1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - The Case For The Rapture
Main Idea: Obediently await the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Tribulation is for Israel’s restoration to God.
Daniel’s “70 Sevens” prophecy was about Israel/Jerusalem.
Daniel’s 70th Seven (the Tribulation) is about God rescuing them.
The Church is the Bride of Christ, headed for Heaven.
Jesus said He’s preparing a place in Heaven to take us to. (John 14)
The early church was told to expect Christ’s return. (James 5:7-8)
God’s promised to save us from His coming wrath. (1 Thess. 5:1-11)
The Church is absent from Revelation’s portions on the Tribulation.
The Marriage Feast of Christ/His Bride is in Heaven. (Rev. 19:1-9)
Timeline of Scripture’s last events.
The Rapture (Christ takes His Bride for their wedding feast).
The Antichrist becomes the ruler of a worldwide government, which signs a peace treaty with Israel. (This begins the Tribulation)
The Tribulation is seven years of God’s extraordinary judgment on our evil world (like when He rescued Israel from Egypt).
3.5 years into the Tribulation, the Antichrist breaks the treaty & defiles the (rebuilt) Temple, declaring himself to be god.
The Jewish people recognize Jesus as their Messiah en masse.
At the end of the 7 years, the world’s nations surround Jerusalem to put an end to the Jewish people & followers of Jesus.
Jesus returns to Earth to reign, crushing the Antichrist’s rule.
TERMS TO KNOW FOR THIS MESSAGE / FURTHER STUDY
The Rapture - Christ appears in the sky & bodily takes all believers to Heaven with Him, & He will return with them 7 years later (at the end of the Tribulation) to rule and reign on Earth for 1,000 years.
The Tribulation - 7 years of divine apocalyptic hardship with a world ruler, the Antichrist (also called “The little horn”, or “The man of lawlessness”) — This time is to end evil and restore Israel.
Premillennialism - Christ will reign on Earth for 1,000 years after the Tribulation - (Can include a Rapture (“Pre-Tribulation”) or no Rapture (“Post-Tribulation”)).
Why Are Christians Premillennial— They believe in the literal fulfillment of God’s Old Testament promises to Israel in relation to their land & His Kingdom.
Postmillennialism - Christ will return to Earth after a time of worldwide utopian Christian rule.
Why Are Christians Postmillennial — They believe that Jesus’ commands to “make disciples of all nations” & His promises about Israel’s land/Kingdom will be fulfilled by His Church.
Amillennialism - Christ rules in Heaven now, & will return to Earth physically in His timing (with no need for any other events).
Why Are Christians Amillennial — They believe that Jesus currently reigns in Heaven (in fulfillment of Revelation 20), & He can return at any time to usher in God’s eternal rule.
What Does Everyone Agree On? - Jesus will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead & His kingdom will have no end.
What Should We Do Till Jesus Comes? -“Deny godlessness and worldly lusts, and live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age, while we wait for the blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.” - Titus 2:12-13
Sermon Transcript (Auto-Transcribed By Apple Podcasts)
All right, there are several portions of scripture that are on your handout. We are not going to exhaustively read through all of those. I encourage you this week, read through those passages.
So we're gonna look at a few, if you will, kind of big, big ticket items as we look at the case for the rapture. First, obviously, especially if you're new to Christianity, what is the rapture? The rapture is this belief.
Christ will appear in the sky and bodily take all believers to heaven with him, and he will return with them seven years later, at the end of the tribulation, to rule and reign on earth for a thousand years.
That is, that 70th week of Daniel, that we looked at in Daniel 7-12, those seven years where, well, I'll leave that for one second because I need to go over some of that information.
That seven years, Jesus, at the start of it, takes his church to be with him. And so we will ever be with the Lord. We aren't just in heaven, though, for all of eternity.
Many of us maybe grew up thinking that. I knew I grew up thinking that. But God doesn't just have the all fly away by and by.
That's not our final destination. We're coming back. God's remaking this world into what He always intended for it to be.
But we will have a time that we are with our Savior in heaven, in, if you will, that addition to the Father's house that the Son has made for His Bride, the Church. So, on here we have the seven years, the Tribulation. What is the Tribulation?
