JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
OTHER ROOF MURDER STORIES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/06/christian-murderer-of-9-in-south.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/06/9-killed-in-south-carolina-black-church.html
UPDATED-JUNE 21,2015-10:30AM
AND CHURCH SERVICES RESUME TODAY AT EMANUEL AME CHURCH IN SOUTH CAROLINA. AFTER THE AWEFUL MURDER OF 9 CHRISTIANS IN A BIBLE STUDY IN THAT CHURCH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT 9PM.THEN AFTER THE CHURCH SERVICE. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WULL BE GATHERED OUTSIDE THE CHURCH TO PRAY FOR PEACE.AND TOGETHERNESS.AND THIS PRAYER MEETING WILL BE GOING ON ALL DAY AT THE CHURCH.WHAT SATAN WANTED TO DO TO DESTROY CHRISTIANS BY SCARING THEM WITH THIS MURDERER.GOD WILL USE FOR HIS GLORY TO WIN MANY SOULS TO HIM.THROUGH THIS BAD SITUATION TURNED INTO A JOYFUL- SOUL WINNING TO JESUS.THE MESSIAH-KING AND SAVIOR/THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION.NO OTHER.
UPDATED-JUNE 21,2015-12:07PM
WELL JUST LIKE A TYPICAL CNN.JUST AS THE SERVICE AT THE EMANUAL AME CHURCH ENDED.JAKE TAPPER NEVER MENTIONS ANYTHING ABOUT GETTING SAVED.OR HEALING THE RACES.NO TAPPER HAD ON A DEBATE ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG FOR 15 MINUTES.HOW THE FLAG IS SO BAD.AND IT SHOULD BE BROUGHT DOWN AND PUT IN A MUSEUM FOR GOOD.THEN NOW AT NOON-CNN FINALLY SHOWS A SEGMENT ON THE DEATH OF THE 9 INNOCENT CHRISTIANS THAT WERE MURDERED WEDNESDAY NIGHT.AND A TRIBUTE TO THEM.WE CHRISTIANS HAVE HOPE WHEN OUR LOVED ONES DIE.WE KNOW THE BODY GOES IN THE GRAVE.BUT THE SOULS AND SPIRIT GOES INSTANTLY TO JESUS IN HEAVEN. THEN AT THE ANY SECOND NOW RAPTURE OF ALL THE CHURCH TO HEAVEN.THE DEADS BODIES AND SPIRITS ARE REUNITED WITH EACH OTHER.AND THEY RISE TO HEAVEN FIRST.THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE.AND NEVER DIED.OUR BODIES WILL BE CHANGED LIKE JESUS'.AND WE ALL GO MEET JESUS IN THE CLOUDS.AND WE CHRISTIANS WILL BE IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS FOR 7 YEARS.THEN AT THE END OF THE 7 YEARS.ALL THE CHRISTIANS IN HEAVEN RETURN TO EARTH LITERALLY WITH JESUS ON OUR LITERAL WHITE HORSES.AND WE ALL WILL RULE ON EARTH FOREVER WITH JESUS.WHO WILL BE RULING FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER-NEVER ENDING.SO WE HAVE HOPE.WE KNOW WE WILL BE WITH OUR LOVED ONES ON EARTH FOREVER.RULING WITH JESUS.OUR HOPE IS IN THE BIBLE AND JESUS (GODS) WORDS-NOT THE WORLDS ANYTHING GOES LIBERAL-DEMOCRATE GODLESS VIEWS.
PROOF OF THE RAPTURE BEFORE 7 YR TRIBULATION.FOR SKEPTICS OF TRUTH.
ITS THE REVELATION OF JESUS TO EARTH,NOT REVELATIONS OF JESUS TO START WITH.
REVELATION 1:19-REVELATION TIMELINE
19 Write the things which thou hast seen,(PAST-REV CH 1) and the things which are,(PRESENT-REV CH 2-3) and the things which shall be hereafter;(FUTURE-REV CH 4-22-THE 7 YR TRIBULATION-PEACE TREATY PERIOD)
REVELATION CH 1 PAST
REVELATION CH 2+3 CHURCH AGE.(JOHNS DAY)
REVELATION CH 4 THE RAPTURE.(FUTURE)THEN (7 YR TRIB)
FOR SKEPTICS OF THE RAPTURE.WHY IS THE CHURCH NOT MENTIONED FROM REV CH 4 TILL CH 20 IS MY QUESTION.
