parousia

Jesus Will Come Right Back to Earth Several notable points make it clear that Jesus comes right back to earth to be on it and to remain on it. These are: When Jesus said in John 14:3, “I will come again” he could only have meant that he would come back to the place that he was going to...

How Could Jesus Have Returned Invisibly? Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) seems to have been the first to propose the idea that Jesus would return and rule as “invisible to mortals.” In 1856, the Lutheran minister Joseph Seiss spoke of an invisible parousia or presence, followed by a visible...