Rejoice: JESUS IS COMING BACK!
“Looking
for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God
and our Saviour Jesus Christ”
-Titus
2:13 [KJV]
When
the Lord saved me, many years ago, it seemed that at every Christian
meeting I attended they were speaking about the Second Coming of
Jesus. I don’t hear so much about that wonderful subject
anymore unless, that is, the meeting has to do with End Time Bible
Prophesy. Even then, the emphasis is not usually on the Lord
Jesus but about supposed events and geographical predictions.
However, mark it down, write it large in your heart: Jesus
Christ IS coming
back in person and in power!
Jesus
is coming back!!
Listen to what He announced to His
disciples late in His earthly ministry. He said, “Let
not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in Me.
In My
Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have
told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I
will come again,
and receive you unto Myself;
that where I am, there you may be also”
(John
14:1-3).
“I
will come again!” What a wonderful promise.
The
truth of the Lord’s return is a comfort to every believer. As this
filthy age seems to be hurtling swiftly to its doom, here’s
something to think about … Jesus is coming back! Surely this
is enough to inspire us when we are downhearted and
discouraged?
Jesus is coming back!
In
Hebrews 9:28 we read, “So
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that
look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto
salvation.”
His
first coming was to settle the sin question; in His second coming He
will reveal His Glory, Person and Majesty. In the meantime, we are
waiting for and looking for Him.
Jesus is coming
back!
He’ll return suddenly and certainly.
Jesus
really is coming back.
There’s an old story about a
young couple who were in love and planned to marry. He was a
fisherman who made his living from the sea and he, because of his
occupation, was forced to be gone for long periods. On one
occasion, when it was time for his return, he didn’t come back.
After many long weeks everyone in the little village accepted the
fact that he had been lost at sea … something not highly unusual in
those days. Everyone thought he would never be seen again …
everyone, that is, except his bride to be.
Every day she
would go down to the harbour and squint her eyes, looking out on the
horizon in hopes of catching sight of her fiancé’s familiar ship.
It never came.
After a time, something happened to her
sight; she started to go blind. Nevertheless, she continued her daily
trips to the docks. The town’s people laughed at and mocked her
calling her “the Blind Watcher.”
One day, however, a
ship sailed into the harbor. Her fiancé had returned. It
seems a storm had wrecked his vessel on an island, and it had taken
him months to repair it and make it seaworthy again. The
bridegroom had returned.
Those of us who are looking for
the return of the Lord Jesus have been ridiculed, mocked and sneered
at, but one of these days the skies will be split as lightning coming
out of the east and flashing to the west and the Lord Jesus, the
mighty God, will appear (Matthew
24:27; Titus 2:13).
His
return is a promise!
It
is a promise of God! It is a promise, which, like all His
promises, He will most certainly keep.
And that’s the
Gospel Truth!
-preacher D. G. Miles McKee
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