Appear Second Time

When Christ comes (Acts 1:11) the second time (Heb 9:28), much is going to be fulfilled. He has already come the first time, which was when He was born, ministered, bore our sins and died on Calvary, rose the third day and ascended (John 20:17).

(Heb 9:28 KJV) "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation."

Note: Just as Jesus' first coming was foretold with various details scattered throughout the prophetic (1 Cor 13:9-13) Word, it is the same with His second coming and appearing (Heb 9:28). To me the prophetic parts are like gathering scattered pieces of a picture puzzle and placing them, which clarify God's unveiling (2 Cor 3:13-18) order (1 Cor 15:20-23) of events (1 Cor 15:23-28), learning about things once sealed (Dan 9:24; 12:3-4, 9), but now not sealed (Rev 22:9-10) and revealed (Mat 11:25-27; Eph 3:1-6) about the Savior (Psa 40:7-8 and His (mysteries) secrets (Rev 10:7) to whoever He so desires (Amos 3:6-8 ¹).

As a Thief

(Rev 16:15 KJV) "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame."

When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, He is coming quickly (Rev 22:20 ²) and as a thief. In one of Jesus's parables, when He talked about His return He said, "...if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up" (Mat 24:43 KJV), and again "...if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through" (Luke 12:39 KJV). In Revelation 3:3, Jesus told the ones of the Church of Sardis who will not watch, "I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee." And in Revelation 16:15 He said, "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth." The Day of the Lord will come "as a thief in the night" is part of Peter's (2 Pet 3:10) description and part of Paul's (1 Th 5:2) description of that Day. Paul wants us to be ready, for the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night (1 Th 5:1-11).

(1 Th 5:1-11 KJV) "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. {2} For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. {3} For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. {4} But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. {5} Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. {6} Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. {7} For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. {8} But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. {9} For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, {10} Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. {11} Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do."

When the world will be saying "peace and safety" that will be the time sudden destruction comes. We are not in darkness so that Day should overtake us as a thief. We are children of light and children of the day and not children of the night or of darkness. We are told to not sleep (in the spiritual sense), but watch and be sober and etc. If we are watching and "...exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching" (Heb 10:25 KJV), we will be prepared, and will have done everything possible to see that all in our house (Acts 18:8) were saved (Acts 16:31-33) and not separated from us when Saints are caught up, and be not misleading.

Heavens and Earth Shaken

When the Son of Man returns, after (post) the tribulation, the heavens and earth will be shaken.

(Mat 24:29 KJV) "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:"

(Heb 12:26 KJV) "Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven."

(Rev 6:12-14 KJV) "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; {13} And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. {14} And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; ³ and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

Note: When Jesus rose from the grave there was a great earthquake (Mat 28:1-7). When the two witnesses will be resurrected, which I believe will be the time when the Body of Christ and Saints rise, in which "the dead in Christ shall rise first" (1 Th 4:16), a great earthquake will occur (Rev 11:11-13). ^Study

Coming in Clouds

When the Son of Man returns, He will come in clouds, and every eye will see Him (Rev 1:7). Many times when the Bible describes His coming, clouds are part of the scene (Dan 7:14 ⁴).

(Mark 14:62 KJV) "And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven."

(Rev 1:7 KJV) "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."

For the Saints, the clouds of heaven, from where the light of heaven will shine (Acts 22:6-11), will be a refuge to where we will escape (Luke 21:36). But for the wicked, on that terrible (Joel 2:1-11), great and dreadful day (Mal 4:5) when Christ appears, it will be a day of wrath, and a day of clouds and darkness (Joel 2:1-2; Zep 1:14-16), possible comparable to how the pillar of cloud (Exo 13:21-22) appeared to the Egyptians (Exo 14:19-20).

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With love in Christ!
Al