Jesus Really Came and He's Really Coming Back

  16  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  17  Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.  18  Therefore comfort one another with these words.
           (New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California.  All rights reserved. (New American Standard)

Jesus really came. He spent a few years teaching and setting an example to a dozen very unimpressive men who abandoned Him when the soldiers came to arrest him.

Nobody tried to stop his execution. Only one of his disciples was at His execution.

Jesus died, just as He said He would.

But He didn't stay dead. He rose from the dead with a resurrection body that can never die again. And He showed  himself to the eleven remaining disciples as  well as to hundreds of others.

Forty days later He ascended  into heaven. From there He sent the Holy Spirit to fill those who believed in Him. That enabled them to go out and tell others about the One who died for their sins, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven.

Those believers also told people that Jesus is coming back.

He really is. When He does some people will be glad to see Him. That's why we, like the Thessalonians, are comforted by those words.

Some people, however, will despair when Jesus returns.They can't and shouldn't feel comforted regarding the return of Jesus.

You can choose now to have Jesus as your  Lord and Savior. If you do, you'll rejoice when He returns.

Or you can reject and neglect Jesus now. If that is true of you now and you don't change that before He returns, you will  eternally regret that Jesus really meant it when He said He would come back..

Jesus has always done what He said He was going to do. And He always will.

Jesus really came. He's really coming back. Nobody knows the exact moment. You better be ready.