What Jesus Taught About the Rapture

There are only 2 arrivals, not three. THe first was the incarnation, death and resurrection. THe second is to wage war on the great dreadful day of YAH. THere is no “rapture” as is taught by mainstream Christianity, nay, the “rapture” is the day Yahoshua comes to finally establish the kingdom of GOd on Earth. THe dead who believed will be resurrected, those of us alive transformed but all of us will meet Yahoshua in the skies as he descends in wrath on the enemies of God. BE not deceived.

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Is The Bible’s Book of Revelation A Plagiarism of the Sybelline Oracles Written in 510 BC?
The Sibylline Revelation.
Notes :
The ‘immortal priestess,’ Herophile, considered to be the greatest seer of pagan antiquity, lived in a cave in Cumae, in Campania, Italy, and delivered oracular prophecies while in a state of trance. She was known as the Cumaean Sibyl.
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Around 510 BCE, she offered nine volumes of her prophecies, called ‘The Mysteries of Isis and Osiris,’ to the seventh Roman king, Tarquin the Proud, at the very high price of three hundred gold pieces. When the king declined to buy them, the prophetess departed, and burned three volumes in the palace courtyard. She offered the remaining six books, at the original price, and once again the king declined to buy. Three days later, the Sibyl returned, publicly burned three more volumes, and then offered the three that remained to the king at the original asking price for all nine. There was much local gossip at these strange events, and, Tarquin’s curiosity aroused, he purchased the three volumes. The Sibyl then departed, and was not seen again.
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She was subsequently known to history as the Sibyl of Tarquin, and her three volumes became highly prized in the Roman Empire. They were kept in a specially carved marble chest commissioned by Tarquin, lined with ‘the purple of kings.’
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Priests were appointed to interpret the writings,and scribes were assigned to produce exact copies. The original collection was jealously guarded in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, and frequently consulted by priests. In times of peril and disaster, the original copies were entrusted to curators, assisted by two Greek interpreters in reading the oracles aloud to the Senate. Tacitus recorded that statues of the Sibyl were idolised, and that ‘invocation was made, and lustral water was brought to wash her cella’ and her statue in the Capitol. Sometimes the statues were ceremoniously taken to the sea, and washed there.
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The Sibyl’s writings, regarded as ‘the mouthpiece of the gods,’ were recognised as the most efficacious instruments in Roman religion, and were customarily observed and respected by all Romans.
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The originals perished in the fire that destroyed the Temple of Capitolinusin 83 BCE, and were immediately replaced with copies from other temples. A special priestly college, called the Quindecimviri Sacris Faciundis, was set up by Julius Caesar, to take charge of the Sibylline books, and its sixteen members exercised great influence on decisions of state.
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Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, directed the preparation of additional identical sets of the Sibyl’s oracles, and they were supplied to the Senate in Egypt, and to priests in all the Hellenised lands.
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In 12 BCE, he transferred a special ‘pontifex’ collection to the Temple of Apollo, on the Palatine hill, where it remained until 405 CE. All this demonstrated their legal status, and their immeasurable worth,while misuse of the Sibyl’s oracles was punishable by death. For at least the first four centuries CE, the Sibylline Books were held to be the highest religious authority in the Roman Empire. So highly regarded were the Sibyl’s prophecies that the fourth century church usurped her second book, inserted narratives that dealt with Christian characters,and then said it was a divine revelation given to the apostle John by Jesus Christ from Heaven, and added it to their New Testament. 9 Church records state that Cerinthus ‘rewrote’ the original Sibyl’s prophecies to create a falsified version, that was adjusted again in the fourth century, when it was added to the New Testament. The early church was so concerned that the general populace would learn that its Book of Revelation was a forgery, that in 405 CE the Bishop of Rome ordered the Roman general Flavius Stilicho to burn as many copies of the Sibylline Books as he could find.
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The Bishop of Alexandria, Dionysius (d.c. 204 CE), had much earlier denounced the Book of Revelation, as being “without sense or reason, a forgery by Cerinthus.”
Bishop Eusibius had confirmed Dionysius’ findings: “But Cerinthus, by means of a revelation which he pretended was written by a great man, falsely pretended to wonderful things.”
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The original author of the Book of Revelation,the Cumaean Sibyl, though, was always highly regarded as a clairvoyant by the Roman Catholic church. Even today, she can still be seen, magnificently portrayed by Michelangelo,in a prime central position among the great patriarchs of the Bible stories depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican itself. A total of 278 verses of the Sibyl’s predictions are also found in the books of Exodus, Psalms, Isiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Zecheriah, indicating the high value placed on her forecasts by Old Testament authors. The Sibylline books were lost to history for many centuries, until the second book was discovered in the Vatican archives, some decades ago, by Edmond Szekely.
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An Old Slavonic version was also found, in the the Habsburg Royal Library,and translated by Prof. Karl Fickler & Dr. Burgie Johansson.
Notes: 1.Society in Imperial Rome;
M. Massey, 1982, pg 103
2. Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol XIII;
1912, pg 720
3.Titus Livy (Livius),
also The Records of Rome, 1868,
available in the British Library
4. Pliny
5. Annals of Tacitus
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6. Dictionary of Greek & Roman Antiquities
Sibyllini Libra
7. Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire;
Matthew Brunson; 1994, pg 584.
8. Funk & Wagnell’s New Standard Dictionary;
Sibylline Books, 1913.
9.Ecclesiastical History,
Eusebius, ii.10.Funk & Wagnall’s
New Standard Dictionary;
ETC. ETC. ETC. ……………………

What God taught us about his coming… as it is written.

As in the days of Noah, and, As in the days of Lot, So shall the coming of the Lord be.

These two scenarios or events are mentioned for A REASON….

BECAUSE

GOD knows how to RESCUE the righteous…Only PTR is validated by these scenarios, give by to US by GOD Himself .. as it is written. …(not some fallen Nay-saying human)

2 Peter 2:9

9the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

As GOD never changes HE will keep His promises to rescue the righteous this time ALSO as HE clearly stated to us by mentioning… Noah, Lot,,,,, SO SHALL the COMING of the LORD BE.

You CANNOT ignore what happened UNLESS you want to make yourself god by twisting what is obvious.

Luke 21:28 NKJV
“Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Maranatha to my brother and sisters who ARE Look up !