Only The Dead In Christ And Who Are Alive In Christ Will Be Caught Up To Meet The King of Kings In The Air For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thess. 4:16, 17) We Shall Behold Him - youtube/watch?v=KZ3H3lg9NZM What a powerful message from the Lord. In order for us to believe that at the second coming of Jesus every eye shall see Him, we must first believe in the source of the information, the Bible. The Bible provides all the information we need to establish what will happen at the second coming of Jesus. You see my friends; Jesus will not come quietly like He did at the first resurrection. He will not come alone as He did at the first resurrection. Accompanied by ten thousand angels, Jesus will descend from Heaven with a shout. The light of Jesus will be so great, that all times zones will become one. There will be no darkness on the earth at the time of the coming of Christ. As a result, all eyes shall behold Him. Although this information is available in the Bible, we cannot become complacent. Now is not the time to be caught up too much with the things of this earth. Now is not the time to wonder after the beast and His image. It is high time for us to wake up out of our slumber and recognise that the Lord is coming every soon. The signs are foretelling that the moment is nearing. The wars and rumours of wars are indicators of the imminent coming of Jesus. Some people would want to wait until the last minute to prepare. I would not suggest that you do that!!! Now is the acceptable time. We should be spending this time asking the Lord to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we don’t allow God to recreate His image in us before He says “It Is Finished” the brightness of His second coming will destroy us. Unless the work of transformation is completed in our lives, we are not going to rejoice at His second coming. I pray that we will spend quality time fortifying our minds with the word of truth and allowing the Holy Spirit to take full control of every single area of our lives. No human language can portray the scenes of the second coming of the Son of Man in the clouds of heaven. He is to come with his own glory, and with the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. He will come clad in the robe of light, which he has worn from the days of eternity. Angels will accompany him. Ten thousand times ten thousand will escort him on his way. The sound of the trumpet will be heard, calling the sleeping dead from the grave. The voice of Christ will penetrate the tomb, and pierce the ears of the dead, “and all that are in the graves ... shall come forth.” (Review and Herald, September 5, 1899 – Ellen G. White) In the day of His coming, the last great trumpet is heard, and there is a terrible shaking of earth and heaven. The whole earth, from the loftiest mountains to the deepest mines, will hear. Everything will be penetrated by fire. The tainted atmosphere will be cleansed by fire. The fire having fulfilled its mission, the dead that have been laid away in the grave will come forth—some to the resurrection of life, to be caught up to meet their Lord in the air, and some to behold the coming of Him whom they have despised and whom they now recognize as the Judge of all the earth. All the righteous are untouched by the flames. They can walk through the fire, as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego walked in the midst of the furnace heated seven times hotter than it was wont to be heated. The Hebrew worthies could not be consumed, because the form of the fourth, the Son of God, was with them. So in the day of the coming of the Lord, smoke and flame will be powerless to harm the righteous. Those who are united with the Lord will escape unscathed. Earthquakes, hurricanes, flame, and flood cannot injure those who are prepared to meet their Saviour in peace. But those who rejected our Saviour, and scourged and crucified Him, will be among those who will be raised from the dead to behold His coming in the clouds of heaven, attended by the heavenly host— ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.... This scene has been presented before me as fully as I could bear to behold it. (The Upward Look, pg. 261 – Ellen G. White) In this scene of the resurrection of the Son of God is given a lively image of the glory that will be revealed at the general resurrection of the just at the second appearing of Christ in the clouds of heaven. Then the dead that are in their graves shall hear his voice and come forth to life; and not only the earth, but the heavens themselves, shall be shaken. A few graves were opened at the resurrection of Christ; but at his second coming all the precious dead, from righteous Abel to the last saint that dies, shall awake to glorious, immortal life. If the soldiers at the sepulcher were so filled with terror at the appearance of one angel clothed with heavenly light and strength, that they fell as dead men to the ground, how will his enemies stand before the Son of God, when he comes in power and great glory, accompanied by ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands of angels from the courts of Heaven? Then the earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and be removed as a cottage. The elements shall be in flames, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. (Redemption: or the Resurrection of Christ; and His Ascension, pg. 12 – Ellen G. White)
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