Carl Worline (26
Sep 2021) "Stepping Back to See
the Big Picture"
Stepping
Back to See the Big Picture
Many
authors, including myself, have explored the most minute
of details in our
quest to determine the day and hour of the rapture.Perhaps it is
time to take a step back and
try to see the proverbial “Big Picture.”
We
are definitely in the period of time known as the End
Times.If the
End Times officially began when Israel
became a nation once again on May 14, 1948, and all End
Time events must take
place within one generation (Matthew 24), then we must be
in the Last Days of
the End Times.
The
period of time known as the End Times has a shelf-life.Psalm 90:10
tells us that a generation can be
as much as 80 years if we are strong and healthy.We also know
that there is a 7-year long
period of tribulation, referred to in the Bible as the
Time of Jacob’s Trouble,
which occurs just before the return of Jesus at the very
end of the End
Times.Lastly,
the majority of Bible-believing
eschatologists believe (and rightly so I might add) that
the rapture occurs immediately
before the tribulation period.Therefore, the Rapture of the Church has to occur
within the next few
days or weeks.It
is now truly imminent
in every sense of the word.
Evil
is spreading throughout the land.The
lengthening shadows of the End Time darkness grow
progressively darker each
day.They can
no longer be ignored.Everyone can perceive this tangible rising
tide of evil.It
is alive.It
is very intelligent.It is very, very ancient.And it is very,
very, very malevolent.
Nowhere
is the spreading of this supernaturally malevolent evil
more evident than the
worldwide COVID pandemic, along with its venomously
poisonous “vaccine.”The timing of this pandemic along with the
absurdity of the entire scenario is proof positive that we
are in the Last Days
of the timeframe described in the Bible as the End Time
(Daniel 12:9).
The
Rapture of the Church could occur at any time.However, based on what I have read in the Bible,
God seems to act in a
precise manner and in fulfillment of prophecy.There is so much prophecy in the Bible about the
Rapture of the Church
that I wholeheartedly look for the actual timing of
rapture to be in
fulfillment of some combination of scriptural prophecy.
God
gave us seven appoint days to be observed each year.We are all
familiar with these moedim.I really expected the Lord to return on the
Feast of Trumpets this year.It is the
next moed in the series to be fulfilled and it is the one
that deals with the
resurrection of the righteous dead.That, by any other name or description, is the
Rapture of the
Church.
Unfortunately,
nothing happened this year on the Feast of Trumpets.The official
date for the Feast of Trumpets was
September 6th thru 8th.I was sitting outside looking toward the East when
it was midnight in
Jerusalem and nothing happened.
Now
I want to take a step back and try to figure out what went
wrong.
Jesus
talks about the Rapture of the Church in Matthew 24.Then in the very
next chapter, Matthew 25, He
talks about how 10 virgins went out to welcome the
bridegroom.The
entire concept of the Rapture of the
Church in the Bible is patterned after the Jewish wedding
customs.The
groom did not show up when He was
expected.Half
of the virgins did not
have enough oil for their lamps and they did not fare well
when the groom
finally did show up.
The
Hebrew calendar is not precisely aligned with the apparent
movement of the sun
across the sky.Therefore,
a month must
be added periodically to compensate for this.God gave us instructions in the Bible as to when to
do this, based on
when the barley crops are ripe for harvest and based on
certain alignments in
the heavens.Apparently,
an extra month
should have been added to the Hebrew calendar this year
and it wasn’t.
If
I am correct in my above assumptions, then the Feast of
Trumpets will be
October 6th thru 8th.Prophecy will be fulfilled.The
Rapture of the Church will take place during this time
period.
I
should also note that I have been wrong many times in the
past.I could
very well be wrong here as well.
I
could be wrong about the month and/or the day, but I just
cannot believe that I
am wrong about the overall timing of the End Times in
general.Just
look at all of the incredible warnings
God has been sending our way.Look at
the freakish weather, the strange sounds from the skies,
the animal die-offs, the
uptick in the intensity and frequency of earthquakes and
volcanic activity, rivers
and lakes that have inexplicably turned blood red, the
strange things going on
in the heavens, and the timing of eclipses and blood
moons, just to name a
few.Just
consider the entire COVID
scenario.Likewise,
just consider the
seemingly daily attacks on the world’s food supplies.
Of
all of the warnings and announcements from God that the
greatest event in all
of human history since the crucifixion is about to take
place, the most
spectacular is the Revelation 12 Sign.This sign in the heavens was foretold in the Bible
almost two millennia
ago and it not only is about the Rapture of the Church,
but it took place on the
Feast of Trumpets in 2017. God
would not
have devoted an entire chapter of the Book of Revelation
to this event if this
were not important.Would
it have
happened on the Feast of Trumpets if that was not
important as well??
In
addition to all of the warnings that are coming to us
directly from God, there
are many other signs that we have reached the end of the
End Times.A
few of the more significant signs include
(but are certainly not limited to) the huge uptick in
Christian persecution
around the world, the emergence of cryptocurrencies such
as bitcoin as a step
toward the prophesied one-world-currency, the loss of so
many of our basic
freedoms such as freedom of speech and privacy, the
retreat I see going on of
the world’s uber-rich into their apocalyptic
super-luxurious underground
bunkers, our tampering with the genetic code that is God’s
blueprint for
mankind making us in His own image, and the actual
creation of life through
artificial intelligence through which electronic machines
are becoming
self-aware living beings.
Even
though the major players in Biblical End Times events
continue to remain
anonymous, I personally believe that the identity of some
of these people is
becoming apparent.
I
strongly suspect that our current Pope is the False
Prophet spoken of in the
Bible.I say
this without regard to
Catholic politics but based solely on the actions of this
man since assuming
office.Anyone
who declares that there
is more than one pathway to the Father goes against
everything that Jesus told
us.If the
False Prophet is firmly
entrenched in office, then the Rapture of the Church must
be imminent.
I
also suspect, and this is just my own personal
interpretation and opinion, that
Joe Biden/Barack Obama are the sixth and eighth kings
spoken of Revelation
17:10-11.That
would make Donald Trump
the prophesized king who would only serve a short time.It would also
mean that Sleepy Joe Biden (or
perhaps Barack Obama) is the anti-Christ.If the anti-Christ is firmly entrenched in office
(as President of the
United States), then the Rapture of the Church must also
be imminent.
I
will make note here that the government of the United
States has taken on a
particularly evil stench ever since Sleepy Joe stole the
election and secured
his inauguration in a capital surrounded by razor wire and
28,000 armed troops.
Those
who worship Satan are crawling out from beneath the rocks
they have been hiding
under throughout the past centuries.They can sense what is about to happen and they are
now becoming
emboldened enough to speak out in public.
As
I step back to gain a better perspective of the Big
Picture there is one more
category that captures my attention.That final category is the horribly bloody murder
of untold millions of
infants that are still inside their mother’s womb.What could
possibly be more sinful, more
depraved, and more offensive to our loving God???
We
are living in the very Last Days of the timeframe known in
the Bible as the End
Times.Those
Last Days have a shelf life
and that shelf life is nearing its expiration date.Something
really, really big is about to
happen and it is going to happen very, very soon.