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THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WILL SPLIT WHEN JESUS RETURNS:
The Bible is not vague about where Jesus returns.
Jesus ascended from the Mount of Olives. Acts 1:9-12 tells us that plainly. As the disciples stood there watching Him go up, two angels spoke:
“This same Jesus… shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”
He left from the Mount of Olives.
Scripture says He returns to the Mount of Olives.
Zechariah removes any ambiguity.
“And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east… and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west… and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.”
Zechariah 14:4
That is not symbolic language.
It describes physical contact.
His feet stand there.
The mountain splits.
A valley forms between the halves.
Half moves north.
Half moves south.
That is geography.
The Mount of Olives sits directly east of Jerusalem across the Kidron Valley. Running through that region is the Dead Sea Transform fault system, a massive tectonic boundary that cuts through Israel. Jerusalem sits in an active seismic zone and the region has a long recorded history of earthquakes.
Scripture also repeatedly connects earthquakes with moments of divine intervention.
When God descended on Sinai, the mountain shook.
When Christ died on the cross, the earth quaked.
When the end of the age arrives, Revelation describes the greatest earthquake in human history.
If the Creator of the earth physically returns to the world He made, a geological event is not exaggeration.
It is exactly what you would expect.
Revelation 19 shows Him returning in power.
Acts 1 ties the return to the place He departed.
Zechariah 14 tells us exactly where His feet land.
This is not 70 AD.
This is not metaphor.
This is not spiritualized language.
This is the bodily return of Jesus Christ to the exact mountain He left from.
History is moving toward a literal moment.
And when His feet touch that mountain,
the earth will respond.
- More Joy Ministries - Tony Campbell
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