Salvation and the Rapture Pt. 2 – 11/17/2024

Male announcer: Previously on “The Endtime Show.”
Dave Robbins: Some have written books telling people, once the
Rapture takes place, not to panic, just read their book and
be saved, as if they had another chance to be saved.
You might have heard this referred to as Rapture saints
versus Tribulation saints.
The question today is: Is this a scriptural teaching?
Well, the answer for that is, no.
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Dave: I realize that most people, if you ask them,
“Describe to me the kingdom of God, what is it, and when is it
coming, and how can I prepare for it?”
you would not believe all of the many different answers I’ve
received over the years for that question.
And so, we here at Endtime Ministries wanna make sure that
the kingdom of God is on your radar, you know about when it’s
coming–we want to keep you informed of all the signs
leading up to that–and then to put a sense of urgency in you,
to make sure you know beyond a shadow of a doubt how to prepare
yourself for that event.
And, in order to know that, Jesus told Nicodemus, “Except a
man was born again he couldn’t enter or see the kingdom
of God.”
So, to prepare yourself for that event, make sure that you’re
born again.
Go to endtime.com/reborn, and that can help give you the
instructions you need scripturally to make sure you’re
prepared for that event.
Once you’re born again, then, just like the New Testament is
laid out, you’re going to start living as a Christian, being
discipled, and the Bible says, “He that endures to the end, the
same is going to be saved.”
It’s a promise from God.
You can do it.
You say, “Dave, you don’t know what I’ve done.”
I don’t care what you’ve done.
You can make it.
And, so very, very important.
I could tell you testimonies of things that people that were–
that I know are saved today, that you would have thought,
“There’s no way that person could be saved.
Look at what they’ve done.”
People that have committed murder and been on–just done
tens and tens of thousands of dollars worth of drugs and come
out of prison and some of the most horrific things–and God
saved them, and they’re working in the ministry.
They’ve got a beautiful family.
God’s just completely turned them around.
So it doesn’t matter what you’ve done, you can be saved, but you
need to do it before the Rapture.
Very, very important.
This is what this whole conversation is all about today.
So, we’re talking about this simultaneous harvest.
There are many accounts of it in the Bible.
On our last session, we took you through Revelation 14, the two
simultaneous harvests, where the reapers had sickles.
And then we also talked about Matthew chapter 13, the parable
of the wheat and the tares, the harvest at the end where the
wheat and the tares are pulled at the same time, the wheat’s
put in the storehouse, the barn, and the wheat–or the children
of God–they’re put into the kingdom, and the tares are cast
into the fire at the time of the Rapture,
okay?
It doesn’t say, “Well, let’s give them a second chance.”
It does not say that.
So I–and, again, I know this has got a–there’s a–it’s a
weighty topic here, but it’s better that we talk about it now
than for us to get on the other side of the Rapture and say,
“Man, I wish Dave Robbins and Endtime Ministries would have
told me about this.
Maybe I would have done something.”
Here I am today telling you, okay?
So I wanna go to another account of the simultaneous harvest.
It’s found in–we’re gonna go to The Olivet Discourse in
Matthew chapter 24, verse 3– now, I’m gonna read something
here from the New King James Version because I want you to
understand it in a little better light here, “Jesus’s disciples
asked him, What will be the sign of your coming, and of the end
of the age?”
King James Version says, “the end of the world.”
But the original Greek word there is A-I-O-N, which means
age–so, the end of the age– this age that we’re living in
right now, just prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
They were asking Jesus, what’s it gonna be like at that time?
And, after he’s teaching the disciples concerning the many
signs that would proceed his coming,
“Take heed that no man deceive you.
Many will come in my name.
You’re gonna have wars or rumors of wars–” and all kinds of
different things.
Then Jesus describes his Return in Matthew chapter 24, verse 29
to 31, he says, “Immediately after the tribulation of those
days the sun would be darkened, moon shall not give her light,
stars will fall from heaven, the powers of heaven shall be
shaken; then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and
they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory.
