Overview
Jesus promised His disciples that He would return to complete God's redemptive plan. This return will be visible, bodily, and glorious, bringing an end to human history as we know it and ushering in eternity. Believers are called to live in anticipation of this blessed hope.
Key Scriptures
"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, 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).
"Now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face" (1 Corinthians 13:12, NIV).
Application
Live faithfully and watchfully, knowing that Christ's return should motivate holy living and urgent evangelism today.