This definition is also on the back of your handout as well. You don't have to necessarily write this down, but if this is helpful for you.
The Tribulation is what Scripture calls seven years of divine apocalyptic hardship with a world ruler, the Antichrist.
We saw him referenced in Daniel 7 and Daniel 9 as the little horn, or as Paul would call him in 2 Thessalonians 2, the man of lawlessness. And during these seven years, this time is intended to end human evil and injustice.
And to restore Israel back to a place of a relationship with God. Okay, so that's the rapture. That's the tribulation.
Like, all right, cool. Maybe if you grew up here, if you grew up Baptist, that may have been the only, if you will, end times thing that you've ever heard.
If you grew up hearing about the rapture or believing in the rapture, can I just have a show of hands real quick? I'm very interested on. Okay, so the vast predominance of us.
There are a couple of biblically faithful alternatives to this belief. So not every Christian would believe in the rapture, as stated here on the screen, and not every believer would believe in a seven-year tribulation. I go, why?
You said like this is Bible stuff. We read verses. We, you know, sang a song about victory in Jesus and him coming back.
Why would someone not believe that? Here are the main alternatives. Number one, and this is on the back of your handout as well, is what's called historic premillennialism.
This would also be called post-tribulation premillennialism.
This would be the belief that the church, the bride of Christ, we will go through that time period of the tribulation, of the deep apocalyptic hardship with the antichrist ruling over the world and Jesus returning in power to reign for a thousand
years at the end of that time period. If you will, this is kind of like worst case scenario. This is, you don't get the rapture at the beginning of it. It's at the very end of the tribulation.
Then the world armies come together at the battle of Armageddon, and God's people basically lose the fight more or less, but then Jesus comes in victory with those that have died that are saints, and also with the angels, and he wins the battle.
He absolutely demolishes all human evil and human armies, and then he reigns for a thousand years. But we have to go through the tribulation.
Just not wanting to go through the tribulation, by the way, is not a reason to not believe in post-tribulational premillennialism. You don't just get to pick the option that you like the most or that makes you feel the fuzziest.
I'm going to give you five reasons that I believe from the Word of God that you can actually believe in in the rapture or in what's called pre-tribulation premillennialism. So that's historic premillennialism, that we'll go through the tribulation.
Jesus comes back at the end of that and we reign for a thousand years. There's all-millennialism, which is the belief that all of time since Christ ascended to heaven is the tribulation. So the past 2,000 years have been a time of tribulation.
And for us in America, we might go, well, this doesn't really feel like the tribulation.
But if you go maybe to the Middle East, where believers have been beheaded by ISIS, if you go to locations like Russia or China, or India right now, where I know of a missionary, that they are under constant heavy persecution as a result of sharing
their faith in Jesus, as they read through Revelation, and they read about believers being put to death, they go, yeah, that's the life that I'm living right now, as far back as I can remember. That's what Christians here in my country have been
experiencing. So the all-millennial position says, Christ can return at any time. He doesn't have to come back before a tribulation or at the end of a tribulation. It just says the past 2,000 years have been tribulation.
You can look at Jesus' words that he said to the disciples, in this world, you will have trouble.
And so they would say, well, all of this time period has been a time of hardship, and so Jesus can come back at any moment, and there doesn't have to be anything else in the timeline.
And then lastly is post-millennialism, and that would be the belief that a lot of what's mentioned in the Book of Revelation is a fancy way, a describing, allegorical way of describing what happened to the city of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
They say the tribulation, that was 70 AD. So Matthew 24, Mark 13, the Book of Revelation, all that took place in AD. 70.
I just have a slight problem. Well, I won't poison the well there just yet. Their belief would be, Jesus' church will accomplish the mission that he sent it for.
The church will make disciples of all nations. The world will be one to Christ. And at the end of a period of the church, if you will, having won the world through evangelism, then Jesus will return.
If you will, kind of a, Attaboy, you guys did it. That was a very predominant view. If you read any of the writings of the Puritans from the 1600s and 1700s, that's how they thought the world was going to end up.
