The Second Coming of Christ

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Jesus is coming back soon! Why is your church not preaching and talking about it? All the signs are around us that we are in the last of the last days. Why have many churches abandoned end-time teaching? It is not seeker-friendly, eh? Afraid we might scare people? If we are not teaching end-time teaching right now, then we are not teaching anything! How is a church really a church when end-time teaching is avoided? The second coming is so close, it is so important, and the word of God is permeated with Scripture concerning the end-times. Jesus wants us to look for and hasten His coming:

“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?”

(2 Peter 3:11-12 King James Version)

Stay away from churches that won’t teach about the second coming of Christ. These are apostate churches. Stay well clear of amillennial and postmillennial teachers. The Bible teaches premillennialism which means that Christ returns before the thousand-year reign of Christ on earth. It is so clear in the Bible:

“And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.”

(Revelation 20:2-7)

The pre-tribulation rapture is also in the Bible, which means that the church will be raptured before the seven-year period before Christ’s return.

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

(1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)

“And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.”

(2 Thessalonians 2:6-8)

We need to be teaching on the rapture, the tribulation, the antichrist, the mark of the beast, and so on. These are all important events and they are all future tense! It’s happening soon! This is very exciting, and also very fearful; we need to warn people! The antichrist is just about here; it’s that close!

Repent, if you are not ready for His coming. Repent, if you are not mindful of end-time things. Repent, if you have not been including the second coming of Christ in your preaching or teaching. How can people be ready if you won’t even teach on it? How sad!

This will be an even bigger event than Noah’s flood, or the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah! And time is just about up; it’s the final count down to the coming of Christ. If people say, “ah, they’ve been saying that for thousands of years; nobody knows when Jesus is coming back”, stay well clear. They are only saying this because they are worldly and they don’t want Jesus to come back soon:

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

(2 Peter 3:3-9)

If Jesus came back today worldly people would not be ready. They would be like lot’s wife:

“And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”

(Genesis 19:25-26)

“In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

Remember Lot’s wife.”

(Luke 17:31-32)

Jesus knows those who are really living for Him and those who are just faking it!

“Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

(2 Timothy 2:19)

“Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.”

(Luke 12:40)

“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”

(Revelation 22:12)