"EVERY EYE shall see Him"

[WilliamLhk]

“…and every eye will see Him…”

Part 1​

Revelation 1:7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see/gaze upon Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.

How will it be that every eye will see Jesus Christ at His Coming? What do the Scriptures tell us?

According to Zechariah 12:10, “they who who pierced him” will include many Jews alive when He appears, apparently because of their continued rejection of Jesus as Messiah up to the very instant that they see him:

Zechariah 12:10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplications; and they will look intently toward Me whom they pierced, and they will mourn over Him as one mourns over the only son, and grieve over Him as one grieves over the firstborn.”

However, Matthew 26:64 says that ones who are now among the dead – those who literally caused him to be pierced – will also see him:

Matthew 26:63 And the high priest answered and said to Him, “I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!” 64 Jesus said to him, “It is as you [singular] said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you [plural] will see/gaze upon the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

Now, “every eye” certainly did not see Jesus ascend from the Mount of Olives. That event was only seen by his disciples. Acts 1:9-10 Therein lies a clue as to their type of vision. Here are more scriptural clues to consider:

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we shall be; but we know that when He shall be manifested, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

Luke 12:2 “For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. 3 Therefore what-ever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light…”

2 Thessalonians 1:7 …when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels… 8 …those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ… 9 …shall be punished with everlasting destruction apo/away from the Face of the Lord and apo/away from the glory of His power, 10 when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe…

What I see in these passages is this: when the Lord appears, “every eye will see him.” The Greek word for “see” here is “optanomai: to gaze upon, i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable.” Strong’s G3700 In short, everyone will be awe-struck. For those of us who love Him and have prepared ourselves for this moment, our spirits will move into His Spirit, “we shall [then] be like Him,” and be caught up to Him.

But for those who have not loved Him, or have not been prepared for this sight, they will be struck with fear and shame. This is why “all the tribes of the earth will mourn/wail because of Him,” and be removed away from His Face. More on that later.

 

[WilliamLhk]

Part 2​

Revelation 1:7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see/gaze upon Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.

Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor hidden that shall not be known.

In order for every eye to see Jesus, they will have to be facing Him. But what if He is facing back at you – and you know that He sees you too! And not only that – you’re bare-naked in His sight, body and soul and spirit, you know you are! What will you do in the revealing Light of His Glory, when it is exposing your nakedness to everyone better than any TSA body scanner could ever hope for? Why, you will, if you have not prepared yourself for this moment,

Isaiah 2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust,
From the terror of the LORD
And the glory of His majesty.

11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled,
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the Face of Him who sits on the throne and from the Wrath of the Lamb!”

So a brief review: Jesus and the Father appear in heaven, and “every eye” sees them, worldwide, living and dead. Everyone is awestruck. Everyone realizes HE sees THEM too, and SEES EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM:

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

Luke 12:2 “For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. 3 Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light...”

John 3:20 “For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.”

The heathen “tribes of the earth” – that is, flesh-level people, not spirit-level Christians – will be too scared and ashamed to continue standing in the Presence, and they will flee from His Face. For those who are able to stand in that Light, however, it will be different – but more on that later.

Where and when did something very much like this happen before? It happened at Mount Sinai, about seven weeks after the Exodus of the Israelite people out of Egypt:

Exodus 20:18 Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they fell back and stood afar off. … So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

With this background in mind, we can come now to a prophecy of the Rapture that is often ignored, yet sums up everything so far discussed: Hebrews 12:18-28.

18 For you have not come toward the mountain [Sinai] that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, 19 and to a sound of a trumpet and a voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. … 22 [RAPTURE:] But you have come toward Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to a general assembly and a church of the firstborn having been registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men having been perfected/fulfilled, 24 [and] to Jesus, Mediator of a new covenant… 25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who re-fused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven…

Some will “turn away” from Him, others will move toward Him, just like at Mount Sinai. Some will wail and flee, others will rejoice and ascend:

Matthew 24:30 “…then all the tribes of the earth will mourn/wail, and they will see/gaze upon the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

Mark 13:27 “And then He will send His angels, and gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest part of earth to the farthest part of heaven.”

John 3:21 …he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

 

[WilliamLhk]

Part 3​

The Lord chose to scatter a multitude of prophetic pieces of the End Time jigsaw picture-puzzle throughout the Bible. Most people try to assemble all of the scattered pieces into one complete scene without ever having a picture on a box cover to guide them.

The Exodus story provides a guiding picture. Every basic theme and event of the End Times is in that biblical picture story, but people refuse to look at it. Instead, they work from distorted pictures formed in their minds out of presumptions about how they think things will be, or from what others have told them. And so they end up trying to jam puzzle pieces together that weren’t made to fit the way they think they should.

To retrace a bit:

Exodus 19:17 And Moses brought forth [all] the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of… 18 …Mount Sinai…

Hebrews 12:22 But you have come toward Mount Zion…

Exodus 20:18 …the people…fell back and stood afar off…

Deuteronomy 18:16 …saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

Hebrews 12:25 See that you do not…turn away from Him who speaks from heaven…

Four types of people came to earthly Mount Sinai and saw and heard God. The same four types shall see and hear God reveal Himself from heavenly Mount Zion. As we have seen, the first type, people having the primary nature of the flesh, i.e. the heathen, will always flee and hide in fear from the Presence of the Holy One.

The second type are people having the primary nature of the soul [Hebrew nephesh; Greek psuchē/“psyche”]:

Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:11 The soul of the flesh is in the blood.

