1 MINUTE AGO! SIGN OF GOD? The Biggest Tragedy Happened in the US! The World is Praying for People!


I’m in Muny, Indiana, where a severe storm has just blown through and it has a tornado possible tag.

>> Across the United States, people in different regions began noticing the same thing.

What was just a strange glow linger longer than it should.

Then it became something that look like the second sun.

And as you can see, look at that.

I mean it’s it’s not bright enough to to replace the authentic but still visible enough to be real.

>> Yeah.

To be honest and that’s when everything else started to follow.

Storms that wouldn’t move system that turn and reform without any warning.

And after that the water began to sip and rises too fast in some places then disappearing in others.

And for some it wasn’t just the events themselves that feel different.

It was the sense that whatever is coming won’t be hidden.

For those who read the Bible, it is written in Revelation 1:7.

Every eye will see him even those who be him.

So the question for Americans is, are they just separate events or is something larger is moving in the open? Before we go further, take a moment, be still and stay with this because what you are about to see isn’t just one event.

>> It didn’t start with the water.

It started above.

At first, people thought it was just light.

A strange glow appearing in the sky just after sunset.

Too bright to be a reflection.

too steady to be lightning.

In some places, the sky shifted into colors that didn’t feel natural.

Deep orange, pale green, a faint violet that lingered longer than it should have.

It wasn’t dramatic enough to cause panic, but it was different enough to make people stop and look up.

And then came the shapes.

And cloud formations began to stretch and fold in ways that didn’t follow the usual patterns.

Lines that should have broken apart held together.

layers that should have drifted stayed locked in place.

In a few regions, people described the sky as stacked, as if something invisible was pressing down from above, flattening everything beneath it.

Some tried to explain it.

atmospheric conditions, light refraction, dust in the air.

And for a moment, those explanations were enough until the next morning because that’s when the report started coming in.

Quietly at first, then all at once, people in different parts of the world began describing the same thing.

Not a light, not a reflection, but a second sun.

Not identical, not perfectly formed, but visible enough to be unmistakable.

Hanging just beside the real one.

Faint, but present.

Some saw it for seconds, others for minutes.

Long enough to question what they were looking at.

Long enough to know it wasn’t something they had ever seen before.

And the strange part wasn’t just what people saw.

It was where they saw it.

Reports didn’t come from one region.

They came from multiple places, far apart, unconnected, different skies, different conditions, same description, two lights, one sky.

Most people didn’t know what to do with it.

Some recorded, some ignored it, others just watched in silence.

But while all of this was happening above, something else much quieter was beginning to shift.

Not in the sky itself, but in the systems that move beneath it.

In the hours following the sightings, subtle disruptions began to appear.

Flight paths adjusted.

Delays increased.

Certain routes that usually ran without interruption started to change.

Not dramatically.

Not enough to trigger alarms, but enough to be noticed by those who were paying attention.

It didn’t look connected.

A strange sky and a few delayed routes.

Two separate things.

That’s how it felt.

Because at this point everything could still be explained.

Everything could still be isolated.

The sky was unusual but not impossible.

The changes were minor but not alarming.

Nothing had collapsed.

Nothing had failed.

But something had shifted.

And the shift didn’t announce itself with noise or impact or destruction.

It announced itself with uncertainty because the sky didn’t break.

It just stopped behaving the way it always had.

And for the first time, people weren’t just looking at it.

They were questioning it.

Whether coming on the clouds is judgment language.

The phrase coming on the clouds does not originate in Christian prophecy circles.

It originates in the Old Testament, especially in judgment texts.

In Isaiah 19:1, God comes on a cloud to judge Egypt.

Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt.

The idols of Egypt will tremble.

The sky had already changed.

But what followed didn’t come down gently.

It built.

Not in a straight line.

Not in a predictable pattern, but in fragments.

Small systems forming where they weren’t expected.

Merging, splitting, then reforming again.

Weather maps tried to track it.

Forecasts tried to define it, but nothing stayed consistent long enough to be understood.

And then it hit.

Winds came first.

Not steady, not directional.

They shifted mid-motion, pulling one way, then suddenly reversing as if something above was interfering with the flow itself.

In some areas, debris lifted before the rain even began.

In others, the air went completely still, just seconds before impact.

Then came the rain.

Dense, immediate, heavy enough to blur everything beyond a few meters.

Streets filled faster than drainage systems could respond.

Water didn’t rise gradually.

It arrived, pouring into places that had never flooded before, running along paths that didn’t exist on any map.

And then the hail, not scattered, not brief, but sustained.

Chunks of ice falling with weight and speed, striking rooftops, vehicles, glass, leaving marks that look less like weather and more like impact.

Some described the sound as continuous, not individual hits, but a constant force from above, like something breaking apart in the sky and coming down all at once.