Many people believe that even in the 1800s, as they saw the technological advancements that were taking place, they thought, oh yeah, we've kind of been arriving as a society, and we think we might win over the entire world.
Then World War I and World War II hit, and post-millennialism was abandoned for the better part of about 70, 80 years, that they went, oh, we have not made the world a better place. In fact, this world is about as dark as we have ever seen it.
So those are some of the alternatives. So if you will, there's pre-trib, post-millennialism, that Jesus comes, his rapture happens at the start of the tribulation. Can you guys say the start?
Okay, then there's historic pre-millennialism, that Jesus comes at the end of the tribulation. Can you guys say the end? Okay, all millennialism says, all of our time period is tribulation, and so Jesus can come back at any time.
And then post-millennialism says, when we've gotten, if you will, when we've gotten our act together as a world, and we've won the world to Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit and his church-making disciples of all nations, then Jesus will
return at the end of that. So why would I give you those alternatives?
I want to be faithful to give you guys, when there is a alternate opinion between good, godly individuals, that you can say, okay, even if this person doesn't believe in the rapture happening before the tribulation, they can still be a good, godly
brother or sister in the Lord. So you don't have to write any of that down. I just want you to not suspect or distrust other faithful believers in the Lord who might hold a position other than this. Then I want to say this.
Why does any of this matter? Why am I telling you guys about this? Because we are told to number one, comfort one another, encourage one another with the truth of Christ's return.
So if you're supposed to comfort other people with the fact that Jesus is coming back, you should probably know what's included in Jesus coming back. Number two, we're commanded to work at Christ's mission until Jesus returns.
The old King James would use the phrase as Jesus is saying, occupy till I come. That is kind of like an invading military force. You have to constantly kind of be vigilant about maintaining the land that you have conquered.
Jesus says, I want you to be busy doing the work that I sent you for until I show up. The book of 2nd Thessalonians deals with this in detail. You had people that were like, okay, Jesus is coming back, so why am I working a job?
Jesus is coming back, so why do I need to like make money and make my own food? So you had people quitting their jobs, and they were going and loafing at other people's houses and bumming off of them.
And Paul tells them, no, if a person isn't working, they're able to work, but they're not working, he says, you shouldn't give that person your food. Instead, he calls them to be busy about the work that Jesus has called them to until he returns.
Number three, we're told to learn all of what Christ and his apostles talk. If it's in the Bible, it's for you. Some of you might not think that.
If it's in the Bible, it's for you. You need to know everything that God has said. So I want to be faithful to teach that.
And so as a result, we should know why Jesus' return is comforting, what goal we're working towards, I'll just spell it out for you guys, evangelism and discipleship. We help people to know Christ. We know Christ.
We grow in His word. We show His love to others. Like that's our mission.
That's why we exist. That's why we're here on planet Earth. Be about that mission.
And then lastly, we need to know what God's word says about Jesus' return. If you will, the takeaway that we want to have for today is obediently await the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Obediently await the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Expect Jesus to come back. The testimony of Scripture is you can expect him to come back at any time.
This is why I personally think that the pre-tribulation, pre-millennial position, the rapture, the before the tribulation, I believe that that is an accurate representation of the views that the believers in the early church had.
Or if that's incorrect and there doesn't have to be that time, that last seven-year time period from Daniel's prophecy, I think the all-millennial position also would tell us that Jesus can return at any point.
And so I think both of those are consistent with what we see in the New Testament. Okay.
This last portion will be very brief because, as I mentioned, you guys can read, I think most of you are literate, and so you guys can read through the passages that we're going to be looking at during the week. Main points of this.
The Tribulation is for Israel's restoration to God. The Tribulation is for Israel's restoration to God. We can see this because Daniel's prophecy about the seventy-sevens, or the seventy sets of seven years, it was about Israel and Jerusalem.
In Daniel 9 24, the angel telling Daniel about this says, this prophecy is about your people and your holy city, which was the Jews and Israel. He says, this is what this is for. The Tribulation is not for the church.
It's to restore Israel. We can see on your handout Daniel's seventy-seventh, the Tribulation, that one that at the end of it, the everlasting righteousness, the end of sin, all of that happens at the end of the seventy-seventh.
