Christ appears to the world as a "thief in the night" which means they don't know him or see him when he first arrives.
No, it means they are not expecting Him.
Mourning over the dead messiah is consistent with them seeing him before he repents from his spiritual death and lifestyle, so here "tribes of the earth" apparently has the limited and specific interpretastion as a reference to the chosen and already gathered even before the messiah becomes the Christ. The messiah was born in January of 1950 which is when the "sign of the son of man" began to appear.
The sign of the son of man does not begin to appear, lars.
It APPEARS.
Nor does the sign of the son of man only appear to the 'elect'. That is exactly how you would GET people saying, he is here, he is there, listen to us, we know, come to us/me, etc.
But we are told NOT to listen to anyone who says such a thing. He warned us ahead of time, and we already listened to one person saying that (wts).
"At that time the sign of the son of man will appear (not will begin to appear) in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory."
He would te bested for 40 years, during which time he does become spiritually dead, but all the while he is watched by the "eagles" who surround his dead carcass until he repents and then becomes the messia on December 25, 1992.
When Christ returns He also gathers those who belong to Him. . He will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and who are left will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. (1Thess 4:16 - 17) . If the sign of the son of man was your picture in a wt image, imposed as a black baby on the hand in the clouds... then how is this fulfilled, that we who belong to Him are caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air? And who are the dead in Christ who rose first? . There is also no point in a second time around to do the same things. (and Christ said the first time around that He came to bring not peace, but a sword... becasue truth has no peace with lies; and He came as the Truth; that is why people are divided, because some follow Truth and some follow lies) . I do not expect to convince you of anything. But I follow Christ. I hear Him. You cannot convince ME... because I would have to deny my Lord, to follow you... and I cannot do that. Even if one does not hear Him, everything He has ever warned us has been against doing something like that. Else why not listen to the wts and their invisible coming? Or anyone else who claims an invisible coming? No. Every eye will see Him. No one will have to believe someone who says... here he is; there he is. Someone, whose voice is that of a stranger; and teaching that snubbing chronology is something that will get Christ to snub them, is the teaching of a stranger, lars. . Peace to you, tammy
