Matthew 24:36-38 (ESV)

No One Knows That Day and Hour

36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark.

That’s Right – Answer is Matthew 24:26-38

For the sake of renewing our minds. Let’s put the question or differences of Pre/Mid/Post Tribulation Rapture aside for a moment.

The more important question is whether

• is there really a boarding process that we must be aware of?
• will not having sufficient knowledge and understanding of the manner of His Re-Appearance put our hope for eternity with Him off balance?
• is there an absolute need to adhere to the above for the Rapture itself?

Because if there is and we miss it, then it doesn’t really matter whether it is Pre/Mid/Post Tribulation. We missed it and that it from a Rapture perspective.

Let’s examine the following:

Days of Noah

Noah’s Time – Harvesting of the Best of the Obedience		Current “Future Rapture” Time – Harvesting of the Best of the Obedience
Noah’s Family that obeyed the voice & Commandments of God		Jesus’s Family that obeyed the voice & Commandments of Jesus
Ark		Ark
The Rest of the world outside the Ark were left on the earth		The Rest of the world not Raptured remains on the earth
Water		Water (Genesis 9:11)

Father God said He will not flood the earth again – Genesis 9:11. Jesus said His coming as like the Days of Noah – Matthew 24:37.

Sandwiched between the 2 scenarios (from the 2 verses in Genesis and Matthew), minus the water (which cancels out each other), the rest of the components are the same.  So, what hangs in the balance in question is

• the ARK!
• “they knew nothing about” aka element of Surprise (Matthew 24:39) and

Now the big IF. If there really is an Ark, we all know there is no end-time Noah to build an Ark but where is the Ark going to pop up from then?

Now as shared in the message for the Bride and Bridegroom’s friend, the New Heavenly Jerusalem is coming from the man who claimed He is from above and out of this earth and He has tech which is eons ahead of us; those with vivid imaginations can only dream of.

As of current most of man-made space-craft that is used to poke through the atmosphere above is still very much needle-like shape, uni-directional & Uni-purpose (most primitive shape for space travel with zero acute angle multi-directional mobility).

The man from out of this world chose to use the most mind-boggling Multi-purpose, Multi-functional, eternity lasting, Inter-Stellar Colossal Space-CUBE shape to descend upon the earth. Such is His level of science and tech.

So, if He is planning to come in a Space-Ark(s), Is that too far-fetched as compared to the New Heavenly Jerusalem Space Cube?  Is that too difficult for Him to do?

 That is something for us to chew on isn’t it?

Have we considered what mode of transport is the Lord coming in to receive us?  Is it going to be something that is “hocus-pocus” mysterious beyond understanding or is there real science and facts behind everything Jesus did and have been doing?

How did God in the old testament come down from heaven & in what mode of transportation did He appeared to Moses & the Israelites in the desert in the Middle East? – Exodus 19:16-20.

Exodus 19:16-20 (NKJV)

16 Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. 19 And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. 20 Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

 

How were Elijah and Jesus taken up to Heaven? Did they mysteriously vanished into thin air? Or did they “ascended upward” into the sky above?

Remember the bible did not say we will be “spirited” away but we will be given a new glorified “physical” body.

What do you think will happen next after those who are raptured got transformed in the air at the altitude of the clouds after meeting the Lord?

Have you ever given a thought as to how we will go from the sky above within the earth atmosphere (1st Heaven) to the Wedding Feast Hall in the 3^rd Heaven?

Now let’s ponder why did Jesus said “will He find faith on earth” when He returns in Luke 18:8 right after Luke 17.

What exactly was He referring to that requires our faith in Him to believe in when He returns? Faith shall cease once we see Him face to face. So why do we still require Faith in Him when we see Him in the Sky?

If the Rapture is going to happen like how Hollywood depicted it to be, then why do we need faith when every chosen Christian just mysteriously vanished?

For those who are reaped at His second Coming after the Rapture, why do we need faith to believe that it is Him when most if not all bridegroom’s friend who remained in the tribulation supposed to be dead before the end of the 7 years of tribulation?

Now if what He meant was

• at the point of the Rapture we really need to exercise our faith in Him to believe that when He comes and
• if we doubted that manner of His arrival,

we will miss the rapture?

For without faith, it is impossible to please God.

Make no mistake. We are

• children of light and
• He is definitely coming like a thief in the night (1 Thessalonians 5:2 & 5) whether we like it or not.

However, we MUST NOT let Jesus coming SURPRISE us like a thief would – 1 Thessalonians 5:4. Just like how it took the world by Surprise for they knew not what is going to happen next when Noah entered the Ark (Matthew 24:39).

Note: The flood did not happen immediately but over “a period of time” aka rain the next 40 days and 40 nights and sustained flooding over a duration of 5 months until it subsided. Days of Noah and Days of Lot (Luke 17:26-29) are 2 separate and distinct events and outcome.

