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The Good News of the Second Coming of Christ

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The Good News of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ

The Good News of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ

The Good News of the Gospel is both radically exclusive—salvation is found only through faith in Jesus Christ—and radically inclusive—everyone who believes in Christ and asks Christ to become the center of a new life, no matter their background or history, will be saved! The vision we have of the future—the promise of Jesus’s second coming—is for everyone who believes and by faith follows in the steps of the Master.

The promise of the new life, the fruit of the Second Coming of Jesus, is something that is more glorious than anything any human can imagine. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard what the matchless love of God has prepared for His children. Share the Good News!

If Jesus can save the wretched and sinful like us from perdition, who can He not save? That’s Good News– that the Gospel can save a wretch like me!

Promise of the Second Coming of Jesus

This promise has been the heart of the Christian witness in the world for two thousand years and was first announced in the garden of Eden, in Genesis 3. It has been a source of hope and comfort as Christians have and continue to face genuine persecution, suffering, and strife (Waldenses, Christians in Iran, North Korea and China).

But it’s not just a promise to sustain us in persecution. It’s a promise for right now. The hope of Jesus’s return acts as a balm that soothes the soul when compared to the false promises, delusions and deceptions of the world. The false promises of power, reputation, and wealth—the source of so much of the moral rot, is not what the Word of God promises. The Gospel promises the blood of the slain Lamb of God to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

This promise challenges us to see those things for what they are: to see worldliness as worthless compared to the surpassing riches of Christ (Phil. 3:7-8). Other-centeredness, not self-centeredness, should shape how we live in the world (Titus 2:11-14).

What We Know About the Second Coming of Jesus Christ

What does the Bible say about Jesus’s return and everything that happens after? We know that:

  • The Second Coming will be unexpected, like a thief in the night.  (Matt. 24:44)
  • The whole world will notice and see Him. (Matt. 24:30-31)
  • Jesus will have a physical body (Matt. 24–25)
  • His power and glory will be fully seen (Matt. 24:30)
  • Jesus will judge the righteous and the unrighteous (Matt. 25:31-46)
  • Only the Father knows when that will be, the time and the hour (Matt. 24:36)
  • There will be no more sin, sorrow, death or tears, for the old things has passed away

When Jesus returns, all of creation will be made new (2 Peter 3:13). We will have new bodies, glorified, forever free from the effects of sin that plague us today (Rom. 8:22-23; Phil. 3:20-21).

Sadly, at the coming of Christ, the wicked are blotted from the face of the whole earth, consumed with the Spirit of His mouth and destroyed by the brightness of His glory. Christ takes His people to the city of God and the earth is emptied of its inhabitants.

The redeemed raise a song of praise that echoes and reechoes through the vaults of heaven: “Salvation to our God which sits upon the throne and unto the Lamb.”

Above the throne of God is revealed the cross; and like a panoramic view appear the scenes of Adam’s temptation and fall and the successive steps in the great plan of redemptio

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The Good News of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ

The Good News of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ

The Good News of the Gospel is both radically exclusive—salvation is found only through faith in Jesus Christ—and radically inclusive—everyone who believes in Christ and asks Christ to become the center of a new life, no matter their background or history, will be saved! The vision we have of the future—the promise of Jesus’s second coming—is for everyone who believes and by faith follows in the steps of the Master.

The promise of the new life, the fruit of the Second Coming of Jesus, is something that is more glorious than anything any human can imagine. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard what the matchless love of God has prepared for His children. Share the Good News!

If Jesus can save the wretched and sinful like us from perdition, who can He not save? That’s Good News– that the Gospel can save a wretch like me!

Promise of the Second Coming of Jesus

This promise has been the heart of the Christian witness in the world for two thousand years and was first announced in the garden of Eden, in Genesis 3. It has been a source of hope and comfort as Christians have and continue to face genuine persecution, suffering, and strife (Waldenses, Christians in Iran, North Korea and China).

But it’s not just a promise to sustain us in persecution. It’s a promise for right now. The hope of Jesus’s return acts as a balm that soothes the soul when compared to the false promises, delusions and deceptions of the world. The false promises of power, reputation, and wealth—the source of so much of the moral rot, is not what the Word of God promises. The Gospel promises the blood of the slain Lamb of God to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

This promise challenges us to see those things for what they are: to see worldliness as worthless compared to the surpassing riches of Christ (Phil. 3:7-8). Other-centeredness, not self-centeredness, should shape how we live in the world (Titus 2:11-14).

What We Know About the Second Coming of Jesus Christ

What does the Bible say about Jesus’s return and everything that happens after? We know that:

  • The Second Coming will be unexpected, like a thief in the night.  (Matt. 24:44)
  • The whole world will notice and see Him. (Matt. 24:30-31)
  • Jesus will have a physical body (Matt. 24–25)
  • His power and glory will be fully seen (Matt. 24:30)
  • Jesus will judge the righteous and the unrighteous (Matt. 25:31-46)
  • Only the Father knows when that will be, the time and the hour (Matt. 24:36)
  • There will be no more sin, sorrow, death or tears, for the old things has passed away

When Jesus returns, all of creation will be made new (2 Peter 3:13). We will have new bodies, glorified, forever free from the effects of sin that plague us today (Rom. 8:22-23; Phil. 3:20-21).

Sadly, at the coming of Christ, the wicked are blotted from the face of the whole earth, consumed with the Spirit of His mouth and destroyed by the brightness of His glory. Christ takes His people to the city of God and the earth is emptied of its inhabitants.

The redeemed raise a song of praise that echoes and reechoes through the vaults of heaven: “Salvation to our God which sits upon the throne and unto the Lamb.”

Above the throne of God is revealed the cross; and like a panoramic view appear the scenes of Adam’s temptation and fall and the successive steps in the great plan of redemption. The final scenes are revealed, Christ, the patient sufferer treading the path to Calvary, the Prince of heaven hanging upon the cross, the haughty priests and the jeering rabble deriding His expiring agony, the supernatural darkness, the heaving earth, the rent rocks the open graves, marking the moment when the world’s Redeemer yielded up His life.

My friend, Jesus paid the price for you and me. That is the Good News!

One day soon, we will cast our crowns at the Savior’s feet, exclaiming: “He died for me!” Before the universe has been clearly presented the great sacrifice made by the Father and the Son in man’s behalf. He endured the cross and despised the shame. Inconceivably great as was the sorrow and the shame, yet greater is the joy and glory. He looks upon the redeemed, renewed in His own image, every heart bearing the perfect impress of the divine, every face reflecting the likeness of their King. He beholds in them the result of the travail of His soul, and Jesus is satisfied.

“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.” Revelation 5:12

“My people will live in peaceful dwelling places,
in secure homes,
in undisturbed places of rest.

No longer will violence be heard in your land,
nor ruin or destruction within your borders,
but you will call your walls Salvation
and your gates Praise.

They will build houses and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.” Isaiah 32:18, 60:18, 65:21,22

“Pain cannot exist in the atmosphere of heaven. There will be no more tears, no funeral trains, no badges of mourning. “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” Revelation 21:4

In heaven, the grandest enterprises may be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations reached, the highest ambitions realized; and still there will arise new heights to surmount, new wonders to admire, new truths to comprehend, fresh objects to call forth the powers of mind and soul and body. All the treasures of the universe will be open to the study of God’s redeemed.

One day soon the great controversy will end. Sin and sinners will be no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love.” GC 677

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