Everybody is talking about December 2012. They ought to worry about Revelation 20:12! Where the Bible says: And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
1. We can’t be sure about what is going to happen on December 2012, but we can be perfectly sure about Revelation 20:12.
2. There may be death and dying in December 2012, but in Revelation 20:12 the dead will be raised, the small and the great!
3. In December 2012 they are telling us the contents of some ancient books will be revealed. Supposedly these books contain our future. But in Revelation 20:12, God’s record books will be opened, containing all the works we have done in our life. We will come face to face with our past!
4. December 2012 is described in several ancient books as a day of death. Revelation 20:12 tells us that there is a Book Of Life that will be opened. On its pages are the names of the saved of all ages. These are they who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
5. When December 2012 comes, we are told that no one is safe. Young and old, rich and poor alike will all be in great danger. Few will survive. Revelation 20:12 gives quite a different picture, for God will judge every man fairly and justly according to their works.
The more I think about it, the more I think I like Revelation 20:12. It sounds like God. He is just. He is fair. He is considerate.
The more I think about it, the more I think that December 2012 sounds like a man-made thing. It just smells like men made it up.
It just feels like it is created by man.
God was just when he judged the world by a flood in the days of Noah. Not only did he punish the wicked of the day, but he was very careful to deliver righteous Noah and his family. Though all the earth was drowned, God provided the ark, so that anyone who believed the Word of God could be saved. It is not amazing to me that God flooded the world. What IS amazing to me is how few people believed God and got on the boat.
God was just when he judged Sodom and Gomorrah by sending fire and brimstone down from Heaven and burying the city beneath a pile of rubble. But he was very careful to send two angels to deliver Just Lot and his family before the destruction. Yes, God was angry, and rightly so, but you have to admit, he provided a way of escape for any who believed the Word of God. I am not amazed that God destroyed Sodom. Rather, I am amazed that Lot’s wife turned back. I am amazed that his daughters still committed incest after seeing the judgment of God on all their friends.
No, December 2012 does not have the fingerprint of God upon it. Get out your magnifying glass and look closely. It has man’s fingerprints all over it. It is a total fabrication of man.
Revelation 20:12 is God’s day of judgment, and you can rest assured that he will be fair and equitable. That is the day of the Lord. You will be glad on judgment day if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, for if you have, you will have mercy and pardon. If you haven’t, you only have a certain awful waiting for of impending doom.
Oh, be saved today. Throw away your silly pride. Stop doubting, and start trusting in Jesus. He is the only way, the only Truth, and the only life.
The common theme in conspiracy theories about a 2012 New World Order is that a powerful and secretive elite of globalists is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an autonomous world government, which would replace sovereign nation-states and put an end to international power struggles. Significant occurrences in politics and finance are speculated to be orchestrated by an extremely influential cabal operating through many front organizations. Numerous historical and current events are seen as steps in an on-going plot to achieve world domination through secret political gatherings and decision-making processes.
Prior to the early 1990s, New World Order conspiracism was limited to two American subcultures, primarily the militantly anti-government right, and secondarily fundamentalist Christians concerned with end-time emergence of the Antichrist. Skeptics, such as political scientist Michael Barkun, have expressed concern that right-wing conspiracy theories about a New World Order have now not only been embraced by many left-wing conspiracy theorists but have seeped into popular culture, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. They warn that this development may not only fuel lone-wolf terrorism but have devastating effects on American political life, such as the far right and the far left joining forces to launch an insurrectionary national-anarchist movement capable of subverting the established political powers.
History of the term
During the 20th century, many statesmen, such as Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill, used the term “new world order” to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power after World War I and World War II. They all saw these periods as opportunities to implement idealistic (or ultra-imperialist) proposals for global governance only in the sense of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve. These proposals led to the creation of international organizations, such as the United Nations and N.A.T.O., and international regimes, such as the Bretton Woods system and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which were calculated both to maintain a balance of power as well as regularize cooperation between nations. These creations in particular and internationalism in general, however, would always be criticized and opposed by American paleoconservatives on isolationist grounds and by neoconservatives on benevolent imperalist grounds.
In the aftermath of the two World Wars, progressives welcomed these new international organizations and regimes but argued they suffered from a democratic deficit and therefore were inadequate to not only prevent another global war but also foster global justice. Thus, activists around the globe formed a world federalist movement bent on creating a “real” new world order. A number of intellectuals of the reformist left, such as British writer H. G. Wells in the 1940s, adopted and redefined the term “new world order” as a synonym for the establishment of a full-fledged social democratic world government.
