30 Oct 2015
Matthew 24:26-30
Matthew 24:26: “Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
When the Lord returns at the end of the Tribulation, He will do so in a highly visible way. Those who come by and say “The Lord has returned secretly” are liars. God has warned Israel ahead of time so they would not be deceived by false Christs.
Matthew 24:29: “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
As we just saw, Jesus Christ will return at the end of the Tribulation (or, as verse 29 says, “immediately after the tribulation”). When He returns He will do so in a very visible way; the tribes of the earth “shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory”.
Just for the record, these verses are not talking about the Rapture. The Rapture happens before the Tribulation and takes the Church up to Heaven. The Second Coming happens after the Tribulation and is when Jesus will return to Earth to defeat the antichrist. The two are completely separate events – separated in time by a number of years. Do not confuse the two.