The promise of His coming

Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. – 2 Peter 3.1-7

Jesus is coming again. 

That has been a constant them of the scriptures since Jesus said ‘I will come again to receive you to myself.’ That must have mystified the disciples since it was in the context of ‘I go to prepare a place for you.’ 

Then after he left the angels asked the disciples why they were standing around looking up into heaven, ‘what are you looking at? He is going to come back the same way He left.’ 

There are several references Jesus’ return. The last is at the end of Revelation where John wrote ‘even so come Lord Jesus.’ 

It has been a constant theme in the history of the church. Patrick wrote in the late 5th century that 

he was anxiously looking for ‘the soon advent of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.’ Martin Luther looked around at one point and because of all the current events of the time was totally convinced that Jesus was bound to come back at any moment. 

I was saved in 1974 and have seen so many people convinced that Jesus had to come back at a particular moment because of human reckoning of dates and newspaper headlines and news stories. 

I have seen a huge list of people who had to be the anti-christ. I have seen all kinds of technology that had to be the mark of the beast. 

And yet, here is it, April of 2015 and still we wait. In fact, my very first blog post was in April 2005, and my first post was on ‘even so come Lord Jesus.’ 

And still we wait. 

‘Where is the promise of His coming?’ some may ask, ‘’things are just going on as they always have.’ 

We might be shaken by that when we see all of the history of waiting. Time after time perhaps wee have felt let down or disappointed. I wake up nearly every morning and still no return. I have said more times than I can count ‘He may come back before I finish this message.’ 

And still we wait. 

And still the scoffers scoff. 

Why do we keep waiting? Because Jesus promised He will coma back and He cannot lie.  By His word Jesus spoke all things into existence and by His word He preserves the world until He comes back. 

Even so, come Lord Jesus.