Like I talked about last week, all of us, we still have sin. And we still have things that we're struggling with. And so sin has not been made totally end of yet.
There has not been brought in everlasting righteousness, of course, other than the righteousness of Christ. And so as a result, we still believe that this is yet to come. And this Tribulation period is about God rescuing Israel.
We're part of the people of God, but the people of God has always been larger than Israel. You can look at Job, at Rahab, the Philistine.
You can look at even King Nebuchadnezzar, that he turned in faith to the Lord, that God has a specific plan for Israel that he doesn't have for all of his people. There's a specific plan in mind.
And that plan was not just to bring Jesus into the world, but as God made promises to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, to Moses, and to David, we believe that he will be faithful to keep those promises about land and the blessing.
And God is not done with Israel. He has not thrown them away as his chosen people. You can read about that in Romans 11.
And so God has a master plan of how, if you will, he will win back his bride. So in the Old Testament, Yahweh, the Lord, Jehovah, is talked about as the bride of his people, Israel.
Then in the New Testament, you have Jesus, and he talks about the church as his bride. So if you will, this, again, you could get weird with it, don't, but you have the father has his bride, and the son has his bride.
Jesus' plan, he died for his bride. That's Ephesians 5. And he is coming back to bring us to the father's house that we would enjoy heaven with him.
Pastor Ron read that from John 14. That's on your notes. But God the father has a plan for how he's going to rescue his bride as well.
The tribulation is that time period. There's a timeline event of events even on your handout that we would read from scripture of what that sequence looks like.
And so it's the grand story that as the son accomplishes his wedding, his feast, and he's won his bride on Calvary, the tribulation is God, if you will, doing a second Exodus.
So just like he brought Israel out from Egypt with the 10 plagues, the tribulation time period is another one of those. That he protects his people.
They are persecuted even as the Jewish people were actively being persecuted by the Egyptians during the time of the 10 plagues, and were made to work harder, were enslaved, all of that happened. And so this is God's time plan.
This is, if you will, the bow that is set on the story of Scripture. That God lost mankind due to our sin and our failure and our rejection of him, but he came in the person of Jesus and he rescued us.
But not only that, God had his people, Israel, those that he called out from Babylon and out from Egypt. And they turned their backs on him. And they rejected Jesus as the Messiah.
But God is going to win them back as well. So the Tribulation is for Israel. But then lastly today, the church is the bride of Christ bound for heaven.
We would get this from Ephesians 5, where it says Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one ever hates his own flesh, but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, since we are members of his body. He says, this is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
The church is the bride of Christ. Thankfully, I don't have to spend much time on this, because Pastor Ron mentioned it earlier. Jesus said that he is preparing a place in heaven to take us to.
Jesus said that he was going to prepare a place so that where he is, we would be also. One day, Jesus will return, and we will reign with him for a thousand years. But the place that he is preparing, the place that we want to go to, it's in heaven.
It's where the father is, and so we are going to him. Now, for those of us that have loved ones that have passed away, right now, they are in heaven. They're not in purgatory.
They're not in soul sleep. They're not in some other in-between place. They are right now with Jesus.
We would know this from Corinthians, where Paul says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. So part of Christ's bride is already there, in heaven, where he prepared a place.
But if Jesus isn't intending to bring all of his bride to be in that place, it's going to be a weird wedding. My wedding would be weird if only like my wife's head and arms and legs were there, and there was no torso.
We would think that was probably a weird wedding if not all of the bride was present. So if Christ is going to prepare a place to bring us, then it means all of the bride needs to be there.
So we would believe from John 14 that we are to go to heaven. This is God's intended plan. The application that Jesus gives us from John 14 is, because of this, don't let your heart be troubled.
You believe in God, believe also in Jesus. Because you have a home in heaven, don't be freaked out, don't be afraid. Jesus is returning for you.
Next, the early church was told to expect Christ's return. The early church was told to expect Christ's return. James says, therefore, brothers and sisters, be patient until the Lord's coming.
He doesn't say, the Lord's not coming for 2,000 years. The expectation of the people of God has always been that Jesus could return at any moment. Now, he could wait another 2,000 years, or he could come before this service is done, Lord willing.
