OPERATION WRATH OF GOD, Chapter 1

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All Bible quotations, unless otherwise stated or referenced, are taken from the online World English Bible (WEB), which is in the public domain. It is available at the following link: https://ebible.org/eng-web/index.htm. Sometimes I paraphrase the Bible and when I do so, I reference the chapter and verse. Direct quotations from the WEB are indicated by quotation marks. English language Bibles are translated from Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. I am no linguist, and I don’t know any linguists, so I have had to rely on others’ translations and romanizations of the Hebrew and Greek texts. Occasionally, I have examined the original Hebrew and Greek of the Bible, zeroing in on key words where the received English translation is debatable or misses the full meaning of the original. To clarify, the WEB refers to the Antichrist, the beasts, and the False Prophet, but makes no reference to any ‘Khan’ or ‘Lavani’, which are names for the Antichrist and the False Prophet given for the purposes of this book.

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Chapter 1: The Rapture

Omar the Bedouin saw exactly where Amy hid the book. He had been watching her from behind a pile of scree. A small, skinny boy of 16, his dusty clothes blended in with the reddish rocks, so that he was almost a part of the landscape. He waited until Amy and her husband had gone, then he sidled over to the alcove, squatted down, and groped about with his hand. His finger was cut on a hard edge. He cursed, and grasped the book, and pulled it out, shaking the sand off it. The title was I AM COMING SOON, by John Burrows. Omar’s English was okay, so he understood that much. He took a look at the cover image: Isa healing someone. As a Muslim he believed Isa (Jesus) was the Messiah, that he was born of a Virgin, that he would return, and that he had performed healing miracles, so the cover did not immediately turn him off. Curious, he opened the book at a random page:

‘Just as Jesus gained an immortal body and ascended to heaven after his resurrection, all true Christians, whether dead or alive, will sooner or later have their flesh transformed into a new spiritualised body that cannot die or suffer hunger and thirst. It is a glorified body such as Jesus possesses, both physical and spiritual. The word rapture comes from the Latin verb rapio (“I seize”), equivalent to the Greek verb harpazō (“I seize, I snatch away”) used by Saint Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. “For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, we who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet with the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.” (1 Thessalonians 4:15–17).

In other words, certain dead saints (those who have “fallen asleep”) will be resurrected first and rise to be with Jesus in the sky. Shortly after the dead, the chosen who are still alive on that day – “we who are alive, who remain” – will also be translated into eternal bodies and join the resurrected saints “in the air”. This is corroborated by 1 Corinthians 15:51–52, “we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.” Paul’s original ancient Greek phrase eis apantesin tou kyriou, translated “To meet the Lord”, denoted a delegation coming out of a city to welcome a visiting dignitary.[i] Then of course, they come back into the city with him. Raptured Christians will rise to be with Christ in the sky, and then descend with him to help establish his kingdom on the earth.

Christianity is not really about singing hymns. It is about transforming men and women into gods.

Jesus described the rapture as being coterminous with the Second Coming in his Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24:30): “…they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with a sound of the trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.” These events, the Second Coming, the trumpet Paul mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:52, and the rapture, were clearly described by Jesus as coming around the same time, and that time is to be: “after the suffering of those days” (Matthew 24:29). That is, after or toward the end of the tribulation, the time of deception, earthquakes, wars, persecution and false prophets, which Jesus outlined earlier in the discourse (Matthew 24:4–29).

“For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together.” (Matthew 24:26). Jesus suggested by his lightning metaphor that his return will be visible in the sky from anywhere on the earth or in the region because it is associated with the great event in the heavens.

In some Bibles, the Greek word “aetoi” in Matthew 24:26 is translated as “vultures”. In others, the word chosen is “eagles”, which may be more accurate.[ii] Carcass is a translation of a Greek word ptôma meaning a corpse or a fallen body, which fits the contextual birds of prey that are drawn to it.[iii] By speaking of eagles or vultures, Jesus was referencing Isaiah 34:16, in the context of the eschatological desolation of Edom by divine judgement: “Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.”

