Many suggest that Jesus Christ is going to return to earth, taking a throne of King David?
The scripture below warns believers against this false teaching, and the walk on christ, Jesus Christ wont be found any place upon this earth.
However the (Antichrist/Beast/Man of Sin) will, proclaiming to be Messiah to the Jews, and Jesus Christ returned to the apostate church.
Believe It Not, Go Not Forth!
Matthew 24:24-27KJV
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
I will both answer your argument and bring mine.
In Matthew 24:1 the Lord Jesus provokes His disciples by declaring their icon, the Temple and House of God, to be turned into a heap of rubble. The Disciples had, by now, been under the teaching of the greatest Teacher ever for 3½ years. They were aware of Jesus' fate, of His resurrection, the giving of the Holy Spirit and of His SECOND COMING. The Parables of the Kingdom adaquately show His return to reckon with His servants and to take over the Government of this World. So in verse 3 they ask our Lord Jesus three things:
- When will these things happen
- What will be the sign of His Coming
- What will be the sign of the end of the age
Our Lord Jesus answers these three questions from the viewpoint of a Jew (Matt.24.3-31), from the viewpoint of His servants and Bride, the Church (Matt.24:32 - 25:30), and from the viewpoint of "ALL Nations" (Matt.25:31-46). Your proffered scripture falls within the context of all things Jewish LEADING UP TO AND INCLUDING HIS "REVEALING" (Apokalypsis - Gk.).
Because Israel refused and rejected their Messiah, they are still looking for a babe from Bethlehem and I Savior from Galilee of the Nations. Because of this looking for their Messiah, they are vulnerable and susceptible to IMPOSTERS. The Christian is not. He knows that His Savior was born in Bethlehem in and around 4 BC and returned to His Father around 30 AD. For the Christian, Christ can only come from one place - heaven, the sky and the clouds. But the Jew is looking to Bethlehem, to Egypt, to Galilee and to the wilderness.
Your proffered verses warn of this phenomena during the Church age FOR THE JEWS. They have nothing to do with whether Christ's returns to earth or not. It is a warning to Jews in this age not to be fooled by some Guru walking into Jerusalem and claiming to be "THE Christ". But I must say, as well, that just 3 verse later than your selected scripture, we have a clear and unambiguous statement that our Lord will arrive from the clouds. The Greek word for "coming" is "erchomai", which means "arrival". And in verse 27, selected by you to prove our lord NON-arrival on earth, the word "coming" in the Greek is "parousia", which means "PRESENCE". It would seem, my esteemed brother, that you cherry-picked scripture.
Let us put this down to a mistake, or that you have not yet had teachers who told you the right thing. It happens to nearly all of us for a while in our Christian walk. But now you know better. There are countless scriptures of the coming of our Lord Jesus to earth to set up an everlasting Kingdom ON EARTH. In the New Testament, three different Greek words are used. Our Lord Jesus, when he "comes", is PRESENT ("parousia"). But when he "comes" to the clouds, and later to the earth, He has "arrived" ("erchomia"). And when our Lord Jesus bursts through the clouds like lightening and is "revealed" to men, it is "apokalypsis" in the Greek. The Book of Revelation is about the REVEALING of the earth's new King - a Royal and divine king who will at once displace, defeat and replace the present Gentile rule on earth.
Acts 1:11; "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."
Zechariah 14:4; "
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south."