The Rapture

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They (His children) are not appointed to God’s wrath. True. To be honest I have no idea what the day of judgement looks like. We are told the day of Judgement reveals what manner of work it is of. Whether the work be of God. Or whether the work be of man which turns to ash. God promise beauty for ashes. Not beauty by the worlds definition of beauty.

Anyone that says God wants to remove us from the fire has not took into consideration that instead of removing us from the fire ...maybe God’s glory revealed in His children, is that they go through the Fire and REMAIN. Unshaken. Planted in Him.

Prepared of God, His work revealed before all. Luke 3:16-18 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: [17] Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. [18] And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.

So that in the day of judgement we are prepared in boldness and able to stand. This baptism of fire purges and burns the chaff with an unquenchable Fire and try’s every work. We are told to welcome this baptism of fire, sealing of God, knowing it is good as discipline from our Heavenly Father who prepares us for that day of Judgement, whatever that day looks like. His word says He destroys all that opposes Him with the ‘brightness of His coming’.

Keep in mind God prepared the waster. God prepared that which wastes and destorys. But God also prepared that which rises up out from the dung heap, that which rises up out of the waste land and rebuilds ...which are those vessels prepared to display His mercy. His mercy on the dispised, the rejected of men, and the weak. Of all the trees in Judges consider the bramble: Judges 9:14-15 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. [15] And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

“...if you do not put trust in my shadow, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.” And Fire did come out to devour the trees of Lebanon.

Who is able to stand admist the everlasting burnings...who is able to stand when God’s wrath is poured out on all mankind? Is He not preparing us, as miracles, beauty for ashes ...as able to be in the fire when every man’s work is tried. BY FIRE it is revealed of those that believed in Him, by the power of God, that we are indeed the children of God. Why would He want to remove us from the Fire when He prepares us to walk in it?

Daniel 3:26-29
[26] Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither . Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire. [27] And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. [28] Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. [29] Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

Are we prepared that are able to be in the Fire. “upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed,” are we not prepared for it to be said of our God by those who did not believe, “who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him,”

“...who hath sent his angel...(Daniel 3:28)” Revelation 22:6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

Will it... can it be said they, “yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.” When Fire comes, we do not put our trust in the shadow, but in the Living God.

Daniel 3:29
[29] Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

‘...shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.’

Philippians 3:8-9
[8] Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, [9] And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:


“...for whom I have suffered the loss of All Things, and do count them as dung,” ... that I may be found in the day of Judgement “in Him, not having my own righteousness”. Anyone that tells you God is going to ‘remove’ you from the fire ignores the truth that God is able to bring you through the Fire so that all see the work is of Him, and not man. To be in the Fire, for our bounds to even be loosed by the Fire, and to be found walking with the Lord.Daniel 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

“They have no hurt.” But rather walk with God. Let His Fire cleanse so we are able to stand in His presence. 2 Timothy 2:21-22 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. [22] Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.


2 Peter 3:7
[7] But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Hebrews 10:39
[39] But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

But we are not of them who draw back...but believe to the saving of the soul.

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