In reaction, conspiracy theorists of the American secular and Christian right during the Red Scare of 1947–57, who embraced and mongered unfounded fears of Masonic, Illuminati, and Jewish conspiracies to achieve world communism, began misinterpreting any use of term “new world order” by members of the Establishment, even when they were simply acknowledging a change in the international balance of power, as a call for the imposition of a state atheistic and bureaucratic collectivist world government, which controls the means of production, while the surplus (“profit”) is distributed among a ruling class of bureaucrats, rather than among the working class.
In the 1960s, a great deal of right-wing conspiracist attention focused on the United Nations as the vehicle for creating the “One World Government”, and contributed to a conservative movement for United States withdrawal from the U.N.. American writer Mary M. Davison, in her 1966 booklet The Profound Revolution, traced the alleged New World Order conspiracy to the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve System in 1913 by international bankers, who she claimed later formed the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921 as the shadow government. At the time the booklet was published, “international bankers” would have been interpreted by many readers as a reference to a postulated “international Jewish banking conspiracy” masterminded by the Rothschilds and Rockefellers.
Claiming that the term “New World Order” is used by a secretive elite dedicated to the destruction of all national sovereignties, American producerist journalist Gary Allen, in his 1974 book Rockefeller: Campaigning for the New World Order and 1987 book Say “No!” to the New World Order, articulated the anti-globalist theme of much current right-wing conspiracism in the U.S.. Thus, during the 1990s, the main demonized scapegoat of groups within the American far right, such as the John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby, shifted seamlessly from crypto-communists who plotted on behalf of the “Red Menace” to globalists who plot on behalf of the New World Order. The relatively painless nature of the shift was due to growing right-wing opposition to the globalization of capitalism but also in part to the basic underlying apocalyptic millenarian paradigm, which fed the Cold War and the witch-hunts of the McCarthy period.
In his 11 September 1990 Toward a New World Order speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, President George H. W. Bush described his ideals for post-Cold-War global governance in cooperation with post-Soviet states:
Until now, the world we’ve known has been a world divided – a world of barbed wire and concrete block, conflict and cold war. Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a “world order” in which “the principles of justice and fair play … protect the weak against the strong …” A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders. A world in which freedom and respect for human rights find a home among all nations.
Chip Berlet, an American investigative reporter specializing in the study of right-wing movements in the U.S., writes:
When President Bush announced his new foreign policy would help build a New World Order, his phrasing surged through the Christian and secular hard right like an electric shock, since the phrase had been used to represent the dreaded collectivist One World Government for decades. Some Christians saw Bush as signaling the End Times betrayal by a world leader. Secular anticommunists saw a bold attempt to smash US sovereignty and impose a tyrannical collectivist system run by the United Nations.
American televangelist Pat Robertson with his 1991 best-selling book The New World Order became the most prominent Christian popularizer of conspiracy theories about recent American history as a theater in which Wall Street, the Federal Reserve System, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, and Trilateral Commission control the flow of events from behind the scenes, nudging us constantly and covertly in the direction of world government for the Antichrist.
Observers note that the galvanization of right-wing populist conspiracy theorists, such as Linda Thompson, Mark Koernke and Robert K. Spear, into militancy led to the rise of the militia movement, which spread its anti-government ideology through speeches at rallies and meetings, through books and videotapes sold at gun shows, through shortwave and satellite radio, and through fax networks and computer bulletin boards.[5] However, viral propaganda on the Internet is what most effectively contributed to their extremist political ideas about the New World Order finding their way into the far left literature of some black nationalists, but also the previously apolitical literature of many Kennedy assassinologists, ufologists, lost land theorists, and, most recently, occultists. The worldwide appeal of these subcultures then transmitted New World Order conspiracism like a “mind virus” to a large new audience of seekers of counterknowledge from the mid-1990s on.
After the turn of the century, specifically during the financial crisis of 2007–2009, many politicians and pundits, such as Gordon Brown, Henry Kissinger, and Barack Obama, used the term “new world order” in their advocacy for a Keynesian reform of the global financial system and their calls for a “New Bretton Woods”. These declarations had the unintended consequence of providing fresh fodder for New World Order conspiracy theorists, and culminated in former Clinton administration adviser Dick Morris and conservative talk show host Sean Hannity arguing on one of his Fox News Channel programs that “conspiracy theorists were right.”
(Excerpts from Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia)
British neo-Theosophical occultist Alice Bailey, one of the founders of the so-called New Age movement, prophesied in 1940 the eventual victory of the Allies of World War II over the Axis powers (which occurred in 1945) and the establishment by the Allies of a political and religious New World Order.
