This article explores the duality of how people perceive Jesus: the gentle Messiah of the cradle versus the returning King of the second coming. While we celebrate the nativity, it reminds us that Jesus will return in power and glory.
Everyone loves Christ in the cradle. The image of baby Jesus in the Bethlehem barn warms our hearts. Each December we recreate the moment on our lawns and beneath our Christmas trees. Stores sell plastic donkeys and wooden mangers. People collect hand-carved images of Mary, Joseph, and the newborn child. We love the Christ in the cradle. We are fine with Christ the gentle Messiah. Children sitting on his lap. Sheep gathered around him. The apostle John reclining on his chest.
Mary anointing his feet. No one has an issue with a pleasant rabbi who offers sage advice, feeds crowds, and replenishes wine at a wedding. But Christ the coming King? On a stallion? Roaring out of heaven? Crowned with the crowns of his enemies? On a mission to destroy those who destroy his children? The world is less familiar with this view of Jesus. Yet this is the Jesus the world will soon see. Did you know that the second coming is mentioned more than three hundred times in the Bible, an average of once every twenty-five verses? Scripture gushes with the news of Christ’s return like water in full spate. To the depressed disciples Jesus assured, 'I will come again' (John 14:3 nkjv). When Jesus ascended, the angel told the witnesses, ' will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven' (Acts 1:11). Paul referred to 'the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ' (1 Tim. 6:14). Peter affirmed, 'The day of the Lord will come' (2 Peter 3:10). Jude announced, 'See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones' (Jude14). We are in the season of Advent. Advent leads us to the beautiful culmination of Christmas, where we celebrate the incarnation of God
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