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2nd Coming of Christ - Part 2
Aug 12, 2016 08:39:58   #
ziggy88 Loc: quincy illinois 62301
 
Second Coming of Christ
Jesus himself set the prophetic stage for a future time when He will again intervene “catastrophically” into depraved playhouse of lasciviousness. He said: “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:28-29).
This is a description of a society, a culture, and a generation going forward with business as usual. Jesus prophesied that it would be just like this, when judgment from heaven would fall, at the time of His end-of-days intervention. It is not, however, description of the Tribulation era when Jesus comes physically to earth, as foretold in Revelation 19:11.
At that time, as many as two-thirds of the earth’s population will have died in the apocalyptic judgments. It will not be business as usual, like the Lord describes here. The things that transpire here, though not as disastrous as things will get later in man’s last grasp to rule himself, will still be calamitous. And, the possible scenarios presented are mesmerizing. Let us look at my postulations, based upon the pre-Trib view of the Rapture.
Pre-Tribulation Rapture
Jesus’ description of Lot’s being removed from that condemned city is almost certainly a picture of the Rapture of the only good God sees on this earth, “born-again Christian,” the church Jesus began building, and which was born at Pentecost (in Acts, Chapter 2). Lot, Abraham’s nephew, although not a perfect example of living a godly life, was nonetheless considered a “just” man in God’s eyes. That is, the Lord saw Lot as righteous, a believer, one who accepted God’s governance over his life, accepted Gods salvation plan. Lot and his family lived in a society that was “well,” much like ours. It was wicked to its black core. Incidentally, homosexuality had, in that society, become accepted as and even expected to be, part of life in Sodom.
God removed Lot, and His wrath began to fall upon that wicked, ungovernable people. Jesus indicated that this is exactly what will happen near the time of His coming again. It will happen at the Rapture –at least seven years before He comes back and touches down on the Mount of Olives. The first part of God’s wrath, I’m convinced, will be His removal from the consciences of earth-dwellers. The people left behind will have rejected God’s governance. Now, raptured saints will perhaps, from the balcony of heaven, be given a God’s-eye view of whether the rebels claim that they don’t need God to govern them is true.
Millions will vanish in a millisecond an “atomos” of time. This nation, the United States of America, which had at the same time more gospel light than any other nation of history and access to more filth and depravity than even ancient Rome at its decadent, orgiastic worse, will experience an implosion that, upon its contemplation, staggers the imagination.
We will have a look at how the end-time stage is set for the scenarios we will explore.
The World Stage is Set
America is at the top of the food chain, so far as nations of planet Earth are concerned. She is the richest, most materially blessed nation-state ever to exist. Her achievements in almost every facet of human endeavor are without peer in the annals of the ages.
The European Union is developing rapidly into a colossus that will challenge the U.S. for the title of world champ, so far as superpowers are concerned. But Europe lacks one ingredient in order to achieve America’s superpower status, no matter how economically strong the EU becomes. That one missing element is the military might, particularly the high-tech military complex, firmly entrenched and fortified by (likely) the most horrific thermonuclear capability and the most sophisticated means to deliver total devastation to any other nation foolish enough to initiate such conflagration.
Russia is again beginning to show signs of beefing up for super power military status. It, too, however, lags far behind in high-tech matters, things that prevent it from achieving the degree of hegemony over parts of the world formerly under the dictatorial eyes of the USSR. The Russian economy continues to be in shambles, and achieving the high-tech needed is thus impeded.
China is biding its time, building a strong economic base for one purpose: to attain a level of fiscal power that can buy and/or develop the high-tech sophistication essential to superpower status. The Chinese raw manpower capabilities unquestionably present potentially the greatest threat, in terms of sheer numbers, of any military force in human history.
All other nations are bit players in the scenarios we will examine. But, combined, they present massive–even insurmountable–problems for the prophesied frightening world of the perhaps not-too-distant future.
