What is the day of the Parousia?

Question

830 The word "catholic" means "universal," in the sense of "according to the totality" or "in keeping with the whole." The Church is catholic in a double sense:
First, the Church is catholic because Christ is present in her. "Where there is Christ Jesus, there is the Catholic Church." In her subsists the fullness of Christ's body united with its head; this implies that she receives from him "the fullness of the means of salvation" < Eph 1:22-23> which he has willed: correct and complete confession of faith, full sacramental life, and ordained ministry in apostolic succession. The Church was, in this fundamental sense, catholic on the day of Pentecost and will always be so until the day of the Parousia.

Answer 1

(Matthew 24:3) The disciples approached [Jesus] privately, saying: “Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your [parousia] and of the conclusion of the system of things?”

According to Strong's article for "parousia", this term which many bibles translate as Jesus' second "coming" or "return" is perhaps more accurately translated as "presence".

Consider the so-called "first" coming of Christ. Jesus was on the earth for over thirty years! How could his "second coming" be shorter than the first? In any event, the signs given in Matthew chapter 24 and Luke chapter 21 would clearly take years to be fulfilled, and thus could not take place in a relatively short period such as a literal day.

Interestingly, however, the Scriptures use several additional terms to refer to the same period of time as the duration of Christ's "parousia" or "presence". Matthew 24:3 explicitly connects this "presence" with "the conclusion of the systme of things". Daniel 12:4 calls it "the time of the end". Perhaps most relevant to this "question" is the term used at Revelation 1:10...

(Revelation 1:10) By inspiration I came to be in the Lord’s day


Jehovah's Witnesses were pointing toward 1914 as a defining year since the 1870's. Bible chronology seems to point to that year as the beginning of "the Lord's day", which will continue through Armageddon.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/dg/index.htm?article=article_09.htm

Answer 2

2. (usually initial capital letter) the coming of Christ into the world.
[Greek parousiā, presence, Parousia, from parousa, feminine present participle of pareinai, to be present : para-, beside; see para-1 + einai, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots.]

Answer 3

The second return of Jesus, which already happened according to the Watchtower Society and Jesus is at the WTS offices in Brooklyn leading himself the institution.............LOL

Answer 4

Beats me