How will we know when Christ has returned?

  • Thread starter Thread starter AFerri48
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
A

AFerri48

Guest
I mean technically could Christ have already come back and be walking around without us knowing it?
 
Nope!

You’ll literally feel it in your body! (Natural body, psychikon soma; versus “spiritual body” or pneumatikon soma).

ICXC NIKA
 
I think that when he returns, you will have no doubts about it.
 
You know when you first went fishing and they said, trust me you will know when you get a bite. Then when a fish finally came along and took the bait you were like ahh, now I get it.

It’s like that, you will know, and when it happens you will be like ahh, now I get it.
 
Oh we’ll know for sure. There will be no doubting it. Everyone, every single human being regardless of faith or lack of will know it is Him. Our minds will be blown. :eek:
 
I once met a Baha’i fellow in college. He said baha’oula was the second coming. I looked up the prophecies concerning Jesus yet to be fulfilled in both new and Old Testaments. I won’t go into detail here but you could do the same with the church’s guidance. Eschatology is the general term for the study of the end times. Your Fr will know some good materials to start with. I am no expert, but it looks to me like the second comming will be a catclismic event even unbelievers will notice.

biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24%3A26-28&version=DRA

I also don’t think he will leave the faithful unrewarded.

biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+6%3A11-12&version=NABRE
 
Good question, because many will be deceived by another.
ewtn.com/faith/teachings/judga2.htm
newadvent.org/cathen/08552a.htm

Revelation 1:7 says, "Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him.” There will not be a person on earth who is unaware of Jesus’ return. Jesus Himself describes the manner of His coming. Matthew 24:27 states that the return of Christ will be like the brightness of lightning illuminating the entire sky from the east to the west. Verses 30 and 31 of the same chapter describe Jesus coming with power and great glory and with the sound of a great trumpet, that awakens the righteous dead who are then gathered from the ends of the earth

There wont be any doubt. 😇
 
  1. Signs of the times = now. Watch and pray.
  2. Great Tribulation = soon.
  3. Abomination of desolation = at the end of that
  4. Then.
Some people aren’t going to notice 1 and 2.
 
SAVINGRACE said:
Oh we’ll know for sure. There will be no doubting it. Everyone, every single human being regardless of faith or lack of will know it is Him. Our minds will be blown. :eek:
Click to expand...
And how do you “know” we will know?

Remember: for Jesus’ first coming the Israelites expected a might warrior who would lead them to victory over their enemies, but instead Jesus entered the world as a humble child, born in a manger to a working-class family.

So being the skeptic that I am, I also wonder if Jesus’ second coming will indeed be spectacular and glorious. 🤷
 
Vic_Taltrees_UK said:
  1. Signs of the times = now. Watch and pray.
  2. Great Tribulation = soon.
  3. Abomination of desolation = at the end of that
  4. Then.
Some people aren’t going to notice 1 and 2.
Click to expand...
Dream on; they’ve been saying this for 99 generations.

ICXC NIKA
 
Roseeurekacross said:
Good question, because many will be deceived by another.
ewtn.com/faith/teachings/judga2.htm
newadvent.org/cathen/08552a.htm

Revelation 1:7 says, "Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him.” There will not be a person on earth who is unaware of Jesus’ return. Jesus Himself describes the manner of His coming. Matthew 24:27 states that the return of Christ will be like the brightness of lightning illuminating the entire sky from the east to the west. Verses 30 and 31 of the same chapter describe Jesus coming with power and great glory and with the sound of a great trumpet, that awakens the righteous dead who are then gathered from the ends of the earth

There wont be any doubt. 😇
Click to expand...
But with Revelations, you cannot take the verses literally.
 
GEddie said:
Dream on; they’ve been saying this for 99 generations.

ICXC NIKA
Click to expand...
2 Peter 3:3-6New King James Version (NKJV)

3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.
 
In almost a paradoxical sense, the Church looks with hope to the return; one which entails the final unleashing of evil, the Devil in full power will persecute in unspeakable terms to cause Jesus’ inimitable return {a specific final Parousia}. (See CCC 677) Now THAT’S Faith!

Unfortunately, many of us individual Catholics often lack faith, or trust in God and fear or abhor persecution. It’s far more beneficial for most of us to concern ourselves with the last four things {Eschatology}; death, judgment, Heaven and Hell.
 
Lost_Sheep said:
And how do you “know” we will know?

Remember: for Jesus’ first coming the Israelites expected a might warrior who would lead them to victory over their enemies, but instead Jesus entered the world as a humble child, born in a manger to a working-class family.

So being the skeptic that I am, I also wonder if Jesus’ second coming will indeed be spectacular and glorious. 🤷
Click to expand...
Your doubt is a problem for you to overcome. Fortunately, I don’t have that problem anymore, I used to but prayer and practicing a regular religious life within my parish with my church family and at home with my family has banished it.

Regardless of what anyone on earth believes, when Christ returns everyone will know that it is Christ. That’s what the Bible and the Church teaches. Their responses to him will vary but it won’t matter because by then it will be too late.
 
mikekle said:
But with Revelations, you cannot take the verses literally.
Click to expand...
Of course you can. With the plain speaking.
Revelation 1:7 says, "Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him.”

So is this in Matthew.

Matthew 24:27 states that the return of Christ will be like the brightness of lightning illuminating the entire sky from the east to the west

Its not a trick question in an exam. Jesus doesnt lie. If Jesus says we will see him, and there will be choirs of Angels, and what we know of earth will be ripped open, there you go.

Jesus and biblical writers also warn of a person masquerading as Jesus, first, who will fool many, even the faithful. But that fake person wont be announcing his fake arrival in such a manner.

So if someone rocks up to you and says hey there I am Jesus, unless you are a Saint privy to private revelation, or , unless the world’s just ended, and everyone sees Jesus descending from Heaven, its a safe bet fake news is at work again.

😇

Revelation is thought to have been written by the Apostle John, while living in exile in a cave. The language of this book was quite common in some Old Testament books, and perhaps better understood back in the day. We still understand Jesus is being described as the lamb with the seven horns. We understand the martyrs dressed in white robes asking how much longer. We understand the answer that there are still more martyrs to join them, (this was written 2k years ago).

So whether the author really saw all this and wrote as a visual diary, or as a narrative, one day we will know.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top