Thursday, December 21, 2017

WHEN WILL CHRIST RETURN?

(2 Thessalonians 2:1-12)
The apostle Paul deals with this issue
When addressing the Thessalonians.
They had heard that The Day Of The Lord
Had already occured.

Paul told them that the Day Of The Lord,
The return of Christ Jesus,
Would not come until, First:
The Rebellion, the Apostasy,
The Great Falling Away from Faith in Christ Jesus occurs.

And Secondly, until the man of Lawlessness,
The son of Satan, The Beast of Revelation,
The Antichrist, is revealed.

In other words, the Apostasy,
Is the Event that Precipitates the Revealing of the Antichrist.

Paul says that, Currently, this Revealing
Is being HELD BACK by the Holy Spirit,
So that the Antichrist might be Revealed
At the God chosen time.

However, when God removes the Holy Spirit,
Then the Lawless One, the Antichrist, the Beast of Revelation
Will be revealed.

Paul tells us that:
9 The coming of the Lawless One
Will be in accordance with the Work of Satan
Displayed in all kinds
Of Counterfeit Miracles, Signs and Wonders,

10 AND IN EVERY SORT OF EVIL
THAT DECEIVES THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING.

THEY PERISH BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO LOVE THE TRUTH,
AND SO BE SAVED.

11 FOR THIS REASON
GOD SENDS THEM A POWERFUL DELUSION
SO THAT THEY WILL BELEIVE THE LIE

12 AND SO THAT ALL WILL BE CONDEMNED
WHO HAVE NO BELIEVED THE TRUTH,
BUT HAVE DELIGHTED IN WICKEDNESS.
(2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)

It is my opinion That the Bride of Christ,
The Woman of Revelation 12,
Is Removed with the Holy Spirit

However, this does not include all that is called the “Church.”
We know from many Scriptures
That Christians go through the Great Tribulation.
[Daniel 8:11-14; 11:31-35; 12:7;12: 8-13
Revelation 7:9-17]

The revealing of the Lawless One,
Begins God's Great Tribulation
That goes on for Three and One-Half Years.

At the End of the Three and One-Half Years,
Christ Jesus Returns, to Defeat the Antichrist
And all the armies of the World.
[Zechariah 12, 13 and 14; Revelation 19:11-21]

He then Establishes His Kingdom on Earth as in Heaven
For a Thousand Years; God's Day of Rest,
In Jerusalem on Mount Zion.
[Revelation 20 and 21]

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