Click here to read about how the Attack on America might relate to Bible Prophecy, especially Ezekiel 38-39 and the pretribulation rapture.

Please [2 Tim 2:15] "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." and be like the Noble Bereans who [Acts 17:11] "...searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."

Since this is a Bible Prophecy website, one really needs to start with the Bible first, by reading it.  One should not study commentary on that which he or she has not yet read themselves.  And after reading the Bible, and before studying prophecy, one should then study how the Bible tells you how to understand its message.  Bible colleges would suggest you study man-made principles of hermenutics first.  Hermeneutics is the "the study of the methodological principles of interpretation".  Instead, I have studied how the Bible tells me how to study it and understand its message, rather than inventing my own principles.  I have found that people who have other views on prophecy neglect many important Bible Study principles that the Bible teaches.  People say, "The Bible is easy to understand and that God wouldn't hide things from us".  The Bible says otherwise. (Prov 25:2)  People say, "There can only be one meaning in a given passage."  The Bible says otherwise. (Galatians 4:24, Hosea 12:10)

The Bible contains "some things hard to be understood" (2 Peter 3:16) And "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing!" (Prov 25:2)
The Bible tells you how to understand the bible:  Fear the Lord, Prayer, the Holy Spirit's guidance, diligently seeking, rightly dividing, comparing spiritual with spiritual.
The Bible tells you how to interpret Bible Prophecy: (1) Stories & parallels are prophesies. (2) There are multiple fulfillments and unmentioned time gaps.

Perhaps the most important Bible Prophecy principle of all:  The sabbath days & Jewish Festivals are a shadow & prophecy of things to come!
[Col 2:16] Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
[Col 2:17] Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

See also: Why study about the pretribulation rapture?  Why is it important?

To understand bible prophecy about the return of Jesus Christ, we need to understand the Jewish Wedding as presented in scripture, because Christ spoke of his return with many Wedding Analogies. Matt 22, Matt 25, Rev. 19 & 21, Luke 12:36, "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding..."

The Holy Bible says the Bride of Christ is the Church.
Eph 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church... ",
2Cor 11:2 "...I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.",
Rom 7:4...."ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead..."

The Wedding Analogy shows the Pre Tribulaiton Rapture because the union of the bride and groom (the rapture) takes place at the start of the Bridal Week, which is a type of the Tribulation Week.  The word for bridal week as used in Genesis 29 & Judges 14  is the same word in Daniel 9:27.  The word "week", or shavuah in Hebrew, simply means a seven, it means seven days or seven years.  Further, there are two Old Testament examples where a day from a prophetic type turns into a year of judgment.  Num 14:34 & Ezek 4:6.

Here are a few key examples of the significance of the Wedding Parallel. The bride price is paid by the groom for the bride.  Jesus paid for us with his life. The virgin girl shows that she accepts the written covenant agreement of the marriage by drinking a glass of wine, and this has become the communion ritual that Jesus gave to the Church.  The betrothed bride would also have a ritual cleansing bath, and this is like baptism of water and spirit, or the cleansing of the word in Eph 5.

The groom departs to build the bridal chamber where they will live together, and Jesus said John 14:2 "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." John 14:3 "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

When finished, the groom would return at a time unexpected "of that day or hour no man knows" to fetch, or take away (rapture) his bride, like a thief in the night, which is a type of the action of the rapture.  At the end of Judges 21, there is a mass bridal abduction.  In Deut 22:25-29 and Exodus 22:15-17 we see that the penalty for taking a virgin (through force or seduction) is a permanant marriage with no divorce provision.  This is like the "incorruptable immortality" as described in the rapture passage in 1 Cor 15:51-54

Thus, the intimate union between man and wife in the bridal chamber is a picture of being in heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ after the rapture.  At the end of this bridal week, the bride and groom emerge at the wedding feast or marriage supper.  Even the slaughter at the marriage supper, or Armageddon, is pictured in Judges 14 as Samson kills 30 Philistines.