REVELATION CH'S 6-19 (7 YR TRIBULATION).
REVELATION 3:10-11
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from (NOT THROUGH THE TRIBULATION PERIOD AND 3 BILLION DEAD FROM WW3) the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world,(7 YR TRIBULATION) to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
PHILLIPIANS 3:20-21
20 For our conversation is in heaven;(IF WE TAKE HEAVEN-WE TALK ABOUT BEING RAPTURED TO HEAVEN WITH JESUS) from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body,(TO NEVER DYING BODIES AT THE RAPTURE) that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.(NOT SCARE PEOPLE WITH THESE WORDS,THE RAPTURE IS A COMFORT,WE WON'T GO THREW WW3 AND 3 BILLION DEAD)
JOHN 11:25-26
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead,(BODY IN THE GRAVE/SPIRIT/SOUL GO TO JESUS) yet shall he live:(BODY,SOUL,SPIRIT REUNITED AT THE RAPTURE)
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.(THE CHRISTIANS ALIVE AT THE TIME OF THE RAPTURE NEVER DIE,OUR BODIES AUTOMATICALLY GET CHANGED TO NEVER DYING BODIES) Believest thou this?(THE CHRISTIANS ALIVE ON EARTH AT THE TIME OF THE RAPTURE NEVER HAVE A PHYSICAL DEATH LIKE THE VERSE SAYS)
1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-55
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Sun Jun 21, 2015 3:55pm EDT-Mourning shooting victims, Charleston anguishes over 'freshness of death'-CHARLESTON, South Carolina | By Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise-reuters
Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston for an emotional memorial service on Sunday just days after a gunman, identified by authorities as a 21-year-old white man, shot dead nine black church members."We are reminded this morning about the freshness of death that comes like a thief in the night," the Reverend Norvel Goff told a mostly black congregation that swelled to about 400 people for a service remembering those killed on Wednesday in the latest U.S. mass shooting.Armed police searched bags at the door of the church, home to the oldest African-American congregation in the southern United States, and officers stood at intervals inside the church along the side of the nave and in the gallery.Outside the church, a large, mostly white crowd gathered to express solidarity with those inside.Goff's rollicking sermon brought people alternately to tears and laughter as the church reopened to worshippers for the first time since the shooting. They whooped, cheered and raised their hands, and ended the service with embraces after Goff, whose voice rose to a shout at times, encouraged them to "hug three people next to you and tell them, 'It's going to be alright.'"The suspect, Dylann Roof, was arrested on Thursday and has been charged with nine counts of murder. Authorities say he spent an hour in an evening Bible study group at the church, nicknamed "Mother Emanuel" for its key role in U.S. black history, before opening fire.Federal investigators were examining a racist manifesto on a website that appeared to have been written by Roof. The site featured white supremacist writings and photos, apparently of Roof.Goff was standing in for Clementa Pinckney, 41, senior pastor at Emanuel and a Democratic member of the state Senate who was killed in the massacre."When evil is in the world, you and I may not be able to control evil-doers. ... Some of us are still trying to seek answers to what happened last week, Wednesday," Goff said. "I've decided to turn it to over to Jesus."Among those at the service, which lasted more than two hours, were South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum."The blood of the Mother Emanuel Nine requires us to work until not only justice in this case but for those who are still living in the margin of life, those who are less fortunate than ourselves, that we stay on the battlefield until there is no more fight to be fought," Goff said.Hand fans fluttered in the church as those in attendance tried to beat the heat.The massacre has again trained a spotlight on the divisive issues of race relations and gun crime in the United States and reignited a debate over gun control in a country where the right to own firearms is constitutionally protected.
GUN CONTROL
Riley, on the CNN program "State of the Union," called for stricter gun control laws."It is insane the number of guns and the ease of getting guns in America," Riley said. "It's not that people should not carry guns and all of that, it's just that there are so many of them and the ease of them and there is no accountability."
