Title: The Coming of Christ (Second Coming on Earth) and Gathering together unto Him (Second Coming in the Air-Rapture)
When the members of Thessalonians church heard the mysterious words in the gospel of grace received by Apostle Paul from Jesus Christ, they did not receive those in human words, but in the words of God, holding on to the hope in the words, and preaching the gospel with all their hearts in the midst of all persecution and tribulation.
When the members of Thessalonians church heard the mysterious words in the gospel of grace received by Apostle Paul from Jesus Christ, they did not receive those in human words, but in the words of God, holding on to the hope in the words and preaching the gospel with all their hearts in the midst of all persecution and tribulation.
God confirmed the words of Apostle Paul as the Words of God that are in his fourteen epistles.
The members of the Thessalonians church devoted their whole heart to the ministry of preaching the gospel that the Lord Jesus had requested, believing and waiting for the two kinds of hope that they had deeply in their hearts in the words they heard through Apostle Paul.
The two things they hoped for with all their hearts were the first one was to see the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the second to be eager to see the day when they gather together before Him.
Of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, they believed his second coming to the earth to judge them that not know him as well as them that not obeyed the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in the flaming fire taking vengeance on them, and punish them with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power(2Thes. 1:8-9) They also believed that the Lord Jesus Christ would accomplish his will by establishing his kingdom on earth.
They also believed in the day of the rapture when the Lord Jesus Christ resurrect their bodies and gather together before Him who appears in the air. When Apostle Paul testified of two kinds of events in the day of the rapture.
The bodies of the saints who died and slept in Christ are waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the tomb, but their spirits and souls have already ascended into heaven and are with Him, and when He opens the heavens and appears in the air, Christ is coming with their spirits and souls. He will resurrect their bodies of the saints in the tomb to be united with their spirit and souls.
Apostle Paul exhorted saying, “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” Born again Christians are bound to face all kinds of persecutions and tribulations as they engage in spiritual warfare with the devil in the present world ruled by the devil. Therefore, only the day when Christ appears and bring them up to heaven is the only thing for them to be comforted.
Before Jesus left the world, he told his disciples:
The members of Thessalonians church were living in comfort amid severe persecution and tribulation, eagerly awaiting for the day of the rapture and the day of Christ’s Second Coming on earth. They seemed to believe of the rapture while they were alive. There were someone who deceived them at that time as these days. There were time-limited eschatologists who deceived people setting up their time frame and made their hearts shaken and frightened.
Resurrected Jesus appeared to Apostle John and spoke of the type of church that would be raptured before the Great Tribulation. In writing to the angel of the Philadelphia Church, The Holy Spirit seems to divide the church that is to be raptured from the church that shall be left behind in the Great Tribulation:
Apostle Paul testified of two events that must happen before the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and the day of Christ (rapture) when Christ appears in the air:
That’s right! The first one the so-called apostasy that the churches of God are falling away, and the appearance of the Antichrist who shall unite the whole world under his feet to build hid kingdom in the Great Tribulation against the kingdom of Christ to come. Two thousand years ago, the devil who took over the whole world by crucifying Jesus Christ who appeared as the King of the Jews in the land of Israel and set up the Kingdom of heaven sent many antichrists to the world. Apostle John testified of this:
“Apostasy” witnessed through Apostle Paul has reached an irreversible point today. Even almost all churches in the world that declare to believe in Jesus as the way, truth, life, and their Savior and the Lord have joined with WCC and WEA long time ago in the deep adultery with the Roman Catholic Church that is the Whore before God and finally in uniting with all religions And the Lord will deny them all in the day of judgment as Apostle Paul testified:
Now that the Rapture, the Great Tribulation, and Christ’s Second Coming on earth are very near at hand. The devil will now make the so-called Antichrist appear to establish his kingdom on behalf of himself against Christ’s Millennial Kingdom, which will be established after Christ’s Second Coming. Nowadays we already have seen all that have been prepared by the devil for the kingdom of Antichrist under the slogan of New World Order as well as Freemason, Illuminati as well as deep state or shadow government. People all over the world are now seeing all kinds of filthy conspiracy and frauds. Whole world now seeing all kinds of lawlessness popping up from the deep state that has dominated all the politics, religions as well as major mass medias.
Apostle Paul testified that the antichrist was about to appear in his own time. He also testified that when the Antichrist appears, the mystery of iniquity will come into action, but there will be one to prevent from his appearance, but when he is taken out of the way, the lawless man, the man of sin, the son of perdition that is the Antichrist, will finally appear.
We’re seeing the 2020 U.S. presidential elections and seeing a man fighting against deep state scams, fighting them and stopping their atrocities. However, we are not sure if the man who is blocking is the one that Apostle Paul spoke of, but we need to watch awaking spiritually.
When he appears, according to the working of Satan, he will deceive with all power, signs, false miracles, and deception, and those who are not saved will be deceived. But finally, after the Great Tribulation, the Second Coming Lord Jesus Christ will remove him with the spirit from his mouth and throw him into the lake of fire.
Therefore, the saints awaiting the rapture and Christ’s return on earth, pray our Father God who gave us the Lord Jesus Christ as well as eternal comfort and good hope to comfort our heart and establish us in every good word and work.