What About the Rapture? - REPOST

NOTE:  This happened in 2008.  I had been hearing all kinds of confusing things about the "Rapture," and I didn't know what to believe. I heard various opinions from people, I saw various opinions online and watched things on TV that showed different opinions.  So I asked the Lord, since He is the only one who really knows. This is what He said.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Lord, What About the Rapture (or Second Coming)

On May 3, 2008, I inquired of the Lord about the rapture (or second coming - what I think of as the rapture). I had been reading about the end times and wanted to better understand what was to come. “Lord, how will the others not know where we have gone – won’t they hear Your shout and the trumpet blast when You call us home to You?”

“The others will hear a whooshing sound, that is all, for they cannot hear My voice or My trumpet as My children can. (Matthew 24:40–41) In one instant My children will be taken up and the world will be cast into gross darkness. (Jeremiah 13:16) Then shall My wrath fall upon those left behind in terrible ways for they have denied Me, they know not My ways nor My Name. Nay, My children shall not be left behind to suffer My wrath in that time for Jesus bore My wrath for you, but not for wicked unbelievers. 

A great and terrible day is coming in the earth. There shall be great confusion and rioting in that time for those left behind will not know what to believe and will panic. They shall cry to Me but I shall not hear them for I know them not, for they have already made their path and chosen the way they shall live it and My time of grace upon men will have ended.

The Beast shall arise upon the earth and a terrible time will be, such as nothing your mind could ever comprehend for it is truly beyond the comprehension of man to be given over into the hands of Satan himself and not die! But My children shall not see that day for they will be here with Me in Heaven.

The Rapture will indeed happen in the blink of an eye as My Word says, one second two will be working together in a field and the next second one will be gone and no one left on earth will know why. Their minds too shall I darken in those days. The gross darkness you saw in your spirit (a vision I had had in January  during worship of a large dark blanket descending towards earth - really eerie – in my spirit I immediately thought gross darkness) will come and they will have eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear.

They will blindly follow the anti-Christ to their eternal destruction because they have not known Me nor called upon My Name while there was still time.” 

Note:  I found this interesting.  When I looked up scriptures containing the phrase “gross darkness,” there is one other reference in the KJV at Isaiah 60:2:  For, behold, the darkness {Strong’s H2822: from the Hebrew word hesek meaning death, misery, destruction, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness or obscurity} shall cover the earth, and gross darkness {Strong’s H6205: from the Hebrew arapel (says it probably derived from the H6201 arap meaning to DROP DOWN) meaning dark, dark cloud, darkness, gross darkness or thick darkness}the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. I believe this was the meaning of the vision of the blanket of darkness I saw in my spirit descending upon the earth – as the darkness falls upon the earth, God’s glory is arising and shining ever brighter upon His Bride in this time.