
Messiah Jesus is Coming Again!
GOD
HAS WRITTEN THE GLORIOUS FINALE FOR US!
THE
FINAL GREAT EVENT FOR THIS WORLD IS THE VICTORIOUS RETURN TO EARTH OF
THE MESSIAH YESHUA/ JESUS/ ISA,
(THE NAMES WE KNOW HIM BY).
We
mainly use the name ‘Jesus’ in this study.
Note:
all Scriptures quoted from the Bible, we use NIV, are given in Italic
print.
Our
emphasis on ‘The Earth’. Throughout these
articles you may have noticed that the word ‘Earth’ is
always written with a capital. This is quite deliberate, as for a
start, the names of the other planets around our sun are always
written that way, (e.g. Mars, Jupiter, etc.)
Of
far more importance is the attitude we have to this Earth being:
The special creation by Elohim/ God, as a Home for His people.
The focus of His acts and messages, throughout time.
The place to which God in Messiah Jesus came, in a human form, to live & work.
The place where, having ministered for 33 years, Jesus/Yeshua laid down His life in a cruel death, was buried as a dead body for 3 days, and arose victoriously as a visible live Person, talking and eating with His friends in the land of Israel.
Clearly the actual Earthly place He ascended from, with a sure promise to return to it and actually stand on it, on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem, Israel.
The Realm of His Kingdom will be here on Earth for 1000 years.
Finally, after creating a New Heaven and a New Earth, God Himself will dwell with His redeemed people there, forever!
HAVING
SEEN THIS WE ALSO NEED TO SEE GOD’S OVERALL PLAN.
God’s
Plan was to create for Himself and us, a Fellowship of ONENESS.
This
is explained over and over in the Bible, which we believe is the
total Word of God. The Plan can be found in the Tanakh/ O.T. &
explained in the New Testament. The Plan was for Him to make a
way for anyone who chooses to be made free from the ‘cancer’
of sin, so that they could be free from the death sentence of sin and
have God’s ‘Eternal Life’ in them instead.
That would make it possible to be in God’s Family -forever!
This is why Jesus prayed in John 17: 1-3, “Father…
Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You. For You granted Him
authority over all people that He might give Eternal Life to
all those You have given Him. Now this is Eternal Life: that
they might know You, the only true God and Jesus Messiah whom You
have sent.”
In verse 22, “I have
given them the glory that You gave Me, that they may be one as We are
one; I in them and You in Me. May they be brought to complete unity
to let the world know that You sent Me, and have loved them even
as You have loved Me.” [Note: the unity is with God and
Jesus- an amazing miracle! It is only when we are one with
God that we can ever be ‘one’ with each other. It is
like the spokes of a wheel – the closer they are to the
‘hub’/center (God) the closer they are to each other!]
Paul’s letter to the Ephesians mentions ‘the plan’,
using the picture of ‘a family’ in 3: 14, “For
this reason I kneel before the Father, from Whom His whole Family in
Heaven and Earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious
riches, He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your
inner being –so that Messiah may live in your hearts
through faith…” In 3: 4 –7 he explains how all
this can happen. “Because of His great love for us,
God, Who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Messiah even when we
were dead in transgressions –it is by [undeserved] grace
you have been saved!” And all of Scripture explains that
without that grace/ mercy our sins would have made it
impossible to live in God’s Holy Presence –let
alone forever!
But God wanted us to wait for all the
Family to be gathered together, at the same time to start actually
enjoying all the wonders of being together with Him! Jesus
understood how hard it would be for us to wait till that time when He
prayed, “ My prayer is not that You take them out of the
world, but that you would protect them from the Evil One.” In
addition, when Jesus was giving His farewell talk to His Disciples
and telling them that He would be going to the place of death, (which
they could not understand), He would also come to Life. This was to
make it possible for us to always have a ‘Place’
beside Him, not only in this life but later on, as well! (Look
carefully at John 13:31 - 14: 2.) In this life we can even
“live in Him”, John 15: 4-7!
A.
THE PLAN IS COMPLETED BY THE COMING OF MESSIAH JESUS ON HIS ‘WEDDING
DAY’ AND OURS TOO!
How
God is going to complete ‘the Plan’.
