Friday, June 10, 2016
Bible Lesson: Prophecies Made By The Lord Jesus: Christ's Ascension To Heaven, And His Return.
Bible Lesson: Prophecies Made By The
Lord Jesus: Christ's Ascension To Heaven, And His Return.
Bible Text: The Prophecy.
John 6:61,62 KJV
61 When Jesus knew in Himself that
His disciples murmured at it, He said unto them, Doth this offend
you?
62 What and if ye shall see The Son
Of Man ascend up where He was before?
John 7:33,34 KJV
33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a
little while am I with you, and then I go unto Him that sent Me.
34 Ye shall seek Me, and shall not
find Me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
Luke 21:27 KJV
And then shall they see The Son Of
Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Luke 24:50 KJV
And He led them out as far as to
Bethany, and He lifted up His hands, and blessed them.
Acts 1:9 KJV
And when He had spoken these things,
while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of
their sight.
Bible Text: The Fulfillment.
Christ's Return In Power And Glory.
Matthew 16:27 KJV
For The Son Of Man shall come in the
glory of His Father with His angels; and then He shall reward every
man according to his works.
Matthew 26:63,64 KJV (Mark 14:61,62/
Luke 22:66-69 KJV)
63 But Jesus held His peace, And the
high priest answered and said unto Him, I adjure thee by The Living
God, that thou tell us whether thou be The Christ, The Son Of God.
64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast
said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see The Son Of
Man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of
heaven.
Mark 16:19 KJV
So then after The Lord had spoken
unto them, He was received up into heaven, and sat on
The Right Hand Of God.
Matthew 24:30,44 KJV
30 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.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for
in such an hour as ye think not The Son Of Man cometh.
John 14:1-3 KJV
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye
believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father's house are many
mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a
place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I
am, there ye may be also.
Acts 1:10,11 KJV
10 And while they looked steadfastly
toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white
apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which
is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye
have seen Him go into heaven.
Philippians
3:20,21 KJV
20 For our conversation is in
heaven; from whence also we look for The Savior,
The Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body,
that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to
the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto
Himself.
Colossians 3:4
KJV
When Christ, who is our Life, shall
appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.
II Thessalonians
1:7,8 KJV
7 And to you who are troubled rest
with us, when The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His
mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance
on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ:
Hebrews 9:28 KJV
So Christ was once offered to bear
the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the
second time without sin unto salvation.
Jude 14,15 KJV
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from
Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, The Lord cometh with ten
thousands of His saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and
to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly
deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard
speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
Revelation 1:7
KJV
Behold, He cometh with clouds; and
every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.
Concerning The
Return Of Christ, it is two fold,
1st and
imminent, The (Secret and invisible-to the world) Rapture Of The
Church.
2nd
Christ's Second (visible)
Coming, to set up His Millennial Kingdom.
Between the rapture
and the 2nd coming is a period of 7 years, known as the
time of Jacob's trouble (Tribulation). It will be a time of the rule
and reign of the anti-Christ.
The Apostle Paul
speaks to the church, concerning the rapture:
(The Lord
meeting His people in the air.)
I Corinthians
15:51-58 KJV
51 Behold, I
shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed,
52 In a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.
53 For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality.
54 So when this
corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall
have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death,
where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of
death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks
be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore,
my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in
the work of
The Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in
vain in The Lord.
I Thessalonians
4:13-18 NLT
13 And now,
dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to
the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who
have no hope.
14 For since we
believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe
that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with Him the believers
who have died.
15 We tell you
this directly from The Lord: We who are still living when The Lord
returns will not meet Him ahead of those who have died.
16 For The Lord
Himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the
believers who have died will rise from their graves.
17 Then,
together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth
will be caught up in the clouds to meet The Lord in the air.
Then we will be with The Lord forever.
18 So encourage
each other with these words.
Christ's Second
coming (to earth):
Matthew 25:31-33
KJV (Millennial Kingdom)
31 When The Son
Of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him,
then shall He sit upon The Throne Of His Glory:
32 And before
Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one
from another, as A Shepherd divideth His sheep from the goats:
33 And He shall
set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
Isaiah 2:2-4 KJV
2 And it shall
come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of The Lord's house
shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be
exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many
people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of
The Lord, to the house of The God Of Jacob; and He will teach us of
His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go
forth the law, and The Word Of The Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And He shall
Judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning
hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more.
Isaiah 11:6-9
KJV
6 The wolf also
shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the
kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a
little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow
and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together:
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the
sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child
shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
9 They shall
not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain: for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of The Lord, as the waters cover the sea.