There are so many signs in front of us for the second coming of JESUS. If you watch Christian channels all the godly ministers up there predict second coming of JESUS ANY TIME.
Q) Are we ready? How many of you are eagerly waiting for JESUS CHRIST’S RETURN to this world?
As human beings we are in this world are busy doing so many other things and we spend very little time to think about GOD and what is HIS PLAN in the future.
Q) Do you think this is why we are sent here by GOD?
No. We are here to know GOD and to have a good relationship with Him, so that in the reign of GOD’S KINGDOM you can be well established.
Ofcourse, you have to study, marry, do job and go about a routine but our attention all the time should be, how to know GOD and please HIM by obeying HIS COMMANDMENTS. In this way win HIS HEART to have ETERNAL LIFE with HIM.
We are still living in a fallen world. GOD says this fallen world is kept for fire.(II Pet. 3:5-7)
2 Peter 3:5-7(NIV)
5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.[a]
11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
Everything is going to be perfect only when JESUS comes and reigns in HIS 1000 Years of Reign. Let us pave a way to live a wonderful life in the perfect world when JESUS is reigning as KING from JEREUSALEM.
Our job is to make sure we are in that and we will have good position during that time.
Luke 12:35-40 (NIV)
Watchfulness
35 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master(Jesus) to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. 37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he (Jesus) will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. 38 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. 39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man(Jesus) will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
1) RAPTURE – JESUS’SECRET COMING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SKY
Scholars predict that the middle-east Peace Agreement for Palestine as a nation existing next to Israel, and to share the Holy Mountain the muslim’s Holy place on Temple Mount, in JERUSALEM, will be the sign for the RAPTURE and this can happen any time.
Joel 3:1-2 (NIV)
““In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.”
The CHURCH as a BRIDE of CHRIST will be taken away II Thess. 4: 16-17. GREAT DAY FOR ALL OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD
The rest of them who do not believe in JESUS will be left behind. In Rev. 7: 9-17
Revelation 7:9-17(NIV)
- The Great Multitude in White Robes
9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”
Great multitudes in white robe in heaven are the Church went up in RAPTURE. Hallelujah!
We will be in HEAVEN for 7 years when the earth goes through a TRIBULATION period.
Q) Who would like to be in this Rapture?
Make sure you qualify to be caught up in Rapture by 1) Be born again repenting from sin. 2) Take immersion water baptism. 3) Be baptised by Holy Spirit and fire with evidence of speaking in tongues. 4) Live set apart Holy Life. 5) Preach the gospel. 6) Stand in faith till the end. 7) Expect the Lord to come.
- Many will be killed during the Tribulation Period. They run from GOD because of the trouble they are going through.
Revelation 6:15-17 (NIV)
15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us[a] from the face of him who sits on the throne(God) and from the wrath of the Lamb(JESUS)! 17 For the great day of their[b] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
2) TRIBULATION- ANTI- CHRIST
Then the ANTI-CHRIST will come openly and proclaim himself as the GREAT LEADER who brought PEACE to this WORLD and it’s ECONOMY. II Thess. 2: 1-4
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 (NIV)
- The Man of Lawlessness- ANTI-CHRIST
2 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
- TRIBULATION will be for 7 years. Anti-christ will bring peace to earth for 3 ½ years of the 7 years he will be ruling the earth. Then the second 3 1/2 years he will proclaim himself as GOD. These are the GREAT TRIBULATION period.
Daniel 9:25-27 (NIV)
25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One,[a] the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.[b] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He (ANTI-CHRIST) will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’[c] In the middle of the ‘seven’[d] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple[e] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.[f]
3) FALSE PROPHET
People in the world will all think this man Anti-Christ brought peace and praise Him and also he will back himself up with a Religious Leader who will bring rest of the religious groups together apart from Christians who were taken away, under his one leadership. Rev. 17: 1-6
Revelation 17:1-6 (NIV)
Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast
17 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”
3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery:
BABYLON THE GREAT
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.
When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.
4) SATAN HIMSELF UNITES AND FORMS A FALSE TRINITY
SATAN, ANTI-CHRIST AND FALSE PROPHET. You can say this is the number 666.
Then Anti- Christ possessed by Satan will position himself as GOD in the Holy Temple in the middle of the 7 years of GREAT TRIBULATION created by Satan in Rev. Chap. 13
Revelation 13:16-18 (NIV)
16 It(Beast) also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[a] That number is 666.
II Thessalonians 2: 3-4(NIV)
“Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness (Antichrist) is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He(Antichrist) will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.”
5) GOSPEL IS PREACHED BY JEWS
Then the saints from JEWISH 12 TRIBES (1,44,000) in Rev. Chap.6 & 7 & Rev .Chap.13 & 14 and the Two Witnesses in Rev. Chap. 11 will be testifying JESUS to people on the earth.
