Jesus returning anytime soon???

Question

Religious people keep telling me that Jesus is returning. I have been hearing this for years and years. First it was in the millenium and then at other religious times of the year. Surely the longer this goes on the more people will abandon God/religion etc as rubbish? If you are a religious person please tell me in plain English what the delay is? We are all told to pray and our prayer will be answered. Well I must admit I prayed hard for my nan last year after she had a stroke. All my family did, we even went to church but she just suffered for months the died. The longer this goes on the more I doubt it's truth.

Answer 1

I'm really sorry to hear about your Nan. Your pain is very evident. You must have loved her lots. Well, our perspective of time is a strange thing. Did you know that as you become elderly, the years seem ridiculously shorter than when you were in your 20s or 30s? I'm no spring chicken myself, and I'm astonished at how the years are gathering momentum. By the time I'm in my 70s I fully expect to have quite lost track of where the years have gone! I also know that there comes a time when elderly people want to go. They're ready to go. They can sometimes even feel as if they've had enough. An elderly aunt died, leaving her husband to live on another 10+ years. He'd been in WWI. In his 90s, when I visited, he wearily said, "I've lived too long." He died soon after.

God's perspective on time is something else. A thousand years to us are as a day to him. Eternity is his domain. We are all given about three-score and ten years, which is long enough for people to turn to God, or not. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to awaken to the reality of God. Sometimes it takes the death of a loved one to question, and think, and pray. But God is not someone we should just turn to in times of trouble, for help, then abandon if we don't get what we thought we wanted. (Did you really want your Nan to live on after a stroke if she would be debilitated? If so, why did you want her to live? For your benefit? Because you couldn't bare to let her go? I don't ask unkindly. Just check your motives. You cannot fool God.) Likewise with prayer and going to church. If we do that just to get help with our problems, do you really think God will answer those prayers? If God granted good answers every time we prayed, people would become Christians (or Moslems etc) for all the wrong reasons - for the benefits we'd derive - not for the right reason, which is to live to honor God and to glorify him. Your idea of truth is not necessarily God's truth. If you can approach him in humility, seeking to learn and to trust him, you will find understanding coming. I cannot tell you what the delay is. I only know that every day I must be prepared for Christ, whether he appears in glory, or whether he comes to receive me to home, which is heaven. May God help you to seek after him.

Answer 2

We've been waiting for almost 2,000 years. People thought he would return during the first generation of the Church. People thought that he would return the year 1000. The point is, Jesus clearly said that it was not to be known precisely:

The signs that are to precede the judgment give no accurate indication of the time when it will occur (Mark 13:32). When the Disciples asked the Saviour: "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" He answered: "It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power" (Acts 1:6-7). The uncertainty of the day of judgment is continually urged by Christ and the Apostles as an incentive to vigilance. The day of the Lord will come "as a thief" (Matthew 24:42-43), like lightning suddenly appearing (Matthew 24:27), like a snare (Luke 21:34), as the Deluge (Matthew 24:37).

When we run around trying to figure it out, we are then distracted from the Mission of the Church and our relationship with God.

Answer 3

Jesus is returning soon, but remember soon for God is not necesarily soon for us, His time is not our time, and what if he does not come in the next 100000 years? He will return whenever he wants, it could be in 5 mins..... and about the prayers, God does not ask you to go to church so you can get stuff, nope, he wants you to believe in him and confess Jesus is your king and savior, he never, ever said, if you go to church you'll be saved and all your prayers will be answered.
Romans 8:28 says "We know that God is always at work for the good of everyone who loves him" and praying is not like a routine, you have to pray believing that it has already been answered, that's the only way, with faith. Mathew 21:22 "If you have faith when you pray, you will be given whatever you ask for"
AND if it was God's purpose for that to happen, there's nothing we can do, maybe we'll never understand why things happen, but we have to believe it's all for good, because it is.
I learned this last night: Sometimes you keep asking God why, and maybe he doesn't want to answer, maybe he wants you to answer the question... just believe and don't give up.

Answer 4

Depends if your a Christian!

If not then no never. However one thing to bare in mind Buddhism as we know it, Christianity and a load of other religions came into existence at the same time. Although the stories differ and practices due to culture etc... The basic message is the same about love everyone and with or without a book to tell you (like the Christian bible or Koran) we know certain things are crimes. As for your relative dying it is hard to explain perhaps there will never be an answer for that. All you can say is that certain things are a natural part of life, we all will get ill at one point, experience someone close dying etc... Cant escape certain pains dear.

