I posted the verse 3 or 4 times..
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:
(That means they go up, off of the earth"... ) (Rise = UP) out of the Grave..........off the planet.
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."""""
Now did you read that the dead shall RISE.. and the Christians who are ALIVE, shall go up in to the SKY.. into the AIR... to meet the LORD Above the Earth. ?
Understand?
So, the 2nd Advent, is Jesus coming to the EARTH to stay.....not to meet the Saints in the Sky.
= As that is the Rapture.
And if there was not one, then Jesus would meet them on the GROUND, at the 2nd Advent, when He is on the earth.
In Fact if you will read the Revelation, it says the Believers are coming back with the Lord... and that is your 2nd Advent.
So this is that big gap that is Rev 4 to Ch 18 or so, and you then read that the Church= the Believers come BACK with Jesus., because they met Him already in the Rapture, beginning of the Trib, and now they are coming back with Him.....to reign with Him, during the Millennial Reign.
Yes, the Lord is coming down to "
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."""""
I showed you that the 2nd Advent is Christ on the Earth, and the Rapture is in the SKY.
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."""""