I noticed something startling in the Olivet Discourse, when Jesus taught his disciples about the End Times and Final Judgment. He said, “The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man.” (Luke 17:22 NABRE)
I’d heard of theDay (singular) of the Lord, but not the Days (plural) of the Son of Man. There is an article about “The Day of the Lord” at Wikipedia, but when I googled “days of the son of man”, I got nothing much. Yet my Catholic translation (NABRE) clearly says “one of the days of the Son of Man”, so I thought I’d better check it against other translations.
Twelve other translations render the phrase in EXACTLY the same way.
This got me thinking … what might these days be? And how could I identify them with confidence? I noticed the verses about the Day of the Lord mention the sun, the moon, clouds and angels. And right after Jesus brings up the Days of the Son of Man, He says, “just as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be [in his day].”
So I began compiling a list of events in Jesus’ life that had sky signs and angels in them. I found SEVEN for His first time on Earth, plus TWO more for the End of Days.
In the Bible, SEVEN signifies EVERYTHING, because it combines THREE which is for the Creator and FOUR which is for His Creation. So it works perfectly that Jesus’ first time here on Earth had SEVEN special Days of the Son of Man events.
The last TWO Days of the Son of Man events will be about Jesus coming at the beginning and at the end of the last SEVEN years of time. In the Bible, TWO is often about pairs of things that are alike and different. Jesus said that the whole of the law and the prophets depend on the two great commandments (Matthew 22:36-40). Jesus is the second Person of the Holy Trinity; He is also fully Human and fully Divine. Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. He is also the Word, which is revealed in the Old and New Testaments.
The EIGHTH event will be the Rapture. SEVEN plus ONE is EIGHT, so EIGHT is “one more than everything.” It moves us into the eternal. Jesus rose in His glorified, immortal body on the EIGHTH day. On the day of the Rapture, the elect will be caught up and receive their glorified, immortal bodies.
The NINTH event will be the Second Coming at Armageddon. SEVEN plus TWO is NINE,so “all that there is, plus TWO.” Again, TWO is tied to Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity. Also, there were TWO Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah, one that He would come as a peace-maker, humbly, on a donkey, and the other, that He would come on a horse, leading an army to conquer Israel’s enemies. Jesus fulfilled the donkey prophecy early in the week before He died. At the Second Coming at Armageddon, He will fulfill the conquering hero on a horse prophecy.
NINE is a relatively rare number in Scripture. The Bible uses base ten math, so NINE is the largest and the last single digit number. Armageddon will be both the greatest and the last war of all time.
NINE is also THREE times THREE. It’s tied to the Holy Spirit, the THIRD Person of the TRINITY, the NINE Fruits of the Holy Spirit, and the NINE Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
There’s one other place where EIGHT and NINE really stand out. That is in Sukkot (pron. soo KOTE), the Feast of In-gathering (aka, Booths, Tabernacles).
Sukkot lasts for SEVEN days. The TWO days following the festival – Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah – are separate holidays, but are related to and commonly considered part of Sukkot.
The EIGHTH day is the holiday known as Shemini Atzeret (“Assembly of the Eighth”). In Israel, Shemini Atzeret is also Day ONE of Simchat Torah (“Rejoicing in the Torah”).
The NINTH day is Day TWO of Simchat Torah. On Simchat Torah, the Jewish ecclesiastical readings come to the end of Torah, then proceed immediately to the first chapter of Genesis, reminding us that the Torah is a circle, and never ends.
SEVEN. TWO. EIGHT. NINE. Beginnings and endings. The WORD of God. Are you seeing a pattern here?!
If you’ve been following my Revelation blogs right along, you’ll know that I believe that the Seven Letters and the Seven Seals are parallel descriptions of the Ages of the Christian Church, that the Rapture will fall on the Sixth, and that the Seventh describes the period between the Rapture and the beginning of the last Seven Years of Time.
In my head, I call this last period “Laodicea”, because that is the name of the city to which the last Letter is addressed.
