Answer
to the question:
How many Beings will
be present at the Second Coming?
Answer. Only two Beings.
The Father and Son.
Luke 9:26 For whoever is
ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed
when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the
holy angels.
Revelation 6:12-17 When
he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great
earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became
like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig
tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale; the sky vanished
like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was
removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth and the great
men and the generals and the rich and the strong, and every one, slave
and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling
to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the
face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand
before it?"
In the book of Revelation,
the one who is "seated on the throne" is God the Father,
and "the Lamb" is Jesus Christ.
"No human language
can portray the scenes of the second coming of the Son of Man in the
clouds of heaven. He is to come with his own glory, and with the
glory of the Father and of the holy angels. He will come clad
in the robe of light, which he has worn from the days of eternity.
Angels will accompany him. Ten thousand times ten thousand will escort
him on his way." —Review and Herald, September 9, 1899.
The Father is on the cloudy
chariot that ascends back to heaven in the Second Coming of Christ.
Soon appeared the great
white cloud. It looked more lovely than ever before. On it sat the
Son of man. At first we did not see Jesus on the cloud, but as it
drew near the earth we could behold His lovely person. . . . The voice
of the Son of God called forth the sleeping saints, clothed with glorious
immortality. The living saints were changed in a moment and were caught
up with them into the cloudy chariot. It looked all over glorious
as it rolled upward. On either side of the chariot were wings, and
beneath it wheels. And as the chariot rolled upward, the wheels cried,
"Holy," and the wings, as they moved, cried, "Holy,"
and the retinue of holy angels around the cloud cried, "Holy,
holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!" And the saints in the cloud
cried, "Glory! Alleluia!" —Early Writings, p. 35