Rapture of The Church? 

The Good News is that Truth shall prevail and empower those
    who are teachable, to be loosed!


    Are you seeking the riches of Authenic Apostolic Christainity?
   Are you living in a vacuum, void of the empowerment of signs, wonders and miracles?
   What you chose to believe will shape your life and the experiential realities and
   values that the New Covenant provides!

   When we guard our faith and do not allow it to be placed in a straight jacket of false
   teachings and we do not
allow others to influence us to practice limiting God...
   We find ourselves seated solidly
in Christ Jesus as the Holy Spirit guides and leads
   us into Truth!

 
The Bible is a Letter of Hope, Faith and Love to reveal the Godhead
  and God's plan for Mankind!

   Not everyone will enter into the plan of God which is revealed in God's Literary Letter
   of the Old and New Testament of
1188 chapters telling us of His will, purposes, ways and
   actions for all things.
God is in the center of all things!
    He reveals Himself, His omnipresence (present everywhere), His omnipotence
      ( absolute power and authority) and His
omniscience (knowing everything).


     His Letter, the Holy Bible is written as a book of conquest and victory!
    God by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost upon men, penned His mesages to us.
   
For too long, Christians have been characterized by despair, defeat and retreat! 
   
For too long, Christians have heeded the false doctrine which teaches that we are
                          doomed to failure.

     For too long, Christians have been taught that they cannot win... that,
                          until Jesus returns, Christians will steadily lose ground to the Devil.
     For too long, Christians have been told that the church is sliding into apostasy.
     For too long, Christian leaders (not all) but "most evangels" sadly inform us that we
                         are living in a "Laodicean age" of the Church spoken of in Revelation 3:14-22
                         (which is false teaching).
     For too long, Any new outbreak of war, any rise in crime statistics, any new evidence
                         of the breakdown of family, is oddly often viewed as progress... 
JESUS IS COMING! is the cry!
     For too long, This kind of interpretation of the Word of God is Heresy!
    For too long,  Bad news of physical and social extremes is regarded as a step forward
                          toward the expected goal of a total collapse of civilization.
    For too long, These teachings and expectations have been a "sign" that Jesus might
                          come
in a twinkling of an eye to rescue the poor little weak natured beaten
                          down fear-filled church!
    For too long,  Christians have looked on social action projects with skepticism...
                          "Anything that does not fit into the great scheme of being always ready
                          and mindful to be raptured out, cannot be of God."
                          "Anyone who would waste their time to improve the world must not really
                          believe the Bible!"  HOGWASH! 

                          Note: I pray that no one loses their salvation over the use of the hog's dung.  
                          Dung is written 28 times in the scriptures and means exactly what it says!
    For too long, The Bible has been taught that within it lies the escapism of dispensationalism:
                           "Christian's efforts are overall bound to futility."  "You don't polish the
                           brass on a sinking ship."  "Why worry about debt." Jesus is Coming!"

                                 These kinds of beliefs are exposed within the following premises:
                           1.  The world is nothing more than a "sinking ship."
                           2.  Any organized program of Christian reconstruction is nothing more than
                                "polishing brass."
   For too long,  Evangelism has been considered as an invitation to join the losing side!
   For too long, The Church has preached and taught the heresies of John Nelson Darby.
                         His work and the work of those who bought into his theology have spread
                         the "virus" of hell very effectually. 
                        The fruit of his work can be summerized as such:  "A false view of spirituality."
                        
"It is an unbiblical idea of "spirituality"... that a truly "spiritual" man is the person
                         who is sort of "non-physical," who doesn't get involved in "earthly" things, who
                         doesn't work very much or very hard except for self-centered goals.  One who
                         spends most of his time meditating about how he would rather be in heaven
                         because everyone should understand that he already has his 'ticket" to ride
                         out of the madness of mother earth.  And one who thinks that as long as he
                         is on the planet earth, he has one main duty in life: "Get stepped on for Jesus."
                         Doctrines of men have long taught that Bible"s core focus should be that
                         Christians are unworthy!  Maybe if we are "lucky" we might make it out of this
                         realm and not be thrown into the "lake of fire!" 
   Now, in all fairness, no Christian believes in ultimate defeat.  All Christians know that God will
   be victorious over the devil at the end of history.  Christians will recite that they have "peeked"
   at the last chapter and we win.  But this is the POINT I WISH TO MAKE on behalf of true
   apostolic doctrine... we must have the Truth about what happens in the END!
 
   Popular End-Time Teachers place victory only in the LAST CHAPTER.  In time, in history,
   on earth, the Christian loses
   "The world is getting worse and worse." 
   "Antichrist is coming."
   "The devil is running the world and getting more and more powerful all the time." 
   "Your work for God will have no lasting effect, except to save a few souls from hell."
   "However, you had better do it quickly before the Great Tribulation hits so that you can
   escape in time!"
 
   Unfortunately, there is something extremely, ironically wrong with these senarios!
   The unintentional message of the "gospel" is:  Antichrist is coming! There is something
    terribly lopsided about all this because it is HYPE! It is false! It is Heresy!

    In our future web pages and in our Prophetic Voice Newsletters, we will dive into that which
    is in right standing with God.  He is not the God of defeatism but the God who gives a spirit
    not of fear, but a spirit of power, of love and a sound mind.  1 Timothy 1:7

    The Bible teaches that God has given us the Mandate of Dominion and, thus, we have
    a Mandate of Victory!  This is not some kind of "everything will work out somehow theology."
    It is a solid, confident , Bible Truth of assurance, that before the Second Coming of
    Christ, the Gospel will be victorious throughout the entire world!

   Consider the following Biblical account of Apostolic Kingdom Teaching.
  
    Matthew 13:24-30  AMP
    24 Another parable He set forth before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man
    who
sowed good seed in his field.
    25 But while he was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed also darnel (weeds resembling
    wheat) among the wheat, and went on his way.
    26 So when the plants sprouted and formed grain, the darnel (weeds) appeared also.
    27 And the servants of the owner came to him and said, Sir, did you not sow good seed
    in your field?  Then how does it have darnel shoots in it?
    28 He replied to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him,
    Then do you want us to go and weed them out?
    29 But he said, No, lest in gathering the wild wheat (weeds resembling wheat), you root up
    the [true] wheat along with it.
    30 Let them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers,
    Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my
    granary.

    May you ask yourself the following questions? 
    Do you see that the unrighteous and the righteous are both in the same field? 
    Do you see that the rigtheous are not harvested and removed (raptured) from the field
    for three and a half years and then returned to the field?
    Do you understand what happens in the growth of different kinds of plants?
    Their roots are occupying the same earth... however, they individually draw upon different
    elements for existence.  If you remove a plant, you destroy the roots of those around them.
    They are separate, yet relational.
    All things are common to each of them such as temperature, water, space, sunshine and
    darkness.  The difference is
found in what they feed upon and their nature. 
    Can you "see" this comparison is symbolic to the spiritual growth in lives of humans?
    Weeds are ramport growers and usually destroy the soil as well as display protrusive
    structures such as thorns, bristles, ragged edges, poisonous secretions and the like.
    Good plants produce productive and useful substances. 
    They provide the necessary qualities to sustain life. 
    They bring properity in their season and are desireable to harvest.
    They are positive contributors to life.  If a plant is prematurely up rooted in its season,
     It will not yield fruit for which it was destined to produce.
    
Does this parable of Matthew 13:24-30 support a "double rapture" in the Lord Jesus Christ's
     teaching?
   Definitely not!  He speks of only one harvest!  He speaks of only a one time
     removal of the righteous from the unrighteous!

    God has a positive and everlasting plan for His church!  It is one of Victory!
    
Do you find Christ indecisive and without power to sustain his Church in the earth?
    Matthew 16:18-19 
NKJV
    I will build My church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

   1 Cor 15:22-25 
AMP
    22 For just as [because of their union of nature] in Adam all people die, so also
    [by virtue of their union of nature] shall all in Christ be made alive.
    23 But each in his own rank and turn: Christ (the Messiah) [is] the firstfruits, then those
    who are Christ's [own will be resurrected] at His coming.
    24 After that comes the end (the completion), when He delivers over the kingdom to God
    the Father after rendering inoperative and abolishing every [other] rule and every authority
    and power.
    25 For [Christ] must be King and reign until He has put all [His] enemies under His feet.

