Jacob's Rapture

In her book Watch and Pray: Be Ready (Christian Faith Publishing, 2016), Hertzog espouses the idea of a Rapture that will take place after the Great Tribulation, a seven-year period mentioned by Jesus in his discourse at the Mount of Olives as a sign that would occur in the end time. The title of the book is taken from Matthew 26: 41.

Zechariah: 1-5 the Lord will destroy the enemy of Israel. Those who are opposed to Israel are always opposed to God. Israel is considered the church, so that means God is opposed to those who are opposed to the church. God loves Israel the physical and spiritual Israel. God will always fight for her. When God stretches out His hand and shakes the nations, it is in the utmost wrath. The only time that the worldly people will serve the people of God, is when Jesus reigns as King, and His people as His subordinates. God had saved Israel from out of the fire of captivity in Babylon. Satan tries to remind God of the sins. Jesus paid

Imagine being in a family where you aren’t able to be yourself or express your feelings the way that you want to. Your parents don’t allow you to do a lot of things that most college students do because they believe you’re going to end up going to hell. That’s the kind of family that Aaron Hartzler grew up in. Aaron Hartzler is an actor, screenwriter, and author who has written two books.

At the beginning of time, God created mankind, creatures made in his own image, with whom He could have relationship with. Unfortunately, the original humans, Adam and Eve, shattered this relationship by turning away from God and sinning, putting themselves before Him. All of the descendants of Adam and Eve, mankind itself, have and continue to suffer from the repercussions of this Original Sin. Ever since that time, thousands of years ago, God has been working through human history in order to repair His relationship with Humanity, redeeming them from the effects of sin. His plan of salvation began with a covenant He made with a nomad named Abraham, whose descendants became the nation of Israel. This covenant established the Lord's intentions to bring about redemption for humanity through the nation of Israel. Sadly though, the ancient Israelites time and again were unfaithful to their covenant with God, and would worship the false idols of the nations around them. Because of their sin of apostasy, the nation of Israel eventually split in two, and was then wiped out by foreign invaders, sending in the Hebrew people into exile. It was during this exile that the Prophets, men who would speak on behalf of God, began to predict the coming of the Messiah, an 'anointed one' of

It had been ten years since I lived with my mother Janessa, my father Will, and my brother Marco. It had been ten years since the Jews and the Christians in my town would scold each other on every single imperfection that weighed themselves down. It had been ten years since I met the nicest Jewish boy named Jacob down by the watercress. And it had been ten years since I have told anyone this story.

Growing up as an African American in a white world in the late 1800’s was incredibly ruthless. Even after slavery, blacks had a hard time trying to get work, education or civil rights. Education was a major topic in debate for blacks and whites. Education, the most important thing in life, acts as the key to a person 's future. Education leads to knowledge, and knowledge leads to power. It teaches humans how to prosper and make good decisions. With a good education, people hold the ability to achieve all types of goals, and more doors will open for them. African-Americans held every right to obtain this basic human right. White and blacks took on many different paths with education and W.E.B. Du Bois tell a short story about it all.

During this series of events it can be deemed that Jacob is an unreliable narrator through the unrealistic events, and because Jacob can be declared delusional. Jacob can be declared delusion, because he is currently ninety years old, experiencing memory loss, and taking medicine. For instance, a week earlier Jacob’s family came to visit and he did not know who they were, “I didn’t know them. I faked it, though- when they made their way toward me and I realized it was me they had come to see, I smiled” (Gruen 218). Sara Gruen implies that the reader should be questioning what Jacob is saying when he claims that he is walking out of the nursing home because even Jacob says, “Nobody seems to think it odd that an old man is standing in his slippers

Throughout his life, Jacob lived for himself, lying and cheating through most of it, until he had a fate changing wrestling match with a mysterious Man one night when he was preparing to face his brother Esau. The Man fought with Jacob all night until day-break, and when He saw that this was going nowhere, he threw Jacob’s hip out of joint with a single touch. He commands that Jacob let Him go, but Jacob holds onto Him and refused to release Him until He blesses him, because by that point, he knew that this Man was of God. The Man does, and in the process, renames the trickster as Israel, or contended with God. He promises Israel that he will make his descendants vast in number, and then departs from the now crippled

The second prophecy that resurfaced originated in Ezekiel chapter thirty-seven with the fulfillment the Israelites returning to the area they originally lost control over. “Then God said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Listen to what they’re saying: ‘Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, there’s nothing left of us.’ But God says: I’ll dig up your graves and bring you out alive—O my people! Then I’ll take you straight to the land of Israel. When I dig up graves and bring you out as my people, you’ll realize that I am God. Then I’ll lead you straight back to your land and you’ll realize that I am God. I’ve said it and I’ll do it.” (MSG Bible) Similar to the message provided in the first prophecy, this

As God molds and guides Jacob over the course of the Jacob Cycle, God interacts with Jacob in increasingly personal ways.

By juxtaposing Meursault and Thomas Perez, Camus emphasizes the dramatic disparity between their responses to Maman’s death. Meursault, being the son of Maman, is expected by society to be grieving over the death. However, he is not. Thomas Perez, who has known Maman for a far less time then Meursault, seem to be the most afflicted. Meursault acts indifferent towards emotions where as the old man shows his pain.

The Olivet Discourse is in reference to the nation of Israel and not the Church. Jesus was speaking of Gods future program for the nation of Israel. However, it is important to know that in discussing this Discourse, we should put into the context Daniel 9: 24-27 and Revelation 6: 1-19 and 21, which refer to the future seven-year period called the tribulation.

Third speech of Moses (27: 1-28: 68). For this the elders of Israel and the priests are with Moses, while he recites in detail the curses of Yahweh for disobedience and the blessings for faithfulness. Serious warnings are given regarding the frightening results of infidelity. If those of Israel as their holy people continue to hear the voice of Jehovah their God, they will enjoy wonderful blessings, and all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of Jehovah is called upon them. However, if they do not do this, Yahweh will send upon them "the curse, confusion and rebuke" (28:20). They will be afflicted by disgusting diseases, drought and hunger; their enemies will persecute and enslave them, and they will be scattered and annihilated

God interacts with the world in a very unique way. He works by using people as conduits with whom He will ultimately achieve His goal of the Divine Plan. Throughout the Book of Genesis, many cycles of protagonists appear with whom God chooses to interact. In one such cycle, the Jacob Cycle, God influences, molds, and guides Jacob in increasingly personal ways. God influences Jacob throughout his childhood, his journey to Haran, his journey from Haran, and finally, with one last test of will. Throughout the guidance, God’s increasing trust in Jacob allows for an eventual transformation of the relationship, where Jacob morphs into God’s Israel.

Throughout the book of Revelation, we see through Johns visions how God will fulfill his promises in the second coming. He beings the chapter by saying, “Just as God fulfilled his promises in the first coming of Jesus, so he will fulfill his promises about his second coming. Jesus will come again and complete God’s eternal plan of salvation; he will introduce the perfected kingdom” (147). At the end of Revelation, we see a glimpse of how magnificent the second coming of Christ will be. Those who are saved, will never experience pain, sadness, or death ever again; Christians will be reunited with the Father. While all of this is yet to come, we must remain faithful to God and anticipate his second