His Holiness the Christ spoke to His disciples telling them that He would return to the Earth.  Do you remember what question His disciples asked Him when He told them them that?  They asked Him what would be the sign of His Presence on Earth at His return to Earth.    He answered their question, telling them what that sign of His Presence on Earth would be, and no woman or man can identify and recognize Him on Earth at His return to Earth unless she or he clearly understands the accurate and true meaning of that sign which His Holiness the Christ provided.  I visited more than four hundred different Christian churches, interviewing church Leaders (paid professional Clergymen) and church members, and many of those church Leaders and members offered me their explanations of the meaning of that sign which the Lord Christ provided.  I recorded those different explanations in that  letter which I am sending to you (below) so that you can tell me if you agree with any of those explanations of the meaning of that sign provided by the Lord Christ, or if you have a separate and different explanation.  I do not belong to any of those so many hundreds of different Christian churches which I visited.  The discussion below,  in the form of a letter, with the title:  The Lord's Parousias (Presence) contains no comments from me, only many different explanations from many church leaders and members concerning the meaning of that Holy prophetic sign provided by His Holiness the Christ so that women and men can recognize and identify Him at His return to Earth.  {"Wherever the carcass is, there the vultures will gather together."}   Do you agree with any of those explanations in the discussion below offered by different church leaders and members, or do you have a separate and different explanation?   The explanations which paid professional Clergymen  offered me are very different, even conflicting and contradictory.  I am very interested to hear your explanation of the meaning of that sign provided by His Holiness the Christ.  No woman or man can recognize/identify Him at  His return to Earth unless she or he clearly understands the accurate and true meaning of that sign which He provided.   Since the time that I gathered those different explanations recorded in the letter below, another correspondent offered me yet another different explanation and it is this one:  "At the rapture, when Jesus gathers the souls of the believers to Him up in the sky, those souls will leave their fleshly bodies on the ground as corpses and vultures will eat those dead bodies."
Cordially,
Ross

The Lord's 'Parousias' (Presence)

Ross Campbell rosscampbell@shaw. 

Dear Toto and Mannyl, we are wondering how you are doing? Noemi sends you her love and greetings and Silvana misses the children. I am still visiting different churches each weekend. I visited two this past weekend. At the Evangelical church we discussed the Prophecy of His Holiness the Lord Christ recorded at Matthew chapter 24 verses 27 and 28. I have encountered many different explanations of that Prophecy in various different Christian churches, often conflicting explanations in the same church. The church leader in the evangelical (Pentecostal) church to whom I spoke yesterday explained his belief that there are two separate advents of the Lord Christ,--the first when He "raptures" His church, and the second when He stands on the Mount of Olives and the angels (the "vultures" of the Prophecy of  Mat.24: 28) gather to Him at that time those from the nation of Israel who have repented during the "great tribulation" and have become believers in Him. When I asked him what the "vultures" are eating or consuming at that time, he offered that since the Lord is the "carcass" He is providing them (the angels) their spiritual sustenance. An Apostolic Church Pastor offered that the "carcass" is the resurrected body of Jesus that died on Calvary, while the "eagles" are believers, the prophetic 'eagles' of Isaiah chapter 40, verse 31. A Seventh Day Adventist leader offered that the "vultures" is the worshipping of man, greed, money, power, prestige, and wealth instead of the Gospel. He offered no explanation for the "carcass". Another church member offered that the "carcass" is a dead thing and the greedy ones go there, while the "vultures" are the greedy ones who don't know Christ. One of the various Seventh Day Adventists with whom I discussed the question offered his belief that the “vultures” or “eagles” (some translations) of Mat. 24:28 are the hosts of angels who arrive with the Lord at His Advent, and the “carcass” is the believers on Earth at that time. Another church member in a Full Gospel church which I visited offered his belief that the "carcass" of Mat. 24:28 is a "group of Christian believers" and that the "vultures" are spiritual "predators" who deny Christ and attempt to disrupt the Faith of the believers. In a large Baptist Church I was offered that the Prophecy of Mat.24:28 is "talking about Armageddon" and that the corpses are literal-those men and women destroyed in "Armageddon"-and that the vultures are literal birds. Another church member attempted to connect the Prophecy of Mat. 24:28 with the next few verses and eventually expressed her opinion that Christians have no need to understand the Prophecy of verse 28 and that it is insignificant for them. Another church Pastor wrote to say that this discussion is “straining at the gnat and swallowing the camel”, exposing his own attitude/belief that there could exist a Holy Prophecy spoken by the Lord Christ which is as insignificant as a “gnat”. 

There appears to be no end of varied and conflicting interpretations offered by Christians in all Christian denominations related to those important/critical/vital verses of Holy Prophecy spoken for us by His Holiness the Christ, concerning His re-appearance on Earth. The babel of confusion which has engulfed them all has caused the vast majority to disregard His warning: "Look! I am coming as a thief". (Revelation:3:3, Revelation: 16:15) In fact, they are missing His "parousias" as death overtakes them. "Certainly, unless you wake up, I shall come as a thief and you will not know at all at what hour I shall come upon you." (Rev. 3:3) Each of today's Christians displays the attitude that that warning given Christians by His Holiness the Christ applies only to some 'other' Christians 'somewhere else' on Earth but not to him or her. 
Best wishes, Ross