Is This Message Important!

Matthew 24:3-5

"As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you.

This implies a couple of very important points. One being that there will be many false teachings and beliefs relating to this doctrine and it implies that we have a responsibility to know and understand the scriptures so that we are not deceived.

If we are not careful history will repeat itself. Jews rejected Him in the flesh, we may reject Him through His word…

I don’t know if we know the first time God promised the return of Christ, but He did it long enough ago that Job wrote about it. That great saint of God said,

“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”

The prophet Daniel wrote that…

“I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”

The Bible promises over and over the return of Christ. This is one of several reasons as to why this message is so important.

The promise of His return is also a personal promise.

John 14:3, Jesus said, “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 that “the Lord himself shall descend from heaven…” He’s not sending a search party to look for His children. He’s not sending an ambassador to take care of His business. Jesus came personally the first time and He’s coming back personally the next time.

Not only does the Bible promise that Jesus’ return will be personal, it promises His return to be visible. When Jesus left the earth the disciples stood there with their mouths dropped open looking up into the sky.

The angel asked them, “Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up in to heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”

Revelation 1:7
7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him.

The Bible promises the return of Christ. It promises His return will be personal, visible, and sudden. Matthew 24:44 says that we’d better be ready, “for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”

Jesus Himself said, “Surely I come quickly.”

I want you to know that through and through the Bible promises the return of Christ. Those promises are the hope of humanity, the joy of the saints and the faithful and true words of God. But listen, not only does the Bible tell us that the return of Christ is a promised return, it’s going to be a day of Judgement.


1 John 3:2-3
2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.

Everything we do in the Church leads to our being presented to Christ on His wedding day! The purpose of the apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, Sunday School teachers, youth directors, and every program pertaining to Church is to make us spotless and without wrinkle. Everything we do each day at work or at home should be in preparation, or with the thought that we are going to stand before God when all of this is over.