12/05/2026
Could He come today… or are we waiting for signs first?
A normal afternoon.
People walking.
Phones in hand.
Conversations mid-sentence.
Traffic moving.
Life… steady.
And then—absence.
A chair left empty.
A car drifting without a driver.
A conversation that never finishes.
No countdown.
No warning.
Just exactly what Jesus said.
📖 Matthew 24:44 KJV
“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”
That is not a scheduled return.
That is an any-moment return.
And This is where the tension rises.
Some believers reject imminence, not because the verses are unclear, but because their system requires signs first. If the Church must pass through the Tribulation, then the return of Christ cannot be imminent. It must wait for the seals, the trumpets, the bowls, the revealing of the man of lawlessness. But the New Testament never tells the Church to watch for those things. It tells us to watch for Him.
📖 Titus 2:13 KJV
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;”
The Church is not waiting for wrath.
The Church is waiting for a Person.
Now the words of Jesus press even harder.
📖 Luke 21:36 KJV
“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”
Escape all.
Not endure all.
Not survive all.
Escape.
And Scripture confirms that promise with precision:
📖 Revelation 3:10 KJV
“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”
This is removal, not preservation within.
This is rescue before, not endurance during.
This is where the doctrine becomes personal.
If Christ’s coming requires signs first, your focus shifts to the world.
If His coming is truly imminent, your focus lifts to Him.
Paul reinforces the suddenness:
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:2 KJV
“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”
A thief does not send signals ahead of time. He interrupts normal life without warning. And then Paul draws a line that cannot be blurred:
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:9 KJV
“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,”
The Day of the Lord is wrath.
Believers are not appointed to it.
This hope was not theoretical for the early Church.
It shaped how they lived.
📖 1 John 3:3 KJV
“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”
Imminence produces urgency.
Urgency produces holiness.
It also produces mission.
If He could come today, then every conversation matters.
Every gospel opportunity matters.
Every moment matters.
