Only one more time.

The deceived lot propose a theory of a two phased return of the Lord Jesus. They hypothesize that Jesus will return for His Church in the first phase, this on the clouds to mid air. Then comes the second phase, seven years later, this time to the earth. (Sounds very much like the Seventh Day Adventist's doctrine!).

They say, the first time the Lord came to His people, the Jews, they rejected Him as their suffering Messiah and put Him to death. This same people will welcome Him when He comes in the second phase (It does not matter to them if it is obviously counted the third!). They will then let (!) Him rule them on the throne of David as their reigning Messiah for a thousand years (not eternal!) with Jerusalem as His capital.

Nothing can be far from the very words of the Lord Jesus Christ. When asked about His Kingdom and His Kingship, the Lord said to Pilate, the Roman governor, in unequivocal terms, “My kingdom is not of this world: if My kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is My kingdom not from hence”. – John 18:36. The Kingdom the Son of God has established is the Kingdom of God, a heavenly Kingdom, a spiritual one (intangible to the naked human eye) into which believers have been translated from Satan’s kingdom of darkness. …Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. – Col 1:13. And this Kingdom has been established in the hearts of believers, right where the spirit / Spirit dwells. “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you”. – Luke 17:20, 21. He, for sure, rules and reigns now in His kingdom and exercises His authority from Heaven, not from here (earth). And, he will appear the second time (Heb 9:28), only one more time.