The fact of the matter is that there are two presences and two raptures. Here is the pattern for both presences:
Elijah
Coming
Man of lawlessness starts operating
Elijah
Coming
Man of lawlessness revealed to closest disciples
Shepherd struck in Jerusalem & flock scattered
Jesus is absent for 3 days in the heart of the earth
Man of lawlessness destroyed
Jesus manifested in Galilee to the chosen ones
Sealing and outpouring of gifts of the spirit in Jerusalem.
The above pattern is the pattern of Jesus 3½ year first century ministry as we shall see . It is also the template which reveals to us the pattern of events in both of his two 120 year presences. For God operates in a fractal manner.
[1] Elijah comes first (John the baptist).
10 However, the disciples put the question to him: Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?
11 In reply he said: Elijah, indeed, is coming and will restore all things.
12 However, I say to you that Elijah has already come and they did not recognize him but did with him the things they wanted. In this way also the Son of man is destined to suffer at their hands.
13 Then the disciples perceived that he spoke to them about John the Baptist (Matthew 17).
This also shows that Elijah will come again to restore all things.
[2] Then Jesus' first coming to the temple to throw out abusers in 30Nisan:
13 Now the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And he found in the temple those selling cattle and sheep and doves and the money brokers in their seats.
15 So, after making a whip of ropes, he drove all those with the sheep and cattle out of the temple, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
16 And he said to those selling the doves: Take these things away from here! Stop making the house of my Father a house of merchandise! (John 2).
[3] Then Judas, the archetypical man of lawlessness, went sour:
70 Jesus answered them: I chose you twelve, did I not? Yet one of you is a slanderer.
71 He was, in fact, speaking of Judas [the son] of Simon Iscariot; for this one was going to betray him, although one of the twelve (John 6).
[4] Then Elijah comes a second time. This Elijah sent his disciples to question Jesus:
19 So John summoned a certain two of his disciples and sent them to the Lord to say: Are you the coming one or are we to expect a different one?
20 When they came up to him the men said: John the Baptist dispatched us to you to say: Are you the coming one or are we to expect another? (Luke 7).
Quite obviously this cannot be the chap who baptised Jesus, because he kept crying out: See the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29).
He was in no doubt as to who was the coming one! So how can this be??
Well Jesus Christ was not baptised by John the Baptist, the son of Zechariah. To see why, see [229]. It was Gabriel who baptised Jesus, because he is God's high priest and he sacrificed Jesus and presided over the entry of Michael on behalf of God. This new Jesus would validate the first abrahamic covenant with his human body and ransom Adam with his angelic soul - see [15].
This is the meaning of his words:
4 It is not possible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take sins away.
5 Hence when he comes into the world he says: Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but you prepared a body for me (Hebrews 10).
For it is not possible for a priest such as Michael, a cherub, the holder of a master covenant with God to enter into a non priestly human vehicle. And no son of Israel under law could become a priest until he was 30 years old...
3 From 30 years old upward to 50 years old, all those going into the service group to do the work in the tent of meeting (Numbers 4).
Jesus was 30 years old when Michael entered his body. Gabriel said to Zechariah, John's dad...
19 In reply the angel said to him: I am Gabriel, who stands near before God, and I was sent forth to speak with you and declare the good news of these things to you (Luke 1).
Standing near before God means God's high priest, it is a Euphemism.
15 And as for the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of the obligation of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel wandered away from me, they themselves will come near to me to minister to me, and they must stand before me to present to me fat and the blood, is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah (Ezekiel 44).
Look! Gabriel is telling us that he is going to act as a priest before God.
The point of Luke 7:19,20 is that a second Elijah had now come, namely the original John the baptist himself, back in his own body, which was shortly to be decapitated to please a condemned woman, as a result of a promise for half a kingdom. It was this original John who did not know who Jesus was ! He was a second Elijah, albeit in the same body as the first Elijah who was Gabriel.
