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Returning Spectacularly![]() Visibly–like lightning flashing across the sky from the east to west in dazzling display that captivates the attention of every person on earth! Audibly–with loud peals of thunder, trumpet blasts, and the piercing shout of the great archangel that literally wakes the dead, calling forth from their graves all those who during their lives on earth had learned to discern His voice and follow its counsel. Spectacularly–as He approaches from a great distance He appears to be surrounded by a gorgeous display of mushrooming clouds. But as He draws nearer the earth the clouds resolve into millions of angels who are accompanying Him and streaking their way to the ends of the earth to gather His faithful children to Him from every generation, every nation and race on earth. |
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Universally–agonizing cries of regret, mourning, and fear will ascend from all those who squandered their lives on the trivial and disposable things of earth, as they call for the rocks and mountains to hide them from the face of Him whose invitations they had spurned throughout their lives. Terribly–accompanied by an earthquake that will submerge large islands and flatten mountain chains. The Bible describes the second coming of Jesus as the most dramatic and electrifying, most wonderful and terrifying event in our planet's history–not a hint of Jesus ever coming in secret or stealth! The fact is, there's not a single text in the Bible that describes a "secret" return of Jesus for His children. Jesus' return is described everywhere in the Bible as visible, audible, spectacular, universal, dramatic, electrifying, terrifying, wonderful–but never as secret. Unexpected, yes. But never secret. Wait a minute! What about Matthew
24:40,41 that describes two men working in the field and two women
grinding at the mill when Jesus comes, and in each case one is taken and
the other left? Isn't this a clear reference to a secret rapture?
No, and here's why.
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