How do I know if I'm talking to the right Jesus Christ?

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FHII

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Craziest thing.... Fire 7.... I just sent you a private message. Did you get it?
 

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It is reasonable to fear the demonic. However, God is more powerful than everything, and you must Test the Spirits. Testing the spirits is how you know.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 1 John 4:1-6

When in doubt, DIRECTLY follow the Bible. It is a very widely distributed and sold text, which few people take the time to fully read. If anyone teaches that which is contrary to the Bible, don't follow it. If they add rules that are not included, then consider it to be new age religion. The only extra rules you have to worry about following outside of the Bible are the laws that would count as Submission to Authority, and only if they don't force to deny Jesus Christ is the Son of God. A couple of the books in the New Testament warn about False Teachers and False Apostles. A passage in the Bible explains about man made religion,

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations - "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" (referring to things that all perish as they are used) - according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh. Colossians 2:20-23

As for the rapture, my personal opinion is that the Book of Revelation began immediately after Jesus died, and has been occurring for some amount of time now. I think it has happened during every generation since the death of Jesus, and will continue until fire comes down from heaven (probably some celestial event) for many more generations. No, I am not a teacher, this is just my personal interpretation of the Book of Revelation.