But what unsettled people the most wasn’t the intensity.

It was the movement.

Storms are supposed to travel.

They build, they pass, they fade.

This one didn’t.

In some places, it stalled, hovering over the same area far longer than expected.

In others, it shifted direction without warning, turning back, splitting apart, reforming again just kilometers away.

As if it wasn’t following pressure systems, but something less visible.

Emergency alerts were sent out.

Warnings updated in real time, but even those systems seemed to lag.

Messages arrived after conditions had already changed.

Routes marked safe were no longer safe minutes later.

Response teams moved in only to be redirected again.

Nothing was completely out of control.

But nothing felt fully in control either.

And then just as quickly as it formed, it stopped.

Not slowly, not gradually, but almost all at once, the rain eased.

The wind dropped.

The impacts ended, leaving behind flooded streets, damaged structures, and a silence that felt heavier than the storm itself.

People stepped outside trying to understand what had just happened.

Looking at the damage, looking at the sky, waiting for something else to follow.

Because the storm hadn’t felt like a single event.

It felt like a shift in behavior, like something that didn’t just form, but adjusted.

And at this point, it was still possible to explain it.

An extreme system, a rare convergence, an unusual atmospheric pattern.

But when people look back at how it moved, how it stalled, how it changed direction without warning, the explanation didn’t feel as stable as it should have because it wasn’t just the strength of the storm.

It was the way it behaved.

And that was the part no one could fully explain.

After the storm, people waited for things to settle.

That’s what usually happens.

The rain passes, the ground absorbs what it can, the rivers rise, then slowly return.

But this time, and the water didn’t return, it shifted.

At first, it was subtle.

My river levels rising faster than expected, not gradually, but in sudden jumps.

Edges that had held for year began to blur.

And then, in some places, the current changed.

Not direction entirely, but enough to feel wrong.

Flow that should have spread out tightened.

Sections that should have slowed accelerated as if something beneath the surface was pushing from below, not just being pulled from above.

Then came the color.

Clear water turned heavy, clouded, thick.

In certain areas, it darkened into a tone people couldn’t quite describe.

Not fully red, not fully brown, but something in between.

It didn’t spread like pollution.

It appeared unevenly.

patches, streaks moving with the current then separating from it.

Some said it was sediment, storm runoff, disturbed ground carried downstream.

And that explained part of it, but not what happened next.

Because while some regions were dealing with rising water, others were losing it.

Not slowly.

Sections of river began to pull back within days.

Banks exposed earlier than they should have been.

shallow areas turning into dry ground faster than the soil could hold.

Too much water and not enough water happening at the same time.

And that’s when it became harder to ignore because rivers don’t usually behave like that.

Not across different regions, not without a clear pattern, but there wasn’t one.

Some places flooded, others dried, and between them the behavior kept changing.

Currents became less predictable, depths harder to estimate.

What was safe yesterday wasn’t safe today.

And for people living near it, that shift mattered more than anything else.

Which because water isn’t just something you observe, it’s something you rely on.

And when it stops acting the way it always has, the uncertainty spreads faster than the change itself.

In some areas, fields held too much water to recover.

In others, the soil began to crack earlier than expected.

Not a collapse.

Not yet, but a strain.

And at this point, it could still be explained.

Storm systems disrupt rivers.

Pressure changes flow.

Runoff alters color.

Each part on its own made sense.

But together, the timing didn’t because the sky had already shifted.

The storm had already moved.

And now the water was responding.

not randomly but in sequence as if something was moving through the system from above to the air to the rivers one layer at a time and for some the imagery felt familiar.

All the waters where he were turned to blood when and the fish in the river died.

Not as an explanation, not as proof, but as an echo, a pattern that had been described before.

Where water didn’t just flow, it changed.

And whatever had started it hadn’t stopped.

By this point, people were no longer just looking up.

They were looking down.

Because after the sky shifted, after the storm moved, after the water responded, something else began to change.

The ground.

At first, it didn’t announce itself.

No loud impact, no immediate collapse, just small inconsistencies.

Surfaces that felt different underfoot.

Roads that no longer sat perfectly flat.

Hairline cracks appearing in places that had never shown signs of stress before.

Easy to ignore, easy to explain until they didn’t stay small.

In some areas, the ground began to open.

Not violently, but suddenly.

Here are sections of land dropping just enough to be noticed.

Edges forming where there had never been edges.

Sink holes appearing without warning.

Swallowing sections of pavement, parts of sidewalks, pieces of structures that had stood undisturbed for years, not widespread, but not isolated either.

And what made it harder to understand was where it was happening.

These weren’t known fault zones, not areas associated with seismic instability.

No major earthquakes, no large-scale triggers, just movement in places that were supposed to remain still.

And beneath it all, pressure.

