How to Wait for the Second Coming
A Commentary on the Sabbath School lesson for June 21-27, 2008, “His Return as King and Friend”
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The sky grew brighter and brighter. The earth seemed to shake, and people were rushing about wildly. I didn’t know whether to run or stand still. And then it hit me: This was IT. This was the Second Coming of Jesus.
I wanted to be glad, but instead I was terribly afraid. The light got even brighter, until I could see nothing around me. I heard shouts of joy, but none of them were mine. I tried to speak, but I could make only a croaking sound. Then everything went black. And then I woke up.
This happened several times with variations when I was young. Only one aspect of the dreams was constant. I never knew whether I was saved or lost. I knew only uncertainty, fear, and then the waking.
Seventh-day Adventists live with the Second Coming. It invades our sleeping as well as our waking. Perhaps you have looked up at a clear sky and seen a small white cloud—it the size of a man’s hand?—and watched, wondering. What will it be like? Could this be it…? Or maybe driving on a day with heavy, dark clouds, you have seen shafts of sunlight stream through and thought: Will it look like that? And along with the fascination has there not been at least a twinge of fear?
The one indisputable fact is that it hasn’t happened yet. Jesus has not returned. We believe God’s promise is true. We live in the hope of the Second Coming. We pray that it will be soon. But still we wait, and we cannot continue to simply ignore the questions and doubts.
Then there are the signs. It is always easy to just say that they hadn’t been sufficiently fulfilled as yet. But that doesn’t harmonize with our belief that the primary signs have already been fulfilled—that this was the time of the end, that Christ’s return was "just around the corner."
If we would understand the value and meaning of the signs of Christ’s coming, we could continue to maintain their validity without embarrassment. The signs are not given to enable us to construct a chronological timetable of events preceding Christ’s Second Advent. If this were possible, it would only serve to insure that many of us would wait until the last possible minute to prepare. It is precisely because we think we have this kind of timetable already that we can grow apathetic in the face of signs. (After all, the Sunday laws must come first.)
The signs are not given to tell us the quantity of time that remains before Christ will come. They are given to warn us of the quality of the times we are living in. This is the end time. Current events are just the kinds of things Jesus said would be happening at the hour of His coming. It is not like a time bomb set to explode, it is like a tiger ready to spring. The situation is critical every moment.
This does not mean that last day events will not follow the sequence generally outlined; not that the Sunday laws will not be passed. But it is a frightful kind of arrogance for us to demand that God follow our time schedule, or fit precisely into our understanding of things. He has plainly warned us that both His promises and threatenings are alike conditional.
If God, in His long-suffering love for all humanity, should see that after 140 years the Seventh-day Adventist church as an institution was no longer fulfilling the purpose for which He had established it and should turn from it, could we blame Him? We hope, we pray, that this will not happen. But the Jews were God’s chosen people, and that choice was meant to last forever. Yet, when they failed to fulfill His purpose, God was forced to reject them as His special messengers. We misunderstand God if we believe He will let the whole world continue indefinitely with its pain and sadness and death simply because one group of people prove unfaithful to their trust.
Surely this should be a warning to us. At the last great day, some of us may discover that we have been growing as tares, while all along we thought we were wheat. Just because we are members of the Seventh-day Adventist church in good and regular standing does not mean we have a reserved seat in God’s kingdom. Not all those who say "Lord, Lord" are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
But all of this just brings us back to the basic question. We know that we are living in the end time. Yet reaching every person with the gospel seems impossible, and to assume that we can be better Christians than any person who lived before us, or that God cannot reject the Seventh-day Adventist church, is unwarranted pride. What does He require? What will it take for us to get things over with and be received into God’s kingdom, where we belong?
First and most important—we can trust God. He has given us a "sure word of prophecy" that Jesus will return. His Word does not say: "You must make it happen." It says: "I will come again." The One whose mercy is everlasting, the One who is faithful although all men should prove faithless, will not let us down. God will bring to pass all that He has promised—in His own good time.
Secondly, we can remember that God expects no more of us than He has expected of His followers in all generations. We are to love Him with all our hearts and minds and souls, and love our neighbors as ourselves. We are to do the duties around us and carry a burden for the salvation of others. And then we are to leave the worrying to God. He will work in us both to "will and to do of His good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13). He has made Himself responsible for the results of our honest efforts.
