Today He is the Savior, the Lamb of God, but when He returns, He will be the Judge and Ruler of all the Universe, judging with righteousness, and sentencing all who have rejected Him over the centuries (Dan 12:2-3 Rev 20:12-15).

Jesus said, “you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven” (Mark 14:62), but for millions it will be too late. Jesus Christ said, “concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only” (Matt 24:37), but one thing we can be sure of…He is coming again. No one can know the day or the hour of Jesus’ return, so we must be ready at all times. The Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. That wasn’t written for unbelievers, but for Christ followers! We must be ready…always! That’s why we “must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Luke 12:40). When Jesus was telling His disciples that they must be ready at all times (Luke 12:36), He told them, “that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into” (Luke 12:39). No one expected the flood of God’s judgment to come, and neither will the world expect Jesus’ coming to judge them (Rev 20:12-15). Speaking in the context of His return, Jesus said, “as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man” (Matt 24:38), but what did Jesus’ mean, just as in Noah’s day? People will be eating and drinking and marrying, and living as if nothing will ever change, so “they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man” (Matt 24:39). Everyone will be doing business as usual, saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape” (1 Thess 5:3). The Apostle Paul wrote about the unexpected return of Jesus, writing, “For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night” (1 Thess 5:2). This, despite the fact Jesus said only the Father in heaven knows the time, and I seriously doubt that these false prophets have been given private information by God that the rest of us didn’t get. The church is expecting Jesus to come again, but many a manmade prophecy has come and gone, and each one has failed when attempting to name the date of Jesus’ coming. And no one expects Jesus to come back again, at least outside of the church, and for many it will be too late. No one in Sodom expected that “the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven” (Gen 19:24), until it was too late.

Even though Noah tried to warn them, no one expected a flood, but it came. They will argue that Christians have been talking about this for a long time, and still, no Jesus, but that’s exactly what Jesus said it will be like. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation” (2 Pet 3:3-4). Peter writes that “scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

The Apostle Peter said that in the last days, people will begin to doubt and ridicule those of us who believe in Jesus’ second coming. Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him.

Thief in the night scripture