The Second Coming...

[thinkfreelivefree]

Do you believe Jesus will return in your lifetime?

 

[Digit]

I have no idea. Scripture says that the Lord will come like a thief in the night - meaning that no one will suspect or realise until it's too late that it's happening. So I truly don't know.

Sorry if that's not very helpful.

Digit

 

[Whitestone]

One thing I know for sure is that His coming is closer than I fear and further than I can hope for.

 

[tapero]

Do you believe Jesus will return in your lifetime?

Hope so!

can only hope as of course none of us know.

 

[Gukkor]

I don't know if He'll come back in my lifetime. I'm not even sure if He'll ever come back in a literal, "hey guys, I'm back" sense. That is the Father's business, not mine.

 

[calidog]

He is definately coming back bodily. Hope it's in my lifetime.

 

[ContentInHim]

Yes! If I live long enough!

 

[dvd_holc]

I hope not...because it is like honey on the lips but bitter in the belly. and also, I want to work more before that the trumphet is blown.

 

[GreenMunchkin]

I really, really hope so. Really, really, really And, yes, he's definitely coming back in the literal, physical, tangible, bodily sense Yay! Seriously, it's gonna be awesome!

 

[MelissaShae]

I hope he comes back in my lifetime. What a wonderful way to meet the Lord!!

 

[ebia]

Do you believe Jesus will return in your lifetime?

Seems unlikely.

 

[xtianne]

Just a suggestion maybe you guys should try the book "Heaven is so Real" by Choo Thomas..ü

 

[thinkfreelivefree]

Just a suggestion maybe you guys should try the book "Heaven is so Real" by Choo Thomas..ü

Synopsis?

 

[ContentInHim]

Your understanding is incorrect.

 

[dbot]

Do you believe Jesus will return in your lifetime?

I really hope not. I wanna have a full life where I do stuff and then die. If in the next minute, Jesus came back, I'd probably be a little angry.

"No you wouldnt!" some would tell me

Yes, I would. I feel like God has been putting me through a whole lot of stuff for him to call the game early.

But to answer your question of do I think he will, I would wager probably not. People have been saying that he will all the way back to his own disciples, and will probably keep saying it up until whenever or however he does.

 

[ebia]

Not by taking a figure of speech and treating it as a literally factual description.

If I describe something as "an earth shattering event" I don't literally mean it was an earthquake. The author of 1st Thes. is describing the 2nd coming and resurrection in an equivalent way.

 

[x0xJesusIsLovex0x]

i totally HOPE so. that would be awesome!
but i do believe He'll come during someone lifetime, hope i'm in it!

 

[dbot]

I totally agree with your reponse. But how do Christians who don't believe in the Second Coming that way, see this verse?

16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

I think perhaps some would view that verse, and the entire book of revelation, not as a foretelling of things to come, but rather as a message of hope, saying that God will always be there for his followers, and nothing in all of the universe can stand against him. Thats a far less literal interpretation

 

[jive4005]

Do you believe Jesus will return in your lifetime?

I think not, but I'm not taking any chances. I'm ready now!

His,
Rev J

 

[gmd]

Since Jesus came physically the first time I truly believe that is the way He will return. The angels told the apostles as they watched Him ascend into heaven, Why do you stand there and watch don't you know He will return the same way. That might not been their exact words but close enough.
I hope it is in my lifetime as I haven been trying to make myself ready but no one knows the hour