The End-Time Prophecies Have Been Fulfilled: How to Welcome the Second Coming of the Lord （Part 1)
Now is the end of days. Catastrophes are a frequent occurrence the world over, and the prophecies of the Lord’s arrival have been fulfilled; the various signs and omens indicate that the Lord has returned, so why has He not been seen returning in a cloud? And how can we welcome His arrival? This text will tell you how.
Two thousand years ago, the followers of the Lord asked Jesus, “[W]hat shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world?” (Matthew 24:3). The Lord Jesus replied, “And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:6–8). Today, disasters are occurring more and more across the globe. Earthquakes, epidemics, famine, war and floods occur one after another. At the end of 2019, a new type of coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China. Its transmission rate is alarming; in the space of just a few months, cases appeared all across the country, and China was immediately plunged into chaos. Many provinces, municipalities and villages are being quarantined one after another as the death toll continues to rise. So far, the virus has also rapidly spread around the world. On top of this, between September 2019 and January 2020, wildfires in Australia destroyed more than 5,900 buildings and killed over a billion animals. Then, the same continent was hit by a once-in-a-century torrential rain, causing floods, and bushfire ash was washed into the rivers, which killed many freshwater creatures. Besides, tens of thousands of people were left homeless as a result of floods in Indonesia. There was also the eruption of a volcano in the Philippines, the worst locust infestation in 25 years in Africa, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Xinjiang. … The list goes on. Biblical prophecies of the coming of the Lord have been fulfilled. It stands to reason that the Lord has returned — so why have we yet to welcome His arrival? Will we not be plunged into the great tribulation if this carries on? And just what should we do to welcome the Lord’s coming?
How Will the Lord Come?
Many people have read these words in the Bible: “Behold, He comes with clouds” (Revelation 1:7). “They shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory” (Matthew 24:30). They are certain that the Lord will come with clouds. However, why have we yet to see such a sight? Is this the only means by which the Lord will come? There’s actually one major thing we have overlooked about the coming of the Lord. In the Scriptures, there are also prophecies about God coming in secret, such as: “Behold, I come as a thief” (Revelation 16:15). “And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him” (Matthew 25:6). “Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes” (Matthew 24:44). “For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in His day. But first must He suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation” (Luke 17:24–25).
The Scriptures’ references to “as a thief” and “at midnight there was a cry made” indicate that when the Lord returns during the last days, He will do so quietly, in secret. And what does “Son of man” refer to? A “Son of man” is surely born of a person, with a mother and father, and of flesh and blood. Take the Lord Jesus for example, He was incarnated in the image of a normal person who lives among man. Thus we can see that “Son of man” refers to the incarnate God; the Spirit cannot be called a Son of man. In addition, the Scriptures also say, “But first must He suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.” This passage of Scripture clearly states that when the Lord returns, He shall endure much suffering and be rejected by this generation. We all know that God could only be rejected when incarnated in the flesh as the Son of man, for God in the flesh is too ordinary and people do not know Him; they treat Him as an ordinary person, and He suffers great hardship as a result. If the Lord were to appear to man as the Spirit, though, then be they good or bad, believers or unbelievers, or even those who oppose God, all would fall down before God in worship — for who could reject God thus? And then how would He suffer? This shows that the Lord of the last days appears to humanity as the incarnate Son of man.
To be continue…
Source From: Eastern Lightning
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