On the 10th of
Tishri (
Atonement) Jesus Christ returns to earth. During His first coming, Jesus enters Jerusalem riding a donkey as suffering Savior. During the second coming, Jesus rides a white horse as conquering King. He gathers the Saints in heaven and on earth to witness the events unfold but the battle is the Lord's.
I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God (
Revelation 19:11-13).
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. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other (
Matthew 24:30-31).
Jesus Christ returns to Bozrah in Jordan first for Judah (
Isaiah 63:1-2, Zechariah 12:7). Then He will stand on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem as the mountain splits creating a great valley.
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 there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south (
Zechariah 14:4).
God's purpose is the redemption of humanity. The Tribulation is a time of choosing:
follow God and have a relationship with Him or follow
Antichrist and be eternally separated from God. Despite judgment from God, grace and mercy are still available. When Jesus returns to Jerusalem, Tribulation Saints and Israel believe. Followers of Antichrist see Jesus and mourn but without repentance. On
Atonement, the High Priest enters the Holy of Holies and offers a bull, lamb and goat for Israel's sin but on this day, Jesus returns as the High Priest and Israel is saved both physically and spiritually.
I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn (
Zechariah 12:10).