And he is going to send his angels with the great sound of a
trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four
winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
And he’s gathering together, we know now–Revelation 19–to
the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, where the bride and the
bridegroom, they will consummate the marriage,
spiritually speaking.
Well, Jesus established the time of his coming in no
uncertain terms.
He said, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, all
the tribes of the earth will see him coming in the clouds
of heaven.”
It’s at that time, his angels will be sent to gather his
elect–and this is another picture of the angels gathering
the wheat at the time of the Rapture.
But remember the parable of the wheat and the tares; it’s also
at that time that something will happen to the tares.
The Bible says they’re gathered and cast into the fire, okay?
So, after this, in Matthew 24, Jesus describes the gathering of
the tares; he goes down to Matthew 24:48-51, and I
wanted to go through this again because–I shared in the first
session just a little bit, but– Jesus said, “But and if that
evil servant says in his heart–” Now, I told you earlier
that I had a gentleman tell me this, “If there’s gonna be a
plan of salvation in the Millennial Reign, I’ll just wait
till then.”
However, Jesus warned against that in Matthew 24, Jesus said,
“But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord
delays his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellows, and
they just go out and eat and drink and have a good time,
get drunk.
The lord of that servant,” Jesus said, “will come in a day when
he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
And shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with
the hypocrites.”
The Bible says, “there’s gonna be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.”
So, once again, the wheat is gathered into the harvest.
Jesus–the Bible says, “he will gather the elect unto him.”
That’s the wheat, being–the same thing as the wheat in
Matthew 13 and the harvest of the earth in
Matthew–in Revelation 14.
It’s the same exact thing, the simultaneous harvest–happening
all at one time.
And the wheat is gathered into the harvest, and the tares,
they’re cast into the fire, okay?
There’s not gonna be any reading a book and saying, “Well, I
missed the Rapture.
I’ve been left behind.
I’ve got to be–I’ve got–I probably ought to get ready.”
That’s not a scriptural teaching, all right, let’s just
be honest here.
So, these three accounts of the two simultaneous harvests, they
all record the exact same event.
The–Matthew 24 completes the third account–or, I’m sorry,
that would be Revelation 14 completes the third account of
the Second Coming of Jesus found in the book of Revelation.
There are four accounts of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ
and the Battle of Armageddon, the wrath being poured out, in
the book of Revelation.
And, so, Revelation 14, at the end of that chapter, that’s the
end of the third account.
And this account of the Second Coming begins in Revelation
chapter 12 with Israel giving birth to the Messiah, and it
concludes in Revelation 14, verse 20 with the Rapture and
the Battle of Armageddon.
So the fourth account of the Second Coming of Jesus starts in
Revelation chapter 15, verse 1.
Now, again, if you believe that
the book of Revelation is written in chronological order,
and that the rapture happens in Revelation chapter 4, verse 1,
and then, you know, we move, and all the seals, trumpets, and
vials happens during the final seven years, that’s another
topic that we’ll have to clear up in a future lesson–I won’t
take time to do all that today.
But, however, I can tell you the Rapture does not occur in
Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, it’s just the beginning of the
prophetic portion of the book of Revelation.
And then that’s also the beginning of the first account
of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, which culminates with
the 6th and 7th seal.
Okay, so, the first account of the–I’m sorry, the fourth
account of the Second Coming of Jesus starts in Revelation 15:1.
And that’s with the pouring out of the vials of God’s wrath.
And that culminates with the marriage of the bridegroom–I’m
sorry, the marriage of the bride to the bridegroom–and the
Battle of Armageddon, Revelation 19, verse 7 through 21.
And, again, this passage describes the two
simultaneous harvests.
So it’s told over and over and over.
It is Revelation 14, Revelation chapter–so, Revelation 14,
Matthew 13, Matthew 24, and now we’re going back to Revelation
16 and 19–because God did not want his church going through
this end time with blindfolders on.
He didn’t want anybody going through it.
But he’s telling us, “Listen to me.
I’m–here, in no uncertain terms, when I come back, there’s
gonna be a complete division.”
Remember Matthew chapter 25?
