The Great Signs of The End Part VI Matthew 24:1-51

Prophetic Certainty and Why End-Times Teaching Matters

Last week we continued our journey through Matthew 24. The Bible talks much about the end of the world. It has been said that 27 of the Bible is prophecy if about 25 of the Bible relates to the end of the story of Life this should be a focus of every Christian and every church.

Revelation 1 3 tells us the result of the one who pays attention to biblical prophecy in a healthy manner that verse says blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of the prophecy and Blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it for the time is near.

Prophets in the Old Testament described the end and so do Apostles in the new and Jesus as the greatest prophet tells us about the end also. How closely we should listen to the words of God as we approach his return?

Matthew 24 is called the Olivet discourse. Which is kind of a boring title. Much more exciting title that some people use is it's the end times according to Jesus and What I've titled this long sermon through Matthew 24 is the great signs of the end.

In our journey through Matthew 24 our big idea is to anticipate the soon return of Christ and thus far We have seen ten practices. How? We have 15 total this morning. We will see number 11. And we're going to take time just to look at point number 11 because point number 11 is about the return of Christ the time When he actually comes to the earth.

Before I tell you About this point and take a close look at it. Let me give you a recap of the ten practices. We have seen thus far. You are to anticipate the return of Christ first through looking at prophetic certainty through what has already been fulfilled and that's when we looked at you know Jesus said look at the temple.

Not one stone will be left upon another. He predicted the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. And what this tells us is that when any prophet from the Bible and when Jesus says something is going to happen.

It's gonna happen exactly how he said it's going to happen. So as we look at prophecy, that's exciting to think about. The second way how you were to anticipate the sooner turn of Christ is they're taking seriously why Jesus provides end times details.

He doesn't give us end times details just to satisfy our curiosity or to entertain us. I think sometimes people when they look at prophecy they they look at it that way. He gives us details about the end because he wants to draw us closer to him.

He wants us to have a deeper relationship with him as we as you long for someone you long to be with that person. So that's the point of prophecy. The third practice how you're at you're to anticipate the sooner turn of Christ is through watching out for the appearance of many false prophets.

The fourth is through observing an increasing number of global wars. Fifth experiencing a rise in natural disasters. Six witnessing the rise of global persecution. Seventh noticing widespread disregard for God's law.

Eighth seeing the gospel advance to all corners of the earth. Ninth following the rise of the final one world ruler and the tenth practice. How is through going through? Worldwide. Cataclysmic events, so this is what we've seen thus far.

The Glorious Return of Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:27-31

Today is part six of our journey through Matthew 24. Now if you haven't already turned there I encourage you to turn in a Bible with me to Matthew 24 as We continue our sermon series through Matthew. And if you're using a red Bible in the pews, it's on page 986 and what I as I mentioned already.

It's truly fascinating the timing of this sermon with Trevor here. You'd think we planned ahead. We didn't. This is just where we are in our sermon series through Matthew. I'm gonna begin by giving you the 11th practice how you are to anticipate the sooner turn of Christ.

And that is through viewing the glorious return of Jesus Christ. If you have a bulletin this is in there viewing the glorious return of Jesus Christ. We will see this in verses 27 through 31. This is where we're going to spend our time this morning.

So I'm gonna begin by reading these verses verses 27 through 31 of Matthew 24. These are the words of the Lord Jesus. For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the West. So will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Wherever the corpse is there the vultures will gather. Immediately after the tribulation of those days the Sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light and The stars will fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call and they will gather his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other.

The Rapture and the Second Coming as Distinct Phases

Now Before we talk about the return of Christ, it's important to make a distinction at this time. Some of you might wonder well, how does the rapture fit into this and and of course within Christianity?

There's different views on the rapture. Some people believe the rapture happens at the end of the tribulation. So in other words that the return of Christ and the rapture are one in the same event. Some people believe that There's a rapture Halfway through the tribulation.

