Who will greet Jesus at His Return?

[keras]

Who is it that says; BLESSED IS HE THAT COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD?

Matthew 23:39 & Luke 13:35 For I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say: Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord.”
Luke 18:8...when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?

Who are the inhabitants of Israel and Jerusalem at the time of Jesus’s Return?
Zechariah 13:7-9... says how the Lord will judge and punish the House of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem. Two thirds will die and the remainder will be refined, the remnant will call on the Lord and be accepted as His people. Ezekiel 21:1-7, Ezekiel 22:17-22. Isaiah 6:11-13, Jeremiah 12:14-16
This will happen at the Sixth Seal event. Zephaniah 1:1-18, Revelation 6:12-17

Then they will join with the House of Israel, the Christian peoples. Jeremiah 50:4-5, Ezekiel 37:15-28

Ezekiel 20:30-38 The House of Israel, the people that we know from Bible teaching, now refers to every faithful Christian, Isaiah 51:1-2, Romans 9:6-9, Galatians 3:26-29, are told how they have defiled themselves. Then, how they will be brought out of the peoples and lands where they have been dispersed to. They are tested and the righteous will be allowed to enter and settle into all of the Promised Land. Ezekiel 20:34-38, Isaiah 62:1-5, Isaiah 66:15-21, Ezekiel 34:11-31

Note, in v36...the same as I did in Egypt – see also Ezekiel 20:9....the Lord says- how I revealed Myself to the Israelites. That was in a cloud, not as a visible Person. So, these judgements are before the Lords Return. We know that was Jesus; 1 Corinthians 10:4


Zechariah 14:1-3 A Day is coming for the Lord to act and plunder taken from you will be shared out, while you stand by. I shall gather the nations to make war on Jerusalem- the city will be taken, houses ransacked and women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, the rest will stay.... Then, the Lord will Return in glory. He will destroy the armies of the nations. Revelation 16:13

Verses 1-2 fits for the time the Anti-Christ and his army comes to the holy Land, Daniel 7:25, to the new nation of Beulah, Isaiah 62:1-5, 3½ years after he has made a peace treaty with them. He will set up his image in the Temple at that time. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, Daniel 11:31

Those who go into exile are righteous people; the ‘woman’ of Revelation 12. Those who remain must face further refinement and testing. Daniel 11:35 During this 3½ year Tribulation period, the two witnesses will preach in Jerusalem to them. When the two witnesses are killed there is an earthquake that kills 7000 people. Revelation 11:13
Three and a half days later, Jesus will Return and call them to Him, along with all the faithful people who remain. Mostly the ones kept safe for the past 1260 days. Revelation 12:14

Those who remain are the royal house of priests, who will reign with Jesus on earth. Revelation 5:9-10. THEY will welcome Jesus as He Returns in His glory, at the end of the Tribulation and the armies of all the nations will be there, Revelation 16:12-14, under the command of the Anti Christ. Revelation 19:19 Jesus destroys them and chains up Satan. Revelation 19:20-21

Matthew 24:30-31....the angels will gather those righteous people, Revelation 12:14, from their place of safety, to where He is - in Jerusalem.

Psalms 68:28-31 Summon Your power, show Your strength, O God, as you have done before. Kings will bring gifts to Your Temple. Rebuke those wild beasts, scatter those nations who make war. Envoys will come from the other nations in submission to God.
Reference, REBible, some verses abridged

 

[Clare73]

Who will greet Jesus at His Return?

All the born again, who will be caught up in the air to meet him at the resurrection (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

 

[d taylor]

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Who will meet Jesus, believing Jews that have remained alive, ones who preserver to the end.

 

[timothyu]

His enemies who even today will not willingly want to give up control of the world man has made in our own image. Those who say their will be done. Those who in the end realize if they can't beat Him, perhaps they can save their necks by trying to join Him, only to be told I never knew you. The very people today who think by their position, wealth, affluence and influence that they can tell us how to think and live simply because of their position, seeing themselves as experts in what they deem important in life for themselves so we must also think that way. None of which of course mean squat to the Kingdom.

