Overview
Jesus promised His disciples that He would return to complete God's redemptive plan. This return will be visible, bodily, and glorious, marking the end of the current age and the beginning of eternity. All believers await this blessed hope with anticipation.
Key Scriptures
"After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb." (Revelation 7:9, NIV)
"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first." (1 Thessalonians 4:16, NIV)
"Jesus said to them, 'Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'" (Matthew 19:28, NASB)
Application
Living in light of Christ's return should motivate holy living, faithful witness, and patient endurance through present trials.