The Olivet Discourse in the Gospel of Luke 17:30–37 sheds further light on the symbolism of the vultures, kites and eagles: ‘“It will be the same in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever seeks to save his life, loses it, and whoever loses his life preserves it. I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left.” They answered, asking him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered together.”’

The day the Son of Man is revealed means the day Jesus reappears and is therefore revealed to the world. Lot’s wife turned back to watch as Sodom was annihilated, against God’s counsel, and was thereby changed into a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26). By “remember Lot’s wife”, then, Jesus is warning us against shrinking from him in fear and hesitating when he returns, unwilling to leave possessions and old lives behind. Those who do so will not join him in the air, and risk remaining on earth where they may be caught up in his wrath, depending partly upon their location. Those who are saved and ready to be taken, on the other hand, will be changed into immortal bodies and ascend.

Jesus’ answer to the disciples’ question (“Where, Lord?”), “where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered together” has multiple meanings. The vultures, which can also be translated “eagles”, and the “kites” of Isaiah (34:16), are all different words for the saved Christians who will be gathered together in the air, flying like birds of prey to be with Jesus, “the fallen body” they will rally around, in that he will descend in his glorified flesh body at Bozrah, Edom. He must have descended from the “clouds” (Revelation 1:7) to ground level in Isaiah 63, in order to be covered in others’ blood. The battlefield imagery of these Olivet passages, the desolation of Edom in Isaiah 34, the mentions of vultures and other birds of prey, and the use of the words “fallen body” and “carcass” suggests that there will be corpses, plural. These are the enemies of God that Jesus will slay to save the remnant at Bozrah. Those adversaries will already be dead by the time the raptured saints have flown to Edom. Again, the Messiah is described as being covered in blood, having “trodden” his enemies alone in Edom (Isaiah 63:3), for he says: “no one was with me”.

The prophet Isaiah described an army of “consecrated ones” and nations being mustered for an eschatological battle (Isaiah 13:3). Angels were always sacred, but the word consecration usually applies to something that was once not sacred, but has been made holy. This must therefore be the saints, who are part of the heavenly host after they are gathered together “from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other” (Matthew 24:31) for that very purpose. Since Paul described Jesus as returning with his “mighty angels in flaming fire, punishing those who don’t know God” (2 Thessalonians 1:60), angels will also be part of the heavenly host.

“Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.” (Zechariah 12:7). The “tents of Judah” are the tents that the exiled Judeans will use when they are at Bozrah. What Zechariah means is that God (Jesus) will relieve the remnant at Bozrah first, before proceeding to “defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem” (Zechariah 12:8) from the armies of the Antichrist. In chapter 14, the Hebrew prophet Zechariah describes that Battle for Jerusalem, promising that “Yahweh will be king of the whole earth” (Zechariah 14:9) and once the battle is over, “Jerusalem will dwell safely.” (Zechariah 14:11).

Omar finished reading. There were many English words in that chapter he didn’t understand, but he got the gist of it. He thought about the book. Perhaps he could try and sell it to some western tourists?

No. The cover image of Jesus was now smeared with blood. As were some of the pages. Who would want a book of blood?

Maybe he could use it to start a fire? But it was summer. He would not need extra tinder for months. Omar shrugged his shoulders. He tossed the book back inside the alcove. And there it remained for years and years, seemingly forgotten… Read the next chapter here: https://www.robertensor.com/post/operation-wrath-of-god-the-rapture-the-second-coming-the-campaign-of-armageddon-and-the-kingdom-o-2

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[i] Hultberg, Alan. Blasing, Craig, Moo, Douglas. 2018. Three Views on The Rapture: Pretribulation, Prewrath or Posttribulation (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology). Zondervan Academic; Second edition.

[ii] Broussard, Carlo. 2022. You Want To Be Left Behind. Catholic.com. Link: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/you-want-to-be-left-behind

[iii] https://www.billmounce.com/greek-dictionary/ptoma