This is known as the mid tribulation view and then there is the pre tribulation view. Which which is the view that believes that the rapture is before the final seven year Tribulation because I'm going to talk a little bit about that here.

What the New Testament reveals to us is that there are phases to Christ's return. This is interesting to think about when we come to understand that the Old Testament made no distinctions. The Jews did not believe there will be multiple comings of Christ.

They believed there would only be one coming. This is why Jesus disciples were confused when he told them that he would die rise again Return to his father in heaven and then come again. But this is the nature of what is known in theology as progressive revelation.

When I say revelation what I mean is the Word of God Revealed in the pages of Scripture as the Bible is written the people reading the later books have more Understanding than those who had less of the Bible.

In other words, we know things that Old Testament saints did not know and think about that very fascinating. What we know is that there is not one coming of Christ. There is a second phase to his coming and it is my conviction that in the second phase of Christ's coming There are two phases to it.

The first phase is known as the rapture and the second phase is known as the second coming. Some Christians do not see the distinction as I've mentioned. When a distinction is not made it's called a post-tribulation rapture.

The post-tribulation rapture views the rapture and the second coming is the same event. That Christ gathers his people and then comes to the earth to judge the world in one event now to have a different view on the timing of the rapture is Not an enormous deal.

Okay, it doesn't mean it's not important. It's not heresy. Okay, if someone believes that Jesus is not God. Okay, that's a huge deal. That's the difference between being a believer and not being a believer.

If someone denies the penal substitutionary atonement that Christ died in our place. There are people who call it those Christians who do deny that that's a massive Difference. It's interesting. I think it's more it's more important to believe in the Millennium Than it is to believe in a preacher of rapture.

Because the Millennium is important because the Millennium is a fulfillment of God's promises to Israel. The Abrahamic Covenant is fulfilled. The Davidic Covenant is fulfilled as Christ reigns on his throne.

The New Covenant is fulfilled to the people of Israel during the Millennium. So if we don't believe that there's a literal 1 ,000 year reign of Christ. It's concerning to me because we're really denying God's commitment to his ancient covenant people these promises that he made to them.

But that being said it the time in the rapture. It is still important because the truth is important. We want to know the truth. There are genuine believers like some Presbyterians. This would be a bigger difference than the time in the rapture who believe that infants should be baptized.

And I think in that case, it's really hard to be in the same fellowship. You can't really have babies baptized and then I have other people who believe that no baby shouldn't be baptized. There's things worth dividing over.

I don't think the timing of the rapture is worth dividing over. But it doesn't mean it's not important because we want to get to the truth. What does the Bible say about the return of Christ? We want to be precise in our interpretation of Scripture.

No one has everything right in one's interpretation, but we want to be as close as we can to believe in a post-tribulation rapture is not a small difference because to believe this is to believe that all Christians will go through the final seven-year tribulation and If this is so the blessed hope of the church being snatched from this world at any time is taken away.

But I believe the Bible teaches that the church will be raptured before the the final seven-year tribulation. And I'm not going to explain all the reasons why in this sermon. I've already preached a sermon on this.

Back on April 5th 2020 that was during kovat. And if you'd like if you'd like to listen to that you can go to our website and find it on there. But let me briefly give you the passages that explain the rapture.

The first phase of Christ's second coming these passages are John chapter 14 verses 1 through 3 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verses 51 and 52 and 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 13 through 18. The Bible says more on the rapture than just these passages, but these are the big ones.

It is indeed the glorious hope for the believer that Christ will snatch his church to meet him in the air. To dwell with him in heaven. I have an old pastor friend whenever he Signs his name to something.

He says here there or in the air every time he writes something. And I love when he when he when he does that. Now with this in mind There's no question that there will be some believers Who will be present at the end of the final seven-year tribulation and thus far?

We have seen something some things described about the final seven-year tribulation last week. We looked at the the rise of the the final one world ruler who's also known as the Antichrist. These people who are alive at the very end Will experience the day when Christ comes to this earth to take his throne.

