What left must happen before Jesus return

eye_spy_the_cia said:

Hi,
I was wondering what left still has to happen before Jesus can return. I heard the third temple must be built first, and what else must happen?

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Hello and welcome to CF!

Revelation 19
"6And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God, the Almighty, reigns. 7Let us rejoice and celebrate and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready. 8She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints."

*The Bride must make herself ready and the saints must do their righteous acts.

Habakkuk 1:5 Look around you among the nations, see there a sight that will utterly astound you, you will not believe it when you are told of what is being done in your days.

Habakkuk 1:6-11 goes on to say how the Babylonians were appointed to execute judgement against the House of Judah, but the preceding verses in Habakkuk 1:1-4 are a general indictment onto peoples and nations whose ‘laws are ineffective and where justice is overruled’. Therefore this threat of action by the Lord applies to our times, as well.

Acts 13:40-41 Beware, then lest you bring down upon yourselves the doom proclaimed by the prophets. Look, you who fail to grasp the truth, be surprised and perish. I am doing a work in your days, something that you will not believe, even though it has been pointed out to you.

This is the parallel passage from the New Testament. Pauls quote, was nothing to do with Jesus and His work on the cross, the message of salvation is not ‘doom’.
It applies to the end times: ‘your days’, not his days, but our days.

The ‘Doom proclaimed by the prophets’, will be the great and terrible Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath. All the prophets and Jesus make it clear that this ‘Day of doom’, is the next prophesied event that we can expect to happen. Jesus quoted the first and half of the second verse of Isaiah 61:1-2, at the commencement of His ministry. The worldwide Day of vengeance of our God’, is the next prophesied event, still not yet happened. It will be the Sixth Seal worldwide disaster, which commences all the prophesied end times events, leading up to the glorious Return of Jesus.

More than 100 prophecies throughout the Bible describe in vivid detail this forthcoming punishment onto the whole world by devastating fire, earthquakes, storms and tsunamis. This sudden and shocking event will take most people unawares and we are told by Paul, that those who are ‘surprised’; that is unaware and unprepared, then: they may perish.. Ezekiel 21:3-4

Isaiah 30:26 tells us what it is that causes this worldwide devastation and also that it will be ‘the Day the Lord saves His people’. who are all faithful Christians, who truly believe in Jesus and a few Messianic Jews who are protected in Jerusalem. Isaiah 29:4

Therefore it is up to us to take heed of the warnings, Isaiah 24:1, Isaiah 26:20-21 and to be prepared for all the effects of a massive CME sunstrike that will kill about 1/3 of the world’s population and will destroy all of our modern infrastructure. Jeremiah 9:22

Then, for all who love the Lord and keep His Commandments, the Lord is ‘waiting to show His favor’, Isaiah 30:18-20

Yes, the temple must be rebuilt. However, the key to the end times is when the Antichrist signs a 7-year covenant (a treaty of protection) with Isreal. The temple probably will not be able to be built until this treaty is signed.

eye_spy_the_cia said:

Hi,
I was wondering what left still has to happen before Jesus can return. I heard the third temple must be built first, and what else must happen?

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Jesus himself stated that He will one day return as a thief which some refer to as the rapture. The pertinent question is "when does he do that?" Though no one knows the day or the hour Jesus himself gave an approximate time period in Rev 16:15-16. The rapture and second coming are the same event which takes place right before Armageddon. That should give you some idea of what happens before Jesus returns.

eye_spy_the_cia said:

I heard the third temple must be built first,

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Even though you heard that, that doesn't necessarily make it so. But that aside, the mark of the beast system, for example, has to be in place and operating before Jesus can return. I for one see no proof that this is in full operation as of yet.

eye_spy_the_cia said:

And what if Trump is the Man of Lawlessness?

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Why Trump of all people though? I don't see the connection.

eye_spy_the_cia said:

Hi,
I was wondering what left still has to happen before Jesus can return. I heard the third temple must be built first, and what else must happen?

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IMHO nothing else needs to happen for the rapture, for it is imminent.Today, tomorrow, many years from now, just live like it will happen in the next few minutes.

Handmaid for Jesus said:

IMHO nothing else needs to happen for the rapture, for it is imminent.Today, tomorrow, many years from now, just live like it will happen in the next few minutes.