 

[Douggg]

Who is it that says; BLESSED IS HE THAT COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD?

The Jews. The Jews will become believers in Jesus in the middle part of the 7 year 70th week.

 

[timothyu]

The Jews. The Jews will become believers in Jesus in the middle part of the 7 year 70th week.

You mean they will say, oops.. we first rejected the messiah from the Kingdom and now we've gone and accepted the messiah from the world? What are the odds they can stand up to the self serving forces of this world who will move against the real messiah

 

[Douggg]

You mean they will say, oops.. we first rejected the messiah from the Kingdom and now we've gone and accepted the messiah from the world? What are the odds they can stand up to the self serving forces of this world who will move against the real messiah

When the abomination of desolation image is placed on the temple mount, the Jews living in Judea will flee to the mountains in order to survive the great tribulation that follows.

Them who don't flee right away will be persecuted and a number of them will be martyred.

Jesus will return to Jerusalem to rescue them... and they will say "blessed is He who comes in the name the Lord".

 

[timothyu]

When the abomination of desolation image is placed on the temple mount

A modern day version of the money changers.. an automated teller machine

 

[keras]

When the abomination of desolation image is placed on the temple mount, the Jews living in Judea will flee to the mountains in order to survive the great tribulation that follows.

Them who don't flee right away will be persecuted and a number of them will be martyred.

Jesus will return to Jerusalem to rescue them... and they will say "blessed is He who comes in the name the Lord".

The same ole false teaching, the unbiblical idea of a Jewish punishment and then; redemption, dreamed up so they can go to live in heaven, while the Jews face the Great Tribulation.

What is completely missed, is how the Jewish State of Israel will be virtually wiped out, by the Lord: on His terrible Day of fiery wrath, 2 Peter 3:7, along with all their evil neighbors. Jeremiah 12:14, Zephaniah 1:1-18, Isaiah 29:1-4, +, all make this a certainty.

Is it so difficult to realize that the prophecy about the Jews fleeing Jerusalem, applied to 66 AD and is a fulfilled prophecy.

The poeple who will greet Jesus can only be those who have endured the end times and have stood firm in their faith, trusting Jesus for their protection. A last minute conversion of the House of Judah, is never Prophesied.

 

[keras]

In ancient times, when the Israelites first settled into the holy Land, the Lord promised to ‘dwell among them’.

Exodus 29:45-46 I shall dwell in the midst of My people, I shall become their God and by My dwelling among them they will know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of Egypt.

This ‘dwelling’, was not as a visible entity but just His ‘Presence’, only seen by the people as a cloud or a pillar of fire that went before them during the Exodus and after the Temple was built, in the Holy of Holies as the Shekinah Glory. 1 Kings 8:10-11, 1 Cor 10:4


Unfortunately, those chosen people failed to keep their side of the Covenant and the Lord separated them into two Houses, 2 Kings 12:24. He sent the Assyrians to remove the Northern ten tribes of Israel, Isaiah 9:8. Their punishment was to be 390 years, Ezekiel 4:4. This was multiplied by seven, for their continued sins, Leviticus 26:18, giving a total decreed exile of 2730 years.

Then 130 years after the Assyrian conquest, Babylon took away the House of Judah, Isaiah 3:8-9 and their punishment was to be 40 years, Ezekiel 4:6 but, multiplied by seven times seven, Leviticus 26:24-28, for a total decreed exile of 1960 years.

The exile of the House of Israel will be completed very soon and the holy Land will be cleared and cleansed to enable all the Lord’s faithful Christian believers to settle in the holy Land, Isaiah 30:19-29, Psalms 69:35-36, Romans 9:24-26

Isaiah 11:11 On that Day, the Lord will exert His power a second time to recover the remnant of His people from all parts of the world.

The House of Judah now has possession of part of the Land and their complete return will happen with the Return of King Jesus in 2030. That is: 1960 years after their last exile by the Romans in 70AD.