Months ago, when I was first working this stuff out, I was talking with Mama Buzz about how it seemed to me the Seventh Letter and Seventh Seal added up to a period of about six months when Jesus would knock on the hearts of the Left Behind. And Mama Buzz kind of blurted, “What if the reason it’s silent in Heaven is that we’re all on Earth helping Him?”
Wow! What a concept! I got so psyched about the idea that my most important prayer-for-me was to become truly holy before the Rapture so I could be a fit and willing tool for Jesus to use during Laodicea. And, boy howdy, has He ever been taking me at my word. Growing pains hurt. Spiritual growing pains hurt more.
A while back, I got a tad pity partyish and whined at Him about how hard He was pushing me and I heard Him say in my spirit, “It’s what you wanted and time is short.” Ooookay! Nose. Grindstone. Grindstone. Nose.
The past couple of weeks, I’ve been on a kind of fun fantasy ride about how … if I’ve got this stuff right … we’ll be like Ultimate Avengers in our glorified bodies. After Jesus resurrected, He stuck around a while, so we have some hints about what it will be like to have a glorified body.
Solid, for one thing, right? He invited Thomas to stick his finger into his wounds. Ick. But able to appear, disappear, come and go from locked rooms … soo coool. Plus He walked a long way along that road to Emmaus without appearing to be anything odd or ghosty to the fellas.
So, anyway … last night was a hard one. I got enough rest to function today, for which I am very grateful. The days I spend entirely on the couch drag like molasses in January. But I’m tired. And it really did hurt a lot. I’m not whining, just setting up that “walk in my slippers” thing ZMalfoy talked about so you can understand and get some good out of the private revelation God sent me with breakfast.
Yesterday, I forgot to put my bookmark in before I closed my Bible. The dogs were really antsy for their breakfast, so I just jammed the bookmark back in any old where. Today, I opened to that random spot and here is the very first thing my eyes landed on.
Goosebumps! Heart-stopping, jaw-dropping, eye-leaking, get your praise on goosebumps! Sigh. Thank you, Lord. Thank you SO MUCH. Amen.
During Passion Week, Jesus took His disciples to the Mount of Olives for a private teaching known as the Olivet Discourse. If you’ve been following my blogs, you will know that I believe this passage from that teaching refers to the Rapture:
“And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near. … But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” Matthew 24:30ff
I’ve been interpreting this to mean that while we cannot predict the DATE or the TIME of the Rapture, we can predict the SEASON.*
Earlier this week, a new thought popped into my noggin while I was in prayer.
What if Jesus was telling us the Rapture will occur WHEN the fig branches become tender and sprout leaves in Israel?
I googled and learned some interesting factoids about figs. For example, did you know that figs produce TWO crops? The BREBA fig crop forms on the previous season’s growth and ripens in Spring, while the MAIN fig crop forms on the new season’s growth and ripens in August to September.
The MAIN fig harvest coincides with SUKKOT, the Jewish fruit harvest festival.
But the BREBA crop coincides with PASSOVER.
Do you remember that the Olivet Discourse happened during Passion Week? And do you remember that time Jesus was hungry and cursed a fig tree because it didn’t have any fruit for Him?
The cursing of that fig tree happened the very day BEFORE the Olivet Discourse. And the reason Jesus EXPECTED fruit is because the fig tree had LEAVES.
Jesus’ lesson from the fig tree, taken in context, means a couple of things. One, that the branches of the fig become tender and sprout leaves in the SPRING which is around PASSOVER. And two, that at that time of year, a healthy tree is supposed to have ripe fruit … the first fruit of the growing season … already on it, all ready to eat.
IF Jesus was telling us the general time (not the date or hour) when He will Rapture the elect, then that time is APRIL.
Resources to review why I plan to be Rapture Ready THIS April:
1. Rabbi Kaduri prophesied that the Messiah would appear to Israel only after Ariel Sharon’s death. Sharon passed away January 11, 2014.
2. A reader sent me this vision that a friend of his had shared with him five years ago:
I had this vision when I was wide awake and I could talk to the Angel that was showing me the vision. In this vision the Angel and I were walking and came upon a hill. I looked at the hill and there was some graves in it, they started opening up and people were coming out of them.
