Only one rapture of all the saints, and only one second coming of Christ

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The Light

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You're not following the Bible as written, so I don't have time to waste with you.
Oh, I got the translation. The following questions you were unable to answer because they completely blow your end time beliefs out of the water.

As usual Davy, you have no answer and have to cut and run. I will repost questions as a reminder so you will remember that your end time beliefs aren't possible according to scripture. Tonight, when you are dreaming remember to Run Davy Run.

Why is Jesus coming immediately AFTER the tribulation? Doesn't Jesus have to end the tribulation with the armies of heaven in your view?

Why is Jesus gathering the elect after the tribulation. Shouldn't they be gathered before the tribulation is over.........in your view?
 

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Not even remotely the same context. By the time Jesus gets to verse 36, verse 20 is already 2000 years in the past. But that doesn't mean I interpret verse 36 in the same manner as Pretrib, that I apply it to what they do. But at least, unlike you, they place verse 36 in the correct era of time, that being the final hours of this age. 2000 years ago was not the final hours of this age.

One thing I am noticing via these Likes being voted, is that there are more members in here than I realized that agree with Preterist thinking throughout the Discourse. For example, anyone that takes Luke 21:27 to be meaning the 2nd coming in the end of this age, which you yourself don't take to mean, should not then be agreeing with your post. Your post contradicts the fact that they agree verse 27 = the 2nd coming in the end of this age. That is the context verse 36 is connected with, not verse 20.

It is clearly confusing to the readers if one's position is that verse 27 = the 2nd coming in the end of this age, but that they agree with you that verse 36, the context is verse 20, not something 2nd coming related instead.
2000 years ago was the end of the temple and sacrificial age the old testament age.

So the disciples ask Jesus when will the temple be destroyed and He tells them, He was talking about thousands of years in the future not about 35 years later? When Jesus uses the word "you" as He's speaking to them about being persecuted and we read about those events in the book of Acts the "you" mentioned in verse 20 wasn't them? Even though it happened about 35 years later when some of them were still alive?
 

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Oh, I got the translation. The following questions you were unable to answer because they completely blow your end time beliefs out of the water.

As usual Davy, you have no answer and have to cut and run. I will repost questions as a reminder so you will remember that your end time beliefs aren't possible according to scripture. Tonight, when you are dreaming remember to Run Davy Run.

Why is Jesus coming immediately AFTER the tribulation? Doesn't Jesus have to end the tribulation with the armies of heaven in your view?

Why is Jesus gathering the elect after the tribulation. Shouldn't they be gathered before the tribulation is over.........in your view?

You're false pride will really turn on you one of these days. Admit your error.
 

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Clearly, He returns to the mount of Olives first, exactly where He departed from, and that even Zechariah 14:4 echoes this. But that doesn't mean He won't be globally seen as He is descending. Satellites and things of that nature would be capturing the event live and broadcasting worldwide.
We keep track of various satellites and objects in orbit, who knows, we might be able to pick up and track Jesus coming to earth from millions of miles in outer space.

If Jesus were to just suddenly start descending from out of a cloud over the mount of Olives, I would think the Israeli government would deploy some kind of anti missile defensive to shoot Him down and maybe scramble fighter jets.

I don’t know, I would think the Bible would give some kind of description other than in like manner. Do you know of any other verses that could be interpreted as describing modern events that would occur?
 

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2000 years ago was the end of the temple and sacrificial age the old testament age.

So the disciples ask Jesus when will the temple be destroyed and He tells them, He was talking about thousands of years in the future not about 35 years later? When Jesus uses the word "you" as He's speaking to them about being persecuted and we read about those events in the book of Acts the "you" mentioned in verse 20 wasn't them? Even though it happened about 35 years later when some of them were still alive?

There is such a thing as a 'dual fulfillment prophecy' in God's written Word. Jesus' not one stone atop of another referring to the buildings at the temple mount, is one of those type prophecies. It covered the destruction of the 2nd temple in 70 A.D. by the Romans, and it will cover His future destruction at His future coming when today's Jew's build a 3rd temple at the end of this world for the false-Messiah to sit in. One of the ways to know there will be another fulfillment is the first one lacked some prophetic parameter of the prophecy being fulfilled, which is completed at the second fulfillment.

And example also is with Daniel 11 about the "vile person", which is about the same one in Daniel 8 and Daniel 9:27 that ends the daily sacrifice in Jerusalem and sets up an IDOL abomination at the temple instead. Antiochus Epiphanes did that in 165-170 B.C., but he came to power with an army, whereas the prophecy says the "vile person" will come to power using peace and flattery. Plus, Lord Jesus quoted that event about the "vile person" placing the "abomination of desolation" being for the end of this world, which was about 200 years after Antiochus had been dead.