I am strongly against the idea, that there should be a - so called- rapture- BEFORE the 'heavy things', called in Revelation 13, will take place.
The congregation of Lord Jesus ought to grow so far, that they are ready for the fiercest fight, as decribed in Revelation 11.
Some people say, that Moses and Eliah will come down from heaven to have this fight and be killed in the end ( Rev 11 v 7). But this idea is absolutely wrong. And it is also much too easy. For in these textes are also mentioned Joshua, the High Priest and Zerubbabel, the stadtholder, from Zechariah 4. And it is only ´shallow reading´, that made that these persons are not mentioned. No...these people of the Old Testament are only mentioned as examples.
The temple, the eternal temple must been built....and in the visible world Joshua and Zerubbabel had this task. And the congregation has this same task in the end-times.
And the last struggle is like this, that the children of God have power to do great things by the gift of miraculous works, (1 Corinthians 12 v 10), because they are filled with the Holy Spirit.
These people, mentioned up here, are WE..... the congregation of the end times. This will be demanded from US.
We will have spiritual power to kill spiritually our opponents, mostly backsliders - ex Christians, ( v 5). This was long ago done by Eliah in the visible world. We will make it like this that 'waters change into blood', like Moses did one time in the visible world. But we will do it in the invisible world, so that all sources of good things are away for the people, who want to drink from the waters of the antichrist. For them there is only horrible blood in all their ideas. And we get the power 'to strike the earth with every plague, like it was in Egypt', ( v 6).
And after these happenings the Antichrist will kill 'US, the warriors of the cross' (7)
And because we have become 'Jesus- alikes', the Lord will give 'a breath of life in US and we will stand on our feet and we will go to heaven in a cloud, ( 12).
But not all the warriors of the Lord were present then and there. And a short time afterwards we read in 1 Thessalonians 5 v 15: "According to Lord Jesus' own word , we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord......when the Lord will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God....will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air...".
So Danny...make yourself ready for the total fighting of the end time. When you have fully conquered all enemies, through the grace of the Lord, then is your rapture.
This rapture so is not at a moment, when all these things begin to occur, but only AFTER, when you have proved to be a brave warrior in the hardest times to come.
