Is Jesus Ever Coming Back?

“Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come…saying, “Where is the promise of His coming?  For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”  II Peter 3:3-4

            It has been 2,000 years since Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, walked this earth, but He promised to return.  Speaking to His followers He said, “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 to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:2-3  So, why has He delayed so long?  The answer to this question is found in II Peter 3:9. “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” 

            I believe that very soon God’s patience is going to run out.  Some of the things we are seeing today are signs that things as we know them will soon come to an end.  Some of the signs pointing to the soon return of Christ are: rampant immorality of all kinds, homosexuality, fornication, abortion, apostasy in the church, false teachers, rape, murder, pornography, incest, drug abuse, child molestation…etc.  The list could go on and on, but basically, we have turned aside from God and His laws, and there is a limit to His patience with sinful man. Two thousand years ago He provided a way for us to be saved from our sinful state. How long will He wait for us to turn from our sin to Him?

            None of us are without sin, and none of us can be good or righteous enough to save ourselves from our plight.  That’s why Jesus came the first time, to become a sacrifice for our sins.  He paid the penalty for our sins when He died on the cross so that we could be reconciled to God.  Those of us who receive salvation through Jesus understand that the shedding of His blood was the only payment that God would accept so we could be forgiven.  Jesus was the only Son of God, God in the flesh, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born without sin, and He also died without having ever committed a sin.  We, on the other hand, are born with a sin nature.  The Bible teaches that “there is none righteous, no not one.”  Romans 3:10  “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23 "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us." I John 1:8

            Our only hope is through Jesus Christ, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him.  He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”  John 3:16-18

            Seek the Lord while He may be found, “For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.” Luke 11:10  If you hear Him calling you now, answer quickly!  Do not delay!  You may never get another chance, and your eternal soul depends on your decision.  Eternity is a long, long, long time! In my next post I hope to tell you more about Jesus' second coming, which I believe to be close at hand.