He Comes With The Clouds and Every Eye Shall See Him.
Scripture also says that “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard of the things that God has prepared for those who love Him. But He reveals them to Us by His Spirit. Yes, even the deep things of God.”
So how does this “revealed by the Spirit” fit in with “He Comes With The Clouds and Every Eye Shall See Him, if He reveals them to us by the Spirit? Which one is it?
Well we’ve covered in previous articles that the Greek word for both “see” and “per-ceive” in English, are from the same words from the Greek, and it was the English translators who chose between “see” or “perceive” as seemed right to them as to wether one physically or mentally saw Him. That is if you can see what we are talking about.
And Christ had been seen after the cross and the tomb “by many infallible proofs”. Now this does NOT mean they physically saw Him, so as to be guilty if they denied what they experienced Him as being more than just a coincidence. Hopefully you can see or perceive what we are talking about.
So when “He comes with the clouds and every eye (singular, not eyes) will see Him.” That the eye being singular, can also mean a perspective as seeing or perceiving Him.
This is the qualification as the newly titled Apostles, acquired as those who had “seen Christ AFTER the cross”, in the fashion that He was before He became flesh and dwelt among us.
Like also with the Disciples at the last supper, Christ told them “I return to the Father and you see Me again no more” as it pertains to who He had been when He was sitting there with them in the flesh. That because “In the beginning was The Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God”, and then He “The Word became flesh” temporarily to be our remedy for our sinful flesh nature “and “dwelt among us” to them also so that AFTER the Cross” saying”
12 After that He appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. 13 And they went and told it to the rest of the disciples: neither believed they them. 14 Afterward He appeared to the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did NOT believe them who had seen Him after He was risen.
And for this reason scripture also says to us that “when we see Him as He is we shall be like Him for we shall see (perceive) Him as He is” has nothing to do with His flesh “for flesh is from the dust to return to the dust” as Christ told them at the Last Supper He said, “I go to the Father and you see Me again (like that) no more” seams really plausible. This is the realm of faith being the evidence of things hoped for, the evidence of things un-seen for by these the elders gained report with God”. (Hebrews 11)
For it also be written that “we are being transfigured into His self same image, from the Glory to the Glory as by the Spirit” without carnal human intervention, but “as by the Spirit”. This is NOT something physical at all.
This puts Christ’s many encounters and sightings after the cross into perspective.
Think of the word, spectacle here, per-spective as with spectacles and such visual helps. Visual as with visionaries who can see mentally and why we are “renewed in the spirit of our minds” to see Christ as He really is in His eternalness “where two or more are gathered, there I am in their midst” as the head of that body of believers. This is an assembly of The Body of Christ, of which He is the Head and the Chief Cornerstone, depending on which analogy or parable you are using as a visual training instrument.
These all include seeing things with your reasoning beyond the scope of human eyes situated above your nose.
And from John 1 about Christ saying. “He was in the beginning with God, and no (carnal) man receives His testimony.” (Do you?) Making these words more clear, because you still must receive this as perceiving, as with a “revelation” as with a vision and how the invitation to “The Kingdom of God” is still at hand.” To mean within reach, but Not with your hand but your understanding so that you too can confess that you have seen Him as He is, if The Holy Spirit is opening up your understanding to do so.
For even the whole book of “The Revelation of Jesus Christ which “God gave His servants to show them these things that must Shortly take place”. And “revelation is from the Greek word “Apocalypse” and that means an “unveiling” to mean a seeing and knowing. Just like a statue of a public figure covered by a tarp in a city center, to have the tarp pulled off. This is an unveiling from the Greek word apocalypse to mean a realization, an ah-ha moment.
For us, it is an awakening to something that “was and is and is to come” as already there. And now we are able to see because of new in-sights for a new perspective. And NOT carnally visual, and that is the point!
This is why Christ was called “The Lamb slain from the foundations of the world” and why John defines us as those who “have known Him who is from the beginning”, because of His Eternal unchanging personage, of whom we all get re-imaged after saying”23 But every one in his own order: Christ, then the firstfruits; then afterward those who are Christ’s as He comes to them.
This is why we are instructed to put off the needs and deeds of the flesh and NOT the flesh itself, for that is just our innocent bystander. To then own up to the gift of Godliness to mean god-like-ness in thought, perspective and action because of a newly awakened realizations inside of you, which is “Christ in you, the hope of Glory“.
This Hlory is our final destination. In doing so, then you too can say that “you have known Him have seen Him” in the same way as the Apostles!
So then if you can understand ? Then you can perceive Him as He is, to mean you can see in your understanding too “in the spirit of your mind where it counts and why even the blind were able to see Christ as He is as a perceiving.
