HE CAME TO FULFILL - LATTER DAYS AND SECOND COMING: COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN

Messiah will return as the Son of Man, from Heaven, with His beloved. They will frighteningly come with the clouds to judge the world as mentioned in Matthew 24: 30 (NIV).

There are four views regarding the return of the Messiah. One says we will be taken up in a rapture before the tribulation, so we would not have to endure the tribulation. Another claims we will be taken up in the middle of the tribulation. The third claims we will have to endure tribulation and will be raptured only right before the second coming of the Messiah. And then some claim there will be no rapture at all. 

I personally lean more towards there being a rapture. To be more specific, I believe the third view to be most accurate. The rapture will probably serve only as a welcoming of the Messiah by His people. Then together we will descend on the clouds back to Earth, and all the wicked shall be removed. And it will be on this earth that the millennium kingdom shall be established. 

Either way, our task remains the same. We are to prepare ourselves for the hardships ahead, and yet remain at peace, for God shall be with us to rescue us.