How Lord Jesus Will Come?This question raises another 3 questions:1. Will come Lord Jesus like a thief in the night or everybody will see Him?2. Will come Lord Jesus after or before the great tribulation?3. When is coming, will come for all in same way or differently?First QuestionWhy we don’t know and why we know?Before we see why, we must see that God has designed 2 categories of people to represent Him here on the earth. In Mathew 24:36, 37 Lord Jesus speaks there for 2 categories of people:The first and the most important is Israel (Jacob). Through this people Lord Jesus came into the world.The second is the CHURCH.The church doesn’t know when Lord Jesus is coming and the Son of man too. God knows.But Israel knows when Jesus is coming (see Mathew 24:37).
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| Mt 24:37 |
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. |
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Let’s see how was then:
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And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. |
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For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. |
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| Ge 7:7 |
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. |
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| Ge 7:10 |
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. |
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So, for Israel the coming of Lord Jesus is known:7 years (1 day is on year according with the book of Daniel - the Israel year is 360 days) from the rapture of the church, Lord Jesus is coming.
Second QuestionWill be the church’s rapture before or after the great tribulation?Some people say that the church must pass through the tribulation to be purified and sanctified.Is this real? No.Nobody can do this except the Blood of our Lord Jesus who saved us and sanctified us already.Let’s see what the Bible says about this:
| Re 3:10 |
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. |
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But let’s look in Jeremiah to see that Israel is passing through the great tribulation:
| Jer 30:7 |
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. |
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For who has settled God the great tribulation?For Israel because of their not listening to God and for the crucifying of Jesus.For the whole world – Rev 3:10But the church is not from the world! See John 17:14, 16:
| Joh 17:14 |
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. |
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| Joh 17:16 |
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. |
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See Philippians 3:20:
| Php 3:20 |
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: |
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Then which is our status here on earth?See 1 Peter 2:11:
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; |
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Third QuestionHow will come Lord Jesus and what is going to happen on the earth?Paul is saying about the church in 1 Tess. 4:15, 16, 17 that the church will meet Lord Jesus Christ in the clouds. Let’s see:
| 1Th 4:15 |
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. |
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| 1Th 4:16 |
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: |
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| 1Th 4:17 |
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. |
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For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel… The Lord will come from heaven! The Lord Jesus Is coming. It is also written that dead in Christ and alive will be collected.But…….In Mathew 24, where the coming of Jesus is mentioned especially for the Israelites verse 40 shows us alive only!
| Mt 24:40 |
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. |
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Then who is taken and who is left?Let’s see Mathew 13:25, 30
| Mt 13:25 |
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. |
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| Mt 13:30 |
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. |
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So who is taken?Verse 49&50 speak more clearly:
| Mt 13:49 |
So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, |
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| Mt 13:50 |
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. |
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In Luke 12:35, 36:
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Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; |
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| Lu 12:36 |
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. |
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What wedding? The wedding of Christ with His beloved Church!!!Amen
