Second Coming of Jesus

The Cross:

Jesus on the Cross redeemed us, saved us from sin, He paid for all our sins. But the Cross was not the end of the job of Jesus while on earth.

Resurrection:

After the Cross came the Resurrection. Now Jesus Himself wants to live in us, here, on earth. We were saved from sin to live on earth with the love and joy and peace of Jesus in us, I no longer live, but Christ lives in me (Gal.2:20). A love and joy and peace that nothing and nobody can take away in Jesus Christ (Rom.8:37-39).

We were saved from sin to love with joy, to give thanks with joy to God always and in all circumstance as proclaimed in Eph.5:20 and Thessalonians 5:16-18... and emphasized in the Preface of every Holy Mass, Indeed it is "just" and "necessary", our "duty" and our "salvation" to give thanks to God always and in all circumstances. There are no more words in the dictionary to emphasize it!

The life of a saved Christian on earth is a "Wedding Feast" as proclaimed in at least 20 quotations in the Bible. In this Wedding Feast each one of us is invited, and not just as any guest, but as the "Bride of the Lamb". This is the message of the Cana wedding feast in John 2. The honeymoon with the Lamb will come in John in his 7th miracle, in the resurrection of Lazarus. But here on earth we have to live with the joy and love and excitement of a bride in her wedding feast.

Ascension of Jesus:

Still more: The work of Jesus on earth did not end with the Cross nor with the Resurrection, but with His Ascension to Heaven: He wants us to go to eternal Heaven, glorious like Him!... Christianity is the religion of joy on earth, but still more, for one eternity! We are citizens of Heaven! (Phil.3:20).

After the Ascension we can understand better the doctrine and life of Jesus on Suffering: Yes, many problems and sufferings, but with the joy and excitement of a "mother in labour" Jesus tells us in John.16:21.

Each suffering is to bring up a new life, either in us or in others:

1- In us... because each suffering is like an injection of God to purify us, as proclaimed in Hebrews 12.

2- In others... like the sufferings of redemption of Christ or Mary, of Peter or Paul... Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions. (Colos.1:24)... yes, my cross is my best evangelization to help others to go to Heaven.

An old sick woman is not a burden, but the best treasure of home.

Jesus did not saved us with his great discourses nor with his miracles, but with His Cross, and our Cross is our better weapon of evangelization, our best tool to help others to go to Heaven.

"Suffering" is a great revolution of Jesus in the two mountains:

1- In the Mount of the Beatitudes, proclaiming the "poor happy", the "hunger happy", those who "mourn happy", the "persecuted happy"...

2- At Calvary it was not with words, but with deeds, with his flesh... the greatest success of humankind! after His Resurrection and Ascension.

Yes, it can be done... Christ and I, absolute majority! , I can do everything through him who gives me strength. (Phil.4:13).

The Ascension in Luke:

50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.

52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God. (Luke 24:50-51).

After the Ascension the disciples were not not sad but very happy,

52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God. (Luke 24:51).

The Ascension in Acts 1:

9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.

11 "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." (Acts.1:9-10).

The Second Coming:

Still another job of Jesus to do personally on earth, This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." (Acts.1:10). He will come back glorious to earth, the same glorious Jesus who went up to Heaven.

This second time Jesus will not come to save anybody, but to Judge... and to Judge every human being who ever lived on earth since Adam. The good ones to eternal Heaven and the bad ones to eternal Hell, with the same body and soul they had on earth, as the same persons with either a cursed or a glorified body.

The Second Coming of Christ, as prophesied both in the Old and New Testament, will be the most spectacular event in human history: The gathering of the Messiah with all nations and tongues, since Adam, and with all the angels... you and I will be there, and Peter and Paul and Muhammad and Buddha and Confucius, and Albert Einstein and Stalin and Hitler and Napoleon and the Indian Geronimo... every person of all nations and tongues of the history of humankind!. (Isa.66:18, Dan.12:2, Matt.25:31-46).

It will be indeed spectacular, and both horrible and glorious: Glorious, for those who go to eternal happiness and love and peace, to Heaven for ever and ever... and horrible, for those who go to eternal suffering, to Hell for ever and ever (Dan.12:2, Matt.25:46).

Yes, Jesus will come again to Judge the living and the death, you and me, it is a universal Judgment, For we will all stand before God's judgment seat (Rom.14:10...2 Cor.5:10, Isa 66:16).

This Second Coming of Christ will be at the end of this world... but the end on this world for you and I will be exactly the day we die, soon, very soon!... There is no time nor space after death, in eternity, With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. (2 Pet. 3:8).

We will all have our Antichrist and our Armageddon, our Good Friday and our Easter Sunday, as Kennedy and Abraham and St. Paul had, as every person ever born had... the lessons of the Second Coming are very important for you and for me, now!