Second Coming of Jesus Christ |
Creation date: 29-Nov-2022 |
There are Two | Last updated: 27-May-2023 |
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1 | What is the Second Coming? | 2 | The First Event Timing is not known |
3 | The Second Event Timing is known | 4 | Chart of Scriptures for the Two Events |
Many Christians do not recognize that the scriptures speak about Jesus Christ coming back to the Earth twice before setting up His Millennial Kingdom.
Jesus Christ, throughout all of the Old Testament prophecies, came and become the payment for sins that was completed on the Day He was Crucified, which is the greatest prophetic event in history. In Isaiah 53, which is called the Holy of Holies of the Old Testament, there is a beautiful and awesome summary of the first coming of Jesus Christ would accomplish.
Jesus Christ told us in many scripture passage, such as Revelation 1:7, that He will return at the end of the Tribulation Period to set up His Millennial Kingdom. This will be fulfilling many prophecies concerning the ruling period that He will sit on the thrown of King David. It is often called "The Second Coming".
Luke 1:32-34 | 32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. |
There are many scriptural passages that describe Jesus Christ coming in secret, and then coming at the specific ending of the Tribulation Period. In order for Jesus Christ coming in secret means that it is a different event other than the event at the end of the Tribulation Period.
There are numerous prophecies of the 70th week of Daniel, that have many events occurring, which all occur precisely in a seven year period. The seven year period is divided into two equal three and one half years that can be summarized as:
Once the 70th week of Daniel starts then people can simply add seven years to know when the Second Coming of Jesus will occur. Therefore, the scriptures dealing with Jesus Christ coming in secret are about another event.
The first event of Jesus Christ returning to the Earth from Heaven is not known. Jesus Christ said know one knows the day or the hour.
When Jesus Christ comes on this first event it is to take all of the human being on the Earth that have accepted Him as their Savior to Heaven to not be on the Earth during the 70th week of Daniel. This event of Jesus Christ taking people out of the Earth is known as the Rapture. The word Rapture is from the Latin word for "taken quickly and all at once".
When the Rapture event happens, all of us that have Jesus Christ as their Savior will meet Jesus Christ in the atmosphere of the sky. It is simultaneously and all at once event. In the Old Testament and also in the New Testament, because of the significance of the horrible period of the 70th week of Daniel, God has told us that there will be the Rapture to not have those who have trusted in Jesus Christ to experience God's punitive, and also death consequential judgments.
Jesus Christ gave many parables for teaching where one is the Parable of the Foolish Virgins, which has the understanding that there will be three types of people on the Earth before Jesus Christ comes at the Rapture Event:
The second event is when Jesus Christ comes to Earth at First Armageddon Event, which is the end of the Tribulation Period. All of us, that are in heaven, will come with Jesus Christ at this Second Coming event. Prior to this event, will be the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, which is a special invitational dinner that is a celebration of Jesus Christ's victory before coming to Earth.
This is an excerpt from the Armageddon Topic about the
First Armageddon Event: Several non-Biblical sources state that the valley of Har-Magedon is the location that has had the most fighting in the history of the Earth where Egyptians, Israelites, Greeks, Muslims, Crusaders, Mongols, British, Germans, Arabs and modern-day Israelis have died there. It has additionally also been a nearly constant location of small skirmishes between small groups. The participants at the first Armageddon Event are:
The most well-known introductory chapters concerning the events leading up to the Armageddon Event are Ezekiel Chapter 38 and Chapter 39 which is discussed in the Gog and Magog topic. The following scriptures, from the Book of Revelation, give us additional details of the Armageddon event.
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The following are a few scriptural passages that show there are two events when Jesus Christ returns to the Earth.
First Event that is at a unknown
time - Meet in the Clouds To receive the true Believers before 70th Week of Daniel |
Second Event that is at the end of the
Tribulation Period Seen by everyone on the Earth |
Matthew 24:30–31 30 and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. |
Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. |
Matthew 24:42 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. |
1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. |
Matthew 24:44 -
(Son of Man title) So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. |
Luke 21:25 (which are occurring during the
Tribulation Period.) And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; |
Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. |
Matthew 24:27 For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man. |
1 Thessalonians 4:15–17 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. 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; 17 then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. |
Jude 14–15 14 And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken |
1 Thessalonians 5:2 - After
Antichrist is
revealed. 2 Thes. 2:8 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. |
Note that there are sometimes questions concerning people who are too young to have made a Salvation decision by accepting Jesus Christ as their savior and then those on Earth who have not heard of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 24:14 | And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. |
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