Not something people could see, but something they could feel.

a subtle shift in stability, as if the ground itself was holding more than it should and beginning to release it in fragments.

Some pointed to saturation, water weakening the soil after the storm, an underground erosion slowly removing support.

And again, that explained part of it, but not the timing.

Because this didn’t begin before the storm.

It didn’t happen during the storm.

It followed after the sky, after the air, after the water, now the ground responding.

And in some locations, it didn’t stop at cracks.

It deepened.

Entire sections of land sagging unevenly.

Structures shifting just enough to make doors misalign.

Windows strain.

Foundations feel unstable in ways that couldn’t be seen, but could be sensed.

Not a collapse, not yet, but a loss of certainty.

Because the ground is supposed to be the constant, the one thing that doesn’t change quickly, the one thing everything else depends on.

And when that begins to shift, even slightly, it changes how everything feels.

People began to step more carefully, to notice what they had never noticed before, to question surfaces that had always been trusted.

Because stability, once questioned, doesn’t return easily.

And still at this point it could be explained.

Water affects soil.

Pressure builds underground.

Structures settle over time.

Each part on its own.

Made sense.

But again, the sequence didn’t because it wasn’t just the ground moving.

It was when it moved.

After the sky, after the storm, after the water, now the earth itself, layer by layer.

And for some, another line came to mind.

There was a great earthquake such as had not occurred since men were on the earth.

Not because this was that moment, but because the pattern felt familiar, not destruction all at once, but pressure building until even the ground couldn’t remain still anymore.

Before people understood, something else already did.

It didn’t begin with warnings.

It didn’t begin with headlines.

It began with behavior.

Small at first, birds changing direction mid-flight, not scattering, not migrating, just circling in patterns that didn’t seem to lead anywhere, repeating the same paths over and over as if responding to something unseen.

Then insects, not in waves that built over time, but appearing all at once.

Dense clusters forming in the air.

swarms gathering around lights, structures, open spaces, thick enough to change how the air looked, how it felt.

In some places, people stepped outside and immediately stepped back in.

Not because of danger, but because of the intensity.

It didn’t follow a season.

It didn’t follow a cycle.

It just appeared.

And then the silence.

In other areas, none of the opposite happened.

No movement, no sound.

Places that were usually filled with constant background noise, birds, insects, small life, suddenly felt empty, not gradually, not over time, but almost overnight, as if something had pulled back, as if something had already passed through.

And beneath the surface, the water told the same story.

Fish behavior changed.

Some moved closer to the edges.

Others gathered in unusual formations, staying near the surface longer than they should.

And in certain places, they stop moving altogether.

Not everywhere, but enough to be noticed.

Enough to raise questions no one could fully answer.

Because animals don’t analyze.

They don’t interpret.

They respond to pressure, to vibration, to changes too subtle or too early for people to detect.

And this time they reacted first.

Some tried to explain it.

environmental disruption, after effects of the storm, shifts in temperature, humidity, pressure, and those explanations made sense on their own.

But once again, the timing didn’t because this wasn’t happening in isolation.

The sky had already changed.

The storm had already moved.

The water had already shifted.

The ground had already begun to respond.

And now life itself was adjusting.

Not slowly, not gradually, but in ways that felt immediate and uneven.

In some regions, fields became harder to read.

Patterns of growth less predictable.

Movement either too much or not enough.

Not a failure, but a disruption.

Subtle, but spreading.

And for those paying attention, it wasn’t just what the animals were doing.

It was when they started doing it.

before the systems reacted, before explanations formed, way before people understood.

And for some that pattern felt familiar.

For we know that the whole creation groans together not as a conclusion, not as proof, but as a reflection.

Because if something was moving through the system from sky to air to water to ground, then it wouldn’t stop there.

it would reach everything connected to it, even life itself.

And by the time people began asking what was happening, the response had already begun.

Up to this point, everything could still be separated.

The sky, the storm, the water, the ground, life itself, each one unusual, each one explainable on its own.

But then something else entered the picture.

Not from the sky, not from the earth, from the systems built to hold everything together.

At first, it didn’t look connected.

Delays small at first.

Shipments arriving later than expected.

Routes adjusting without clear explanation.

Timelines stretching, just enough to be noticed.

Nothing stopped, but nothing moved as smoothly as before.

Then came the pressure.

Energy flows began to tighten.

not disappear, but slow.

Certain routes that had remained open for decades suddenly felt uncertain, less predictable, more fragile, and the shift wasn’t loud, no announcement, no clear moment where everything changed, just a gradual realization that the system wasn’t responding the way it used to.

At the same time, another layer began to strain.

supply.

What moves between regions? What supports entire populations? Food didn’t vanish.

Resources didn’t collapse, but access began to narrow.

In some places, abundance held.

In others, delays stacked.

Costs shifted.

