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Why Jesus Did Not Come Yesterday
And Reasons We Still Believe in a Rapture
Pastor Terry R BaughmanMay 22, 2011
1 Thessalonians 4•16 For the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
What will take place on May 21?On May 21, 2011 two events will occur. These events could not be more opposite in nature, the one more wonderful than can be imagined; the other more horrific than can be imagined.A great earthquake will occur the Bible describes it as "such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great." This earthquake will be so powerful it will throw open all graves. The remains of the all the believers who have ever lived will be instantly transformed into glorified spiritual bodies to be forever with God.On the other hand the bodies of all unsaved people will be thrown out upon the ground to be shamed.The inhabitants who survive this terrible earthquake will exist in a world of horror and chaos beyond description. Each day people will die until October 21, 2011 when God will completely destroy this earth and its surviving inhabitants.
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What if May 21 ends and nothing occurs?The Biblical evidence is too overwhelming and specific to be wrong. Christ's people can look with great confidence to this date because God promises His "beloved" He will not come upon them as a thief in the night.God in His mercy has revealed the vital information needed to know the day. Judgment Day on May 21, 2011 will occur because the bible declares it. Anyone whom God has not saved will arrive at that day with no hope for salvation. God warns simply the "door will be shut."
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The Bible has led us to May 21, 2011This date is not the product of the mind of one man or a group of men.It is the culmination of study of the entire Bible, both the Old and New Testaments.Every word written in the original Biblical "autographs" were dictated by God, therefore all words, numbers and sentences in these original writings are to be trusted as coming from God.The fact that this date is the result of the synthesis of all of Scripture causes May 21st, 2011 to take on very sobering factuality. It is no longer opinion, but a matter of fact.May 21, 2011 is God's date. All other predictions are man's attempt to predict the end. So it becomes a matter of eternal life, or eternal death. One can no longer presume May 21st of this year will be just another normal day.Each person must come to entrust their lives to what God has written in His Word the Bible and plead to Him for mercy. Otherwise God will come upon them with unmerciful vengeance on May 21, 2011.
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Why were they wrong?•Based predictions on numerology
rather than biblical hermeneutics (interpretation).
• Accepted 4990 BC as the date of the flood and as the start date for the judgment day clock.
•Set the exact date: “May 21, 2011 is the 17th day of the 2nd month of the Biblical calendar of our day.”
The Flood
•In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
•Genesis 7:11
•In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
•Genesis 7:11
Why were they wrong?•Based predictions on numerology
rather than biblical hermeneutics (interpretation).
•Assumes 7,000 years of the “open door” of grace
•1 day = 1,000 years
•This is not a formula for biblical prophecy!
•Based predictions on numerology rather than biblical hermeneutics (interpretation).
•Assumes 7,000 years of the “open door” of grace
•1 day = 1,000 years
•This is not a formula for biblical prophecy!
Eternality of God •But, beloved, do not forget this one
thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
•2 Peter 3:8-9
•But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
•2 Peter 3:8-9
Why were they wrong?•Based predictions on numerology
rather than biblical hermeneutics (interpretation).
•Random Scriptural quotation - No systematic teaching of prophecy.
•Ignoring the clear teaching of Jesus.
•Based predictions on numerology rather than biblical hermeneutics (interpretation).
•Random Scriptural quotation - No systematic teaching of prophecy.
•Ignoring the clear teaching of Jesus.
The Day and Hour•“But of that day and hour no one
knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”
•Matthew 24:36-37
•“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”
•Matthew 24:36-37
The Day and Hour•“Watch therefore, for you know
neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.”
•Matthew 25:13
•“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.”
•Matthew 25:13
The Day and Hour•“But of that day and hour no one
knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.”
•Mark 13:32-33
•“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.”
•Mark 13:32-33
“This Same Jesus”• 7 And he said unto them, It is not
for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
• 11 ...Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Acts 1:6-11
• 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
• 11 ...Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Acts 1:6-11
“Caught up”•Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Earthquakes
Crisis in Libya
Overthrow in Egypt
Revolt in Syria
Famine & Pestilences
Tsunami
Floods
When Will Jesus Come?
•No one knows the day!
•He will come for some today.
•He will come for all someday.
•When you least expect it.
Jesus Will Come!
•Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
•1 Corinthians 15:51-52
•Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
•1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Why Jesus Did Not Come Yesterday
And Reasons We Still Believe in a Rapture
Pastor Terry R BaughmanMay 22, 2011
