SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST: Jesus Christ is returning in the same way that He left (Acts 1:11). He will gather His holy people, bride, and church who have accepted redemption through His blood, by the birth of water and the Spirit, and who are found faithful when He comes. "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (I Thessalonians 4:16-17). Will we be ready? The signs of His coming are everywhere. The days of peril are indeed upon us, marked by forms of godliness that lack the power of God; society and politics are corrupt, and people are filled with pride, blasphemies, unholiness, love of evil, and love of pleasures (II Timothy 3:1-13). These issues, along with multitudes running to and fro, the increase of knowledge (Daniel 12:4), the persecution of the Jews and their return to Palestine (Luke 21:24), and numerous other signs indicate that Jesus' coming is drawing near. Wars, rumors of wars, famines, earthquakes, storms, floods, distress of nations, perplexity, and people's hearts failing them for fear are sounding the solemn alarm that Jesus' coming is at hand (Matthew 24:6; Luke 21:25-28). The Christian has a tremendous promise, as Paul wrote in 2 Thessalonians 1:7, "You who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels."