The Coming of the Son of Man

When Jesus Returns to Gather His Bride to Heaven

Jeffrey Horton

• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781635753899
• eBook ISBN: 9781635753905
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice andopens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he withMe." (Rev. 3: 20)Wouldn't it be great if you could open the door, invite Jesus into yourhome, and ask Him when He's coming back? All the confusion aboutthe events surrounding Christ's return would vanish as He explains theScriptures to you. You would have your own "Emmaus Road journey."Like the apostles and first-century disciples, you could say that Heopened the eyes of your understanding.That's exactly what this series does by unfolding in an easy-to-followmanner what God's Word shows us and what Jesus taught. Each of thethree books focuses on three critical end-time revelations that open thedoor of our understanding surrounding the events of Christ's return.The New Testament apostles received these keys from Jesus Himself.Over the centuries, these revelations were lost or watered down, leavingus clustered and even fearful. That's not God's will. It's time to let theWord speak for itself with a message of comfort, hope, and victory.The Coming of the Son of Man brings you to your final destination-literally. It shows you what Jesus taught His disciples about the endof this age, the rapture, and the sign when all "these things will befulfilled." The journey will expose the misidentifcation of key termsthat distorted the Church's understanding of Christ's return. Alongthe way, Jesus's teaching, known as the Olivet Discourse, as well asthe book of Revelation will become clear. No more confusion. Nomore questioning how to prepare. Simply the truth of God's plans andpurposes.

Section 1

The Witness from Mount Olivet

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Let’s Get Caught Up

This is the third book in the Emmaus Road series. The first two books are entitled See the Day Approaching and Daniel’s 70th Week. Unless you have read the first book in this series, it is quite possible that you will not understand the phrase see the Day approaching. You might think that it means the kind of day that can be singled out on the calendar. So let’s get caught up.

God’s Prophetic Week

The New Testament apostles understood such Day-terms in the context of God’s Week of prophetic thousand-year Days. Since so much of end-time prophecy is spoken from the perspective of this great Week, we need to take a moment and bring everyone up to speed.

The first-century apostles realized that God counts a thousand years of our time as being a prophetic Day in His sight. This revelation was not meant to dismiss the importance of time but to mark time instead. In this way, He has given us the key to understanding the prophetic times and seasons as they relate to the Lord’s first and second coming.

The sacred chronology of the Old Testament Scriptures reveal that there were four thousand years, or four prophetic Days, from the creation of Adam to the start of Jesus’s ministry at age thirty.

This means that His anointed ministry coincided with the dawning of the fifth great Day and set the last three Days of God’s great Week in motion. In the Bible, these final three Days are called the last Days.

They were not meant to be understood as the last days of the Old Testament era nor as a recent development in end-time prophecy. Instead, they are thousand-year Days. As such, the Church has always lived in the last Days.

Therefore, in Luke 13:32–33, Jesus said that He would build His Church, add to His Body, and court His Bride for two prophetic Days (or two thousand years). On the third Day, His Church, Body, and Bride would be complete.

Together, these six prophetic Days (four for the Old Testament and two for the Church Age) bring us to the seventh great Day, when Jesus will return to catch up His Church, Body, and Bride to reign with Him for a thousand years. Jesus called this the last Day in John 6:39, 40, 44, and 54. This last Day is also called the Day of the Lord in Scripture.

These Day-terms are important, for as I have already noted, much of end-time prophecy is spoken from the perspective of this great Week. Therefore, the phrase “as we see the Day approaching” in Hebrews 10:25 refers to this final thousand-year Day, not a lone day on the calendar.

“That Day” includes a thousand years’ worth of events, beginning with His second coming in the rapture, then His treading at the battle of Armageddon three and one-half years later, and finally, the destruction of death itself at the end of the thousand years. This is the amount of time predetermined by God to restore Heaven’s kingdom over the earth by putting every enemy underfoot.

This mission will begin when Jesus returns. Since He promised that “those who overcome” will reign with Him as kings and priests during the thousand years, the first order of business will be to catch His Bride up to Heaven.

Once we are all there, we will be officially installed as the Heavenly government seated with Christ at the Father’s right hand. This authoritative grant will set the last three and one-half years of Daniel’s seventieth week in motion.

Daniel’s Seventieth Week

Those who read the second book in this series can understand why it would be unscriptural to call this a mid-tribulation rapture in such a scenario. This is because a time of future tribulation lasting a mere seven years cannot be found in Scripture. This becomes clear once we realize that the prophecy in Daniel 9:24–27 is all about Christ’s first and second coming. It is not a prophecy about the Antichrist at all, even though the coming of this “man of sin” is firmly established in other prophecies.

The true interpretation of Daniel’s prophecy reveals that the first half of the seventieth week was fulfilled by Jesus’s anointed ministry in which He taught, healed the sick, and performed miracles for three and one-half years.

In the middle of the week, He brought a Sabbath end to the need for sacrificial offerings under the Law. He accomplished this by offering Himself once and for all as God’s sacrificial Lamb on the cross. God ratified this everlasting covenant by raising Jesus from the dead.

At that point, the prophecy was temporarily suspended or “put on hold.” This was due to the fact that the Jewish nation rejected Jesus as their Messiah Prince. Thus, the rest of the prophecy could not be fulfilled at that time, not until they confess, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.”

During this prophetic pause, Jesus has been building His Church, growing His Body, and courting His Bride. The second half of the week will resume when Jesus returns after two Days to seize His Church, Body, and Bride up to Heaven. This event will spark Israel’s third-Day revival predicted in Hosea 6:1–2, “After two Days He will revive us, on the third Day He will raise us up.”

As the Lord’s “Heavenly Esther,” we will intercede together with “our Husband King” to ensure that the Antichrist’s wicked plot to destroy Israel is foiled. This will use up the first three and one-half years of our thousand-year reign. We will continue to judge the earth in that appointed Day1 until every enemy has been thoroughly put underfoot.

The Restoration of End-Time Terms

The scriptural view of Daniel’s seventieth week also restores the prophetic value of certain terms. These terms were corrupted by subtracting Christ from Daniel’s prophecy in lieu of the Antichrist. We found that the term abomination of desolation actually refers to the fall of Jerusalem shortly after the time of Christ. This resulted in the destruction of the Jewish Temple in AD 70.

This prophetic event triggered a time of great and unparalleled tribulation that has continued to this very hour. Like the apostle John, we have always been companions in the tribulation.2 Therefore, “the tribulation” does not refer to a futur...

Table of contents

• Section 1
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• Section 2
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• As Promised