The Helper, Our Teacher

"You have not because you ask not." After asking God what this meant, I began asking Him more and more questions. This has been a very satisfying was of develping my relationship with Him and the Holy Spirit. As a result of His directing me in our relationship this way I heard from Him the explanation of a verse difficult for me to understand, "For where the dead corpses are, the vultures gather." Matt 24:25. In context, Jesus was talking about the return of the Son of Man being as the lightning that strikes in the East and goes to the West. So obvious will the return of God be for all to see. He gave me a picture of people being excited about the "messiah over here" and beconning all to come see him. Jesus warns us not to go there because it is a gathering of dead souls and therefore also many demons.

Recently, I heard teaching The Son of Man will return 2 times because this is the only way many scholars can fit the rapture of the church into their pre-tribulation thinking. There is nothing to support God is going to remove his church from the earth before His return. Both events happen similtaneiously. Just before the last trumpet sounds, Jesus appears with His Angelic Hosts and the dead in Christ arise and we meet Him in the air. The 144 thousand and all believers and all who are asleep in the grave arise to meet Him.