President Barack Obama, in an interview recorded on Friday, expressed frustration over the issue. He blamed the powerful National Rifle Association gun-rights lobby group and public apathy for the failure to implement new gun control measures.The church massacre has also renewed the controversy around the flag of the pro-slavery Confederate Southern states in the American Civil War that ended in 1865. It is a symbol of Southern pride for some and an emblem of hatred for others.On NBC's "Meet the Press," James Clyburn, a black U.S. congressman from South Carolina, called on state lawmakers to pass legislation to remove the flag from the state capitol grounds, where it is mandated by law to fly.Cornell Brooks, who heads the NAACP civil rights group, told CBS's "Face the Nation," "That flag represents exclusion, it represents bigotry, it represents bias. ... It has to come down."The church shootings were the main topic at other Sunday services in Charleston, sometimes dubbed "The Holy City" because of its multitude of historic churches. Church bells rang throughout the city in honor of the shooting victims.At the predominantly white-membership St. Michael's Church, founded in the 17th century, the Reverend Alfred Zadig Jr. said he did not know any of the victims and asked for forgiveness "for failing to be a pastor who reaches out beyond my world.""You and I are so good at compartmentalizing grief," Zadig told his congregation. "Today I'm asking you to feel the unthinkable pain ... This is not God's will. God did not ordain this event to happen to make a point about racism."(Additional reporting by Harriet McLeod and Lucia Mutikani; Writing by Will Dunham; Editing by Frances Kerry)
Charleston church holds first service since gunman killed 9-Charleston mourns, begins healing after church massacre-Reuters By Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise-JUNE 21,15-YAHOONEWS
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Hundreds of people flocked to Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Sunday as it reopened its doors to worshipers just days after a gunman shot dead nine black church members.Outside the church, the oldest African-American congregation in the southern United States, bouquets, teddy bears and balloons covered the sidewalk while hundreds of people lined up to mourn, sing hymns and leave memorials.Thousands of hand-written messages covered white banners at the church's entrance, reading "God Bless," or "Thank you Sen. Rev. Clementa Pinckney. You will 4ever be an inspiration," referring to the church's pastor, a state senator who was one of the victims.
City officials, religious leaders and mourners have said Sunday's services at Emanuel church would mark a small step toward healing after the latest U.S. mass shooting, which has again trained a spotlight on the nation's pervasive and divisive issues of race relations and gun crime.Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old suspect, remains in jail charged with nine counts of murder. Authorities say he spent an hour in an evening Bible study group at the church, nicknamed "Mother Emanuel" for its key role in African-American history, before opening fire on Wednesday night.Federal investigators were examining photos and white supremacist writings that surfaced on a website on Saturday that appeared to show Roof posing with a handgun and standing in front of a Confederate military museum and plantation slave houses.Texts posted on the website included an "explanation" by the author for taking some unspecified action."I have no choice ... I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country," it said.The massacre was the latest in a series of mass shootings in the United States that have reignited a debate over gun control in a country where the right to own firearms is constitutionally protected. Outside Emanuel church on Sunday, where services were due to begin at 9:30 a.m., security was tight as police patrolled with a bomb dog to sniff through the growing piles of flowers, balloons, toys and signs. Below the church program board, a poster covered in pink and white hearts and silver stars read: "We are all in this together & we will shine on." A picture of multi-colored hands marked the middle of the card, reinforcing the message.Monte Talmadge, a 63-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, drove nearly 300 miles (480 km) from Raleigh, North Carolina, to offer his condolences to the church and community."There was an overwhelming feeling that made me drive here," he said. "A church is a place of worship, not a place for killing."The victims' names, written on white ribbons adorned with roses, bedecked one of the church's gates. Another gate held a black shirt that read: "Do you believe us now."Joseph Kovas, 19, was hoping to make it inside the church for Sunday's service."We wanted to come to show our presence and prayers to the community. The way they have been affected is tremendous," he said. "The people have come together in Charleston and that is great testament to this city."(Writing by Chris Michaud; Editing by Digby Lidstone and Tom Heneghan)
Protesters target Confederate flag after Charleston killings-AFP By Robert Macpherson-JUNE 21,15-YAHOONEWS
Columbia (United States) (AFP) - Several thousand protesters gathered under the controversial Confederate flag at South Carolina's state legislature, demanding it be taken down in response to the Charleston church massacre.Waving placards, chanting "take it down" and singing "We Shall Overcome," the youthful crowd, black and white, condemned the Civil War saltire as a symbol of lingering racist sentiment in the American South."We can no longer afford to let that flat stand there" and be a beacon for those who harbor "bad opinions," said one of the speakers, 95-year-old lawyer and activist Sarah Leverette, prompting loud cheers.Organizers called the event a "warm-up" for what they hope will be an even bigger anti-flag protest, also in front of the colonaded State House, on the Fourth of July holiday.Online, more than 370,000 people as of late Saturday had put their name to a petition launched by the left-leaning MoveOn.org activist group, calling for the flag to go."Symbols of hate have no place in our government. The Confederate flag is not a symbol of Southern pride but rather a symbol of rebellion and racism," it said.On the heels of the Charleston shooting, "it's time to put that symbol of rebellion and racism behind us and move toward healing and a better United States of America!"