Israel is smack in the center of all this global chemistry. That nation will be, according to the very Word of the Creator of all things, the catalyst that will galvanize earth-dwellers into rebellion against Him, thus, will bring all armies of the world to Armageddon. Here is what the One who knows the end from the beginning has to say about Israel and all other nations at the time of the end of days:
“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it” (Zechariah 12: 3).
So, with the world stage set, as far as geopolitical matters are concerned, let’s begin to try to look into the future, again with the crucial caveat that this is all speculation, though well-studied and prayed-over speculation on the part of yours truly. Daniel the prophet gave the end-time wrap up in one concise prophetic passage:
“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate” (Daniel 9:27).
Will the consummation as foretold in that passage, begin to rumble upon this judgment-bound earth something like this? Business will be going along at a dynamic clip, despite occasional blips, flare-ups, and glitches. Jesus tells us that in Luke 17: 26-29. The rich will be getting richer, the poor will be going further into poverty, despite the socialist-elites promises to the contrary.
Terrorism Increasing Significantly
Terrorism will be pervasive, and increasingly so, just as Paul the apostle foretold when he said that men and seducers would grow worse and worse, and just as Jesus prophesied when He said things would be just like in Noah’s day, a time when violence filled the whole earth (Genesis 6:11,13).
The Arab Islamic states, wanting–as they have for millennia–to erase the Jews from the earth, will be looking for ways to penetrate Israel’s protective shell, fearful of direct assault because of Israel’s lethal nuclear arsenal. The world of diplomats” the so-called international community, will, led by the American State Department, be looking for a way to placate the hostile Islamics. Israel’s territory, as always will be the offering on the altar of Mid-East peacemaking. This, while giving Israel little or no say in the offering.
Hatred Against Israel Increasing Significantly
Every major Mid-East terrorist organization, with headquarters in Damascus, Syria, will beat the drums of hatred against Israel as never before. Concern that Israel will take preemptive action will trouble the James Baker’s of the times in this scenario. Even some, who call themselves evangelical Christians, will join with other religious entities to point a finger at Israel as the obstinate party in the growing threat to regional, maybe even world, peace.
We have seen that Jesus forewarned that the time of His coming again to planet Earth will be “as it was in the days of Noah.” That is, the characteristics of the end-time generation will be like in the days presented in Genesis, chapter 6. When we look at that chapter, we conclude that it must have been a terrifying time. This must have been true especially for Noah and his seven family members while the time just before the flood surrounded them. But, the whole generation of earth-dwellers must have lived under threat of violence. Violence filled the whole earth, God’s Word reports (Genesis 6: 11, 13). Even though business was moving along at a good, even accelerated pace, violence, terroristic activity–filled the earth.
Does this sound familiar? What did the president call the war declared upon an almost unidentifiable enemy following the 9/11 attacks? That’s correct, he called it the”war on terrorism.” And now the whole international community is uptight about the possibility of ramifications of the terror and the violence that threatens to ignite war in the Middle East.
Every time such sparks begin to fly, members of the media begin to contact Todd, me, as well as others, who have studied and expounded upon Armageddon and the “end of days,” (as media like to frame the end-time). Violence of the deadliest sort fills the world with terror, and the cry for peace and safety from media and government diplomatic types proves it.
Business as Usual
Jesus also said in His Luke 17 prophecies that things of society and economy would be pretty much business as usual at the time of His return at the end of days.
People will be eating and drinking. Men and women will be marrying, divorcing, just like nothing fearful was going on in their world. Daniel the prophet said in Daniel chapter 12 that great progress would be made in technology, travel, and communications at the time of the end.
Again, does any of this sound familiar? As we can see from the strength of the American economy, things are booming, despite the fact that we are now a debtor nation at an unprecedented level. The United States is inarguably the most materially blessed nation-state in the history of the world. The greatest king of Bible times lived at nowhere near the level of luxury and comfort as do even lower middle-class Americans today.
So, in that sense, business is going along, in this country at least, better than merely business as usual. It is just at such time as described that Jesus will step out on the clouds of glory and shout, “Come up hither!”