I asked the Angel, “What is this?”
He said, “It’s the dead in Christ being resurrected, just as God said they would be.” I then saw people floating upward out of their cars and houses but I was not going with them.
I said, “When will this happen?”
He replied, “First-fruits.”
Sources:
*I realize there are other interpretations for the fig tree. I have no problem with Bible passages have multiple meanings.
Coming right after the SEVEN highly unusual lunar events in January, February and March are the UNIQUE events of April 2014.
I can say with confidence these events have NEVER come together like this before because the last TETRAD was decades before the first Divine Mercy Sunday. But I also checked Nisan and April for all six years for the previous three TETRADS and none of them are date matchers the way they will be this April.
Background Reading:
The Olivet Discourse, Seal Six and the Rapture < EXPLAINS Jesus’ teaching of the Rapture
The original graphic I posted and sent out with “More ponderings on January, February and March of 2014” said that the first 3 months of 2014 were the last 3 months of the Jewish year 5774.
That was wrong. They are the last three months of the Jewish ecclesiastical year that went from Nisan 5773 to Adar II 5774.
The Jewish calendar numbers the months by the ecclesiastical year which begins with Month 1, called Nisan. It numbers the years beginning in Month 7, called Tishri.
An ordinary Jewish year goes from the first day of the 7th month through months 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, in that order.
In a Leap Year, a second 12th month is added; these months are called Adar I and Adar II or 12a and 12b.
A Jewish Leap Year goes from the first day of the 7th month through months 8, 9, 10, 11, 12a, 12b, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, in that order.
We are coming up on the extraordinary sky signs of a Tetrad of total lunar eclipses SPLIT by a total solar eclipse.
The total solar eclipse of March 2015 will also SPLIT the Old World and the New World.
For those of us anticipating the End Times, this is significant, because End Times prophecies suggest that the #1 world power will move from the New World (U.S.) back to the Old World, specifically the area once occupied by the Roman Empire.
In Jewish lore, a solar eclipse signifies a harsh period. The following comes from “Ask the Rabbi” —
This can be compared to a human king who made a feast for his subjects, and placed a lantern before them. When he grew angry with them, he told his servant, “Take away the lantern from before them, and place them in darkness!” (Talmud Bavli, Succah 29a)
The king is G-d, the King of Kings; the people at the table are ourselves; the lantern is the sun. The moon obscuring the sun is the kings servant who takes away the lantern.
Although eclipses can be described in entirely natural terms and occur at set intervals, they nevertheless indicate that the period is one of Divine retribution for various sins.
But an eclipse does not mean that the sun has been extinguished (contrary to what everyone else in the world thought)! The servant did not extinguish the lantern; he merely prevented it from illuminating the kings subjects.
The eclipse will peak in mid-morning (09:45 UT). Around 11 pm (22:45 UT), the Earth will pass through the Spring Equinox, the moment at which day and night are SPLIT (exactly the same length everywhere on the planet).
In between the eclipse and the equinox will be the sundown that begins a special Sabbath celebration.
Nisan 1, 5775 is the first day of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, the day when God began to give His laws to them. In 5775/2015, Nisan 1 will be on the Sabbath, beginning at the first hour of darkness on the day of the solar eclipse that SPLITs the Tetrad and the Old/New Worlds.
This day is known as Shabbat HaChodesh. It comes precisely in the middle of the Jewish calendar year, thus the solar eclipse will also SPLIT the Shemitah of 5775, the year when all debts are forgiven.
The readings for the day include Ezekiel 45:16 – 46:18 and Exodus 12:1-20. I was particularly struck by the references to the prince providing the sacrifice.
Deuteronomy 15:1-2 At the end of seven years you will make a release. And this is the manner of the release: to release the hand of every creditor from what he lent his friend; he shall not exact from his friend or his brother, because the time of the release for the L-rd has arrived.
