Do you look forward to the Second Coming?

Question

I sometimes read this kind of stuff: "i cant wait till jesus comes and we go to heaven."

How many people here actually look forward to the end of the world, as if this were a good thing at all? We're talking about the end of the human race here.

To those who answer yes... you guys are scaring the hell out of me. What if one of you becomes President someday?

Answer 1

Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.
— Mohamed Atta (Infamous 9/11 terrorist hijacker).

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
— Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

Obedience. A religion of slaves. A religion of intellectual death. I like it. Don't ask questions, don't think, obey the Word of the Lord -- as it has been conveniently brought to you by a man in a Rolls with a heavy Rolex on his wrist. I like that job! Where can I sign up?
— Oleg Kiselev

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
— Victor Hugo, (1802-1885)

All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
— T.S. Eliot

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky; (1821-1881)

Answer 2

I try to look forward to the new metamorphosis. I hope for the new glowing metamorphosis. I hope it is near, out there, past the yonder glowing green and flowery hills of the soul.

Mankind should not look for the return of some more or less succesful Avatar, or for some more or less sterile prophet or God's Son. Manking should look for its own glowing change and should not look backwards.

The World is doomed to end, to die, and it will die, the day it no longer can renew itself, or the moment it will be smashed asunder by some unexpected object from the Universe.

Death may come by harsh dissolution, and death may come by new metamorphosis.

The coming may be something in the style of a female egg in a dark world getting pierced by a fiercy male sperm and transformed into a new life, on the way to a higher level, on the way to a glowing dimension, where it will be able to enjoy the fertile light from the Sun, and from where to prepare for a new metamorphosis.

The teleologic way may go forward, towards some yonder Heaven.

And a succesful life, or lives, may then hope to be welcomed by an army of ever shining heavenly Angels and eagerly triumphantly brought forward towards the glowing dazzling nearness of Almighty God.

Or a less succesful nasty blunt brutal life, or lives, may be fetched by the firm helpers of ferocious ever grinning Satan and so mercilessly hurled down into the ever scorching fire of perennially burning Hell.

Anyway, there is indeed some sort of transcendental meaning behind all this that you are not able to fetch nor to grasp. Not yet. Maybe never in your present level of evolution.

Good luck unto you!

Answer 3

No. The Jews have not got faith that Jesus replaced into the messiah, or that he will come back. He replaced into purely a prophet. not something greater. And for everybody that may not comprehend, the Jews thought contained in the messiah isn't a similar through fact the Christian thought in a Savior. The Jewish messiah is purely not a Savior, and is purely not the son of G-d or possibly a diety in any respect. he will purely be a guy who will lead the Jews to peace.

Answer 4

Actually, the people who really want the "second coming" to happen are, most probably, the people who secretly harbor the most doubts about their faith.

Christians should be rather indifferent to a "second coming". After all, they can supposedly get into heaven just by dying, without the world having to end. However, for the people that have doubts, (which they probably try to suppress and deny to themselves), they can't really feel comfortable about dying. Since they secretly harbor doubts, they fear death and the uncertainty inherent in it.

However, if there is a "second coming", then they feel that they will have certain proof of their faith without having to face the fearful specter of a death with hidden doubts. Thus, these people are likely to exhibit great enthusiasm for a "second coming" despite the fact that it would mean the end of the world.

Answer 5

Of course I look forward to the return of Jesus. And you are mistaken, it is not the end of the human race. When Jesus returns to earth, He will reign for one thousand years before the battle of Armaggedon takes place. It will finally be the kind of planet it's supposed to be. Perfect in justice and mercy and all fine, right things.

Answer 6

Personally, I am scared. I don't know if I am ready to meet my maker. I have let a lot of things unfinished. People I need to make amends with. People I need to say things too. That kind of thing.

Now my father who is older tells me if he dies right now he is ok. And I believe him because he lives his life that way. I on the other hand, tend to hold grudges and be hateful. And I realy don't want to meet god with grudges in my heart, yet I can't seem to let them go.

So no, I need more time to sort out my emotional baggage.

Answer 7

No, there is no way I could look forward to seeing innocent children dying of plagues, getting blown up, etc. That's awful. No human being could really think that's a good thing.

I have actually read Revelations more than once. Its not pretty.

Answer 8

I don't know about the end of the world, but I always look forward to second comings... and thirds... and...... In response to your additional comments, have no fear, so far we've survived Pope Bush, and if we can do that, we are invincible.

Answer 9

Well, obviously you don't understand the true meaning of the second coming. It will mean the end of the age, not the end of the world. It will bring in a new world where God will rule and not humankind because we've done such a crappy job on our own.

Answer 10

Let's see..... Jesus was born (first coming) then he was resurrected (2nd coming). Hmmmmm..... guess he's not coming again.

So, since this world is so messed up and no one cares to do anything about it, and since greed rules, I guess I can't wait until man destroys himself.