For most of my Christian (& post-Christian) life I believed there was a second coming of Christ yet to take place — because that is what I was taught in Christianity.
I was told that notion was Biblical, and I read many passages in the Bible that seemed to support it.
But then, after spending five to six years intensely studying the Old Testament on my own, seeking out the words found in the source text from which the King James Version was translated, learning their meanings, and then keeping all that I was reading in their proper context, I began studying the New Testament in like fashion.
Then, around 2018, I heard someone suggest the book of Revelation may have been penned prior to 70 AD and that the bulk of its contents was alluding to the Fall of Jerusalem.
And that idea, given all that I had already read & studied in other NT texts, resonated with me and caused me to reconsider my beliefs concerning Christ’s Second Coming.
And now, I firmly believe whatever expectation for the Son of Man coming in the clouds that people may have had in the first century came to pass in that same century.
Here are some of my posts on this subject:
