THE FUTURE COMING OF THE LORD JESUS IS IN TWO SEPARATE STAGES JUST AS THE FUTURE COMING GREAT TRIBULATION JUDGMENTS ARE IN TWO SEPARATE STAGES...........
The future coming of Jesus is in two separate stages just as the future coming Great Tribulation judgments are in two separate stages. The Lord's future two comings will end each of the future two-stages of the Great Tribulation judgments. The first stage of the Great Tribulation judgment BEGINS upon the Nation of Israel only. Jesus will END it when He comes to rapture His Church. The second stage of the Great Tribulation judgment will BEGIN upon the whole world AFTER the rapture of the Church. Jesus will END it at His coming back to earth with his previously raptured Church to end the Great Tribulation.
THE LORD'S FIRST END-TIME APPEARING TO RAPTURE HIS CHURCH:
Jesus is coming first to end the first-stage which is the "shortened" tribulation judgment upon Israel only. At that time, He will rapture His faithful Body of Christ Church "Immediately after the tribulation of those days" upon the Nation of Israel only. The rapture of the Church happens BETWEEN the two stages of the Great Tribulation judgments.
Mark 13:19-20
For IN THOSE DAYS there will be tribulation......and unless the Lord had SHORTENED THOSE DAYS no (Hebrew) flesh would be saved..." ( This is describing the first-stage of the Great Tribulation )
Mark 13:24
"But IN THOSE DAYS after THAT TRIBULATION..." ( "In those days" refers to the days of the first-stage tribulation upon Israel only ) ( "that tribulation" refers to the same first-stage of the Great Tribulation which is upon Israel only )
Luke 21:23 ….for there shall be great distress (tribulation) in the land (of Israel ONLY), and wrath upon this people (the Jewish people).
THE LORD'S SECOND END-TIME APPEARING WITH HIS RAPTURED CHURCH:
Jesus is then coming to end the second stage of the Great Tribulation which is upon the entire world , and to reclaim "the kingdoms of the earth" to end the second stage of the Great Tribulation, but this time He is bringing His previously raptured Church with Him. This event is commonly called the Second Coming of the Lord.
THEREFORE:
In the near future the first stage of the Great Tribulation judgment will begin in Israel which is the "shortened" first-stage upon Israel ONLY. It is the Gog-Magog War against Israel ONLY. Jesus will end it when He comes to rapture His Church BEFORE the second stage of the Great Tribulation begins upon the entire world. The second-stage is the longer stage and is upon the whole world.
Each of the two stages of the coming Great Tribulation judgments, one upon Israel only and the other upon the entire world, will BOTH be ended by the two-stage appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. His first appearing will end the first-stage of the Great Tribulation judgment upon Israel only. Jesus will then rapture His Church before the second-stage of the Great tribulation begins upon the whole world. The second-stage appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ, with His raptured Church, will also end the second-stage of the Great Tribulation judgment upon the whole world.
According to Your Word, come Lord Jesus !