Bible Prophecy by Rick Lange

HOPE OF A PRE-TRIB RAPTURE                 For those that believe in a pre0trib rapture there is hope in types and shadows. For even though I fell that textual evidence is otherwise thin, there is certainly evidence for a pre-trib rapture in many biblical patterns.                 Enoch was raptured while Noah had to go through the flood.                 Daniel was conspicuously absent when his 3 friends endured the fiery furnace.                 Jesus took only 3 of His twelve disciples to witness the transfiguration                 The wise virgins were ready for the marriage feast, while the foolish had to buy oil. So the           foolish did not make it into the wedding feast. But since they were counselled to buy oil from              those that sell, it indicates that they were saved later.                 The Philadelphia church was given an open door and told that they would be kept from the hour of testing that would come upon the whole earth. Laodicea h

A QUICK REVIEW                 As a student f Bible prophecy it is a scary thing for me to suggest that we might possibly enter the actual tribulation this fall. I certainly do not expect anyone to agree with me and I am not forming some kind of doctrine. My job, as I understand it is to stimulate your thinking, to provide wherever possible a big picture of where we are in time, to draw us closer to the Lord and to help understand the times in which we live.                 I live with a legacy of prophetic understanding that runs deep because my Father before me was also a deep student of prophecy who created the program “Earth: Theater of the Universe”, so I grew up with his charts and papers and articles. I also have to give credit to Seventh Day Adventism, for they also had a legacy of Bible prophecy that formed a basis framework of my understanding. Many of their teachings on prophecy are coming true right before our eyes today.                 But my studies led me t

THE PURPOSE OF THE TRIBULATION                 Jesus has a distracted bride. Our attractions are largely towards the world. Our sense of security is in our bank accounts and in unchanging times. We have chosen to hold a largely secular world view rather than a biblical world vies. We have placed our faith in science, in doctors, in the daily news, in the systems that constitute Babylon. We have relegated our devotion to God to one day a week for 2 hours after which we live largely like the world. Christian statistics on a large number of subjects are generally the same as the world’s.                 The church is very big, but only a small percentage is courting the Lord with marriage in mind. We are still dating other gods.                  Hat is Jesus to do. He loves us all, both saints and sinners and those in between. He is unwilling to lose so many and yet he cannot bring un-regenerated mankind into the presence of a holy God. We need to come out and be separate, bu

THE SECRET PLACE                 Everyone wants to claim Psalm 91, but few want to enter into the battle that it describes. Psalm 91 is a description of the coming tribulation. It is a time when a thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it shall not approach you.                 We have learned to trust our Lord Yeshua during times of peace and prosperity, but how will we trust Him in the coming storm?                 While we have been promised in numerous places that we will not be here to face the wrath of God, there is no such promise concerning tribulation. And while the tribulation will be a place of victory and harvest for those who have learned to dwell in the secret place of the Most High, it will be a time of terror for two groups of people… the wicked… and those Christians that have never made the Lord their dwelling place.                 The truth concerning the coming tribulation is brutal. Only half of the bridal party was r

SATAN’S PROBLEM                 Satan has been trying to build a New World Order ever since Nimrod. The Bible traces some of these kingdoms for us as Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. Satan’s big problem is that his kingdoms always collapse under the weight of their own corruption. Likewise today, even as we see the New World Order taking on a global scale, we know from Bible prophecy that this one will last even shorter than all the rest.                 This time man’s corruption will bring it all down during the seals and the trumpet judgments. By then the Lord will have had enough of Satan’s destructive ways and He will put an end to it all, with the wrath of His bowl judgments. But we will be out of here before God’s wrath is poured out. We are not destined for wrath but to obtain salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord.                 Then Jesus Christ will come, as pictured by the stone cut out of the mountain without hands; that fills the whole earth.   Yeshua wil

SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS                 “And I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood BEFORE the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.” Joel 2:30, 31.                 In the past 3 years we have seen many signs of the Lord’s return. There are of course many ellipses, blood moon and meteor showers, but it is the ones that occur on God’s appointed feast days or Moeds that count for true signs. In the past three years   we have seen a tetrad of blood moons and several eclipses all falling on these appointed times. We saw the star of Bethlehem return after 2000 years in 2016 and now we are about to see a total eclipse of the sun all the way across America followed by the great sign of Revelation 12 for the only time ever and these events also fall on Jewish Feast Days.                 A close friend of mine was involved in a conversation with fellow Christians concerning these signs and they waved them all

A LIVING SOUL                 “Then the Lord God formed man of the dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Gen. 2:7                 The Lord has been teaching me some things lately that are absolutely essential to understand as we head into the final days of earth’s history. If you will bear with me through the technical part, you will begin to see why this is so important.                 The question is what is the Bible’s definition of a living soul? A living soul is a soul into which God has breathed His Spirit so that the soul and Spirit always act in unison and never apart. So by extension then, death is when the soul is separated from the Spirit of God.                 There may be other ways to express this definition, but in essence, God breathed His Spirit into man and that perfect union of flesh and Spirit is what made Adam a complete being in union with God and in the image of God.            

WEARING THE ROBE                 The robe of Christ’s righteousness is not casual attire.                 Every soldier knows that when he puts on his uniform it stands for something. It is not just to make him look like a soldier, but to BE a soldier. When He puts on his uniform it means that he will lay down his life if necessary in order to defend and protect his country.                 Likewise, when Christ puts His robe of righteousness upon us, it does more than making us look like a Christian. It causes us to BE a Christian in every sense of the word and to lay down our lives if necessary in service to our Lord and to others.                 Many Christians do not understand the difference between the infilling of the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.                 The Holy Spirit IN us produces the fruit of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit ON us gives us power to witness and to minister to others.                 The disciples were already fill

THE PRECARIOUS SITUATION                 Donald Trump is pro- Israel. This is good. Most Christians breathe a sigh of relief. Maybe America won’t become a cursed nation after all.                 However, since both Trump and his evangelical advisers are largely ignorant of Bible prophecy, they are about to make the biggest mistake in human history apart from the fall of Adam. They are about to make Pope Francis the moderator of a new peace in Jerusalem. But the Papacy has been trying to secure control of the Holy Land ever since the Crusades and God has not allowed that to happen until the end of time. But why?                 It is because the pope, any pope, is by definition an antichrist, or Vicar of Christ. He stands in the place of Christ and that is the true definition of “Antichrist.”   But now for a quick history lesson:                 What most Christians do not understand is that Satan has been trying to build a New World Order ever since Nimrod. But just li

THE COMING APOCALYPSE                 There is a feeling in the air and many people are beginning to voice this feeling. Both in the secular world and in the Bible believing world, there is, among those who are sensitive and or aware of world situations, there is a growing sense of urgency and apprehension.                 A Christian lady who has worked with FEMA for years now as a secretary is suddenly thrust into a massive training program for dealing with millions of dead bodies. Something catastrophic is coming down this fall and they won’t say whether it is a war, or a natural disaster, a pandemic, or the crashing of the economy. Any of those events on a wide scale would have the same results… massive deaths.                 Something is coming in which all of our conspiracy theories will become reality, from FEMA camps, to millions of staged caskets, to underground cities for the elite, to agreements between the government and Walmart to quickly become staging areas