She saw a federal world government as the culmination of Wells’ Open Conspiracy but argued that it would be synarchist because it was guided by ascended masters, intent on preparing humanity for the mystical second coming of Christ, and the dawn of the Age of Aquarius.
According to Bailey, a group of ascended masters called the Great White Brotherhood works on the “inner planes” to oversee the transition to the New World Order but, for now, the members of this Spiritual Hierarchy are only known to a few occult scientists, with whom they communicate telepathically, but as the need for their personal involvement in the plan increases, there will be an “Externalization of the Hierarchy” and everyone will know of their presence on Earth.[51]
In 1997, Hasidic rabbi Yonassan Gershom, in an article titled Anti-Semitic Stereotypes in Alice Bailey’s Writings, pointed out that Bailey’s Plan for the New World Order, marked by extravagant fantasy, called for “the gradual dissolution – again if in any way possible – of the Orthodox Jewish faith,” which, he said, indicated that “her goal is nothing less than the destruction of Judaism itself.” This fact is notable since many conspiracy theories tend to portray Jews as the plotters behind the New World Order rather than one of the groups the plotters want to repress in order to create it.[52]
Bailey’s writings, along with American writer Marilyn Ferguson’s 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy, contributed to conspiracy theorists of the Christian right viewing the New Age movement as the “false religion” that would supersede Christianity in a New World Order.[53] Some conspiracy theorists have adopted 21 December 2012 as the exact date for the establishment of the New World Order because of the growing 2012 phenomenon, which has its origins in the fringe Mayanist theories of New Age writers…
Exiled on the Aisle of Patmos for his faith in Jesus Christ, John the Beloved receives the last 22 chapters of the Bible. They are the most horrific. They are the most pertinent. And, even more frightful, they are still unfulfilled, at this time.
The Book of Revelation begins with Jesus Christ comes to John in a vision. The Lord is dressed in a dazzling white robe. His voice is like thunder. His eyes are as fire. John falls on his face at Christ’s feet. The Lord tells him to write what are basically the end-time prophecies of this age.
1. The first major issue He addresses is the condition of the churches towards the end of the age. Sad but true, Christianity has become a mere shadow of what it used to be. As prophesied.
2. The next topic discussed is the rapture of the church. “Behold! I come quickly!” The return of Christ is eminent.
3. Next, comes the plagues of the Tribulation period. Three and a half years of famine, war, and pestilence.
4. The different colored horses and their riders represent the horrors mankind will all face during the Tribulation.
5. As the Tribulation approaches the midpoint, we are introduced to the two witnesses that preach in Jerusalem. They have defeated every foe that opposed them the first half of the Tribulation. However, at the midpoint, they are killed, and their bodies lie exposed in the streets of the holy city, as the citizens dance in the streets for joy. Then, on the third, the two witnesses are resurrected from the dead and rise through the skies. Thus begins the “Great Tribulation” (the last three and a half years).
6. Many will be martyred at this time. Their souls cry out to God in Heaven for vengeance. They are told to wait just a bit longer, for God’s wrath is coming on their persecutors, God’s enemies.
7. The Great Whore, Mystery Babylon, The City built on 7 Hills, which is none other than Rome, is dealt her death blows from God. Her hands have flowed red with the blood of martyred believers for centuries, and now, God will have His vengeance on her.
8. As The Tribulation draws to a close, the Antichrist and his armies amass in Megiddo and await the Battle of Armageddon. Christ returns on a white horse, and His believers are following close behind Him down from the skies. The enemies of God taste His wrath. Their blood flows as high as the horse’s bridle. The birds feast on their rotting carcasses. It takes months to bury all the dead.
9. The Lord sets up His Thousand year reign. Finally, Judgment day comes. All the dead, saved and unsaved, stand before God. Each one gives an account of himself before God. The wicked are cast into the lake of fire.
10. This world disintegrates in fervent heat, as the saved of all time go to dwell with Jesus Christ in the New Jerusalem, the city that comes down, as a bride adorned for her husband.
Oh yes, there is coming a day when we shall each one stand before God. On that day, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Be saved. Today. Don’t wait another moment. Receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
666. That is the number of the Beast. A study of Scripture will reveal its significance.
Revelation 13: 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads; 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
During the end time Tribulation period, an evil political/religious leader will wrest the reins of the nations from all the hands of their leaders. He will set up a one-world government, a one-world religion, and a one-world currency. Total control. According to the verses above, you can see that he will cause everyone to die who refuses to operate by his system. What an ogre.
His method of enforcing his new religion, government and financial system, will be an ingenious marking system. The Bible says it will be the number of a man. Of course, 6 is man’s number in the Bible. (Man was created on day 6). 666 will be some sort of code that tracks man’s every movement, sot that he is not able to work, buy, or sell without that mark.
