I've explained it in great detail if you'll read earlier posts in this thread.
1. First Coming - His birth to Mary
2. Second Coming - Jesus appears in the clouds and calls His church (all believers) to meet Him in the air, thus the term "rapture", which means "caught-up".
3. Third Coming - happens after this event: A seven year period begins, the first 3-1/2 in which there is peace and prosperity in the world, the last 3-1/2 a time of great tribulation in which the Antichrist exerts absolute power. There will be a great multitude saved during this time as reported in Revelation: "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;" Rev 7:9 (KJV)
The explaination as to who the great multitude is follows: "And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Rev 7:13-14 (KJV)
Revelation 20 will give you the rest of the story, or what happens after the end of the Great Tribulation. Discussed there is what is commonly referred to as the "Millennial Reign", or 1,000 years in which Satan will be bound up and powerless.
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