Q. Thanks for your dedicated ministry. I’ve enjoyed reading both your Q&A and your commentaries.   Both Lot and Noah are referenced in Luke 17 :26-29 as to what the world would be like at the end of the age.   In Noah’s case, only 8 out of millions and with Lot, only him and his family were spared. Looking at what Jesus said, asking if there would any be any faith when he returned (Luke 18:8) do you see a comparison to the full number of Gentiles? Will it be a relatively small number too?

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Q. Who do you suppose will hear the command, the voice, and the trumpet call which are all described in I Thessalonians 4:16  “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” Will it be the dead in Christ only, all believers (dead or alive) or everyone on earth that will hear these things?  Thanks so much for your insight!

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Q. Thank you for your ministry. I was wanting to know  if the number of the gentiles have to be a number only God knows then how do you explain saying the rapture will be in 2011? I am referring this to the 483 years from the time  Suleiman ordered Jerusalem’s walls rebuilt and the second coming.  In seeing God’s plan so precise to numbers, if we have free will how does he get the number of the Gentiles being saved in this time frame of 483 years?

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Q. I am a born again Christian.  I can’t get enough of the Word of God and His saving Grace.  I marvel at the articles you have written.  I am 74 yrs and have really begun to love our Lord and humble myself before him.  My husband passed after 53 years of marriage and during his last years attended the Catholic church as the Priest seem to connect with him. He really didn’t practice the Sacraments or Jesus plus Mary as you indicated.  He was a generous man and didn’t consider his works to get him into heaven.  He was a baptized Baptist in his youth and I know he had accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour who died for his sins.  Did you mean that Catholics will not be raptured?  I know that God considers the heart.  So that would mean that Catholics would go to heaven with the right heart condition of God.

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Q. Referencing Luke 17: 28-29.  “Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;  but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all”.  Do you believe Jesus was saying that the Tribulation will start on the same 24-hour day that the Rapture takes place?

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Q. I’m having difficulty verifying the mention of the Trumpet of God in Exodus 19.  The only place I can find the phrase ‘trumpet of God’ is I Thes. 4.  In Ex. 19, I see a ‘very loud trumpet blast’ in v. 16, and a ‘the sound of the trumpet’, in v. 19.  Am I missing the ‘trumpet of God’?  Is that in the Hebrew instead of the English?

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Q. I am seeing an another website that I often check that a walk with God is required to go in the Rapture, as Enoch walked with God and was caught up.  Now I am under the impression that my faith in Christ justifies me for the Rapture and that’s it.  Do you agree?

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Q. I was just wondering what the relevance of Lot’s wife turning into a pillar of salt is in Gen 19:26?  I know Lot was an example of the Church, but what was she?  She was escaping with ‘the Church’ but then didn’t make it.

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Q. In the past you’ve said the earliest date for the Second Coming is 2018 and the latest 2037 . However, in light of the discovery of the coming lunar and solar eclipses, do you think that it’s more likely to be 2018? If the last two times the phenomenon of multiple eclipses occurred was during Israel’s independence and the recapture of Jerusalem, I am inclined to think that the third time it happens it would be Israel meeting their Messiah. Furthermore, this heavenly phenomenon will not happen again for the rest of this century.  I’d really be glad to hear your thoughts on this matter.

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Q. Re: Rapture References.  I really enjoyed subject article.  Your identifying Daniel 3 as describing End Times events was new to me.  However, the reason for this email is to ask if you see the coming of renewing animal sacrifice at Passover 2010 as an indication that God will again be focusing on Israel as of that date/time.  I’m just wondering if that could mean that the Rapture will occur before April 6, assuming such sacrifices actually occur?  When I first read about this a couple weeks ago, it seemed profound to me; but I haven’t found anyone else who seems to make the same connection.  Am I reaching too much?  I would appreciate your thoughts on this.

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