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“and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the families of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.” Matthew 24:30
“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the families of the earth will mourn over Him. Even so. Amen.” Revelation 1:7
“And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. And His eyes are a flame of fire, and upon His head are many diadems; and He has a name written upon Him which no one knows except Himself. And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called the Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.” Revelation 19:11-14
God says that when Jesus returns to earth every human being will see Him as the firmament rips open and He appears in the Shekinah Glory. His army will be surrounding Him filling the sky with all the hosts of heaven and the raptured Church on white horses. He will be coming down to Jerusalem so His descent will start at meridian over that city. It will be a spectacle that words cannot even begin to effectively describe.
The question is, how will every eye be able to see Him?
If Jesus descends over Jerusalem, how will those on the continents of North and South America see Him, since they are on the other side of the globe? Does anyone ever think about this? What kind of imaginings must one come up with to answer this question?
I have heard some say that everyone will be able to see it on television. This really doesn’t even merit a response. Do you really believe that God is going to relegate the most dramatic entrance in the history of creation to television?
Or maybe He won’t descend from over Israel. Maybe He’ll start out over Argentina and then do a tour of the world with His entourage until He winds up in Jerusalem. You know, kind of like Santa Claus. No, there will be no whirlwind world tour. He will be coming with urgency to save the elect (Matthew 24:22).
I believe that most people who have even thought about this just think that God is going to supernaturally allow everyone to see the same thing. In other words, God is going to either use a kind of Jedi hypnosis and trick everyone into thinking they are seeing it, like a vision; or He is going to have a cosmic set of mirrors in place that will create a type of reflection or illusion of the real thing.
There is no Scriptural basis to take any of these scenarios seriously.
The great event will be immediately prefaced by the entire world going under sudden darkness (Matt. 24:29). The sun and moon will blackout and stars will fall. Everything will go silent and all the attention will be on the sky.
Are you picturing the introduction of the home team at an NBA basketball game? Multiply that times a billion.
A mammoth shofar or maybe millions of shofars unseen in the heavens will begin to blow, and then everyone at the same time will see the expanse (hint – raqiya) tear apart and the King of Kings appear in glorious light.
There is really only one plausible way that this spectacular event can be seen by every person on earth together when it happens. Do you know what it is?
Let him who has ears to hear, hear; and let him who has eyes to see, see.