The Laws

of the Second Coming

by

Dr. Stephen E. Jones, M.A., Th.D

1. Chapter 1: Israel's Prophetic Spring Feasts
   1. Jesus Crucified at Passover
   2. The Eclipses That Day
   3. The Wave-Sheaf Offering
   4. How Did Jesus Fulfill the Wave-Sheaf Offering?
   5. The Feast of Pentecost ("Weeks")
   6. The Importance of Timing and Historic Fulfillment
2. Chapter 2: The Feast of Trumpets
   1. The Two Resurrections 14
   2. Not All Christians Are Raised in the First Resurrection
   3. Christians Will Be Held Accountable
   4. God's Servants Scourged
   5. The Parable of the Talents
   6. The Resurrection of the Righteous
   7. Did the First Resurrection Already Occur?
   8. Hymenaeus and Philetus
   9. The Purpose of a Bodily Resurrection.
   10. The Earth's Baptism of Fire
3. Chapter 3: The Day of Atonement and Jubilee
   1. The Fiftieth Jubilee from Adam
   2. Israel's Inheritance in Canaan
   3. The Ten Spies' Evil Report
   4. The Power of Forgiveness
4. Chapter 4: Jacob's Feast Day Pattern
   1. Jacob at Bethel
   2. Why Was Jacob Financially Broke?
   3. Jacob in Haran
   4. Jacob at Mahanaim
   5. Jacob at Peniel
   6. Jacob at Succoth (Booths)
5. Chapter 5: The Feast Days in the Book of Joel
   1. Blowing the Trumpet
   2. The Call to Repentance
   3. The Former and Latter Rains
   4. Pouring Out His Spirit
6. Chapter 6: The Feast Days in Elijah's Story
   1. The Famine in the Land
   2. Elijah's Passover and Pentecostal Patterns
   3. Elijah's Feast of Trumpets Pattern
   4. Elijah's Day of Atonement Pattern
   5. Elijah's Feast of Tabernacles Pattern
7. Chapter 7: The Feast of Tabernacles
   1. The Purpose of the Feast of Tabernacles
   2. Solomon Celebrates the Feast of Tabernacles
   3. A Short Chronological History under Ezra
   4. Ezra Celebrates the Feast of Tabernacles
   5. The 490-Year Link with the Apostle Paul
   6. Waving the Palm Branches at Tabernacles
   7. Jesus Observes Tabernacles
   8. The Midst of the Feast
   9. The Eighth Day of Tabernacles
   10. Prophetic Temple Ceremonies at Tabernacles
   11. The Eight Signs in the Gospel of John
8. Chapter 8: Presenting the Firstborn
   1. The Law of the Eighth-Day Circumcision
   2. The Firstborn of Unclean Animals
   3. Ishmael--the Wild Donkey
   4. The Glory Manifests on the Eighth Day
   5. Offering Strange Fire
9. Chapter 9: God's Face is God's Presence
   1. The Face of Moses
   2. The Angel of His Presence
   3. Paul's Commentary on God's Face
   4. The Three Veils in the Temple
   5. Faith and Positive Thinking
   6. Paul's Commentary on Gideon's Army
   7. Paul's Commentary on the Two Tents
   8. The Ministry of Reconciliation
   9. The Earth Full of His Glory
10. Chapter 10: The Two Works of Christ
    1. The Cleansing of Lepers (Leviticus 14)
    2. Ceremonial Washings were Baptisms
    3. Three Baptisms and Three Feast Days
    4. Jesus' Baptism and Wilderness Testing
    5. The Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16)
    6. Two Doves and Two Goats Compared
    7. Jesus' Baptism on the Day of Atonement
11. Chapter 11: Christ Comes of Judah and Joseph
    1. Samson's Riddle: The Dead Lion Brings Honey
    2. Joseph: The Sonship Message
    3. Judah, Joseph, and Benjamin
    4. The House of Joseph in Prophecy
    5. How Israel Became Lost
    6. Benoni-Benjamin and Bethlehem-Ephratah
    7. Caleb and Joshua
12. Chapter 12: The Sign of Jonah
    1. Jonah's First Call to Preach
    2. Jonah's Second Call to Preach
    3. Reconciling All Nations
    4. Deliver Us From Evil
    5. Putting Christ's Second Coming into Perspective
13. Chapter 13: The Real Rapture
    1. The First Law of Christ's Coming
    2. Patterns in Exodus 19 of Christ's Coming
    3. Patterns in Exodus 24 of Christ's Coming
    4. How Do We Meet the Lord?
    5. The Catching Away (Harpazo)
    6. The Meaning of Peter's Harpazo
    7. The Meaning of Philip's Harpazo
    8. The Meaning of the Manchild's Harpazo
    9. Meeting the Lord in the Air and in the Clouds
    10. Where Will We Ever Be With the Lord?
    11. Who Will Be Taken, and Who Will Be Left?
    12. When Will Every Eye See Him?
    13. The Unveiling and the New Covenant
14. Chapter 14: The Law of the Manchild
    1. The Image of God
    2. Begotten From Above
    3. The Feast Days Manifest the Pregnancy
    4. The Marriage of our Soul to God
    5. The Law of Deuteronomy 25:5-10
    6. The Story of Ruth
    7. Raising up Seed in Christ's Image
    8. Conclusion

Appendix: Acta Pilati: Pilate's Report to Tiberius 165

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