- Point of friction -
The flag's 24/7 presence -- alongside a memorial to Confederate war dead on the lush green State House lawn -- has been a point of friction in South Carolina for years.But it became a flashpoint once again after a young white male walked into a bible study class at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and shot dead nine African-Americans.One of the dead was chief pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator, yet the flag -- unlike others -- was not lowered to half-staff after the shocking massacre that has renewed debate about racism and gun violence in America.Dylann Roof, 21, from the Columbia area, has been charged with nine counts of murder in connection with the bloodshed, which authorities have described as a hate crime.Police on Saturday were investigating a racist online manifesto that appeared on a website that also carried pictures of Roof with the Confederate flag and a handgun.Supporters of the Confederate flag embrace it as a symbol of Southern pride and heritage, and officials say removing it from the State House grounds requires by law a decision by the Republican-dominated legislature, now in summer recess.Governor Nikki Haley, a Republican who enjoys Tea Party support, has refused to call a special session to address the issue, saying emotions are still too raw in the wake of Wednesday's bloodbath.
- No one complained -
Last year Haley, whose parents are immigrants from India, defended the flag on the State House lawn, saying it wasn't an issue because no corporate CEO had ever complained about it.Yet even some of her influential fellow Republicans were on the other side of the argument. Former Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney tweeted "it's time to take down flag in SC."And current Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush echoed that saying in his own tweet that as governor he took it down in Florida, and put it in a "museum."Will Green, a young African-American activist in Columbia, said the flag encouraged neo-Nazis from out of state to come to South Carolina, but discouraged investors and graduate students from moving to the state."This flag is lying about us, our state and the kind of people we are," Green, who described himself as "a son of the South," told the crowd."We have to take Southern pride out of the hands of racists and haters," he added. "It's not just about dead Confederates. It's about us."
Many U.S. mayors skeptical Charleston will inspire gun law changes-Reuters By Robin Respaut-JUNE 21,15-YAHOONEWS
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Many U.S. mayors said this week's deadly church shooting in South Carolina should lead to more restrictions on gun ownership, but few believe the violence that killed nine people will propel legislators to enact stricter gun laws."Among ourselves, it has been coming up," said Bill Harrison, mayor of Fremont, California, during the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors this weekend in San Francisco. "But how many of these events does it take to get action?"Harrison said on Saturday the 2012 school shooting in Newton, Connecticut, where 20 children died, represented a personal turning point, but also made him skeptical about political change."I'm not giving up, but if Newton couldn't get people together, I don't know what will," he said.As Wednesday night's shooting at the historic African-American church in Charleston gripped the country, prosecutors on Friday wrapped up their case against James Holmes, on trial for killing 12 and wounding 70 in a shooting rampage in a movie theater in 2012.
That violence, followed by the Newton shooting, inspired activism and a push from President Barack Obama for gun control measures that subsequently fizzled.Guns are chiefly regulated at the state and federal level, with possession protected by the U.S. Constitution, and local governments have limited authority."Our state has made some steps forward but what we do on the ground is with our policing power and our close relationship with the community," New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio said on CNN on Saturday."Every time you turn around in this city and there's gun violence, that gun came from a state where it was just easy, just plain easy, to get a gun and send it up the East Coast to New York City. We need national legislation to change this."The bipartisan group Mayors Against Illegal Guns expects high attendance at its meeting during the mayors' convention, with every state represented, said Mayor James Diossa of Central Falls, Rhode Island on Saturday."This happens every time there is a situation: gun control comes to the front burner. But the problem is the political will is lacking." said Mayor Mary Casillas Salas of Chula Vista, California. "It's a problem with the state legislature."Obama on Friday told the conference he does not expect Congress to enact new gun laws soon.For Jesus Ruiz, mayor of Socorro, Texas, gun control is a federal issue split along party lines."With the Republicans controlling Congress, we are limited," he said.(Reporting by Robin Respaut; Additional reporting and writing by Lisa Lambert in Washington; Editing by Richard Chang)
OTHER ROOF MURDER STORIES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/06/christian-murderer-of-9-in-south.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/06/9-killed-in-south-carolina-black-church.html
UPDATED-JUNE 21,2015-10:30AM
AND CHURCH SERVICES RESUME TODAY AT EMANUEL AME CHURCH IN SOUTH CAROLINA. AFTER THE AWEFUL MURDER OF 9 CHRISTIANS IN A BIBLE STUDY IN THAT CHURCH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT 9PM.THEN AFTER THE CHURCH SERVICE. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WULL BE GATHERED OUTSIDE THE CHURCH TO PRAY FOR PEACE.AND TOGETHERNESS.AND THIS PRAYER MEETING WILL BE GOING ON ALL DAY AT THE CHURCH.WHAT SATAN WANTED TO DO TO DESTROY CHRISTIANS BY SCARING THEM WITH THIS MURDERER.GOD WILL USE FOR HIS GLORY TO WIN MANY SOULS TO HIM.THROUGH THIS BAD SITUATION TURNED INTO A JOYFUL- SOUL WINNING TO JESUS.THE MESSIAH-KING AND SAVIOR/THE ONLY WAY TO SALVATION.NO OTHER.
UPDATED-JUNE 21,2015-12:07PM
WELL JUST LIKE A TYPICAL CNN.JUST AS THE SERVICE AT THE EMANUAL AME CHURCH ENDED.JAKE TAPPER NEVER MENTIONS ANYTHING ABOUT GETTING SAVED.OR HEALING THE RACES.NO TAPPER HAD ON A DEBATE ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG FOR 15 MINUTES.HOW THE FLAG IS SO BAD.AND IT SHOULD BE BROUGHT DOWN AND PUT IN A MUSEUM FOR GOOD.THEN NOW AT NOON-CNN FINALLY SHOWS A SEGMENT ON THE DEATH OF THE 9 INNOCENT CHRISTIANS THAT WERE MURDERED WEDNESDAY NIGHT.AND A TRIBUTE TO THEM.WE CHRISTIANS HAVE HOPE WHEN OUR LOVED ONES DIE.WE KNOW THE BODY GOES IN THE GRAVE.BUT THE SOULS AND SPIRIT GOES INSTANTLY TO JESUS IN HEAVEN. THEN AT THE ANY SECOND NOW RAPTURE OF ALL THE CHURCH TO HEAVEN.THE DEADS BODIES AND SPIRITS ARE REUNITED WITH EACH OTHER.AND THEY RISE TO HEAVEN FIRST.THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE.AND NEVER DIED.OUR BODIES WILL BE CHANGED LIKE JESUS'.AND WE ALL GO MEET JESUS IN THE CLOUDS.AND WE CHRISTIANS WILL BE IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS FOR 7 YEARS.THEN AT THE END OF THE 7 YEARS.ALL THE CHRISTIANS IN HEAVEN RETURN TO EARTH LITERALLY WITH JESUS ON OUR LITERAL WHITE HORSES.AND WE ALL WILL RULE ON EARTH FOREVER WITH JESUS.WHO WILL BE RULING FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER-NEVER ENDING.SO WE HAVE HOPE.WE KNOW WE WILL BE WITH OUR LOVED ONES ON EARTH FOREVER.RULING WITH JESUS.OUR HOPE IS IN THE BIBLE AND JESUS (GODS) WORDS-NOT THE WORLDS ANYTHING GOES LIBERAL-DEMOCRATE GODLESS VIEWS.
PROOF OF THE RAPTURE BEFORE 7 YR TRIBULATION.FOR SKEPTICS OF TRUTH.
ITS THE REVELATION OF JESUS TO EARTH,NOT REVELATIONS OF JESUS TO START WITH.
REVELATION 1:19-REVELATION TIMELINE
19 Write the things which thou hast seen,(PAST-REV CH 1) and the things which are,(PRESENT-REV CH 2-3) and the things which shall be hereafter;(FUTURE-REV CH 4-22-THE 7 YR TRIBULATION-PEACE TREATY PERIOD)
REVELATION CH 1 PAST
REVELATION CH 2+3 CHURCH AGE.(JOHNS DAY)
REVELATION CH 4 THE RAPTURE.(FUTURE)THEN (7 YR TRIB)
FOR SKEPTICS OF THE RAPTURE.WHY IS THE CHURCH NOT MENTIONED FROM REV CH 4 TILL CH 20 IS MY QUESTION.
