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His Home
Did you know that someday God’s home will be on this Earth? This won’t happen until after the Millennium or 1,000 years of the “honeymoon” of God’s people after they officially marry Jesus Christ! But that wonderful day is coming! Don’t believe me? Read Chapter One of the book “The Desire of Ages” from the link below! The chapter is called “God With Us.”
Other Resources: The Desire Of Ages, The Great Controversy
Many Denominations Are Wrong!
Many Protestant denominations teach that Jesus will set up His Kingdom on Earth at His Second Coming. But the Bible does not teach this! In fact, the Bible indicates that Jesus’ feet won’t even touch the Earth at the Second Coming! And this is because He is immediately leaving the Earth again after gathering the saved (the righteous dead who He just raised and the righteous living) from the Earth to join Him in Heaven!
"13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
1 Thesselonians 4:13-18 KJV (This describes the Second Coming) (The song below uses the same words from the Bible)
Secret Rapture? Earthly Kingdom?
This one simple Bible reference destroys both the doctrine of the “secret rapture” and the teaching that Jesus will set up an Earthly kingdom at the Second Coming!
The Third Coming of Jesus?
Why is there so little mention of the Third Coming of Jesus? Well, partly because the only people who will “see” the Third Coming will already be saved and living inside the Holy City as it lands on the Earth! And at that point, it will be too late for anyone who is lost to repent! They had the opportunity to repent in their previous life, but chose not to! For more information about the Third Coming of Jesus, study the articles listed below.
Who Is The Bride Of Christ?
Some people, when they read the Bible passage below, assume that the New Jerusalem is the “bride of Christ.” But this conclusion is not correct.
"1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God."
Revelation 21:1-3 KJV
“Like A Bride” But Not The Bride!
So, the Holy City or New Jerusalem is “prepared as a bride adorned for her husband”, but is not the Bride! Jesus prepared the Holy City for His Bride, His Church, the people who have been faithful to Him despite severe persecution!
"21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church."
Ephesians 5:21-32 KJV
The Very Best Love Story!
The book Song of Solomon in the Bible describes the kind of relationship that Jesus wants with His Bride, the Church! It also describes the type of relationship that Jesus wants with each of His faithful followers!
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The Third Coming Of Jesus And The New Jerusalem
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