    Our King, Jesus, is Lord!  He is King Today! He reigns Today!
   His Kingship has not been postponed nor has His Authority and
   Power been withheld from Him!  He reigns from David's throne!
    Philippians 2:9-11 
NKJV
    9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above
    every
name,10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven,
    and of those
on earth, and of those under the earth,11 and that every tongue should
    confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

     Heresy is ramport in the Church. Heresy is not a plant.  It is a deception. 
     God is weeding out false doctrines by their roots!  Heresy is man-made. 
     Evil spirits are the perpetrators who lead men who lust after power and are hungry
     for recognition in the eyes of others. 
     Anti-Christ spirits capture and decieve men who invent doctrines that are not of God.
     Men with anti-christ spirits are full of guile and cunning ways.

     The Good News is that Truth shall prevail and empower those
    who are teachable, to be loosed!

     John 8:31-32 
NKJV   "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

    Those who will do research will quickly learn that John Nelson Darby is noted in the
    "theological
society" as the father of "dispensationalism.", 
    (Theo = God; Logos= word study)

   The term "dispensationalism" refers to the theological system employed by Plymouth
    Brethren
founder, John Nelson Darby (Nov. 18, 1800 — April 29, 1882). While historical
    accounts
reveal that John Darby was not the very first person
    1.  to conceive of the false pre-tribulation rapture
doctrine and
    2.  to promote the false doctrine of "two distinct peoples" of God in the New Creation.
 
     Heresy = False Doctrines
     John Nelson Darby was the first to indoctrinate fundamentalist
churches in the
     United States with his dispensational hermeneutics.


    The indoctrination was largely accomplished via C. I. Scofield, who inserted John Darby's
     doctrines into his selectively
footnoted Old Scofield Study Bible—copyright 1909 and 1917. 
    John Nelson Darby marked his bible
translation and theological writings with occult or
    New Age vocabulary and doctrines.
Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his
    popular style also spread Darby's teachings and may
be regarded as the journalist of the
    Brethren Movement.  In addition, C.H. Mackintosh popularized Darby's theories
and books
    more than any other Brethren author. (Just do a Google or Yahoo search on John Darby!)


    There was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in
    the 1830s,
(180 years ago). 
    He is credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ is to suddenly

    remove His bride, the Church, from this world
before the judgments of the tribulation.  
 

                                                                                                                                                           
    Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom
    of Israel
put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to
    graft them in again,"
and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their
    understanding of Old Testament
prophecy.
    1. They believe that, while the ways of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel
         will never
be forgotten. 
    2. They also believe that just as God has shown unmerited favor to the Church,
         He will do so to a "remnant of Israel" to
fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed
         of Abraham.
         These premises were refined and propagated by John N. Darby.  (They are WRONG!)


   Consider:
   1 Thess. 1:10   King James:   "even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come."

   Christians Who walk after the Spirit (and thus have assurance of security in Christ) are
   already delivered
from the wrath (hell) to come.

    Darby in his Pre-tribulation premillennial doctrine inserts fear into scripture:
    He wanted Christians to
think the "coming wrath" meant the Tribulation or Great Tribulation.
    To support his theories (heresies), he perverted the scriptures. 
    He changed them so very slightly. But he changed them!

    The Bible clearly distinguishes between tribulation and wrath.
     Jesus teaches His apostles about the Great Tribulation in Matt. 24:1-33. 
     He goes into great detail
of the coming events. 
     God revealed the Abomination of Desolation upon Jerusalem, the Jewish
leadership
     and the unbelieving Jews to the prophet Daniel.

     The Lord also spoke of the Sign of the Kingdom that would announce His reign and
     completion of the
foundation work of establishing the church in the then known world
     or nations... in the then known and living souls of the generation to Whom the Lord
     was speaking! These men were the generation! The generation He referenced was
     that of His disciples called and ordained to be eye-witness apostles of His life, ministry,
     death, resurrection and ascension!
     All through Christiandom, men and women are proclaiming "THIS IS THE GENERATION!"
     Preachers have been proclaiming "THIS IS THE GENERATION" for MANY GENERATIONS!
     It matters not what number of years one wishes to attribute to the number of "a generation."
    Jesus decreed a specific generation... the generation of His eye-witness disciples!