We need not be embarrassed by our insistent proclamation of Christ’s soon coming. We are in good company—Paul, John, and Peter preached it almost 2,000 years ago. And for many people, the end will come today, or tomorrow, or next week. For the rest of us, it will come soon enough at the very time God has planned.
What we do need to remember in our proclamations is that being able to predict just when Jesus will come is not the most important thing. The times and seasons are in God’s hands. What is more important is that we—like these saints of old—not waver in our trust; that we, like them, continue to look for a city whose builder and maker is God, though we see it only by faith.
The faithful servant is not the one who periodically gears himself up for superhuman efforts, and then lapses into depression when little happens. Nor is he the one who constantly berates himself that if he would just do a little more, that would end it all. The faithful servant—and the one who is always prepared—is the one who daily does the work assigned him, trusting in his Lord’s promise to return. He is the one who will hasten that day. And whenever it comes, he will be waiting and ready.
A longer version of this essay first appeared in Pilgrimage of Hope, ed. Roy Branson (Takoma Park, Maryland: AAF, 1986), which can be purchased from Adventist Forum.
When he wrote this essay, Tom Dybdahl was an editor at Rodale Press, in Pennsylvania, and a frequent contributor to Spectrum.
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Evidently, it was of little comfort, actually more fear, when Dybdahl first recalls the Second Coming. My 50-year-son still recalls his fear over the same looked-for signs mentioned above.
We seldom remember that the early first century Christians believed that Jesus would return in their lifetime and that every generation since then there have been some who also believed. Is belief synonymous with fact? It is a "holy wish" for most Christians; an unrecognized, yet unfulfilled longing.
Why such a longing? Do we not believe that the Kingdom of God is now? Is it always a future event? Is it like "Waiting for Godot"? Is it not possible to focus so much on the unrealized, hoped-for Second Coming that we neglect to make of our earth now a more liveable and better place? Has anyone ever wondered that the constant and consistent focus on better days ahead in the "Sweet Bye-and Bye in the Sky" could be a fantasy or even function as an opiate to dull our senses to the here and now?
It is not up to the SDA church to proclaim a Second Coming, but to help those in need in the here and now. Like a unknown reward awaiting, if it is to be bestowed on us, good. Whether or not, our time will be well spent if we use it in helping others and not on our potential, or possible rescue in the clouds.
There have always been "signs" such as wars, famines, earthly catastropic events, and more. They have no predictive value as to any future event, only that as long as humans live here, those will continue.
The Second Coming will always be coming; it is not, nor should it be expected as the ancients described. Neither they, nor anyone today can be sure of if, when, or how we will become immortal. Certainly, after our death, we will discover the meaning of it all. Until then, a little humility in the precise description of any future events is very problematic.
I had the same dreams as a boy that Tom did, and my way of dealing with the fear was putting off the second coming.
It seems that we Adventists live with two concepts in tension, the imminence of the second coming and the assurance of salvation. The sense of the nearness of the second coming is a great motivator to repentance, but this spiritual experience is short lived without some assurance of salvation. On the other hand, assurance of salvation is a wonderful thing, but if this is not coupled with a sense of the nearness of the second coming it may lead to complacency.
The blessed hope of Jesus's Second Coming, the presence of God's Kingdom on earth are not mutually exclusive. John makes that plain in his Gospel. Also, the 25th chapter of Matthew makes it plain that we are to concentrate our efforts on making the world a better place for the less fortunate, rather than worrying about when the second advent will occur.
I agree that we are do good for others out of love rather than being concerned about any "reward we might get."
I believe that the stress on the "time element" of the Second Coming which many Adventists concentrate on is unbiblical and unhealthy, but this is no reason to throw out the hope as long as we remember that we are to be conduits for God's love by helping others.
Henry
I once had some students ask about the "delay" in Christs return and how the disciples and people of that time thought the return would be in their lifetimes.
Someone always brings up the concept that, maybe the return is a myth since it hasnt happened even though people have been expecting it for generations, and how can his return be off by so many generations?