It is
the part of this Plan that we consider now, where Yeshua/ Jesus/ Isa
actually returns to Earth to reign as “KING OF kings and
LORD OF lords.” He also comes as the victorious Bridegroom, to
claim His Bride! God completes His Plan this way. The actual
description is given like a glorious video, complete with the words
of the songs to be sung, in Revelation chapter 19:1-16. “After
this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in
Heaven shouting: ‘Amen Hallelujah!’ [Vs. 5] Then a voice
came from the Throne, saying, ‘Praise our God all you His
servants, you who fear Him, both small and great!’ …
[Vs. 6 –8] “Hallelujah! For our LORD God Almighty reigns.
Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory! For the wedding of
the Lamb has come and His Bride has made herself ready’. Fine
linen bright and clean was given her to wear. (Fine linen stands for
the righteous acts of the saints.”)
[See later notes
about her dress!]
Vs. 11, “I saw Heaven standing open
and there before me was a white horse whose Rider is called ‘Faithful
and True’. With His justice He judges and makes war. His eyes
are like blazing fire, and on His head are many crowns. He has a Name
written on Him that no one knows but He Himself. He is dressed in a
robe dipped in blood and His Name is ‘The Word of God.’
The armies of Heaven were following Him, riding on white horses, and
dressed in fine linen, white and clean” … On His robe
and on His thigh He has this name written: ‘KING of kings, and
LORD of lords’.”
Compare with Psalms/Tehillim 45!
A royal wedding described – but it could only be for this
great wedding Day, as it says, “God has blessed you forever…
Your throne O God will last forever; a sceptre of justice will be the
sceptre of Your kingdom.”
The
re-occurring theme throughout the whole Bible is just so beautiful to
trace. You could list all the sounds, all those involved -from
myriads of angels to countless singing choirs; the significance of
clouds and white linen garments, and so much more! No subject could
give more joy than this one. (Many songs we sing are about this.) A
particularly precious study is to see some references in the
O.T/Tanakh, like, Isaiah 40: 5, “And the glory of the LORD
will be revealed and all mankind together, will see it. For
the mouth of the LORD has spoken!”
Verse 10: “See,
the Sovereign LORD comes with power, and His Arm [Jesus] rules for
Him. See, His reward is with Him, and His recompense [reward]
accompanies Him.”
See also Psalms 47 and 72. Also
Dani’el 7:13,14 & 18, as well as chapter 12, part of verse
1 through to verse 3. “At that time your people, [Jewish
people] –everyone whose name is found written in the Book [of
Life – Rev. 20: 12] –will be delivered. Multitudes who
sleep in the dust of the Earth will awake some to everlasting life…”
But it is ONE great Day of Jesus’ Coming– though it may last far longer than ’24 hours’! And as we discuss in other places, it is the one and only resurrection Day!
[See point C6 below.]
B. CLIMACTIC EVENTS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE the SECOND COMING OF YESHUA/ JESUS/ ISA.
These
again are the subjects of various conclusions. Yet there seems little
doubt about some of the stages which develop in a rising
crescendo of terrible activity. If you have taken the time to look at
the references given in other articles, you will know about some
important events, referred to in them.
[See our Summary of Future
Events on the Home page or ‘End Time Events’.]
We
repeat some special ones –out of many of them, here.
1.
During the time of terrible Tribulation, the False-messiah’s
anger will be directed against the two prophets in Jerusalem,
(also called Yerushalayim.) Finally Satan himself will cause the
deaths of these two men of God, which up to this time had
proved impossible and dangerous. This is described in Revelation
11:7-12, but the sequence is also given accurately. “Now
when they had finished their testimony, the Beast that comes up from
the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.” [Vs
11.] “But after three & half days a breath of life from
God entered them and they stood on their feet, and terror struck
those who saw them.” They are called up to Heaven and rise
as the world watches. “They went up to Heaven in a cloud
while their enemies looked on.” Some people say this is
‘the Rapture of the Church’ –but we believe this is
only these two special Truth-telling, Godly human men that God
has used to initiate certain judgements in harmony with the first 5
‘Trumpet blasts as described. A terrible Earthquake destroys a
tenth of the city and seven thousand residents- are killed. (Perhaps
these are bad non-Jews, or non-Believers, -people that have been
living there under false pretences? Some like this are there right
now, and pressing for certain concessions from the Israeli
Government. Never fear –God will deal with impostors in His
City one day!)
2.
The jealous False-messiah has at some point shifted his centre of
worship and his ‘speaking stature’ to the Temple of God
in Jerusalem, demanding to be worshipped as a god. This will initiate
the final ‘Bowl judgements’.
