Introduction:
the bible says Jesus Himself predicted His return to the earth, in Mathew
25:31, when the son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with Him, he
will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.
He also said in john 14:2 – 3 in my father’s
house are many rooms , if it were not so, I would have told you, I am going
there to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you, I
will come back and take you to be with me.
Now after
Jesus ascended to heaven, His disciples were still standing looking into the
clouds where Jesus had just disappeared. In Act 1:10 – 11 we are told that
suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them and said men of galilee,
why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken
from you into heaven will come back in the same way you have seen him go into
heaven. All these are proof that Jesus Christ is coming back to take the believers
to himself.
Are you a
believer, are you ready for his return? In this His second coming, He has
nothing to do with the unbelievers, in His second coming, he comes only to take
the believers home unto himself.
For the lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the arch Angels and with the trumpet of God,
and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 – 17. So the
three great miracle that will take place when Christ comes for his believers
are:
1. Believers who have died will be
instantly resurrected. The very first event that will happen at the coming of
Jesus Christ will be the resurrection of the dead in Christ. The early
Christians who died, they knew that the lord was coming back some day to take
his believers to be with Him. But what about those who had died, would they
miss out? No they won’t, in 1 Thessalonians 4:13 – 18 (Read). The second coming
of Christ brings the miracle of instant resurrection, the dead in Christ shall
rise first who are those who died in Christ. The believers who live and die
before Christ returns. These people shall rise first. This is the first miracle
that will take place when Christ shall come.
2. The second miracle that will take
place is the believer who are living when Christcomes will be instantly
changed. Not all believers will die, there will be believers who will still be
alive to witness his coming physically; in 1 Corinthians 15:51 – 52 Paul said
we shall not all sleep (die) but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye. At the last trumpet, for the trumpet shall sound and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. So when Christ
comes there will be a trumpet blast from the sky and all Christian who had died
will suddenly become alive with new bodies, that will never, never die again.
Then we who are still alive shall suddenly be changed. We too will have new
resurrected bodies. That is not all believers will die but all will be changed
because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God 1 Corinthians 15:50
we must have a different kind of body to go to heaven, and God will give us
one.
3. The third miracle that will happen
when Christ comes is: all the believers will be instantly taken to heaven. This
will happen so quickly that the world will not know what has happen. The
unsaved husband and wife will wake up to find their believing mate missing and
all believer will be glorify.
Believers
will be glorified this means bringing the believers into their full glory and
blessing as sons of God. It also means that we will be conformed to the image
of Christ. 1 John 3:2.
Christ is
coming for His believers, He may come today, will he find us waiting and
wanting.
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