JESUS RETURN--- TWO PARTS??? #2

Jesus' Return - Two Phases?

Secret and Visible?

THE FUNDAMENTAL RAPTURISTS TEACHING by Keith Hunt There are a few ... well about 4 to be specific, fundamental faults with the fundamental Christian teaching they call "The Rapture of the Saints." First: they try and use the Jewish "wedding ritual" to uphold their idea that the New Testament teaches the "secret rapture." While parables and types are used in the Bible, a person needs to be very careful in HOW you use them, for it is a fact that all analogies, figures, types, etc. break down eventually. The fine example is the parable of the "Unjust Judge." It is clear that the unjust judge is representing God the Father, but the analogy breaks down right away in trying to believe all aspects are reality, for anyone who reads the Bible knows God the Father is PERFECT and is never "unjust." Trying to figure the Jewish wedding ritual and custom into the setting of the coming of Christ, is folly, for there is not ONE WORD in the New Testament by Christ or any other apostle of the New Testament church that they ever used the Jewish wedding custom in all its aspects for the return of Christ - a coming in secret, gathering His bride the church, returning to heaven for ... however long, and then return once more with the saints to this earth for a 1,000 years; making the coming of Jesus Christ a TWO PART process.                   CHRIST  NEVER  USED  THE  PHRASE  "THE  KINGDOM  OF  GOD  IS  LIKE  A  GALILEE             MARRIAGE"---- HE  SAID  MANY  TIMES  "THE  KINGDOM  OF  GOD IS  LIKE...."             BUT  NEVER  AS  A  GALILEE  MARRIAGE,  OR  "JEWISH  MARRIAGE."  HE  DID  USE AT             TIMES  PART  OF  A  JEWISH  MARRIAGE,  BUT  NEVER  THE  WHOLE  OF  A  JEWISH  MARRIAGE.             THAT  IS  USED  BY  FUNDAMENTAL  PROTESTANT  PROPHETS  TO  TRY  AND  GIVE  PROOF              OF  A  TWO  PART  SECOND  COMING  OF  JESUS  WITH  EITHER  7  OR  3  AND  1/2  YEARS              IN  HEAVEN  BETWEEN  TWO  COMINGS.  WHAT  SOME  WILL  DO  TO  HOLD  A  FALSE              TEACHING.  THEN  SOME  ON  YOUTUBE  ADMIT  LESS  AND  LESS  PASTORS  ARE  TEACHING              THE   [SECRET]  RAPTURE,  AND  LESS  AND  LESS  CHURCH  PEOPLE  ARE  BELIEVING  IT. Second: the understanding by the fundamental Christian teachers concerning Daniel 9 is TOTALLY INCORRECT, just as MANY fundamental Bible Commentaries like Albert Barnes, Adam Clarke and others will soon point out. Those fundamental teachers of yesterday NEVER understood Daniel 9 as many of the fundamental teachers of the last 100 years have taught it. The modern teaching by many of Daniel 9 is relatively new and it is VERY INCORRECT!! Understanding Daniel 9 as it was understood by the old fundamental teachers of the 19th, 18th, 17th, century, would for starters BLOW AWAY the modern teaching of the "secret" rapture or TWO PHASE coming of Christ Jesus at the end time. The truth of Daniel 9 is fully, in detail explained on my Website. The old Protestant fundamental teachers never taught a two part coming of Jesus. Third: Jesus nor the apostles EVER taught a "secret" and "open" second coming of Christ. It is a folly to mark off all the Scriptures concerning a "visible" or "open" second coming, and then mark off all the Scriptures that are supposed to be proof of an "invisible" or "secret" coming of Christ. What ALL of these verses are doing is LOOKING AT THE SAME EVENT FROM TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. Just as we have the so- called "synoptic Gospels" of Matthew, Mark, and Luke; often covering the SAME story but from slightly DIFFERENT perspectives; so it is with the Second Coming of Christ. There is a perspective for the saints to keep in mind and there is a perspective for the world as a whole and the nations upon it, to keep in mind. Forth: the bottom line is that the word "rapture" is really the RESURRECTION of the saints from the grave and the CHANGING from mortal to immortality the saints who are alive when Jesus returns to earth.   All of this is tied up in the subject of DEATH, the IMMORTAL SOUL teaching, the RESURRECTION of the saints of all ages, and the CORRECT PUTTING of ALL the Scriptures TOGETHER correctly, to understand the SECOND RETURN OF JESUS TO LIVE ON THIS EARTH. As a child growing up reading my Bible, [went to a Church of England       school,  and  local  Sunday  school]  from  age  7,  I NEVER ONCE came to the conclusion that Jesus was to return the second time in TWO parts! Is the Bible that hard to understand? Can a child come to understand the BASIC teachings of the foundational doctrines of the Lord? Well Jesus said that unless you become AS A CHILD, you will never enter the Kingdom of God! I submit to you that all the basic doctrines of the Lord can be understood by a child. Now the child will have to read all the Bible, yes indeed, and will have to BELIEVE the simple clear verses FIRST on any given foundational teaching, then understand the ones that seem to contradict or the ones harder to understand IN THE LIGHT of the EASY SCRIPTURES to understand. It is a case of putting the HORSE ***BEFORE*** THE CART and not the cart before the horse! Let me cover here also this idea: the Lord can come at any second! The fundamentals get this teaching from Jesus saying we cannot know the day nor the hour of His coming, and that He may come at a time we do not expect. All of that is very true from the point that NONE but the Father knows the hour and the day Jesus is to be sent back to this earth. And it is also true from the perspective that most of the time, most people do not know when they shall die; and after death there is the RESURRECTION to life, the next second after death is life at the coming of Christ in the form of a resurrection to meet the Lord in the air, in the clouds, and to be with Him forever more. But, the New Testament makes it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that the ONE AND ONLY COMING OF CHRIST WILL ONLY TAKE PLACE AT THE ***LAST*** TRUMPET, THE 7TH TRUMPET OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. THERE ARE CERTAIN EVENTS TO TAKE PLACE ON THIS EARTH ***BEFORE*** JESUS IS TO RETURN!! SO IN THAT SENSE OF PROPHECY, JESUS CANNOT COME AT ANY SECOND. IT IS JUST THAT SIMPLE. JESUS CANNOT COME AT ANY SECOND PER SE. YES, HIS COMING CAN BE ANY SECOND FOR YOU, FOR THE NEXT SECOND AFTER YOUR DEATH IS THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD AT THE COMING OF THE GLORIOUS ONE RETURN OF CHRIST TO EARTH.   YOU WILL NOT KNOW HOW MUCH TIME HAS GONE BY. TO FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT I'VE JUST SAID, IS TO FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT DEATH IS, AND THAT INCLUDES THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE IMMORTAL SOUL TEACHING IS UTTERLY FALSE AND IS NOT TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE. THERE IS A FULL IN-DEPTH STUDY FROM A FUNDAMENTAL PROTESTANT, ON MY WEBSITE, CALLED "DEATH - WHAT THEN?" THERE ARE OTHER STUDIES ON MY WEBSITE ABOUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER THAT NOT ONE MORTAL HUMAN PERSON HAS GONE TO HEAVEN EXCEPT JESUS THE CHRIST. THEN ON MY WEBSITE THERE IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE RESURRECTION AND THE PUTTING TOGETHER ALL THE VERSES ON THE SUBJECT, THAT THEN SHOW CLEARLY THE TEACHING OF A "SECRET" RAPTURE OR A "TWO PHASED" RETURN OF CHRIST TO EARTH, IS TOTALLY FALSE!! IT'S TIME FOR YOU, IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO, TO BLOW THE DUST OFF YOUR BIBLE, TO SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, AND COME TO SEE WHO TEACHES THE TRUTH OF THE WORDS OF THE LORD!! ..................... Entered on this Website January 2009