This is a revealing moment and a revelation and a seeing into the invisible, to be qualified as being born again and borne from above by the Holy Spirit” who was the missing element for us to see in the Spirit from which is our heritage. Amen!
This is the “He comes with The clouds and every eye (perception) will see Him, yes even those who pierced Him” to mean this started back then. To mean us too. And that those who pierced Him and put Him on the Cross would see that same glory that the last generations would see as a perceiving with “18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,” BOOM! Did you get that? That was an epiphany!
So the clouds is cloudiness like foggy thinking and has to do with what we’ve just unveiled to you, if y’are willing to accept it.
Because “He comes with the clouds.” Means in parabolic form, does not negate or cheapen the reality that “He was and is and is to come the Almighty.” And “Lo I am with you always!” For each and every one of us who believe, all at the same time!
This is the “when we see Him as He is we will become like Him.” And Him being “the way the truth and the light”. That it is in this revelation light, that revelations can only come to the us in the spirit of our minds because “no man has seen God (physically) at any time, however the Son declares Him” with perfect articulation. And because the two are one (Echad). And we who receive His testimony as true, are one with them too, is because “He must be spiritually discerned”, to mean you see with your eye of understanding. And however foggy it might seem because you “saw no figure” That foggy thinking is your cloud that He comes to. So yes “He Comes with the Clouds and Every Eye Will see Him.”
Part 2
The Greek word νέφος (nephos) translates to “cloud” in English. It can also refer to a dense multitude of people, or a throng, or a great mass of people. Key aspects of the word: Meaning: Primarily, “cloud,” but also used to describe a mass of something, like people. Usage in the New Testament: In Hebrews 12:1, it is used metaphorically (of metamorphosis) to describe a “cloud of witnesses,” referring to a large number of people with the same perspective
As seen here from The Book To The Hebrews;
12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses (here is your cloud of people), let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, (whom you cannot see physicallly) the author and trail blazer of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him (meaning us) He endured the cross, despising the shame, and then sat down at the right hand of the Throne of God The Father.
And “He calls us to Himself” saying “come up hither” In understanding.
And in order for Christ to say that “The Kingdom of God is at hand” He had to have something more to offer than the end times, last days scenario expectations of second coming seekers, when second coming verbage is NOT found once in scripture.
And then we have The Book of Hebrews in the traditional Bible, presenting Heaven as a current, ongoing Eternal reality you are invited to saying;
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and you have come to the city of the living God, (you have come to) the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly of the firstborn who are registered in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men having been perfected, 24 to Christ the Author and the Mediator of the New Covenant. As a foregone conclusion without any physical proof. That “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by this the elders gained good report with God. which should silence all the nay Sayers.
And just for the shear fact that these testimonies are still here preserved in scripture. And that (lo I am with you throughout the ages, even till the end?” This is a testimony of the protection for whom they pertain being the Elect. Amen!
And with this being evidenced by these “clouds of witnesses” and testimonies to include ours, it is up to you how you respond,, or not. For these you will be judged.
These are the promises we have from scripture about Christ coming in the clouds and every eye shall see Him? That we too have joined “the great cloud of witnesses” as having seen Him as He was BEFORE the beginning when. He said “Let there be…
To testify that it is still true today! And why we say that “The Kingdom of God is at hand!” Even still.
We need to bare in mind that scripture says of Christ, that “He only spoke to the (old covenant era people in parables and “without a parable, He did not speak to the people.” And He did so because that is the only way to relay invisible realities and eternal truths to us with carnal perceptions. So for Christ to come in the clouds to rapture or whatever other fairy tale end time seekers may suppose, are all part of the “lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect”. Which group are you from?
And as Peter instructed us “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
And for those who reject these truths clearly presented from accepted texts? They are going to be sorely disappointed when the invitation to ‘The Kingdom of God is at hand” gets retracted without them in it. Keep in mind here the parable of the “Wedding Feast” where those who went to the world for their garments, or coverings, because they wanted physical things? To then try to enter the Wedding Feast as we are able to do here by the Spirit. But they were told to “depart from Me you workers of inequity for I do not know you from where you are from” because they never crossed over into Eternity by way of Spirit and Truth.
That they missed out on the metaphoric pictures because they never “transitioned from the Glory to the Glory as by the Spirit.” as scripture commands. And were expecting to see something with their carnal eyes, like a non-scriptural “second coming” to be left without. You have been warned! “Second Coming is not written once in scripture!
