Always Be Ready for the Unknown and Unexpected
Particularly in reference to what is called the Rapture, or Jesus’ return to the earth to suddenly catch away believers to Himself. If you believe in a pre-Tribulation Rapture like I do, then it will occur before the coming seven-year judgment of Israel and the world known as the Tribulation. Although Jesus was not at all vague about the subject, social media is awash with well-intentioned but sensational teachings that use all kinds of so called justifications that “prove” when Jesus is coming back. Even though Jesus specifically stated that no one knows the day or hour of His return, the prophetic landscape is replete with people who quickly deny that they are setting dates, but still use other means to point Christians to likely a particular “high alert season” of His return. They use gematria, Strong’s Concordance numbers (it’s a reference book, not a Bible), constellation/star positions, blood moons, solar eclipses, visions, dreams, supposed cryptic “clues or phrases” in scrip...