Featured Reasons for the 2nd Coming of Christ

Just as His promise was to send another comforter, so too is the promise of the future millennial reign.

Personally, the greatest fulfillment is the promise of being like Him.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. (1 John)
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(Personal note: John my wife and I have been singing “Let the Sun Shine Again,” for the last week. Just can’t get it out of our heads!).

For those who don’t know this little song of a repentant believer by John’s grandad, here is a version.

 

Colossians 3 was at the end also.

1Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.​

 

I believe in a literal second coming of Jesus in order to complete what he began at His first coming when He began His Kingdom reign.
He left the church with the honor and responsibility to serve in the spreading of the Kingdom worldwide. We see this in part of the words of Hebrews 2;
5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

This great commission task is given to redeemed man as the Kingdom goes worldwide.

The gospel goes from sea to sea....
psalm72;
72 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

Then comes the end;
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.

28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Here is a blog that this believer offered online...it speaks to the mission of the church leading to the second coming.
Tarheel Covenant Blog: The Mission of the Church: Our Marching Orders

 

John 14
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

This is a wonderful promise even during my times of physical suffering (age related) I am uplifted and joyful.

HankD

 

(1) Romans 8:19 NKJV For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. (Which I believe to be at the coming of the Lord) “nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. Luke 20:36 NKJV For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. 1 Thes 4:14 Even so, at the resurrection at the coming of the Lord

Who/what will benefit? Romans 8:21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

(2) Acts 15:16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: --- I will return. The second coming.

Benefit.

V 17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

The creation itself shall benefit in the new heavens and new earth.

 

John of Japan,

A full preterist would need to answer that.

Partial preterists see it as similar to this coming described in Isaiah 19;
Isaiah 19King James Version (KJV)
19 The burden of Egypt.
Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud,
and shall come into Egypt:

John does this need to be a pre -incarnate appearance? Or does this "coming" manifest in the form of judgments upon the land and the people.

and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence,

again....how would you explain His presence here??? literal, metaphorical, and yet having literal judgments in view?
and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

If these judgments were the Curses of Deut28-33 being brought upon national Israel God would be glorified in keeping the promises of the Covenant....both blessing,[to the covenant keepers]
and cursing[to the Covenant breakers]
Deut29:
19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

20 The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

21 And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

27 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

28 And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

 

He will also come in Judgement on unbelievers.

 

• John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

 

Do you view this as only the words spoken during His earthly ministry, or do you have all the Scripture given from "In the beginning" to last word, "Amen"?