When Christ Appears

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When Christ appears at the Rapture,
only those he takes will see him.
The world does not see his coming
until he comes for the Harvest:

And then shall they see
the Son of man coming
in the clouds with
great power and glory.
(Mark 13:26 KJV)

The Spirit is holding back
world rebellion until the Rapture,
and then the false Christs,
including the rebel,
will arise in the nations:

And now ye know what withholdeth
[holds back, Greek: katecho]
that he [the rebel]
might be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity
doth already work:
only he who now letteth
[holds back, Greek: katecho]
will let
[continue to hold back, Greek: katecho],
until he be taken out of the way.
(2 Thessalonians 2:6-7)

The Spirit is holding back
the global rebellion,
but the world is holding back
the real Biblical Gospel,
disregarding the Gospel,
after the Apostles,
after the Reformers,
and now before the Rapture,
and also after the Rapture.
At first the world will realize
that the taking of a few million
people all at once globally is
the Rapture of the Church by Christ.
The world will also realize by
who Christ takes and does not take,
that Christ has taken those who
trust him to be righteous for us,
rather than the many who trust
in their own personal so-called
"righteousness" for salvation.
But the world,
including the two billion
professing Christians,
and the churches,
and the denominations,
will not want to believe
that they do not have
the real Biblical Gospel,
and that those taken
were taken to heaven,
leaving all the rest behind:

For therein [the Gospel of Christ]
is the righteousness of God
revealed from faith to faith:
as it is written,
The just shall live by faith.
For the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men,
who hold
[hold back, Greek: katecho]
the truth
in unrighteousness;
(Romans 1:17-18)

When the false Christs come,
each claiming to be Christ
that has taken the people,
each rising within their own nation,
declaring the popular false gospel
of surrender, unto themselves,
and denying that those taken
were taken to heaven,
each nation will be their kingdom:

Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name,
(Matthew 24:4-5)

And I saw, and behold
a white horse:
and he that sat on him had a bow;
and a crown was given unto him:
and he went forth conquering,
and to conquer.
(Revelation 6:2)

Kingdom will rise against kingdom,
and the false Christ of Europe
will prevail over the others:

For nation shall
rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom:
(Matthew 24:7)

who is able
to make war with him?
(Revelation 13:4)

For a short time,
in the midst of the decades
of the Tribulation generation
that is between the coming of Christ
at the Rapture and at the Harvest,
the empire of Babylon,
which is Rome,
false churches with false gospels,
will dominate the world:

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
(Revelation 17:5)

And the woman which thou sawest
is that great city,
which reigneth over
the kings of the earth.
(Revelation 17:18)

But Christ will increasingly give faith
to more people to trust him to be
righteous for us forever for salvation,
as he prepares the vast global Harvest
for his visible coming:

And some fell among thorns;
and the thorns sprung up,
and choked them:
But other fell into good ground,
and brought forth fruit,
some an hundredfold,
some sixtyfold,
some thirtyfold.
(Matthew 13:7-8)

After the final 3 and half years
of the Tribulation generation,
world warring against the saints,
the then global social network
will party 3 and half days
until Christ raises
the two prophets
who gave testimony,
back to life,
and calls them up to heaven:

And they that dwell upon the earth
shall rejoice over them,
and make merry,
and shall send gifts one to another;
because these two prophets
tormented them
that dwelt on the earth.
(Revelation 11:10)

When Christ appears in the skies
to take his Tribulation saints,
his vast global Harvest,
hundreds of millions from all nations,
up to heaven,
all the earth will see him coming:

For as the lightning cometh out of the east,
and shineth even unto the west;
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
(Matthew 24:27)

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