This
seems to fit with the specific warning Jesus gave, in the
Gospels.
Matthew, Mark and Luke all refer to a specific
‘sign’ that would make it imperative to leave the Judean
area of the Temple, especially. This seems clearly to have two
fulfillments. This is because the factual history of A.D.66-70
tells that during a lull in the Roman attack on Jerusalem, the Jewish
Believers who remembered Yeshua’s words, did flee to safety in
Paella.
However, there are other possible fulfillments, not
as some say -at the introduction/beginning of the time of
Tribulation, but rather - after 3.5 years of the
False-messiah’s 7 year rulership of the entire world. Jesus
said, (Matthew 24: 15,) “So when you see standing in the
Holy Place the abomination that causes desolation, as spoken by the
prophet Dani’el…” And Mark 13: 14, “When
you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it does
not belong… let those in Judea flee to the mountains.”
The whole concept of more than one fulfillment is
endorsed right here by Jesus’ words. Because there had already
been an incident like this foretold by Dani’el (in 9: 27) and
acted out cruelly by Antiochus Epiphanies IV, in 170 BC. This fits
with another Scripture, 2 Thessalonians 2: 4. “He will
oppose and exalt himself over everything that is called ‘god’
or is worshipped, so that he [finally] sets himself up in God’s
Temple, proclaiming himself to be ‘god’. This could
be ‘the last straw’ with God Who will not give His glory
to another, and so all the final End Time events will quickly happen
–over a shorter period of time- some say 1 year of the ‘Day
of The LORD’. It is clear there will be an actual Temple in
Jerusalem for this to happen, but we write of this in another
article. But this will be a very significant sign to the whole world.
3.
The time of Tribulation now moves into the time
of God’s Anger.
This signal
Jesus gave seems to be the catalyst or ‘trigger’ for the
whole series of events written of in Revelation 16, coming after the
‘fast-forwarded’ visions of glory in chapter 15 which
match so well with the description of the Bride we mentioned above.
It seems there is a difference from the time of Tribulation
which will now move into the time of the terrible ‘bowl
judgements’ which follow in ever more devastating
sequences of horror. But it seems possible, all Believers are
protected from them now, as you can read in Revelation 16:
2. “The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land
[Earth] and ugly and painful sores broke out on the people who had
the mark of the Beast and worshipped his image.” (Not
on the Believers who have not worshipped It!)
Encouragement
is also given in 14:12& 13, after outlining the terrible
punishments for those who worshipped the Beast. “This calls
for patient endurance on the part of the saints, [Believers] who obey
God’s commandments and remain faithful to Jesus…
‘Blessed are the dead who die in the LORD, from now [this
point] on they will rest from their labour,” [perhaps this
means until the resurrection Day.] “For their deeds will
follow them.”
It depends on how you understand this
sentence, but our belief is that, although Christian Gentiles will
suffer in a time of Tribulation, they will not suffer
any kind of ‘judgement’ – or ‘punishment’,“they
will rest from their labour” of persecution. This is
because we agree with many writers, that God does not ‘judge’/punish
His own Believing People. There is a difference between the time of
Tribulation, and after 3.5 years, a time of ‘Bowl judgements.’
So we see true Christians being protected, along with all Jewish
people who have already become Believers. [We explain this more in
other articles about ‘End Times’.]
Isaiah 60: 1-3
indicates this difference between Israel and the rest of the
world.
We
have included these background ideas to give a ‘lead up’
and contrast with the actual, glorious Second Coming of Messiah
Yeshua/ Jesus to this Earth!
4.
So finally the False-messiah now plans to fight
God and God’s people in a last desperate declaration of world
war, gathering at Ha Megiddo.This is really initiated by the
pouring out of the 6th bowl of God’s wrath, and also, possibly,
the 6th Shofar or trumpet. Revelation 9:13-21 and 16:12-16
explains it, from a Heavenly perspective, but again this has been
clearly foretold in many places in the O.T./Tanakh. Consider Isaiah
11:15-16, & chapter 13 to chapter 14...
[We study this
separately in the ‘End Time Events’ section.]
5.
The pouring out of the seventh bowl is also
when the False-messiah’s whole structure and seat of power,
called Babylon, is totally overthrown.
