We have become accustomed to seeking out dreams, visions and words from the Lord. Searching out the scriptures for clues as to when we might expect the Rapture. A supernatural "high sign" from the Lord aside, I am expecting to experience deep rumblings within my spirit just prior to the Rapture! A spiritual polar shift deep within my spirit, or perhaps a welling up of excitement and an overflowing of emotions with every fiber of my being on high alert! Maybe a praise explosion unlike anything I experienced before! Or immediately break into prophetic expressions of finality and grandeur. In any event, I'm looking to experience something I haven't experienced before as a preclude to the Rapture. Something new, unique and uncontrollably overwhelming! Being thrown down to my knees, or even experiencing a lifting in spirit and limited physical levitation, Angels being made visible, or hearing the shouts of joy from Heaven's saints, who knows. Point is, something as unique and glorious to our Christian experience as the Rapture, I anticipate some spiritual phenomenon to occur just prior, to capture our attention as it were. Leading us to throw an ear towards Heaven in order to hear that last Trump of God! Am I crazy?! TR No, you are not crazy. These are my feelings exactly! My feeling is that we will experience something amazing in our spirit, we will know it's about to happen. We won't go running to our neighbors to warn them...or try to do last minute chores. I don' think we will do any of that. We will just be in awe with the amazing spiritual experience, we will experience it with joy as we await the take off. Believe me that I wouldn't mean to presume to tell the Lord his business, but I surely see this as something which is not only possible but probable as well. God is known for His surprises and gifts! And when we speak of His Bride, I imagine no expense will be too great or exotic! That's just the kinda God He is! I am that I am! TR Tender Reed, we have the Holy Spirit, we sense things in the spiritual realm. Aren't we going to sense that a lot of angels are gathering, ready to take us home? Indeed we can sometimes sense things in the Spirit. But that is so subjective and hard to prove. So whatever the Lord decides to do, I'm sure that it will be obvious to our natural senses as well! TR No need to prove it to anyone. we know what we feel inside. that's what counts. :good: The signs for me are: 1. Peace deal to be announced at Camp David. 2. Mega shaking of earthquakes worldwide. Hearing or reading about the graves being opened. 3. Animal kingdom (birds, our pets, etc.) announce the rapture is here! :flyup: :flyup: :flyup: :flyup: :flyup: :flyup: :flyup: :flyup: :flyup: :flyup: :flyup: I'm curious Geri7, what do you mean regarding the animals telling us? This thread runs deep for me! I have believed this for some time and pray that it is a foreshadowing from God. Not just wishful thinking or my own imagination. I like many, have known the Lord's love and goodness, in many ways and many times over. He always keeps His promises, but in many ways He is totally unpredictable! Again, as great in scope and magnitude that the Rapture will be, it also reflects God's extravagance towards His Bride. Many indeed anxiously await the Rapture, but I am surprised there has been little postulation concerning the Rapture itself. We have addressed it's sequence of events quite thoroughly. Especially in light of our shared belief of it's nearness, this puzzles me. Deep stirrings and new manifestations. What are you expecting?! TR I believe the animal kingdom spoke in the Garden before the sin curse judgment and it looks like they will be speaking again ... I base it on this passage ... Revelation 5:11-13 11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. 13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Tender Reed, I think the animals used to speak before the curse. I think they will speak again in heaven. Let everything that has breath praise him. It is not just human beings who praise God, animals praise him too. they know. they understand. they are even better than us humans. don't they sense earthquakes and natural disasters and try to warn us..... doesn't God care when the sparrow falls? many times the Bible mentions "creation" not just human beings. all creations are groaning and waiting to be rescued. that's in the book of Romans, forgot exactly where. :heart:
