Posts Tagged ‘ Parousia ’
Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.
Matthew 24:42, CSB
We find joy, strength, and confidence in knowing that our risen Lord is coming back to us one day, and this keeps us aware of our walk with Him and the need to reach this world.
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.”
Matthew 25:31-32, NIV
The Holy Spirit reveals truth and points us to Christ, both His life revealed through the Scriptures as well as His imminent return for judgment against the world.
Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.
Mark 13:33, ESV
Life can be hard, but we encourage each other with the hope that Christ is coming back and can come at any time.
A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.“
Isaiah 40:3, ESV
Did shows His greatness by Declaring John the Baptist’s arrival 700 years prior, and now He calls us to do the same for Christ’s second coming. John declared Priest who saves at His first coming, now we declare the King who judges at His second.
He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 25:8, ESV
When Christ came, He took away our sin and shame.
When Christ comes, He will remove pain, fear, sadness, and death forever.
And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!”
John 12:14-15, ESV
DHe entered Jerusalem on a donkey, the King arriving to make His sacrifice.
When He returns, it will be on a white horse to remove His enemies.
We celebrate His coming and warn of His return!
Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Isaiah 9:7, ESV
God has come to us and saved us, and when He returns His Kingdom shall be the only kingdom full of His saved saints.
“You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
Luke 12:40, ESV
Jesus can return at any moment. This should give us a sense of urgency to proclaim the Gospel and of hope in the end of suffering and evil.
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