In this video I'm going to share with you the truth about the second coming of Christ
Hi, my name is pastor mark Finley for the last 50 years. I've traveled the world
Sharing the good news about the hope of Jesus Christ's second coming
I've written books on the subject
There have been television programs that we've done on the subject of the second coming of Christ
And I want to share with you in this video
my research about the coming of Jesus and what the Bible really says about it as
You look out over a world. Our world is filled with uncertainty insecurity
anxiety
Men and women asked the question
What does the future hold as I travel the world people are asking me how can I face the future with greater confidence?
They're concerned about the threat of nuclear war
They're concerned about the annihilation of our planet many are concerned about the subject of global warming
the
melting of the polar ice caps the
Possibility of thousands of cities being submerged in water if the oceans rise to such a degree
Others are concerned
of course about climate change and the fact that this planet is
Getting warmer might lead to droughts and great food shortages
Crime riddles are city streets in the major cities and people are concerned
They're asking what kind of world will I be able to raise my children in? Where is this world headed?
in the United States of America
We face an enormous national debt of well over 20 21 trillion dollars
Will the economy be able to bear that much longer?
Will that heavy burden crush the economy, so we're facing some
amazing problems in some areas of the world religious liberty as being severely
Restricted and as the result of that
Christians are being persecuted
What does the future hold?
Jesus gives a marvelous promise in John the
14th chapter and verses one to three. Jesus says this let not your heart be troubled
Jesus says do you have a troubled heart? Do you have an anxious heart? Are you stressed out?
Jesus says let not your heart be troubled
You believe in God believe also in me 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 to prepare a
place for you, I
Will come again
What a promise Jesus doesn't play games with us. Jesus doesn't lie to us. Jesus said I
Will come again you can count on it friend. You can bank your life on it. This promise is secure
It's certain just as certain as the Sun
Rises and the tide comes in
just as certain as
that
More certain is the promise of Christ's return
But yet many people have this question
When Jesus returns, will he come in a secret rapture?
Will some people be taken up to heaven raptured will others be left alive on earth to face a time of tribulation
What is the real truth about the coming of Christ? I know that you don't want human theories
you don't even want to know what Mark Finley says what you really want to know is what the Word of God says and
So we're gonna look at what the Bible says about
the return of
our Lord the first thing I want you to notice about the return of our Lord is this
Jesus will come back
The same way he went up you say what do you mean by that?
Acts the first chapter now get this point
Here's the first eternal truth about the second coming of Christ. Jesus is going to come back the same way. He went up Acts
first chapter the
Disciples are straining their necks looking at the last lingering traces of their ascending Lord
We're turning to Acts the first chapter
We're looking at verses 9 to and here the disciples are looking up into heaven and they are looking at the last
lingering traces of their resurrected Lord and
Here Jesus has died
He's appeared to his disciples
He is then
resurrected of course from the dead at this point when he's appeared to them and
Now he's ascending to heaven acts 1 verse 9 to 11
when he had spoken these things while they watched he was taken up in a cloud received him out of their sight and
while they looked steadfastly
Toward heaven as he went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel
Who also said men of Galilee? Why do you stand gazing up into heaven?
This same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will
So come in like manner as you saw have seen him go into heaven. So what did the angel say?
You don't have man's opinion. I
Think we could have confidence of what the angel said, don't you?
They said just as Jesus ascended in the cloud and you have seen him go
So likewise, he will come in the clouds
Jesus ascended in the sky. He will return in the sky
Now the disciples saw him go
Who will see Jesus when he returns?
What does the Bible teach about?
Those people who will see him when he comes back we go to the Bible's last book the book of Revelation and we
looking there at
Revelation
chapter 1 and
verse 7
It says behold, he's coming with clouds. Did the angel say he went up with clouds. They did is he coming with clouds he is
Behold, he's coming with clouds and every eye will see him and they also pierced him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn
Because of him even so amen
so we'll just a select few see Jesus when he comes the Bible says what did you get that and
every eye will see him now every eyes every eye because if every eye weren't
Every eye it would be some eyes and some eyes are not every eye
Every eye will see him
But you say what about the wicked? Will they see him come will they discern his coming notice?
it says here all the tribes of the earth will mourn because is coming so evidently even the
unrighteous
See him come this is clarified even further in
Matthew the twenty-fourth chapter
And here in Matthew at the 24th chapter verse 30 it says this
Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven
then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and
They will see the Son of man coming in the cause of heaven with power and great glory
Now it's very clear acts 1 Jesus ascends in the clouds
revelation 1 verse 7
He descends in the clouds acts 1 they see him go
Revelation 1 every eye will see him all the tribes of the earth were mourn
And did you get the significance of this in Matthew 24 verse 30?
