14:1
Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
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John 14:2 In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. |
2. To Keep the Promise Made to Abraham.
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Genesis 22:15 |
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Genesis 22:16 |
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Hebrews 6:13
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The seed of Abraham is made up of the actual genetic descendants (the 12 tribes of Israel)) as well as those followers by faith, as we mention in Reasons for the Rapture.
Most of the followers of Jesus/Yeshua will be put to death by the one-world government referred to in the book of Revelation as "the Beast that looks like a leopard". Therefore, it is necessary to take His followers out of the grip of Satan and the Beast. Due to the fact that there will be no area of the earth in which the government of the beast will not have authority, God will need to take His people literally out of this Earth. Read Mark of the Beast.
Acts 3:25
It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God
made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'AND IN
YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE
BLESSED.'
3. To Have a Larger Gene Pool from Which to
Repopulate the Earth after
the Battle of Armageddon.
God states that the human population left on this earth would be more rare than the gold of Ophir. Therefore, in order to avoid genetic inbreeding, God will need to take enough people out of this Earth so that He could repopulate the Earth later on.
Also, the gene pool is being damaged by genetic manipulation, not only of the human genome, but the plant genome "Frankenfood".
Many valuable genes are disappearing in the plant kingdom and animal kingdom, including the homo sapiens.
4. To Save His Followers from the Hour of the Test and the Wrath of God.
| Revelation 3:10 Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. The hour of the test seems to be either: 1. Accepting the mark of the beast and losing your future eternal life, or 2. Rejecting the mark and losing your physical life by beheading. God is compassionate and knows that most of his followers will rather die than accept the mark, therefore He will protect them by taking them to a place of refuge in some other planet. Read The Woman with 12 Stars. |
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After the rapture/rescue God will start to deal with the evil forces here on earth -- Satan and his human followers. He deals with them in what the bible calls "the day of the Lord" or "the day of God's wrath." More on this subject in Wrath of God.
5. To Dethrone Satan
The ruler of this Earth is Satan. He has already been cast out of heaven.
Revelation
12:7
And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon.
The dragon and his angels waged war,
Revelation 12:8
and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them
in heaven.
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil
and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and
his angels were thrown down with him.
The
final war to dethrone Satan and his angels will be on this Earth and will start
after the first trumpet is sounded -- after the rapture. See Satan.
Isaiah
13:5
They are
coming from a far country,
From the farthest horizons,
The LORD and His instruments of indignation,
To DESTROY the whole land.
Isaiah 13:6
Wail, for the
day of the LORD is near!
It will come as DESTRUCTION from the Almighty.
Revelation
6:17
for the great day
of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"
Revelation 14:10
he also will drink
of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of
His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of
the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
We are waiting for the signs of Christ's return to
rapture / rescue his followers in order to protect us from the one-world government of "the
beast" and the wrath of God.
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1 Thessalonians 1:10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come. |
