14/06/2026
Jesus Christ will return. Nearly every other page in the New Testament refers either directly or indirectly to the return of Christ. Today we looked at the evidence from Acts chapter 1 where Jesus went up into heaven. Before this, his disciples asked, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? They were looking for the re-establishment of the literal kingdom of Israel with a real king in Jerusalem. Jesus didn’t say the kingdom won’t be established but that it wasn’t for them to know when the Father would carry out his plan. When Jesus was taken up out of their sight into the clouds, two angels said to the disciples, these very clear words: “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). This clearly means that Jesus will come back to earth at some time in the future, to reign over God’s kingdom. Just as the angel Gabriel said to his mother Mary, “The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” (Luke 1:32)