Will Jesus Ever come back?

     

     *You may have seen one of the 1,200 billboards that are the work of one man: 89-year-old Christian preacher Harold Camping, owner of the Family Radio Network.

"You and I are living at the time of the end of the world," Camping said recently. His followers have spread the word of the world's end all across the globe, using donations to pay for it.

"There's going to be big earthquakes that will make the one in Japan seem like a Sunday school picnic," Camping said.

He says it will first strike Fiji and New Zealand, then work its way around the world. But it appears to be late. By Camping's own estimates, it should have hit there already, and it certainly has not. * (CBS News)

Predictions, assertions, in fact assumptions would be a better word. Misguided “Bible” so called Experts, trying to figure out something that only God knows.

Only God knows when He will return!

And so the question… Will Jesus Ever come back?

  

    Yes!  Soon? I don’t know! Furthermore our own Lord did not know when he would return, not on earth anyway, He divested himself of that knowledge during his earth ministry.

•  "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father’ ” (Matthew 24:36).
•  "You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him  "  (Matthew 24:44).
•  "Keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour ” (Matthew 25:13).
•  "Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come” (Mark 13:33).

*It’s hard to imagine how Jesus could have been any clearer: we will not know in advance the time of His return. Yes, there will be signs; yes, events should warn us of His impending return; yes, we should be ready (see Mark 13:7–10, 26; Luke 21:28). But these things are not the same as speculating about the day and hour of His return. 

No one but the Father knows, Jesus said—and we assume that this “no one” includes all those today who are still setting dates predicting when He will return. Jesus ‘words alone should cause anyone to reject all speculation that leads to time setting.

Jesus said, ‘It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.

“‘Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: “Watch!” (Mark 13:34–37).

Jesus compares His leaving the earth to someone who, going away leaves his property in the hands of his servants. Note that the master doesn’t say, “I’ll be back in three months” or “in six months” or “in ten years.” Why not? Is it because the master doesn’t know? That’s possible, at least in the parable. But the Father does know the date of Jesus’ return. He just hasn’t told us.

Why? The key is preparation. The Lord wants us to be prepared always, at all times. And as long as we believe that He could return at any time, especially any time soon, we should be more inclined to be continually ready. It’s because the servants don’t know when the master will return that He tells them, 

“Therefore keep watch.” If they knew for sure when the master was coming, why bother watching until that time? * Clifford Goldstein

 Will Jesus Ever come back?

Yes absolutely, without question! How can you be so sure? Because the Lord always keeps His promises always….unlike Harold Camping!