Acts 1:11 "This Same Jesus...Shall So Come" - Dost Thou Believe?

(reposted) Lewis Sperry Chafer was a noted dispensationalist, educator, and founder of Dallas Theological Seminary: bio
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What saith the scripture? A brief study on the two separate events of:

The Rapture of the Church and the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ

By Lewis Sperry Chafer 1871-1952

"Almost one-fourth of the Bible was in the form of prediction when it was written. Much has been fulfilled, and in every case its fulfillment has been the most literal realization of all that was prophesied. As pre-announced many centuries before the birth of Christ, He, when He came, was of the tribe of Judah, a son of Abraham, a son of David, born of a virgin in Bethlehem. In like manner, the explicit details of His death foretold in Psalm 22, a thousand years before, were precisely fulfilled."

"The Word of God also presents much prophecy which at the present time is unfulfilled and it is reasonable as well as honoring to God to believe that it will be fulfilled in the same faithfulness which has characterized all His works to the present hour."

"The fact that Christ is to return to this earth as He went -- "this same Jesus," in His resurrection body, and on the clouds of heaven (Acts 1:11) -- is so clearly and extensively taught in the prophetic Scriptures that this truth has been included in all the great creeds of Christendom. However, the doctrine of the return of Christ demands most careful and discriminating consideration."

"As revealed in the Scriptures, His coming for His saints is the next event in the order of the fulfillment of prophecy, and is, therefore, that for which the child of God should be waiting (1Th 1:9-10), and looking (Phil. 3:20; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 9:28), and which he should be loving (2Ti 4:8)."
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'By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death...' Heb. 11:5