These are the ones that Jesus has chiefly in mind as she said as she shares what it will be like when he returns to the earth. What Jesus does to explain what his return to be like is to give two illustrations.

The first illustration in verse 27 is Something that we are all very familiar with. He compares his return to the natural phenomenon of lightning. Lightning is one of the most remarkable wonders of nature.

When a thunderstorm is present lightning lights up the sky. What Jesus explains is that when you see lightning from one direction people in the other direction can see it from far away. As he says lightning in the east is seen as far as the West for miles and miles lightning can be seen.

I Remember as a child being told that you can know how far a lightning strike is from you. Every second is a mile so 10 seconds is 10 miles. Sometimes lightning hits so close that it's simultaneous. I remember being in Florida one time that which is the capital for lightning in the country.

And I was sitting in on the couch and all sudden boom. It was like I jumped out of my chair. I must have jumped out three feet in the air. Because it was just this loud clap of lightning. Lightning can be frightening.

But it is indeed a marvelous phenomenon for the eye to see and lightning can be seen from miles and miles away. After giving this illustration Jesus gives us Another that once again has to do with seeing something from far away and this illustration it concerns vultures.

These birds you see on the side of the road with roadkill. Another way to say vultures are birds that prey on animals below. The vultures that fly above have great sight to see what is below them on the ground.

One thing that vultures notice and Love to do is gather around dead animals. These vultures can see these corpses from far away and what they do is gather swoop down and eat the flesh. So, how do these illustrations relate to Christ's second coming?

Well, both these illustrations have in common are Seen something that is visible from far away. Humans can see lightning in the sky from miles and miles away. Vultures can see their dead prey on the ground from a far distance away in The same way the whole world will see the return of Christ.

It will not be a mystery. Everyone will know the day he comes back. Any belief that says Christ returned his secret is a false religion. Jehovah Witnesses believe this and You see those people that they're down there pretty much every day.

If you go to Walmart to write on the overlook in St. Croix Falls, they're standing there wanting people to come talk to them. The Jehovah Witness religion was started by a man named Charles Russell. He started the Watchtower magazine and early on in the history of this false religion.

He predicted the day when Christ would return to the earth. He first said he would return in 1874. That year came and went and Jesus, of course did not return. Then he made another prediction. He predicted that Christ would return in 1914 once again.

The year came the day he predicted came. Christ did not come back. Now, do you think this prophet notice the quotations here this prophet? Said he was wrong. No, he dug in his heels. When Russell was wrong the second time he said he got the details of the return wrong.

He said Christ was not to have a public appearance, but a private one. That's convenient, huh? So Christ did in fact return in 1914. But it was a spiritual return if you ever want to see a religion a false religion that makes it up as they go.

Look no further than the Jehovah Witness religion. But the Bible does not say that Jesus is going to have a spiritual return. And this was the mistake that the Gnostics made in the early church. They said, you know, he's this mysterious this this secret revelation that is only for some people.

This will not be small-scale. This will be global. The Bible tells us certain details about his return. For example a fascinating tidbit of scripture is is that we know the location To which she's going to return.

In fact Trevor talked about it this morning. Zechariah 14 for says on that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives. That lies before Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west.

By a very wide valley. And he pointed out those churches located on these spots that are actually going to be swallowed up. And hopefully they're heretical churches, right. So that one half of the Mount shall move northward and the other half southward.

Then we turn to the book of Acts that also describes this location when Jesus ascended to heaven. After his resurrection he ascended from the Mount of Olives as Luke chapter 24 verses 50 through 52 says in Acts 1 11.

Angels told Jesus disciples as he was taken up in the clouds to heaven. They said men of Galilee Why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

Details matter. He's not gonna return to Eureka. Or the Twin Cities or New York? He's coming back to the Mount of Olives. The Messiah Jesus ascended from heaven from the Mount of Olives and this is where he will return to.

So the question that people ask is how will those alive at that time see him? Israel is far from where we live and from all portions of the earth. It's in the middle, right? But if you're in the far east if you're in the far west if you're even in Europe I mean, that's that's a pretty far ways away.

