"If we are STILL waiting for Jesus to return in the future, then his prophetic words concerning his second coming FAILED and we are without hope! ⚠️‼️⚠️‼️
C.S Lewis said that Jesus is either “liar, lunatic, or Lord.” He cannot be all listed. While some atheists, such as Bertrand Russel, believed Jesus failed, because he points out that Jesus said he would returned in the first century, but thinks he didn’t keep that promise––I on the other hand do not believe that Jesus failed. I do not agree that Jesus was a “liar.” On the contrary, Jesus was a prophet. Indeed, he was an accurate prophet. Moreover, he was, is, and always will be “tou Kuriou” –– that is Greek to say, “the Lord!”
But as both prophet and Lord that assumes that he keeps his word. We cannot have a lying Lord or a lying prophet. We must have a Lord that has “no deceit found in his mouth” (1 Peter 2:22). We must have a true “Prophet” that God would raise up “like Moses” (Duet. 18:15).
However, there is a huge problem for the vast majority of Christians today that are claiming that we are still awaiting a yet-future visible return of Jesus Christ on the clouds. If this is true, then Jesus didn’t keep his promise. So either the vast majority of Christians are wrong and have a misplaced hope, or Jesus is wrong.
How so, you might ask? Well, Jesus made it undeniably clear that he would return before the “passing of that generation” (Matthew 24:34). Jesus claimed that he would return before the death of some of the apostles that were standing there listening to him (Matthew 16:26-28; Mark 9:1). He said that he would return before the apostles could “finish going through all the towns of Israel” (Matthew 10:23). Jesus said that the religious council would “see him coming on the clouds” (Matthew 26:64; 14:62). Jesus made it clear that his return would be when the temple would be destroyed and Jerusalem had fallen and would thereby “fulfill ALL that has been WRITTEN” (Matthew 24:1-3, 34; Luke 21:20-32). Moreover, Paul assured the Thessalonians believers rest from their enemies and persecutors––NOT at their death––but at “the coming of the Lord” (2nd Thess. 1:6-1. So did Paul’s promise fail? If Jesus didn’t return, then it did.
But there is no other explanation for the “at hand” (Rev. 1:3) and multiple “shortly come to pass” (Rev. 1:1) verses that indicate the clear timing of the Lord’s “soon” return. And if the judge is still “standing at the door” (James 5:9) at the “last hour” (1 John 2:18) over 2,000 years later, then heaven doesn’t know how to tell time; or maybe, just maybe, we as the church are bankrupt of understanding and have terrible eschatological forecasters, not realizing that we are trying to forecast history. In other words, eschatology is old news; it isn’t a study of our future, but the early church’s history!
In short, Jesus did return and it was in 70ad. Jesus said that he would return at the destruction of the temple and the fall of Jerusalem. The fascinating thing we shall find if we opened up our bibles and read the Old Testament more often, is that the Father had come multiple times before in the past “on a cloud”, none of which were “visible” and “bodily” COMINGS (Isaiah 19:1f; Ezekiel 30:3; Jeremiah 4:13). And you know the interesting and amazing thing about each of those passages? The Lord coming on the “clouds” in the OT each related to Him sending an invading army to besiege and kill a nation that was under judgment, which is precisely what you have in Jesus’ predictions and what happened in 70ad to the Jews by the hands of the Romans. And this is what Jesus said would happen in “[that] generation” for all the “blood shed from Abel to Zechariah” (Matthew 23:22f).
We as the church must learn to read the Bible correctly. The fundamental errors we are guilty of are believing traditions over scripture, and number two, we don’t understand that it wasn’t written to us, but was written for us. God bless."
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