In availability changed, quietly, unevenly, not enough to trigger alarm, but enough to create tension.

Because modern systems aren’t built for sudden breaks.

They’re built for flow.

And when that flow begins to slow even slightly, everything connected to it begins to feel unstable.

And then dependence became visible.

Regions that once operated independently began leaning more heavily on fewer sources, not by choice, but by necessity, energy, food, materials.

moving through narrower paths between fewer points, making everything more efficient and more fragile at the same time.

And still at this point, it could be explained.

Logistics shift, markets adjust, systems adapt under pressure.

That’s normal.

But once again, the timing didn’t because this wasn’t happening on its own.

It followed after the sky shifted and after the storm moved, after the water changed, after the ground responded, after life began to react.

Now the systems not collapsing but straining.

And for a brief moment, it felt like everything natural and man-made was moving under the same pressure.

As if the environment wasn’t the only thing changing.

as if the structures built to stabilize it were being tested at the same time.

And for those watching closely, it raised a different kind of question.

Not about what was happening, but about how many layers could shift before something finally gave way.

And then it stopped.

Not completely, not everywhere, but enough to be felt.

After the movement, after the sky, the storm, the water, the ground, the response, there was a pause.

The wind dropped first, not gradually, but suddenly for air that had been in motion for days went still.

No gusts, no pressure shifts, just a flat, unmoving quiet that settled over entire areas without warning.

Then the sound disappeared.

No distant hum, no insects, no birds.

Places that were never silent became silent.

Not peaceful, not calm, just empty.

As if something had passed through and taken the movement with it.

People noticed it immediately.

They stepped outside expecting aftermath, damage, noise, recovery.

Instead, when they found stillness, a kind of stillness that didn’t belong.

Even the smallest sounds stood out.

Footsteps felt louder.

Voices carried further than they should.

And in some places, people stopped talking altogether because the silence didn’t feel natural.

It felt like a pause.

Not the end of something, but the space between.

At the same time, everything else seemed to slow.

Response systems quieted.

Movement decreased.

Activity that had been constant became minimal.

Not because everything was fixed, but because everything had been interrupted, as if the system itself needed time to reset or to hold.

And that was the part that unsettled people the most because silence usually follows resolution, but this didn’t feel resolved.

The ground was still unstable in places.

Water levels hadn’t fully returned.

Patterns in the sky hadn’t normalized.

Nothing had truly gone back to what it was.

And yet everything paused as if the sequence had reached a point and stopped deliberately.

For a moment there was no escalation, no new anomaly, no immediate continuation, just stillness.

And in that stillness, awareness.

Because when everything is moving, it’s hard to see the pattern.

But when it stops, even briefly, the pattern becomes visible.

Sky, storm, water, ground, life, system, all shifting one after another.

And now nothing.

For some it was a relief.

For others it felt like a warning because silence doesn’t always mean safety.

Sometimes it means something is waiting.

And in that quiet, one thought began to surface.

Not spoken loudly, not confirmed, but present.

Before the next movement, there is always a pause.

Not as a prediction, not as a conclusion, but as a recognition that whatever had moved through all of this hadn’t disappeared.

It had only stopped.

At first, it was easy to separate everything.

A strange sky, an unusual storm, rivers behaving differently, ground shifting in isolated places.

when animals reacting in ways no one could fully explain.

Each event had a name, a category, a possible cause.

And for a while, that was enough because as long as things stay separate, they feel manageable.

But that changed not when something new appeared, but when people began to look back, because when you place them side by side, something doesn’t fit anymore.

The sky didn’t change randomly.

It shifted first.

Then the storm followed, not forming normally, but moving in ways that didn’t hold.

Then the water responded, rising where it shouldn’t, disappearing where it couldn’t.

Then the ground answered, “Not everywhere, but exactly where stability was expected.

Then life reacted.

Before anyone understood what was happening, and then the systems began to strain.

Energy slowed.

Movement tightened, access narrowed.

Not one collapse, but multiple pressures building at the same time.

And finally, the silence.

Not as an ending, but as a pause.

And that’s when everything changes.

Because individually, each moment can still be explained.

A rare atmospheric effect, an extreme weather system, a hydraological shift, localized ground instability, environmental stress.

Each one on its own makes sense.

But the moment you connect them, the explanation becomes less stable than the events themselves.

Because nothing happened alone.

The sky moved and the air followed.

The air shifted and the water responded.

The water changed and the ground answered.

The ground moved and life reacted.

And as all of that unfolded, the systems built to manage it began to strain.

Not in isolation, but together across different layers, across different regions, way across things that aren’t supposed to move at the same time.

And that’s the part no one can easily explain.

Not the events themselves, but the alignment.

Because patterns don’t form from a single point.

They form when multiple things begin moving in the same direction.

