A TRUE STORY : I have never forgotten an incident that happened about
twenty years ago. I was riding to work one morning with a
fellow employee and his wife because my car was disabled. As
you can imagine we talked about many things as we rode along and all was
fine until the subject of Christ’s return came up.
I don’t recall who raised the subject but it was likely me because they
were not Christians - church goers but unbelievers. The sociable chat
quickly turned testy. The curt remark of my friend’s wife still rings in my
ears. She said (not verbatim but close): -They have been saying that
Jesus is going to return for thousands of years and he hasn’t yet.“
Of course, that was her way of saying that Jesus was NOT going to
return. That poor woman did not know that she and all like her had been
branded by the Apostle Peter two thousand years ago. In his second letter
Peter wrote specifically of the return of Jesus Christ and said:
-Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his
coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were
from the beginning of creation.“ II Peter 3:3-4
We are surely in the last days. The return of Jesus Christ is much closer
than even most Christians imagine. Peter said that there will be numerous
scoffers (mockers) who ridicule the idea that Jesus is going to return. As a
matter of fact I remember when I did. Thank God He brought me out of that
foolish crowd.
May I say that there are far more -scoffers“ today who deny the Lord’s
return than when Peter wrote his letter. Anyone who denies that Jesus is
coming back is a scoffer and an unbeliever. Anyone who denies that Jesus is
coming back will not leave with Him when He does return to get His own.
This book will not begin to exhaust the Biblical material establishing the
necessity of Christ’s return. This book presents, in a short and simple
¨ Copyright 2009 V. Phillip Jellerson 2