The mark will be implanted or printed indelibly, somehow on the hand and/or the forehead. Much like we swipe our credit card at the checkout stand now, in that day a purchaser will merely pass his hand under a scanner, or a scanner will flash across his face and his bank account will be instantly debited. Similarly, when a person takes a job, or has a job, he will receive the mark, and all his pay will be electronically deposited, much like it is today.
You might think that people will flat out refuse to take the mark. But think how handy this kind of technology could really be. Say a person’s medical information could be incoded along with his financial information. If he is in an accident, health workers can instantly scan his hand or head and find out if he is diabetic, has had an operation, and even if he took his meds that morning. Think how easy it will be to sell this to the public.
There is one problem, however. God warns everyone to refuse the Mark of the Beast. God’s judgment comes on all who take the mark. This is nothing to tamper with. Take this advice seriously.
Revelation 14; 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Revelation 16: 2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
If this were a Hollywood movie, it would be bad enough, but we are talking about a Biblical prophecy. And all Bible prophecies come true. Exactly. Perfectly. Guaranteed. You can count on it.
The best thing to do is to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior now. While there is still time. Won’t you please?
The Bible is entirely perfect from beginning to end. There are no fallacies in it. There are no contradictions in it. It contains no error. It has no admixture. It is peerless in its perfection. It is true from top to bottom, and is totally trustworthy. Its author is divine. Its message is for all time. It tells us where man came from, and where he is going when he dies. It reveals the nature of man and the nature of God. It is true when it says that the wages of sin is death (Hell, in the lake of fire), and it is true when it says “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. (Jesus)”
It is not antiquated. It is not archaic. It is not outdated. It is relevant, up-to-date, and extremely current.
When we differ with the Bible, we are wrong, and should politely and graciously admit it. When we don’t like what the Bible says, we should confess our sin and repent.
The Bible stands alone in a class by itself, when compared to all the ancient books of man. When compared to new, modern books, the Bible REALLY stands in a class by itself, flawless, life-changing, sublime.
Approach it humbly. Approach it respectfully. Come to the Bible hungrily, and leave from the table full! Read it, and never be the same again.
I, the owner of www.the2012warning.com, personally have read through the Bible once every year, for the last 25 years. Some years I have read it twice through. No brag. Just fact. I’ll tell you what I have found.
1. I love it more now than I ever did.
2. The more I study, the less I realize I know.
3. Instead of becoming a master of the Bible, I am becoming mastered by the Bible.
4. God and the Bible are inseparable. If you want more of God, get more of the Bible.
5. The wisdom of man is nothing compared to the wisdom of God.
6. God’s ways are not man’s ways, and man’s ways are not God’s ways.
7. Reading the Bible doesn’t make us clean… it reveals how dirty we really are.
Man was created by the Word of God (Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image) And man shall be judged by the Word of God..
God said it. I believe it. That settles it for me!
Irrefutable proofs that The Bible is The Word of God:
1. Inerrancy. (Not one single error, revision, alteration)
2. Fulfilled Prophecy (Thousands of prophecies fulfilled meticulously exactly.)
3. Life-Changing History (The Bible makes people brand new)
4. Archaeology
There is a battle raging today. It is not in Iraq. No, it is not in Afghanistan, either. It is not between Muslim and Christian. It is not some secret rich people trying to bring down the nations of the world.
It has been going on for years…centuries, actually…since the beginning of time. It will not stop until the end of time, either.
The REAL battle raging today is for the souls of men, and your soul, in particular. You. Yes, you. You are important to God. God loves you. He wants your soul to live forever with him in Heaven. He wants you to be saved.
On the other hand, our common enemy, the dirty devil wants our soul to be eternally lost in the lake of fire. He wants us in hell. He has not let up one bit in his fight, nor will he, until He himself is cast into the bottomless pit forever and ever.
The advantage goes to the devil in this battle, for the nature of man leans towards wrong. We are flesh, and flesh doesn’t want right. Flesh, left to itself, will always choose the wrong. Add to that the tempting of the devil and sin, and you have an easy win for the devil.
But God, not willing that any should perish, sent His only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die on the cross in our stead. There He paid for all our sins. He was buried. Three days later, He arose from the dead, proving that He is God.
Why would He go to the cross for us? Would you take someone else’s place and die for them? There is a word for that. That’s called Love. Jesus loves us. He loves us so much that he was willing to take our hell for us.
The fact that He went to the cross for us proves something else, too. It proves that we deserved to die and spend eternity in hell. If not, why did He die in our place? Think about it. Jesus died in vain if we all didn’t deserve hell.
