Kinda sorta maybe. There are many comings.
The classic reformed position used to be Jesus comes at many times in many ways for many purposes. What has become known as "The Second Coming" has become a matter of great debate....
beginning in the mid-1800s. Jesus came to the disciples at Pentecost, he came to Saul on the road to Damascus. He came in judgment against Israel in 70 a.d. He has come to each of us in our conversion from death to life. He comes many time in many ways for many purposes. Prior to that everyone generally understood Christ was coming at the end to wrap up history but the historicists, the amils, and the post mills saw that playing out differently. It is only the pre-trib literal earthly kingdom two-plan folks (Dispensationalists) who see it differently. Do a study of the phrase "coming on the clouds" or anything having to do with God and clouds and you'll see that the Bible interprets that concept for us.
Here's a question that stumps a lot of people: In Hebrews 9:28 the original readers were told Jesus was going to come
for a salvation that had nothing to do with sin. What, exactly, is a salvation apart from sin? This verse is the closest you'll come to reading of a "second coming." It is an assumption that the angel's mention of Jesus' return and the mention in Heb. 9 and all the other mentions are about one single singular event. Scripture never actually states any such thing.
The problem with appeals to Acts 1:11 are that they don't well reconcile with the description in the last half of Rev. 19. In Acts one Jesus was all warm and fuzzy. He'd just told them it wasn't time for them to know when the kingdom would be restored to Israel and he promised them the Holy Spirit, and then he's taken up to heaven by two angels. In Rev. 19 he's coming with a sword in the mouth and an army full of death and destruction.
That is
not the way he left.
Acts 1:11
"They also said, 'Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.'"
So either the angel was wrong and Jesus is coming in a different way than when he left or there are at least two different comings. When he comes with an army to set up an earthly kingdom that definitely has something to do with sin so the whole Dispensational paradigm of Jesus ruling from a throne in Jerusalem is al about sin; it's designed to bring the Israel to repentance and Christ's blood so logic tells us it can't be related to Heb. 9:28 when Jesus comes apart from sin.
Hebrews 9:27-28
"And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him."
The Greek literally states, "...
for a second time apart from sin will appear to those awaiting him for salvation." That's the Greek transliteration (and it's that way in both textus receptus and Westcott and Hort). That text was written to those who were "awaiting him" in the first century.
What, exactly, is a salvation apart from sin?
