Understanding the Second Coming: Peering Through Heaven's Open Door

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Understanding the Second Coming: Peering Through Heaven’s Open Door

Understanding the Second Coming: Peering Through Heaven’s Open Door

Far beyond the moon, the sun, and the stars; far beyond Pleiades

and Orion; beyond all that is visible with the most powerful telescope

on earth, is that part of the universe where God dwells. He

is so very far away, this God who made us.

Or is He?

In one sense He is, but in another sense He is very near. While

the universe seems enormous to us humans, with all the limitations

that are common to our nature, to God it’s not really all that big, since

God Himself is so big. From His perspective, planet earth must be as

close as the tip of His finger. Perhaps the wind is His breath, the rain

His tears, and the sunshine His smile! Well, maybe not, but at least He

governs the powers of nature by His sovereign authority.

Since heaven is so far away, we might be tempted to believe that God

has forgotten about us, or has at least lost interest in our day-to-day lives.

But nothing could be farther from the truth. The Bible declares, “He

is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have

our being” (Acts 17:27-28, NKJV). In fact, He is so close that “he who

touches you touches the apple of His eye” (Zechariah 2:8, NKJV).

“Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins?” Jesus once

asked. “And not one of them is forgotten before God. But the very

hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are

of more value than many sparrows” (Luke 12:6-7, NKJV). Not that

God spends a lot of time adding and subtracting our hairs so He can

keep an accurate count, but what Jesus is trying to convey is that

God has a very, very intimate knowledge of each person and is extremely

interested in us.

And there is one way He has come closer to us than we could have

ever hoped for or imagined. In the person of Jesus Christ, God stepped out

of eternity into our human reality.

Listen with your heart to this chorus of verses:

• “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was

manifest in the flesh” (1 Timothy 3:16).

• “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the

Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. . . . And the

Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the

glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” (John

1:1-2, 14).

• “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in

the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made

Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and

was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man,

He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death

of the cross” (Philippians 2:5-8).

“Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His

brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things

pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in

that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them

that are tempted” (Hebrews 2:17-18).

Jesus, the eternal Son of God, became a human being so He could:

• proclaim God’s grace and truth,
• die on the cross f

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