This is why John the baptist said to the Pharisees that he was not Elijah, whereas Jesus said that he was Elijah. Both statements were true.
21 And they asked him: What, then? Are you Elijah? And he said: I am not. Are you The Prophet? And he answered: No!
22 Therefore they said to him: Who are you? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?
23 He said: I am a voice of someone crying out in the wilderness: Make the way of Jehovah straight, just as Isaiah the prophet said.
24 Now those sent forth were from the Pharisees.
25 So they questioned him and said to him: Why, then, do you baptize if you yourself are not the Christ or Elijah or The Prophet? (John 1).
Good question, this is a Reader Question.
13 For all, the Prophets and the Law, prophesied until John;
14 and if you want to accept it, He himself is Elijah who is destined to come (Matthew 11).
[5] Then Jesus made a second coming to the temple to throw out abusers on 33Nisan10:
45 And he entered into the temple and started to throw out those who were selling,
46 saying to them: It is written: And my house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a cave of robbers (Luke 19).
15 Now they came to Jerusalem. There he entered into the temple and started to throw out those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves
16 and he would not let anyone carry a utensil through the temple,
17 but he kept teaching and saying: Is it not written: My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a cave of robbers (Mark 11).
12 And Jesus entered into the temple and threw out all those selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
13 And he said to them: It is written: My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a cave of robbers (Matt 21).
[6] Then the son of destruction, the man of lawlessness, Judas was revealed, at the last supper, to Peter and John.
[7] Jesus enters the heart of the earth. He becomes the focus of all of God's heavenly organisation, for 3 days and 3 nights (being in trouble the whole time, so he did not sleep in death - having no angelic statis unit - he went to Tartarus to preach to them and then to Gehenna to preach to them - see U251.
41 And he himself drew away from them about a stone's throw, and bent his knees and began to pray,
42 saying: Father, if you wish, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, let, not my will, but yours take place.
43 Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him (Luke 22).
[8] Then Jesus is impaled and the apostles become scared, stumbled, scattered and confused
31 Then Jesus said to them: All of you will be stumbled in connection with me on this night, for it is written, 'I will strike
the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered about.'
32 But after I have been raised up, I will go ahead of you into Galilee (Matthew 26).
33 Therefore Jesus said: I continue a little while longer with you before I go to him that sent me.
34 You will look for me, but you will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.
35 Therefore the Jews said among themselves: Where does this [man] intend going, so that we shall not find him? He does not intend to go to the [Jews] dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he?
36 What does this saying mean that he said, 'You will look for me, but you will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'? (John 7).
Literally Jesus was impaled, and went to Galilee after his resurrection and then went to heaven to meet his Father who sent him. In the greater first presence fulfilment of this, God struck FDS1 (first faithful discrete slave of Matthew 25), and after its fall, Peter (in FDS2) and James (of FDS2) both wrote to the 12 tribes 'scattered about', whilst Jesus was with FDS2 in the greater Galilee teaching the Greeks (binary question – by the power principle, the wrong answer must have some validity).
1 James, a slave of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the 12 tribes that are scattered about: Greetings! (James 1).
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the temporary residents scattered about in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,¬ Asia, and
Bithynia, to the ones chosen (1 Peter 1).
[9] Then Judas then committed suicide
3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing he had been condemned, felt remorse and turned the 30 silver pieces back to the chief priests and older men, 4 saying: I sinned when I betrayed righteous blood. They said: What is that to us? You must see to that!
5 So he threw the silver pieces into the temple and withdrew, and went off and hanged himself (Matthew 27).
[10] Then Jesus was resurrected and he manifested himself to his disciples:
1 After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; but he made the manifestation in this way (John 21).
This pattern holds true for both of his 120 year presences, the presences of his body, his wife, the living stones of the temple of the new covenant saints, as follows...
[11] Then the holy spirit was poured out at Pentecost. The apostles were sealed and the physical gifts of the spirit of the first century were received.
The Pattern of Jesus' physical ministry and the 2 Presences
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