Day 1051 – How Many Times Is Jesus Coming Back? – Wisdom Wednesday

Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy Welcome to Day 1051 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom How Many Times Is Jesus Coming Back? – Wisdom Wednesday Wisdom – the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase wisdom and create a living legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1051 of our trek, and it is Wisdom Wednesday. Creating a Biblical worldview is important to have a proper perspective on today’s current events. To establish a Biblical worldview, you must also have a proper understanding of God’s word. Especially in our western cultures, we do not fully understand the Scriptures from the mindset and culture of the authors. In order to help us all have a better understanding of some of the more obscure passages in God’s word, we are investing Wisdom Wednesday reviewing a series of essays from one of today’s most prominent Hebrew Scholars Dr. Micheal S. Heiser. He has compiled these essays into a book titled I Dare You Not to Bore Me with the Bible. There are few Biblical topics that elicit as much excitement and conflict as interpretations of the rapture and 2nd coming of Christ. In today’s essay, we will explore passages that cover… How Many Times Is Jesus Coming Back? Few things in the Bible attract more attention than prophecies about the end times. Even people with only a passing acquaintance with the Bible know that it foretells a second coming of Jesus. Those who study the Bible know the book of Revelation reveals that the second coming brings an end to the reign of the Antichrist (the “beast” in Revelations [19:11]-21). The risen Christ, the incarnation of God, returns to earth not as a suffering Savior, but as the glorious warrior-king. But does the Bible describe an earlier return of Jesus—one that precedes this triumphant arrival? · The “Rapture” Some Christians believe that 1Thessalonians [4:16]-17 describes how all believers will be taken from the earth, dead or alive, at an appearing of Jesus before the second coming described in Revelation 19. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel,