The arrival of Jesus will mean the resurrection of the dead, the commencement of the New Creation, and the final judgment.
Several Greek terms are applied by the New Testament to the return of Jesus, including ‘Parousia’ (“arrival”), ‘erchomai’ (“coming”), ‘apokalupsis’ (“revelation”), and ‘epiphaneia’ (“appearance”). Regardless of which one is used, it is always singular in number, it always refers to only one future “arrival,” “appearance,” “revelation,” or “coming.”
Continue readingJust as unprepared men were destroyed by the Flood, so unrepentant men and apostates will be overtaken by destruction when Jesus arrives.
Jesus compared the final years before his return to the days before the Great Flood. “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be” when the “Son of Man” returns. In the account in Luke’s Gospel, Christ also equated this future period with the “days of Lot.” Both analogies stress the same point – (Luke 17:26-30).
Continue readingThe arrival of Jesus will be an event of great victory and finality that will result in the resurrection and the New Creation.
The return of Jesus at the “end of the age” will be a singular event of utter finality. His “arrival” or ‘Parousia’ will be accompanied by celestial and terrestrial upheaval, the installation of the New Creation, the resurrection of the dead, the judgment of the godly and the ungodly, the “gathering of Christ’s elect,” and the end of Death. Decay and mortality will be replaced by immortality. Nothing will ever be the same again!
Continue readingPaul expresses his goal of going on to completion, a process that will culminate in bodily resurrection when Jesus arrives in glory.
Paul instructed the congregation of Philippi to go on to “completion” in Jesus. Bodily resurrection must take place for the consummation of this process and the completion of our salvation. This will occur when Jesus appears “on the clouds of Heaven.” God will continue to perform what He began with our conversion until “the Day of Christ.” Salvation is a process throughout our lives.
Continue readingThe Last Days, the Age of Fulfillment, began with the Death, Resurrection, and Enthronement of the Son of God.
When we hear the term “Last Days” we assume it refers to the final few years of history that will occur just before the return of Jesus “on the clouds of Heaven.” This is logical and natural. However, the New Testament presents the present age as the time of fulfillment, the period that began following the Death, Resurrection, and Enthronement of Jesus.
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