What do people believe about the Second Coming?

• What happened to belief in the Second Coming?
• Secular hope
• A study of the ‘last things’
• Different voices
• Some recent voices
• Other views

The reality of the Second Coming

• The ‘day of the Lord’ in the Old Testament
• A Messiah
• The testimony of the gospels
• Paul
• The ‘blessed hope’
• Small ABC of the Second Coming
• What the Second Coming means

When will the Second Coming be?

• The day and the hour
• William Miller
• When is the ‘time of the end’, and how soon is ‘soon’?
• Only God knows
• Delay?
• Can we ‘speed up’ Christ’s coming?
• The ‘harvest principle’

‘When you see these things . . .’

• Spectacular signs
• The biblical data: Matthew 24 (parallel chapters: Mark 13 and Luke 21)
• Warnings from the apostles
• What do we see?
• In such a time as this . . .
• The birth pains of a new beginning
• Natural disasters
• Climate change
• Pestilences
• Social injustice
• As in Noah’s days . . .
• Deceptive appearances
• Excursus
• The interpretation of Daniel and Revelation

Proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom

• Matthew 24:14
• Mission not yet completed
• Who are the messengers?
• The Adventist contribution
• Who will be saved?
• Eschatological urgency

What turns an event into a sign?

• Signs, wonders and miracles
• Signs and wonders in the New Testament
• Interpreting the signs
• Hope versus fear
• Signposts along the way

Israel in end-time prophecy

• Does Israel have a role in God’s end-time plans?
• What does the Old Testament tell us?
• Prophecies are conditional
• Does modern Israel fulfil Bible prophecy?
• Is this all we can say about modern Israel?
• ‘All Israel will be saved’

‘Every eye will see Him’

• A composite event
• Christ is not absent
• ‘The greatest show on earth’
• A literal event
• On the clouds
• He comes in glory

‘Keep busy until I come’

• What does prophecy tell us?
• A cosmic controversy
• As a thief in the night
• Living in readiness
• A ‘full’ life
• Horizontal or vertical Christianity?
• Our choice
• Belonging to a community
• Witnessing
• Awake

We have this hope!

• The mystery of evil
• An even greater mystery
• The solution for all the problems of the world
• Hope
• Our hope
• Further study