- TWO WITNESSES
Revelation 11:6-11 (NIV)
6 They (Two witnesses) have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8 Their(Two witnesses) bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord(Jesus) was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
11 But after the three and a half days the breath[a] of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.
Revelation 9:20-21 (NIV)
20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Revelation 13:11-15 (NIV)
- The Beast out of the Earth- SATAN
11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
Revelation 14:1-5 (NIV)
- The Lamb (JESUS) and the 144,000
14 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as first-fruits to God and the Lamb. 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”
- END TIME REVIVAL HARVEST OF THE EARTH
Revelation 14:14-16 (NIV)
Harvesting the Earth
14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man (JESUS)[a] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” 16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
Revelation 14:17-20 (NIV)
Trampling the Winepress
17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” 19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. 20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.[a]
2 Thessalonians 1:6-10(NIV)
6 This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. from the glory of his might 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marvelled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
6)JESUS’SECOND COMING – ALL THE WORLD WILL SEE – ARMAGEDDON
End of the 7th year of Anti-Christ rule JESUS comes with saints who were taken up in the Rapture in white horse and fight a war with Anti-Christ and the kings of the earth and win them. Anti-Christ and the False prophet will be put in the fiery lake of burning sulphur. In Rev. Chap.19
- ARMAGEDDON
Revelation 16:8-16 (NIV)
8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire. 9 They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.
10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony 11 and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.
12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. 13 Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
15 “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”
16 Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon (Megiddo).
- WEDDING SUPPER OF THE LAMB
Revelation 19:7-9 (NIV)
7 Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.
8 Fine linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear.”
(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s holy people.)
9 Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”
Revelation 19:11-16 (NIV)
- The Heavenly Warrior Defeats the Beast
11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.(JESUS) 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”[a] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
- GREAT SUPPER OF GOD- BEAST (ANTI-CHRIST) & FALSE PROPHET PUT ALIVE IN LAKE OF BURNING SULFUR
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”
19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
- 1000 YEARS of reign with the ARMIES OF SAINTS
JESUS will establish 1000 years reign on earth with the saints and the martyrs, who died for HIM, in authoritative positions. This is first resurrection. Second death have no power over these.
Revelation 11:15-18 (NIV)
The Seventh Trumpet
15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:
“The kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,
and he will reign forever and ever.”
16 And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying:
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
the One who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.
18 The nations were angry,
and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your people who revere your name,
both great and small—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
Revelation 20:4-6 (NIV)
4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They[a] had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
Isaiah 65: 17-25
Isaiah 65:22-25 (NIV)
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,
nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord,
they and their descendants with them.
24 Before they call I will answer;
while they are still speaking I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
and dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
- SATAN will be thrown in the Abyss bound and sealed preventing him from deceiving the nations anymore until the 1000 years reign of JESUS and HIS SAINTS.
Revelation 20:1-3 (NIV)
- The Thousand Years
20 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.
7) AFTER JESUS’1000 YEARS OF REIGN
Satan will be released from prison and he goes to deceive the nations to gather them for a war, but those who are deceived will be destroyed by fire. Satan will also be put into the fiery lake of sulphur, where the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet were thrown. They will be tormented forever and ever there.
- SATAN put into the LAKE OF FIRE where the ANTI-CHRIST & FALSE PROPHET are
Revelation 20:7-10 (NIV)
The Judgment of Satan
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves (JERUSALEM). But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
- The Dead are judged – GREAT WHITE THRONE
Revelation 20:11-14(NIV)
The Judgment of the Dead
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
Those whose names are not written in the BOOK OF LIFE will be thrown into the Lake of Fire. This shows some people will be saved during Tribulation Time and they will escape the Lake of Fire, but had to wait in the sea, RIP- resting in peace or in Hades, suffering till then.
8) NEW EARTH, NEW HEAVEN WITH NEW JERUSALEM FROM HEAVEN
Rev.chap.21 – 22
Revelation 21:1-5 (NIV)
- A New Heaven and a New Earth
21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
- GOD HIMSELF DWELL IN JERUSALEM WITH JESUS AND LIVE AMONG THE SAINTS
Here we can see the description of how beautiful our New Earth and New Heaven will be.
Now tell me who would bother to live in this fallen world, when we can have a perfect world and to live with GOD and JESUS forever and ever.
He who over comes will inherit all this. So Second coming of JESUS is a very great time for us, the CHURCH.
Revelation 22:12-15 (NIV)
Epilogue: Invitation and Warning
12 “Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
14 “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
AMEN, COME, LORD JESUS.
MARANATHA