For those Left Behind
To any future occupants of our home post-rapture: a helpful guide to our homestead and encouragement and teaching to help you during the 7 worst years in all of history.
Rapture Message
Caught up in the clouds
If people have instantly vanished, it is because God has taken them to Heaven.
then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
Seek Jesus now!
If this event has taken place, you have a very short time to choose life forever in Heaven with Jesus and all who followed Him, including those who disappeared, and to escape torment forever in Hell.
Before you do anything else, do not delay in seeking Jesus and giving your life to Him. It's too late to be caught up in the clouds, but it is not too late to become part of His final harvest and live in Heaven forever in perfect peace with your Creator.
If you've been trusting in yourself and something you've done, it's time to turn and place your trust completely in Jesus and His perfect sacrifice, for you, on the cross.
One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”
But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.” He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened. The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach: that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die. But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Will there be any outward indication that you have been washed and have become new? Absolutely! Things you find yourself doing, which are really God working through you, are later indications of a transformation that has already happened.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’
“Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink? When did we see you as a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’
“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’ These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
A time of great deception
Recognize that in the time interval between the event where followers of Jesus are caught up in the clouds with Jesus (Greek ἁρπαγησόμεθα, Latin rapiemur, or English "rapture") and the event of the Second Coming of Jesus to earth, there will be great deception, worse than anything in history. We're not given specific details other than a warning that it could deceive even those who have placed their trust in Jesus.
for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
“Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There!’ don’t believe it. For false christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
“Behold, I have told you beforehand.
“If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it. 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 in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be. Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days. Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it. For false christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. But you watch.
“Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.
Deception will be projected by the global system of governance. There may be physical and visible involvement from evil spiritual beings, mixed with the appearance of great technology. There will be a first "beast" or global entity and its leader (the Antichrist) who will be assisted by another global "beast" and its leader (the False Prophet). The first beast will be known for statesmanship and an appearance of global peace and security and the second beast will be known for technology and an appearance of incredible wonders.
I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people. He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived. It was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.
The second beast will didōmi (furnish, artificially) a pneuma (spirit or rational intelligence) into an eikōn (image, icon) of the first beast, where the usage of the word image is similar to the phrase "disk image". In modern terminology, you could say the second beast develops an artificial intelligence (AI) clone of the first beast. This may be as simple as tapping an icon on your phone and opening an app to receive (evil) advice or guidance from the virtual AI assistant provided by the world government.
The second beast will also publicly demonstrate a system to project pyr (fire, lightning) from an ouranos (sky, space) platform, evidently as an incentive.
Additionally, if there appear to be non-human beings walking around claiming to be aliens or anything else, they are simply demonic spirits who fell with satan.
I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs; for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God the Almighty.
The Bible warns about satan and his ministers being able to falsely appear like angels of light.
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
The Mark
Do not take the mark!
The Bible tells us there will be a permanent identification mark, issued by the global government, which will be required to complete any financial transaction. No one will be able to buy or sell without this identification mark. Everyone who receives the mark will give their allegiance to the leader of the global government (the Antichrist), and it will be a permanent decision, from which there will be NO RETURN!
There will be NO HOPE of ETERNAL LIFE in Heaven for anyone who receives the identification mark!
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands or on their foreheads; and that no one would be able to buy or to sell unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
Our Hope is Eternal Life in Heaven!
In this coming 7 year period, things are going to get worse and worse. But the Good News is that Jesus is coming back! Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. Seven years from now, Heaven will open and He will appear. Then the evil global government will be destroyed and with it anyone who gave in and worshiped the beast, "just to survive". Don't give up and give in, even if it means losing your life. Gaining 7 more years in this life is not worth losing Eternity with God! When Jesus comes back, those who have followed Him and have not received the identification mark of the beast will reign with Him here on earth for 1000 years, followed by life forever in the New Heaven and New Earth!
He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self? For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels. But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.”
It will be the same way 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, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”
I told him, “My lord, you know.”
He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering. They washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s blood. Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them. They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ”
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”
I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse and against his army. The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. So all the birds were filled with their flesh.
A taste of things to come
Very soon the 7 years will be over and Jesus will reign physically on earth for 1000 years. Then there will be one more conflict and then He will create a New Heaven and New Earth for eternal peace together with the Lord!
He seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth,† and bound him for a thousand years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat; and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness, looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”
He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”
See you there!
House Systems
Well Water
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Sediment filter
- If the water pressure is getting low (if you turn on a faucet and only a trickle of water comes out), the sediment filter inside the well-house may be getting filled. There are two ways to clean out the sediment filter (shown in red box).
- Option 1: open the hose spigot on the side of the well house and let it run for a while. Sometimes you will see some reddish or brownish water come out. Even if it just runs clear, there may be sediment that is being cleaned out. There is a black flexible hose that connects from the bottom of the clear sediment filter bowl to the spigot. Using this spigot for general watering will help to continuously clean the sediment filter.
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- Option 2: Inside the well house, turn the large valve (blue circle) perpendicular (sideways) to the pipe and turn the small valve (red circle) to inline with the pipe. This has the effect of bypassing the sediment filter and when the spigot on the outside of the well house is turned on, water flows backwards through the filter and out the rubber hose (red arrow). Turn on the outside spigot (like option 1) and let water flow backwards through the filter for a while.
- After the water runs clear for about 10 seconds, enable the sediment filter again by turning the large valve back to inline with the pipe and turning the small valve back to perpendicular (sideways) to the pipe.
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Control box
- If water has turned off, check to see if there is a solid red light and no green light on the Timer, which indicates the Timer has turned off the pump. While the pump is running in normal operation, there is a solid green light and a blinking red light.
- To reset the Timer :
- Flip the Breaker down (OFF)
- Wait a minute or two to let the NTC cool down
- Flip the Breaker up (ON)
- General control box information:
- The Breaker (blue switch at the upper left) must be flipped up to provide power.
- At the upper-right, there is a Timer module (narrow white component with a green and a red light, on the right side of the screen with numbers). While the pump is running, there is s a solid green light and blinking red light. If the pump runs continuously for more than an hour, the there is a solid red light and the timer stops the pump.
- The Timer acts as a safety, to minimize water damage and wear on the pump, in case a pipe breaks or water is flowing uncontrolled.
- Watering the garden or grass for a long time can also cause the Timer to trip. Normally, if the water flow rate through the hose is slower than the flow rate of the well pump, then the pump will turn off periodically. Whenever the well pump turns off the Timer is reset, so the Timer only flips when the flow rate keeps the pump on continuously for an hour.
- The easiest way to reset the timer is to flip the Breaker down (OFF), then up (ON). You might need to wait a couple minutes before turning the Breaker on, to let the NTC cool. If the NTC is still hot, the inverter (back in the Solar Shed) might cut power because the NTC is allowing too much inrush current to be drawn by the pump motor. This is OK, just wait for the inverter to turn back on again. Usually the soft-start action of the inverter, when it first starts up again after a cutoff, is sufficient to turn on the well pump.
- To change how long the Timer waits before turning off the pump, you can change the settings of the red dials.
- The black coin-size disk (green circle) is an NTC or "Thermistor". This component provides a soft-start (slow ramp-up of electric current) to the pump motor. The NTC resists the flow of electric current when it's cold (when the motor is first starting) and then allow the flow with very little resistance when it gets hot (after the motor gets up to speed). Because of this, while the pump is running, the NTC will be too hot to touch. Because of the continual heating and cooling cycles, eventually the NTC will wear out and probably break in pieces. If this happens, there are spare NTCs in a small plastic bag at the bottom of the box. Lift up the orange levers holding the NTC and insert a new NTC.
- If you need to get more NTCs, the NTCs currently being used have a rating of 8 amps (8A). If you can't find that size, an NTC with a lower rating might work, but might also fail sooner. It's not rocket science, so you could try different sizes of NTCs to see what works.
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Well specs
- Depths
- Bottom of the well is 120ft (from memory of what the driller guys told us)
- Water at about 5 gal/min is at about 35ft.
- Water at about 40+ gal/min is at 105ft.
- Pump is at about 100ft, 20ft above bottom (from memory of what installer told us, one of the same guys who ran the driller).
- It's likely that water fills up pretty high in the well, all the way up to around the 35ft mark.
