Explanation of What Happened to the 1997 Rapture as outlined in the book: 1997"...at the last trump" written by Stephen Benton.
As editor of the book and the wife of the author, my first inclination was to transcribe one of his messages that explained what happened regarding this revelation that was given to him in 1994 by the Holy Ghost regarding the "set time" of the rapture. However, he gives an excellent detailed description of his encounter with the Lord after October 11, 1997 passed and the rapture did not occur. The Lord showed him, in the scriptures as always, why the rapture was delayed. I am including the link for that message and in order to get the immediate explanation, start watching at the 24:00 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdMBzl0x-gM
As noted in his book that I uploaded, a full and complete update was written by Stephen Benton in 2013 and 2014 as the Lord continued to give additional revelations to him from the scriptures, that revealed more mysteries to the Church that are crucial if we are to be saved from the coming deception and the lie that Satan will bring just prior to Jesus' return in the air to receive those that are alive and remain. Stephen Benton was God's last prophet on this earth who continued in His word and preached it without compromise regardless of the persecution and ridicule it brought to his life and his ministry. He was the second witness needed not only for Paul's revelation about the last trump but also to the command given to Habakkuk to "write the vision and make it plain upon tables that they may run that readeth it." (Hab 2:2)
What other prophet or apostle wrote his vision? In Hebrews 10:37 Paul quotes Habakkuk 2:3 "for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry," connecting it to the rapture. What other apostle or prophet gave a second witness to the last trump? (1Cor 15:51) God's word makes it clear that there must be two or three witnesses to establish a truth. If there had not been a 2nd witness to Paul's revelation of the "catching away," it would not have been valid and there could not be a rapture!
The Church has decided, by tradition, that the "last trump" refers to the trumpets ready to be blown by the angels in Revelation 8:6. However all of those 21 judgments: vials, seals, and trumpets occur during the Great Tribulation after the Church has been taken into heaven so that cannot be the last trump reference. The revelation of the "last trump" was given to this last days' prophet and, although it contradicted Church tradition, he actually had the courage to preach it. He explains in his subsequent book, God's Final Secret, exactly why the term "trump" is used as opposed to "trumpet." That book was completely edited and published in September of 2017.
While Pastor Stephen was ill, I was unable to complete editing because I was caring for him and believing that God would heal him. It never occurred to me that he was our "candlestick" in Revelation 2:5 that God promised to remove if the Church did not repent and return to its first love: which is not Jesus as the Church teaches, but Jesus' Words. (Lk 4:22 "And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.") (Mk 10:24 "And the disciples were astonished at his words.") Since God is "not a man that He should lie..."(Nu 23:19) He kept his promise and removed the last candlestick to the Church and took him home. Even so, his message has been left here on the earth for those who have ears to hear God's Word. His Word is "quick" alive and it is still speaking to day! God's mercy and longsuffering to those who love His Word is amazing! That is the strongest indication the Church has been given that the 7th and final Laodicean Age is at the end.
Pastor Benton's book, God's Final Secret, is now available on Amazon.com. Well, as we all now know, the Rapture outlined in that work didn't happen. Once again, the Lord saw fit to delay the promise of His coming for the Church. The comfort in that delay is that Habakkuk's words continue to apply, "though it tarry, wait for it.." We are waiting. The Lord told our prophet back in 2013 that He was not willing that any should perish but that all might come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9) The situation now, however, is more Hebrews 3:
"Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief."
The Church refused to hear God's voice and believe that Jesus is still alive and literally speaking to His Church from heaven through his word by his prophets! Therefore He has no choice but to move on to Revelation 3:16:
"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." If you want to know how He is going to do it, read God's Final Secret.
https://smile.amazon.com/Gods-Final-Secret-Stephen-Benton/dp/1976338476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509271792&sr=1-1&keywords=god%27s+final+secret+by+stephen+benton
May the Lord open your ears and your understanding to these truths, in Jesus' name
Shelley Benton
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