(Harbinger’s Daily)—The Lord was already talking about it many centuries before the Noahic flood (Jude 14-15). The Psalms often prophesy about the joy that it will bring to the earth. The Old Testament prophets wrote about the day the Messiah would come to reign over a gloriously restored Israel (as well as over all the nations). The grandeur of John’s description of the Second Coming in Revelation 19:11-20:4 stretches the limits of our imagination. It will be the most spectacular and earth-shattering event that the world has ever seen.
Even though I have studied Bible prophecy for decades, I’m increasingly caught up in the wonder of how God’s Word describes Jesus’ dazzling return to planet Earth. And to think that we will be there, riding behind Him on white horses. How can we even begin to imagine what we will feel?
John’s description of Jesus’ exaltation in Revelation chapters 19-20 is the high point of the book that magnifies the Savior from beginning to end. It’s a visual portrayal of what Paul wrote about in Colossians 1:15-20: “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.”
During the past couple of years, I have become increasingly aware of how Jesus’ preeminence, especially as the apostle highlighted in these verses, dispels today’s popular beliefs of Jesus’ Second Coming and brings us back to a literal understanding of Revelation chapters 19-20.
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