Over the previous seven years, the world and mankind has experienced many wondrous things. At the beginning, millions of people mysteriously vanished into thin air. The world was in chaos, but in the midst of this a leader stepped forward seaming with explanations for all questions. He was suave. He was a political genius. He was a financial genius. He seemed to be able to solve all the world's problems....He even got the Jews and the Palestinians to get along and sign a seven year peace accord; something no one else had ever done.
In the midst of that seven years everything changed. He wasn't the same guy he was 3 ½ years ago. Plagues and pestilence now was world wide. It seemed everything in the sea was dying. It wasn't raining. People were dying all over the world. The armies of the entire world were now staged all around the nation of Israel doing battle. What was once peace was now nothing but war. There were even reports that so many people were dying in the battle in the middle east that the blood was actually pooling on the ground like a massive lake. If things continued on like they were, mankind would never survive.
At the hottest part of the battle, the sky darkened. You couldn't see the sun, moon or stars. The world had experienced dastardly things over the last 3 ½ years; earthquakes, tsunamis, plagues and constant wars. Now there's an eeriness as this massive battle drags on. Something feels different as if what has happened before is just a precursor.
Then the clouds part in the sky. Bright light shines through such as the people of earth have never experienced before. No matter where they are on earth, they can see King Jesus descending from the clouds coming down to earth with a heavenly host. Thousands of angels and the redeemed coming with him from the clouds. As His foot touches down on the Mount of Olives, there is a great earthquake such as the earth has never experienced. For the people who have been saved during the period known as the Great Tribulation, this is what they've been waiting for, their joy cannot be contained. For everyone else in the world, it is sadly time to mourn.
As Jesus touches down, the words coming out of His mouth are like a two edged sword, slaying the enemies of God. As the armies of the world come at Him to do battle He slays them thousands at a time. They soon realize that their efforts are fruitless, but it's too late for them. He defeats the one known as the Antichrist and his cohort the False Prophet and casts them into a lake of fire. He separates the true believers from the non-believers. He takes the Great Beast Satan and binds him and puts him in a prison made especially for him. All the Old Testament Saints and the Saints killed during the Great Tribulation are being resurrected from their graves. He sits in judgment of the fallen angels.
King Jesus has come back at last to set up His millennial reign and bring peace to His creation. For those of us who believe and have been raptured beforehand; or those who have died before Christ's crucifixion; or believed during the Great Tribulation, it is the day we have waited for. It is the day that creation has groaned for since Adam and Eve took a bite and rebelled against God. It is the day that Satan has known would come for eons, and try as he may could not stop it. For all the people who have ever or will reject Christ, it is the most treacherous and terrible of days.
Even so Lord Jesus, come quickly.
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