"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know." (John 14:2-4) He did go at His ascension and He will return as He said He would...Here He is talking to His Church (his Body, His Bride) those who TRULY believe in Him totally.
"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." (1 Thes 4:13-18) Here we are told that the dead who had died ' in Jesus' will be "caught up- Harpodso" before the living and Meet us in the AIR....Not heaven but the Air....So this is an EVENT that will happen..It has no cause, no judgement,within its words, yet as an event it will happen for He states it will. NO, It is not the second coming of the LORD Jesus for we know more about the 2nd coming of Jesus than we know about His short days on earth as a man....one can deny it as they will but these are GOD's WORDs and cannot be rewritten.
"Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. " (2Thes 2:1-4) Here we see that certain events that most agree on (the revealing of the man of Sin *the Anti-christ), we find that a falling away has to happen before son of perdition is revealed. This falling away is indicative of the churches on earth slowly but surely falling away from the WORD of GOD.(i.e. .As you denies, changes, rewords, etc. to make His Word to say what they want it to say, to fit their world view.)
These scriptures aabove are not of the 2nd coming of Christ. Here the true believers meet Christ in the air. The 2nd coming meets Christ on earth. The rapture and the time of the Tribulation (Daniel's 70th week) is the 1st Resurrection... The Covenant theology place the gentiles into the catbirds seat where they inhereit everything good and Israel inhereits all of the Curses. Unfortunately, I think they will find these roles have been reversed by GOD...He see the truth and only He can measure Judgement.
In (Rev 12,1-2) "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:.In Gen 37:9.."And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me." Joseph dreamed the same scenario that is in Rev 12.1-2. Israel is the woman depectied in Rev 12:14, not the Gentiles
Rev 12:2.. "And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered."
In later verses Rev 12-16...But one verse confirms that this Woman (Israel) is the one that GOD takes to safety on the earth during the "Great Tribulation", "Jacobs Troubles".
That verse is "And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child." (Rev 12:13). Rev 12:14.."And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent." Not the Faithful Christian peoples as you suggest.....You twist all scripture to suit yourself and then teach it to others. False Gospel.