I asked if they had ever thought about the fact that every person from then till now has had exactally the same amount of time to make a decision for Christ. One lifetime. After your dead it makes no difference and we all know its actually the second death we are concerned about. So if Christ "delays" another thousand years why should I care? Maybe he built to many mansions and we are not signing up for them as soon as we should.
Dybdahl says, "He has plainly warned us that both His promises and threatenings are alike conditional." I have heard that many times, but I'm going to display my ignorance and ask, Where does the Bible say that? Or is that what Mrs. White says?
"On the other hand, assurance of salvation is a wonderful thing, but if this is not coupled with a sense of the nearness of the second coming it may lead to complacency."
Oh, the fear of not being found ready! It's the trump card for SDA brand of their salvation offered. Given an assurance, why must one interject a possible accompanying fear? Is it that we should not rest in assurance, lest we forget and do not keep it uppermost? Why?
Isn't complacency a feeling of contenment or satisfaction? What are we to be on guard against? It's like telling a newly married couple never to be assured of your partner's love and not be too content? Is God's love something we should not be assured of?
Carrol: Yes, I, too, would like to know the Bible text that says: ""He has plainly warned us that both His promises and threatenings are alike conditional." Conditional on what? Him, or us? We're back to the fault of complacency again.
Hi all...
It is my lot and privilege to facilitate the SS discussion tomorrow on the second Advent...
Here is a "POLL" I came up with on impulse (this, the season of polls of course....) to stimulate discussion in our class.... Knowing our class, I think it will...
Bob
POLL ON ATTITUDES TOWARD THE SECOND ADVENT….
1) The Second Advent ranks up with the top 3 or 4 events of history…. (eg creation, 1st
Advent, Resurrection….)
(T) (F)
2) The idea of Jesus coming again
a) excites me…
b) frightens me…
c) confuses me…
d) gives me great hope…
3) The expression “every eye shall see Him” is
a) hyperbole or figure of speech or exaggeration...
b) literal...
c) can only happen with modern technology...
d) need not mean every eye sees at the same time….
4) There really is no way to confirm that “every eye” has in fact “seen” Him come…
(T) (F)
5) I will know Jesus when I see Him;
(T) (F)
6) If #5 is True, I will know Jesus when I see Him because:
a) His feet will not touch the ground…
b) I will hear His voice and “just know”...
c) I will discern His theology and know because it will be correct...
d) He will approach me INDIVIDUALLY and convince me…
7) When Jesus said He will come “soon”, soon means:
a) He really wanted/expected it to be sooner, but something delayed the plan…
b) “soon” does not refer to time, but to an attitude of expectancy…
c) Jesus really DID come “soon” -- AD 70 -- and will come yet again… (preterist)
d) “soon” in the context of eternity is a fairly meaningless concept to we humans..
8) The point of the Second Advent is
a) to prove Jesus is true to His promise...
b) to bring the saints home to judge the wicked…
c) to extract the redeemed from evil...
d) return overcomers to the prefall state of Adam….
e) that evil is NOT the final word...
9) The period of time between Jesus Second Coming and “every eye” seeing Him is:
a) instantaneous... (ie in real time; live)
b) may require minutes, or even hours…
c) may actually be days, weeks, or even months…
10) After the Second Advent, Jesus may linger on this earth for:
a) hours...
b) days...
c) weeks...
d) months...
e) years…
11) How confident are you that you will not be decieved by the expected FALSE
Messiahs…??
a) Very...
b) somewhat confident...
c) not confident...
12) God is waiting for “enough” people to show themselves to be “good enough” so that
He can return:
(T) (F)
13) What the faithful actually await is the THIRD coming of Christ; First at Bethlehem,
second WITHIN the heart of those who seek Him, third, His return to take us home…
(T) (F)
14) The second Advent is ALWAYS “near” because death makes it only a “breath” away
(T) (F)
15) What happens to the wicked who are alive when Jesus returns?
a) They witness the second Advent, and are killed by His glory…
b) They witness the Advent, hide, and remain alive to die at the second death…
c) There ARE no wicked around when Jesus returns…
16) Why does God “hide” the date of Christ’s return?
