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The term rapture was used by Philip Doddridge [65] and John Gill [66] in their New Testament commentaries, with the idea that believers would be caught up prior to judgment on earth and Jesus' second coming. An 1828 edition of Matthew Henry's An Exposition of the Old and New Testament uses the word "rapture" in explicating 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ...
Linguistic support for a one-event second coming are in the words "meet" and "coming" in 1 Thessalonians 4. The meet in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and in Matthew 25:1 (a second coming parable) refers to the custom of people going out to meet a dignitary as he was approaching their city before he got there, and accompanying or welcoming him back to ...
Seventh-day Adventists believe in an imminent, universally visible (every eye will see him) [41] Second Coming of Christ, which will be preceded by a "time of trouble". [42] The second coming will coincide with the resurrection and translation of the righteous, as described in 1 Thessalonians 4:16. The unrighteous, or wicked, will die during ...
The second coming coincides with the resurrection and translation of the righteous, as described in 1 Thessalonians 4:16. [42] See fundamental belief number 25.) Adventists reject an intermediate state between death and resurrection, and hold that the soul sleeps until the resurrection of the body at Christ's coming.
~ 1 Thessalonians 4:16; In one single event, the saved who are alive at Christ's coming will be caught up together with the resurrected to meet the Lord in the air. [111] "Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." ~ 1 ...
Jesus and the Hope of His Coming (2004, with Jerry B. Jenkins) Turn Your Life Around: Break Free from Your Past to a New and Better You (2006, with Tim Clinton) The Essential Guide to Bible Prophecy: 13 Keys to Understanding the End Times (2012, with Ed Hindson) A Quick Look at the Rapture and the Second Coming (2013) History:
Views about the nature of Jesus' Second Coming vary among Christian denominations and among individual Christians. A number of specific dates have been predicted for the Second Coming. This list shows the dates and details of predictions from notable groups or individuals of when Jesus was, or is, expected to return.
Because Jesus' contemporaries did not witness his second coming, some contend that Jesus erred in his predictions (Luz 2005: 209; cf. Schweitzer 1910: 356–364). "This generation" refers to Jesus's contemporaries who would witness "all these things" as outlined in verses 4–22 or 4–28, pointing to the destruction of the temple in 70 CE and ...