The King is Coming Part 2

Sunday, February 27
The King is Coming Part 2
1 Corinthians 15:51-57

In part one we looked at the 1st Thessalonians 4:13- 18.

Text speaks in the first part of Christ's second coming

We also read revelations 19: 11-15.

This text refers to the second part of the second coming. I will approach this stage of the message.

This church he will reveal them a mystery.

I don't want you to be uninformed.

Both are regarding the destiny of the victory of the grave of bodies of the believer and the destiny of the Christians that are alive at the events of phase one of the second coming.

Thessalonians 7 Christ will appear in the clouds with the Arch Angel and the Trump of God.

The trump shall sound. The bodies of the Old Testaments Saints and New Testament Believers will rise from the graves wherever that may be and go up in the air to meet Christ.  As they are going then the Living Believers will follow them!

Corinthians 15 says this will happen so fast it will be quicker than a human blink.

Here the trump of assembly will blow which only the believer will hear.

The dead as in Thessalonians will respond living believers will as well.

All will meet Christ in the air in the 2nd level of the heavenlies and as we continue upward to the 3rd level will happen before we reach our destination.

Our flesh and bone physical bodies will change to our long-awaited spirit forms the corruptible flesh will become incorruptible spirit and we who have physically died will reunite with our souls who have already been in heaven waiting for this moment.

This will be a major blow to Satan whose actions in the garden caused physical death to have to occur to begin with.

We will be able to say with great authority.

O death where is thy sting, oh grave where is thy victory!! 

We have looked at how the 1st phase of the 2nd coming will actually take place.

Now we will look at the aspect of when!

The reality of answering this is not as conclusive as to the how of it.

Jesus is disciples asked him when is the signs of his coming at for the end of the age?

He gave many things to look for. Great apostasy, wars and rumors of them, a great increase in natural disasters, and increased hatred of races, a major problem with drug use etc.

Evil will abound and death and the decrease value of life will both increase.

Another sign he told them was that the time around his rapture of his church would be that that the world would be as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Lord would appear.

It was a dark and evil world with no thought of or concern about God or their eternal destinies.

Jesus gave these and other examples of things just preceding his call to his church.

Did you notice that he did not and could not give the definite time frame? Rather he said here's what you need to be looking for and I can't tell you when exactly, but I can get you close.

As God why couldn't he give them a definitive day or hour it is simple he said that no one knows the day nor the hour nor even the angels but his father only.

Jesus did say when you see the signs began to come to pass, lift your heads for our redemption draw us nearer.

Another: when you shall see all these things, now my return is near even at the very doors.

Also, watch therefore, for you know not either the day or the hour wherein the Son of man, cometh.

If we were to know exactly when the call from God trump would sound how many would like live life like hell until the last moment and then call out for salvation? Multitude.

I personally feel the greatest sign he gave was also the final sign to look for and it is the rebirth of the fig tree Israel.

Something that we need to understand with the term generation is that in the biblical terms a generation is

 30-to-40-year timeframe.

We know this cannot be real meaning if you use the 1948 or the 1967 dates that would have happened some time ago, it didn't So what did Jesus mean using them that term then?

I believe he meant the term in the Hebrew word (tale dot).

This doesn't have a numerical application.

In Christ exclamation, it means that a people will experience a cultural and even a personal event that will change their society’s course of history.

Events will be a personal and cultural altering event

. Thus, Christ's words that the generation who would witness Israel’s rebirth and see all the things he said would be signs preceding his coming in the air he would be in the be a culture that would witness it all unfolding

we are warned to not set dates so why would Jesus use a term with a generational explanation that was easily calculated numerically?

Jesus said that he would come as a thief in the night.

Yet, we would know when this would be near even at the doors.

Not by numerical news by the thoughts and actions of a culture when this is about to unfold.

The rapture will not be seen by the world as it happens, but by the ramifications of it will be worldwide. The world will flip out with millions of men, women, boys, girls, babies, mentally handicapped folk are just gone.

This I believe will usher in the tribulation as the world looks for answers.

A dramatic figure will arise to guarantee the world he has the answers.

Believe this or not, but his answer could very well be that a glacial force has taken them.

Folks, there is a whole lot more going on soon secretly and covertly on the subject of UFO's then you could really imagine.

I may someday speak about this from a spiritual perspective.

The world will experience 2 to 3 1/2-year periods of time called the tribulation and the great tribulation with the latter seeing a complete meltdown of morality and human decency. It will also bring the un-fathered wrath of God to a wicked, vile, and unrepentant world.

When this is about to conclude the beast and his henchman the false prophet will gather the world army at a place called Armageddon. The Valley of the Dago or what is also known as the valley of Jehoshaphat.

unlike all the events leading up to the rapture that has no true numerical application the tribulation has a designation 

7-year timeframe.

Saint will know that the seven years is about to expire, and he will know what that means.

The prophecy second phase of the second coming.

He will have the beast and the false prophet gather these mentioned worlds armies to first crush any semblance of God's people Israel and more importantly stop Jesus Christ from coming back to gain his rightful throne over the earth.

Now let's finish this by reading again Revelation 19: 11-16.

Christ and his heavenly armies of which we will be a part of will be seen by the whole world, unlike the rapture that will happen in secrecy.

Christ will but speak and all the armies down to the last participant will drop dead in their tracks.

The beast and the false prophet will be spared for a special judgment, I don't totally understand, but they will be cast alive into the turn lake of fire as Christ takes his rightful place as a king of kings and Lord of Lords and we will reign with him 1000 years and we will then enter into the eternal Kingdom.

The future is not bleak for the Christian it is one of real honor and glory with Christ. I guarantee you that the king is coming.  Are you ready?