Left Behind Letter: My Beloved Family & Friends

Rapture Ready

Many of you did not know that I made a decision in my heart to follow Jesus Christ in February 2001. All I can say about my conversion is that the Lord used the Bible to show me the truth. HIS TRUTH. Those of you who knew me well were aware that the truth was important to me. The truth is found in God’s Word and the Bible is where you will find the truth about the “vanishings” of some of your family and friends.

My hope and prayer in writing to you is that I will be able to communicate not only the reasons for these “vanishings” and recent events, but also the Gospel of Jesus Christ to help you make the most important decision of your life. In the next 7 years God in His grace, love and mercy will be giving you a second chance to accept His plan of salvation through His son Jesus Christ so that you can be with Him and your loved ones in Heaven.

You are probably searching for an explanation for the disappearance of millions of people all over the world. Do not believe the lie that aliens from another planet abducted them or other outrageous explanations. God’s Word has the only explanation for the “vanishings” and that is the Rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ.1You may be thinking, “not that Jesus guy again!” I challenge you to do your own research on those who have vanished. You will find the common denominator of those taken will be born again believers2in Jesus Christ, and children not mature enough to believe in Jesus as their Lord, Savior and God.3Parents and grandparents I know you are suffering with the vanishing of your children, but have faith that they are with the Lord in heaven.

Some will argue that many “Christians” have been left behind with non-believers. If you look at the lives of those “Christians” you will see that those “Christians” were never truly following Jesus.4

I would like to take the time to tell you about three events that I believe the Bible teaches will occur within a short time of each other: The Rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ; The Russian/Islamic war against Israel; The 7-year peace accord between Israel and the world. I am writing about each of these events before they happen to show you the accuracy of God’s Word to predict the future. No other religion can predict the future and that disqualifies them as a voice of God.I encourage you to look at the footnotes section of this letter to better understand the statements that I make and then study the Bible to see for yourself that the God of the Bible is the one true God. Be assured that the Bible says God has a plan for the next seven years and it will certainly affect you in a big way.

The Rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ

Christians have been speaking of this event for many years and countless books have been written about this event; however, the word “rapture” does not appear in the Bible. That is because the Rapture is a concept taken from many different scriptures found in the Bible.2The English word rapture is derived from the Latin word raptus, which means caught up or snatched away. The Rapture is the Lord Jesus Christ coming in the clouds to call up His Church to be with Him in heaven. The Church of Jesus Christ is made up of born again believers in Jesus who have died in the last 1900+ years, born again believers in Jesus who are alive at the time of His appearing in the clouds, and probably children who are younger than 13-14 years old.The Rapture should not be confused with the second coming of Jesus to the earth.5The second coming of Jesus to the earth is an event that will occur at the end of the seven-year tribulation period (more on the 7-year tribulation later). The Rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ is God taking out of the world those who have faithfully believed in the work of Jesus on the cross before He pours out His wrath on a Christ rejecting world.6The church age of God’s plan is over when the Rapture occurs. So what happens to those who are left behind? What happens if someone wants to accept Jesus after the Rapture? As I said earlier God will give people another chance to accept Jesus Christ but they will not be able to enter into the Kingdom of God through the church but will have to enter into the kingdom via Israel.7Israel for the next 7 years will be the focus of God’s plan as He reconciles Israel to Himself through their messiah…Jesus Christ. If you are left behind you will have the opportunity to accept Jesus as your Lord, Savior and God and enter into the Kingdom of God through Israel (you will not have to be Jewish to do this). I encourage you to accept Jesus Christ as soon as you can because it will get harder and harder to do as the 7 year tribulation period expires.8

The Russian/Islamic War Against Israel

The bible teaches that the Lord will cause a Russian leader, in conjunction with a consortium of Islamic nations, to lead a war against Israel.10This event will probably occur within a few weeks of the Rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ. With Christians gone there will be none left to come to Israel’s defense.10Russia is coming to destroy Israel and to take the riches of Israel for itself.11These countries will send armies made up of men on horseback.12There will be a great earthquake that the whole world will feel.13These countries will be destroyed by each other and by what appears to be a thermonuclear bomb and at the same time Israel will be supernaturally protected from all effects of that bomb.14With the radical Islamic element out of the way Israel will be free to negotiate a peace agreement with the rest of the world.