Where it says all the tribes of the earth will see him coming in the clouds and mourn so both the righteous and the wicked
See Jesus coming
know what about
The fact that his coming will not only be visible, but the Bible teaches that also be audible
You know in Psalm 50 verse 3 the Bible says our God will come and not keep silence
So he doesn't keep silence when he comes
1st Thessalonians 4 verse 16 and 17 the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout
As that sound very silent to you
with the Trump of God the trumpet of victory with the voice of the archangel and the dead in
Christ will rise first and we
Which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them to meet the lord in the air now
Does he come and put his feet upon the earth? No, we meet him in the air John 14
Says that he receives us unto himself
1st Thessalonians chapter 4 says we meet him in the air and it says then we shall ever be with the Lord
So his coming is visible in every eye sees it his coming is autumn
every ear
Hears it when Jesus Christ comes again. His coming is a glorious coming he came secretly once
When he came as a baby in Bethlehem's manger sure the prophecies pointed forward to his coming but very few
Understood that he was the Messiah when he was born that day in Bethlehem
Some 2,000 years ago
A few shepherds were there some wise men came
Mary and Joseph were there. So in a sense that was kind of a silent coming wasn't it? But he's coming again as
King of kings he's coming again as Lord of lords and the Bible is very clear on this fact
Take your Bible if you're happen to be following along
with the Bible Matthew chapter 16
Matthew chapter 16 and notice verse
27 the Bible is very clear
Matthew
16:27 puts it this way
Says for the Son of Man will come in the glory of his father
With his angels and then he will reward each according to his works again
There's not two comings of Christ
mentioned in the Bible at all
When it could not 1 coming before the tribulation
For his Saints and another coming after the tribulation with his Saints. You don't find that in the Bible. There's no separation
notice what the scripture says in
Matthew chapter 16 and verse
27 the Son of Man will come in the glory of his father with his angels and then he will reward each
According to his works. So when Jesus comes he comes to reward
men and women according to their works
So the righteous received their reward
The righteous dead are resurrected according to 1st Thessalonians 4 the righteous living and the righteous dead receiving mortal bodies
They're caught up to meet Christ in the air
the
wicked living according to 2nd
Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 7 to 9 are destroyed with the brightness of his coming at that point
So when Jesus comes he comes to give out the rewards you find that in all the parables
You find it in the parable of the wheat and the tares
The wheat are gathered into bundles for his barn
The tares are burned you find it in the parable the sheep and goats
When Christ comes the sheep are separated from the goats there
There are two classes when Jesus comes now, sometimes people have questions. They say sure we read in the Bible that
every eyes going to see if we read the Bible that
Every year is going to hear we read the Bible this gonna be a glorious climactic event
But pastor what about the text in the Bible that says to in the field one?
Taken one left doesn't that imply?
That to some people be left alive on earth when Jesus comes. Hey, thanks for asking the question
it's a question that I'm often asked you find that passage in Matthew chapter 24 and let's let's just read it together and
See if we can discover it what it means Matthew chapter 24
when we're looking they're
Starting with Matthew 24 in verse 36 but of that day and hour. No one knows
No, not even the angels in heaven, but my father only
But as the days of Noah, what kind of days is it the days of Noah?
We're a so shall the coming of the Son of Man be for as in the days before the flood
They were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the Ark and did not know until the flood
Came and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the son of man be
So in Noah's day, how many classes were there there were two
one class went into the ark
Was there anybody left alive that did not enter the ark
No, they were destroyed by the flood. They were taken away by the floodwaters
So what does the Bible say two men will be in the field one will be taken the other left
They will be the only two classes here one are destroyed by the floodwaters and one are are
left
in the ark with Noah the remnant are left notice what it says here two women are grinding at the
Mill one will be taken the other be left watch therefore for you. Do not know what hour your Lord is coming
but know this if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come he
Would have watched and not allowed the house to be broken up
Therefore be ready for the Son of Man is coming in an hour when you don't expect it
now notice what this is saying that there's a moment of Destiny coming to the world and there will be two classes the
Saved and the lost we're gonna come back to that thief reference momentarily, but go to Luke chapter 17
Because in Luke 17 we find very similar
On this one taken in one left when the Bible uses the expression taken and left
It's saved and lost it deals with the whole idea here in Scripture that there are only two classes
Luke chapter 17
It says as it was in the days of Noah
It'll be also in the days of the Son of Man
They ate they drank they married
Wives they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered the Ark and the flood came and destroyed them all
Was there anybody left alive on earth during Noah's day?
Not at all the flood came and did what it destroyed them all it says likewise in the days of lot
they ate they drank they bought they sold they builded but on that day lot went out of the city and
Fire and brimstone from heaven destroyed them all
Was there anybody left alive in the city? Not at all? What happened? They were destroyed?
Even so it'll be thus in the day when the Son of Man is revealed verse 30 and then it says remember Lot's wife
What happened to her? She looked back was destroyed
Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it and whoever loses his life will preserve it
So the whole issue is whether you save your life or whether you lose your life here the Scriptures
Continues and that day one will be taken one will be left two women will be grinding at the mill one
Taken one left the Bible doesn't say they can be left alive on the earth doesn't say that at all. In fact look
They answered and said to him where Lord so he said to them wherever the body is there
The Eagles will be gathered together in other words, that's destruction
when you look at Matthew 24 in Luke 17
However, you look at that. There are only two classes the saved and the lost
Those that are caught up to meet Christ and are alive
when he comes
Those that are resurrected from the dead and are righteous and both of them received their immortal bodies. They ascend to heaven with Christ and
those that are
destroyed
They are not left alone on earth
I'm mark Finlay and this is the real truth about the second coming of Christ
He's coming in the clouds and every eye will see him
Every year we'll hear it. He's coming gloriously with ten thousand times ten thousand angels
The Bible says his lightning shines from the east even to the west. So will the coming of the Son of man be and
Christ is appealing to you to be ready when he comes, you know, the Bible says he's coming as a thief
What does that mean? Does it mean he's coming secretly or silently?
what did we read in Matthew chapter 24 the Bible says that
Jesus Christ
comes quickly and
unexpectedly as a thief
It doesn't mean he's coming secretly. He's coming every eye will see him and every year we'll hear him
But he comes at as a thief because we don't expect his coming
Life team seems to be going on as normal
pleasures as normal
work as normal life
Seems to be going on as normal
Then there comes a sudden crash. Maybe it's an economic crash. Maybe it's political disasters
Maybe it's some limited nuclear war and and in the whole world seems to be in chaos
and
Christ at that last moment of time quickly rapidly
unexpectedly
Comes to deliver his children. Would you like to know more about the second coming of Christ? There's so much more
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