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Second Coming

(less commonly), Second Advent
the prophesied return of Christ to earth at the Last Judgment
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(38) In the year following he published a tract, The Decieved and Deceiving Quakers Discovered, denouncing the Quakers for renouncing a future second coming of Christ: "The Quaker saith, That Christ is already come the Second time, and George Fox affirmed in plain words, before many witnesses that hee knew him come within him, and he looked for him to come NO OTHER WISE..." (39) To this Caffyn asserts that the apostles Peter and Paul were still awaiting the coming "day of the Lord." (40) Through his liberal usage of capitalization for emphasis, Caffyn displays his frustration with the errors of Quaker thought.
The Taborites, a group in what was then Bohemia that attempted both religious and political separation from the Catholic Church, were: confident that, the Second Coming of Christ would occur in February of that year.
If you don't believe Moon received from Jesus himself the mission to become the second coming of Christ and the new Messiah, you will be sent to Brazil where the Church plans to build the literal Kingdom of God on Earth where you will be given a butter knife and told to clear the almost 200,000 acres they have purchased.
Evangelical Christians support Israel because they believe that the final gathering of Jewish power in the Holy Land will usher in the Second Coming of Christ.
Instead, the traditional themes usually emphasized by Pentecostals such as salvation, healing, Spiritbaptism, sanctification, and the second coming of Christ will be redefined by the larger theological contexts which they encounter.
Jews were required witnesses to the Second Coming of Christ. Stanislawski comments, "It is both their preservation and their debasement which proves the truth of Christianity." The so-called Ashkenaz Jews were invited by northern European kingdoms to help establish commercial trade, although they were encouraged to live separately.
The show sees atheist Richard examine his own obsession with Jesus and wonder if he is, in fact, the second coming of Christ. He compares himself to Jesus to see whether he's achieved as much, and at one point they have a bicycle race, with Richard pedalling away on an exercise bike on stage.
Shattering the one-dimensional conception of Miller as some delusional crackpot who foolishly predicted a specific date for the Second Coming of Christ, this well-written, sympathetic biography effectively examines the numerous complexities of an untrained layman who studied his Bible, believed that it could be plainly understood, and discovered a message that, he hoped, would result in the conversion of souls.
In the last section, "Slogans related to Christianity," he primarily deals with two issues: the comparison of the biblical holy wars to Islamic jihad, and the second coming of Christ.
With a text based on that of a US Christian sect, The Family, this ten-movement apocalyptic 'oratorio' tells of the coming of the Antichrist at a moment in history that resonates disturbingly with our own: 'Because of world war in the Middle East and a crisis in oil, dollar-based currencies and stocks will become worthless and banks will fail.' The work, sung unaccompanied by the choir, describes the reign of the Antichrist, the resulting chaos, and the subsequent second coming of Christ who triumphs over the Devil.
Teachings of Vatican II and Merton in relation to Yogananda In his posthumously published magnum opus, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, (43) Paramahansa Yogananda devotes Discourse 75, the last chapter in the two-volume work to the matter of "salvation through Christ." In this extraordinary chapter he carefully eschews the assertion that some " ...
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