A volta de Jesus
A volta de Jesus é uma das maiores promessas da Bíblia. Cristo prometeu que retornará em glória, e os cristãos vivem na expectativa desse dia triunfante.
A promessa do retorno
Jesus prometeu aos discípulos que voltaria. Os anjos confirmaram essa promessa na ascensão, e os apóstolos ensinaram que Ele virá com poder.
In my Father’s house are many offices: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. 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] you2f may be also.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Which also said, You2f men of Galil [circuit, district], why stand you2f gazing up into heaven? this same Yeshua [God is Salvation], which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you2f have seen him go into heaven.
He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation].
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward [is] with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Os sinais e o momento
Ninguém sabe o dia nem a hora. Jesus alertou sobre falsos sinais e nos chamou à vigilância constante, pois Ele virá como ladrão na noite.
"But of that day or that time, there is no one who knows, not even the angels of heaven, but the Father only".
Again Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to his disciples: "As in the days of Noah so will it be in the days of the Son of Man".
"Just as before the flood, they were eating, drinking, being fruitful and multiplying until the day when Noah entered the ark".
"They did not know until the flood came upon them and destroyed them; so will be the coming of the Son of Man".
But of that day and [that] hour knows no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you2f have no need that I write unto you.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord - Kurios so comes as a thief in the night.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Then Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to his disciples: "Therefore watch with me because you do not know at what hour your Adon [Lord - Kurios of the earth] is coming".
"This you know, if one knew at what hour the thief was coming, he would watch and not allow him to dig into his house".
"So you should be prepared, because you do not know at what hour the Son of Man is going to come".
Now we beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], and [by] our gathering together unto him,
That you2f be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by Spirit [Ruach], nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Moshiach [Messiah] is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God-The Father, or that is worshipped; so that he as God-The Father sits in the temple of God-The Father, showing himself that he is God-The Father.
A glória da segunda vinda
Cristo voltará nas nuvens, com poder e grande glória. Os mortos em Cristo ressuscitarão, e os vivos serão arrebatados para encontrá-lo nos ares.
For the Lord - Kurios himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God-The Father: and the dead in Moshiach [Messiah] shall rise first:
Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord - Kurios in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord - Kurios.
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Again Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to his disciples: "When the Son of Man comes in his revelation with his angels, then he will sit upon the throne of his glory".
"All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them as the shepherd separates the sheep and the goats".
"He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left".
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.
His eyes [were] as a flame of fire, and on his head [were] many crowns, having names written; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
And he [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God-The Father.
And the armies [which were] in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God-The Father.
And he has on [his] vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and [in his] Father’s, and of the holy angels.
Vivendo na expectativa
A certeza do retorno de Cristo nos chama a viver em santidade, aguardando novos céus e nova terra onde habita a justiça.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord - Kurios as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Lord - Kurios is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward (in custody, with a guard; prison), not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord - Kurios will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up.
[Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought you2f to be in [all] holy Conversation (behavior; way of life; community) and godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God-The Father, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
So Moshiach [Messiah] was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them without sin that look for him shall he appear the second time unto salvation..