Secrets of the Kingdom
Gathering of the
Elect
(the 144,000
Sealed)
"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 at “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.
Those evil beings
later occupied “the second heaven” and strategic places in the spirit world.
They 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”.
The entire realm of
"the second heaven" is being shaken, and those satanic beings and great
evil princes of darkness that rule this world, jerks and trembles.
Huge numbers of wicked
spirits in the spirit world shudders and quivers, and are being cast down.
At the time of the end
of the Great Tribulation, “the powers of the heavens” shall be shaken once
more; for it will be the season of “the Second Coming of Christ.”
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 completely.
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 completed 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.”
Here is a picture of
what The Day of The LORD would be:
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on My holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble,
for The Day of The LORD is coming.
It is close at hand —
a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness.
Like dawn spreading across the mountains
a large and mighty army comes,
such as never was of old
nor ever will be in ages to come.
Before them fire devours,
behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of
Eden,
behind them, a desert waste —
nothing escapes them.
They have the appearance of horses;
they gallop along like cavalry.
With a noise like that of chariots
they leap over the mountaintops,
like a crackling fire consuming stubble,
like a mighty army drawn up for battle.
At the sight of them, nations are in anguish;
every face turns pale.
They charge like warriors;
they scale walls like soldiers.
They all march in line,
not swerving from their course.
They do not jostle each other;
each marches straight ahead.
They plunge through defenses
without breaking ranks.
They rush upon the city;
they run along the wall.
They climb into the houses;
like thieves they enter through the windows.
Before them the earth shakes,
the sky trembles,
the sun and moon are darkened,
and the stars no longer shine.
The LORD thunders
at the head of His army;
His forces are beyond number,
and mighty are those who obey His Command.
The Day of the LORD is great;
it is dreadful.
Who can endure it?
Joel 2:1-11
Just before “The Day
of the LORD,” immediately after “the Great Tribulation” would be “The Second
Coming.”
The disciples of Jesus
asked Him of when the Great Tribulation will occur in the world, in such time
of distress and trouble when the collapse of the wall of Jerusalem will take
place. They also inquired to know from Him, what will be "the sign of His
Coming" and "the sign of the end of the age".
So here, from this
passage of the Scripture we learnt that, there is: a time appointed for the greatest distress of the whole world, "the sign of Christ’s Coming"
and "the sign of the end of the
age" (Matthew 24:3).
"At that
time the sign of The Son of Man will appear in the sky…”
This would be the
signal of Christ’s Second Coming, appearing in the heavens—the attesting
miracle of The Son of Man in the clouds. And there will be deep mourning all
around the world. People of all the tribes of the Earth will mourn. There shall
be great anguish and perplexity everywhere, when they see The Son of Man coming
in the clouds of Heaven with great Power and Glory [in brilliancy and
splendor].
The LORD will send His
angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His Elect
from the four winds, from one end of the heaven to the other (the farthest ends
of the earth and heaven).
“Look, He is Coming with the clouds,
and every eye will see Him,
even those who pierced Him;
and all the peoples of the earth will
mourn because of Him.
So shall it be!
Amen.
Rev 1:7 NIV
The Second Coming of
Christ would be for the Redemption of Israel—the Israel that is by faith.
Men will faint from
terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies
will be shaken.
At that time they will see
the Son of Man Coming in a cloud with Power and great Glory.
When these things begin to
take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing
near."
Luke 21:26-28 NIV
Before GOD releases
His Wrath upon the Earth—upon the inhabitants of the Earth who worship the
beast and received his mark, the angels will put a seal on the foreheads of the
servants of GOD (read Revelation 7:1-8).
The Battle of
Armageddon (a spiritual-physical warfare) will be fought at the time of The Day
of the LORD (read Revelation 16:12-14, 16). The emptying of The Seven Bowls of
the Seven Plagues of GOD's Wrath upon the Earth in Revelation 15:5-8; 16:1-21
and GOD's Army which will Invade like Locusts in Joel 2:1-11 will coincide in
the same season—in the time of event called “The Day of The LORD.”
Read about the final
outcome of The Day of The LORD; note the exact Words the LORD used in this
prophecy in Zephaniah 1:2-3, 14-18. Also, Zechariah 9:14-17.