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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