a) He doesn’t know it…
b) If he told us, too many would delay their repentance…
c) the “date” is irrelevant; we are to live NOW as IF Jesus was already here…
17) Why DOES God delay the Second Advent?
a) It’s not delayed; it’s just not going to happen as we thought…
b) Because His people are not ready…
c) there yet remain learning lessons in the drama of salvation…
d) the Gospel has not yet been preached to the world… (see Mt 24:14)
18) The best way to live while we await His return is:
a) by trying to “get ready”…
b) by trying to live like He did while He was here…
c) by living as if he is ALREADY here with us…
19) The return of Christ marks, for me,
a) a new era…
b) the fulfillment of the hope which has driven my life...
c) a celebration of the continuous life I NOW live with Him…
20) The Advent of Christ is:
a) an Event…
b) a continuous state of being…
21) The first thing I will say to Jesus is….
Hey, Bob. Am I cheating on this quiz because I've seen it before our SS class tomorrow? (I'm a member of Bob's class.) What I know is that I don't know for sure, and I'm not convinced it's necessary to know. More of a "heart" thing, as you suggest. Several years ago I had an extremely vivid dream in which I was witnessing Jesus' return. I was running as fast as I could toward Him and the descending clouds of angels, shouting "Jesus, Jesus!" My husband confirms that I was clearly vocalizing. He described my voice as "ecstatic." Which is precisely what I was feeling. I have never felt so happy. So was it ONLY a dream? A gift of assurance? It was definitely a "heart" thing for me.
Hi Bob...
Good to see you back.
Thanks...
Frank
Stick around, Bob. We need your most thoughtful and insightful comments.
The blessed hope of Jesus's Second Coming, the presence of God's Kingdom on earth are not mutually exclusive. John makes that plain in his Gospel. Also, the 25th chapter of Matthew makes it plain that we are to concentrate our efforts on making the world a better place for the less fortunate, rather than worrying about when the second advent will occur.
I agree that we are do good for others out of love rather than being concerned about any "reward we might get."
I believe that the stress on the "time element" of the Second Coming which many Adventists concentrate on is unbiblical and unhealthy, but this is no reason to throw out the hope as long as we remember that we are to be conduits for God's love by helping others.
Henry
Posted by: Henry Miller (not verified) | 24 June 2008 at 1:55
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The only things I disagree with are:
1. That we are to concentrate on making the world a better place.
God has a new earth in store for us. What we have to concentrate on is becoming like Christ, and sharing him with others.
When we become like Him, we will be concerned about the needs of others in a genuine way (not in the false way that springs out of secular humanism).
All "good deeds" apart from what flows from a transformed heart are filthy at best.
2. Jesus stressed the time element, so we are correct to do so as well.
God wishes to put an end to suffering soon. Why are we complaining about "being rushed"?
Anonymous@11:
How is there a false way as opposed to a genuine way of caring for the needs of others and making the world a better place "for our stay in it" (to paraphrase EGW)? Whatever people's religious professions or religious affiliations or lack thereof, could it not be that any real good that is done (even by "secular humanists"), is evidence of God's working in the wider world for our uplifting?
That's why someone like Philip Yancey could get on board with someone like Bono to bring greater awareness to the AIDS and health crisis in Africa. Is God counting that as "filthy rags" because Bono is not a traditionally professing Christian? Or is someone like Bono demonstrating the care and compassion of Christ more than many professing Christians?
Can we also not become more like Christ in the very doing of deeds of compassion and mercy? Could it not be in the doing that God transforms us, not always in just waiting to be transformed and then doing?
I'm not discounting the eschatological framework within which we are called to work. Nor am I saying that calling people to Christ isn't paramount. What I'm wondering about is our dismissive attitude as Christians towards the wonderful work that people are doing in this world, because in our eyes they don't seem to have their spiritual houses in order.
Mt. 25 seems to indicate that the day of judgement will be filled with suprises.
Thanks...
Frank
Re - promises/threatenings being conditional. The Bible does seem to emphasize everything being fulfilled or accomplished. However, Paul does say in 1 Cor. 13 that we know in part and prophesy in part.... I think we sometimes hold Ellen White (and other founding persons) to a more "exacting standard" regarding details of final events. Certainly some of the O.T. prophecies are apparently conditional - in that Israel failed to live out God's expectations.
