What will return of Christ look like?

What is your concept of Jesus’ second appearance? What will we see, how will we see him, what will it be like?

we know what the dispensational viewpoint is on this, but what I am asking is what will the actual experience be like from the Reformed perspective?

Mind-Blowing for all.

For the Christian Worshipful

For the Christian Humbling


For those not in Christ Terrifying (but they will still bow):

Fearful day:

Malachi 4 me thinks brings light to this a well. I think it relates to the 1st and 2nd coming.


1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. 3 And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

When Jesus comes back we believers will come down with Him after being caught up along with the resurrected believers to a new heaven.

Joy to the world, the Lord has come. Let earth receive her King!

I think the song was originally written about the second coming.

I've been reading through Revelation recently, I have been wondering this.
I will be studying it more in-depth with my church this semester.
It seems as though it will be "scary", doing a rough read through is not enough.
With all the language and metaphor, it seems like it will be incredibly powerful, loud (cries from the unbelievers and praises from the saints), and intense.

Romans5eight said:

we know what the dispensational viewpoint is on this, but what I am asking is what will the actual experience be like from the Reformed perspective?

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I hold to a Historical preMil viewpoint, so would be seeing Jesus transforming me in this body if still alive when He returns, and then see Him set up His klingdom Age here upon the earth.

Hello Mirandaaa, and Jesse, welcome to PB!

I’m staunch Amillennial, which means we are in the symbolic 1,000 years (see Psalm 50:10 for similar symbolism—1,000 being a number signifying fullness, full amount or completion) which comprise the present Gospel age, which runs from Jesus’ first advent until just before His second coming.

Here are mp3 audios (and written handouts I prepared) for teaching on the various end times schools (4 classes, I think), and a fairly quick overview of Revelation, 5 classes if I remember right, from my Google Drive:
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0TL8JQTN8YpMHI2YlNURlRQMVE>. That’ll be some background and explanation for what I am about to say.

These are verses 7-13 of Revelation 11:

7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
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In a nutshell the testimony of the two witnesses earlier in the chapter signifies the legal testimony of the witnessing church; in v 7 the very end draws nigh, the church’s witness silenced; and the beast / end-time persecuting government, and worldly culture, globally war on the saints, destroying many of them. In a token of disdain and loathing the dead believers are allowed to rot in the open. After three days (signifying a brief period of time) the Spirit of God enters all the elect, the living and the dead, and causes them to stand in the presence of their murderers, terrifying them—showing their testimony was true.

In v 12, in the same time-frame as the last / 7th trumpet, the Lord calls to His people, “Come up here!” And all the church of all the ages are connected to their resurrection bodies and by the word of His power arise to meet Him in the heavens, just before He executes His fiery judgment upon all those who worshipped the beast and who hated that He the Lord should rule over them (Rev 6:12-17).

Even before He calls us up to Himself , we, along with the rebellious world shall see Him: for all “shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory” (Matt 24:30).

We the saved, seeing our Deliverer shocking the world with His presence, arriving in the midst of His beloved bride’s final tribulation, will be delighted to lay our eyes upon Him in his majesty and power, and ravishing love for us. This is the rapture—at the very end of the New Testament or Church age, pretty much the beginning of what is called the eschaton.
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David, when you talk of His “kingdom age”, as per the Hist. Premil view, you are introducing a third age beside “this present age” of the NT church, and the final eternal age, which is contradicting the Scripture:

Matt 12:32 whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world [age], neither in the world [age] to come.

Luke 18:29, 30 There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

Luke 20:34, 35 The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage

Eph 1:20-21 [God set Christ] at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come

Gal 1:4 …our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father

There is no third age, only this present evil age and the eternal age to come. A supposed literal “millennial kingdom” in addition to these is a theological fiction.

I think it will be both far more wonderful and far more terrifying than anything we can imagine.