I urge all who read this to study more of these Wedding Parallels, which teach about the pre tribulation rapture, and the type of relationship our Lord Jesus Christ is seeking with us.

The Marriage of the Bride of Christ.  The Pretribulation Rapture Introduction and summary of scriptures for each topic below

1. The Holy Spirit choses the bride, and brings people to God through repentance
2. A bride price (dowry) is established, Christ gave his life to purchase and redeem us
3. Consent: the bride agrees and chooses to accept her husband's offer
4. Written document, Covenant agreement, written registry
5. Drinking a glass of wine; a toast, a communion, seals the covenant agreement.
6. Betrothal [espoused/engaged/promised]
7. Ritual Cleansing bath; a Mikveh or Baptism
8. Gifts given to the Bride
9. The bridegroom departed, going back to his father's house to prepare the bridal chamber, closet (many mansions)
10. The bride was consecrated, set apart, and kept herself ready for the bridegroom to return, and wore a vail which is like the blood of Jesus covering our sins, the righteousness of the saints
11. Bridegroom comes for his Bride on a "day or hour no man knows, but my father only" with a shout, command, last trump, trumpet blast
12. Jesus comes for (raptures) his Bride as a Thief
13. Going through the open door into heaven (at the rapture)
14. The bridal week (a day for a year) in the wedding chamber as the tribulation week of Daniel
15. (Marriage supper / Wedding Feast) when the bride and groom emerge from the bridal chamber at the end of seven days, and the Lord returns with the Bride at the end of the seven year tribulation
16. The slaughter at the marriage supper
17. The bride and groom were seen as king and queen, trumpet blasts herald the reign of a new king, at the rapture at the trumpet blast, Christ and his people begin to rule in heaven
18. The Judgment Seat of Christ, (pictured by the Feast of Trumpets, a picture of the wedding of the messiah, and rapture.)

1. Pre Tribulation Rapture in Scripture (Main Scriptural Points)  12-15-00 79k
2. Why study about the pretribulation rapture?  Why is it important? 2-7-01 5k
3. Why is there debate about the end times? 5-26-01 8k
4. Will all Children go in the rapture? 3-14-01 2k
5. Parousia, or "coming or presence".  Same word, same event?  2-20-01 3k
6. Regarding:  John 17:15 "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world..." 1k
7. 15 Differences Between the Rapture and the Second Coming! 17 k
8. Why is the pre-trib rapture doctrine relatively new? 11-7-00 12k
9. Pre-Tribulation Rapture Types in Genesis:  Adam & Eve  3-10-01  8k
10. Pre-Tribulation Rapture Types in Genesis:  Enoch & Noah  3-10-01  23k
11. Pre-Tribulation Rapture Types in Genesis:  Lot  3-10-01  33k

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12. Commentary on 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4:13-18  3-14-01 44k
13. Commentary on 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 5:1-11  3-14-01 60k

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14. Apostasia = religious rebellion & rapture 12-15-00 69k
15. 2 Thess 2: Was the Day of the Lord feared to be "near" or "present"? 6-28-01 7k
16. 2 Thess 2, First the apostacy, then the man of sin, before the day of the Lord? Can the Rapture really be Pre-Trib? Yes!
17. Scriptures that emphasise the Rapture is PRE tribulation, starting out with a further examination of 2 thess 2.

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18. Is the 7th Trumpet of Revelation, the "Last Trump" of the Rapture? 10-17-00 5k
19. How can the rapture be silent if it is at the trumpet blast? 1-31-01 7k
20. Rev. 4:1 shows the pre tribulation rapture 10-17-00 11k

