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The following Scriptures are key–
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we
which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet
the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)
“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor
be raised out of their sleep.” (Job 14:12)
There is no reason that we can’t take these verses literally. We can see that when Jesus
returns, there will be a resurrection of the dead, and then a ‘catching away’ of the living. This
will occur when the “heavens be no more.” In John 6:44, Jesus says: “No man can come to me,
except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” If He
would return before the Tribulation, that wouldn’t be the “last day.”
So, when is He going to return?
“And the gospel must first be published among all nations.” (Mark 13:10)
“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall
the end come. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place … For then shall be great tribulation, such as
was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be … Then if any
man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise
false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect … Wherefore if they shall say unto
you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe
it not. 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. 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.” (Matthew 24:13-30)
“And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the
other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.” (Luke 17:23-24)
“Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our
gathering together unto him … Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall
not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son
of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is