REVELATION CH'S 6-19 (7 YR TRIBULATION).
REVELATION 3:10-11
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from (NOT THROUGH THE TRIBULATION PERIOD AND 3 BILLION DEAD FROM WW3) the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world,(7 YR TRIBULATION) to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
PHILLIPIANS 3:20-21
20 For our conversation is in heaven;(IF WE TAKE HEAVEN-WE TALK ABOUT BEING RAPTURED TO HEAVEN WITH JESUS) from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body,(TO NEVER DYING BODIES AT THE RAPTURE) that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.(NOT SCARE PEOPLE WITH THESE WORDS,THE RAPTURE IS A COMFORT,WE WON'T GO THREW WW3 AND 3 BILLION DEAD)
JOHN 11:25-26
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead,(BODY IN THE GRAVE/SPIRIT/SOUL GO TO JESUS) yet shall he live:(BODY,SOUL,SPIRIT REUNITED AT THE RAPTURE)
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.(THE CHRISTIANS ALIVE AT THE TIME OF THE RAPTURE NEVER DIE,OUR BODIES AUTOMATICALLY GET CHANGED TO NEVER DYING BODIES) Believest thou this?(THE CHRISTIANS ALIVE ON EARTH AT THE TIME OF THE RAPTURE NEVER HAVE A PHYSICAL DEATH LIKE THE VERSE SAYS)
1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-55
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston for an emotional memorial service on Sunday just days after a gunman, identified by authorities as a 21-year-old white man, shot dead nine black church members."We are reminded this morning about the freshness of death that comes like a thief in the night," the Reverend Norvel Goff told a mostly black congregation that swelled to about 400 people for a service remembering those killed on Wednesday in the latest U.S. mass shooting.Armed police searched bags at the door of the church, home to the oldest African-American congregation in the southern United States, and officers stood at intervals inside the church along the side of the nave and in the gallery.Outside the church, a large, mostly white crowd gathered to express solidarity with those inside.Goff's rollicking sermon brought people alternately to tears and laughter as the church reopened to worshippers for the first time since the shooting. They whooped, cheered and raised their hands, and ended the service with embraces after Goff, whose voice rose to a shout at times, encouraged them to "hug three people next to you and tell them, 'It's going to be alright.'"The suspect, Dylann Roof, was arrested on Thursday and has been charged with nine counts of murder. Authorities say he spent an hour in an evening Bible study group at the church, nicknamed "Mother Emanuel" for its key role in U.S. black history, before opening fire.Federal investigators were examining a racist manifesto on a website that appeared to have been written by Roof. The site featured white supremacist writings and photos, apparently of Roof.Goff was standing in for Clementa Pinckney, 41, senior pastor at Emanuel and a Democratic member of the state Senate who was killed in the massacre."When evil is in the world, you and I may not be able to control evil-doers. ... Some of us are still trying to seek answers to what happened last week, Wednesday," Goff said. "I've decided to turn it to over to Jesus."Among those at the service, which lasted more than two hours, were South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum."The blood of the Mother Emanuel Nine requires us to work until not only justice in this case but for those who are still living in the margin of life, those who are less fortunate than ourselves, that we stay on the battlefield until there is no more fight to be fought," Goff said.Hand fans fluttered in the church as those in attendance tried to beat the heat.The massacre has again trained a spotlight on the divisive issues of race relations and gun crime in the United States and reignited a debate over gun control in a country where the right to own firearms is constitutionally protected.
GUN CONTROL
Riley, on the CNN program "State of the Union," called for stricter gun control laws."It is insane the number of guns and the ease of getting guns in America," Riley said. "It's not that people should not carry guns and all of that, it's just that there are so many of them and the ease of them and there is no accountability."