Jesus did His part 2,000 years ago on the cross. Now you must do your part. What is your part? You must simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” It’s that simple. No amount of righteousness or personal good works can atone for our sins. Only the shed blood of Christ on the cross of Calvary can pay for sins.
By accepting Jesus Christ as our savior, we cause the devil to lose the battle for our soul. Jesus wins. And we win, too.
Right there, where you are sitting, just bow your head,
as the Preacher is doing in the video above.
Pray a simple prayer just like this:
“Dear God,
I know I am a sinner.
I know I deserve hell for my sins.
But Jesus died for my sins on the cross.
Today, I accept what Jesus did for me on the cross, as the full payment for my sins.
Please forgive my sin, save my soul, and take me to Heaven when I die.
Thank you Jesus!
Amen.”
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The Bible has much to say about the time of The Tribulation period, the Antichrist, the end of the world, the second coming of Jesus Christ, and 2012. Providence has prophesied and planned a 7-year period to punish the pagan people of this planet.
1. It is called Daniel’s 70th week. See Daniel 9: 25
2. It is also called The Time of Jacob’s Trouble. See Jeremiah 30:7
3. It will last exactly 7 years.
4. It is divided into 2 parts of 3.5 years: The Tribulation, and The Great Tribulation.
5. It begins immediately when the Rapture occurs.
6. It will be a literal hell on earth. You don’t want to be here.
7. There will be a One-World Government established immediately at the beginning.
8. Immediately a One-World Leader (The Antichrist) will take over the nations.
9. There will be a “Mark of the Beast” imposed upon all the “citizens of the world”.
10. Without that mark, no one will be able to buy or sell.
11. The Antichrist will re-establish world peace after the Rapture.
12. The Antichrist will build the Third Temple for Israel, on the Temple Mount, in Israel.
13. Israel will be fooled into believing the Antichrist is their friend.
14. 1/3 of the Earth’s water will be polluted. 1/3 of mankind will die. 1/3 of the habitable earth will be burned up.
15. The cause of one third of the earth becoming waste will be missiles coming up out of the Euphrates River.
16. There will be two Men of God preaching daily in the streets of Jerusalem. They will be hated for their preaching, but no one will be able to kill them. Instead, they will belch fire out of their mouths and destroy all who oppose them.
At the mid point of the Tribulation, things change:
1. The 2 Men of God will be killed, and lay lifeless in the streets for 3 days. Then they are resurrected, and ascend to Heaven.
2. The Antichrist will turn his back on the Jewish nation. He will defile the Temple he built for them.
3. He begins a 3.5 year search and destroy mission to annihilate the Jews.
4. The devastations of the first 3.5 years seem as nothing, now, compared to that which occurs in the last 3.5 years.
5. The Antichrist amasses his armies and moves against Israel.
6. The valley of Armageddon becomes the site of the world’s last battlefield.
7. The Lord Jesus returns just in the nick of time, saves Israel, and establishes his kingdom in Jerusalem.
There is only one way to be saved, and that is through the Lord Jesus Christ!
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ may or may not be in 2012 but Jesus Christ is coming again! Following his crucifixion and his resurrection, Our Lord Jesus gathered together his followers and gave them his final commands. Then while they watched…
Acts 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Jesus promised to come again. It is mentioned all through Scripture. He who cannot lie hath promised us that Jesus will return to this old earth again!
Though there are some things that we do not know about the second coming of Christ, there are many things that we do know to be actual factual!
1. He came the first time. He will come the second time.
2. He arose physically. He will come again physically. “In like manner” (Acts 1:11)
3. He came the first time in exact fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, and he will come the second time, fulfilling all Biblical prophecy. Matthew 26: 56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.
4. At his first appearing, he came as a little babe, to enter the human race. He became one of us. God became flesh and dwelt among us! John 1: 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
5. The second time he will come as the sovereign King of the universe. Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
6. We know exactly when the second coming of Jesus Christ will occur: At the end of the Tribulation Period. His second coming WILL END the Tribulation period. Mark 13: 24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. 26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
7. We know that his second coming will begin the Millennial reign of Christ on the earth. Upon his return he shall set up his kingdom to rule and reign on the earth for a thousand years. Revelation2 0: 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
8. His second coming will be visible and known to all mankind, for every eye shall see him! It will not be a hidden event, known only to a select few. Revelation 1: 7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
9. There will be many in the end times who claim to be the Christ. Mark 13: 22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
10. Many will be destroyed at his second coming. 2Thessalonians 2: 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Jesus Christ is coming again. Do not wait until it’s too late to accept Him as your personal Lord and Savior. Call upon the name of the Lord today, while there is still time.