    Jesus tells of the destruction of theTemple and the end of the world that the disciples
    had known
as recorded in Matthew 24, Luke 23 and Mark 16.
    The Temple and its sacrificial worship carried out by priests in the alter slaughter and
    offerings of the
blood of rams, sheep and goats would be destroyed.  It would seize! 
    The New Covenant would be established
and Christ Jesus would rule the Church! 
   
It would no longer be the Church with its "roots" of the Wilderness" but NOW would be the 
    Church restored by the Eternal Spirit!  Its Covenant would no longer be the Law of Sin

    and Death given to Moses, but the New Covenant...Law of the Spirit and Eternal Life!
    All the things the Lord prophesied to the disciples on Mount Olive as they looked
    back at the Temple
as the sun was setting causing the gold-laden temple structure to glisten
    with incomprehensible
radiance would be fulfilled ...
    Matt 24:34 Verily I say unto you,
    This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
   
    When you read the passages of Mathew 24, Luke 23 and Mark 16 remember to whom Jesus
    was talking.   Review the world in which they lived.
    What had they seen Jesus do and what did they hear Him say while in the Temple?
    What did they see and what might they be remembering as they climbed the Mount of Olives?
    How many times had they been with Jesus on the Mount?
    What had they experienced in those gatherings on the Mount?
    What kind of views could they observe from the Mount?
    What was going on at the very moment and time that Jesus was speaking on the Mount?
    What was about to happen to their beloved Lord? 
    What was about to happen in their individual lives?
    What were their reactions to what Jesus told them in His Olivet Discourse?
    What was about to happen to them in their world as they were accustomed to living? 
   
What would be the things that would immediately impact them?
    What kind of understanding did they have of the Law of the Spirit?

    If you study Biblical History written by those who lived during the time of the prophesies
    of Jesus on the Mount of Olives through the years between around AD 30 and AD 70
    such as written by Flavius Josephus in his eye witness accounts of the Jewish Wars,
    you will see and receive full measure of enlightenment and understanding as to the
    message the Lord gave to His disciples!  The Great Tribulation was a Jewish nation event! 
   Jesus did not prophesy it for the whole world that would be on the earth 2000 years forth
    coming...  It was the Days of Vengence of Father God fulfilled upon the rebellious and
    apostate Jewish nation and the fulfillment of their own decree...
    God's nation, the Jews, called for the crucifixion of the Son of God, the King of the Jews.
    Matt 27:24-25
AMP
    24 So when Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but rather that a riot was about
    to break out, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying,
    I am not guilty of nor responsible for this righteous Man's blood; see to it yourselves.
    25 And all the people answered, Let His blood be on us and on our children!

    We will later study the "apostate nation" and writings of apostle John in the Revelation of
    Jesus Christ.   Please begin to read the Bible in terms of to whom the passages were written.
    What was God doing in that particular time and how would it impact the things He had
    planned and designed to bring forth the New Covenant and to restore mankind to the Edenic
    realm of perfection.
    Ephesians 4:12-15 
AMP
    12 His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated
     people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body
     (the church),
    13[That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension
     of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really
     mature
manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard
     height
of Christ's own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ
     and
the completeness found in Him.
     14 So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance
     gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of]
     the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting
     form
of trickery in inventing errors to mislead.
     15 Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly,
      living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who
      is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed one).


      Have you personally studied out the scriptures regarding
the teaching of a "double rapture"?
      Where can you show that there is more than one throne prepared for the Lord Jesus?
      Does your Bible state that the Lord is seated to the right-hand of the Father on the Davidic
      Throne which is an Eternal Throne? 
      Does your Bible instruct that there is a Last Day of history when the dead in Christ shall rise
      and those alive shall be changed into an immortal spiritual body? 
      Does your Bible instruct that there is a Day of final judgement! 
      Can you find provision in your Bible that specifically instructs you will be raptured from the
      earth twice?
      Do you find provision for being taken from the field which is the earth before the day of the
      Lord's second coming?  We are born once to life on earth and once to be absence from
      the body and in the presence of the Lord...
     
      Does your Bible specifically state a "double rapture" is to occur?