When God comes back, he’s gonna sit on his throne, and all the
nations will be gathered before him, and he’s gonna put–he’s
gonna separate them like they do sheep and goats, the children of
the kingdom on his left and the children of the wicked one on
his right.
There’s gonna be a complete separation, everybody.
So we’ve got to make sure that, if you–you know, the Bible
says time and chance happens to everybody.
If you have an opportunity to go be a part of a good Bible
believing, Bible teaching church, to be born again, to
know the Lord, to have a relationship with him, to have a
daily prayer life, to understand and to read the Word of God and
to prepare yourself for the soon coming Rapture, you should
jump all over that.
Don’t put that off.
Jesus warned, the individual that says, “Oh, he–the Lord,
we don’t even know when he’s coming.
I’m gonna do whatever I want.”
The Lord said, “I will come for him in a day that he knows not,
and I will cut him asunder.”
So the Bible says, “This is the day of salvation.”
It’s not the time to put off and say–like the gentleman told
me, “Ehhh I’ll wait till the Millennial Reign and get saved.”
That’s crazy, that is crazy thinking.
I’ve got to make sure I’m ready to meet the Lord when he returns
because he’s gonna establish his kingdom, and I gotta be a part
of that kingdom, I don’t have a choice.
And so, yes, it is a weighty topic, but we’ve got to teach
the truth about this stuff.
I can’t give people some kind of a false hope.
“Just read my book that you bought for $19.95 or whatever,
and that’s gonna show you what to do on the backside.”
No, no, that’s not what we’re doing here.
We’re teaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and you’ve got
to be ready, and, when that trumpet sounds, your feet have
to leave the ground.
That’s why God, in his Word, told about the simultaneous
harvest over and over and over again.
Now we’re back here in Revelation 16 where the vials of
the wrath of God are being poured out.
But, in between 16 and 19, are these two chapters, Revelation
17 and 18.
God explains, in those two chapters, the judgment of false
Christianity, where false Christianity is referred to as
the great whore.
Doug Norvell: The Roman government controlled the world.
So many people were looking for a different Messiah, a
rescuing Messiah.
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Doug: Remember the story of the woman at the well, “The woman
saith unto him, ‘I know that Messiah cometh,
which is called Christ.’
And Jesus said unto her, ‘I that speak unto thee am he.'”
Jesus very clearly stated that he was God and that he was
the Messiah.
We’re even more blessed because we haven’t seen those things,
but yet we believe.
When Jesus cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?”
he knew every one of these prophecies had to be fulfilled.
He said, “It is finished.”
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Dave: What do you mean by false Christianity?
Okay, 1 Timothy–so, Jesus said, number one, when they
asked him, “What’s gonna be the sign of your coming and of the
end of the age?”
And Jesus said, well, “Take heed that no men deceive you, for
many will come in my name, deceiving many.”
Many will come and say, “Hey, I’m a Christian,” but I’m
deceiving many.
1 Timothy 4:1 says, “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that
in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving
heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking
lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot
iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from
meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of
them which believe and know the truth.
For every creature of God is good, nothing is to be refused,
if it be received for thanksgiving; For it is
sanctified by the Word of God and prayer.”
God is saying that there will be people who are seduced by evil
spirits and doctrines of devils and depart from the faith in the
end time.
There are churches that claim to be Christian today that are
ordaining LGBTQ members as ministers in their pulpits.
So, it says Christian on–over the–on the sign out front in
the yard, right?
Says this is a Christian church, but that church is no more
Christian than a Buddhist temple because the Bible teaches
against an LGBTQ lifestyle, and for a church to say, “Yeah, but
we’re going to ordain those people in our pulpits to preach
and teach,” that’s not–that does not compute.
And, so, when you see a church that says Christian on the sign
out front, but they’re doing things that are diametrically
opposed to the Word of God– which is where we base our
Christian experience off of– then you can say that is false
Christianity, okay?
And there are churches everywhere
that are doing things like this.
Now, not all churches, there are churches that are holding the
line, they’re teaching the truth, and that’s the kind of
church you want to be a part of.
