To Christians - If Jesus existed before he was 'born in human form' does that mean his appearance 2,000 ...

Question

years ago constitute his 'return'.
And isn't he or his spirit supposed to keep returning as in the book of Revelations he is the Alpha and the Omega. The first and last?
If his appearance 2,000 years ago was his last how then can he return????

Answer 1

good question

Answer 2

Mark 13:32-33

But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

As for your question "How then can he return",

Acts 1:11

and said, "Galileans, why are you standing there looking up at the sky? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you saw him go to heaven."

Mark 13:26-27

Then the Son of Man will appear, coming in the clouds with great power and glory. He will send the angels out to the four corners of the earth to gather God's chosen people from one end of the world to the other.

Answer 3

Hello in Hebrews 13:8 we are indeed told Jesus has/had been forever and never was there a point in time where HE was not, not in John 8:58 He is also speaking of Himself as I AM and if you have a cross ref. bible it takes you back to Exodus 3, to Moses and the burning bush, Jesus the second member of The Godhead was that person who lead the children of Israel from Egypt also the member of The Godhead that spoke this world into being, but in John 1 we read that this person Jesus was MADE FLESH, this is His first return NOT the second, Jesus second return WILL happen, in 1 Thess.4:15-18 describes what happens then, now terms, when mankind was made in Gen. 2:7 God created Him and breathed into Him the breath of life or spirit as its called in Job 27:3 and HE "BECAME" a living soul, a soul is what we are its NOT something God pokes into you, Jesus is indeed the first and the last "IN IMPORTANCE" because upon His raising from that grave, which should have been mine and yours depends your salvation, find out more free bible lessons www.amazingfacts.org email me also [e-mail] God bless

Answer 4

Just think, the creator of all Who is omnipotent and with a majesty that would eclipse a million Suns condesends to leave Heaven and take on our finite and lowly form, what humility indeed and this is exactly what He did, this first appearance of God made man is called the `Incarnation`
Christ will indeed return for a second time but not as the vunerable man of the incarnation but with His full majesty and power that the world has never quite seen before.

Answer 5

Good argument. What it means by Him being the Alpha and the Omega is that He is the "Manifestation" of God, Who is the beginning and the end. Also, unlike human beings, Manifestations of God are pre-existence and eternal. Nevertheless, they are created by God.

Each Manifestation is the return of all the previous. So Jesus Christ returned in the form of Baha'u'llah in 1863.

Answer 6

Well, from what I understand about the whole armageddon thing, when he comes the second time, he will rid the world of evil and corruption. Or something like that. Is our world currently evil and corruption-free? I don't think so.

Answer 7

Amazing that he will do just that. Even though he didnt exist in a physical form before he was born. Remember God is Spirit. You need to bring the concept of Jesus, up to the Spiritual Level and quite looking at the physical.

Christians are monotheistic and believe that God is one. But both in His work in accomplishing salvation through the Person of Jesus Christ and through biblical study it has become clear that His oneness in fact comprises three Persons- Father, Son (Jesus Christ), and the third Person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.

The notion of God, who is three-in-one, is part of both the mystery and greatness of God. God is in essence one while in Persons three. This truth helps us understand God as truly personal and having the capacity to relate to other persons.

As well, Christians confirm the holiness, sovereignty, and greatness of God.

How can Jesus be the Son of God?

Scripture affirms that Jesus was conceived supernaturally by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary. It does not in any way claim that Jesus was directly God the Father's biological and physical son.

Jesus is the Son in a symbolic manner designating that He was God the Word who became man in order to save humankind from its sin.

The virgin birth was supernatural as God the Holy Spirit conceived in Mary, without physical relations, Jesus the Messiah.

PS:

Many wonder why Jesus, whom claimed the Old Testament, was about him, and yet his name is never found in the Old Testament?

Example - In John 5:39, Jesus says; Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Or take John 5:46 for another example. Where Jesus says; For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

The answer for this is a simple one, when we take into consideration, His actual name in Hebrew is Yahshua and means Salvation.

However, in translation, it’s the “Literal” meaning, of his name that is used, as in Matthew 1:23 “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Jesus in the Greek means Savior.

Showing it was his literal name used in translation, instead of the “Actual” Hebrew name – Yahshua, as in Isaiah 7:14 says; “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”

The Old Testament did point to Jesus; but with His Hebrew name, Yahshua.

Even more specifically, our Messiah's Name is YAHSHUA = YAH IS SALVATION.

For Jesus (Yahshua) has come in His Father's Name and His Father's name is YHWH - Yahweh for He (Yahshua) Jesus is the Yah of Yahweh that brings Salvation.