But our expectation is, Jesus, you could come back at any point, and so until you do come back, I'm going to be patient.
He says, see how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient, strengthen your hearts, because the Lord's coming is near.
Okay, because we're called to expect Jesus, be patient. Be patient with God. Be patient with other people.
Today, August 3, be patient with your waiter. When you go out to lunch or you go to dinner, be patient. Be patient with how God is working in your life.
There are going to be some tough moments. Be patient to allow God time to be able to work in you. Not only be patient, but he says, strengthen your hearts.
Make your emotions able to handle more hardships because of Jesus' return. Jesus is coming back. When he comes back, everything wrong in your life will be made right.
So, intend, I can go through hardships. I can deal with my loved ones being unkind. I can deal with this not super great situation at work because I know Jesus is going to come back, and so I can endure.
I can strengthen my heart. I can say, I'm not giving up. I'm not going to lose my cool.
I'm not going to lose my testimony. Instead, I'm going to steal myself, knowing Jesus is coming back, and what he does, it will all be made right. God has promised to save us from his coming wrath.
1 Thessalonians 5 deals with this, that the church is not appointed to go through the tribulation, the wrath of God on the sin of the world. Jesus took the wrath of God for us.
And so, our expectation is because of what Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 5, he splits humanity into two groups.
There's the people that are the people of the day, the people for whom the day of the Lord, that is that end time period of the tribulation, eschatology, end times, end of the world stuff.
He says, when it comes to the end of the world, there's people of the day. They're not going to be destroyed. They're not going to be overcome.
They're not going to suffer the wrath of God. He says, and that's y'all, as the church, you are not going through this wrath and tribulation. So stay awake and do what God has called you to do here and now.
When it comes to the end times, you can either be unsurprised, awake, appointed to salvation, living together with Christ, whether you are dead or alive, that's the good side, or you can have the experience of this world, which is when the end times
come, you will be suddenly destroyed. You won't be able to escape. You will be surprised at what takes place. You will be unaware or sleeping to the circumstances and appointed to wrath.
The call to you all today is which side are you on? Are you expecting the return of Jesus? And are you living like Jesus could come back today?
That Jesus could come back in the middle of that conversation that you're having with that other person? Jesus could come back in the middle of your life. Are you living for Him?
Are you anxiously awaiting that day? Or if He were to come back, would you feel shame that He came back in that moment? I'm thankful that if you have trusted in Christ as your Savior, there's no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
But for our part, may we live today in light of that coming day. Next, the church is absent from Revelation's portions on the Tribulation. So Revelation talks at length about that final seven years on earth before Jesus returns to rule and to reign.
The church is mentioned over and over and over again from Matthew all the way through Revelation 3. Revelation 2 and 3, actually, Jesus has John write to seven different churches.
But from chapter 3 onward, we don't see the church mentioned at all in Revelation 4 through the end.
And the question is, all right, well, if the church is God's plan A, it's the way that we would read in Ephesians 3 that he shows his wisdom to the spiritual beings.
God shows how smart he is through you as the local church, that he uses imperfect, flawed people to love each other, to share the gospel, to grow in the Word of God, empowered by the Holy Spirit, to accomplish God's kingdom here on earth as it is in
heaven. So God loves the church. That's his plan A. So the question is why during this tribulation time period is the church never once mentioned in anything that takes place?
The answer is we're gone. The church has been taken away. So as a result, we would believe that the church is absent because that's exactly what we read, that the church is absent from this portion of scripture that deals with the tribulation.
I'll say this as far as one application, and then we've got our very last point for this morning. Do you live today like the church is already gone? Now, you're like, listen, Brian, we're sitting in the chairs.
Obviously, we're not living today like the church is gone. The church is not just the Sunday morning 11 o'clock program. The church is not just 143 and 121 Bennet Road.
The church is made up of believers. It's Fern and Lori and Rhonda and all the rest of y'all. Do you live your week as though the church is gone?
Or do, throughout the week, are you praying for each other? Are you sending a text or a call to each other? Are you checking in on one another?