This is why it was written that “we are a new creation in Christ. Old things having past away, behold, all things become new and all things are from God.” And not of the world. This has nothing tp do with carnal things. That with our minds, we plant the physical in our minds to raise us up spiritually in our understanding. That “man cannot see the things of God because they have to be spiritually discerned.” This is it, and so we do. So that as “God is Spirit and truth and seeks such.” We have to realize that this is our challenge to cross over from our carnal way of thinking, based upon our physical exterior senses, and be born again.
Part 3
That like with what was pictured in “the promised land” of the Old Covenant, were only pictures of what it means to be “in Christ”. That “20 For all the promises of God in Christ are yes, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
That it is Christ who is the Holy Land where the promises come into fruituon, where we abide by faith as being in Him where all Gods words are in their illustrious Eternal Glory. Amen!
As is the reason why the Israelite’s were called children some 1200 times in scripture, was because they were using physical things, like kids with toys, meant to learn to walk in the Spirit, which is our land of promise where all things come to be as The New Testament commands.
And if you really had legs to walk in the Spirit, then there would likely be a ground or land of promise to walk in. But as we said; Christ spoke to the people in parables ONLY! So you must use the carnal analogies to re-script your way of thinking, in the spirit of your minds where it counts. Amen!
So if we are borne and carried about by the Spirit, to walk in the spirit in the land, then we abide in the promise land of promises, anything and everything carnal becomes less and less important. And why there is coming a time when “all the earth and all its works will be burned up for the Eternal to remain”. To mean that creation expires. Expire means to breath out your last breath to be dead. And why scripture teaches us to be dead to the world, and quickened by the Spirit for the glory to abide in us.
That “all the promises are yes and Amen, to mean, have their fulfillment “in Christ”. For us to stop anticipating a factually physical carnally visible second coming Jesus and heed this scripture. “For seeing with their eyes they see not, and hearing with their ears they hear not. Because it is with the heart that one must see and hear, in order to see the Kingdom of God.” And for those who reject this? God sends them an illusion with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect. Which side are you on?
Even as Christ promised us “Lo I am with you throughout the ages, even till the end”? He is here right now and “at hand”.
And from the book of Hebrews “we must pay closer attention to the things we’ve heard, lest we let them slip. For since the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every form of transgression and disobedience received a just punishment. What makes us think we could escape such a salvation….
For IF we have been born again, born from above and born of the spirit, (John 3) then even now, all of our expectations should have to do with “spirit and Truth” because that is what Eternal life is and why we are”born again” and “born of the Spirit” and borne from above” for us to have our do-over for our association with such as are, “Spirit and Truth”.
We make our election and our calling more sure” has to do with the Heavens and the clouds saying of Christ that “He comes with the clouds and every eye will see Him, yes even those who killed Him, shall morn for Him.” That they saw this first
Scriptures pertaining to:
“He Comes With The Clouds And Every Eye Shall See Him.”
Matthew 16. 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. 28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
To include those back then and still today.
Then continues in 17 with “ And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. 4 Then Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. 6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. 7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. 8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only (for this was an epiphany and a revelation). 9 And as they came down from the mountain (of transfiguration by way of revelation or epiphany), Jesus charged them, saying, Tell (not the facts but) the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
So that the things that they saw were real, being a vision to the carnal mind ,while in truth, and in and of the truth they experienced the Eternal of Him who “was and is and is to come.” Who always is and forever will be and needs no second coming introduction to become or be through any other way than “The Kingdom of God is at hand”
Even as Christ made promise to the man on the cross beside Him saying “today you shall be with Me in paradise“. Which “Spirit and Truth” are only in the that day, in “The Day of the Lord” that has nothing to do with 24 hour increments because it is all that is left after all creation subsists and fades away like a faint memory.
And this is what Christ was and is and is still trying to convey to us, and why He would say to the disciples, “Let us go up from here”.
We have this account from Peter in his second Epistle
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11 For (in this way) an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (Was not talking about some future physical Kingdom)12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. 15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able (to do the same thing) after my decease to have these things always in remembrance . 16 For we have NOT followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of HIS majesty. 17 For HE received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to HIM from the excellent glory, This is MY beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. 19 We (TODAY WHO CAN READ) have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star (JESUS CHRIST) arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
Then we have this account after the cross and the tomb where the disciples met one on the way saying “25 Then He (Christ) said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself. 28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and He made as though He would have gone further. 29 But they constrained him (do you?), saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. 30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. 31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. 32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
And you may question the veracity of what we say, but the veracity is truth, spirit and truth, The Eternal truth. It is all that is left after your carnal experience is over. And if you don’t make this cross over now on your own volition, your own faith and your own actions? This is your own responsibility. Your ability to respond.
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. 7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. 8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. 9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. 10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.