The return of Jesus Christ on the clouds

[siddhi koli]

The return of Jesus Christ on the clouds is a very important and central doctrine in the Holy Bible of Christianity, which is called the 'Second Coming' .According to the Bible, this coming of Jesus will be visible to the whole world and will be very glorious. The following important references are found in the Bible regarding this:

Revelation 1:7: "Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him.

"Matthew 24:30: "Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven... and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

"1 Thessalonians 4:16-17: The Lord himself will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then those who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
According to Christian belief, Jesus' first coming was in humility as a Savior (Savior), but his second coming will be from the clouds as a Judge and King of kings .

 

[bobinfaith]

Hello siddhi koli;

Thank you for sharing the return of Jesus! Each day I thank the Lord for waking me up. As I'm praying I ask God to help me be prepared when Jesus returns because I don't know when He will return. I feel that is an act of trust and faith.

What if I'm at the vegetable and fruit market buying bananas? All of a sudden Christ returns in His glory. I'm not going to worry about the bananas but rejoice because when He returns He is coming for us, and me.

Other's thoughts?

God bless everyone.

Bob

 

[Yesua888]

Hello siddhi koli;

Thank you for sharing the return of Jesus! Each day I thank the Lord for waking me up. As I'm praying I ask God to help me be prepared when Jesus returns because I don't know when He will return. I feel that is an act of trust and faith.

What if I'm at the vegetable and fruit market buying bananas? All of a sudden Christ returns in His glory. I'm not going to worry about the bananas but rejoice because when He returns He is coming for us, and me.

Other's thoughts?

God bless everyone.

Bob

 

[David]

The return of Jesus Christ on the clouds is a very important and central doctrine in the Holy Bible of Christianity, which is called the 'Second Coming' .According to the Bible, this coming of Jesus will be visible to the whole world and will be very glorious. The following important references are found in the Bible regarding this:

Revelation 1:7: "Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him.

"Matthew 24:30: "Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven... and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

"1 Thessalonians 4:16-17: The Lord himself will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then those who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
According to Christian belief, Jesus' first coming was in humility as a Savior (Savior), but his second coming will be from the clouds as a Judge and King of kings .

I love to think about this. Whenever I read or hear about Jesus' return, it cheers me up. This is not our home. Our Lord is coming back again one day in power and great glory just like He promised. I just wish more people were looking forward to His coming and rejoicing over it. Titus 2: 13 describes it as "that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." His return is NOT something we should fear if we are His. It is a blessed hope indeed.

 

[siddhi koli]

I wonder if everyone's clothes will fall to the ground when Jesus comes?

 

[bobinfaith]

I wonder if everyone's clothes will fall to the ground when Jesus comes?

lol! siddhi kola!

 

[Yesua888]

I wonder if everyone's clothes will fall to the ground when Jesus comes?

Now wouldn't that be amazing : )

 

[David]

 

[Composer]

I think this is a matter brethren should be very... very... careful about, and not allow men's doctrine of a pre-trib rapture theory to creep in.

Think about what Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15 that happens on the "last trump" (the 7th Trumpet). Consider what he said just before, that as we have borne the "image of the earthy" we shall also bear the "image of the heavenly", i.e., the "spiritual body" he spoke of in 1 Corinthians 15:44.

In 1 Corinthians 15:52-54, Paul quoted from Isaiah 25 about death being swallowed up in victory, along with that idea of being "changed" to the "spiritual body". Who has not read that Isaiah 25 Scripture where Paul quoted from?

Isa 25:5-9
5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

The above points to the final day of this world, the "day of the Lord" when God's consuming fire will burn man's works off this earth like 2 Peter 3:10 and per Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:3 about the "sudden destruction" on that "day of the Lord." Paul was pulling from the Old Testament prophets about that event on the "day of the Lord", the last day of this present world.

6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

Per John 5:28-29 when Lord Jesus comes, the wicked dead will be resurrected also, to their "resurrection of damnation." Is the future resurrection to a "spiritual body" or not, according to Apostle Paul? The "spiritual body" Paul taught is... the future resurrection body type, so the wicked will have that same kind of body too. I know, I know, it is most often taught that change Paul spoke of only happens for Christ's Church. Yet that is not what Bible Scripture shows. It's not what God shows here through His prophet Isaiah either.

7 And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

I interpret the above to be about that being "changed" on the "last trump" "at the twinkling of an eye" for all peoples still alive on earth, which the above Isaiah 25 Scripture appears to be hinting to. In 1 Corinthians 15:51 Paul did say, "... but we shall all be changed." It's just that, that verse is most often interpreted to mean for Christ's Church only.

8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, "Lo, This is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: This is the LORD; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
KJV

If you understand this, and even if you do not agree, you might be shocked with what I will cover next...

 

[Composer]

Recall Daniel 3 when Shadrach, Meshech, and Abed-nigo refused to bow to the idol that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had setup and demanded that all bow in worship to it. They were cast into a hot fiery furnace heated seven times... hotter than necessary. Nebuchadnezzar saw a fourth Man in that furnace with them Who appeared like The Son of God. And when Shadrach, Meshech, and Abed-nigo came out of that hot fiery furnace, their clothes did not even smell of smoke!

I strongly... believe that is an example of how Lord Jesus will protect His elect through... God's consuming fire on the day of His future coming to gather His Church. God's consuming fire will not harm us.

I believe that "last trump" change Apostle Paul spoke of for when Jesus comes to gather us, will be at the exact... same... time... of God's consuming fire hitting this earth to burn man's works off it. I believe it will bring that change to the "spiritual body", our flesh being cast off (for those still alive on earth). And I believe per Isaiah 25 that will happen for all... peoples still alive on earth at that moment. For the wicked and unsaved that are changed also, I believe God's consuming fire will 'spiritually' affect them within the realm of shame. Call it speculation if you want, but for me that Isaiah 25:5-9 Scripture reveals it will happen for all peoples, not just Christ's Church.

And we need to remember that, per Zechariah 14, Lord Jesus does not simply hang out on His cloud at His coming, gathers the Church, and then takes them back into Heaven. He gathers the resurrected saints from Heaven and brings those with Him at His descent to the earth, and then His saints still alive are "caught up" to Him, and to those resurrected saints, then they all... go to the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem on this earth (See 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 and Zechariah 14:1-5).

What will be different then between those in Christ vs. the wicked once that "last trump" change to the "spiritual body" happens for all peoples at Christ's coming?

Apostle Paul actually covered that in the Greek of 1 Corinthians 15:53 using 4 different Greek words about TWO separate changes that must happen to have eternal life through Lord Jesus Christ. The wicked will go through only the 1st change, that of putting on the "spiritual body". But their souls will still be in a liable to perish condition, which in the Greek is Paul's meaning for "this mortal".

1 Cor 15:53
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
KJV

That's two types of changes to have eternal life through Christ. That's why that "and" conjunction was put there. Recall John 3 about being "born again" by The Spirit. All souls that will go through the 1st change to the spirit body only will still be in a liable to perish condition at the "second death". Their souls will still be spiritually 'dead', without Christ, and thus not "born again" of The Spirit through Faith on Jesus Christ. Yet we will all be in spirit type bodies then, which is the body type of the resurrection and of the world to come.