Live today like the church is still here, because, in fact, the church is still here. Then lastly today, the marriage feast of Christ and his bride is in heaven. In Revelation 19, you have the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Every time that we observe the Lord's Supper, we remember this meal that we have is small, and it's somewhat incomplete, because not everybody is here yet.
But on that day, when there is the marriage feast, in heaven, worshiping the Lamb, we get to enjoy the Lord's Supper with the Lord, with Jesus. So why would I believe that the rapture is something that will take place?
Well, because Jesus promised, I'm going to eat this Lord's Supper with you new in my Father's kingdom. We're going to his house. He's not leaving any part of his bride behind.
Everyone's going to be there for it. The marriage feast takes place in heaven. We will also feast and reign with the Lord here on earth.
But the marriage feast in Revelation 19, the marriage supper of the Lamb and his bride, it takes place in heaven. Because we are the bride of Christ, the application then for you is live a holy life today. Don't cheat on your heavenly husband.
In the Old Testament and in James chapter 4, the prophets and then James, the half-brother of Jesus, highlights for us this truth.
When we do not image God, when we're not living the way that God has called us to live, in the way we talk, the way that we treat others, the way that we worship the Lord, we are committing spiritual adultery.
But Christ has called his bride to be a pure, holy people set apart for him, that we would show others what God is like in our thoughts, our words, our attitudes, and our actions.
So if we know we're headed for that marriage feast, let's live today in holiness, in love, in kindness, in having the joy of the Holy Spirit, in sharing Christ, sharing the gospel with other people. Okay, case for the rapture.
Before everything kicks off, apocalypse, end of time, Jesus is coming back for his church. Where his bride, the tribulation time period God has a plan for, it's for Israel, we are called to join that marriage supper of the lamb.
And at the end of that seven years, he's coming back with all of us, and we will rule and reign with him for a thousand years. So what do you do today? Number one, do you know Jesus as your Savior?
If you don't know Jesus as your Savior, if Jesus were to come back today, your soul would be in danger. If you were to die today, your soul would be in danger if you do not know Christ as your Savior. What does it mean to know Christ?
It means that you recognize your place before God. God is holy. You and I are not.
We could not get to God on our own through our good works, through our best efforts, through even any sort of like heartfelt belief on our own or just belief that God even existed. We could not get to God on our own.
That's why Jesus came and died for us, so that we could have a way back to God.
Because Jesus died for us, everyone that believes in Christ and what He accomplished for us and asks Jesus to forgive them of their sin, that they turn in faith, they say, I'm no longer following this road of sin and self-determination, but instead I
am choosing to accept Jesus' payment for my sin, and I'm following him as my Lord, my Master, the one in charge of my life. Every person that turns to Jesus in faith will be saved.
Scripture says, they're made a part of the bride of Christ, his church. So that's number one. If you don't know Jesus as your Savior, you need to make that decision to turn from your sin, believe in what Jesus did, and follow him.
If you want to talk with someone about that, talk to the person next to you, I would love to have a conversation with you, either today or this week, about that. There's no more important decision that you can make.
Number two, most of you in here, you have accepted Christ. Are you living like Jesus could come back at any moment? Are you holding on to some bitterness as it relates to a sibling, a parent, a grand kid?
Are you consistently fighting with others in your life or maybe at your job? Don't live today like your life is yours to live because it's not. The life you live is to be lived for Jesus.
You're the Bride of Christ. And the way that you interact with others says something about the God that you serve. So choose to love others, to care for others, to forgive, and to be holy.
Because the church is the Bride of Christ, love it, attend it faithfully, give to its work, be here as often as you can, and choose to live out your Christian love towards the church more than just on a Sunday morning. Do it throughout the week.
That means get someone's number that's here at the church this morning. Text them. Call them.
Send them an encouraging Bible verse. I've been encouraged through getting texts from friends, even this past week, that were like, hey, I'm praying for you. Here's this verse that spoke to me.
I was so encouraged by that. Let's do that for one another. And then lastly, anticipate Jesus' return.
Don't let it be something that sparks fear in you. Pray along with John at the end of Revelation. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.
I can't wait for that day. There's no more sickness, no more pain. Instead, we will be with the Lord forever, as He's promised.
Today, expect Jesus to come back, because He is.