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21. Commentary on Matt 24:29-31 7-6-01 128k
22. Eight Reasons why the Day of the Lord is the Start of the Tribulation 1-23-01 13k
23. The Tribulation will last 7 years 08-08-00 20k
24. The wrath of God will be the entire 70th week, the tribulation week 11-21-00 6k
25. The "Day of the Lord" 10-23-00 12k
26. Satan is cast out of heaven; at the start of the Day of the Lord, the signs in the sun, moon & stars falling. 5-27-01 35k
27. Fire Falls At the Pre Tribulation Rapture 11-10-00 15k
28. What about Matthew 24:29-31, it says "after the tribulation"...? 11-06-00 26k
29. The Great Tribulation, the time unlike any other, (Time of Trouble)(Day of the Lord), the travail.  1-7-01 14k
30. WRATH 1-5-01 45k
31. Day of Plagues 1-30-01 8k
32. Taken & Left in Matt 24 & Luke 17.  Where the body is, eagles will gather 1-31-01

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33. God has a plan for Israel! 1-19-01 19k
34. The First Resurrection includes Jesus, and is like a harvest. 1-14-01 33k
35. The End Times Deception 02-16-01 13k
36. It is impossible for the Pre Tribulation Rapture to be a deception 09-30-00 11k
37. "the souls that ye hunt to make them fly" 3-14-01 4k
38. Once Saved Always Saved, not fitting with scripture. 2-3-01 38k
39. Who goes in the rapture? 10-22-00 17k
40. Will post tribbers go up in the pretrib rapture? 2-17-01 40k
41. Can I be saved if I'm left behind? 10-13-01 NEW! 14k
42. Eight common errors of my fellow pre tribulation rapture teachers 5-27-01 12k

1. 50 Evidences for the Pre-Trib Rapture
2. Pseudo-Ephraem's Pre Tribulation Rapture Statement (c. 374-627) "All the saints and elect of God are gathered together before the tribulation, which is to come, and are taken to the Lord, in order that they may not see at any time the confusion which overwhelms the world because of our sins."
3. Margaret McDonald's Vision (1861) as published in The Restoration of Apostles and Prophets In the Catholic Apostolic Church.

[2Cor 11:2] For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Rapture parallels with the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh HaShana)

1. Feast of Trumpets in Scripture 51K, 12-15-00 My own study.
2. 8 verses; Rapture symbols associated with Feast of Trumpets & Joseph in Egypt in Genesis/Psalms
3. Jesus may have been born on the Feast of Trumpets (Sept 11, 3 BC.), which tradition would suggest (the World, Noah, Jacob and Abraham were born at Trumpets and it was coronation day for kings, 1 Kings 1:34,2 Kings 9:13,11:11)

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4. The Feasts of the Lord, Chapter 7, online book (Eddie Chumney) 79K!
5. The Feast of Trumpets in the Old Testament (Quotes Eddie Chumney)
6. No Man Knows The Day or The Hour -->Rosh haShanah (Joseph Good)
7. Feast of Trumpets "At the instant that the Jewish workers heard the trumpet sound, all would immediately stop harvesting, even if they were not finished (think about that!) and go to the Temple for worship!

In those days, as it is sometimes today, a Jew & an Arab might be working side by side in the fields - but when the trumpet sounded on this particular day, the Jew would stop and go to worship, while the Arab kept on harvesting.
Jesus used this same analogy in Matt. 24:36-44 of the 2nd Coming."
8. ChuckMissler - The Feast of Trumpets - Koinonia House
9. Daily Bible Study - The Feast Of Trumpets
10. Rosh HaShana Information & Links

The Feasts of the Lord essays, relating to the Rapture, by Jackie U's summary of Eddie Chumney's work:

[Mark 12:30] And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.[Mark 12:31] And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

[Luke 10:27] And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

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[Prov 17:27] He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

[Prov 1:6] To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
[Prov 1:7] The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

[Mat 22:29] Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

If a person or the Holy Spirit shows me something, I go straight to the Book and open an online Bible to research it.  I believe modern day Bible search tools and online bible concordances are the continuing fulfillment of the prophecy:

[Daniel 12:4] But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

The last piece of advice the Lord Jesus Christ gave to the lukewarm Loadician Church before the rapture was:

[Rev 3:18] I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

I agree that there is a profund spiritural truth there; to seek the Holy Spirit and the Blood of Christ above all things, but I can't help but realize the literal truth to the statement as well.

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