This calls
forth great, resounding angelic announcements of the rightness of
this final bowl judgement as carefully recorded from Revelation 16:
17 right through chapters 17 and 18! “Evil and its just reward
are chained irrevocably together.” God’s saints have been
greatly tested on the matter of God’s justice, while holding
perhaps with fearful faith to its truth. We worship a Holy and
totally Just, (fair) GOD!
6.
The strange thing is, that before the actual
Coming, inspite of the signs and the tragic ‘end time events’
–Jesus told us that people would still be trying to live
‘normal’ lives.“As it was in the days
of Noah so it will be at the Coming of the Son of Man. For in the
days before the Flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage up to the Day Noah entered the Ark [boat] and they
knew nothing about what would happen until the Flood came and took
them all away. That is how it will be at the Coming of the Son of
Man.” Matthew 24:37-39.
7.
But just at the right moment King Jesus Messiah
will come and destroy the False-messiah, his prophet and the whole
army! All God’s true people will be totally
vindicated and rewarded for their costly faithfulness! Revelation 19:
17 -21 is only one of many ‘videos’ of this, the
greatest climax of History! After awful darkness, LIGHT! The end
of the Age is the end of all evil government! This emphasises the two
sides of the Second Coming of Messiah Jesus. It will be a wonderful
day for all Believers –but a Day of final judgement of the
False-messiah and His Prophet and his army of Satan worshippers. The
two leaders are thrown into the lake of Fire. [Vs 20.]
See
Isaiah 2:12-22, 11:4&5, & the full chapter of 24, also shared
in another study. We will just quote from 66:14-16, “When
you see this, your heart will rejoice, (like in Rev. 19!) “and
you will flourish like grass; the Hand of the LORD will be made known
to His servants –but His fury will be shown to His foes,
See, the LORD is coming –with fire…” and
the judgements are spelled out to the end of 18.
[Chapter 66:
19 –21 will have happened before this as a result
of the events of Ezekiel 38 & 39. Discernment re the timing of
foretold events have to be considered in the light of all
Scripture! There can be no more ‘evangelism’ after
the above judgements have come. This is an example of discerning the
timing of events.]
The
certain fact is that finally this wicked Evil regime will end!
No
wonder there are great songs of joy and a huge victory parade! Will
you be there? *
C.
OTHER ASPECTS OF JESUS MESSIAH’S RETURN
TO EARTH AT HIS SECOND COMING – for the BELIEVERS!
1.
No one on Earth will know exactly when Jesus
will come. “No-one knows about that Day or
hour.” Mark 13:32, but you read Luke chapter 17: 20 –37,
for yourself.
2. It
will be sudden! Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 5: 2, “You
yourselves well know that the Day of the LORD will come like a
thief in the night. When people are saying, ‘Everything is so
peaceful and secure,’ then the destruction will come upon them,
the way labour pains come upon a pregnant woman and there is no way
they will escape. But you are not in the dark, so that the Day
should take you by surprise ‘like a thief’; for
you are all people who belong to the Day.” We
certainly will not know the Day or the hour, but like a
pregnant mother, we will have some idea of the nearness of Jesus
Coming. Only unbelievers or ‘sleeping Christians’ will be
‘caught out’ –all true Believers, Jewish and
Gentile will be ready! “His Bride has made herself ready.”
Revelation 19: 7.
3. We
Believers in Jesus will not be surprised. This is because we will
take notice of all the ‘signs’ as given to us in the Word
of God! We are ‘in the Light’ because we
belong to Jesus Who is the Light. That is what the next verse in 1
Thessalonians 5 means, “ You are all sons of the Light, and
sons of the Day! We do not belong to the night or to the
darkness.” This includes Jews & Gentiles.
4.
The Bible tells us that Jesus will come just
when the False-messiah is ready to destroy God’s City and His
people by gathering his army to a place called ‘Ha Megiddo’.
[We have already explained this in point B 3, above.] We do not need
to be afraid but look up and rejoice! Hold onto earthly things very
lightly –we may lose possessions, even be persecuted before
this but now the ‘END’ is near.
5.
But again -this will not surprise us -because
we are also taking notice of the instructions and warnings we have
been given! “So then, let us not be like others,
who are asleep, but let us be alert & self-controlled. For those
who sleep, sleep at night, & those who get drunk, get drunk at
night. But since we belong to the Day, let us be
self-controlled.” (Please read this whole chapter.) Jesus
was anxious to give clear warnings, too: “Therefore keep
watch, because you do not know on what Day your LORD will
come…” Matthew 24: 42 – but read to verse 51.
