Jesus Returns This essay is based on historial facts about the return of Jesus Christ.

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Jesus Returns

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 wait because of him. Even so, Amen

Why do I believe in the return of Christ? First and foremost, for the simple reason that Jesus Christ Himself declares it to be so. He said, "let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you so. I go to prepare a place for you. 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" (John 14:1-3), Jesus Christ is coming again.

Dr D. James Kennedy is one of the most listened to ministers in the worlds he writes: "For almost two thousand years, the church has been declaring in it creeds that Jesus Christ shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

There have been some quacks who have given the whole doctrine a bad name by majoring in this entirely; however, we must not let that cause us to lose sight of the fact that the entire historic Christian church had believed emphatically that Jesus Christ would return to this world. This belief is found in the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, and in all the ancient ecumenical creeds of the church. It is found in the Westminster Confession of Faith, which contains the doctrinal standards of the entire Presbyterian world. It is found in the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, the Anglican standards, and it is found in the Augsburg Confession of the Lutherans. Throughout Christendom, we find...