If you are familiar with the New Testament, you know that its writers expected the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in their day. Over and over, as they made reference to “the Lord’s Coming,” or “the coming of the kingdom of God,” or “the day of the Lord,” any reference they made to its timing was to an imminent event – one that would occur in their generation. This is because the prophets of the Old Testament, and Jesus Himself, had led them to this expectation. The apostles, and the churches who believed them, knew that while every single one of them might not live to see the day of their Lord’s return, some of them surely would. They had been promised that their generation would not pass away until Jesus had come in His Father’s kingdom.
If Jesus did not come again according to the timetable the prophets and apostles – and He Himself – laid out, then they all have a credibility problem. Moses had said long before that if anyone speaking in the name of the Lord called for something to happen, and it did not happen as described, then that person should be considered a false prophet and disregarded. Even if Moses had not said this, does not common sense tell us not to believe someone who cries “Wolf” when there is no wolf? (And if the excuse was, “Well, a wolf could still come at some indeterminate time in the future,” who would accept such an excuse?)
What then is the explanation? Simple: Jesus Christ had come the first time in the flesh as a man; He came the second time in the spirit as God. Even though Jesus had said that His kingdom was not coming with signs to be observed, some people still expected a physical manifestation. How foolish we can be!
Ironically, some churches will chide the Jews for missing Christ’s first coming when these same churches missed His second coming. And for what reason is either coming
missed? Unbelief. The bulk of Christians and Jews do not believe the very Lord in whom they hope! Nevertheless, some do believe…and the Lord knows who you are.
Think of it this way: Jesus came the first time as the Son; He came the second time as the Father. We could see the Son because He became flesh and blood…like us. We cannot see the Father because God is spirit. That is to say, He is invisible to flesh and blood. The prophet Isaiah who said hundreds of years before Christ (and whose words were echoed in Handel’s Messiah) that a Son would be given to us (Isaiah 9:6), in that same breath said that one of this Son’s names would be “the Everlasting Father.” Thus, the Son is the Father. And we should not be surprised at this because it is the destiny of sons to become fathers. And could it ever be fitting for the greatest heir of Abraham to be childless?
Jesus came again just when He said He would. Though no man knows the day or hour, we can know it had to have been in the late 1st Century A.D. because that is within a generation of His crucifixion and resurrection – and that is what He promised.
The prophets of Israel – including Jesus and His apostles – can be trusted. The kingdom of God has come just as they said it would. God is among us. This gives His name “Immanuel” more meaning than ever. Worship Him! He delights in the praises of His people and He delivers them from all evil. Receive and rejoice in your “everlasting Father.”
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The Biblical Case for the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact
Description: Contrary to many opinions, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is not something future and physical – rather it is something past and spiritual. Extensive explanation of the relevant Bible passages will demonstrate that the Second Coming of Christ occurred just when Jesus and His apostles said it would – in the 1st Century A.D. Jesus Christ is God, and the Second Coming is an outworking of that reality.
The Duty of a Man 
Wrong. Jesus is the Son. He is the Word who was with God in the beginning, who became flesh.. He is not the Father, and Jesus made that clear, and the Father and the Son are not the Spirit. These are three individual persons in the Godhead. They are three different persons acting separately in one accord as one God. Jesus would not be sitting at the right-hand of the Father if he was the Father. That is judaism talking, not Christianity or Christ.
What you are talking is Trinitarianism, not Christianity or Christ.
Every day that I read the bible, I find more evidence for this to be true. Your books got me started and then opening the bible to find the truth for myself has made this theory go from possible to factual for me. I am fully convinced that He has come. I was reading Revelation 22 yesterday with your audio help and you compared Daniel’s vision to Johns. In Daniel 12:4 it says “conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time” and in Rev 22:10 it says “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time in near.” How can we think there would be more time from Johns vision until the end/ until He comes then Daniels? Thank you for sharing what you have learned. I am learning so much from you. I still have a lot to learn, but thank you for answering my questions.
At times like these, I love identifying with the Samaritan woman in John 4:39-42. That is, I receive your words as she received the words of her fellow Samaritans in verse 42.
May all faith in God be built on the words of Jesus Christ.
Honestly, I don’t see the point of this inquiry. In my opinion, Jesus or any other prophets mean nothing. In fact, most if not all Western religions are concentrated on “saving your soul”, instead of doing any real work concerning the evolution of consciousness. Why follow Jesus or any other deity when WE have the same power within us? WE are God!
JR,
You are greatly mistaken – so much so, that it’s hard for me to know where to start with you. What makes you think “we are God’ and who do you think is ‘we’? How do you define “the evolution of consciousness,” and what makes you think it’s more important than saving your soul? And why do you think Jesus means nothing, especially given the extraordinary life He lived?
All of your questions still don’t mean anything. You’re in a system that has conditioned you through many generations to think the way you are. I don’t fault you. At time, I lived the same way. I never found peace through Christ, especially after Afghanistan. I had to stop looking for some external salvation that wasn’t coming, and start finding something that actually works. I have done my research and due diligence and have contemplated the existence of God. If you’re getting all of your answers from one book, that is good enough. Psalm 82:06. I will not respond any further. Blessed be.
His commandments say OTHERWISE. There are NO other Gods. YOU ARE NOT GOD, OR A GOD!!
If you never found peace through Christ then you never found Christ.
As for Ps 82:6, read the two verses that follow it as well and see that Jesus is God because He was the first to rise from the dead – and He rose to judge the nations, which He is doing now.
Jeremiah 10:10