Come Up Hither!
Bible prophecy tells us that the Day of the Lord will come (will begin) as a thief in the night. A thief suddenly breaks in. He doesn’t say. “Hey! I’m coming to break in” That is how we can know that the thief-in-the-night-coming analogy is for another coming, not for the Second Advent, the time when Jesus’ foot will touch down on the Mount of Olives, which will then cleave in half and create a rift all the way to the Mediterranean. Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population will have perished in God’s full-blown wrath by the time of that Revelation 19:11 coming back to planet Earth. Everyone on the planet still alive will see Christ’s coming to the earth’s surface.
The coming as a thief reference is to the Rapture. It will be sudden, it will be stunning, and it will be catastrophic.
Let us look at the potential calamitous things that will likely immediately follow the twinkling-of-an-eye intervention into this humanistic, last-days world of earth-dwellers.
Calamity and Chaos
In the United States, a young mother, pregnant with her second, and with a small daughter riding in the basket, will be walking down an aisle in a supermarket. A truck driver will be steering a semi-tractor/trailer rig onto a superhighway in order to merge with the heavy traffic flow. A 777 captain will push the throttles to full power, headed down a runway at JFK in New York. A surgeon at a major hospital in Minnesota will begin to make the initial scalpel cut that will open a heart patient’s chest for a bypass procedure. A funeral director will straighten a collar of the starched white shirt worn by a corpse, whose funeral is next on the services schedule.
In less than the time it takes for a neuroelectrical synapse firing in the brain to take place, the young mother’s womb is empty. She sees her little girl vanish as she, herself, starts her fall to the floor from the shock of the physiological changes that are taking place in her body. The 18-wheeler is careening into the traffic, driverless, out of control, crushing and demolishing vehicles and their passengers, while raging ahead in its ungoverned course.
The 757 on the JFK runway is at full take-off speed, but the pilot and co-pilot are not at the controls, while the right wingtip dips toward the runway and catastrophe. The surgeon in Minnesota finds the scalpel cutting air, rather than flesh, because the patient is gone. The funeral director staggers backwards, astonished, because the burial apparel he has been making just right for presentation has collapsed, and the corpse is no longer in the casket.
Those snippets, still-frame snapshots of the paradigm-changing dynamics of the Rapture will geometrically burgeon from the instant this stunning event takes place. It will be the most powerful occurrence of human history since Christ’s first advent intervened into the affairs of mankind.
Believers are translated, changed in an atomos of time, in a fraction of an element of time that cannot be divided. They now look into the holy, omniscient eyes of the Lord that are fathomless in the depths of God’s love. He leads them through the portals of glory, to the city called heaven.
On earth, millions have vanished into nothingness before the stupefied eyes of billions of others. All earthly things that belonged to the departed ones remain behind, including clothing, jewelry, and prosthetics of every description.
I once heard a nationally known “reverend” (so-called), I don’t like the word “reverend” in reference to anyone on this fallen planet, because there is only one reverend, and He has just whisked all who are His into heaven for their eternal rewards, say something like this: “A Rapture –if it were to be something that really happens, would mean that there would be unbelievable carnage upon the earth. God won’t let that happen.” Part 3 later

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Aug 12, 2016 12:16:16   #
bobebgtime Loc: Virginia
 
Are you looking forward to this?

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Aug 12, 2016 13:04:11   #
Little Ball of Hate
 
The media, no doubt, will claim that it was aliens, or something like that.

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Aug 12, 2016 13:51:27   #
kenswalts
 
My only hope is to believe in the G-d of Abram Isaac and Jacob and also to believe that every word in his book is true. From the very first law or rule or even command which is not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He made a lot of commands and laws and statutes and ordinances. And then he said if you obey my laws and commands I will be your G-d and you will be my people. No one does this very well that is why we need Yashua to wash our feet, which is him forgiving us our trespasses as we forgive those that have trespassed against us.

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