And this time the direction wasn’t clear, but the sequence was sky, storm, water, ground, life, system, silence, one after another.

Not overlapping randomly, but unfolding.

And that leads to a different kind of question.

Not what caused this, but why did it all happen at once? Some will say coincidence, a rare convergence of unrelated events.

Others will say pattern, something forming just beneath the surface.

But at this point, there’s no clear answer, only observation because people saw the sky change.

They saw the storm move.

Whereas they saw the rivers shift, they felt the ground respond, they watched life react, and they noticed that none of it stayed isolated.

So now the question is are these just separate events happening close together or are they part of something larger moving through everything at once? Tell me what you think because whatever this is it hasn’t fully revealed itself yet.

Introduction Critics of full predatorism often mischaracterize the view that Christ’s Peruia, the day of the Lord, and the resurrection were spiritually fulfilled in AD70 as akin to the premature esqueological errors condemned in 2 Thessalonians 2 1:2 and 2 Timothy 21:17-18.

These passages, however, do not refute full priorism, but rather align with it when understood in their first century context.

In 2 Thessalonians 2, well, Paul addresses false teachings that the day of the Lord had already arrived before key prophetic signs such as the apostasy and revelation of the man of lawlessness had occurred.

Events that full praarism locates in the leadup to Jerusalem’s destruction in AD70.

Similarly, in 2 Timothy 21:17-18, Himus and Philus are condemned for teaching a resurrection that had already happened in a way that perpetuated old covenant structures, a heresy that actually mirrors the implications of futurism rather than predatorism.

Paul
further affirms the imminent spiritual fulfillment in AD.

70 by declaring, “I testify then before God in the Lord Jesus Christ who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation/appearing in his reign.

” 2 Timothy 4:1.

Ironically, partial predatorist Keith A.

Mat F in his critique of full predtoism, when shall these things be warns against applying 2 Timothy 21:17 to 18 to predtoists, acknowledging that a spiritual resurrection could indeed have occurred in AD70.

This article bridges these passages by demonstrating their shared emphasis on an imminent spiritual fulfillment tied to the end of the old covenant age, consistently applying Mat’s argument from silence in 2 Thessalonians 2 and extending it to 2 Timothy 2 by examining the apocalyptic language, historical parallels, and intertextual connections, for example, to Matthew 24, Isaiah 27, and Revelation 20.

We will show how both texts point to AD.

70 as the climactic realization of Christ’s coming, gathering, and resurrection, vindicating the Thessalonian believers in Timothy’s audience while judging apostate Israel.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12.

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you brothers not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed either by a spirit or a spoken word or a letter seeming to be from us to the effect that the day of the Lord has already come.

Let no one deceive you in any way, for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now, so that he may be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.

And only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders and with all wicked deception.

for those who are perishing because they refuse to love the truth and so be saved.

Therefore, God sends them a strong delusion so that they may believe what is false in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

While partial predtorists such as Kenneth Gentry artificially separate the coming of Christ from two Thessalonians, one from the coming in chapter 2, it is clear that both passages refer to the same event.

Christ coming in judgment and vengeance upon his enemies and in vindication, salvation, and relief for the Thessalonian believers.

In chapter 2, Paul addresses the false teaching that this coming had already occurred, a claim that had unsettled some in the Thessalonian church.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-2.

Paul countered this false teaching by explaining that certain events must take place first, namely the apostasy understood as the Roman/Jewish rebellion and the revealing of the man of lawlessness.

Therefore, it is important to address this passage as well to support the claim that this passage was fulfilled in AD70.

Let us again examine the argument from one of my partial predtoist opponents, Keith Mat, who identifies three major difficulties with applying two Thessalonians two to an end of world history scenario.

As in the case of 1 Thessalonians 5, no commentator who approaches this text under the assumption that it refers to the events surrounding the second coming, an end of world history event, has ever been able to offer an even remotely plausible explanation for the belief of the Thessalonian Christians that the day of the Lord had already come.

If we grant the assumptions of these commentators, then Paul has already told them in his first epistle that this event would involve the bodily resurrection of the dead and the catching up in the air of those who would still be alive to be with the Lord forever.

Unless one concludes that the Thessalonian Christians were profoundly oblivious to reality, there is no explanation for why they would have believed that this had already taken place.

Futurist interpreters have also failed to offer a plausible explanation of Paul’s argumentation in 2 Thessalonians 2.

If the coming of Christ or gathering to him and the day of the Lord in this chapter refer to the second advent and end of world history, the rapture and the bodily resurrection of the dead, then it is necessary to explain Paul’s method of proving that these things had not yet occurred.

Why would Paul have tried to convince a group of believers that the rapture and the bodily resurrection of all believers had not yet occurred by arguing that the apostasy and revelation of the man of lawlessness must come first? What if this chapter is referring to the second advent, the rapture, and the bodily resurrection of the dead? The proof that these things had not yet happened would have been far more simple and obvious.

