wmfinck wrote:Christ is literally returning to earth, just as it says in Acts chapter 1, and I have no doubt of that.
But at what point that happens, we cannot tell with certainty. So whether His leading His people to victory over his enemies as it is described in the Revelation includes His literal presence or not, I will not pretend to know. Read Revelation chapter 19 in concert with Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 and perhaps you may see what I mean. Arguments may be made that He returns sooner or later. But Christians must know that He will return.
So is he going to come back with a space armada with exotic technology and weapons and appear over all parts of the earth with exotic spacecraft hovering over cities.... or is he going to float down from a cloud in 2000 year old attire, the way he left his followers after Pentacost?? nobody seems to know..
How bad does it really have to get to get his people to figure out who they are?? Does a nuclear war have to happen to get his people to realize who they are?? WWII era Germans and other White ethnic people were murdered and raped by the millions and Yahshua didn't show up for them..
Even if we have a total global financial collapse, and tens or hundreds of millions of his people die, will that trigger his return?? I'm starting to believe it wouldn't... The entire present day Adamic/Israelite race could die off... but that's just a physical death.. Their spirits all return to Yahweh upon their death right?
I'm a bit confused and angry... You know if a parent punishes and chastises a child for everything they do, they tend to resent their parent and grow further apart from them. If a parent chastises a child for whatever he/she has done wrong and uplifts them with some kind of reward it builds a better parent/child bond..
If Yahweh is using non-whites and the Jews to punish us for hundreds of years, without cutting us a break from time to time and perhaps supernaturally opening our eyes in mass, how the hell is anyone really going to wake up and realize who they are??
Coming in a flesh body as he did 2000 years ago to fulfill the law and to start a new covenant with his people makes sense for that era... People back then were simpletons.. Their burdens in life weren't anything like we have now.. They could do without a lot of things and still make it.. They had real money in the form of gold or silver.. They bartered if they didn't have gold or silver..
Try living without electricity, a car, a bank account, or the internet for a period of time and most of everyone I know would probably be dead in a year.. And in that time, with millions dying off, how many would actually wake up to who they are??
Personally, I wish Yahweh would just stop with the cryptic return time and just show up, kick ass with killing off his and his peoples enemies, lay down they law again, enforce it, and then tell his people to live as he has instructed or be prepared to live in contempt.. Get started with the 8th day of creation with a new heaven and earth and proceed to whatever he plans for us for eternity...
Hopefully, this entire scenario from Adam to Present day isn't some exotic VR simulation that's been going on for eternity in an infinite loop, which is what I fear. We're now on some millionth cycle which just keeps repeating with various different outcomes...