ROK-18 JESUS EXPLAINS WHAT THE WORLD LOOKS LIKE WHEN HE COMES AGAIN AS KING OF KINGS

Jesus Preceded the Lord’s Supper with a Summary of the Future

Look at the incredible message about Christ's coming to bring in His Father’s rule on earth. Look at how much Jesus says as we survey Matthew 24-25.

The essential points Jesus gave to His disciples, and to us, were:

First, the trouble leading up to Christ's Coming Kingdom Rule will start with one man’s actions in Jerusalem’s “holy place” (Mt. 24:15). There is a real place that is central in God’s plans: the earthly, geographic place called the city of Jerusalem.

Each time the term “holy place” is used in the Old Testament (54x) and the New Testament (5x), it is always the Temple (or Tabernacle). So, there is a real person coming to that literal place: the human that Satan empowers to become the Matthew 24:15-20 “Abomination causing Antichrist”. The Antichrist heads a future Revived Roman Empire (Dan. 9:26-27).

Look back at the source of Christ's reference to this person in Daniel 9. Here we see the Antichrist is from the Roman Empire (the people who destroyed “the city” (Jerusalem) and “the sanctuary” (Herod’s Temple). This coming Antichrist confirms a covenant with the Jewish nation of Israel. Breaks the covenant, and brings in an “abomination”.

And all of that happens in Jerusalem in Judea (Mat. 24:16).

Second, Christ's Coming Kingdom Rule will follow the Great Global Holocaust known as the Tribulation (Mt. 24:21-22). Jesus makes it clear what precipitates His return has not yet happened. The events prior to Christ's return are so catastrophic, they will only happen once.

Note the extreme, apocalyptic, superlatives Christ uses: “great”, “not been nor ever shall be”, and “no flesh” survive.

Third, Christ's Coming Kingdom Rule will be seen by every one of us, every saint that has ever lived, and by every human alive on Earth at the closing moments of the Tribulation (Mat. 25:31-32). Note that Jesus says: “all the holy angels” come with Him. This is also described as the second coming in Rev. 19, surrounding the events at Armageddon.

Just for a moment think how vast a sight this will be. There are billions of angels, plus we know all the saints are with Him. Jude 1:14 quotes Enoch from before the Flood prophesying a prophecy from God that tells us that Christ returns with “myriads” of His saints (that is the literal words, an incomprehensible number, the largest number they had in the Greek language). There may be as many as a few billion saints from Adam & Eve onward. That is quite an awesome-sized cloud coming to the skies of Earth at Christ's second coming.

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