These are people who belong either by heritage or by choice to the blood/soul lineage of Israel: all who have cleaved to Israel’s God by accepting His Covenant of Ten Commandments, which was established with Israel at Mount Sinai. These are people who live moral lives with their neighbors upon the earth, not corrupting their flesh and souls with God-forbidden desires and lusts. But these are not people who have been infilled by the Holy Spirit, and have thereafter lived their lives being guided by the very Spirit of Christ. Rom. 8:9; 2 Cor. 3:17

When soulish people meet God, they do not flee; but neither are they able to fully enter into His Presence. They are convinced, but not fully transformed. They are honored by God, but He does not accept them up into the cloud. Rather, He selects them for offices of earthly service; that is, as elders and priests over matters concerning flesh and blood. The 70 elders of Israel and the Levitical priesthood typify those called into such offices:

Exodus 24:1 And He said unto Moses, “Ascend unto the LORD, you, and [Levitical priests] Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from afar off. 10 …and they saw the God of Israel… 14 And [Moses] said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you.” [!]

Revelation 7:2 [END TIMES] Then I saw another angel… 3 saying, “Do not harm the earth…until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” 4 …One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed.

Zechariah 12:10 [END TIMES] “And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplications, and they will look intently toward [not away from] Me whom they pierced.” … 12 And the land shall mourn, every family by itself…”

The heathen will flee and hide away from the Face of God; but the Israelite servants of God will look toward him, and

Matthew 26:64 “…see/gaze upon the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

The faithful to YHWH, but (formerly) blinded-to-Christ elders and religious leaders of Israel, will see God having Christ at his right hand, and will realize that this is the fulfillment of Psalm 110’s prophecy about their Messiah:

Psalm 110:1 YHWH said unto my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.”

Israel will repent, and God will pour out his grace upon them, and seal them for His service upon earth. Rev. 7:3

 

[WilliamLhk]

Part 4​

When the Holy One reveals His Presence to those upon earth, both past (at Mount Sinai) and future (from heavenly Mount Zion), those of fleshly and soulish natures cannot enter within the sphere of the Presence, which manifests as a mass of clouds having the Light of God at its center.

At such times, the third of the four types of people to see the event are those having the primary nature of the spirit [Hebrew ruach; Greek pneuma]. In the Exodus-era prophetic picture, these were represented by Joshua. He was the only spirit-level man of that soulish and carnal era. The priests and elders were called to ascend before God, yet still remain “afar off” (Ex. 24:1); but Joshua the attendant of Moses was called to ascend much higher up the mountain:

Exodus 24:12 Then the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain and be there… 13 So Moses rose up, and his attendant Joshua: and Moses [and Joshua] ascended into the mountain of God. 14 And he said unto the elders, Wait here for us, until we come back to you. 15 Then Moses [and Joshua] ascended into the mountain, and the cloud covered/clothed the mountain.

“The cloud” here speaks of the outer covering of the Presence of God. In the Mosaic Tabernacle and Solomon’s Temple, this was represented by the Holy Place (front chamber) of the sanctuary. When Moses and Joshua were enclosed within the cloud, they came into the Presence, from which the Adamic race had been cut off (with a limited few exceptions, e.g. Enoch) since the fall of Adam and Eve. This second-level ascent is a prophetic picture of the End Time Rapture of the Spirit-filled Church:

Revelation 1:7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds…

Luke 21:27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven… 17 Then we…shall be caught up…in clouds, into a meeting of the Lord in air. And so always with the Lord we shall be.

To “always be with the Lord” is to eternally be clothed with = dwell within the Holy Presence. In the Exodus-era’s prophetic picture of this, even though Joshua by necessity had to later descend from earthly Mount Sinai, Scripture tells us –

Exodus 33:11 …[Moses’] assistant Joshua…did not depart from the tabernacle.

The same thing is said of the Spirit-infilled believers caught up/Raptured to heaven in the End Times:

Revelation 7:14 …the ones coming out of the Great Tribulation… 9 …clothed in white robes… 15 …[will] serve Him [God] day and night in His [heavenly] sanctuary.

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The fourth type of people are those called into the very Light of the Holy Presence. This is the third-level ascent. In the Exodus-era’s prophetic picture, Moses alone represented this type:

Exodus 24:2 Moses alone shall come near the LORD… 17 The sight of the Glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain… 18 So Moses went into the center of the cloud and ascended into the mountain…

Exodus 33:11 And the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, like one speaks to his friend.

Because of Moses’ closeness to the Light of the Face of God,

Exodus 34:29 …the skin of [Moses’] face shone while he talked with Him. [And for sometime afterward. 34:30-35]

In the Mosaic Tabernacle and Solomon’s Temple, the Most Holy Place (innermost chamber) of the sanctuary was the only place a man could approach near unto the Glory/Light of the Presence. Only one man, the High Priest of Israel, was accorded this privilege. The two chambers of the sanctuary represent the middle and highest of the three heavens (2 Cor. 12:2), requiring respectively greater levels of sanctity to enter.

In the Seventh Millennium, apparently no man will be able to fully approach God face-to-face except for Jesus, the High Priest of the Melchizedek (heavenly) priesthood. All views of the Glory of the Father will be, as Ezekiel once described it, an “appearance of the likeness of the Glory of YHWH.” Ezek. 1:28 (Even Moses was only able to see “the form/similitude of the LORD.” Num. 12:8; cf. Ex.33:20) Not until the Eighth Millennium, when the old, sin-corrupted heavens and earth have “passed away,” and sanctified “new heavens and a new earth” have been created (Rev. 21:1), will mankind be permitted to fully

Revelation 22:4 …see/gaze upon His Face; and His Name shall be upon their foreheads.