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1 Thessalonians 5 – Jesus Is Coming Back Today
Jesus is Coming Back Today
Yes, you read that right. No, I am not making a foolish prediction. In fact, I am stating an absolute fact.
History is filled with false predictions. “When is Jesus coming back?” If there is an event more speculated about that the Second Coming, I do not know what it is.
William Miller, founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, specified the year, month and day of the Lord’s appearance – March 21, 1843. After his failure, the embarrassed Miller refigured and set Oct. 22, 1844. We’re still here!
Joseph Smith Jr., who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in 1835 announced the Lord was nigh and that 56 years should wind up the scene. Smith, like Wesley, did not live to see that his guess of 1891 was wrong – he was shot in a Carthage, MO jail in 1844. We’re still here!
In 1891 Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses denomination, did not announce a future date for the Second Coming, but declared Jesus already had come invisibly in October 1874 – that makes it harder to prove him wrong, doesn’t it! Russell later changed the date of Jesus’ coming from 1874 to another invisible coming in 1914. We’re still here!
Russell’s successor, Joseph F. Rutherford, published in 1920 a tract titled Millions Now Living Will Never Die announcing Jesus’ coming would be in 1925 and that the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would be seen on the earth. His disciples bought a dream mansion, Beth Sarim, House of Princes, in San Diego to honor the patriarchs. Rutherford lived in the home until his death in 1942, and then the house was sold. We’re still here!
Based upon all the false predictions, how can I say that Jesus is coming back today is an absolute fact? Simple…I am not saying that I can say that today. I am saying that one day if I am still alive, Jesus will appear and I can say with absolute truth that “Jesus is coming back today.” But…no one can say with absolute assurance that Jesus is not coming back today until it is no longer today. Are we living like we know the day when Jesus is not coming back? Are we living like we know that Jesus is not coming back today (1 Thessalonians 5)?
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