The 7 Year Peace Accord between Israel and the World

There will be a man who will come onto this scene who will negotiate a peace agreement between Israel and the world.15He will be a natural leader and endowed with powers to do signs and miracles.16He will negotiate peace for Israel and they will believe that he is their messiah until the midway point of the 7-year tribulation period.17This man will likely come from Europe and may have Jewish heritage.18This man is The Antichrist.19The peace agreement that he negotiates will allow the Jews to re-start the Mosaic sacrificial worship using the Levitical priesthood.20The Antichrist will set up a one-world government in which he controls the world’s food supplies and governments.21The Antichrist will have a subordinate partner called The False Prophet.22The Antichrist and his False Prophet will do miraculous deeds such as bring fire down from heaven and possibly medical healings.23The job of The False Prophet is to get people to worship The Antichrist.24The False Prophet will be a religious man who sets up a one-world religion.25The False Prophet will set-up a system where all the people of the world will have to take a mark in their forehead or right hand showing their worship of The Antichrist in order to buy or sell food.26Refusal to worship The Antichrist and take his mark will result in death.27

Before I gave my heart to Christ I used to say, “I’m a good person, I can’t believe God wouldn’t want someone who is good.” How arrogant that was. Who was I to tell the creator of the heavens and the earth how He should save people. Besides I could never be good enough to enter heaven on my own because the standard is perfection.28God loves everyone He has created and He wishes that none of those He created should perish.29So He gave us the chance to choose to be with Him. We decide. Either you chose His plan through Jesus Christ His son or you don’t. It’s as simple as that. God’s plan of salvation (the gospel) started with God, in the person of Jesus, coming from Heaven to the earth. Think about that…here is God leaving the perfection of heaven to come to this imperfect and fallen world. God just doesn’t say something and tell us to do it he actually says something and does it! Jesus came to set the example of Godly living and standards.30But first He was born supernaturally through a virgin.31This is important because there could be no debate on whether He was God. God wanted so much to show us that He loves us that He actually went through the birth process and the maturation process of a child to an adult (Jesus was an example of humility). Throughout that process Jesus lived a perfect life fulfilling all of the law of God from birth to death never committing a sin.32No one in this world who has ever lived can make that claim. We all fall short of God’s standard for eternal life with Him.33So how can fallen man be saved? Salvation comes only by God on God’s terms. God’s plan of salvation is God taking the sins of fallen man on Himself that is why Jesus died on the cross. Jesus died for all sin past, present and future with His blood. This amazing act of love provides a way for man to be reconciled with God. Our sin no longer separates us from a righteous perfect God and what Jesus did provides us a way for us to be with God in heaven. Lastly, our faith is not in a martyr who died and is buried somewhere. God did not leave His Son in the grave nor will He leave us in the grave. Jesus Christ was raised from the grave and now sits next to the Father in heaven. Faith in Jesus means eternal life not death! All you have to do is put your faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord, Savior and God because of the work He did on the cross.

Beloved family and friends, please, I ask of you now, forgive me if I did not take the time to personally explain the gospel of Jesus to you while I was with you. My prayer and hope is that you will be open to the truth of God’s Word and that you will read the Bible for yourselves. Time is no longer on your side. The Antichrist will try to force you to take a mark to show your allegiance to him. Once someone takes this mark of the beast they cannot take it back to make a choice for Christ.The stakes are high and the decision that you make will determine where you will be for eternity. Personally I have prayed specifically that you would accept God’s plan of salvation through Jesus Christ. If you are at that point now and you don’t know how to ask God to come into your heart pray this simple prayer:

Father, thank you for sending your son Jesus Christ to the earth to die for my sins on the cross at Calvary. Lord, I turn from my sinful ways and ask you to forgive me. Please come into my heart and save me. In Jesus name I pray.

I love you all and hope that I will see all of you again in heaven!

Barry

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