President Barack Obama, in an interview recorded on Friday, expressed frustration over the issue. He blamed the powerful National Rifle Association gun-rights lobby group and public apathy for the failure to implement new gun control measures.The church massacre has also renewed the controversy around the flag of the pro-slavery Confederate Southern states in the American Civil War that ended in 1865. It is a symbol of Southern pride for some and an emblem of hatred for others.On NBC's "Meet the Press," James Clyburn, a black U.S. congressman from South Carolina, called on state lawmakers to pass legislation to remove the flag from the state capitol grounds, where it is mandated by law to fly.Cornell Brooks, who heads the NAACP civil rights group, told CBS's "Face the Nation," "That flag represents exclusion, it represents bigotry, it represents bias. ... It has to come down."The church shootings were the main topic at other Sunday services in Charleston, sometimes dubbed "The Holy City" because of its multitude of historic churches. Church bells rang throughout the city in honor of the shooting victims.At the predominantly white-membership St. Michael's Church, founded in the 17th century, the Reverend Alfred Zadig Jr. said he did not know any of the victims and asked for forgiveness "for failing to be a pastor who reaches out beyond my world.""You and I are so good at compartmentalizing grief," Zadig told his congregation. "Today I'm asking you to feel the unthinkable pain ... This is not God's will. God did not ordain this event to happen to make a point about racism."(Additional reporting by Harriet McLeod and Lucia Mutikani; Writing by Will Dunham; Editing by Frances Kerry)
Charleston church holds first service since gunman killed 9-Charleston mourns, begins healing after church massacre-Reuters By Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise-JUNE 21,15-YAHOONEWS
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Hundreds of people flocked to Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Sunday as it reopened its doors to worshipers just days after a gunman shot dead nine black church members.Outside the church, the oldest African-American congregation in the southern United States, bouquets, teddy bears and balloons covered the sidewalk while hundreds of people lined up to mourn, sing hymns and leave memorials.Thousands of hand-written messages covered white banners at the church's entrance, reading "God Bless," or "Thank you Sen. Rev. Clementa Pinckney. You will 4ever be an inspiration," referring to the church's pastor, a state senator who was one of the victims.
City officials, religious leaders and mourners have said Sunday's services at Emanuel church would mark a small step toward healing after the latest U.S. mass shooting, which has again trained a spotlight on the nation's pervasive and divisive issues of race relations and gun crime.Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old suspect, remains in jail charged with nine counts of murder. Authorities say he spent an hour in an evening Bible study group at the church, nicknamed "Mother Emanuel" for its key role in African-American history, before opening fire on Wednesday night.Federal investigators were examining photos and white supremacist writings that surfaced on a website on Saturday that appeared to show Roof posing with a handgun and standing in front of a Confederate military museum and plantation slave houses.Texts posted on the website included an "explanation" by the author for taking some unspecified action."I have no choice ... I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country," it said.The massacre was the latest in a series of mass shootings in the United States that have reignited a debate over gun control in a country where the right to own firearms is constitutionally protected. Outside Emanuel church on Sunday, where services were due to begin at 9:30 a.m., security was tight as police patrolled with a bomb dog to sniff through the growing piles of flowers, balloons, toys and signs. Below the church program board, a poster covered in pink and white hearts and silver stars read: "We are all in this together & we will shine on." A picture of multi-colored hands marked the middle of the card, reinforcing the message.Monte Talmadge, a 63-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, drove nearly 300 miles (480 km) from Raleigh, North Carolina, to offer his condolences to the church and community."There was an overwhelming feeling that made me drive here," he said. "A church is a place of worship, not a place for killing."The victims' names, written on white ribbons adorned with roses, bedecked one of the church's gates. Another gate held a black shirt that read: "Do you believe us now."Joseph Kovas, 19, was hoping to make it inside the church for Sunday's service."We wanted to come to show our presence and prayers to the community. The way they have been affected is tremendous," he said. "The people have come together in Charleston and that is great testament to this city."(Writing by Chris Michaud; Editing by Digby Lidstone and Tom Heneghan)
Protesters target Confederate flag after Charleston killings-AFP By Robert Macpherson-JUNE 21,15-YAHOONEWS
Columbia (United States) (AFP) - Several thousand protesters gathered under the controversial Confederate flag at South Carolina's state legislature, demanding it be taken down in response to the Charleston church massacre.Waving placards, chanting "take it down" and singing "We Shall Overcome," the youthful crowd, black and white, condemned the Civil War saltire as a symbol of lingering racist sentiment in the American South."We can no longer afford to let that flat stand there" and be a beacon for those who harbor "bad opinions," said one of the speakers, 95-year-old lawyer and activist Sarah Leverette, prompting loud cheers.Organizers called the event a "warm-up" for what they hope will be an even bigger anti-flag protest, also in front of the colonaded State House, on the Fourth of July holiday.Online, more than 370,000 people as of late Saturday had put their name to a petition launched by the left-leaning MoveOn.org activist group, calling for the flag to go."Symbols of hate have no place in our government. The Confederate flag is not a symbol of Southern pride but rather a symbol of rebellion and racism," it said.On the heels of the Charleston shooting, "it's time to put that symbol of rebellion and racism behind us and move toward healing and a better United States of America!"