Ezekiel 45:17 The prince shall provide the sin offerings, the meal offerings, the burnt offerings, and the offerings of well-being, to make expiation for the House of Israel.
Exodus 12:1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2 This month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish. 7 They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they are to eat it. 12 For that night I will go through the land of Egypt and strike down every first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and I will mete out punishments to all the gods of Egypt, I the Lord. 13 And the blood on the houses where you are staying shall be a sign for you: when I see the blood I will pass over you, so that no plague will destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
If you don’t have goosebumps yet, check this out. This is what the calendar looked like the year that Jesus died and rose again. In our modern calendar, counting backwards, the year was 33 A.D. (The Holy Thursday Seder was a special Essene custom, a Passover meal without any lamb. It was explained in the Dead Sea Scrolls.)
Now look back at the solar eclipse calendar. Do you see the extraordinary MATCHING of dates between 3793 – 33 and 5775 – 2015? How about if you look at it like this …
NOW do you have goosebumps?
Sources:
UT = Universal Time, what used to be Greenwich Mean Time.
I think it’s fair to be a tad gobsmacked about the extraordinary way in which the lunar, common and Jewish calendars line up during these first three months of 2014. After all, God basically wrote the story of Jesus’ birth in the sky. Why shouldn’t He have organized sky signs for the End Times as well?
These first three months of 2014 are the last three months of the Jewish ecclesiastical year that went from Nisan 5773 to Adar II 5774. During this period, we will have …
THREE Full Moons and FOUR New Moons = SEVEN major moon events in THREE months.
3 is God’s number; 4 is for His creation; 3+4 = 7, the number of completion.
New Moons symbolize new beginnings.
4 New Moonsin 3 Months put me in mind of the beginning of the End Time.
The Moon has an elliptical orbit. It’s closest approach to Earth is called perigee; its farthest is called apogee. Perigee and apogee do not regularly coincide with the phases of the Moon.
When perigee coincides, it’s called a Super Full Moon or a Super New Moon.
When apogee coincides, it’s called a Micro Full Moon or a Micro New Moon.
In January 2014, we had a Super New Moon on New Year’s Day, followed by a Micro Full Moon on January 16. On January 30, we will have a second Super New Moon!
February will be one of the unusual months when the days and dates of the common calendar match the Jewish calendar. I.e. February 1 will be Adar 1. In addition, the first day will be a Sabbath.
The first day of March will also be a Sabbath, as well as the day of the third New Moon of our three month period. Then on March 30th, we will have a second Black Moon within a calendar year. This will be only the fifth time this has happened in more than a century.
The three Full Moons also each have something unusual about them.
In January, we will have a Micro Full Moon falling in the same month as two Super New Moons.
In February, the Full Moon will occur on the feast of St. Valentine.
And in March, it will coincide with the Jewish feast of Purim.
FOUR New Moons and THREE Full Moonsinside the FIRST three months of 2014 and the LAST three months of 5774 … and every single one of them has something extraordinary about it!
Wait until you see what’s coming in April. It will blow your mind!
UPDATED Feb 6, 2013 to correct “last 3 months of Jewish year” to “last 3 months of Jewish ecclesiastical year.”
The Jewish calendar numbers the months by the ecclesiastical year which begins with Month 1, called Nisan. It numbers the years beginning in Month 7, called Tishri.
An ordinary Jewish year goes from the first day of the 7th month through months 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, in that order.
In a Leap Year, a second 12th month is added; these months are called Adar I and Adar II or 12a and 12b.
A Jewish Leap Year goes from the first day of the 7th month through months 8, 9, 10, 11, 12a, 12b, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, in that order.
A lunar eclipse may be full or partial. When four full lunar eclipses occur in a row, with no partials in between, astronomers call it a TETRAD.
Tetrads are very rare.
They have only occurred three times in the past 500 years.
Each time, the dates coincided with significant events in Judaeo-Christian history.
The next tetrad begins three months from now on April 15, 2014.
ALL FOUR of them coincide with a major Jewish feastday.
Even more extraordinary, there will be a full solar eclipse in the middle on March 21, 2015, which will be Nisan 1, 5775.