But we gotta be honest here, folks, we’re in the end time, we
don’t have time to lollygag around anymore.
We gotta call it like it is, the Bible’s very specific on
these things.
So, when we–we’re right here in the end times, should we try
to be politically correct and not talk about some things?
I know there are a lot of people that would like to silence this.
But the thing is, the Apostle Paul said, “Don’t be deceived.
And there are many people who will not inherit the kingdom
of God.”
And it talks about some people in the LGBTQ lifestyle, and to
ordain them in your pulpits and say, “Yes, you can be a preacher
or a female preacher, and–but you can live that lifestyle, but
go ahead and preach to the congregation how to be saved.”
That is–that will not work ever, ever, ever, okay?
False Christianity, stay as far away–you should run–if
you’re in a church that’s done that, you should run as fast as
you can away from there, and don’t ever go back.
You say, “But Dave, I was raised there.”
I made up in my mind–I talked to my father-in-law, Irvin
Baxter, about this years ago.
He told me, he said, “Dave, I made up in my mind that, the
organization that I was raised in, if they ever started to go
sideways, that I would hand in my minister’s card and I would
leave that organization because I want to be saved.”
And, so, guess what?
I made up in my mind, the church organization that I was raised
in, if they ever start to go sideways and teach things that
are diametrically opposed to the Word of God, I will hand in my
minister’s license, and I will say, “I can’t be a part of
this anymore.
I love thousands of people in that organization, I’ve got
friends all over the world.
But, if they’re gonna start going sideways to something
that’s not gonna take us to heaven, Dave Robbins is out.
I’ll see you later.”
Now, thank God every day that that church organization is
standing strong in the face of peer pressure and everything
that Satan is throwing, they’ve stood strong.
And we’re able to teach the truth in our pulpits, and God
is pleased.
But God is showing, in Revelation 17 and 18, “I do not
like false Christianity, and I’m gonna judge that entity.”
So, wow, man, I wasn’t planning on saying all that, but, hey,
must be God, right?
Revelation 19:1-5, finishes, and it describes the
judgment of false Christianity.
And then it goes into, the Bible says, a great voice of many
people in heavens, they heard this–they heard–they were
heard to say, in Revelation 19:1-2, “And after these
things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying,
Alleluiah; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the
Lord our God: For true and righteous are his judgments: for
he hath judged the great whore, which corrupt the earth with her
fornications, and hath avenged the blood of his saints at
her hand.”
The remarks about false Christianity are concluded,
Revelation 19:3, and the Bible says, “And her smoke rose up
forever and ever.”
This is the destruction of the city of Rome before it’s all
over with.
Now, then we get to the Marriage of the Lamb.
What am I doing?
I’m showing you another example of the simultaneous
harvest here.
The Bible says, after these horrible pronouncements of
judgment–remember, 16 reads over into 19, and–where it
talks about the the bride hath made herself ready–you can
read it.
So, after these horrible pronouncements of judgments on
the false religious system, the mood of Revelation 19 shifts to
one of rejoicing: Revelation 19:7, “Let us be glad and
rejoice, and give honor to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is
come, and his wife hath made herself ready.”
Here we go, folks, right back into another account of the
simultaneous harvest.
Many people have taught that the Rapture of the church occurs in
Revelation 4:1.
However, in Revelation 19:7, the Marriage of the Lamb to his
bride, the church, hasn’t happened yet.
Now, think about that.
Also, verse 7 reveals that he hath made his–that his wife
hath made herself ready.
So, Revelation 19:8 describes the bride’s preparation, “And to
her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean
and white; for the fine linen is the righteousness of
the saints.”
After this, the voice said to John in Revelation 9:9, “Blessed
are they which are called unto the marriage supper of
the Lamb.”
So, it’s interesting; this is the only place in scripture
where the Marriage Supper of the Lamb is specifically mentioned.
Immediately afterward, in Revelation 19:11, heaven is
opened, and Jesus appears in the sky.
John said, “And I saw heaven opened, behold a white horse;
and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in
righteousness, he doth judge and make war.”