There is a punishment for those who do not ‘watch’. This
is why this web-site has been set up. It is not called ‘Watchman’s
Post’ for nothing- we all need to be ‘watching! We are
glad you are reading this! We need to be filled by the oil of
His Spirit, as Jesus warned and explained in His story in Matthew 25:
1 –10, about the unprepared ‘bridesmaids.’ This is
why we have repeated the points above.
6.
On that Day, all the saints of all time are
resurrected to meet our Saviour in the air and join the most
majestic, glorious procession, ever! This includes
all Believers who have been here through all the End Time
events. There are so many references to this, but two stand out. One
is Paul’s description in 1st Thessalonians 4:13-17,
“Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who
fall asleep, [have died] or to grieve like the rest of men, who have
no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe
that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in
Him. According to the LORD’S own word, we tell you that we who
are still alive, [not killed in the Tribulation], who are left
till the Coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who
have fallen asleep. For the LORD Himself will come down from
Heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and
with the trumpet call of God and the dead in Messiah will rise first.
After that, we who are still alive and left will be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
And so we will be with the Lord forever!
This will
be here on Earth, because that is where Jesus is Coming/ Returning
to!
See Thessalonians 2nd letter, chapter 1:5-10, & 2:1&8.
See Dani’el 12:2&3, also Psalm/Tehillim 68. Someone has
said ‘the air’ is the only place suitable for such a huge
gathering of all God’s true children from all the
world, since the time of Seth, (Adam’s good son) throughout all
of history.
The indication is that we meet Jesus and join
the procession back to Earth with Him and all the resurrected
Believers and angels! We’ll be with Him here for 1000
years.
[See about our resurrection in the article about ‘The
Messiah’s Kingdom’, Part II.]
D.
OTHER AMAZING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DAY
OF YESHUA/ JESUS/ ISA’S COMING TO EARTH IN GLORY!
1.
It will be seen by everyone
alive on Earth! Matthew 24: 17,
says ‘Like (sheet) lightning’ - lighting up the whole
sky! Revelation 1:7, “Look, He is coming with the clouds,
and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; [we all
did by our sins], and all the Peoples of the Earth will mourn
because of Him. So shall it be! Amen!” This was the reason
Jesus said to His Disciples, ‘you won’t have to go
here or there to see Me.’ For 2000 years this had to be
taken by faith, & although we still need to trust, with
modern technology being watched by Billions of people – maybe
it is easier to accept that “every eye will see Him”?
However, we can believe and rejoice in this promise, now!
2.
It will be a very noisy, illuminated event!
It seems that the Earth will be in a state of confusion, chaos and
darkness because of ‘the Bowl Judgements’. For example,
“the 5th one was poured out on the throne of the
Beast and his kingdom was plunged into darkness.” So
the dramatic announcement John saw in Revelation 18:1 would seem very
spectacular! “I saw another Angel coming down from Heaven.
He had great authority, and the Earth was illuminated by his
splendour.” This is when he announces the ‘fall of
Babylon’, which is the end of all Evil.
[See ‘The
time of Tribulation & God’s Wrath’.]
3.
It will be at the time of the seventh & last Trumpet being
sounded. Incidentally this is a way of understanding the
timing of Jesus’ one and only Second Coming. Consider these
Scriptures referring to the last Trumpet-call.
Matthew 24:31: “He will send His angels with a loud Trumpet call, and they will gather His elect, [a name for true Believers], from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.”
1 Corinthians 15:51, 52; “We will not all sleep, [i.e.’die’], but we will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last Trumpet. For the Trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable and we will be changed.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16, “For the LORD Himself will come down from Heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the Trumpet call of God, and the dead in Messiah will be raised first.”
Revelation 11:15 says. “The seventh angel sounded his Trumpet, and there were loud voices in Heaven which said; ‘The Kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our LORD and of His Messiah, and He will Reign for ever and ever.”
Therefore we believe in one, single resurrection Day for Believers in Messiah.
4.
The angels are a big part of it. You
can compare Matthew 25:31, with Mark 13:27 & 2 Thessalonians 1:7.
“When the LORD Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire
with His powerful angels.”
5.
In the clouds. There are a whole
string of references to this; Daniel 7:13, & Revelation 1:7 say,
“He comes with the clouds.” Other references for
you are Matthew 24:30, 26:64, Mark 13: 26, & 1 Thessalonians
4:17.
