In these increasingly darkening turbulent times, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is
especially dear to the Christian. It is this present glorious hope, not some fleeting earthly
agenda, that encourages believers to be “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter
of [the] faith” (Heb. 12:2). The Apostle John encourages us today, not just his immediate
addressees, to anticipate this climactic event. “We know that when He appears, we shall
be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is” (I John 3:2). Here is no promise of
some mystical, unreported or unobserved revelation of Christ, as some preterists might
suggest concerning 70 AD, but the one who John earlier described as He who was “from
the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have
looked at and touched with our hands [following His resurrection], concerning the Word
of Life” (I John 1:1). This is the Jesus who John observed ascending into a cloud and then
received the angelic promise that this same Jesus “will come in just the same way as you
have watched Him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). This is indeed the glory of futurism... (Read or download the whole document).
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God...(Acts 20:26,27). “Come now, let us reason together...” (Isaiah 1:18).
