The Prophecy That Must Be Fulfilled Before the Rapture

By guest writer Daniel Larimer.

I frequently hear people say the rapture is “Imminent” and there is nothing left to be fulfilled before hand. And yet there is a prophecy which most people do not acknowledge, and often entirely dismiss, including most Rapture seeking Christians.

Consider this Prophecy:

… He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there. — Deuteronomy 30:3

I contend that this gathering is related to what Paul said in 2 Thes 2: “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him…”

Now most people will say that this was fulfilled in 1948 and the founding of the modern state of Israel; however, this ignores a major prior conditional part of the prophecy that must be fulfilled from the prior verse.

When all these things come upon you… and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, then… Deuteronomy 30:2

There are two things that have not happened:

1. The Jews have not sought to Obey Everything with all their heart and soul.

   
   

2. 77% of the population of Israel does not believe in God of Bible.

   
   

3. Most Jews live outside of Israel

   
   

4. The other tribes have not returned to Israel

   
   

5. Furthermore, those whom he doesn’t gather will receive the curse set out in Deuteronomy and that curse has not taken place yet which suggests the gathering has not occurred yet.

   
   

Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you. — Deuteronomy 30:7

This curse is the Tribulation.

And the next generation, your children who rise up after you … will see the afflictions of that land … the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt … like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah … And all nations will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land?’ Then they will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD … therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled … and he uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day. — Deut 29:22–28

Or as Jesus’ said, “It will be as in the Days of Lot”.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot — they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all — so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. — Luke 17:28–30

Since this curse has not happened yet, the regathering of all people, from all nations who “return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today” is unlikely to have occurred 77 years ago.

Consider who currently makes up Israel:

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Now 73.4% Jewish is a broad brush that includes secular “Jews” who aren’t even religious and likely don’t even believe God exists.

Here is the breakdown of the Jews:

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Of this group, the Karaite Jews (0.5% of population) are Jews who only follow the Old Testament, the rest of the Jews are the descendants of the Pharisees who put the Talmud above Scripture. The Jews were scattered to the nations in a large part because of this Pharisee sect and this sect has not repented or changed its ways.

If you take the 1.8% of Christians, here is their breakdown:

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Here we see that most of the Christians in Israel follow the Pope over Scripture and that only 0.3% of the population are Jews that have accepted Jesus as their Messiah.

Therefore, the vast majority of people who Believe in Messiah and desire to obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am given them that day, are still outside the land of Israel (maybe 1–2 million people). I believe that this regathering occurs in the Rapture just before the Sudden Destruction as in the Day’s of Lot.

The question everyone must ask, are you part of the people who have returned to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything Moses gave us that day? or are you part of those who persecute and mock those who have returned to the LORD and seek to obey His voice and everything Moses gave us?

I believe this prophecy has been being fulfilled from basically no known followers at the start of 70th Jubilee cycle (~1975) to millions of adherents today. This is the number one fastest growing religious movement and it is developing spontaneously and independently all over the world without any central hierarchy.

If this is the fulfillment, make sure you are on the right side because The Day of the LORD is at hand!

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