REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Four -"Coming With the Clouds"

 During Jesus' last evening with his disciples, he told them:  "A little while longer and the world will behold me no more." (John 14:19) How is it, then, that "every eye will see him"?  We should not expect that Jesus' enemies would him with physical eyes, for the apostle Paul said, after Jesus' ascension into heaven, the Jesus now "dwells  in unapproachable light," and  "not one of men has seen or can see" him. (1 Timothy 6:16)  Evidently, John meant  "see" in the sense of "discern," just as we can see, or discern, God's invisible qualities by means of his creations. (Romans 1:20) Jesus "is coming with the clouds" in that he will be just as invisible to the naked eye as the sun is when it is behind the clouds.  Even when the sun is hidden by clouds during the daytime, we know it is there because of the daylight that surrounds us. Similarly, though the Lord Jesus is invisible, he will be revealed like 'a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance upon those  who do not obey the good news about him.' These too will be compelled to "see him." - 2 THESSALONIANS 1:6-8; 2:8.

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