How do we know that Jesus hasn't already returned?

Question

Who's to say Jesus hasn't already returned, and yet the people!, so blinded were they by their dogmas and vain imaginings, didn't recognise the spiritual truth of His return?
The Jews called Jesus a liar, and a fraud, because behold he is but a man! He is not the mighty king and warrior - he has no flaming chariot nor does he conquer the earth. He is but a man, or seems like one.

So too with God and Jesus' return today? What of the return of the Buddha, or the 10th Avatar? We have seen so much devastation in the 20th century... who's to say God hasn't already renewed His message? Where did the concepts like Feminism and Global Unity come from? Did they just appear and reform our society in the 19th century? Or was it God? But was His mark then left, and himself rejected? It wasn't what people expected so they scoffed and went back to their own beliefs, so blind were they?
Who's to say we aren't blinded by the outward "truth", which confuses us with the inward truth?

Read William Sears - A Thief in the Night.

Just for a note - even 100 years after Christ's death, most Jews barely would have known his name.
The people of Rome didn't for 100s - so don't say that because the entire world hasn't been shaken, that is proof of anything. Jesus came as a thief in the night the first time, why would the second be any different?

Answer 1

Well if he has then this time he did less than he did last time.

Answer 2

Everyone will know when He returns.The sun and the moon will be darkened.The stars will fall from heaven and heaven and earth will shake. At the same time we all will see Jesus coming in the clouds with power and glory that has never been seen before. "And He shall send His angels,with the great sound of a trumpet (the whole world will hear it) , and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds,from one end of heaven to the other" Matthew 24:31. What do you think this place is going to look like with no sun or moon and all the stars falling on it? I'm sure we would be able to tell if He had come back.Even evolutionist would be able to tell that.

Answer 3

Have you seen the sky roll back like a scroll?

Have you seen light flash from the east to the west like great lightning?

Have you seen millions in the clouds riding on white horses?

Have you seen this group of followers following One with King of Kings and Lord of Lords written on His vesture?

Have you seen all evil removed instantly from the world? What can be shaken will be shaken.

Have you seen the greatest earthquake that levels cities and moves mountains?

Have you heard a silver tongued devil trying to get you to forget Jesus as God and join one world religion? He'll boldly tell you that Jesus Christ is the only God who stops a one world religion. He'll try to convince you that Jesus was not God, but just a good prophet.

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS - THEN JESUS HASN'T RETURNED YET.

Answer 4

Jesus, along with more than 10,000 others was hung on a set of beams to die. He did so. With death, his consciousness was gone.... the bacteria that was digesting his food, digested him too, sooner or later... jesus, nor will any other dead person come back alive in tact , though all of their molecules will again live in something else --- bacteria, and even in other people. You have molecules that once make up jesus, and some from Beethoven as well... ah, but alas, none from Elvis.... he hasn't been dead long enough... Does jesus live? sure. And has he returned? Absolutely, and his molecules are in many living things today, even you...... and will be forever. When you die, someone else will get your molecules as well..... Planet Earth is a closed system--- absolutely everything gets recycled.....

Answer 5

Something tells me that you don't go to church on a regular basis, do you??

We'll know when Jesus comes back to earth, because you will see him coming down from the clouds. You can be blind to the church, and still see when Jesus comes down. It doesn't have anything to do with who believes in what, or where you live. It has to do with the fact of wether you believe in Jesus Christ or not. To sit there and say He's already returned but was rejected, is to sit there and say that you ignored a lion in it's den and it passed right by you. If that lion sees you in it's den, then it's going to attack. Just because people want to deny the fact that Jesus IS coming back, doesn't mean that they won't see him. There is no such thing as an exempt list when it comes to God. He's there, and we're here. He sent us how many messengers, and look what we did to every one of them that revealed themselves!! We crucified the most important one, we've crucified others, we've stoned them, beaten them, murdered them in the streets and in their homes, cut off limbs, tounges and other body parts.

