Yahweh will increase
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This is not what Jesus said or meant when he told his disciples that they didn't know when he would return and to be ready.
What he did mean was that they would not know the exact day or hour of his return and therefore they needed to keep close to God and watch and pray and that is not the same thing as this idea that Jesus could return just any old time at all.
Some of the proof of this would be in what he answered the disciples when they asked for the signs of when he would be coming in Matthew 24 and Mark 13 and then after he told them the things that had to happen first in those very same chapters, he went on to tell them that they still wouldn't know the exact time of his return and therefore they needed to watch and pray.
My purpose in bringing this to your attention, is because of this misinterpretation of what Jesus was saying, many have come to the false conclusion that Jesus would return twice, once in a secret pre trib rapture where no one sees him except believers and then again at the end of a 7 year tribulation where all eyes will see him.
I can prove from scripture that neither the pre trib rapture or this 7 year tribulation are correct doctrines and I would start in 1 Corinthians 15:22-26 and 51-58, if anyone wants to argue the point.
There is only one future resurrection with the rapture following and also one future coming of Jesus Christ and the NT is very clear on this also.
What he did mean was that they would not know the exact day or hour of his return and therefore they needed to keep close to God and watch and pray and that is not the same thing as this idea that Jesus could return just any old time at all.
Some of the proof of this would be in what he answered the disciples when they asked for the signs of when he would be coming in Matthew 24 and Mark 13 and then after he told them the things that had to happen first in those very same chapters, he went on to tell them that they still wouldn't know the exact time of his return and therefore they needed to watch and pray.
My purpose in bringing this to your attention, is because of this misinterpretation of what Jesus was saying, many have come to the false conclusion that Jesus would return twice, once in a secret pre trib rapture where no one sees him except believers and then again at the end of a 7 year tribulation where all eyes will see him.
I can prove from scripture that neither the pre trib rapture or this 7 year tribulation are correct doctrines and I would start in 1 Corinthians 15:22-26 and 51-58, if anyone wants to argue the point.
There is only one future resurrection with the rapture following and also one future coming of Jesus Christ and the NT is very clear on this also.