There are two phases of Christ’s second coming. In the first phase, He will come to the clouds and in the second He will come here down to Earth, on the Mount of Olives.
The reason for Jesus’s arrival on Mount of Olives will be so that He establishes the Kingdom of God here on Earth. When He arrives on Mount of Olives, He will not take anyone anywhere. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and their trial shall begin. And when the trial over all of the nations ends, the millennia Kingdom of God here on Earth will begin. But before He appears on Mount of Olives, He promised that He will arrive to the clouds, not here down on Earth. And that will be for one and only reason, and that is that He will takes us somewhere. He will not stay here on Earth, He will just take us with Him.
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. (1 Tess. 4:17)
And this is how we will be with the Lord Jesus forever. That’s something completely different from what the Lord says in these two verses:
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen. (Rev. 1:7)
For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. (Matthew 24:27)
And when we see these three verses, that one talks about the arrival to the clouds, and the other verses talk about arrival here on Earth (Mount of Olives) than we have to recognise that this is the mystery that Apostle Paul talked about in 1 Corin. 15:51 and that is ‘Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed’
When Jesus comes down here on Earth, when He actually touches the ground, He does not speak about a transformation, He does not speak about being caught up in the clouds (the rapture), He is talking about that, that when He arrives here on Earth, all of the nations will be crying. And the reason for everyone's cry will be because of who they all not have believed in. They will see Him and all of His glory and might with their own eyes.
But before that, the reason Jesus comes to the clouds will be that He takes everyone with Him who loves Him, who completely trust Him and obeys Him, everyone who is waiting for Him. So that He takes them to The Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Because the secret of the two phases of Christ’s second coming is that when He comes in to the clouds, He will take the Church with Him ‘In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.’
And the promise He has given us that we will go there and the secret is in that this is where The Marriage Supper of the Lamb will be. And when we attend this Supper, the world will be in the Great Tribulation. And this Great Tribulation is the time that will be between the two phases of Jesus’s second arrival. For whilst the Supper of the Lamb will be happening in Heaven, the Beast (antichrist) will be ruling the whole World.
The difference between Jesus arrival to the clouds and His arrival here on Earth will be that in the exact same time one group of people will attend The Supper of the Lamb, the second group of people will experience the Great Tribulation. And that is why the Bible all says that: Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!” (Rev 12:12).
For the prophecy from Daniel 7:23 to be fulfilled, where Daniel talks about the final Beast – the antichrist that he will rule the entire World and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces. For the final Beast and all of this to happen, something must happens first. As Apostle Paul says, there is something that is holding the Beast from ruling the enitre World (the Great Tribulation). That day will not come just like that. Someone, who is holding the antichrist ‘s reveal and thus preventing from the Great Tribulation from happening, must leave the Earth. That someone must be with His own power stopping from antichrist ruling. And Paul says in 2 Thess. 2:6-7 ‘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. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
When Jesus comes to the clouds, we will go home and the Holy Spirit with us. And the reason is that the Holy Spirit came down here on Earth for His Church and He will leave with them. How He came down, He will also leave. And He is the one that is holding the antichrist, because the Church is still here on Earth. While the Holy Spirit and the Church are here on Earth, the antichrist can’t rule the World. And once the Church is raptured, and the Holy Spirit departs to Heaven with them, because there is no Christian (born in Spirit) here on Earth, the antichrist is revealed (because now no one is holding him up anymore) that is when the Great Tribulation takes place, and will last until Jesus comes down to Earth on Mount of Olives and He will destroy the antichrist with His breast and thus the Great Tribulation will end.