The entire argument of 2 Thessalonians 2 could have been reduced to the single question, are you still here? The third major difficulty facing futurist interpretations of 2 Thessalonians 2 is the large number of references within the chapter itself which indicate a first century fulfillment.

Whoever the man of lawlessness is, Paul refers to him as being restrained now.

26.

In other words, the man of lawlessness was being restrained at the time when Paul wrote this letter.

Again, in verse 7, Paul tells his readers that the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.

Also, in verse 7, the restrainer of the man of lawlessness now restrains him.

Finally, with the numerous parallels between this chapter and the Olivet discourse, which is clearly tied to a first century fulfillment, indicate a first century fulfillment of this chapter, too.

Some of these parallels are a coming of our Lord, 2 Thessalonians 2:1, compare Matthew 24:27:30, a gathering together to him, 2 Thessalonians 2:1, compare Matthew 24:31.

Apostasy, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, compare Matthew 24:510-12.

The mystery of lawlessness.

2 Thessalonians 2:7.

Matthew 24:12.

Satanic signs and wonders.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10.

Compare Matthew 24:24.

A deluding influence on unbelievers.

2 Thessalonians 2:1.

Compare Matthew 245:24.

Mat ultimately concludes the evidence that 2 Thessalonians 2 points to a first century fulfillment is overwhelming.

I agree with Mat that the gathering and coming of Christ in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 refer to the same event described in Matthew 24:30-31.

However, the problem for Mat is that Matthew 24:3-31 in connection with Matthew 13:39-43 and Daniel 122:7 clearly identifies this as the resurrection and gathering at the end of the old covenant age in AD.

70.

Even amillennialist GK Beal connects 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 with 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17, recognizing that both passages refer to the second coming in resurrection.

That both Christ’s coming and the saints resurrection are in mind and are the content of the day of the Lord in 22 is evident in the wording of one one, the coming of our Lord Jesus and our being gathered to him.

These phrases allude to Christ coming to gather saints at the final resurrection.

1 Thessalonians 4:14.

It the common wording and theme show that this section is a further unpacking of 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 and that the false teaching is an overrealized distortion of that part of Paul’s first letter.

Three, be is exactly right to connect the coming and gathering of 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 with 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 and Matthew 24:30-31.

His use of the analogy of faith is commendable.

However, like many amillennialists, be doesn’t adequately grapple with the apocalyptic imagery and time indicators in Matthew 24 and the Thessalonian letters.

Mat, for his part, rightly critiques Beiel’s inability to explain why Paul would argue the day of the Lord hadn’t already happened by pointing to prior signs such as the apostasy and the revealing of the man of lawlessness if the event were as unmistakable as traditionally assumed.

So, and once again, we are left with a classic stalemate between the partial predtoous view, Mat, and the classic amalennial view, Beal.

The only way to break this gridlock is to recognize that all of these texts describe the same spiritual coming of Christ in resurrection gathering.

An event that Jesus and Paul expected to be imminently and spiritually fulfilled in AD.

70 to close out the old covenant age.

Let’s revisit the esqueological coming of Christ and esqueological gathering of Isaiah 27 that both Jesus and Paul are drawing upon here in Matthew 24:30-31, 25:31 and following 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 and 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2.

We will also explore how this gathering coincides with the judgment of the man of lawlessness and the defeat of Satan or Leviathan/dragon.

Much of these parallels are especially powerful now that Mat concedes there is no division between Matthew 24 and 25 and that the coming of Christ in Matthew 24:30-31 is the same event as Matthew 25:31.

What made the Thessalonians think it was over regarding 2 Thessalonians 2:2 and some teaching that the day of the Lord had already occurred? It is curious that Mat does not apply his own reasoning when it comes to hyonius and Philitus who also taught that the resurrection had already taken place as well as the
day of the Lord which would bring about that event 2 Timothy 21:17 to18.

In both passages, Paul does not refute the claim with, “How can you believe that the day of the Lord are gathering to him and the resurrection have already occurred because you are still here? Graveyards are still full, son and the planet has not been destroyed.

” This silence suggests that Paul’s doctrine of an imminent day of the Lord and resurrection event was spiritual and anticipated a fulfillment in AD70 rather than a future end of history event.

To connect this silence in 2 Thessalonians 2 with a similar dynamic in 2 Timothy 2, consider the traditional Jewish expectation of resurrection as tied to the end of the age.

Daniel 12:23:13, which Jesus reframes as a spiritual transition from death to life.

John 5:24-29.

Paul’s argument in both epistles assumes a spiritual resurrection linked to the covenantal shift, not a physical one that would be self-evident.

This bridges the passages.