- Power supply
- 4000W 240Vac inverter located on inside-right wall of the white "solar shed".
- Does not have an option to connection to grid power.
- Breaker in solar shed and also in the pump control box inside the well house.
- Pump
- 240Vac
- 1/2hp
- 2-wire
- Depths
Solar Power
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Switch
- The solar/grid power switch, main electrical panel, and sub-panel are located in the closet of the last bedroom on the left (north end of house).
- To switch between solar and grid power, rotate the red switch to align with the SOLAR or GRID labels.
- Most wall outlets and lights in the house are connected through a sub-panel that can be switched between solar and grid power.
- Sub-panel breakers (left to right):
- 15A (GFCI, yellow): Upstairs bathroom lights and wall outlets, kitchen wall outlets, and master-bedroom and master-bathroom lights and wall outlets.
- 15A (AFCI, white): House lights and garage lights and wall outlets.
- 15A (AFCI, white): House wall outlets.
- Solar power only:
- Well pump: runs on power from the dedicated 240Vac 4000W inverter in the solar shed.
- Grid power only:
- 230Vac power from main panel (not connected through sub-panel):
- Central air conditioning and heating (HVAC)
- Dryer wall outlet (large 3-prong, south end of house).
- 115Vac power from main panel (not connected through sub-panel):
- Washing machine wall outlet (south end of house).
- 230Vac power from main panel (not connected through sub-panel):
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Solar Panel Arrays
- Each solar panel array has a disconnect switch.
- All of the solar panel arrays are wired in parallel in a junction box on the back of the solar shed.
- The angle of the solar panel arrays can be adjusted as shown below:
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Solar Shed
- Contains batteries, inverters, solar charge controller
Battery Maintenance
- The solar panel arrays are connected to the Solar Array Charge Controller, which converts the voltage of the solar panels (typically around 100Vdc), to the voltage of the batteries (48Vdc). The Large Battery Array is eight 6V batteries (6 x 8 = 48) and the Small Battery Array is four 12V batteries (12 x 4 = 48).
- The batteries are fairly maintenance-free, but the Large Battery Array needs some distilled water added every few months (possibly every month when it's hot).
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The Small Battery Array is 4 of the 8 batteries I initially bought from Walmart. The Small Battery Array is connected in parallel with the Large Battery Array (bought later from Crown Batteries). The small array helps the Well Pump Inverter with bursts of current drawn by the pump motor.
- There is a squeeze-pump system to replenish distilled water in the Large Battery Array.
- It's best to add water when the batteries are fully charged. This would probably be in the evening or after dark, after a sunny day.
- Use the squeeze bulb to pump distilled water until it becomes too hard to pump any more. There are float valves inside the watering system that shut off when each battery is full of water.
- Battery and power web-browser displayed graph
LAN & Battery Charge Monitor
- Solar charge controller (Morningstar TriStar TS-MPPT-60) web interface
- Accessible from home local area network (LAN)
- LAN URL: http://10.8.8.8/
- Custom graphed battery and power display
- Accessible from home local area network (LAN)
- LAN URL: http://10.8.8.2:7000/
Ferrous iron removal system
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- White tank in the crawl space
- Nightly reverse-rinse cycle
- Iron builds up in the filter media inside the tank, so it has to reverse the process and rinse out every night
- The black tube is the drain hose, and is fastened in the sump pump bucket. This way the reverse-rinse drains into the ground at the sump pump, and if it fills up too much, the sump pump will pump it out.
- The reverse-rinse cycle is currently set to happen every night at 1:00AM
- White tank in the crawl space
Basement Water Removal
- Sump pump
- 1/2 hp, Home Depot brand
- Connected to PVC pipe that drains out under the back deck.
- Baseboard drain
- Beaver (basementwaterproof.com/products) basement waterproofing system
Online RaptureKit
wilsons.life/rapturekit
To recursively clone RaptureKit files, open PowerShell (Windows) or a command line Terminal (Linux, Mac), and copy/paste the following command (press Enter):
wget -r -m -np -k -N https://wilsons.life/rapturekit/If wget is not installed on Windows, you can download the installer or a standalone binary.
If it takes too long and you have to stop the wget process (press CTRL + c), you can run the command again later and it should pick up where it left off.
Links
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