Having said,

• the Days of Lot (rain of fire & sulfur) took place immediately
• unlike the days of Noah over a duration of months

• After the Days of Noah, life starts a new
• After Days of Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah never got rebuilt until this day

Matthew 24:37-39 The Message (MSG)
37-39 “The Arrival of the Son of Man will take place in times like Noah’s. Before the great flood everyone was carrying on as usual, having a good time right up to the day Noah boarded the ark. They knew nothing—until the flood hit and swept everything away.

IF we let Jesus surprises us as like a thief in the night would, one of the obvious outcome is that we will flee from Him instead of staying put for Him to collect us. Below is an explanation as to the possible WHY.

Symptoms of one encountering a REAL thief in the dark UNEXPECTEDLY:

• State of Shock, Confusion and Disbelief
• Fear of what might happen next what this stranger might do to you
• No one in the “right” piece of mind do a warm welcome to a “thief”. They may even try and fight the “thief”
• Do what majority would do – RUN away & Hide as far as possible if all else fails

All these are in direct contrary to what Jesus said. He told us that when we visually see him coming in the sky above, STRAIGHTEN UP & Raise our heads (Stand still and look up for our redemption is about to take place after His sighting) – Luke 21:27-28. Don’t go back and pick up your stuff.

Doubt and unbelief stops & hinder the occurrence of miracles, signs and wonders – Matthew 13:58. Remember also what will ultimately happen to the foolish virgins in due time?

With that in mind, perhaps the satellites pick up “unidentified flying Objects” from outer space and broadcast all over the world at the point in time. We are to

•        “Straighten up” aka stand still and
•        “Raise our heads” aka “look up”

For your benefit, do not rubbish this off like nonsense as if this someone is babballing beside himself .

Even Father God Chosen 11 Apostles who have walked with Jesus for 3.5 years (live a shared life together, saw Jesus face to face in close proximity and even smelled His breath) could not recognize Him after His resurrection every time He appeared to them before His Ascension.

The Lord reminded us that even He has to rebuke His 11 Apostles of doubts, unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not have the child like heart to believe those who have seen the risen Christ in His new form and shape – Mark 16:14.

Mark 16:14 (NIV)
14 Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

Same Question: Is the Rapture (taking upwards like Enoch, Moses & Elijah) a mysterious singular disappearing event of the Bride or a notable series of observable notable events that will be taking place much like scenes of Sci-fi movie playing out in real life over a short period of time as in days? 

Jesus said, His coming will be visible and cannot be counterfeited because there will be thunder and lightnings from the east to west.  

Perhaps that is when the Ark enters the atmosphere right before the point of the Rapture and it will cause atmospheric electric charges aka lightning and thunders! 

Luke 17:23-24 (AMP)
23 They will say to you, ‘Look [the Messiah is] there!’ or ‘Look [He is] here!’ Do not go away [to see Him], and do not run after them. 24 For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, gives light to the other part of the sky, so [visible] will the Son of Man be in His day.

While the transformation into our new heavenly body in the air happens in an instance, the entire rapture collection may take place over matters of days as hinted by Jesus as in the “days” of Noah. And it begins from East & finishes in the West of the globe.

(While its night time in Israel, its day time in some other part of the world.)

 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 only described to us the transformation stage while the entire rapturing process was not mentioned there.    

Why did Father God forbid the Jews from making images of Him? – Exodus 20:4.

Exodus 20:4 (AMP)
4 “You shall not make for yourself any idol, or any likeness (form, manifestation) of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth [as an object to worship].

And of course we must not. Now perhaps it is because He is not coming in

• the form and
• manner

that most of us would have anticipated Him to be.  People on the earth do not have the faith to believe what their eyes see when the unimaginable happens after the birth pangs of Luke 17 and Matthew 24.  And that is why our faith in God & Jesus is

• voice activated (My Sheep hears my voice) and
• not by sight (Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen).

When this Ark enters the earth atmosphere the 2nd time towards the end of the 7 years of tribulation; the sheer size of the Ark will block out the moon for those countries that is night time and knocks lots of satellites from the sky causing them to fall back into the earth like stars falling from the heaven. 

The arrival and grand entrance of this Ark into the earth atmosphere will cause such a tremendous atmospheric disturbances and sonic booms that will rattle both the earth below and the heaven above.

The context of Matthew 24:29-31 is from the view point of the children of Judah and the left behind gentile christian.

Matthew 24:29-31 (AMP)

The Glorious Return 29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not provide its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 And at that time the sign of the Son of Man [coming in His glory] will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth [and especially Israel] will mourn [regretting their rebellion and rejection of the Messiah], and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory [in brilliance and splendor]. 31 And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet and they will gather together His elect (God’s chosen ones) from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

The man that is

• out of this world &
• His Name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth
• who has came in the flesh &
• will be coming again soon!

John 8:22-23 (NKJV)
22 So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you cannot come’?” 23 And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 15:19 (ESV)
19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.