So, how do all of these events fit together?
I mean, let’s let’s tie all the pieces–tie up all the loose
ends here.
1 Thessalonians 4, verse 16 through 17, it explains it like
this; it says, “For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with
the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall arise first:
Then we which are alive and remain we shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the
air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
So, these scriptures are describing the same event as the
bride meeting her bridegroom for the Marriage Supper in
Revelation 19.
And, although we’re not given much detail about the Marriage
Supper of the Lamb, it’s obvious that it will occur somewhere in
the sky at the time of the Rapture.
Then you have the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, which is where
he’s going to plant his feet on the Mount of Olives–that’s
recorded several times in the book of Revelation; the last
description of the Second Coming is found in Revelation 19:11.
Now, a lot of people say the Rapture occurs where the
Marriage Supper–a seven-year Marriage Supper–and then we
come back to fight on behalf of Israel at the Battle
of Armageddon.
There’s no scriptures in the Bible for that.
But Revelation 19 gives a chronological order of events.
The Lord comes in the clouds with the sound of a trumpet,
sends his angels to gather the elect unto him, unto the
Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
We have the Marriage Supper, then we go straight to fight on
behalf of Israel at the Battle of Armageddon.
It’s one continuous event, and there’s no seven years that
separates that.
John said, in Revelation 19:11-12, “And I saw heaven
opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him
was called Faithful and True, in righteousness he doth
judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many
crowns; and he had the name written, that no man knew, but
he himself.”
So, in this passage, John saw heaven open and the same events
described in Revelation 6:14, “And the heaven departed as a
scroll when it’s rolled together; and every mountain and
island were moved out of their places.”
So these two accounts describe the same event, in Revelation
19:13-14, the name of the one on the white horse is
The Word of God.
The Bible says that, “He was clothed with a vesture dipped in
blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white
horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.”
So, we know for certain this is Jesus because, in John 1:1 and
John 1:14, we’re explicitly told that Jesus is the Word of God.
Revelation 19:14 explains the armies, which were in heaven,
followed Jesus on white horses.
That refers to the church because Enoch prophesied,
saying, “Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of
his saints.”
So, you have the Marriage–the Rapture, Marriage Supper of the
Lamb in the sky, we go straight to fight, where?
On the behalf of Israel at the Battle of Armageddon.
Revelation 19:15-16, describes that what–this is
what’s gonna happen, “And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword,
and with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them
with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the
fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God.
And he hath on his vesture on his thigh a name written, KING
OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
It’s simply describing Jesus treading out the winepress of
the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God.
The same treading winepress is in Revelation 14, and then
Revelation 19:15 goes and states that, “Jesus will rule the
nations with a rod of iron.”
Now, if you go–this is a–the Rapture, the Marriage Supper of
the Lamb in the sky, the Second Coming, and then it goes on down
to state, in Revelation 19:20, that, at this time, that the
antichrist and the false prophet will be cast alive into the lake
of fire.
So, it’s the same account of the wheat and the tares.
So, here you have it.
You have it in Revelation 14.
You have it in Matthew chapter 24, the simultaneous harvest.
You have it in Matthew chapter 13, the parable of the wheat and
the tares.
And then you have it again in Revelation 16 and 19.
But it’s all one continuous event, in every single account.
It does not say, “Well, well, let’s reap the wheat of the
earth, the children of the kingdom, and then wait seven
years, and then we’ll reap the tares.”
Or, Let’s reap the wheat and the tares, but–or, let’s reap the
wheat, and then–but let’s give the tares the chance to turn
into the wheat after the Rapture–or a chance to
be saved.
It does not say that.
So, your goal, my goal, has to be, “I’m gonna have a
relationship with the Lord.
I’m gonna spend eternity with him.
I’m gonna be born again.
And I am going to make the Rapture.”
Jesus, in Matthew 24, said, “Be ye also ready, for in such an
hour as you think not, your Lord doth come.”
I’ve got to make myself ready, and our goal is to help
you to be ready.
Again, be born again today.
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he returns, God bless.
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