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When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. (II Thessalonians 1:10)
When the Lord Jesus descends from the heavens and stands on the Mount of Olives, in the same manner in which He departed, every eye will be fastened on Him.
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, . . . . (Acts 1:10)
Here the attention of people is not on Christ in the saints but on the Lord Jesus Himself.
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (Revelation 1:7)
However, in Isaiah, Chapter 60 and in John 17:21-23 the emphasis is on the fact that God is in Christ who is in the saints, They all will be one manifestation of Divine Glory.
In Acts 1:10 and Revelation 1:7 the attention of people is toward Christ Himself.
The above facts are the basis for our belief that there are two aspects of the end-time coming of Christ:
The coming of the Father and the Son to dwell eternally in the faithful saints.
The descent of the Lord Jesus Himself with His saints and holy angels, coming down from Heaven to the earth in order to sit on the Throne of David in Jerusalem and from there rule the nations of the earth.
We can find passages in both the Old Testament and the New Testament to support each of these two aspects of the coming of the Lord.
The events of the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah will transpire during the season of gross darkness, the "midnight" that will blanket the earth at the time of the Lord’s return. This is the hour of which Jesus spoke when no man can work. Then the "light" mentioned in the Book of Isaiah will serve as a herald of Christ’s Presence, terrorizing the hypocrites of the churches and panicking the peoples of the nations.
The "shout" of Christ, that Paul mentions in the fourth chapter of I Thessalonians, well may be the "roar" of which Joel prophesied (Joel 3:16).
The peoples of the earth will respond joyfully to the rising of the Glory of God on His people:
And the Gentiles [nations] shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. (Isaiah 60:3)
Antichrist and his armies will attempt to overcome the Glory of Christ in the saints. Then will Christ "roar out of Zion." Also, He will appear in the heavens, calling forth the bodies of His saints, His soldiers, from their graves and clothing them with eternal, incorruptible resurrection life. Christ’s army will be caught up in the clouds to meet Him in the air.
. . . Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together. (Luke 17:37)
Christ and His saints will attack the wicked of the earth, destroying them totally. Now the revival glory can continue to flow to every nation without hindrance until the whole earth is filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.