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What We Believe & Teach
God, the Son: Jesus Christ
6. Return of Christ
We believe, according to the Scriptures, that Jesus Christ will bodily and personally return in like manner as He ascended (Acts 1: 9-11). His first return, known as the Rapture, will be in the clouds to resurrect the bodies of the dead saints, and to also catch away all the living saints (I Thess. 4:16-18); in which our current earthly bodies will be changed into glorified bodies (I Co. 15:50-54; Eph. 3:20,21). We will then spend all eternity in Heaven with the Lord Jesus Christ (I Thess. 4:17). Some of the more important events to follow the Rapture of the Church will be as follows:
(a.) His second coming will be after the seven years of Tribulation here on earth (Dan. 9:27; Is. 2:12; Rev. 6, 8, 9, 16).
(b.) He will then set up the Millennial Kingdom in which He will reign for a thousand years (Rev. 20:1-4).
(c.) At the end of the Millennium there will be one final rebellion against God by Satan and his armies, in which the Lord Jesus Christ will be victorious.
(d.) At this time there will be the Great White Throne Judgment in Heaven
in where God will judge everyone who did not accept Jesus Christ
as their Savior while on earth
(Rev. 20:11-15).
(e.) God will then cast Satan, his angels, and all those who did not accept Jesus Christ as their Savior into Hell for all eternity
(Rev. 19:11-20:15).
(f.) There will then be a revealing of a new heaven and a new earth (Rev. 21).
3. His Death:
We believe, according to the Scriptures, that Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross at Calvary for the sins of the whole world, both past, present, and future. He who was sinless was made sin for the world and died in the sinner’s place. He offered Himself once for all without spot or blemish to God the Father as the complete offering for the penalty of the sins of fallen humanity
(2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Cor. 15:3,4; John 3:16).
4. His Resurrection:
We believe, according to the Scriptures, that on the third day after His sacrificial death on the cross, He was miraculously raised bodily from the grave for our justification. This miracle signified God’s acceptance of Christ as payment for the sins of the world and assures eternal life and immortality to all who are saved by Him, being sealed by that Holy Spirit of promise (Eph. 1:13; Rom. 6:4).
