On September 24th 2006 Alan Kurschner of www.Prewrathrapture.com published the article "Consistency Between Jesus and Paul: The Singular Future Parousia of Christ."

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In the comparative chart below I list more than 20 reasons why Jesus and Paul teach on the same, singular future Parousia (Coming). This is the position of the Prewrath Rapture. There is coherence and consistency between these two pivotal teachings on the Second Coming. But first a couple of preliminary remarks.

This article will perform a double duty. Both pretribulationists and many preterists have something in common: They do not believe that Jesus in Matthew 24 and Paul in 1&2 Thessalonians are teaching on the same "Coming." Pretribs believe that when Jesus refers to the Parousia he is talking about "Armageddon." In contrast, many Preterists believe that Jesus was prophesying the judgment on Jerusalem and Israel that would occur in AD 70; and other "Hyper" Preterists believe that Jesus came back in some spiritual sense in the 1st Century.

A note on the term and usage of "Parousia."

The Greek word for "Coming" is Parousia. In the New Testament it is mentioned 17 times prophetically of our Lord Jesus' Second Coming. It means "presence" and also carries the meaning of an "arrival and a continuing presence." It is not an instantaneous event but rather it will occur over an unknown duration of time. The term is a noun, not a verb. The Lord's Coming (Parousia) is a comprehensive whole.

The first Coming of Christ was not instantaneous. Rather, it was initiated by the virgin birth. But the birth of Christ was not the whole, but a part of his Coming. During the first Coming, God fulfilled certain Divine purposes: Jesus' birth, ministry of teaching, healing, the cross, burial, and resurrection.

So will the Second Coming of Christ be a comprehensive whole in which God will fulfill certain Divine purposes and events. We are informed that God's first Divine purposes will be to raise the dead in the resurrection and rapture those believers who are remaining on earth at that time. Then the Coming will continue to include the Day of the Lord's wrath, consumation of the Kingdom, Israel's salvation, Armageddon, and the ushering in of the Millennial age.

The term is always stated in the singular, not Comings.There is only one Second Coming (Parousia). Further, it is reading one's tradition in this term when it is suggested that there are "two stages of Comings." It is common to hear that Christ will come first for his Church secretly, then return seven years later with his Church. This notion is foreign to any Parousia text. There is only one future Coming (Parousia), in which God will fulfill certain Divine purposes.

In his book, The Rapture Question: Answered Plain and Simple, Robert Van Kampen recognized about ten parallels between these two passages below. In the chart, however, I have listed, in addition to his ten parallels, about ten more important parallels that should not be overlooked.

As an exercise, I would suggest starting with the first topic and looking up its comparative texts to discover for yourself the parallels and the consistency between Jesus and Paul.