When Jesus comes back ...................?

Question

is He going to find faith on earth? The true faith that He taught?

Answer 1

I think he would take one look around and go back where he came from.

Answer 2

"Nevertheless, when the Son of man arrives, will he really find the faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8

Jesus here is not doubting anything while asking this question.
He well knows that the prophecies concerning his followers will come to pass and be found true just as all the other prophecies have been fulfilled.

True Faith—Is It Still Possible?

“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.”—MARTIN LUTHER, 1522.

“To all intents and purposes we already are a secular society in which Christian faith and practices have become largely moribund.”—LUDOVIC KENNEDY, 1999.

VIEWS on faith differ dramatically. In the past, faith in God was the norm. Nowadays, in a world of skepticism and suffering, true faith in God and in the Bible is disappearing rapidly.

True Faith

To many, “faith” simply means having a religious belief or following a form of worship. As used in the Bible, however, “faith” basically means total trust—complete, unshakable confidence in God and his promises. It is a quality that marks a disciple of Jesus Christ.

On one occasion, Jesus Christ spoke about the need to pray and “not to give up.” In so doing, he raised a question about whether true faith would exist at all in our day. He asked: “When the Son of man arrives, will he really find this faith on the earth?” Why did he raise such a question?—Luke 18:1, 8, footnote.

Lost Faith

Many things can cause people to lose what faith they may have. Among them are the traumas and trials of everyday life. Professor Michael Goulder, for example, was a parish priest in Manchester, England, at the time of the 1958 Munich air disaster in which many of the Manchester United football team were killed. In a BBC television program, announcer Joan Bakewell explained that Goulder “felt helpless before the scale of people’s grief.” One result was that he “lost his faith in a God who intervenes in human destiny.” Goulder stated his belief that “the Bible isn’t . . . the inerrant word of God” but, rather, “the errant word of man, perhaps with some divine inspiration here and there.”

Sometimes faith just withers away. That was what happened in the case of writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy. He says that from childhood his “doubts and uncertainties [about God] went to and fro and [his] disbeliefs grew.” No one, it seems, could give him reasonable answers to his questions. His father’s death at sea was a serious blow to what was already a very weak faith. Prayers to God to “preserve us from the dangers of the sea and from the violence of the enemy” went unanswered as the converted passenger liner his father was on was attacked and destroyed by German battleships during World War II.—All in the Mind—A Farewell to God.

Such experiences are not unusual. “Faith,” says the apostle Paul, “is not a possession of all people.” (2 Thessalonians 3:2) What do you think? Is true faith in God and in his Word still possible in an increasingly skeptical world?

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Also, the parable about the Wheat and the Weeds shows clearly that the true faith WOULD be found when Christ arrived to reign in the Kingdom.

"Another illustration he set before them, saying: “The kingdom of the heavens has become like a man that sowed fine seed in his field. 25 While men were sleeping, his enemy came and oversowed weeds in among the wheat, and left. 26 When the blade sprouted and produced fruit, then the weeds appeared also. 27 So the slaves of the householder came up and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow fine seed in your field? How, then, does it come to have weeds?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy, a man, did this.’ They said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go out and collect them?’ 29 He said, ‘No; that by no chance, while collecting the weeds, YOU uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the harvest season I will tell the reapers, First collect the weeds and bind them in bundles to burn them up, then go to gathering the wheat into my storehouse."
- Matthew 13:24-30

Then, being inquisitive as they often were, wanting to learn more the following takes place:


Then after dismissing the crowds he went into the house. And his disciples came to him and said: “Explain to us the illustration of the weeds in the field.” 37 In response he said: “The sower of the fine seed is the Son of man; 38 the field is the world; as for the fine seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; but the weeds are the sons of the wicked one, 39 and the enemy that sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is a conclusion of a system of things, and the reapers are angels. 40 Therefore, just as the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be in the conclusion of the system of things. 41 The Son of man will send forth his angels, and they will collect out from his kingdom all things that cause stumbling and persons who are doing lawlessness, 42 and they will pitch them into the fiery furnace. There is where [their] weeping and the gnashing of [their] teeth will be. 43 At that time the righteous ones will shine as brightly as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him that has ears listen. - Matthew 13:36-43

Answer 3

Jesus would came back sometime before the Dooms Day. He would be preaching and following the faith of God, propogated by all prophets (Jesus, Moses, Muhammad etc)

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Answer 4

Even in Noah's time there was one good man, now there's 100x more people, the Holy Spirit, and ministry working around the clock as we speak. He will find those who believe... and those who won't.

Answer 5

yes he will and he will come back and no he isnt a myth jesus has been recorded in many other historical documents even rising from the dead read case for christ by lee strobel

Answer 6

No he wont! he will find it twisted and adapted so people can openly discriminate against others!

Answer 7

I found 'Faith' by George Michael on eBay for 99 cents. And 'True Faith' by New Order for $1.50. If Jesus keeps his eyes open, it should be no problem.

Answer 8

If he has any sense - he WON'T come back

Answer 9

It has been diluted and convoluted a bit.

Answer 10

Yes He will come back. Yes.