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How Will The World End

1) Jesus will return personally and visibly at the end of the world, just as he ascended into heaven. His second coming will not be secret, but obvious to all as lightning. 2) At his coming, Jesus will descend from heaven with a shout and the sound of a trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, followed by those left alive. 3) Theories that Jesus' return will be secret or symbolic contradict scripture. Jesus warned his followers not to be deceived by false theories, and to look for his literal and public second coming to gather his faithful followers to himself.

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How Will The World End

1) Jesus will return personally and visibly at the end of the world, just as he ascended into heaven. His second coming will not be secret, but obvious to all as lightning. 2) At his coming, Jesus will descend from heaven with a shout and the sound of a trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, followed by those left alive. 3) Theories that Jesus' return will be secret or symbolic contradict scripture. Jesus warned his followers not to be deceived by false theories, and to look for his literal and public second coming to gather his faithful followers to himself.

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How Will The World End? “Take heed that no man deceive you.

” Matt
24:4
The end of the world has been much anticipated
Jesus knew that at the time of his advent many
even during the time of Christ the disciples
theories will be propagated by man, which His
wanted to know when the world would end. On
disciples would need to take heed of lest they be
a certain day, “As He [Jesus] sat upon the Mount
deceived. It cannot be truer than it is today. The
of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately,
media has given an incorrect idea of Jesus’
saying, Tell us, when shall these things be?
coming and without a correct understanding that
and what shall be the sign of thy coming, day will overtake us as a thief. 1Thess 5:4. To
and of the end of the world?” Matt 24:3 enable us to distinguish between the true and
false He has given us in His word details that
can help us understand the manner of His
1. The Promise coming.
The world shall end with the coming of Jesus the
second time for centuries faithful Christians (1) A Literal And Personal Return
have been, “Looking for that blessed hope, and
the glorious appearing of the great God and When their Lord left them and the disciples were
our Saviour Jesus Christ.” And the promise is gazing up in the sky as a cloud took him away
given, “So Christ was once offered to bear the angels appeared to them saying;
sins of many; and unto them that look for him
“Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up
shall he appear the second time without sin
into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken
unto salvation.” Titus 2:13; Heb 9:28.
up from you into heaven, shall so come in like
Before Jesus returned to heaven He gave to His manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”
disciples the promise: Acts 1:11.

There are some that believe that Jesus comes


“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe
when one dies. That cannot be true because if it
in God, believe also in me. In my Father's
were so then he would have come millions of
house are many mansions: if [it were] not
times before He came the first time and how
[so], I would have told you. I go to prepare then would it be called Jesus second coming.
a place for you. And if I go and prepare a Here we are told that this same Jesus – not
place for you, I will come again, and another person or death – will come. The angels
receive you unto myself; that where I am, in other words tell them that this same Jesus in
[there] ye may be also.” John 14:1-3. His resurrected state would come to them again.

“Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath


2. How Will Jesus come? appeared to Simon. And as they thus spake,
the disciples asked Jesus, “what shall be the Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and
saith unto them, Peace [be] unto you. But they
sign of thy coming, and of the end of the
were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that
world?” Matt 24:3. Because they realized that
they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them,
Jesus’ coming would bring an end to the world.
Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise
As Jesus answered he began by warning them
in your hearts? behold my hands and my feet,
saying;
that it is i myself: handle me, and see; for a
spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me will suddenly disappear and if nobody in the
have.” Luke 24:34 – 39 plane knows how to drive it it will crush.
Besides the fact that it doesn’t represent the true
If Jesus did not resurrect as a spirit He therefore character of God the theory is based on a lack of
cannot come as one. So we can conclude that understanding what it means to be taken and to
His Second Advent will be as literal and be left. Let’s allow the bible to explain itself:
personal as His departure.
To be taken and to be left
(2) A Visible Return
Christ’s return will be a visible return to this But as the days of Noe [were], so shall also the
scripture attests; coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of that were before the flood they were eating and
man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew
man coming in the clouds of heaven with not until the flood came, and took them all
power and great glory.” Matt 24:30 away; so shall also the coming of the Son of
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye man be. Matt 244:37-39
shall see him, and they [also] which pierced
him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail After comparing the days of Noah to days of His
because of him. Even so, Amen. Rev 1:7 coming Jesus begins to speak of one being taken
Jesus warned His disciples against being taken and the other left. In Luke 17:26 Jesus clearly
in by a secret second coming by comparing His states that as it was in Noah’s day s it will be at
coming to lightning: His coming. In this context we can see that the
“Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is ones that are taken are not saved but are
Christ, or there; believe it not.” “For as the destroyed. Those that were taken away by the
lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth flood were not saved but destroyed by it. Then
even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the question is to be asked, what then does it
the Son of man be.” Matt 24:23,27 mean to be left? Let’s again turn to the
testimony of scripture to find an answer:

Will there be a rapture “And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in
Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall
It will be a visible coming but men have devised be called holy, even every one that is written
a theory they call the secret rapture. In fact the among the living in Jerusalem” Isaiah 4:3
secret rapture is so secret that the whole bible
does not know anything about it. The scripture According to Isaiah those that are left are not
that is used to support this idea is Matt 24:40-41 lost but saved. I want to be left what about you?
which reads:
(3) An Audible And Glorious Appearing
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be Adding to the picture of universal awareness of
taken, and the other left. Two women shall be Christ’s return is the biblical assertion that His
grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and coming will be made known by sound as well as
the other left. sight:
“For the Lord himself shall descend from
It is said that when that time comes if a pilot heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
who is a faithful Christian is driving an airplane
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the thousand years, and a thousand years as one
dead in Christ shall rise first” 1Thess 4:16 day. The Lord is not slack concerning his
“And he [Jesus] shall send his angels with a promise, as some men count slackness; but is
great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
together his elect from the four winds, from one should perish, but that all should come to
end of heaven to the other.” Matt 24:31 repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as
a thief in the night; in the which the heavens
shall pass away with a great noise, and the
3. Are You Ready For Jesus to elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
Come? also and the works that are therein shall be
We’re told that just before the Saviour comes burned up. Seeing then that all these things
the proclamation will be made shall be dissolved, what manner of persons
ought ye to be in all holy conversation and
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he godliness, looking for and hasting unto the
which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens
is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he being on fire shall be dissolved, and the
that is holy, let him be holy still. elements shall melt with fervent heat? 2Pet 3:8-
12
Have you prepared for this proclamation, for
soon after Jesus tells us:

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is


with me, to give every man according as his
work shall be. Rev 22:11,12

What will be your reward dear reader?

The signs are all about us and we cannot deny


that, “…This generation shall not pass, till all
these things be fulfilled.”

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the


last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
for since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of the
creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of,
that by the word of God the heavens were of old,
and the earth standing out of the water and in
the water: Whereby the world that then was,
being overflowed with water, perished: But the
heavens and the earth, which are now, by the
same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire
against the day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of
this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a

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