We don't we don't know exactly how everyone in the world will know but the text does give some indications. Let's first look at verse 29. Where Jesus says again Immediately after the tribulation of those days the Sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall.

From heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. One way that the world will know that Jesus has returned is that there will be Cosmic disturbances. Certain things will happen in the heavens and when I say the heavens I don't mean the third heaven where God dwells as Paul described.

Paul said he ascended to the third heaven. There's three heavens. The first heaven is the atmosphere. Second heaven is outer space. The third heaven is the place where God dwells. So when he talks about the the heavens these cosmic disturbances, he's talking about the atmosphere and he's talking about outer space.

Where the planets and the stars are the text says that the Sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. Hey, what will cause this? Now I've already explained as we as we have seen in Revelation that there will be a mass Destruction from natural disasters at this point in history.

These natural disasters occur as God's judgment is poured out on the earth. I Believe that this is the time when these super volcanoes all over the earth will be up will go off. This is my personal opinion when the supervolcanoes erupt there will be so much ash in the atmosphere that the Sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light as The text says in verse 29.

They will be darkened. The text also says that stars will fall from heaven. What does Jesus mean by this? Jesus is likely describing meteors or comets or asteroids that will crash down from space to the earth.

Scientists often say that the universe is a dangerous place to be to live on a rock and this dark vacuum of space with all these rocks, that's a pretty dangerous place to be a Giant rock from space can hit the earth and small rocks from space do hit the earth actually fairly regularly.

But why is it that a giant asteroid has not hit the earth that affects the earth in significant ways? Well, it's because it's not the time yet. It will happen at the very end right before Jesus return.

Then Jesus says at the end of verse 29 that the powers of the heavens will be shaken. What does this mean? Jesus is the one who upholds the universe by the word of his power. Hebrews 1 3 tells us that he is the creator and the sustainer of the universe.

At the time of his return the objects in space will not operate as they normally do. The normal orbits of stars and planets will be in disarray. The world the atmosphere and even outer space will be in disarray during the time immediately preceding Christ's return.

These are signs signs that he's coming. And these are signs for those who are alive at that time. These disturbances will be a clear indication that Christ is coming to the earth as the beginning of verse 29 says he will come Immediately after the destruction happening during the final seven years.

Then we get to verse 30 where we finally get to the grand event the day that Jesus returns to the earth. Let's look at this again verse 30. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man and Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of Man Coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

What you'll notice is that Jesus describes himself in the third person. As Jesus is saying this to his disciples. They would have understood Where he's getting this from why is he talking about himself in the third person?

Why is he calling himself the Son of Man? Well Daniel chapter 7 verses 13 and 14. There's a prophecy about the Messiah. There the Prophet Daniel says behold with the clouds of heaven there came one like a Son of Man and he came to the ancient of days and was presented before him and To him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples nations and languages Should serve him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion Which shall not pass away in his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. Daniel is describing a time in the future when the ancient of days the father Gives the throne to the Son of Man and the Son of Man is his son the Christ Jesus.

This is why Jesus calls himself in the third person the Son of Man. He has in mind this passage from Daniel where the Son of Man comes on the clouds of heaven Takes his throne and all the peoples will worship him.

To come on the clouds is a reference to deity. He's not just a man. He is God. It's the Christmas season. We're not just celebrating Jesus birthday as If he's just an important guy from history where we celebrate his birthday like we celebrate other people's birthdays.

We are celebrating the time in history 2 ,000 years ago when God became a man God became something that he never was. But he always will be the second person the Trinity will always be fully God and will always be fully man.

So to come on the clouds is a reference to deity. Psalm 104 3 says concerning the Lord he makes the clouds his chariot. He makes the clouds his chariot. This is no ordinary man. What Jesus is saying in verse 30 is that he will appear and he will appear on the clouds of heaven in power and great Glory as Daniel 7 said he would.

