What is the Second Coming?
Jesus Christ came to earth as a mortal being in the meridian of time. He taught the gospel, bestowed divine authority, organized the Church, and suffered and died as an infinite atoning sacrifice for the sins of the world. He stated that He would come again, would return not as the meek and lowly Nazarene but as the Lord of Sabaoth, the Lord of Hosts, the Lord of Armies. Jesus Christ’s Second Coming is thus spoken of as His coming “in glory”-meaning, in His true identity as the God of all creation, the Redeemer and Judge. His Second Coming is described as both great and dreadful-great for those who have been true and faithful and therefore look forward to Jesus Christ’s coming, and dreadful to those who have done despite to the spirit of grace and who therefore hope against hope that He will never return. The Second Coming in glory is in fact “the end of the world,” meaning the end of worldliness, the destruction of the wicked (Joseph Smith-Matthew 1:4, 31). At this coming the wicked will be destroyed, the righteous quickened and caught up to meet Him, and the earth transformed from a fallen telestial orb to a terrestrial, paradisaical sphere. We will live and move about among new heavens and new earths. The Second Coming will initiate the millennial reign.
Sperry Symposium Classics, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004, p. 202.
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