This article is about the theological doctrine. For the Yeats poem, see "The Second Coming (Yeats)."
A Greek Orthodox icon of the Second Coming, c. 1700.
The Second Coming, sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia (a Greek word meaning presence, arrival, or official visit), is a Christian, Islamic, Baháʼí, and Messianic Jewish belief regarding the return of Jesus after his ascension to Heaven around AD 30. The idea is based on messianic prophecies and is part of most Christian eschatologies.
Views about the nature of Jesus' Second Coming vary among Christian denominations and among individual Christians, as well as among Muslims.
Second Coming in Alpha and Omega[]
As various signs around the world pointed to the End of Days, Christians expected Jesus to make his Second Coming.
Reverend Lester Stark of Birmingham, Alabama discussed the key signs on his television broadcast. These included: Israel being reconstituted in 1948 and taking the Temple Mount in 1967, the career of Saddam Hussein as the Nebuchadnezzar of the modern world, and the recent discovery in Arkansas of a red heifer. These were all necessary steps in the construction of the Third Temple and then the Second Coming could commence.[1]
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- ↑ Alpha and Omega, pgs. 30-34, hc.
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