      What pre-suppositions would you make to enable the Bible to instruct of such?
      Would you implant a suppostion that
He would be required to come a third time? 
      Do you find provision for God to reinvent what He has closed out through the sacrifice of His
      only begotten Son that all men are to be reconciled to God through the Law of the Spirit?
      Can you find evidence that God will change His rules and deal with mankind differently than
      what He has already established through the resurrection and acsension? 
      Did God make different rules for men of later generations to be redeemed? 
      Can you find a specific reference to God establishing an earthly throne which disregads
      His decrees and declarations through the ages by multiple prophets?
      Are God's promises not stand eternally? 
      Absurd!  Heresy! False speculations and suppositons!
      God is true to His Word!  He esteems His Word above His Name... 
      His Name represents ALL that He Is... the Great I AM!  God is NOT a Liar!

      May you be blessed in assurance that the scriptures clearly provide and declare the
      following ...
      Here are 7 Kingdom Absolutes that the Lord gave to the Apostles.
     1. Scripture reveals the Apostles Understanding that the promise to
          David and the father’s of Israel concerning Messiah’s Kingdom has
          already been fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.
     2. Scripture reveals the Apostles Understanding of Kingdom Initiation...
           The response to the Gospel of the Apostles of the Lamb is
           >to repent,
           >be baptized in Christ… His death and resurrection,
           >receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, (the baptism of the Spirit)
           >be added to the Lord’s Church… the general assembly of heaven
             and His appointed placement for you in a local fellowship on earth.
     3. Scripture reveals the Apostles' Understanding that the New Covenant
          in the Blood of Jesus Christ Is the Promised Blessing or Mercies of
          David.
     4. Scripture reveals the Apostles' Understanding that the church is Zion,
         the promised House of David.
     5. Scripture reveals the Apostles' Understanding that the Jewish Age is
         behind the Church, not ahead of the Church.
     6. Scripture reveals the Apostles' Understanding of the Apostolic
         Government (the Apostolate) is the basis of the church's Unity and
         the foundation or Key to the Church's Success.
     7. Scripture reveals the Apostles' Understanding that the nations are a
         vital part of the Church's Heritage.
     These absolutes are wonderfully documented by the writings and actions of the
     Apostles of the Lamb as well as the actions of Ascension-gift Apostles such as
     Paul, James, and Barnabas.   Paul’s letters detail the building foundations
     for governing the church and for expansion of the Kingdom of God in the earth.

     Scripture also foretells of a future, glorious return of Christ that will conclude temporal history
     and bring to fulfillment all remaining aspects of Biblical prophecy.  The Lord Jesus in His
     resurrection and ascension to the Eternal throne of David fulfilled all things!
 
     Our belief is that the Kingdom of God will increase victory after victory until it is consummated
     when the Lord Jesus delivers it to the Father.  At the present time, the Kingdom of God is both
     already present and is not yet consummated.
    
1 Cor 15:24-25  AMP
    
24 After that comes the end (the completion), when He delivers over the kingdom to God
     the Father after rendering inoperative and abolishing every [other] rule and every authority
     and power.
     25 For [Christ] must be King and reign until He has put all [His] enemies under His feet.


     It is the Church that is the instrumentality of the Kingdom and God works all things in
     expanding the Kingdom through His Church in the earth.
     It will be upon the second coming of Christ that signals the work of Church is complete.
     The Head and the Body shall become ONE in perfect eternal order and given to the
     Father as the "Perfect Image." 
     The Head and Body is symbolic of the perfect man designed and created in the Garden
     of Eden before the fall... made in the image of God!
     All will have been restored to the perfect will, plan and acts of God at Christ's second coming.
     The Church will have come into power and fullness of grace and perfection
        
    Daniel 7:13-14  New American Standard version
    3 "I kept looking in the night visions,
    And behold, with the clouds of heaven
    One like a Son of Man was coming,
    And He came up to the Ancient of Days
    And was presented before Him.
    14 "And to Him was given dominion,
    Glory and a kingdom,
    That all the peoples, nations, and men of every language
    Might serve Him.
    His dominion is an everlasting dominion
    Which will not pass away;
    And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.


 
   May God Bless and Keep You In His service,
              Ambassador of Christ

                      Ron Gann
  
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