It will not just be Christ who comes. But his angels will accompany him as verse 31 says. Angels were present as at his first coming. Angels are going to be present at his second coming. Verse 31 says there will also be a loud trumpet call marking his return.

This trumpet call will come from Michael the Archangel. He blew the trumpets At the rapture, which I believe it happens before the seven years First Thessalonians 4 16 and he will blow the trumpet after the tribulation when Jesus returns.

In ancient Israel a trumpet was used to gather people together to assemble the people to an important event. This will be the most important event for one to be called to the grand appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The ones who will be gathered are the Jews who converted the Gentile believers and at this time Old Testament Saints will be resurrected. All of these will gather with Christ and his church who came to earth with him after being in heaven with him for seven years.

What the angels His servants will do because that's what angels are. They are God's servants. What they are going to do is that they are going to go to every corner of the earth to gather his people. All of the people of God will be gathered to Christ and from this point his people will reign with him.

The Hope, Repentance, and Judgment at Christ’s Return

It is important for us to understand that the return of Christ is good news for his people it is great news. It's the best news. He's coming back. And I tell you what if we are not eager for his return, that's a problem as Christians.

Sometimes you hear people sometimes I hear Christian say, you know when this guy is gonna be remembered 500 years from now, I'm thinking Are we not anticipating that his return is close. Yeah, have we just forgotten about eschatology the study of the end times.

Of which 27 of the Bible is concerned with it. He is coming back and that's great news for the believer. This is supposed to Inspire your faith as he stands at the door so it's great news for the believer as We leave this devil-ruled world.

To actually live in a world where he rules if you think about the world we live in. We have some of the most incompetent people leading us. I mean, let's be honest. They might think that it's some great achievement of their life.

But really it's God's judgment on this earth. He's given us bad leaders. And it the most unqualified people in the world are the ones leading it not only not only in our nation. But it all over the world.

In our in the all these all of our states. Thankfully, there are some good leaders out there. I don't want to just do a broad brush here and say everyone's a bad leader. But Jesus is the leader. We've always longed for he's gonna do everything.

That's right. Everything he does will be for the blessing of the people and we should long for that day when he comes back and it should fill us hope with hope in in the present as we live in a world where The devil rules this world.

He does if you want to know what is the world look like where the devil rules it? We're living in it. It doesn't mean every place is dark. There is light here. But there's lots of darkness out there, but a day is coming when that darkness will be defeated.

Once and for all. Okay, let's first look at the good news for his people. It is coming. The middle of verse 30 says that when he comes all the tribes of the earth will mourn. We might think that this is describing the unbeliever.

And there will be a morning when he comes back from the unbeliever because they're gonna think Oh Judgment is coming. But what I believe this describes is it's the mourning of repentance. It's a good morning.

Matthew 5 for in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus described this very Morning and and Barb is quoting it right here. Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. What he means there by those who mourn are those who are repentant sorrowful for your sins sorrowful for what you've done.

There's two different types of people in this world. The unrepentant and the repentant. As we've gone through this chapter what I've explained is that the Lord has a grand plan for Israel. Where they will receive their Messiah when he returns to this earth and it's fitting that we have Trevor here with us today as His mission is to reach the Jews for Christ.

And he talked about all of these Jews that are coming to faith in Christ, which points all the more that Jesus is standing at the door. Israel rejected the Messiah the first time when he came 2 ,000 years ago.

But they will receive him when he comes to this earth at a day only known to the Father. Zechariah 12 10 describes this event and I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace.

And please for mercy so that when they look on me on Him whom they have pierced. They shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and we bitterly for him as one weeps over a firstborn. This is the Messiah.

You you're gonna weep for me, but you're gonna receive me when I come back. When Jesus returns the nations and the Jews Will have hearts full of repentance as they realize that it was their sin that held them there.

Is that all him says it was my sin that held him there Trevor was talking about. There's been Christians who blamed the Jews, you know for the death of Christ. Well, it is true, right? The Jewish leaders they delivered him up to the Romans to be crucified, but you know who killed Jesus.

