When is the ‘Second Coming’?

Is Jesus ‘coming back’ soon?
Does the coronavirus disease pandemic mean that we are ‘in the Last Days’?
Will the church soon be ’raptured’ and taken out of this evil world?
Is planet Earth about to be ‘burned up’?

I’m sure you’ve heard many such doomsday predictions over the decades. Some people even erect huge bill‐boards proclaiming their particular doomsday ‘prophecies’:

For instance, in 2011, Family Radio, a Christian-based radio network in USA, spent over $100 million dollars spreading the belief that ​the world was going to end on May 21, 2011.

The man who started that doomsday prediction also made other dire “prophecies”. Harold Camping wrote in 1992:
“I would be very surprised if the world reaches the year 2000.” He predicted that Christ would return and the world would end on September 6, 1994. DID YOU HAPPEN TO CATCH IT?

In 1988, Edgar Whisenant predicted the Rapture in 1988 and the start of World War III on October 3, 1988. DID YOU MISS IT?

In 1983, Mary Stewart Relfe claimed to be a “prophet” and predicted World War III in 1989 and that Christ would return in 1997. (???)

In 1980, doomsayer Hal Lindsey, author of The Late Great Planet Earth (1970), predicted that :
“the decade of the 1980s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it”.

There have been literally hundreds of failed predictions about the Second Coming over many centuries. Some people today are even saying that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is a “sign” that we are “in the Last Days”. Can this be true?

Were any of them right? Or were they all spectacularly WRONG!

[HINT: If you are reading this, they were likely… WRONG!]

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Dear reader…

The New Testament contains numerous ‘end times’ prophecies that actually indicate a 1st Century fulfillment of the Parousia (Return of Christ). The key to understanding these ‘end times’ passages is to look at the historical context and their ‘audience relevance’, because the New Testament was not originally written to us, living in the 21st Century!

The ORIGINAL AUDIENCE of New Testament prophecies was the early Christians, living in the Roman Empire in the 1st Century AD.

▹Read more: When Jesus Said He Would Return

▹Read more: Biblical Evidence about the 1^st Century Return of Christ