Eschatology – What We Believe about the Return of Christ

  • Jesus Christ is coming again (John 14:3). His coming is literal, personal, visible, and imminent. We believe His coming is pretribulational and premillennial. Jesus Christ will set up a literal kingdom upon the earth and rule as King of kings (I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titus 2:13; I Thessalonians 1:10; Revelation 3:10; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:1-6; Psalm 89:3-4).
  • The Bible speaks of the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:46; John 5:28, 29, 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13).
  • The souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; Revelation 20:4-6; II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23, 3:21; I Thessalonians 4:16-17).
  • The souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery in Hell until the “resurrection of damnation,” when with soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, to suffer everlasting, conscious punishment (Luke 16:19-26; Matthew 25:41-46; John 5:29; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Mark 9:43-48; Revelation 20:11-15).