Some of us have wondered if this is because of the huge ‘cloud’ of angels and saints dressed in white? In ancient times white clothes were expensively woven from special linen flax and only for very rich people or royalty!
Or more likely the Cloud of glory, called the She’kinah glory, as seen in the Tabernacle and the Temple. Jesus referred to this in front of the High Priest, at His trial, in Matthew 26:64, “You will see the Son of Man…coming on the clouds of Heaven.”
Of course, you will remember that when Jesus returned to Heaven forty days after His resurrection, Luke reported, “He was taken up before their eyes, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.” Later the angel told the disciples, “This same Jesus who has been taken from you into Heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into Heaven.” (Acts 1: 9 & 11.)
6. It will bring great relief to very many Believers/ Christians who have been suffering greatly! You can read the words yourself in Paul’s 2nd letter to persecuted Believers in 2 Thessalonians 1: 6 –12. “It is justice for God to pay back trouble to those who are troubling you, and to give rest to you who are being troubled, when the LORD Yeshua/ Jesus/ Isa is revealed from Heaven with His mighty angels in a fiery flame.” This is again, another proof that Christians, (but not Messianic Believers or those they have given refuge to in Israel), who have been tortured in the Tribulation, will still be on Earth.
ALL
THIS MEANS THAT ‘THE END OF THE AGE’ HAS COME,
YESHUA/
JESUS/ ISA HAS COME TO BE THE KING,
AND REIGN ON A RENEWED EARTH!
1.
Yeshua
Ha Meshiach – Jesus the Messiah - takes the Throne of David
and begins to reign from Jerusalem. Again you will
love to list all the Scriptures about this, and we have written
elsewhere about the actual Millennial reign with us on Earth. But
one very beautiful jewel of a Scripture is Isaiah 16:4&5; “The
oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the
aggressor will vanish from the Land. In love a throne will be
established; in faithfulness a Man will sit on it- One from the
house of David- One who in judging seeks justice and speeds the
cause of righteousness.” This could only be Yeshua Ha
Meshiach! How very, very wonderful!
2.
The perfect, just and holy reign of King
Jesus will be for 1000 years!
Revelation 20: 1- 7
repeats the time as 1000 years, we call that a ‘Millennium’.
Now you can go to our article about that time and add your own
thoughts, Scripture references, and conclusions as you see
them! It is such a lovely study, but sadly we do not hear many
preachers talk about it!
3.
It will be on a renewed Earth, as it was
at Creation. We believe God made this marvellous
intricate world of nature and all the universes around us in six
days of 24 hours. So how long it would take for Him to recreate
it, after all the judgements our sin has brought on it, we do
not know. But the God Who raised Jesus from the dead, and has
ordered all the affairs of men and nations for thousands of years
could easily return it to the way He made it ‘in the
beginning.’ We need to note, [as we have in our studies on
the ‘Millennium’ and ‘Eternity’,] that there
is a big difference between the renewed Earth of the Millennium, and
the completely “New Heavens and new Earth [which comes
after] the first Heaven and the Earth, which [will have] passed
away.” Revelation 21: 1.
It
is a little difficult to do justice to all the wonderful facets of
the Return of Yeshua/ Jesus/ Isa, so you must trace “the
footsteps of the Messiah” as the rabbis call it, and rejoice
over every aspect. Just as we have included the Earthly Names of the
Messiah, so we believe that all those who accept Him as the Saviour
and Lord will be included. Our prayer is that you will be included
because you have His Name on you, “Him who overcomes…
I will also write on him [or her] My New name.” Rev. 3:
12.
There
are still some marvellous mysteries because we can’t imagine or
know all the exciting details about this time.
1.
Where will the “Wedding supper of
the Lamb” be? (Revelation 19: 9.) We believe
it will be in the ‘Garden of Eden’, which is this world
restored as it was at Creation. This is a reason to study the words,
‘Coming’ or ‘Return’ in relation to Jesus
‘Parousia’ or spectacular arrival. It is clear, He
comes to this Earth. “On that day His feet will stand on
the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem.” Zechariah 14:4. The
wedding banquet is depicted in some of Jesus’ parables. One in
Luke 12:37 [JNT] says; “ Happy the slaves whom the Master
finds alert when He comes! Yes! I tell you He will put on His
work-clothes, seat them at the table, and come serve them Himself.”
[Whenever it is] “if this is how He finds them, those
slaves are happy.”
2.
When will the Believers be ‘judged?