As my personal preference I would say take a Buddhist example since it is much harsher but truer to life. He states that life offers no guarantee about anything so do your best to cultivate your soul and break the pain of coming back to another life. Because in the end, life despite all the philosophies, technologies religions etc... only offers one guarantee, and that is you will die one day.

Answer 5

Sorry about your Nan. It's hard to see someone suffer like that. I don't believe that god always does everything we ask, but I know he can help us cope with things like death and suffering.
Jesus said that "no-one knows the day or hour" that he will come to put an end to wickedness and suffering on the earth, but he was asked in Matthew 24, and recorded at Luke 21, and Mark 13, "What will be the SIGN of your (coming, or better translated, presence). " Jesus then gave lots of signs that we could see.
If you read these chapters you'll see it talks about things being pretty bad on the earth before the end of this bad system comes. But it does say that the GOOD NEWS of the kingdom (the one we pray for) would be preached in all the earth for a witness, and then the end would come.
So there is good news, if we can hang on and strengthen our faith by prayer and Bible study. You will need help, though to understand what the bible really teaches, so why not pray for someone to come and help you understand it...you might get a surprise shortly, when someone knocks on your door!
P.S. IT IS NOT WRONG TO ASK THIS QUESTION. THE DISCIPLES ASKED JESUS AND HE ANSWERED THEM.

Answer 6

Jesus will indeed be coming soon. From what I know and see happening, I give it about 5-10 years. I'll show you why I think so.
In Matthew 24 Jesus gives a list of things that will happen before he comes a second time. "Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and runours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences(diseases), and earthquakes in divers palces...Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations...And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall aboutnd, the love of many shall wax cold...And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and than shall the end come...For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." v. 4-24

Jesus also says that the end shall be as the days of Noah were. Everyone was wicked back then, and look at the world today. The crime rate is through the roof. Everyone is only thinking about their own selves, and they love the world far more then they love God. This is what I see happening in the world today.

Answer 7

You hit the nail right on the head.
Religion was invented by people who could not scientifically explain certain mysterious happenings, such as "why does the sun rise each morning?" and so on.
People do not like being looked upon as someone who does not know the answers, so they make it up.
Priests always give their own interpretations about religion from the bible; so most of what you hear about religion is merely some else`s view.
If something mysterious happens and they don`t know why, they give their god the credit for it.
If something happens which they do not like, well, it`s "god`s will."
If something drastic happens, like the last tsunami, well, "god works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform."
They never blame him or her for anything.
They have stock answers for everything - none of them true or actually make common sense.
Don`t be dragged in. Think for yourself and pay no attention to the religious nuts.
Those that are religious are the weak ones and need support, and crutches to lean on.
Be strong, be positive.

Answer 8

Source* watchtower 95 10/15 pp. 21-23 pars. 15-27
How Will You Stand Before the Judgment Seat? ***
---------------Looking for Jesus return

15 At that time, however, Jesus did not act as King and Judge over the nations. He was seated next to God, awaiting the time to act as King of God’s Kingdom. Paul wrote of him: “With reference to which one of the angels has he ever said: ‘Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet’?”—Hebrews 1:13.

16 Jehovah’s Witnesses have published much evidence that Jesus’ period of waiting expired in ***1914, when he became ruler of God’s Kingdom in the invisible heavens. Revelation 11:15, 18 says: “The kingdom of the world did become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will rule as king forever and ever.” “But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came.” Yes, the nations expressed wrath toward one another during World War I. (Luke 21:24) The wars, earthquakes, pestilences, food shortages, and the like, that we have seen since ****1914 confirm that Jesus is now ruling in God’s Kingdom, and the world’s final end is near.—Matthew 24:3-14.

Note: The worlds end does not mean destruction of the planet. God will end the governing of men, by men. God's Kingdom will become real to all. Our government will be under KING Jesus. Remember the "Lords Prayer?"

Answer 9

Sorry to hear about your nan, excuse me for saying this but maybe she suffered to relieve her from sin. Also, you only turned to God at a moment of calamity, any other time you probably wouldn't have bothered. But yes, there are many signs of Jesus' return especially with what is going on in Jerusalem. Jesus can't come until the Anti-christ does.

Answer 10

Christians are meant to have faith that Jesus is coming back. some people declare to be christians, yet don't think that each and every little thing the Bible says is genuine (granted that some areas are spoken in parables or examples). The Bible is the muse of this faith. Christians could desire to have faith that each and every little thing interior the Bible is genuine. Now, it provides particular information on the subject of the ultimate days. while in comparison with the international because it is now, it sounds like we are close. Christians that deny that Jesus is coming back quickly won't be able to relatively be christians.