For we know the gathering of the Elect at Christ's 2nd Coming to the Earth is a gathering to battle and it is not a coming so as to be glorified with His saints. How so? Well, this fact is made very clear with Scripture (Please consider the verses below):
The Lord Gathers His Elect For the Upcoming Battle:
(The Call to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb):
(The 2nd Rapture or Translation of the Saints):
(And The End of the Surviving Tribulation Saint's 1,335 Day of Testing):
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Luke 12:36
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Daniel 12:12 ISV and
Daniel 12:12 NIV
Blessed is the one who perseveres...and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
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Revelation 14:16
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
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Matthew 24:31
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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Mark 13:27
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
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Luke 17:34-37
"I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."
And they answered and said unto him,
"Where, Lord?"
And he said unto them,
"Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together."
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Matthew 24:28
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
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Revelation 19:17-18 and
Revelation 19:14
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying
"To all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great."
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
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Jude 1:14
Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
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Isaiah 31:4 NLT
The LORD of Heaven’s Armies will come down
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Isaiah 26:21b NLT
The earth will no longer hide those who have been killed. They will be brought out for all to see.