The error in Thessalonica was prematurely declaring the day of the Lord without the signs of apostasy and lawlessness fulfilled in AD 66-70.

And while Himanius and Felitus ered by teaching a resurrection that preserved old covenant elements, undermining the new creation’s arrival in AD70.

Both heresies distort the timing and nature of the same esqueological cluster.

parasia, gathering, resurrection, and judgment pointing to a unified AD70 fulfillment.

The apostasy mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 could be understood in either a religious or political sense.

The Greek word apostasia can refer to a departure from the faith or a political rebellion.

A religious interpretation would suggest that the Jews were abandoning their Old Testament faith and rejecting the gospel of Christ or that professing Christians were returning to the Old Covenant system, a theme addressed throughout the New Testament, for example, Galatians, Colossians, Hebrews.

A political reading would identify the Jewish revolt against Rome AD 66-7 as the apostasy an interpretation supported by some translations such as the Jerusalem Bible which refers to it as a revolt.

The man of lawlessness possible candidates.

Several historical figures from the Jewish Roman War AD 66 to 70 have been proposed as the man of lawlessness described in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-9.

The man of lawlessness was probably either a Jewish high priest or a political figure like John Levi of Gishala.

Both of whom were lawless and committed acts of abomination in the temple during the great revolt of AD 66 to 70.

A highly important text is Revelation 17.

This is the first text in Revelation in which the second coming is clearly spoken of in Jesus’s mention.

The text belongs to a longer passage Revelation 15-7.

what which is part of the introduction of the book.

This passage contains a summary statement of the entire apocalypse.

It is revelation in a nutshell.

Before moving to strange beasts, confusing numbers and terrible disasters, this passage tells what the book is really all about.

If it were not for this introduction, we would be in danger of getting lost in the symbols and frightful events depicted and losing sight of God’s plan of salvation that like a golden thread runs throughout all history.

The passage Revelation 15:7 describes Jesus attitude toward us and his activity in favor of us.

Jesus loves us.

15 He has saved us by shedding his blood.

The sin problem is solved.

15 Jesus has set us in a new position.

We are a kingdom and priest.

16 Jesus is coming again.

17 This is good news.

Everything is done for us when the entire plan of salvation is summarized in these words.

Jesus loves us.

His substitutionary death provides salvation for us.

Since we have accepted his grace, we have become a kingdom and priests.

Followers of Jesus are the real kings and priests on earth.

But were it not for his second coming, everything would be incomplete.

The final salvation would not be obtained.

Jesus does not stop halfway.

What he has begun, he also will bring to glorious completion.

Jesus is coming again.

This is what Revelation 17 tells us.

Revelation 17 also teaches that Jesus return will be visible to the entire human race.

Everybody will see him.

A hidden or secret coming or a coming which will be noticed only by a few is alien to the Bible.

This verse ends negatively.

The tribes of the earth will mourn.

As wonderful as the second coming of Jesus is for his disciples, for his enemies it means judgment.

Whereas for God’s children it is final salvation.

Two in Revelation 2:3 in the messages to the seven churches coming is mentioned five times namely in the messages to five different churches.

The only letters in which the words to come is missing are those to the best church and the worst church, Smyrna and Leodysa.

Of the five times the term coming occurs, it is used negatively with Ephesus, Pergamum, and Sardis.

These negative comeings are comingings for judgment.

Revelation 2:5, “Repent and do the works you did at first.

If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

” Revelation 2:16.

Repent then.

If not, I will come to you soon and make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Revelation 3:3 gam you repent if you do not wake up I will come like a thief and you will not know at what hour I will come to you the announced judgment does not only refer to a future judgment if these churches do not repent the judgment is at hand in the messages to Thotira in Philadelphia to come occurs in a positive way and clearly refers to
the second coming revelation 2:25 only hold fast to what you have until I come.

Revelation 3:11.

I am coming soon.

Hold fast to what you have so that no one may take your crown.

We discover from this that the expression to come has positive overtones.

It refers to Christ’s return.

When coming is negative, it is an act of judgment which is not limited to the second coming.

However, an endtime component seems to be present anyway.

The promises to the overcomers which follow in each case yet are associated with the end time.

In Revelation 2:16, the word soon is added, I am coming soon, namely for judgment.

Elsewhere in Revelation, the expression soon is found in connection with the second coming.

The terms to make war, sword, and mouth occur also in Revelation 19:11 and 15 when Christ as the rider on the white horse wins the battle of Armageddon at his return.

And coming like a thief reminds us of Revelation 16:15 and similar NT passages which clearly refer to the second coming.

Thus, even the negative passages have an end time component.

However, one wonders if only five of the seven messages to the churches hint at Jesus coming.

What about the other two? In the message to the church of Smyrna, the promise for the overcomers assures them they will not be harmed by the second death.

