What happened when Jesus came the first time around? Knowing that should help in answering your questions.
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What happened when Jesus came the first time around? Knowing that should help in answering your questions.
Here's a thought experiment:
OK, so imagine tomorrow Jesus Christ comes down to Earth, from Heaven, thus bringing about his second coming:
I was wondering, what may happen once he shows up? But before he actually does or says anything?
So, once he appears and makes himself known, but before he says or does anything:
1) How would this event be covered by the media?
2) Would anything drastic happen, economically?
3) What would the political establishment do? What would world leaders have to say?
4) What would happen on the Internet?
5) Would there be civil disturbances of some kind? Or mass celebrations?
6) What would the Atheists do? (Assuming there would be obvious miracles being performed that they would be able to observe)
7) How would adherents to religions other than Christianity react? (Bearing in mind he hasn't yet said anything...)
8) Would it all of a sudden somehow make the world a better place? Or would it make the world a more dangerous and unstable place? What do you think?
Here's a thought experiment:
OK, so imagine tomorrow Jesus Christ comes down to Earth, from Heaven, thus bringing about his second coming:
I was wondering, what may happen once he shows up? But before he actually does or says anything?
So, once he appears and makes himself known, but before he says or does anything:
1) How would this event be covered by the media?
2) Would anything drastic happen, economically?
3) What would the political establishment do? What would world leaders have to say?
4) What would happen on the Internet?
5) Would there be civil disturbances of some kind? Or mass celebrations?
6) What would the Atheists do? (Assuming there would be obvious miracles being performed that they would be able to observe)
7) How would adherents to religions other than Christianity react? (Bearing in mind he hasn't yet said anything...)
8) Would it all of a sudden somehow make the world a better place? Or would it make the world a more dangerous and unstable place? What do you think?
It would be a shame to Martin Luther King to see people talk like this.
Skin color is back - brought back by African Americans and those who
support them.
I think there's going to be more skin hate now than there was before.
If Christ comes tomorrow! Among all the evangelical specualtions and exaggerations, there is a more nuanced side to the question. For a start, the scriptural record, canonical and non, contain more than three hundred passages of warnings of false teaching and interpretation. Confronting and exposing these errors must be high on 'his' agenda. And as history has yet to definitively agree on the veracity of any religious claim, one would expect that to be sorted. And as all chistology is founded upon an all too human theological construct, it remains to be seen if Christ will even recognize theology as a valid human intellecutal enterprise. And what if 'he' comes not only to expose error but to reveal new understanding and insight of the Incarnation and the will of the Father, contrary to what tradition has taught? Expect ecclesiastic feathers flying and gnashing of teeth all around!
If Jesus already returned we would see the fulfillment of Matthew 25:31-33 by that ' time of separating ' taking place on Earth.Absolutely nothing would happen..................................
So it is I believe the case to be that Jesus has already returned in the Glory of the Father, ...................................
As to whether the world would become a better place or not. I believe that in time the world will accept that He has returned and that the Kingdom of God on earth will be established.
I would look to see if he brought all the Jews back to Israel, ruled from Jerusalem, and ushered in an era of world peace. IOW if he still didn't fulfill the prophecies, he still wouldn't be the messiah.Here's a thought experiment:
OK, so imagine tomorrow Jesus Christ comes down to Earth, from Heaven, thus bringing about his second coming:
I would look to see if he brought all the Jews back to Israel, ruled from Jerusalem, and ushered in an era of world peace. IOW if he still didn't fulfill the prophecies, he still wouldn't be the messiah.
Jesus didn't fulfill half the prophecies. Virtually all the prophesies quoted in the gospels are out of context, mistranslated, or made up out of whole cloth.Jesus has fulfilled half the Messianic prophecy.
In Zechariah he speaks of the Messiah King coming to rule the nations, but
the Jews will mourn because they see it's the same lowly man they crucified.
Jesus didn't fulfill half the prophecies. Virtually all the prophesies quoted in the gospels are out of context, mistranslated, or made up out of whole cloth.
Here's a thought experiment:
OK, so imagine tomorrow Jesus Christ comes down to Earth, from Heaven, thus bringing about his second coming:
I was wondering, what may happen once he shows up? But before he actually does or says anything?
So, once he appears and makes himself known, but before he says or does anything:
1) How would this event be covered by the media?
2) Would anything drastic happen, economically?
3) What would the political establishment do? What would world leaders have to say?
4) What would happen on the Internet?
5) Would there be civil disturbances of some kind? Or mass celebrations?
6) What would the Atheists do? (Assuming there would be obvious miracles being performed that they would be able to observe)
7) How would adherents to religions other than Christianity react? (Bearing in mind he hasn't yet said anything...)
8) Would it all of a sudden somehow make the world a better place? Or would it make the world a more dangerous and unstable place? What do you think?
I'm willing to discuss this with you,but first, bring the quality of your post up to par. Zechariah what???? Quote the verses in question.Okay, this is what Zechariah said, about 600 years before Jesus.
The Messiah as King would come to His people. He will conquer
his enemies. But the Jews will mourn because this King is also
the Messianic Redeemer who came to them lowly and upon a
colt, and the one they "pierced." They will mourn because it was
they, as a people, who did this.
This is a prophecy of TWO Messianic comings - first as Redeemer
and then as King.
ps the Greek translations of the New Testament are fairly consistent.
You can check in the Interlinear bible.
I'm willing to discuss this with you,but first, bring the quality of your post up to par. Zechariah what???? Quote the verses in question.
I'm going to limit the discussion to the Zecheriah 12:9-10 quote, since really this is the one that matters most to Christians.Zechariah 12:9
On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of
David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they
have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child…
Here's a thought experiment:
OK, so imagine tomorrow Jesus Christ comes down to Earth, from Heaven, thus bringing about his second coming:
I was wondering, what may happen once he shows up? But before he actually does or says anything?
So, once he appears and makes himself known, but before he says or does anything:
1) How would this event be covered by the media?
2) Would anything drastic happen, economically?
3) What would the political establishment do? What would world leaders have to say?
4) What would happen on the Internet?
5) Would there be civil disturbances of some kind? Or mass celebrations?
6) What would the Atheists do? (Assuming there would be obvious miracles being performed that they would be able to observe)
7) How would adherents to religions other than Christianity react? (Bearing in mind he hasn't yet said anything...)
8) Would it all of a sudden somehow make the world a better place? Or would it make the world a more dangerous and unstable place? What do you think?
Only if Jesus is non-White. I mean nobody is going to listen to a White man of privilege.
What happened when Jesus came the first time around? Knowing that should help in answering your questions.
I believe the glorified vision of Jesus will be far removed from what people normally look like and what Jesus will look like in The Kingdom of God.