What the Bible says about the Second Coming
Sometimes, when you're trying to read the Bible, and to fit it into the "real" world that you know from the physical sciences and just from regular experience, it's not easy. Take, for example, the Book of Revelation? What do John's visions of the wars in heaven, the dragon, the beast, the woman clothed with the sun, the four horsemen, and more -- what do they mean? And the second coming, with the New Jerusalem descending from heaven -- are we supposed to expect that to literally, physically happen? The New Christian answer is that these apocalyptic scenes are spiritual ones, deeply symbolic of the decline of the old Christian church, and the establishment, from its remnants of good and truth, of a new Christian church with a new, fuller, purer understanding of, and love for, the Lord God Jesus Christ.
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