The second death becomes a reality only after Christ’s return.

In the message to the church of Leodysia, Jesus says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and will dine with him and he with me.

” The opinions of expositors vary.

Some think the text applies to the individual who opens his or her life to Jesus.

Others notice a connection to the second coming or to both aspects.

What are the arguments in favor of an end time interpretation of Revelation 3:20? First, the context is directed toward the end time.

Obviously, the supper reflects the marriage supper of the lamb in Revelation 19:9, which will be celebrated after the second coming.

Second, the narrow context is also end time oriented as can be seen by the promise to the overcomers in 3:21.

Third, since the messages to the other churches hint at Jesus second coming, we expect to find a similar feature in the message to the leadyans.

Fourth, the large context of revelation, for example, 16:15 is filled with the concept of the Lord’s second coming.

Fifth, the idea of standing at the door reminded first century Christians of the Lord’s second coming.

Matthew 24:33 and Mark 13:29 emphasize that Jesus is at the door.

When you see all these things, recognize that he is near, right at the door.

In Luke 12:36, the context is the second coming.

In this case, we hear about knocking and opening the door.

According to James 5:9, the judge is standing right at the door.

B, the second coming in the epilogue.

Having investigated the prologue of Revelation, we now jump to the conclusion of this book.

In Revelation 22:7, we read, “Behold, I am coming soon.

Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.

” At the end of Revelation, this message serves as an encouragement.

Much will take place soon.

226.

Not all of it will be positive, but Christians live with the expectancy that Jesus will come soon.

This will empower them.

In the second part of this verse, Jesus points to the word of God.

In this case, to the book of Revelation.

This word of God needs to be read, heard, taken to heart, kept, and lived.

We need to be grounded in this word as we expect our Lord’s soon return.

In Revelation 22:12, we read, “Behold, I am coming soon.

My reward is with me to repay according to everyone’s work.

” This message starts like the previous one.

However, it is continued differently.

Jesus talks about reward according to works.

This reward can be final judgment or salvation.

Therefore, I some regard the second coming as a threat.

For others, it is comfort, encouragement, and hope.

The next verse talks about the one who is able to lead us to the final goal.

It is interesting to hear about reward according to works.

In Matthew 24:25, Jesus’s end time speech is found.

It includes several examples or parables.

Each has a certain direction.

One, the fig tree watching.

Two, the days of Noah watching.

Three, the evil servant relating to people.

Four, the 10 virgins acting.

CFMAT 7:24-27.

Five, talents acting.

Six, sheep and goats relating to people.

Matthew did not mention the correct doctrine when he discussed the second coming.

The right doctrine and its importance are referred to in several other passages of scripture.

But Matthew did not concentrate on it.

One can become very preoccupied with doctrine.

One can even fight for the correct doctrine and at the same time be blind to treating friends, colleagues, and relatives fairly and with love.

It belongs to the preparation of the second coming to have a good relationship to brothers and sisters within the church and those outside the church.

Not just the right doctrine as important as the latter is.

This concept may be present here when we hear about a reward according to deeds.

The final confirmation comes in Revelation 22:20.

The one who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.

” Amen.

Come Lord Jesus.

The one who testifies is the same person found in verse 18.

We have to take the context into consideration.

What Jesus testifies in verses 18 to 19 is do not add anything to the book of revelation and therefore to the Bible and do not omit any part.

Thus Jesus calls us to be extremely careful with the word of God and to be faithful toward it.

Today many Christians do not care much about God’s word.

Unfortunately, there are trends among us to follow sociology, psychology, philosophy, or any of the sciences, as well as our own inclinations in the opinions of the majority rather than the word of God.

There is the danger of no longer letting scripture guide us.

There is the danger of no longer feeding personally upon God’s word daily.

Sometimes we do not even bring our Bibles to church or to Sabbath school.

As the second coming is near, there must be a new devotion to scripture among us because it is there that we are most likely to meet our Lord.

Finally, John as a representative of all faithful believers exclaims, “Amen.

Come Lord Jesus.

” This is the confession of the church.

Marinatha, our Lord comes or come, O Lord.

Two, the second coming in the prophetic apocalyptic part of Revelation.

Now we can move on to the apocalyptic part of revelation.

We will start with the seals.

One, the sixth and the seventh seals 612 to 81.

Whereas the seals in general parallel the signs of the coming of the Lord, the last two seals are especially important.

The sixth seal clearly has to do with the Lord’s coming.

First, it describes seven phenomena in nature.

Then it mentions seven groups of people.

The natural phenomena are mostly the heavenly signs.

as we know them from Matthew 24.

The reaction of humankind to the last of these signs and to Christ’s return which is associated with them is amazing.

People want to die.

The day of the Lord has come which is the day of judgment when as already known from the OT.

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