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 readingAccording to Jesus, the End will not come until the Gospel of the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed to all nations – Matthew 24:14.
When the subject of the Second Coming is raised, the question of what “sign” or “signs” will precede it is asked. Invariably, wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, famines, and similar catastrophes are offered as harbingers of that day. Yet Jesus gave the definitive answer to this question – the completion of the Church’s mission to proclaim his salvation and lordship to all nations.
Continue readingPaul refuted claims that the “Day of the Lord” was already underway in his second letter to the Thessalonians. That day would not come until the “Apostasy” occurred and the “Man of Lawlessness” was unveiled in the House of God. When Jesus “arrives” on that final day, he will gather his elect to himself and destroy the “Lawless One.”
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