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The Second Coming: What's Taking So Long?


The Second Coming is coming. This what has been said for two thousand years. At this point many believers have become jaded and the emphasis on the Return of Christ is downplayed in public for fear of ridicule. So many false prophets and false teachers have claimed that Judgement Day is around the corner and even fixed a date in October. Masses of people have sold all their belongings and gone to a hillside to be picked up. Then nothing happens and it is explained away with some esoteric pontification.

So when is Jesus coming back? What is taking so long? These questions are no blasphemies from believers, but from a state of esaperation. Often the response to this desperate query of the weary is Matthew 24:36: "Only the Father knows the hour and day that the end shall take place."  That leaves many in limbo and unable to really center on why there is a delay. Thankfully, the Lord told St. Peter why the Second Coming is postponed in his second letter:

"First I want to remind you that in the last days there will come scoffers who will do every wrong they can think of., and laugh at the truth. This will be their line of argument: "So Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is he? He'll never come!
They delibertly forget this fact: that God did destroy the World with a mighty flood, long after he had made the heavens by th word of his command, and had used the waters to form the earth and surround it. And God has commanded that the earth and heavens be stored away for a great bonfire at the judgement day, when all ungodly men shall perish.
But do not forget friends that a day or a thousand years from now is but tomorrow to the Lord.
He isn't really being slow about his promised return,, even though sometimes it seems that way. 
But he is waiting, for the good reason that he is not willing that any should perish, and he is giving more time for sinners to repent." (2 Peter 3: 3-9, TLB).

There is the answer. The Lord God is being patient and letting pernicious people have time to turn from their wicked ways and follow Him. If we want to speed along the process, we need to be evanglizing and sharing the Good News. To truly pray, "Lord Come Quickly,"  we need to particpate and share the Gospel with all people. But be prepared, as St. Peter said, there will be "scoffers," and their argument against us will be "where is he? He's not coming!" To repond we must be equipped with this Scripture and be dauntless in our task of spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ. The Second Coming is indeed coming, and we need to be busy about the Work of the Most High so that few will perish.

With that being said, I shall not waste this chance:

If you do not know Christ, if you do not know the Creator, here is your chance.

Pray this prayer:

Lord Jesus,

forgive me for all my sins. 

I ask you into my heart,
 
I ask you to be my Savior

and to be the Lord of my life.

Amen.

If you prayed that prayer, you are Born Again (Jesus now dwells within you). The next step is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. You can find all the next steps for your walk with Jesus in my next Blog Post titled: "Steps for New Jesus Followers."

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