What's incorrect?
God doesn't bring all the Saints? Sure sounds correct to me. Those who sleep in Jesus are Saints, right?
1 Thes 4: ...even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
Zec 5:14: ...Thus the Lord my God will come, And all the saints with You.
Joel Chapter 2 discusses in great detail the beginning of the Day of the Lord. God is leading His army (either of angels or saints or both) against the Northern Islamic army who attacked and is occupying Israel. The number as given in Rev 9 is 200 million, all in glorified bodies which cannot be killed. After the Islamic North Army is defeated, God remains among the people in Israel. He will not likely be visible as He never is, but He will be here.
I will cut and paste key portions of the Chapter which show this in chronological order as given but feel fee to go read the whole thing.
Joel 2 (excerpted):
1. For the day of the Lord is coming, For it is at hand...
2. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been...
3. Surely nothing shall escape them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses...
4. Though they lunge between the weapons, They are not cut down...
5. The earth quakes before them, The heavens tremble; The sun and moon grow dark, And the stars diminish their brightness.
(doesn't the above match perfectly with the events of Mat 24 which happen just before the Son of Man returns?)
6. The Lord gives voice before His army, For His camp is very great. For strong is the One who executes His word..
7. Then the Lord will be zealous for His land, And pity His people.
8. I will remove far from you the northern army, And will drive him away...
9. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the Lord your God And there is no other.
10. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved.
Sure sounds to me like God the Father is coming back too, and staying!! Not U-Turning it back to heaven.
Joel 3: “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain.
Oh how I want to be back in Israel to witness this when it happens.
God doesn't bring all the Saints? Sure sounds correct to me. Those who sleep in Jesus are Saints, right?
1 Thes 4: ...even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
Zec 5:14: ...Thus the Lord my God will come, And all the saints with You.
Joel Chapter 2 discusses in great detail the beginning of the Day of the Lord. God is leading His army (either of angels or saints or both) against the Northern Islamic army who attacked and is occupying Israel. The number as given in Rev 9 is 200 million, all in glorified bodies which cannot be killed. After the Islamic North Army is defeated, God remains among the people in Israel. He will not likely be visible as He never is, but He will be here.
I will cut and paste key portions of the Chapter which show this in chronological order as given but feel fee to go read the whole thing.
Joel 2 (excerpted):
1. For the day of the Lord is coming, For it is at hand...
2. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been...
3. Surely nothing shall escape them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses...
4. Though they lunge between the weapons, They are not cut down...
5. The earth quakes before them, The heavens tremble; The sun and moon grow dark, And the stars diminish their brightness.
(doesn't the above match perfectly with the events of Mat 24 which happen just before the Son of Man returns?)
6. The Lord gives voice before His army, For His camp is very great. For strong is the One who executes His word..
7. Then the Lord will be zealous for His land, And pity His people.
8. I will remove far from you the northern army, And will drive him away...
9. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the Lord your God And there is no other.
10. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved.
Sure sounds to me like God the Father is coming back too, and staying!! Not U-Turning it back to heaven.
Joel 3: “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain.
Oh how I want to be back in Israel to witness this when it happens.
In Joel, the locust army is a separate idea from the northern army that comes upon Israel on the final day of this world.
The locust army is described as when one of them falls upon a sword, they are not harmed, which is pointing to the idea of the locust army as only an analogy or metaphor that God uses for the working by the wicked in the last days, especially for the tribulation. This is why the locust events of Rev.9 happen on the 5th and 6th trumpets while the later literal army that comes out of the northern quarters upon Israel on the last day doesn't happen until the final 7th trumpet and 7th vial.
Thus the Rev.9 locusts of 200 million is a metphorical analogy for the workers of iniquity during the tribulation, and not the Gog/Magog army out of the north of Ezekiel 38-39 that's to come upon Israel on the last day of this world when Jesus returns.