PROPHETIC EVENTS OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
Will come again
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In the Gospel of (John 14: 1-3) Jesus said to his disciples: "1 Do not let your heart be troubled, believe in God, believe also in me.2 In my father's house there are many dwellings; I would have told you, I am going to prepare a place for you.3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will return and take you to myself, so that where I am, you too will be. "
In this present century, there are no more comforting words for the Lord's church in all the Scriptures, than those spoken by the lips of our Lord Jesus Christ about his return. The Lord spoke these words during an intimate dialogue with his disciples, and resounded in our ears as an echo, as a precious promise made to his church.
In this passage, Jesus speaks of peace, a place and a promise. Begin with a comforting exhortation: Do not be disturbed; have peace Our peace is based on our belief in God and in Christ. We know that it is reliable and that it offers us a peace in which we can build our lives. Second, Jesus spoke of a place. The Lord has promised to prepare us a place to enjoy his eternal fellowship. Finally, we have his promise that he will come back for us. As we have received it in our hearts as a personal savior of our souls, it comes to receive us. Therefore, we wait for the expected day, preparing ourselves for that moment, because: "... whoever has this hope in him, purifies himself" (1 Jn 3: 3).
This leads us to walk in hope against hope, knowing that the one who promised is faithful to fulfill, and always encourages us to keep that glorious moment of his coming, because just as the disciples saw him ascend to heaven, they also received the promise that way we will see it descend. Therefore, his coming is more than confirmed.
The angels announce that Jesus will return
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In the book of (Acts 1: 10-11), the angels confirm that Jesus will return: "10 And while they were looking up to heaven, while he was gone, behold, two men were standing beside them in white garments , 11 who also said to them: "Men of Galilee, why are you looking at heaven?" This same Jesus, who has been taken from you to heaven, will come as you have seen him go to heaven.
Dear reader, before Jesus left his disciples, he promised them he would return (Jn 14: 1-3). Now, here at the ascension of Jesus, the angels tell the disciples: Do not keep looking at the sky, Jesus will return, but now go and do what he told you to do!
We often need to be reminded of these words. We often commit ourselves to the precious promise of the Lord's return, and we forget that his promise should also affect us as to how we behave with the world. Jesus has assigned a task to each one of us, and "Blessed is he to whom, when his teacher comes, he finds him doing it" (Mt 24, 46).
When we have clarity, not only do we prepare for the return of the Lord, but we announce his wonderful gospel to each creature, we will have a greater opportunity to engage in the things of the kingdom. This will allow us, with greater strength, to live with the firm hope of receiving our Lord Jesus Christ as the Apostle Paul announced to the Thessalonica church: A cry, the voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God, announce the coming of the Lord .
The Apostle Paul speaks of the return of the Lord Jesus
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In (1Thes 4: 15-18) the apostle Paul makes a triple announcement of the coming of the Lord, in verse 16 he says: "For the Lord Himself with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, He will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. "
One of the most detailed passages of the Second Coming of Christ is exactly this, which the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica.
We are told that there will be a triple announcement of the coming of the Lord: a loud cry or sound, the voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God. In addition to this, a triple promise is offered to the believers: a) the dead in Christ will be resurrected; b) those of us who are alive at that moment will be raptured; and c) we will always be with the Lord (vv 16,17).
The hope of his coming must be a source of comfort to those of us who are awaiting his return (verse 18). This is because we do not know exactly what the day of his coming will be, nor the time. Only the Father knows.
Only our Heavenly Father knows when Christ will return
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In (Matthew 25:13) we find: "Watch therefore, for you do not know the day or the hour in which the Son of Man is coming."
While they were in (Matthew 24:36) the Lord tells his disciples: "But of the day and of the hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but only my Father."
Throughout history, some believers have mistakenly tried to determine when the Lord will return, and ignorance of these foolish attempts has often led them to point out, with a presumptuous attitude, the moment of Jesus' coming. But, as we have read in the previous verses of the Gospel of Matthew, the Lord Jesus explicitly states that no one but the Father knows the time of his coming.
However, in (Matthew 25:13) Jesus began with the command: "Watch." The challenge he poses to us is that we constantly and hopefully wait for him. Therefore, our responsibility is twofold: to prepare for his coming, so that when he arrives he will find a wife "without spot and without wrinkles" (Ephesians 5:27), and we will act until his return in such a way that the kingdom of God preserves and it extends on the face of the earth (Lk 19: 11-27). Therefore, let us occupy ourselves in the affairs of the Father, let us live in expectation of the Master's return, let us divest ourselves of all idle speculation and of the superstitious tendency to fix dates at the time when it will come again. .
Let's embrace the word Jesus said: "I will surely come soon".
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Among the last words of the Bible is this promise of the Lord Jesus: "I am coming soon" (Revelation 22:20). This blessed hope, which was announced by the angels and declared by the apostles, is reiterated with tenderness by the Lord, when concluding the sacred text that contains his word.
The second coming of Christ was prophesied in the Old Testament. Zechariah 14: 1-9 says, "Behold, the day of the Lord comes, and your spoil will be divided among you. For I will gather all the nations to fight against Jerusalem; and the city shall be taken, and houses shall be plundered, and women shall be ravished; and half of the city will go into captivity, but the rest of the town will not be cut off from the city. Then Jehovah will go out and fight with those nations, as he fought on the day of battle. And his feet will be established on that day on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem to the east, and the Mount of Olives will be divided in the middle, eastward and westward, making a very great valley; and half of the mountain will move to the north, and the other half to the south. And you will flee to the valley of the mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach Azal; you will flee the way you fled because of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah; and the LORD my God will come, and with him all the saints. And it will happen that on that day there will be no clear or dark light. It will be a day, which is known to Jehovah, which will not be day or night; but it will happen that at the end of the afternoon there will be light. And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go forth from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea, and the other half toward the western sea, in summer and in winter. And the Lord will be king over all the earth. In that day Jehovah will be one and one his name "
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