Who Will See That They Have Pierced Christ?

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Hi Y____,
You ask about when Rev 1:7 will be fulfilled. Let’s look at that verse:

Rev 1:7  Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Of course there is a “will be” application to this verse, which will be fulfilled in the lake of fire. But the answer you and I need is to be found just four verses earlier:

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Now if we have forgotten those instructions just four verses later, then hopes of understanding this book are very slim to non- existent. Christ comes to us via His “great cloud of witnesses”. Every eye within you (within you and me) shall see him when he comes.

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Luk 17:22  And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Luk 17:23  And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
Luk 17:24  For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

The lightning of verse 24 is “the brightness of His coming” mentioned in these verses:

2Th 2:1  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for [ that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [ will let], until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Paul had told these Thessalonians the same thing he had told the Corinthians:

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [ that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

This is what Paul is referring to when he said this:

2Th 2:5  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

While the whole world takes “as that the day of Christ is at hand” to be a warning against those who say Christ is about to return, or that He has already returned physically,  the Truth is that Paul is simply saying that when Christ finally does come into our lives, we will know it without a doubt, because the man of sin within us will then be deposed by the brightness of His coming. It is the apostle Paul who said this:

Php 4:5  Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

If “the Lord is at hand”, then surely “the day of Christ is at hand”, and His coming is like lightning which lights up our heavens and causes “that wicked one [ within us] sitting in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God, to be revealed” for what he really is, “the son of perdition who the Lord will destroy with the brightness of His coming in the “the day of Christ”.
Verse 7, “He who now restrains will restrain until he is taken out of the way” is what Christ referred to when He said,

Luk 17:22  And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

The apostles all endured this bitter and painful time when they forsook our Lord and denied Him, and we all do the very same thing in our own time and place.
That is the inward application of Rev 1:7. Everything that seems to be plural and outward is actually just a part of “the kingdom of God within you” which is in the process of destroying the nations within you and becoming a mountain which will “fill the whole earth” within you.

Dan 2:34  Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet [ that were] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Dan 2:35  Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

That is the inward application which should be our emphasis at this time. We are all spiritually the “them also who pierced Him” of Rev 1:7, and we certainly do see Christ, when He comes to us, and we know Him, and we know His voice.

Rev 1:7  Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Joh 10:4  And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
Joh 14:7  If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Joh 14:8  Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Joh 14:9  Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [ then], Shew us the Father?

Seeing Christ and His Father and knowing His voice, has nothing at all to do with doing so physically. It is a spiritual experience with spiritual eyes and ears.
Those who physically and historically and outwardly killed Christ will not see him until after the thousand year reign, when they will be raised up and cast into the lake of fire, to be purified as a spirit along with “the devil and his angels.

Mat 25:41  Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

Those who want to see Christ at the beginning of the millennium will not do so if they cannot even understand that Christ is in us, and that he who sees us has seen Christ.

Act 22:8  And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

No one knows how Christ appeared physically, except to say that “He had no form or comeliness… that we should desire Him.”

Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Right here we are plainly told that those who do not know Christ, and who are not part of that blessed and holy first resurrection, will think that He has “no beauty that we should desire Him”. But Christ is the most handsome man who has ever been to those who know Him and are His bride. Those are the ones who will see and know Christ at His coming at the beginning of the millennium. All others will only see Christ in us as their rulers “with a rod of iron.”
I hope this has helped you to see that “seeing Christ” is a spiritual matter. As Christ told Philip, we have to know and “see” Christ before we can know and see His Father. But when we do come to know and see Christ, we also know and see His Father.

Joh 14:7  If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

Your brother in Christ,
Mike

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