Main danger I see in our efforts to try to determine a "timeline" of final events is that we will procrastinate because we think - at least in our subconscience - that we'll have time to get ready when some big events occur - such as Sunday Law. Christ emphasized the "unexpectedness" of His return.
Carol:
Jeremiah 18 is a place where scripture teaches God's promises and threats are conditional. It's says that when God prophecies impending doom and his people repent, he relents. And when he prophecies impending good (like the second coming) and his people go off track, he will not grant it.
In the basement of the Old Chapel at E.M.C. in the year 1929, I learned a little song. It went something like this: "Brighten the corner where you are--" Seems like a good idea even now. Are we waiting for Christ's return, or are we about our Father's business and let Him be about His?
Years ago, I never thought time would last until I was a parent, now within five or six days, I will be a great grandfather for the second time. Living in the deep South, the little boy had two choices for a name: Robert or Jackson--It is going to be Jackson! I think, I call him Jack. Now that is the event, I am looking for with great anticipation.
Of course with the world as it is, the Lord will have to return soon, if He wants to find life on the earth. Until then, my efforts will be to make Jackson's world a place, of faith, hope, and love. That means, working toward a sense of community like we experienced for days following 9/11.
Jesus spent three years trying to show me how to be a father.
I am working on it. So help me God. Tom
Maybe those "signs of the end" are there because they will be there in every generation. After all, the end will come just as soon as we DON'T WAKE UP FROM THAT DREAM.
David, was Jeremiah's prophecy applicable everywhere and at all times? Should we not consider the context, especially of prophetic writings more than two millennia ago as relevant today? Should every prophecy in the Bible be considered as current, or were they given at a particular time and in a particular situation?
Just wondering. Is there a danger of choosing Bible texts perphaps inappropriately? It's been done before.
Tom writes, ”If God, in His long-suffering love for all humanity, should see that after 140 years the Seventh-day Adventist church as an institution was no longer fulfilling the purpose for which He had established it and should turn from it, could we blame Him?”
Perhaps we might start by considering that the SDA church was established by men and women, not God. Earnest, spirit filled men and women but human beings still the same. Our church, like all churches, is a thoroughly human organization and by default, subject to all our foibles.
Longing for the next world seems to have caused a lot of the saints to miss out on this one. The entire ministry of Christ was centered around helping people where they lived. Our focus has always been evangelism over service and belief and behavior over belonging. The Lord will come when he decides to come, regardless of our piety or diligence. Time is a human concern, not a Godly one. Incorporating the apocalypse into our name, in retrospect, might not have been such a wonderful idea as it clouds/colors our view of society as a whole. The afterlife, for me at least, became an unholy obsession. I try to focus on the life I have now. It’s really a pretty tremendous gift.
Jon's article was first published more than 20 years ago. I wonder how his thoughts on this topic have changed over the years, and what changes he would make to the original if it were to be published today? Jon...your response?
My apologies....I mean Tom Dybdahl.
I dreamt once or twice with the 2nd coming. It was full of light & of a vision of the New City. I remember feeling joy and hope and saw my family and I all waiting & trusting in a loving God & that soon we would be with him.
It seems to me that the real key to the second advent is found in the gospel. When we realize that by faith, Christ's righteousness is imputed to us, and when we realize that this alone is the basis for our salvation, the second advent of Christ is no longer something to fear. Rather, it becomes the "Blessed Hope." Furthermore, why hasn't Christ returned?Matt 24:14 provides the answer to this question. Take the message of justification by grace alone to the world in the power of the Spirit, and He will return. But unless we make this good news the center of our faith and unless we are sure of our salvation, the Holy Spirit cannot use us, and Christ will spit us out of His mouth!
Another take on Why Jesus Waits. Could it be that the Holy Spirit has failed in His part of the Covenant of Redemption?
The Father succeeded, The Son succeeded, and now for 2000 year the Holy Spirit has been on the spot. Did the Father and Son give the Holy Spirit an impossible task? They certainly did, if His task was to produce a "perfect final generation".
If it was to make plain the redemptive act of Jesus Christ, He has done better in some generations that others. The number of clear Christian writers today are a joy--Spectrum recently featured one Philip Yancey--may his tribe increase.
