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of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory (Matt. 24: 30). The
tribes are those of Israel. The Bible does not designate the nations of the earth as tribes.
Revelation 1: 7 reads:
"Look, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who
pierced Him (Israel)."
Here at last is the real mourning of Israel for their sin of rejection of their Messiah and
King. They will at last be convicted and realize that this One in all His glory is the One
that they refused and crucified. They will at last come to their real day of atonement
which now they keep typically every year. This repentance of Israel which should have
taken place at the Lord's first coming, and if not then, when Peter commanded it in
Acts 3: 19-26, is described by Zech 12: 10-14:
". . . . . I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me Whom they have
pierced and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son . . . . .".
The Scriptures even tell us where Christ comes to on the earth. It is the last place that
His feet touched when He ascended, namely the Mount of Olives, outside Jerusalem.
One reason for His coming is to rescue Israel in the land from all the nations who have
gathered against Jerusalem and themselves. This is Armageddon (Rev. 16: 13-16).
Zechariah writes:
"On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the
Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley . . . . . Then
the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him" (Zech. 14: 4-5, N.I.V.).
This splitting of the Mount of Olives will be done by a great earthquake, forming an
escape route for the persecuted Jews of that time.
The Lord Jesus goes on to inform the disciples:
"They (the earth's inhabitants) will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the
sky with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call,
and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the
other" (Matt. 24: 30, 31, N.I.V.).
This glorious coming on the clouds of the sky, has already been prophesied in
Dan.vii.13,14:
"In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man,
coming with the clouds of heaven . . . . . He was given authority, glory and sovereign
power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshipped Him. His dominion
is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will
never be destroyed" (N.I.V.).
The gathering of His chosen ones (elect) world wide is surely fulfilled in the many
Scriptures that predict the regathering of Israel to the land promised then unconditionally