Nisan 1 is the first day of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar and the day Jews celebrate God’s creation of the universe.
Two End of Time prophecies speak of the combination of solar and lunar eclipses:
“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.” (Joel 2:31)
Jesus said, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light. … And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” (Matthew 24:29-30)
Note: Solar and lunar eclipses cannot happen on the same day. A solar eclipse happens when the Moon gets between the Earth and the Sun; a lunar eclipse happens when the Earth gets between the Moon and the Sun.
Oct 16, 2013: John Hagee on Dateline Israel explaining the Four Blood Moon Tetrad phenomenon
Meanings: Man, Appointed, Mortal, Sorrow, The Blessed God, Shall Come Down, Teaching, His Death Shall Bring, The Despairing, Comfort.
Message as per video: Man is appointed mortal sorrow, (but) the Blessed God shall come down teaching (and) His death shall bring the despairing comfort.
CtH: I wanted to check the name derivations for myself. At the sites I visited first, most of the derivations matched the video. But some did not, so I searched further and found a wonderful site (Abarim Publications) that turned this simple video lesson into a rich meditation.
1. ADAM – MAN
Adam is one of five words that indicate a MAN (words like dude, guy etc). This particular word indicates MAN as a being CREATED FROM MATERIAL and adamah indicates the ruddy earth found in the Middle East. Adam also means a CORPOREAL ONE, as opposed to the non-corporeal angelic creatures who were created before Adam.
CtH: Again, the sentence in the video applies this verb to the first man Adam, but it easily describes Jesus as well (1 Cor 3:11 http://www.usccb.org/bible/1corinthians/3).
3. ENOSH – MORTAL
Enosh is one of the Hebrew words meaning MAN or MANKIND, but unlike Adam, which is rooted in adamah meaning EARTH, Enosh is rooted in the anash meaning TO BE DESPERATE, WOEFUL (Jeremiah 17:9 http://www.usccb.org/bible/jeremiah/17). Most frequently it is used to describe a WOUND or PAIN which is INCURABLE (Jeremiah 30:12 http://www.usccb.org/bible/jeremiah/30). NOBS Study Bible Name List sums it up in the word MORTAL.
Cainan (Biblical Latin), Keinan (Biblical Hebrew), Kainan (Biblical Greek). Most sources say this is the Hebrew for POSSESSION, ACQUIRE, BUYER, OWNER, POSSESSOR, PURCHASER. Abarim Publications offers LAMENTER as a variant derivation based on the noun quina meaning LAMENTATION (dirge, a sad poem that is sung) (Ezekiel 2:10 http://www.usccb.org/bible/ezekiel/2) and the verb qin meaning to CHANT A DIRGE (Amos 8:10 http://www.usccb.org/bible/amos/8).
CtH: This is such a rich combination when applied to Jesus, who BOUGHT our SORROW, becoming OWNER of our MOURNING.
5. MAHALALEL – THE BLESSED GOD
Mahalalel is commonly described as being the Hebrew for PRAISE OF GOD, PRAISING GOD.
Abarim Publications explains halal is a verb meaning variously TO SHINE (i.e., what celestial bodies do), TO PRAISE or BOAST (the source of hallelujah), or TO BE IRRATIONAL (as in coocoopants crazy).
Abarim Publications also says that ‘el’ is the common abbreviation for Elohim, the first of three Divine Names by which the Creator is known. Interestingly, Elohim is a plural word, which is peculiar because the Jews were adamant that God is one and it was only after Christians met Jesus, the Son of God, that they began to understand how the one God could be the plural Elohim, which is the FIRST name given to God in the Bible.
CtH: Abarim Publications does not discuss the ‘ma’ at the beginning of ma-halal-el. When I googled, I found ‘ma’ at the beginning of a bunch of common questions in Hebrew. http://www.ulpan.net/10-ways-to-say-hello-in-hebrew. It seems to mean “What …. ?” E.g., the page says, “Ma ha-matzav?” literally means, “What’s the situation?” and shows the second part of the Hebrew as the word for “situation.”
