Acts 1:9-11 – 9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? 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.”
Jesus is coming back down in the same way he went up. We’re not supposed to be substituting that with anything else. There are theories that he came back in Spirit only. Other theories are we are supposed to charge and usher in the Lord coming back.
The Bible doesn’t read that way at all. The antichrist, tribulation, and great falling away are what are written about in the last days.
Jesus comes back to fulfill his promise of being the Messiah for the Jews. He is going to rule the world from the Throne of David.
How does He come back before that happens?
Zechariah 14:2-4 – 2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
3 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.
At the end of the Tribulation our Lord comes and he will rule with an iron scepter. He comes down with His armies. Those are His believers from the Church. I’m a pre trib rapture believer, so I believe we come back with the Lord on his way down after being with Him for at least 7 years.
Revelation 19:11-21 – 11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. 12 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. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.”
19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning
sulfur. 21 The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
Jesus is coming back just as it is prophesied. There is no substituting consciousness or change in plans. God’s Word is the way it is going to happen, just like all the prophecies that have proceeded before and that are still forming in front of our eyes.
Be ready! The world has nothing to offer you that’s worth affecting your relationship with your Lord.