When you are expecting to welcome the Lord, have you noticed that there are two kinds of prophecies of the Lord’s return? One is the Lord coming on a cloud to appear to all the people, such as “Behold, He comes with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him” (Revelation 1:7). The other is the Lord coming secretly as a thief, such as “Behold, I come as a thief” (Revelation 16:15). Here, “as a thief” means the Lord will quietly come and that not everyone will know it. You may be wondering: If the Lord comes upon a cloud, how could He come quietly as a thief? How will these two completely different ways be fulfilled?
Actually, the Lord’s return happens in steps. In the last days, the Lord first becomes incarnate as the Son of man at the hidden advent to express the truth and do the work of purifying and saving man, with the purpose of resolving our sinful nature and making a group of overcomers before the disasters. When God’s work of salvation in the last days comes to an end, God will bring down the great disasters and start to reward the good and punish the evil. That will be the time when the Lord openly descends with clouds and appears to all nations and all peoples. However, some people insist that the Lord will come on a cloud, and thus they refuse to investigate and accept God’s secret work, and even resist and condemn it. They will lose the chance to be saved by God but become the objects of God’s punishment. They shall become embroiled in the disasters with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. This fulfills the prophecy of the Lord coming with clouds, “Behold, He comes with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him” (Revelation 1:7).
God says, “Many people may not care what I say, but I still want to tell every so-called saint who follows Jesus that, when you see Jesus descend from the heaven upon a white cloud with your own eyes, this will be the public appearance of the Sun of righteousness. Perhaps that will be a time of great excitement for you, yet you should know that the time when you witness Jesus descend from the heaven is also the time when you go down to hell to be punished. That will be the time of the end of God’s management plan and it will be when God rewards the good and punishes the wicked. For the judgment of God will have ended before man sees signs, when there is only the expression of truth. Those who accept the truth and do not seek signs, and thus have been purified, shall have returned before the throne of God and entered the Creator’s embrace. Only those who persist in the belief that “The Jesus who does not ride upon a white cloud is a false Christ” shall be subjected to everlasting punishment, for they only believe in the Jesus who exhibits signs, but do not acknowledge the Jesus who proclaims severe judgment and releases the true way and life. And so it can only be that Jesus deals with them when He openly returns upon a white cloud. They are too stubborn, too confident in themselves, too arrogant. How could such degenerates be rewarded by Jesus? The return of Jesus is a great salvation for those who are capable of accepting the truth, but for those who are unable to accept the truth it is a sign of condemnation. You should choose your own path, and should not blaspheme against the Holy Spirit and reject the truth. You should not be an ignorant and arrogant person, but someone who obeys the guidance of the Holy Spirit and longs for and seeks the truth; only in this way will you benefit.”
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