Small Fish
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Yep, His coming is what I'm looking for too. I do believe it is a continuous, daily coming of His Holy Spirit until we see Him fully Personified in our life. Then the Rapture would come. I believe that is what He died for, to get us to THAT Place to receive Him.Well...in a way, that's part of the "Already, Not Yet", isn't it? That the Kingdom has been inaugurated, his Spirit present in his Church, but we await the final and full consummation, his second coming?
I don't know...it's easy to use the Theological terms you hear about it, but sometimes it's hard to really sort it out in your mind...how does it work? What's it look like? What will it look like? Eh. I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, and probably won't be able to follow everything, but I like thinking about it all. It's exciting. And...well...it's hopeful. It makes you realize that no matter how things are, God is steering this ship exactly where he wants it to go.
So...when it all comes down to it, if I'm wrong about my end times belief, it's not going to concern me in the slightest! The only thing my heart longs for, is his return. I don't care if it's in the clouds, on the Mt of Olives, invisible, or visible, with a trumpet, or with a silent call. Whatever!
I don't know that I recognize your usage of the 'Son' categories. Sure, we know he referred to himself as the Son of Man, and that he was the Son of God, and also, prophetically the Son of David. I always understood his roles to be in a more, "Prophet, Priest, King" role. His first coming showed his prophet and priestly roles, and his second coming would reveal him in all his Kingly glory.
1 John 3:2-3
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.