Second Advent

Most people do not want to appear in court. Although some criminals manage to go unpunished by earthly tribunals, they will not escape God’s judgment (2 Tim. 4:1). The final “reward” is inevitable. I. The Context In Revelation 19 Christ’s second coming is described in symbolic terms (v. 6-11). Th...

Blaise Pascal, supposedly, stated that all he knew was that we would die soon. Indeed nothing in human life is ascertain as death. However, death is not an end in itself (John 3:16). There is a resurrection. Some people claim that the concept of a resurrection is clearly unacceptable and unbeliev...

Humans are interested in the future. They must plan ahead. So they check weather predictions. Economists must guess what future developments could bring about so that correct choices can be made today. How should money be invested? Futurology has become an important tool. Since people are interes...

The idea of the end of the world or the invasion of planet earth by extraterrestrial beings has repeatedly been the topic of popular films. Already in 1974 a film about the second coming of Christ in the form of a documentary frightened hundreds of Canadians. Obviously many viewers regarded the b...

The date is a day in the near future. The place, a Boeing 747 over the Atlantic on its way to London Heathrow. Most passengers are sleeping or dozing. Suddenly almost half the passengers disappear into thin air. First one, then another of the remaining passengers cries out as they realize their s...

R. Roberts is the senior pastor of the Loma Linda University Church. He has written an excellent book about the delay of the Christ’s Second Coming and the problems of time setting or giving up the hope. Neither is an option for sincere believers. Although the book is not a scholarly study of maj...

Seventh-day Adventist confess with their name that they believe in Jesus' soon return. I would like to take a look at Revelation and ask what this book tells us about the second coming of Jesus. First, I will focus on the most important words connected to the second coming. Then I will evaluate this data.

Although elements of the current futurist-dispensationalist system of prophetic interpretation are found as far back as the early church fathers (second-third centuries A.D.) and the Catholic counter-reformation (16th century), it was first formulated and promulgated in the 1830s and onward by a ...