Christ’s Bodily and Visible Coming

Christ’s Bodily and Visible Coming Preacher: Rev. Angus Stewart Series: Belgic Confession 37 Scripture: I Thessalonians 4:9-18

THE LAST JUDGMENT

Finally, we believe, according to the Word of God, when the time appointed by the Lord (which is unknown to all creatures) is come, and the number of the elect complete, that our Lord Jesus Christ will come from heaven, corporally and visibly, as He ascended, with great glory and majesty to declare Himself Judge of the quick and the dead, burning this old world with fire and flame to cleanse it …

W. J. Grier: “It is clearly taught in the New Testament that the Lord will return visibly. His first coming was literal and visible, and we may be sure that His second coming, which is so often linked with it in Scripture statements, will be literal and visible too. ‘This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven’ (Acts 1:11); His second coming is to be as visible as His ascension. ‘Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other’ (Matt. 24:30, 31)” (The Momentous Event [Belfast: Evangelical Book Shop, 1952], pp. 9-10).