The Rapture Puzzle

and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, andthe survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe haspassed; the third woe is coming soon.The final part of this passage concerns a 3 ½ day period in which the 2 witnesses lay dead but arerefused burial. At the end of this 3 ½ day period, they are brought back to life and told to come up toheaven. My own interpretation of this part of the passage is that the 3 ½ days represent the final 3 ½days of Daniel’s 70 th week. It’s the same 1260 days mentioned earlier in the passage. These 3 ½ dayshave been shortened to just over one day in length, or 1/3 of the time in fulfillment of the 4 th trumpetjudgment of Revelation. The end of the 1260 days is October 12, 2016, which is the Day of Atonementin 2016. I believe there will be a second rapture event that takes place on this day for those who wereleft behind or came to faith in Christduring the Day of the Lord, or the finalday of Daniel’s 70 th week. This is whenthey will be told to ―Come up here!‖ andwill raise back to life. When each believerhas finished their testimony, they will be killed during the day of the Lord. But just as the Lord cameback to life after 3 days and His body was not buried, but rather was laid in a tomb, so also His body,the Church, will not be buried but will rise again after these days of darkness. Those who have beenleft behind, will suffer horribly and most believers will die for their faith in Christ. But He will raiseHis body after 3 ½ days. Again, this 3 ½ days equals 3 ½ years and has been shortened to just over ayear in fulfillment of many other passages of Scripture.In the book of Revelation, we read that there are 3 woes. We are told that right after these 2 witnessesgo up to heaven, that the second woe has passed. If we look back in Revelation 9, we see the first woetakes place at the time of an alien invasion. I believe the first woe happens in the fall of 2015, duringthe first rapture event. The second woe happens in the fall of 2016, at the second rapture event.Revelation does not mention to us when the third woe takes place, but I believe that it will take place atthe Second Coming of Christ to the earth during Hanukkah in 2016.Revelation 7: After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding backthe four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or onany tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the livingGod. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm theland and the sea: ―Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on theforeheads of the servants of our God.‖ Then I heard the number of those who were sealed:144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from thetribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe ofGad 12,000, from the tribe of Asher12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh12,000, from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from thetribe of Issachar 12,000, from the tribe ofZebulun 12,000, from the tribe ofJoseph 12,000, from the tribe ofBenjamin 12,000. After this I looked, and72