Behold He Comes ... Riding On A Cloud!

1. Middle-East Woes.  As much as we condemn the violence and regret the loss of life on both sides of the conflict, we are faced with the stark reality of a conflict between Israelis and Palestinians (and their ideological sponsors, the anti-Israel Muslim block) that is probably going to simmer indefinitely. Be that as it may, most Evangelical Christians today would probably insist that this conflict is part of many inevitable  eschatological precursors to the Se-cond Coming of Jesus Christ.

2. Daniel prophesied the coming Reign of Jesus Christ. “I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.  And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” [Daniel 7:13-14].

3. Jesus Christ prophesied His Second Coming. 

   “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 … 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: 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.” [Matthew24:27, 29-30].

    “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” [John14:2-3].

   “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” [Rev1:8]. 

4. The beloved disciple John prophesied the Second Coming. “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.” [Rev1:7].

   ”And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fier-ceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” [Rev19:14-16].

5. The prospects of the Wicked & Ungodly. Many today are ashamed of Jesus Christ and in their foolish pride dismiss Him as a first-century religious fanatic arrested and tried for being a public nuisance. Jesus Christ has, however, warned: 

   “For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.” [Luke9:26].

6. The Messiah. Any student of the Eschatology (the study of the end times) and the messianic prophecies of the Bible will soon discover that any person today purporting to replace Jesus of Nazareth as the 'messiah' would be 'barking up the wrong tree' so to speak. A focused study of Biblical prophecy will reveal that Jesus of Nazareth has arrived when He arrived at exactly that moment or window in history where all the Old Testament prophecies pertaining to the coming of the Messiah and New Testament events surrounding the birth and life of Jesus of Nazareth were in perfect 'prophetic conjunction', so much so that anyone who today aiming to present himself as the long-expected messiah would, for all practical purposes, have missed the prophetic bus by 2000 years, a bus that will not be coming around ever again. 

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