Day of Lot & Day of Noah: by O. P. Armstrong, Sept. 2013 The end time type of Lot is considered here.

It was Our Lord, Himself, who said we should consider this type for insights about his return. Lot & Noah And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all, Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. Remember Lot's wife The important message here is that Judgment will not come until the righteous are preserved or removed. This rapture or deliverance teaching by Jesus ties two likewise events together. These two likewise events are that before Judgment comes there will be: 1. a time of great ungodliness shall be upon the earth 2. the godly shall be delivered out of temptation or tribulation or trouble Before I realized what our Lord Jesus was teaching about here, I was an either-or on pretribulation or post tribulation rapture. My take on these verses was focused on the first item, and item two was completely overlooked. Admittedly the pretribulation arguments always seemed of greater weight than that of the post trib. However, a pretribulation focus is clearly seen when one looks at the Old Testament references, below. Noah For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. .. And it came to pass after (the) seven days; the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up , and the windows of heaven were opened. What Jesus said about this event was there were 7 days of warning, yet the world was too occupied with their doings to heed that final warning. But on the very last 7th day was the ark closed and the flood (read tribulation) burst like water from a collapsed dam upon those outside the ark. Lot And while he lingered, the men (read angels) took hold of his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city ... Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar (little strongs 6819). The sun (read: son) had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. It is even more pungent here, the son of man shall arise with healing in his wings. Do you see what I see ? The angel raptures Lot, then tells Lot (veiled or covered Strong 3874) he cannot do anything until Lot is removed. The Son of man is revealed the instant of the church rapture, he shall send forth his angels to gather his elect from the four corners of the earth and once we are in the heavenly city then judgment comes. And from an earth perspective heaven will still seem small. It is not until the millennial reign that heaven be seen. Even then, only after the millennial reign it will be like a new heaven and a new earth. While we are earth bound, is it possible to fully comprehend how large heaven is truly? Many pretrib writers present more details on this topic, please click the links.

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Part B Hastening that Day

In preface, the rapture represents a time of gloom for those left behind. It is best that none be left and everyone be found in Christ. Sadly this will not happen. For there are those who willfully choose to reject Christ claim of redemption by his blood and water. At the head of that group, are those who defile themselves with un-natural affections. Why does scripture say unnatural? The main reason is that procreation of human life depends on man and woman in a normal family relationship. Without this society would have long ago dissolved. For example: a statistic fact is that the population is roughly 50/50 male/female. If every female has zero offspring, it is crash and burn in the 1st generation; if only 1 child per female, it is crash and burn in 7 generations; at 2 per female there would have only been a small population. So it takes more than 2 offspring per average female for natural population growth. The explosion of homo lifestyle is doomed from scratch and an affront to one of the 1st commands of God, be fruitful and multiply. As one friend said, it seems society has been bombed with a homo bomb. But this is just the final sign: lovers of themselves. And the LORD said , Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous. I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; Just how did this come to Gods attention? The answer is given here: and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds). By scripture Lot was tormented by their wicked actions and cried unto God. This is indicated by Lot himself when he told the homos to take his two virgin married daughters. Lots sons-in-law were queerer than a three dollar bill. Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, who are here. Those closet homos didnt fool the angels, for they did not mention his sons-in-law when it was time to depart. Thus we see it was Lots cry unto God that prompted the dispatch of Angels to destroy of the men of Sodom, who were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household. By which (action) he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. Again: (God) did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people. Noah as a preacher of righteousness brought in the flood on the world of the ungodly. Thus was it not Noahs faith in action that brought in the flood? So the flood was from God, but was it not the preaching (ark building) of Noah that moved God? And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In finality, Jesus explains that doing our normal business as Christ Disciples we are his witness to this world. Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.

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Day of Lot & Day of Noah: by O. P. Armstrong, Sept. 2013 Scripture About Lot And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the thing which thou hast Page 3

Day of Lot & Day of Noah: by O. P. Armstrong, Sept. 2013 spoken. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be (come) thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. The sun was (risen) upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in (the) which Lot dwelt. And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. Remember Lot's wife For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)-- then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, where-as angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. Luke 17: 26-32 Gen. 13:10, 13:13 18:20-33 19:1-30- 2Peter 2:4-11

Chronology based Usher, Annals of World, & per Balfour Century Method, Abes 75th year about 1974 BC

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Generation Consider the fig tree 1. Noah Limit of Mans Age Termination: 120xJubilee (50) 2. Balfour Generation - Century Judgment & Redemption or TBC 3. Psalms Age Limit that which has been shall be 4. Final Jubilee
teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom

Year Start 1897

Age Limit 120

Year End 2017

Ref 1 Gen. 5, 7,6.3-4 Matt24

Ref 2
when you see the fig tree start to put forth

1st Zionist Return Conference earth brings forth fruit of herself (1)

1917

100

2017

Gen15 Balfour Decree Jewish homeland Gen5&6& first the blade (2) 7 UN181 Israel created then the ear (3)

1947

70/80 2017/ Ps90.10 3027 50 2017

1967

Lev25.10 6 Day war: Jerusalem unto Israel after that the full corn in the ear (4)

When Jesus was asked about the end of the age, his reply was to consider the fig tree. Know when you see the fig tree start to put forth its branches, then know that this Generation shall not pass away until all these things be fulfilled. For the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

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Jesus baptism by John began the Kingdom Epoch. If time is linear, then knowing one point in the divine calendar allows mapping all other seven days into Gregorian time. Whilst there may be minor disputing about the precise counting of the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar, etc, all concur to within a few years (range 26AD to 29AD). The birth of Jesus in Year 4BC fits within both historical and prophetic documentation. The Biblical Seven Days of Creation teach us to consider that God shall complete all his work with fallen mankind and make a new creation in seven days of one thousand years each. And I saw a New heaven and a New Earth spake John in his Revelation. Go page 1 TBC.TL

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This chart is included because some like to say earth is in the tribulation time now. But have of the worlds population died, or all the earth moved, or 1/3 of all sea life gone? These tribulation events will be cataclysmic and better viewed as an observer from heaven than as a participant.

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