The claim
He Will Return
Jesus is coming back.
"This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."
Acts 1:6-11 · Acts 17:30-31 · 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 · Revelation 22:12-21
The scene
After his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples over forty days.
Then they watched him leave.
As they stood looking into the sky, two men in white clothing said:
"You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."Acts 1:11
Jesus had just told them they weren't going to be given a date:
"It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority."Acts 1:7
And the date isn't the whole subject.
Paul told people in Athens:
"The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."Acts 17:30-31
Jesus will judge the world in righteousness.
Writing to Christians in Thessalonica, Paul says:
"For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. For when they are saying, 'Peace and safety,' then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape."1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
"But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. You are all children of light and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness, so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober."1 Thessalonians 5:4-6
He tells them to put on faith and love, and the hope of salvation:
"For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him."1 Thessalonians 5:9-10
Near the end of Revelation, Jesus says:
"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work."Revelation 22:12
Almost at the end of the Bible:
"He who testifies these things says, 'Yes, I am coming soon.'"Revelation 22:20
The point
His return brings judgment and salvation.
Sit with this
Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus!Revelation 22:20