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As to a rapture, there cannot be a rapture without a coming. There cannot be a coming that involves a rapture, without that involving Jesus bodily returning to the earth at that time and remaining there. If a rapture can happen anytime, that should mean it could happen in the first century, or the 2nd century, so on and so on, yet it didn't. That alone proves that a rapture is not something that can happen at just anytime. Obviously certain events have to be fulfilled first before there can even be a rapture.

DavidPT said:

There cannot be a coming that involves a rapture, without that involving Jesus bodily returning to the earth at that time and remaining there.

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In the rapture, Lord Jesus does not set foot on the Earth, but He calls us up to meet Him in the air.Yes it could have happened in the first or second century and the Church at that time lived as if it was imminent. So should we.

eye_spy_the_cia said:

Hi,
I was wondering what left still has to happen before Jesus can return. I heard the third temple must be built first, and what else must happen?

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Hi eye....

Good question.

In the World System.
1. Another economic bust. (Rev. 6: 5 & 6)
2.The Russian War against Israel. (Ez. 38 & 39)

In the Body of Christ - Coming to the unity of the Faith of believing Christ and His purposes. (Eph. 4: 13)

Marilyn.

Handmaid for Jesus said:

In the rapture, Lord Jesus does not set foot on the Earth, but He calls us up to meet Him in the air.

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Why can't they all initially meet in the air as Jesus is descending from heaven unto the earth, then proceed to the earth together? Obviously after they all meet in the air, they don't stay in the air indefinitely, thus they have to be going to some destination then. Why not the earth? Do you have any passages showing that once they have met in the air, that they all go somewhere together other than to the earth? If you think their destination is heaven at the time, what passages can you provide that prove that?

DavidPT said:

Why can't they all initially meet in the air as Jesus is descending from heaven unto the earth, then proceed to the earth together?

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Because that is not what the scripture says happen.

DavidPT said:

Obviously after they all meet in the air, they don't stay in the air indefinitely, thus they have to be going to some destination then. Why not the earth? Do you have any passages showing that once they have met in the air, that they all go somewhere together other than to the earth? If you think their destination is heaven at the time, what passages can you provide that prove that?

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Rev.7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

Handmaid for Jesus said:

In the rapture, Lord Jesus does not set foot on the Earth, but He calls us up to meet Him in the air.Yes it could have happened in the first or second century and the Church at that time lived as if it was imminent. So should we.

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I think it depends on how one defines the rapture. If the rapture doesn't have to involve the 2nd coming, maybe in that case, to some degree, your position could work. But if the rapture has to involve the 2nd coming, my position, no way can your position work in that case.

DavidPT said:

I think it depends on how one defines the rapture. If the rapture doesn't have to involve the 2nd coming, maybe in that case, to some degree, your position could work. But if the rapture has to involve the 2nd coming, my position, no way can your position work in that case.

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We shall see.

eye_spy_the_cia said:

Hi,
I was wondering what left still has to happen before Jesus can return. I heard the third temple must be built first, and what else must happen?

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There are a multitude of things that must have to happen. The rapture that other posters are speaking about, anytime, be believing, and hopeful (Luke 21:34-36).

But of the other things, that we can put on a chart, the main ones are, in order:

1. The ten kings (leaders) of the fourth kingdom of Daniel 7 and the little horn person come to power over them.

2. Then the Gog/Magog attack on Israel, of Ezekiel 38/39.

3. Then the 7 years, started by the Antichrist person, the second half of which are the great tribulation.

4. Then Jesus Returns down to earth to end the great tribulation, and bring the Kingdom of God to be the ruling kingdom over the earth.

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Somewhere between now and the first couple of months of the 7 years, a temple of some sort has to rebuilt in Jerusalem. We don't know exactly when. In general, sometime over the next ten years (approximate).

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Here is a chart I made that may help you. There is a lot involved. I am 71 years old, and it took about 50 years to know what to put on the chart and where. There is one main arch villain during this time. Being the Antichrist is only one role of person. It is not Trump.

Just follow the path from upper left hand corner to lower right corner.

eye_spy_the_cia said:

And what if Trump is the Man of Lawlessness?

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It is not Trump, he does not fit the required profile. Basically, the person has to be a Jew and come from a location north and west of Israel, and be leader of the fourth kingdom of Daniel 7, historically the Roman Empire, in the end times the EU. On the chart, just begin in the upper right hand corner, follow the arrows to the left and then back to the right. The roles the person goes through in order are on that path.