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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF CHRIST'S SECOND COMING

THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF CHRIST'S SECOND COMING


 
  • INTRODUCTION
Central Theme of Bible is the Coming of God's Messiah.
Gen. 3:15 First Promise "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." 
Rev. 22:20 Last Promise "He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
 
  • Entire Bible can be divided in relation to this Theme.
Old Testament; He is coming. 
Four Gospels: He has come. 
Epistles and Revelation: He is coming again.
 
  • The Revelation of Messiah's Coming is not mechanical, but dynamic and progressive: 
A revelation in which the different elements are related, not in any external manner, but as the parts of a growing plant are related.
Mark 4:26-28 "And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how. For the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear."
Doctrine of our Lord's Coming into the world unfolds like a growing plant, which at every stage of the revelation contains the germ of the yet unrevealed.
 
 In Old Testament the promise of a coming.
 In Gospels this coming unfolds into two comings.
 In Gospels the first coming unfolds into a series of events.
  -Virgin birth
 - Life and ministry
 - Atoning death.
 - Resurrection.
 In Epistles the Second Coming unfolds into two main phases. (Rapture and Revelation)
 In the Book of Revelation each of the two phases unfolds into a series of events.
 
  Cf. Chart Above

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