That You May Know When Jesus Will Return

"Chapter 44: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ," Gospel Principles (2011), 257–62

Looking forward to the Savior's Second Coming

Forty days subsequently His Resurrection, Jesus and His Apostles were gathered together on the Mountain of Olives. The fourth dimension had come for Jesus to leave the earth. He had completed all the piece of work that He had to do at that time. He was to return to our Heavenly Father until the time of His Second Coming.

After He had instructed His Apostles, Jesus ascended into heaven. While the Apostles looked upward into the heavens, two angels stood beside them and said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this aforementioned Jesus, which is taken upwardly from you into heaven, shall and then come in like style as ye have seen him go" (Acts 1:eleven).

From that time until the present day, the followers of Jesus Christ take looked forward to the Second Coming.

What Volition Jesus Practise When He Comes Again?

When Jesus Christ comes again to the earth, He will practise the following things:

1. He will cleanse the world. When Jesus comes once again, He will come in power and bully glory. At that time the wicked will be destroyed. All things that are corrupt will exist burned, and the earth will be cleansed by fire (run across D&C 101:24–25).

2. He volition judge His people. When Jesus comes again, He volition gauge the nations and will carve up the righteous from the wicked (see Matthew 25:31–46; encounter also chapter 46 in this book). John the Revelator wrote virtually this judgment: "I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, … and they lived and reigned with Christ a k years." The wicked he saw "lived not again until the thousand years were finished" (Revelation twenty:four–five; come across likewise D&C 88:95–98).

3. He will usher in the Millennium. The Millennium is the thousand-twelvemonth period when Jesus will reign on the earth. The righteous will be caught upwardly to encounter Jesus at His coming (meet D&C 88:96). His coming will begin the millennial reign. (See chapter 45 in this book.)

   President Brigham Young said:

   "In the Millennium, when the Kingdom of God is established on the earth in power, celebrity and perfection, and the reign of wickedness that has so long prevailed is subdued, the Saints of God volition have the privilege of building their temples, and of entering into them, becoming, as it were, pillars in the temples of God [see Revelation 3:12], and they will officiate for their dead. Then we will meet our friends come up up, and perhaps some that we accept been acquainted with here. … And we will have revelations to know our forefathers clear back to Father Adam and Mother Eve, and we will enter into the temples of God and officiate for them. Then [children] volition be sealed to [parents] until the concatenation is made perfect back to Adam, so that there will be a perfect chain of Priesthood from Adam to the winding-up scene" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young [1997], 333–34).

4. He will complete the Commencement Resurrection. Those who accept obtained the privilege of coming forth in the resurrection of the just will rising from their graves. They will be caught upward to meet the Savior as He comes down from heaven. (See D&C 88:97–98.)

   After Jesus Christ rose from the expressionless, other righteous people who had died were also resurrected. They appeared in Jerusalem and also on the American continent. (See Matthew 27:52–53; 3 Nephi 23:9–10.) This was the beginning of the First Resurrection. Some people take been resurrected since then. Those who already have been resurrected and those who will be resurrected at the fourth dimension of His coming volition all inherit the celebrity of the celestial kingdom (meet D&C 76:50–70).

   After the resurrection of those who will inherit celestial celebrity, some other group will be resurrected: those who will receive a terrestrial glory. When all these people have been resurrected, the First Resurrection will be completed.

   The wicked who are living at the time of the Second Coming of the Lord volition be destroyed in the mankind. They, along with the wicked who are already dead, will have to look until the last resurrection. All of the remaining dead volition rise to see God. They will either inherit the telestial kingdom or be bandage into outer darkness with Satan (run across D&C 76:32–33, 81–112).

5. He will accept His rightful place as King of heaven and earth. When Jesus comes, He volition establish His regime on the world. The Church will go role of that kingdom. He will rule all the people of the earth in peace for 1,000 years.

   When Jesus Christ get-go came to the earth, He did not come in glory. He was born in a lowly stable and laid in a manger of hay. He did not come up with great armies every bit the Jews had expected of their Savior. Instead, He came proverb, "Love your enemies, … exercise proficient to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully employ you" (Matthew 5:44). He was rejected and crucified. Merely He will not be rejected at His 2d Coming, "for every ear shall hear it, and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess" that Jesus is the Christ (D&C 88:104). He will be greeted as "Lord of lords, and King of kings" (Revelation 17:14). He volition be called "Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Begetter, The Prince of Peace" (Isaiah nine:6).

• What are your thoughts and feelings every bit you contemplate the events of the Second Coming?

How Will We Know When the Savior'due south Coming Is Virtually?

When Jesus Christ was born, very few people knew that the Savior of the world had come up. When He comes once again, there will be no doubt who He is. No ane knows the verbal time that the Savior will come again. "Of that twenty-four hour period and hour knoweth no human, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only" (Matthew 24:36; run into likewise D&C 49:7).

The Lord used a parable to requite u.s.a. an thought of the time of His coming:

"Now acquire a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is nonetheless tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:

"Then ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors" (Mark 13:28–29).

The Lord has also given us some signs to permit united states of america know when His coming is near. After revealing the signs, He cautioned:

"Watch therefore: for ye know not what hr your Lord doth come. …

"… Exist ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think non the Son of man cometh" (Matthew 24:42, 44).

For more data about how we will know when Jesus's Second Coming is near, meet chapter 43 in this book.

How Tin can We Be Ready When the Savior Comes?

The best manner we tin can prepare for the Savior's coming is to accept the teachings of the gospel and make them part of our lives. We should live each day the all-time we can, just as Jesus taught when He was on the globe. We tin can wait to the prophet for guidance and follow his counsel. We can live worthy to have the Holy Ghost guide us. Then we volition look forward to the Savior's coming with happiness and non with fearfulness. The Lord said: "Fear not, fiddling flock, the kingdom is yours until I come. Behold, I come speedily. Yet. Amen" (D&C 35:27).

• Why should we be concerned near our preparedness rather than the exact timing of the Second Coming?

Additional Scriptures

• John 14:2–iii; Matthew 26:64 (Jesus to fix a place and come once more)

• Malachi 3:two–three; 4:1; D&C 64:23–24 (globe to be burned)

• D&C 133:41–51 (wicked to exist destroyed)

• Matthew 13:40–43 (the Judgment predicted)

• 1 Corinthians xv:xl–42; D&C 76; 88:17–35 (kingdoms of celebrity)

• D&C 43:29–30; 29:11 (the Savior's coming will usher in the Millennium)

• Manufactures of Faith 1:ten (Jesus to reign)

• Alma 11:43–44; 40:23 (the Resurrection explained)

• D&C 88:96–98 (the dead to rise)

• Zechariah 14:nine; Revelation xi:15; 1 Nephi 22:24–26 (Jesus to reign as Rex)

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