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How will Jesus return?

Jesus will return personally and visibly in power, the same way that He ascended into Heaven.

Have you ever wondered about the return of Jesus—what Christians have often called the Second Coming? What will it be like? A lot of people have different ideas, and there have been dozens and dozens of books written about it.

The Bible is actually pretty clear about the return of Jesus.

Acts 1 tells us, when Jesus ascended into heaven on a cloud, that He would return in the same way, but this time descending. 

Chapters four and five in 1 Thessalonians and chapter 15 in 1 Corinthians tell us that Jesus will return and raise from the dead first those Christians who have died. Then Jesus will transform Christians who are alive so that they will be fit for God’s new world.

Philippians 3 says something similar. It says that Jesus will return and transform the bodies of Christians who are alive. And Romans chapter 8 adds to this that we need transformed bodies to live in God’s new world, when heaven and earth become one.

And Revelation says that Jesus will return and transform Christians into the kind of beings they will need to be to inhabit God’s new world, when heaven and earth come together once and for all and forever.

But what will all of this actually look like? Will Jesus literally descend upon a nimbus cloud, or is that just an image the Bible gives us? 

What really matters is this: Jesus will return and rescue His people and make them fit for the new world that He’s going to create, a world in which God and His people will live together forever.

Take some time to read through today’s Bible verses for yourself. Next, spend some time reflecting upon the hope of Jesus’ return.