2 comings total. First Advent: Jesus comes to earth as a baby, and the Suffering Servant.
And yet, as we see:
--
Micah 5:2 -
"But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah,
though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
yet out of thee
SHALL HE COME FORTH unto me
that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth
have been from of old, from everlasting."
--
Zechariah 9:9 - [see also Lk19:41-44 and context]
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King
COMETH UNTO thee: he
is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."
... that there are TWO mentions of "COME" regarding Him (BOTH "fitting" into what WE label His "FIRST advent"), but which occur some 30 years apart. It would be somewhat silly for readers to conflate these words "come" in these two texts, to be referring to "the same moment"... which is what ppl tend to do with the texts of:
-- 2Th2:1 "the coming [/presence/parousai] of
OUR Lord Jesus Christ and
OUR episynagoges UNTO HIM" [which is "IN THE AIR" and involves NO ONE ELSE]
--and 2Th2:8a "the MANIFESTATION of His presence/
parousia" [which is at His "RETURN" to the earth, when "EVERY EYE" shall SEE Him, and he takes out/smashes "the man of sin"/AC]
Second Advent: Jesus comes back to earth as King of kings and Lord of lords.
And as we all know, these labels of "FIRST advent" and "SECOND advent" are what WE MEN place
as labels (not found in the text of Scripture itself) to aid in our discussions about the general Subject, but which should not usurp Scripture itself (which never uses these terms to speak of them)