So, as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10:11, what happened before will happen again and Righteous Israelites, who includes all those who love the Lord and keep His commandments: Christians from every race, nation and language. Isaiah 56:1-8, Ephesians 2:1-22, Galatians 3:26-29, will soon gather and settle in all of the holy Land, Ezekiel 20:34-38, from the Nile to the Euphrates, thus fulfilling God’s promises to the Patriarchs. Psalms 105:7-11, Isaiah 26:1-2

When they build the new Temple, the Ark of the Covenant will be recovered from its hiding place and the Shekinah glory will come back into the Holy of Holies so in the same manner as before, the Lord ‘will dwell among His people’. Ezekiel 43:1-4, Isaiah 12:6

Israel’s new leaders, Jeremiah 30:21, Hosea 1:11, will see Him, Isaiah 24:23 and ‘His glory will be revealed to all believers’. 2 Thess. 1:10, Isaiah 60:1, Isaiah 30:20, Hebrews 8:11, Ezekiel 39:27-29 ‘They will exemplify His holiness for all to see’.

When Jesus said: ‘I will be with you always, to the close of the age’, Matthew 28:20 He meant it spiritually and in the next age of the Millennium, He will once again be on earth physically.

After the many more prophesied events that will take place until the end of this age, the Lord Jesus will Return for His Millennial reign.

‘Blessed be He who comes in the Name of the Lord’, will be the shout of the Christian Israelites in Jerusalem, as all the world sees Jesus Return on the clouds.

 

[Trivalee]

The Jews. The Jews will become believers in Jesus in the middle part of the 7 year 70th week.

What do you mean by "7 year 70th week"? Please clarify

 

[Douggg]

What do you mean by "7 year 70th week"? Please clarify

In Daniel 9:27, the week which the covenant is confirmed is the 70th week. There are three basic views (and variations of them) that people have that differ from each other.

1. that the covenant referred to is the new covenant in Christ. And that Jesus is the prince who shall come, in addition to being the messiah in verse 26. That view maintains that Jesus was crucified in the middle of the week, at the end of a 3 1/2-year ministry. His being crucified as the atonement for the forgiveness of sins - stopped the need for sacrifices. And that when the Romans put down the Jewish rebellion in 70 ad, their presence and desecration of the temple was the abomination of desolation.

2. that the covenant refers to an end-time peace treaty that the Antichrist will negotiate between Israel and her enemies, having a 7-year stipulation to it. But gets broke in the middle of the seven years, and the Antichrist stops the daily sacrifice and the abomination of desolation takes place in conjunction with his claim of having achieved God-hood. That view is common among dispensationalists (I am not a dispenstationist) spread in the 1960's,1970's, 1980's, by popular end times commentators.

3. that the covenant refers to the Mt. Sinai covenant, and that the Antichrist, anointed as the King of Israel, fake messiah, oversees the reading of the law to the nation of Israel - to begin the 7-year 70th week. The reading of the law on a 7-year cycle to the nation was a requirement Moses made back in Deuteronomy 31:9-13.

The Jews believing that the Antichrist is the messiah for most of the first half of the 7-years until he commits the transgression of desolation act (of Daniel 8:12-13 and 2Thessalonians2:4). Followed by the abomination of desolation statue image of the person. At this time, the Jews turn to Jesus (Revelation 12:10).

Jesus returns to Jerusalem in Zechariah 14 to rescue the Jews, and execute Judgment on the wicked.


View "3." is the view I hold.

 

[DavidPT]

The Jews. The Jews will become believers in Jesus in the middle part of the 7 year 70th week.

I think you have things somewhat backwards. The 2nd half turns many believers into unbelievers again, not unbelievers into believers instead. IOW, this is connected with the falling away in the church recorded in 2 Thessalonians 2, where that chapter has zero to do with a literal temple in literal Jerusalem.

There is not one single thing in all of 2 Thessalonians 2 that supports that verse 4 is to be taken in a literal sense involving a literal temple in literal Jerusalem. There are 17 verses in that chapter including verse 4. Which of those other 16 verses support that verse 4 is involving a literal temple in iteral Jerusalem? How about zero? But if I am wrong, then simply point out which of those other 16 verses in that chapter support your interpretation of verse 4 and why and how they do? Until you or anyone else can do that first, any interpretation of verse 4 proposing a literal temple in literal Jerusalem must be rejected.