I've never heard of the other things you said, like Buddah returning, or a 10th avatar. So I can't say much on those except I don't believe them. But I do agree with you. In the past 10 years, the world has gone through so much hell, it's unbeleiveable! The entire planet is like Soddom and Gamorah(however you spell it lol). Jesus WILL return, and the world will be wiped clean, just like the cities were. Soddom and Gamorah were totally destroyed because they were full of sin. The world today is so full of sin, and hatred that I sometimes wish that He would return sooner then later! Then again I don't, because there's so much that I want to see. Like my kids getting married and having babies of their own. My kids first jobs, first cars, first boyfriend and girlfriend.

But we have to realize something : What we want may not be what is already planned for us, it may not be God's will. What we want doesn't really matter. We're here to please God, and take care of what he gave us. And because we're destroying what God gave us, we must pay the ultimate price. Which is the return of Jesus.

Who's to say the big movements were't God? Like Black rights, Women's rights, Equal oportunities. Just because Martin Luther King never said that God told him to do this, doesn't mean that he didn't. I'm sure there have been messengers in the past, like Moses, or David(maybe not them exactly, but LIKE them), that never said that God sent them, or they were doing God's bidding, and suffered greatly, but had a wonderous outcome. When you're sitting in a chair, and you get the idea to do something good, how do you know where it's coming from? Did you just think of it, or did God tell you to do it? You may not hear a voice right in your ear, but when you get "that feeling", then someone is talking to you. It's just like when you get that feeling that someone is staring at you. You normally get that feeling when you're alone, don't you? That's because there really is someone there. Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and swear up and down that you saw a face, or someone standing over you, but when you turned the light on nothing was there?

There is no inward or outward truth. There is only the one truth. That God exists, and will be sending his only son back to us. If you're blinded to it, then you're in deep $#IT! If you've rejected God and His word, then you're in the same position!

If you want to reject everything that most of the population believes, then why are you up here asking questions? If you reject what is written, then it wouldn't bother you what is said, and what isn't. But it is bothering you, so maybe you should go back to church, and start reading the bible. Wether you've read it already or not. I'm not trying to be smart, but if you're questioning something, then you need to go back and reveiw what you've learned, or learn something aobut what you're asking.

Answer 6

He has returned in the flesh and there is evidence. It is not the same person but instead the return of Christ is in the same spirit (purpose and plan of God) of Christ on His first advent.

Daniel gave the date as 1863.

He is foretold to come in the bible by name, date, address and mission. Muhammad foretold his return as well. The native people of the world await His coming since they know the prophecies from millenia ago.

He has come and gone but the age of Justice and Peace is dawning now. People of that day may have missed Him as they looked elsewhere, same as in the time of the first advent of Christ.

Investigate with a pure heart and receive the truth.

The prophecies for His return have been fulfilled. If people do not see them it is because they are not looking in the right places. He came, as foretold, as a thief in the night to those who were waiting for Him.

Answer 7

Jesus Himself promised that when He returned, the world would know about it. There has been no "secret return"...when you hear people saying "He's in the desert" or "He's in some secret place" or "He's on television"....don't go running like a mad person. His return will light up the world from the east, even to the west.....

Answer 8

Read the Book of Revelations...and God didn't come back yet or all babies and small children who are not old enough to know what sin is, would be gone!

Answer 9

He did already come back, but the accursed devil threw him into Guantanamo bay prison, or Evil Building asylum; and to make it worse, leprechauns are assembling an army in the woods of Sherwood forest to take over the world.

Answer 10

In many hadith of the prophet Muhammad is said that Jesus will turn again and everybody will know him, because he will not have family, parents or relative, so if you search about his family roots you will not find, bcoz all his relative died about 2000 years ago.

Answer 11

We know he hasn't returned because he's dead... he died 2000 years go, dead people don't come back. I'm sorry, it's the truth and the sooner we all realize that the better off we will be... dead = dead, end of story.