I have great signs that the Holy Spirit is really on the job. Tom
"The only way to wait for the Second Coming is to watch that you do what you should do, so that when he comes is a matter of indifference. it is the attitude of a child, certain that God knows what he is about. When the lord does come, it will be as natural as breathing." Oswald Chambers
If this view is taken, which for now is the view I will take, I guess we could argue about what we should be doing. Ignoring at the same time the possibility that the Holy Spirit could lead us in different directions.
Tom,
You have raised a serious possibility which we should do all we can to avoid. If we want to know whether the Lord might consider rejecting the "Remnant Church" as his chosen intrument to warn the world about the truth of his Second Coming, we need to consider what prompted God to reject Israel as his chosen messenger for the world. You did state in your blog the following:
"If God, in His long-suffering love for all humanity, should see that after 140 years the Seventh-day Adventist church as an institution was no longer fulfilling the purpose for which He had established it and should turn from it, could we blame Him? We hope, we pray, that this will not happen. But the Jews were God’s chosen people, and that choice was meant to last forever. Yet, when they failed to fulfill His purpose, God was forced to reject them as His special messengers."
I ask the question: What was the last straw that broke the camel's back? Wasn't it the fact that the nation of Israel killed the most innocent being in the universe? Now think about what Jesus said about the way we treat the "least." Didn't he identify huimself with the least, and warn us that in the last judgment he will say, "Inasmuch as you have done this unto the least, you have done it unto me.
The next question is: Who do you think might qualify today as the least? Can any group of human beings be more qualified to be among the least than the unborn? We have killed 50 million of them in the U.S. already since 1973. My question is: Where do we stand on this issue? In the day of the Adventist pioneers, both James and Ellen White, and many others, the killing of the unborn was considere plain "murder" and a violation of the Sixth Commandment.
Today, while the Pope of Rome still condemns such practice, and while Catholic hospitals refuse to offer abortion services to their clients, the Adventist church has officially sanctioned the killing of the innocents under many circumstances, including rape, incest, malformation, when the pregnant female is a minor, end even when the pregnancy is affecting the mental health of the woman.
We have propped the abortion door wide open so that almost any excuse is morally sufficient for the poisoning or dismemberment of the unborn. If you have any doubts, read our officially sanctioned document entitled "Guidelines on abortion." If this topic is of interest to you, read also my doctoral dissertation dealing with this issue: http://www.sdaforum.com/page13.html . Our church, not only has justified the killing of the unborn, but five of our hospitals have been offering elective abortions to their clients.
How did we get involved in this damnable business? Back in 1970 the State of Hawai had decided to legalize abortion, and half of the staff at our hospital there threatened to take their patients elsewhere, and the administrator panicked, and with the blessing of the North American Division president, our hospital gave in to the presssure for fear of bankruptcy. Profit proved to be of more weight than moral consideration.
Thus as a church, we repeated the mistake of our German SDA church during Hitler's regime. Not long ago, the leaders of the German and Austrian SDA Church issued a public apology for our cooperation with the Nazis while the genocide of six million Jews was taking place in Germany. Considering all this, is it possible that God might reject our church? I say, "Yes," it is possible, but we have a chance to repent and avoid this from happening!
The return of Jesus Christ has to blanket all who have ever died from the beginning of the world. Trillions have to have an encoding presented buy fairytaleland guardian angel (translator inception is a good word craft for that and special assist) All new that doesen't die. That too has to be at the beginning of the resurrection of all the trillions. Think of it. Little babies will not burn. I guess because they never got boney to sin yet for somewhere I read their innocence is what qualifies them to arrive in mothers' arms. I hope mothers are not separated by whatever and burnt but I guess the babies would be adopted by the other mothers who are translated to meet more of God and Christlikeness. Heaven has always been a mystery to me. It is some joy and some returning. Some out of the dimensions of this earth that we do not perceive. Smaller mass turns with the sun. Earth does not. Some time the sun didn't turn at all. Wouldn't it make you feel good not to turn at all let alone return while here on earth. Whatever, return is the word that is used. And there will sure be a lot of light present as He is 1 John 1:5, no darkness at all.
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