JLB, I have repeatedly asked you to clarify your usage of Hebrews 9:28 and what it means to appear without sin? But you have ignored it and apparently have no answer for it, as well as it appears as though you have completely missed the application of this scripture. You have likened this passage to a coming in which you think Jesus will appear before the entire world and that every eye will see him. But that is not what this scripture is referring to.
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Three points to make concerning this particular scripture.
1). He appears only to those who look for him, who look for his coming. It does not say he appears to everyone, believers and unbelievers alike. He appears only to those who look for his coming.
2). There seems to be a misplaced emphasis on the word “second” that does not belong there. You can not put a finite number of times that the Lord shall choose to appear. This scripture does not infer that the Lord shall only appear exactly two times.
Second Time: g1208. δεύτερος deuteros; as the compare of 1417; (ordinal) second (in time, place, or rank; also adverb):— afterward, again, second (- arily, time.
3). He shall appear without sin unto salvation. What does it mean that he will appear without sin? And why is that significant? To appear without sin unto salvation means that he shall appear apart from His Body by his Holy Spirit, because the Glory and Righteousness that the Father has Glorified in the Son can not be known in the flesh, it can only be beheld and known in the Spirit.
Hebrews 9:28 simply says that to those who look for His coming, he shall appear afterward when he shall send you the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.
Acts 1:4-5 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem,
but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
John 16:7-16 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away:
for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And
when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:and he will shew you things to come.
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
Hebrews 9:28 has absolutely nothing to do with last day and the redemption of the purchased price (Eph 1:13-14), but rather the earnest of the inheritance and promise of the Holy Spirit for those that look for Him.
Romans 8:1-4 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Oh duh.