Messianic Prophecies 25 worksheet
Jesus’ Coming in the Second Advent

The second coming will take place seven years (the duration of the tribulation period on earth) after the rapture. During the tribulation period all unbelievers will endure God’s wrath and the atrocities of the antichrist on earth. All believers will be in heaven.

Zechariah 14:1-7 says ¹A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls. ²I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. ³Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. ⁴On that day his feet will stand on the

, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. ⁵You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. ⁶On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. ⁷It will be a unique day—a day known only to the Lord—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.

Verses 1 through 4 describe what will happen in Israel during the tribulation period. Half of the Jews will flee during the second half of the tribulation (verse 2), to be rescued later. Verses 4 through 7 describe the actual second coming of the Messiah.

Q1 In verse 5 we read that the Lord will come with all the holy ones. Where will the Lord come (verse 4) and who are the holy ones (verse 5 and Colossians 3:4 and Jude 14)?

Colossians 3:4 says When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Q2 What does it mean that you will also appear with him “in glory”?

Jude 14 says See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones.

Q3 Who are the thousands upon thousands of his holy ones?

Q4 From where to where is the Lord coming in all these verses?