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BaháΚΌís understand that the return of the Christ with a new name was intended by Jesus to be a Return in a spiritual sense, due to Jesus explaining in the Gospels that the return of Elijah in John the Baptist was a return in a spiritual sense. [100] [101]
Weinland predicted Jesus would return on 29 September 2011. [42] [43] [44] When his prediction failed to come true, he moved the date of Jesus' return to 27 May 2012. [45] When that prediction failed, he then moved the date to 18 May 2013, claiming that "a day with God is as a year," giving himself another year for his prophecy to take place.
The Church teaches that the entire Earth will be aware of the arrival of Jesus, including non-believers. [21] [22] Events that are specified in Church teachings to occur at the Second Coming include: There will appear a great sign in heaven, and all the people shall see it. [18] [23] The righteous that are upon the earth will be caught up to ...
Premillennialism, in Christian eschatology, is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the Earth (the Second Coming) before the Millennium, heralding a literal thousand-year messianic age of peace.
Between 1831 and 1844, on the basis of his study of the Bible, and particularly the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 [5] —"Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"—William Miller, a rural New York farmer and Baptist lay preacher, predicted and preached the return of Jesus Christ to the earth.
It is a very popular belief accepted by certain premillennialists who usually promote young earth creationism. The view takes the stance that each millennium is actually a day according to God (as found in Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8), and that eventually at the end of the 6,000 years since the creation, Jesus will return.
At Jesus' return, the righteous will be taken to heaven for one thousand years. After the millennium the unsaved cease to exist as they will be punished by annihilation while the saved will live on a recreated Earth for eternity. The foremost sources are the biblical books of Daniel and Revelation. Jesus' statements in Matthew 24 for instance ...
[2] [3] Jesus's choice positions him as a man of obedience, in contrast to Adam's disobedience. [4] According to the New Testament, after God raised him from the dead, [5] Jesus ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father, [6] with his followers awaiting his return to Earth and God's subsequent Last Judgment. [7]