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Monday, September 25, 2017

The Day AFTER Sept 23rd! Why There Was NO RAPTURE! By Pastor Carl Gallups

TODAY is SEPT. 24, 2017 - No Rapture (By Pastor Carl Gallups)
(Because Revelation 12 is NOT about a secret formula for a secret date for a secret rapture - or ANY OTHER specific date.)

Below is a quick understanding of the true context of Revelation 12 (A very brief teaching - not going into every detail, but outlining the general message in a clear and contextual manner)

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Rev. 11:19 (The verse JUST before Chapter 12)

19 Then God's temple IN HEAVEN was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.

John is IN HEAVEN in chapter 19. He sees a "sign" (a panoramic revelation, a symbol, an understanding of what is to come) while he is IN HEAVEN in Chapter 12 verse 1.

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[For a quick and thorough study of the Greek word in this text for HEAVEN - see this article by pastor Carl:

http://ppsimmons.blogspot.com/…/revelation-12-sept-23-raptu… ]


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CHAPTER 12 
The Woman and the Dragon

1 A great sign appeared IN HEAVEN [NOT the "heavenlies" or the "heavens" - there is a BIG difference in all these word usages]: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

(See Genesis 37:8-9 - The "Woman" is Israel - the "stars" are not actual stars ... they are the 12 tribes of Israel - representing authority and power.

See verse 4 where Satan has his "stars" as well! To say that Rev. 12:1 is a formula for a date based upon an alignment of the constellations, planets, and stars is pure astrology, forbidden by God's Word. To be sure, God can use "signs in the heavens" [different from, "I saw a sign while in Heaven] but none of those biblically pronounced signs tell us to divine a "date" from the signs - NONE of them.)

2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

4 Its tail swept a third OF THE STARS out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon (SATAN - see verse 9) stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.

5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who "will rule all the nations with an iron scepter."a And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 
(See Isaiah 9 - The "Son" is Yeshua/Messiah! That came to us OUT OF ISRAEL - the woman.)

6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

"Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.

11 They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
(OUR KEY TO OVERCOMING SATAN!)

12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short."

13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach. 15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. 16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God's commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

Verse 17 is the KEY VERSE ... this moves ALL of chapter 12 into the realm of chapter 13 - the rise of the Antichrist and his outrage against God's people in the last days.

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For those who say that Rev. 12 "might not be about a date for the rapture - but it still is a sign that "something big" is getting ready to happen - my response is, "YES! The entire book of Revelation contains that message! Something BIG is always happening in our most prophetic time. But Revelation 12 is NOT ABOUT SETTING A "DATE" for ANYTHING.

We are not date setters at PNN. We are "signs of the times" watchers and reporters. Don't worry about a certain date. We do not need to focus our ministry on trying to determine the rapture day and hour.

The rapture WILL come - but that is NOT our focus. Our focus is being biblical discerners of the prophetic times we are living in and understanding that we only have a short time to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are trying to WAKE up the church in America and around the world - NOT put it into complacency by having it believe that the rapture is on a certain date.

Let's advance the Kingdom of Jesus while we still have light. The DATES are in God's hand alone.

In Jesus' love,
Pastor Carl Gallups

FOR MORE UNDERSTANDING SEE THE FOLLOWING POST/ARTICLE
"The September 23 Date Setting Debacle"

https://www.facebook.com/carlgallups2/posts/1501174483255335


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