What will the time, from the Rapture to the return of the LORD to the Earth, be? Please respond at
http://lionandlambministry.com/index.php/todays-question

The Choices are:

a) 7 years
b) 3 1/2 years
c) 40 years
d) 0 years


And now the answer to the LLM Question of the Day for 9-28-2010...

Question: Will the LORD’s Return be in TWO Phases...Yes or No?
Answer: YES! The Full answer is here: http://lionandlambministry.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=514&p=2368#p2368

Ok, out of 610 responses 66.7% of you got this right. BUT, make sure you rread the full answer to make sure you got it right for the right reason...THEN, today's question is very tricky. Just the way I like it...to make you get out your Bibles! 8-)

Think about this "food for thought" first...The time between Enoch's Harpazo/Rapture and the start, the first day, of the Flood is 531 years, according to The Bible in the Book of Genesis. Could that be an indication of the time between the Rapture and the Return of the LORD to the Earth? We'll get back to this in a few...

Note carefully...there is NO WHERE in scripture that says that the Great Tribulation, Daniel’s Prophesied 70th Week, begins immediately following the Rapture. I also believe that the knowledge of the timing of the Harpazo, The Rapture, of the Body of Christ, has on it a Spiritual Padlock of sorts. This is NOT, so much, to keep us from knowing the time of our “Blessed Hope”, Titus 2:13, as it is to keep Satan from being able to plan for it. So there should be no surprise then that there is much talk in the New Age community of “The Cleansing”. Instead of teaching that the Body of Christ will be Raptured prior to the start of The Day of The LORD, as many Christians believe, New Agers believe in a reverse rapture of sorts.

New Ager’s, channeling their “masters” (demons), call it the "cleansing," and New Age literature describes it as a time when all the “wicked” people of the world...including Christians and others who don’t go along with the coming New Age occultism...will be removed to another dimension and be destroyed. "Prepare yourselves," wrote New Ager Aleuti Francesca, "for the day now closely approaches and those who are not so prepared must vanish from the face of this your Earth…Those who align themselves with the things of the Old must surely be destroyed with that age of decay and darkness." The "cleansing" teaching is an obvious tactic of Satan who will want an excuse for The Rapture of The Body of Christ after the event takes place, in order to quell enormous and out of control public hysteria. The LORD God wants Satan to be completely fooled by the event of the Harpazo, The Rapture, just like he was fooled by the unfolding and revealing, to the Apostle Paul (and NOT the 12), of The Mystery, The Body of Christ, after Our LORD’s Resurrection and ascension.

"But we speak the wisdom of God in a Mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory, Which NONE of the Principalities of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory” 1 Corinthians 2:7-8, and then, "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it" Colossians 2:15.

Ok…Back to Some Food for Thought on the Rapture…

Once again, the time between Enoch's Harpazo/Rapture and the start, the first day, of the Flood is 531 years According to The Bible in the Book of Genesis. So, could that be an indication of the time between the Rapture and the Return of the LORD to the Earth. And again, there is NO WHERE in scripture that says that the Great Tribulation begins immediately following the Harpazo, the Rapture.

So let's see. The Average lifespan for the Antediluvian person was 929 years, this is also according to The Bible in the Book of Genesis, (That's Adam to Noah, not including Abel or Enoch). Then, according to the Psalms (Psalm 90:10), man's lifespan now, is three score and ten years (70 years). Since we know the length of time between Enoch's Rapture and the First Day of The Flood Judgment (531 years), and we know the average Antediluvian lifespan, and we also know what the Bible says is the lifespan of man today, we can use a little of that algebra from school, we thought we didn't need to learn, to find out what would likely be the comparative span of time between the Harpazo, The Rapture of the Body of Christ, and the Day that the LORD returns to the Earth for the Final Conflict.

So here we go...

929 / 531 = 70 / X...so if we do this math...531 x 70 = 37,170 / 929 = 40 years

Therefore, there very well could be a span of time of 40 years from the Rapture to the physical appearance of The LORD returning in Glory to the Earth. 33 years (The amount of time of the LORD's Incarnation) + 7 years (Daniel's 70th week) = 40 years.

Not that it matters to the Child of God as a member of the Body of Christ, as we will be home, in Heaven, with The LORD. The Body finally united with it’s Head in Glory, Forever. Search all these things out for yourself.

So There you have it!

Please spread this message to everyone you know, far and wide. The time is short.