105.01: Jesus Second Coming on Earth - He is Coming in the Clouds!

Yes, He is coming in the clouds. There is no need to doubt about that, though many people think this is a metaphor. But they seem to forget that God is Almighty and can do so. Why should He not come back in the clouds?

We humans cannot see God. If we saw Him, we would die at once, because nobody can stand facing God as long as we are still caught in our sinful flesh. God and sin does not go together, and light destroys darkness.

God usually hid Himself when contacting the Israelites, and He very often did so in a cloud, or He spoke through a burning bush. So when John says Jesus will come back in the clouds and Daniel says so as well as Mark and Matthew, why should we still doubt it? God can do that. The fact that we humans cannot do that does not mean God cannot do it, either. I often find myself making God as small as that and do not have enough faith, though Christians should know that “with God nothing shall be impossible.” (Luke 1:37 KJV) Luke described Jesus ascending like this:

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. (Acts 1:9-11 KJV)

Do people really doubt that, too, that Jesus was taken up, which could be observed by the people around when it happened? Luke, who was a doctor, did not write the book of Acts metaphorically but described the story of the Apostles very realistically. Jesus was taken up and then a cloud received Him. A little later Luke writes in the verses that two men in white told the people that Jesus would come back the same way as they had *seen* Him go to Heaven. It is real, not just a metaphor. Luke’s language was rather objective. He did not even call the two men in white Angels, but he described what people had given witness to. Especially Luke took good care of being objective.

But let us continue with Revelation. John continues in the same verse that every eye shall see Jesus when He comes back. Why not? Nobody would doubt that President Obama could be seen by every eye when speaking the oath as a President of the USA - but some of the same people doubt that Jesus can be seen by everybody when He comes back. I do not even believe this will be via TV, but this would be one possible way. I simply believe that God can make us all see it, and there is no other means necessary but His words. Finally, He created the heaven and the earth, and everything else.