 

[Douggg]

I think you have things somewhat backwards. The 2nd half turns many believers into unbelievers again, not unbelievers into believers instead. IOW, this is connected with the falling away in the church recorded in 2 Thessalonians 2, where that chapter has zero to do with a literal temple in literal Jerusalem.

There is not one single thing in all of 2 Thessalonians 2 that supports that verse 4 is to be taken in a literal sense involving a literal temple in literal Jerusalem. There are 17 verses in that chapter including verse 4. Which of those other 16 verses support that verse 4 is involving a literal temple in iteral Jerusalem? How about zero? But if I am wrong, then simply point out which of those other 16 verses in that chapter support your interpretation of verse 4 and why and how they do? Until you or anyone else can do that first, any interpretation of verse 4 proposing a literal temple in literal Jerusalem must be rejected.

David,

2Thessalonians2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Where does Jesus return to in Zechariah 14:4-5? The Mount of Olives is directly across from the temple mount. There is not a temple standing now, but there will be.

The Jews (Judaism) according to their beliefs cannot do daily animal sacrifices unless there is a temple standing. One has to be built.

 

[keras]

2. that the covenant refers to an end-time peace treaty that the Antichrist will negotiate between Israel and her enemies, having a 7-year stipulation to it. But gets broke in the middle of the seven years, and the Antichrist stops the daily sacrifice and the abomination of desolation takes place in conjunction with his claim of having achieved God-hood

This is the correct view, supported by the Prophetic Word.
The only correction is that the Israel you mention, will not be the current Jewish State, but the new Christian nation of Beulah. Isaiah 62:1-5

There is not one single thing in all of 2 Thessalonians 2 that supports that verse 4 is to be taken in a literal sense involving a literal temple in literal Jerusalem.

2 Thess 2:4 is clear: there will be a new Temple in Jerusalem dedicated to God.
You cannot abrogate a clear statement by saying the immediate context doesn't support it. The context of the whole Bible DOES support a new Temple'

The prophetic Scriptures clearly predict that the Third Temple will be built and the sacrifices reinstated, in the final years leading up to the Return of the Messiah. It is clear, too, that there will be more than just the Jewish people living in the Land of Greater Israel. All the Israelites from all 12 tribes of Israel, plus those grafted in, will migrate to New Israel soon after the Lord’s Day of vengeance and wrath, the terrible Day of fire and storms, that will clear and cleanse most of the Middle East.

The place of the new Temple, will be to the North of the existing Dome of the Rock, because this is in the direct line of the now sealed Eastern gate. The Bible, the Torah, and Josephus, all agree that the Temple was in that location.

Many prophesies speak of the regeneration of the Land of Greater Israel, “in a very short while”, Isaiah 29:17, after this great clearance and cleansing of the entire area.

Christian Israelites- “His people, who love the Lord and follow in His ways” will then gather “on the mountains of Samaria”. This is described in Ezekiel 20:34-38, Psalms 107

Over 40 prophesies describe how God’s holy people, every faithful Christian, will live in peace and security in their own Land. At last, they will be as God originally intended, “a light to the nations”, they will “exemplify My Holiness for all to see”. Ezekiel 39:27-29 [The attack by Gog/ Magog will come during this period]

WE will build the Third Temple, Zechariah 6:15, and “the splendour of this latter House will surpass that of the former”. Haggai 2:9 Zechariah 8:9-13 has wonderful promises of restoration and redemption; Courage! Do not lose heart!

 

[dfw69]

In ancient times, when the Israelites first settled into the holy Land, the Lord promised to ‘dwell among them’.

Exodus 29:45-46 I shall dwell in the midst of My people, I shall become their God and by My dwelling among them they will know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of Egypt.

