[Iscool]

When he descends from heaven, he is on his way to the earth, therefore. He is descending to defeat his enemies, to put them under foot, and to reign over the earth in the millennial, after he defeats them. He remains in expectation in heaven UNTIL THEN. The resurrection and rapture of the saved takes place as he descends, on his way down, he meets them in the clouds on his way to Armageddon. Thus, he comes (in the one parousia), FOR his saints and WITH his saints, in one descent from heaven, in one event. It does NOT require two separate events, as pretribs tell us.

You left out the major event...

Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Rev 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

The Wedding of the Bride and Bridegroom takes place during the Tribulation...

The church gets raptured, God all but demolishes the Earth while the Wedding takes place in heaven...Jesus returns at the 2nd Coming with his Bride...

[sasportas]

Granted, a pretrib rapture would be a good point for Christ to come get the saints, turn around, go back to heaven, and have the marriage of the Lamb for seven years.

However, as per the verses you posted, Rev. 19:7-9, the marriage is in a post-trib setting. The marriage of the Lamb comes, vss 7, in the midst of exultation over the great whore getting judged, and the blood of God’s servants being avenged, vss 1-3. Certainly not a pre-trib setting.

Not to mention the absence of a definitive statement anywhere in the NT, defining a two-stage, or two parousias end time outline...as I tried to bring out in my last few posts. We have a lot of inferences around to be sure, including this one about the marriage of the Lamb, but no scripture that actually spells out two-stage, two parousias.