I think the Rapture is very soon. I don’t think Jesus wants His Bride vaccinated with that nasty vaccine. And what is the probability of all of these MANY events converging?! I still think we are being reasonable in hoping for a 2020 departure. I know now we aren’t leaving until the very last second before the sudden destruction. Actually, we will have been gone at least three and a half years before “sudden destruction”. That occurs midway through the Trib when Israel signs the “death accord” with the AC. “Peace and Safety” have been tag words now for at least a decade or more. Just because they are saying it today doesn’t mean sudden destruction will follow. Just like the coming vaccine is not the Mark of the Beast (you have to have a Beast before you can have the Mark of the....) neither is sudden destruction going to follow until the Beast is the one with the covenant for Israel to sign and no matter what anyone may say about Pres. Trump, he is not the AC. There have been at least two other peace deals made in the Middle East. One hosted by Jimmy Carter, the other by Bill Clinton. Having a peace deal does not equate to the covenant signed with the AC, though, some of these men seem to be in league with him. I agree there have been a few temporary peace deals with Israel that fizzled out. But the “peace and safety” I was referring to is in I Thess 5 ... not sure if the sudden destruction is the rapture event ... or we are raptured while they are saying those words and the sudden destruction is the G/M war and God’s wrath is the sudden destruction? Then doesn’t the AC show up and makes stronger the deal that Trump has put on the table to include the go ahead for the Temple construction? The temple can be build fairly quickly ... I think its like 6 months or less? By mid point the AC will then break the covenant and defile the Temple so there hast to be a Temple built earlier and yes there will be sudden destruction then as well and many Jews flee to Petra. I’m confused ... are you saying this passage below about sudden destruction refers to the AC going into the temple mid point and the Jews fleeing to Petra or is this referring to a peace deal earlier before the rapture? :scratch: I Thess 5 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. Yohanan is so very right —- Satan uses the “similar“ to try to confound and confuse .... If you become discouraged, depressed, and sad because we are currently still here, in spite of the “signs” —- he achieved his purpose! Jesus said in 1 John 2:18 “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.” We need to remember our peace and joy! We will see the Father, sooner than later, we are the terminal generation—- keep the lamp burning bright with God’s holy light! :prayer-hands:
