One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. - Romans 14:5
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans14:5&version=NIV
This is how I think about our differences; especially when it comes to Eschatology. I would just like to be Convinced in my Mind; one way or another...
I believe the most important thing Jesus and the Apostles taught was His Immanent return and to be ready at all times for it will come at a time/hour when you least expect. We are to have our lamps full and to anticipate His return as a bride waits for her husbands return and is looking for it beings ready for Him.
His 2nd Coming
“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
John 14: 2, 3
“Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.”
Acts 1: 9 – 11.
“They shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
Matthew 24: 30
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him.”
Revelation 1:7
And, behold,
I come quickly; and
my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Revelation 22:12-14
And then shall they see
the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh.
Luke 21:24-28
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love
his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
And now, little children, abide in him; that,
when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him
at his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.
1 John 2:28
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that,
when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1 John 3:2
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are
Christ's at his coming.
1 Corinthians 15:19-23
And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the
appearing of our
Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Timothy 6:14
I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead
at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Timothy 4:1