I did. Everyone in this room it was our sins that held him there and how shameful to blame an Ethnic people for his death when his death is the only way that we experience salvation. It's the only way his once-for-all sacrifice brings us to God.

Nothing else and As access he ordained that the Jewish leaders and the Romans. They put him to death and that was his plan and but through that death comes our salvation. So when Jesus says that blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.

The great the great beauty of that verse is that the morning doesn't last right? They shall be comforted what follows the crying and and the sorrow is joy and the joy is you are forgiven you are forgiven in Christ.

Psalm 103 verse 12 says as Far as the East is from the West so far does he remove our transgressions from us? When Jesus returns as he says in verse 30 all the tribes of the earth will mourn as they witness his return.

But that sorrow will be turned into joy as his people will reign with him. He forgives us and makes us his as Jesus comes back. It won't be pleasant for everyone. However Some of the mourning will be the reality of the coming judgment that awaits some.

I Read Philippians 2 earlier in the service at at the name of Jesus. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Everybody's gonna have to acknowledge it at some point.

Some it's enjoy some it's in shame and Humiliation. The Lord will judge the wicked at his return. In Revelation 19 describes Specifically the judgment that will come upon the Antichrist and his armies.

Let me read these verses here. This is verses 11 through 21. This is the vision of the Apostle John. Then I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse. The one sitting on it is called faithful and true and in righteousness.

He judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire and on his head are many diadems. And he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood and the name by which he is called is the Word of God and The armies of heaven arrayed and fine linen white and pure were following him on white horses.

From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nation's and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh.

He has a name written the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Then I saw an angel standing in the Sun and with a loud voice. He called to all the birds that fly directly overhead come gather for the great supper of God to eat the flesh of kings the flesh of captains the flesh of mighty men the flesh of horses and their riders and the flesh of all men both free and slave both small and great.

And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him. Who was sitting on the horse and against his army and the beast was captured and with it the false prophet?

Who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped? Its image these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with fire and sulfur and The rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who is sitting on the horse and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

This describes the defeat of his opposition at his return as We read it will be a bad day. For the godless, it'll be a bad day for the final one world ruler for the false prophet. It'll be a bad day for Satan who? possessed these people.

They will have their time to rule the world and their time will pass and they will be the first occupants in the lake of fire. Later Satan and his demons and all unbelievers will join them in that place of forever torment.

What you will notice in Revelation 19 is that John describes in his vision That birds will fly overhead and gorge themselves with the flesh of these dead soldiers from these armies. And this sounds like verse 28 of Matthew 24.

Because verse 28 says wherever the corpse is there the vultures will gather. This is an illustration As I've mentioned of birds seeing their prey from far away and everyone on earth knowing that the return of Christ has taken place.

Or is taking place. Verse 28 May also be a reference to vultures seeing the corpses of The godless from far away as Jesus defeated them at his return and they will pounce and gorge themselves with their flesh there.

This might be describing that event. Now we live in a world Where Satan has lots of good days. Think of the horror that happens every day in our world. Think of all the babies that are aborted. Think of all the human sex trafficking that is taking place that nobody really knows about.

Very few people know about. Satan is doing many things in our day and he will advance his agenda much more at the very end. It's only gonna increase. What we what we have just seen is that it is going to be a dark day for Satan and his agenda.

He will have reached his goal of ruling the world through the Antichrist. But his plans will be thwarted as Christ destroys the one world ruler and those who follow him. He will destroy this final government and he will destroy this false religion that rules the world.

Satan looks like a powerful foe to us. But compared to Christ He is a weakling. Greater is he who is in you that he who is in the world as first. John says Christ's defeat of Satan and the great evil on this earth at this time Will not be difficult for him.

It's not gonna be some great battle where he where it's gonna be this big struggle and He's gonna barely win. This is what the Apostle Paul describes in 2nd Thessalonians 2 8. Then the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and Bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.