This ‘dwelling’, was not as a visible entity but just His ‘Presence’, only seen by the people as a cloud or a pillar of fire that went before them during the Exodus and after the Temple was built, in the Holy of Holies as the Shekinah Glory. 1 Kings 8:10-11, 1 Cor 10:4


Unfortunately, those chosen people failed to keep their side of the Covenant and the Lord separated them into two Houses, 2 Kings 12:24. He sent the Assyrians to remove the Northern ten tribes of Israel, Isaiah 9:8. Their punishment was to be 390 years, Ezekiel 4:4. This was multiplied by seven, for their continued sins, Leviticus 26:18, giving a total decreed exile of 2730 years.

Then 130 years after the Assyrian conquest, Babylon took away the House of Judah, Isaiah 3:8-9 and their punishment was to be 40 years, Ezekiel 4:6 but, multiplied by seven times seven, Leviticus 26:24-28, for a total decreed exile of 1960 years.

The exile of the House of Israel will be completed very soon and the holy Land will be cleared and cleansed to enable all the Lord’s faithful Christian believers to settle in the holy Land, Isaiah 30:19-29, Psalms 69:35-36, Romans 9:24-26

Isaiah 11:11 On that Day, the Lord will exert His power a second time to recover the remnant of His people from all parts of the world.

The House of Judah now has possession of part of the Land and their complete return will happen with the Return of King Jesus in 2030. That is: 1960 years after their last exile by the Romans in 70AD.


So, as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10:11, what happened before will happen again and Righteous Israelites, who includes all those who love the Lord and keep His commandments: Christians from every race, nation and language. Isaiah 56:1-8, Ephesians 2:1-22, Galatians 3:26-29, will soon gather and settle in all of the holy Land, Ezekiel 20:34-38, from the Nile to the Euphrates, thus fulfilling God’s promises to the Patriarchs. Psalms 105:7-11, Isaiah 26:1-2

When they build the new Temple, the Ark of the Covenant will be recovered from its hiding place and the Shekinah glory will come back into the Holy of Holies so in the same manner as before, the Lord ‘will dwell among His people’. Ezekiel 43:1-4, Isaiah 12:6

Israel’s new leaders, Jeremiah 30:21, Hosea 1:11, will see Him, Isaiah 24:23 and ‘His glory will be revealed to all believers’. 2 Thess. 1:10, Isaiah 60:1, Isaiah 30:20, Hebrews 8:11, Ezekiel 39:27-29 ‘They will exemplify His holiness for all to see’.

When Jesus said: ‘I will be with you always, to the close of the age’, Matthew 28:20 He meant it spiritually and in the next age of the Millennium, He will once again be on earth physically.

After the many more prophesied events that will take place until the end of this age, the Lord Jesus will Return for His Millennial reign.

‘Blessed be He who comes in the Name of the Lord’, will be the shout of the Christian Israelites in Jerusalem, as all the world sees Jesus Return on the clouds.

In 2030 keras? you believe Jesus is going to return to earth to rule from Jerusalem in 2030?

 

[Jipsah]

1 Thessalonians 4
16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

 

[keras]

In 2030 keras? you believe Jesus is going to return to earth to rule from Jerusalem in 2030?

I point out that 2030 is 2000 years since Jesus was acclaimed as King, was killed and Resurrected from the dead.
There was an exact 2000 year period; Adam to Abraham, again : Abraham to Jesus.
I believe that is telling us something. Don't you?

 

[dfw69]

I point out that 2030 is 2000 years since Jesus was acclaimed as King, was killed and Resurrected from the dead.
There was an exact 2000 year period; Adam to Abraham, again : Abraham to Jesus.
I believe that is telling us something. Don't you?

Maybe there is something there for us to see …but he’s not going to appear on earth to rule in Jerusalem yet the time has not yet come

But if you think he does what will his coming look like ? Will he be here physically on earth may we embrace him and talk to him or is he unapproachable?

I may have asked you before but please refresh my memory

 

[keras]

Maybe there is something there for us to see …but he’s not going to appear on earth to rule in Jerusalem yet the time has not yet come

But sure as the sunrise, He WILL Return. We will know when; closer to the time from prophesied events before the glorious Day.

Will he be here physically on earth may we embrace him and talk to him or is he unapproachable?

He will rule the world from Jerusalem. As described in Zechariah 14:16-21.