This too is for another article, however the very fact of the
‘Rapture Day’, being the Resurrection Day for all
Believers will be a great reward and only by God’s choice.
These are all who are ‘gathered’ as Jesus said in Mark
13: 26 & 27, “At that time men will see the Son of Man
coming in clouds with great power and glory. And He will send His
angels and gather His Elect from the four winds, from the ends of the
Earth to the ends of the Heavens.” It will ‘take out’
the good wheat from the weeds of the tares, (Matt. 13: 30), which is
why Jesus also said, “Two men will be in the field, one will
be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a
hand-mill; one will be taken and the other left.” (Matt.
24: 40/41) So again we emphasise that the ‘taking’ -is up
into the air because we have resurrection bodies, but we will join
the great procession of the saints and angels who are coming with
King Jesus to Earth.
[If we want to be ‘technical’
this is called ‘Post-Tribulation Teaching’.]
It
is while He is King, here on Earth that we will reign with Him.
It seems clear from other Scriptures that we will be in loving
control of non-believing humans.
[See articles on ‘The
Messianic Kingdom’] It seems there will be another time
when the ‘actual rewards’ for individual faithfulness,
are given out –which is a part of the study of ‘Judgements’.
Just to see Jesus, will be a great reward, as many old Christian
songs have said.
“Face
to face with Christ my Saviour,
Face to face what will it be?
When
with rapture I behold Him-
Jesus Messiah –Who died for
me!”IN CONCLUSION
The reality is, that the only
people who can honestly look forward to the Return of Yeshua/ Jesus/
Isa the Messiah to Earth,are those who are already part of His Royal
family!
Most
of the people who read this site are people who already believe in
God’s whole Plan of bringing many, many people into His
Kingdom, which is the same as being in His Royal Family. Generally we
are called ‘True Christians, or Messianic Believers’.
There
is a reason that many of us treasure one verse in the New Testament
of the Bible, (along with many others!).
It is called John
3:16, and this is what it says, quoting the LORD Jesus Messiah
Himself. It says;
“ For
GOD so loved the world, that He gave
His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish,
but have Eternal Life.”
GOD
IS HOLY: so not one human person can be in His Family or
live with Him unless they are perfectly, totally holy and without any
sin. We would die because of the purity of His Presence.
WE
ARE ALL SINNERS, with the disease of our own wrong
choices, like a cancer of death in us. Think about this very
honestly. Have you ever done 1 wrong thing?
BUT
GOD IS LOVE; so He allowed His Son, Jesus, Who is part of
Himself, to come to Earth as a human, and because He had no sin in
Him, he could die as a perfect sacrifice for the sins of anyone who
believes in Him. This was the only way to get rid of the cancer of
sin in people. Sin brings death. Some One perfect had to die in our
place. Yeshua/ Jesus/ Isa, who loves us, was the only sinless Person
Who could do this for us. Do you understand this?
SO
NOW OUR PART IS TO BELIEVE IN HIM. This does not mean just
believing about Him. It means we believe everything about how sinful
we are, then repenting and saying we are truly sorry, and simply
believing and going on believing that His death took our sins away!
Believing is like wearing a gold wedding ring; it joins us to God’s
Love. Our Faith/ believing is ‘gold’ to God!
THIS
MEANS THAT NOW WE ARE IN HIS ROYAL FAMILY, and we can call
Him ‘Father’ and talk to Him anytime about anything and
He will hears us. We call this ‘prayer’. Sometimes it is
just worship. Sometimes we ask Him for something. Like a really good
Father, sometimes he says ‘Yes’, sometimes He says,
‘wait’ and sometimes He says ‘No’. BUT IT IS
ALWAYS HIS BEST FOR US!
ETERNAL
LIFE is another name for the blessings He gives us for all
this life and the next life with Him. It is a quality of true
Life now and in the future. We cannot really understand how
wonderfully good and kind He is to us! It is another thing that we
just have to believe, because God could never tell a lie.
WHEREVER
YOU ARE IN THIS WORLD RIGHT NOW ~
MAY YOU KNOW ABOUT ALL THESE
BLESSINGS FOR YOURSELF!
“On
that Day, when He comes to be glorified by His holy People and
admired by all who have trusted ~ you will be among them,
because you trusted our witness to you.”
(2
Thessalonians 1: 12 JNT)
If you would like to tell
us what you have decided, you can contact us.
We would be so happy
to hear from you!