Question: You Said In The Audio “Lion Of Judah The Bloody And Violent Return Of Jesus Christ” And In Articles You Have Written That The Glorified Saints & Angels Will Be Fighting Alongside Christ At His Return. But You Also Read A Verse In Isaiah 63:5 Where Christ Says That He Was Alone And There Was No One To Help Him How Do You Explain Both Conflicting Statements?
Donald Bohanon: The verse in Isaiah 63:5 is in relation to the lack of support from earths inhabitants Christ receives or doesn’t receive at his return, not from the glorified saints and angels. That obviously couldn’t be talking about the saints and angels who will be fighting alongside Christ at his return.
In other words when Christ says in Isaiah 63:5 there was no one to help him and no one was with him he is emphasizing when he returns the whole earth is going to be against him and despise his coming, with the exception of the saints (who will be very few in number by comparison) who will rejoice at his coming and will eventually be caught up in the clouds to meet him themselves.
Those who died in Christ will be caught up with Christ at his return first, prepared to do battle because they will be the first group caught up in the first resurrection…Jude 14-15. Those who remain alive and who live for and follow Christ will then be caught up and transformed in the twinkling of an eye, into God beings/spirit born sons of God, after which they will participate in the battle as well… 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
But all or most of earths inhabitants will completely oppose Christ at his return and despise him, so much so, rather than rejoice when he returns, they will instead mourn when he returns, and actually despise his return as they will have been thoroughly deceived by Satan probably into thinking Christ will be some alien coming to destroy all of humanity. When in reality he will be coming to save humanity from destroying itself…Matthew 24:30. This is what Christ means in Isaiah 63:5 when he says there was no one with him, and no one to help, therefore his own arm (or his own effort or actions) brought salvation unto him.
Matthew 24:30
King James Version (KJV)
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
1 Corinthians 15:52
King James Version (KJV)
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
King James Version (KJV)
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Jude 14-15
King James Version (KJV)
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.