According to Missionary Evangelist Robert Breaker [1], the rapture is almost certainly going to happen this year - 2019. Why 2019? Because, he claims, this year is the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the secular Republic of Israel, and '70' is an important number in the Bible (the only true fact). Even more significant (to Breaker) is the fact that the Jews dedicated the altar for the Third Temple in Jerusalem on 10 December 2018 on the last day of the feast of Hanukkah.

He's not alone. People all over the internet seemed to have grabbed this 70th anniversary 'thing' and are now combining it with bloodred moons (there's another due on 21 January - a 'super bloodredder' at that and are combining these with the Donald Trump Presidency and saying that this has something to do with the 'Last Trump'of the King James Bible's 1 Corinthians 15:52 (because of a word association) and that once Trump has ended his second presidential run the Great Tribulation will begin. Oh, and in the middle of this there will be a 'rapture' - on 14 May 2019 to be exact (70 years of Israeli independence will have been completed) - with Jonathan Cahn's predictions being stirred in, as this pretense at sophisticated-looking diagram would have us believe:

Let's be clear - there will be no rapture in 2019 or in any year in the future, just as all predictions of the rapture - every single one of them - has spectacularly failed to date. This doctrine caries an enormous train of false predictions in its wake.

Why is Breaker spectacularly wrong? Why does he not have the spirit of prophesy? Because:

• 1. The doctrine of the rapture is a complete fantasy (see our Rapture website);

• 2. The Republic of Israel is not the restoration of biblical Israel and therefore is not a prophetic marker except to an Anti-Messiah (Antichrist), a counterfeit deliberately set up to deceive believers and provoke war (see the series, Jacob's Trouble and our Israel and Zionism websites);

• 3. The offer of a Third Temple was withdrawn from Israel and Judah when they refused to repent within the timeframe presented (see The 13 Scrolls of Ezekiel) and any temple built in Jerusalem will be a false temple belonging to the Anti-messiah (Antichrist); and

• 4. Hanukkah is a false, biblically unauthorised festival that has pagan roots and is not a prophetic marker (see our Hanukkah website).

With four sets of false prophetic markers that have nothing to do with Scripture, there is a 100 per cent guarantee that Breaker's prediction will fail and once more the rapture-waiters will be left disappointed.

That does not mean, however, that 2019 will not be prophetically significant but it will have nothing to do with any 'rapture' which is a doctrine invented by the devil to make Christians careless. There is to be no magical whisking away into heaven of any pampered believers. We go through the Tribulation and we go through it together. We are currently under a major Judgment of Yahweh which has been unfolding now for several years and is fast reaching a semi-apocalyptic climax. If you are not following true prophecy and are not properly prepped, you are going to be in very serious trouble.

Please study all the links in this article and save yourselves and your families. You have been warned!

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