The first coming is when God was manifest in the flesh as a baby, on the earth...The second coming is when Jesus comes back to the earth the second time to finish the prophecy that was not fulfilled at the first coming...
At the Rapture Jesus does not come to the earth...Therefore there is no third coming...Jesus doesn't come here...We go THERE...
“At the Rapture Jesus does not come to the earth...Therefore there is no third coming...”
Wait, you just said there is a third coming, you agreed to this:
” ‘And if you will concede that “parousia” (coming) is scripturally the word we should use, the word Paul used in Thessalonians, then, doesn’t this mean you have two parousias? Two comings? A parousia before the tribulation, another one after it?’
Yes...One where Jesus ‘meets’ us in the air and we are caught up and the other where Jesus lands on earth... “
If you agree that the same word “coming” is describing both the return of Christ to earth and this “rapture”, and they are separate events, then how are there not three comings?
How can you say that the Bible calls the “rapture” a “coming” and then say it isn’t really a “coming”?