Secrets Of The Kingdom
Rapture and The Second Coming
Gathering of the Elect.
"Immediately after the distress of those days
"'the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'
"At that time the sign of The Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see The Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with Power and great Glory. And He will send His angels with a loud Trumpet Call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Matt 24:29-31 NIV
This will take place immediately after the Great Tribulation.
The Gathering of the Elect is ‘a second rapture’ which will take place in The Second Coming Of Christ.
The Great Tribulation which will take place after the Rapture, would be a time of distress, and persecution, and trouble in the whole world. A time of the greatest distress that the world has ever known, because the anti-Christ will hold sway the whole world politically, religiously and economically in 3 ½ years or forty-two months shortly after the Rapture. The anti-Christ will carry-out his evil work through his false prophet (read Revelation 13).
Immediately after the tribulation of those days, there will be signs in the sun, moon and stars: the sun shall be darkened, the moon shall not give its light, the stars of the heavens and their constellations and the meteors shall fall from the heavens. The heavens will be black above them and the powers overshadowing the earth will be convulsed.
“The powers of the heavens” will be shaken—this speaks of the despotisms: the principalities and powers, world rulers, the rulers of darkness which are the spiritual wickedness in heavenly places—the spirit forces of wickedness in the supernatural sphere. These are disembodied opponents in the evil domain which the saints contend with.
Demons are pre-Adamic, they are the evil rulers of the unseen world—the fallen angels which were cast down with Lucifer to the earth; that caused the devastation of the earth as seen in Genesis 1:2.
Presently, those evil beings have occupied the second heaven and strategic places in the spirit world. They have built evil supernatural strongholds against the Truth and against The Kingdom Of GOD and against the saints. In Ephesians 2:2, satan is called: “the prince of the power of the air” or “the ruler of the kingdom of the air”.
But, when the entire realm of "the second heaven" is shaken, those satanic beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule this world will jerk and tremble. Those huge numbers of wicked spirits in the spirit world will shudder and quiver, and will be cast down.
This is why at that time, no light will shine from stars or sun or moon. These things will occur when the powers in space will be driven from their courses, when they shall be disorganized. Prophet Isaiah records, “…the rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light” (ch.13:10b NIV).
All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved
and the sky rolled up like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall
like withered leaves from the vine,
like shriveled figs from the fig tree
(ch.34:4 NIV).
This passage stresses that at such time, after the trouble of those days; there will be sudden, violent, irregular movements of the heavenly bodies. The uncontrollable movements will cause this cataclysm which is also described in Joel 2:30-31
“I will show wonders in the heavens
and on the earth,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of The LORD.
The Second Coming Of Christ will be vivid, crystal clear and brilliant to the eyes of the whole world
For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be The Coming of The Son of Man
Matt 24:27 NIV
The LORD will send His angels with a loud Trumpet Call; they shall gather His chosen ones from the uttermost parts of the earth.
The Rapture and The Second Coming will evidently take place because, Jesus died and rose again and so God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. He has become for us “The Resurrection And The Life”.
At the Rapture, The Lord Himself will come down from Heaven, with a loud Command, with the Voice of the Archangel and with the Trumpet Call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. The naturally-living saints on the earth shall simultaneously be caught up along with the resurrected dead in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
But, in The Gathering of the Elect, there will be signs in the heavens and the powers of the heavens” will be shaken, the sign of The Son of Man will appear in the sky, the nations will mourn when they see The Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with Power and great Glory. Then, The LORD will send His angels with a loud Trumpet Call, and they will gather His elect from the four corners of the earth.
The Church Age ends at The Rapture and we are already in the season of the Rapture!
The Redemption of Israel will be done at The Second Coming.
The Day of The LORD, which will be a time of GOD’s wrath against the anti-Christ, the false prophet, the wicked and the ungodly of the earth, will be preceded by The Second Coming of Christ.