will this happen all at once or do we need to be prepared, in revelations there will be two prophets killed before Christ’s seconded coming in order for that to happen there would need to be prophets... also John spook of another angel in the mist of heaven having the everlasting gospel, if the gospel of Jesus Christ was never taken then why dose it need to be given again??
Within Christianity, although we all believe in the 2nd Coming of Christ, people have different ideas of the sequence of events and the timing of those events. I can only offer my interpretation which has been the common one I have been taught in every church and state and denomination as I grew up, and which I have studied many books and the Bible about and agree with. Very basically:
I believe the 2nd Coming is in two stages. I Thes.4 and I Cor. 15 talk of a mystery, that we shall not all die but be changed. Jesus promised in John 14 that He was going to prepare a place for us and that He would come back to receive us unto Himself. He went to Heaven, and is at the right hand of the Father. In I Thes. 4 it says that Jesus will come back with the believers who have already died, and they will receive their transformed bodies, I Cor.15 calls them immortal, uncorruptible (sinless), and glorified, and then we who are alive and remain shall be "caught up" in the air to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. We get the word Rapture from the term "caught up" from the latin.
So, Jesus snatches us up, and we are transformed and meet Him in the air. One difference here (there are several) is that at the next stage, when Jesus returns in judgement, He cleaves the Mount of Olives in two with His feet, He lands on the earth. I believe according to verses which say the church will be spared from the Hour of Wrath that is to come on all the earth, that is the Seven Year Tribulation, and for other reasons, that the Rapture is imminent, it will happen before the Seven Year Trib. We are to watch and be ready, doing the Lord's work until He comes back for us. The 2nd Coming in Judgement, Christ brings us with Him, and we know the exact time, it is exactly 7 years after the start of the Tribulation, which begins when the Antichrist signs a false peace treaty with Israel. During the Tribulation 144,000 Jews will preach the everlasting gospel to the earth, people will be saved and martyred, but many will not repent of their sorceries (pharmacia=drugs), thieving, murders, and adultries, etc. even though God pours out great judgement on them they do not repent. The Judgements are terrible, in one 1/4 of the world is wiped out, in another 1/3 more are gone. (for a picture of it, if there were 8 million ppl, first 2 million would die (1/4), leaving 6 million, then another 2 million (1/3), that is 4 million people, half the population, and that is just from 2 of the judgements: there are 7 bowl, 7 trumpet, and 7 seal judgements. It say it will be hard to find people they will be so rare on the earth, and if it was not cut short even the elect, that is nobody would be left alive.)
I believe during the Tribulation, we will be in Heaven (believers), will go before the Judgement Seat of Christ to determine rewards, position, or loss, but not of salvation. We will attend the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and we will be prepared as Christ's Bride, etc. Then once the Trib. is over, Jesus sets up His 1,000 yr. reign on this earth, believers having positions in this kingdom, afterwhich Satan is let loose to deceive the nations again, is defeated, then the Great White Throne Judgement, Satan is cast into the Lake of Fire where the False Prophet and the Antichrist are (still after 1.000 yrs.), Death and Hell and all whose name is not written in the Book of Life are cast into Hell. Then is the new heaven and earth, the City of the New Jerusalem comes down, God is with us forever more and we live eternally with Him on the New Earth.
That is very brief and basic and I am not covering everything, nor am I stating why and verse by verse, etc. I believe this, it is just what I believe from my studies.
Thanks,
Mike