Melach said:
hows it different events? both are second coming?
No they are NOT. Here is the evidence:
The Rapture happens VERY QUICKLY:
Matthew 24:27 (HCSB)
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For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 (HCSB)
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For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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Then we who are still alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
That does not count as a COMING, because HE STOPS In the upper atmosphere, and SENDS the Archangel to Call us OUT to go to the Wedding of the LAMB. When HIS FEET TOUCH EARTH AGAIN, that is a COMING, His Second Coming. IT IS EXTREMELY SLOW, so much so, that all the world will have time to Move their Armies to the Valley of Megiddo to try to stop HIM from setting foot on Earth again.
AND NOTICE THEY KNOW HE IS COMING, so that cannot be the time NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR.
Zechariah 14:1-9 (HCSB)
1 A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
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I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
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Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations as He fights on a day of battle.
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On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south.
5 You will flee by My mountain valley, for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come and all the holy ones with Him.
6 On that day there will be no light; the sunlight and moonlight will diminish.
7 It will be a day known ⌊only⌋ to Yahweh, without day or night, but there will be light at evening.
8 On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea, in summer and winter alike.
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On that day Yahweh will become King over all the earth—Yahweh alone, and His name alone.
Revelation 19:11-21 (HCSB)
11 Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse. Its rider is called Faithful and True, and He judges and makes war in righteousness.
12 His eyes were like a fiery flame, and many crowns were on His head. He had a name written that no one knows except Himself.
13 He wore a robe stained with blood, and His name is the Word of God.
14 The armies that were in heaven followed Him on white horses, wearing pure white linen.
15 A sharp sword came from His mouth, so that He might strike the nations with it. He will shepherd them with an iron scepter. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty.
16 And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh:
KING OF KINGSAND LORD OF LORDS.
17 Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice, saying to all the birds flying high overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”
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Then I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and against His army.
20 But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with him the false prophet, who had performed the signs in his presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
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The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
), under your point "b," are you referring to the definite article being "the bride" in Rev21:2 [ https://biblehub.com/text/revelation/21-2.htm ]? or are you referring to elsewhere?
