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God Wants You To Know Jesus Is Returning

You are either under grace or your are under wrath. Jesus is coming in wrath. God never pours out His wrath without warning. God is obligated by His character to warn. Therefore, God is obligated to let us know the season of the Lord’s return.

Now, how can we know it? God wants us to know it, but how does He reveal it? He reveals it through signs — through signs that we are to watch for. The same principle applied to the First Coming of Jesus.

In Matthew 16 you will see this principle. In verse 1 we find Jesus teaching when He is suddenly confronted by the Sadducees and Pharisees. Here are the religious leaders of Israel demanding a “sign” to prove that Jesus is the Messiah. They want Him to perform a miracle. He says, “I don’t understand you guys. You can look at the sky and tell what the weather is going to be, and you can’t look at me and discern the signs of the times? What miracle do you need? What sign do you need besides what I’m doing?”

What’s Jesus referring to? He’s referring to the fact that the Hebrew Scriptures, which these men had been studying all their lives, contain over 300 hundred prophecies about the First Coming of the Messiah. Many of those prophecies are repetitious. If you boil them all down you’ll come out with about 109 separate and distinct prophecies about the First Coming of Jesus. These prophecies foretold everything about His life — where He would be born, how He would be born, that He would go into Egypt, that He would live in Galilee, that He would heal people and love people. All aspects of His ministry were prophesied.

Take Jesus’ lineage for example. It was prophesied that He would be descended from Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and David. The last days and hours of His life were prophesied in incredible detail. The prophets said He would be betrayed, by a friend, for 30 pieces of silver, that He would be lifted up, and that He would be pierced in the side and in His hands and feet. Every aspect of His life and death was prophesied.

Now, Jesus is fulfilling all those prophecies before the very eyes of the Scribes and Pharisees. Yet, they are demanding a “sign!” So Jesus replies, “How blind can you be? I’m fulfilling the signs of the times.”

Now folks, here’s the point: There are 300 hundred prophecies about the First Coming of Jesus in the Old Testament, but there are 500 — five hundred! — in the Old Testament about His Second Coming! And in the New Testament, one out of every 25 verses has to do with the Second Coming of Jesus. In other words, there are many, many, many more prophecies about the Second Coming of Jesus than His First Coming. Probably twice as many. Why so many? Because Jesus is returning in wrath. The first time He came, He came as a compassionate Savior with tears in His eyes. But when He returns, He is returning as a conquering warrior with eyes like white hot flames because He is returning to judge and make war against the enemies of God.

And so, since God does not wish that any should perish, He has given us sign after sign after sign to watch out for Jesus’ return.

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Dr. David Reagan

Dr. David Reagan is the Founder and Evangelist Emeritus of Lamb & Lion Ministries. He is a life-long Bible student, teacher, and preacher and he led over 45 pilgrimages to Israel. Dr. Reagan was the host of the radio then television program Christ in Prophecy for nearly 40 years.

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  • The time of resurection is at the last trump…there are 7 trumps in revelation, is the 7th trump the last trump? also is the rapture the same as the resurection?

  • The Rapture will as a trumpet is blown, but that doesn’t mean that’s the same trumpet as the ones that are blown during the Trumpet Judgments during the Tribulation.

    The Rapture is for the Church, and will see all those in Christ resurrected from the Church Age. At the end of the 7-year Tribulation, Old Testament Saints and Tribulation Martyrs will be resurrected. Those in unbelief all throughout history will be resurrected for the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of Christ’s Millennial Kingdom.

  • Is there another trump after the 7th trump in revelation…the 7th trump seems to be the last trump…which ushers in the resurrection..the rapture seems to be different than the resurrection.if there is no difference please post some verses for me…thanks

  • the resurrection of the just is a gift of God based only on the the blood of Jesus heb 13:20 we cant earn it..rapture however is based on prayer and obedience see luke 21:36
    and rev 3:10 enoch and elijah were raptured not resurrected their resurrection awaits in the future. Gods people need to pray the prayer in luke 21:36 in order to escape the great tribulation and to keep the word of his patience we need to be overcomers.rev 3:10

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