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The flag's 24/7 presence -- alongside a memorial to Confederate war dead on the lush green State House lawn -- has been a point of friction in South Carolina for years.But it became a flashpoint once again after a young white male walked into a bible study class at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and shot dead nine African-Americans.One of the dead was chief pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator, yet the flag -- unlike others -- was not lowered to half-staff after the shocking massacre that has renewed debate about racism and gun violence in America.Dylann Roof, 21, from the Columbia area, has been charged with nine counts of murder in connection with the bloodshed, which authorities have described as a hate crime.Police on Saturday were investigating a racist online manifesto that appeared on a website that also carried pictures of Roof with the Confederate flag and a handgun.Supporters of the Confederate flag embrace it as a symbol of Southern pride and heritage, and officials say removing it from the State House grounds requires by law a decision by the Republican-dominated legislature, now in summer recess.Governor Nikki Haley, a Republican who enjoys Tea Party support, has refused to call a special session to address the issue, saying emotions are still too raw in the wake of Wednesday's bloodbath.
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Last year Haley, whose parents are immigrants from India, defended the flag on the State House lawn, saying it wasn't an issue because no corporate CEO had ever complained about it.Yet even some of her influential fellow Republicans were on the other side of the argument. Former Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney tweeted "it's time to take down flag in SC."And current Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush echoed that saying in his own tweet that as governor he took it down in Florida, and put it in a "museum."Will Green, a young African-American activist in Columbia, said the flag encouraged neo-Nazis from out of state to come to South Carolina, but discouraged investors and graduate students from moving to the state."This flag is lying about us, our state and the kind of people we are," Green, who described himself as "a son of the South," told the crowd."We have to take Southern pride out of the hands of racists and haters," he added. "It's not just about dead Confederates. It's about us."
Many U.S. mayors skeptical Charleston will inspire gun law changes-Reuters By Robin Respaut-JUNE 21,15-YAHOONEWS
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Many U.S. mayors said this week's deadly church shooting in South Carolina should lead to more restrictions on gun ownership, but few believe the violence that killed nine people will propel legislators to enact stricter gun laws."Among ourselves, it has been coming up," said Bill Harrison, mayor of Fremont, California, during the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors this weekend in San Francisco. "But how many of these events does it take to get action?"Harrison said on Saturday the 2012 school shooting in Newton, Connecticut, where 20 children died, represented a personal turning point, but also made him skeptical about political change."I'm not giving up, but if Newton couldn't get people together, I don't know what will," he said.As Wednesday night's shooting at the historic African-American church in Charleston gripped the country, prosecutors on Friday wrapped up their case against James Holmes, on trial for killing 12 and wounding 70 in a shooting rampage in a movie theater in 2012.
That violence, followed by the Newton shooting, inspired activism and a push from President Barack Obama for gun control measures that subsequently fizzled.Guns are chiefly regulated at the state and federal level, with possession protected by the U.S. Constitution, and local governments have limited authority."Our state has made some steps forward but what we do on the ground is with our policing power and our close relationship with the community," New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio said on CNN on Saturday."Every time you turn around in this city and there's gun violence, that gun came from a state where it was just easy, just plain easy, to get a gun and send it up the East Coast to New York City. We need national legislation to change this."The bipartisan group Mayors Against Illegal Guns expects high attendance at its meeting during the mayors' convention, with every state represented, said Mayor James Diossa of Central Falls, Rhode Island on Saturday."This happens every time there is a situation: gun control comes to the front burner. But the problem is the political will is lacking." said Mayor Mary Casillas Salas of Chula Vista, California. "It's a problem with the state legislature."Obama on Friday told the conference he does not expect Congress to enact new gun laws soon.For Jesus Ruiz, mayor of Socorro, Texas, gun control is a federal issue split along party lines."With the Republicans controlling Congress, we are limited," he said.(Reporting by Robin Respaut; Additional reporting and writing by Lisa Lambert in Washington; Editing by Richard Chang)
