No 7

(The Second Coming of Jesus Christ)

“And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True….and His name is called The Word of God and the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean” (Rev 19 : 11 – 14). The long-awaited Second Coming of Jesus Christ will finally occur; of course, this will be the First Coming for the Jews. But, as they say, it is never too late to do good – “and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced” (Zech 12 : 10) – the Jews will finally recognize the true Messiah, the One they have been waiting for. There has been a lot of controversy over Jesus’ Second Coming and how it applies to the Church and Israel. The best way to see the Second Coming is to see it happening in two phases. A two-phase return makes sense if the first phase (for the Church – 1 Thess 4:16) could happen at any time and the second phase (for Israel – see above) happens at a definite pre-signalled time after all the events as described in Revelation 6 to 18. Regardless of what position we take, the real hope for all believers is that, one day, we will be with Him for eternity and that is the promise that Jesus made to His disciples in the gospel of John chapter 14 verses 1 to 6 “…I will come again and receive you unto Myself that where I am, there ye may be also”. Instead of defending our preferred eschatological position and wasting all that energy, why don’t we go door to door or on street corners or in shopping malls to tell people that Jesus is “..the Way, the Truth and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Him”?