The video turns Mahalalel into a noun – the one being praised, the one deserving of praise. I don’t quite get how that works. It seems as if it’s a question, doesn’t it? I’m totally spitting into the wind here, having ZERO training for this. But maybe “Ma halal el” could be “What divinity shines like a star?” or maybe “What divinity is (deserves?) extravagant (even like a crazy person) praise?” I guess you can make “The Blessed God” out of that … in a Jeopardy kind of way.
The extravagant like a crazy person thing reminds me of King David dancing half nekkid before the Ark of the Lord (2 Sam 6:14-16 http://www.usccb.org/bible/2samuel/6).
6. JARED – SHALL COME DOWN
Jared comes from the verb yarad, meaning to go down, descend, decline. It’s used in:
It is not surprising that the Hebrew name for the Feast of Dedication is a variant of hanak. HANUKKAH celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after its defilement by the Syrian Greeks in 164 BC.
CtH: Wow … this is so much richer than just “teaching”!
8. METHUSELAH – HIS DEATH SHALL BRING
Methuselah is variously explained as Man Of The Dart/Javelin, One Who Was Sent, He Has Sent His Death, and When He Is Dead It Shall Be Sent. It seems ironic that the man with the longest life-span in the Bible (969 years) has a name so closely associated with death.
Methuselah consists of two elements: mat and shalah. Mat is used most often to indicate A MALE CAPABLE OF COMBAT, while a related word, mut, means to die, corpse. Shalah means TO SEND, TO SEND OUT, and TO LET GO. One of its derivatives, shalah, was a weapon like a JAVELIN, that was thrown.
CtH: The video makes this almost passive with “his death shall bring.” But the words seem to me to be very active in their relation to combat and weaponry. Another rich meditation on the crucifixion here, no?
9. LAMECH – THE DESPAIRING
Lamech is just a person’s name; it does not occur elsewhere in Hebrew, so we are left to guess at its meaning. Some sources say the name means a STRONG, POWERFUL, and/or ROBUST YOUNG MAN. Other sources suggest it means TO BE BROUGHT LOW, as in DEPRESSED or HUMILIATED.
CtH: Jesus was no doubt a robust young man, having grown up as a carpenter and then tramped about the countryside preaching for three years. We know how he “emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:7-8 http://www.usccb.org/bible/philippians/2). And we also know the many ways he was humiliated between his arrest and his death.
But I had never appreciated how intense his emotional suffering was until I read what Dr. Frederick Zugibe (Chief Medical Examiner of Rockland County, New York) wrote about how sweating blood is most commonly associated with intense, prolonged fear. When Jesus prayed in the garden before his arrest, he “was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground” (Luke 22:44 http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/22).
When one is afraid, blood is driven into the muscles to prepare for fight or flight; at the same time, the sweat glands produce sweat to make the skin slippery (so you’re harder to catch). This is responsible for the pale, damp, cold skin we associate with fear. When the angel comforted Jesus, this fight/flight fear response suddenly released and his blood went rushed back to his skin so fast that it ruptured the net of delicate blood vessels surrounding each sweat gland. This allowed his blood to pour into the wide open sweat glands and fall in great drops to the ground. [See The Crucifixion of Jesus: A Forensic Inquiry, by Dr. Zugibe, for more details.]
10. NOAH – COMFORT
Noah comes from the verb nuah, which means REST, SETTLE DOWN, COMFORT, REPOSE, CONSOLATION. It signifies not only an absence of movement but being settled in a particular place with overtones of finality, victory, salvation.
CtH: There are two things here … the escape plan God provided Noah and his family before the flood and then the settlling down of the boat after the flood receded. Jesus talks about both of these as types for the End of Time during the Olivet Discourse.
The escape plan (rapture): Jesus said, “For as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. In [those] days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark. They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away. So will it be [also] at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be out in the field; one will be taken, and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left. Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come” (Matthew 24:37-42 http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/24).
The final victory: Jesus said, “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 25:31-34 http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/25).
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