Second Coming of Christ

The ancient Jewish wedding system paints a beautiful picture of the coming wedding between the Lord Jesus Christ and his bride, the church. According to Jewish wedding customs, during the time of Jesus’ earthly ministry, the bridegroom came at a day and hour that his bride did not know. As he came, the friends of the bridegroom went before him and shouted, “Behold, the bridegroom comes.” This shout would be accompanied by the blowing of a shofar-a trumpet made from a ram’s horn. As the shout…

the decree to reconstruct Jerusalem. God revealed to Daniel that there would be sixty-nine seven periods, i.e. 483 years, from the time the order to rebuild Jerusalem and the coming of the Messiah, the anointed. I concur with Miller’s description, “Christians have traditionally identified this "Anointed One" as Jesus Christ, who is called in the New Testament both king and priest” . There are differences of opinion as to the exact time the 483 years began. Some say 538 B.C., when Cyrus' decree…

The scripture mention the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven; therefore, I will disagree to the first kind. Jesus will reign on the new earth. 19 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared And the sea was also gone. And I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. So he took me in the Spirit to a…

spirit is judged immediately and is assigned to either paradise or spirit prison. Paradise allows the soul peace and rest but spirit prison is the opposite. Spirit prison denies the soul rest. Those in paradise must wait until the times of Christ’s second coming to earth to move to the next phase. In the next phase of judgment, the deceased will be sent to one of the three heavens or degrees of glory described by Joseph Smith. The highest heaven is the Celestial Kingdom; this is where those who…

24:4-5) “Jesus answered: watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, I am the Messiah, and will deceive many.” We can see that if it started in the beginning, then the antichrist will show his ugliness until the coming of Christ. He is understood to be a figure of terrible evil and a threat to all mankind. He is seen today to be focus mainly on Jewish people. This may be based on a wrong perception of (Daniel 9:27) that states, “he will confirm a covenant with…

The pain, suffering, oppression experienced in the world today is not new or unique, but it has been manifested in different ways throughout human history. This reality, in part, is what gives the message of the Bible a timeless quality and relevance in the lives of Christians today. Overtime, however, something has been lost. The power of the story of God and His people has been robbed of its promise and power. Brueggemann writes, “The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to…

There are those who believe in the Amillennialism reign in which they call themselves an “amillennialist”. Most of these people do not believe that there is a Christ who will come here and set up rule on the earth and reign for 1000 years. What they have been taught to believe is that Christ will just simply come to earth, judge people for whatever their lives are based on or how they have lived, then establish what they will know as the new heaven and the new earth. For these people there will…

answers to questions concerning the future. We are enamored with knowing what is coming over the next horizon so it is no wonder that many people who read the Bible do so to get an insiders glimpse on what tomorrow holds. And in a very general, but meaningful way, we are told what the future holds for humanity. Those who are found in Christ have an eternal hope of glory to look forward to and those who reject the Christ are destined for an eternal separation from all this is good and godly. That…

local time, with the Rapture sweeping across the globe, time zone by time zone. The vast majority of Christian groups did not accept Camping’s predictions. Some even explicitly rejected them, citing Bible passages including the words of Jesus Christ stating “about that day or hour no one knows” (Matthew 24:36). Following the failure of the prediction, media attention shifted to Camping’s response. On May 23rd, he stated that May 21st, had been a “spiritual” day of judgement and the…

for the purpose of Christ’s Second Coming. Many Puritans had similar beliefs as Calvinists. Their idea was God predetermined everything. There was nothing anyone can do to change anything because God already put it in stone. The Puritans preached an apocalyptic message stating the end will occur after the abomination, which is the Catholic Church, is destroyed. Some people are also labelled as Postmillennialist. Postmillennialists beliefs were towards the coming Kingdom of God. They…