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Now the doctrine of imminency was held by the early Church Christians.
We want to show just a few examples.
There’s over 44 examples that you can look in the New Testament.
Give us one of your favorites, Ed.
Hindson: 1 Corinthians 1:7, you “wait eagerly for the Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.”
If you’re waiting eagerly with anticipation, you’re looking forward to what is coming
because He is coming for you.
Ankerberg: Mark?
Hitchcock: Philippians 3:20, “But our citizenship is in heaven,” we eagerly wait for a Savior
from there, the Lord Jesus.”
We’re eagerly waiting for Him to come; I believe that tells us that He could come at
any moment.
Ankerberg: Ron?
Rhodes: Titus 2:13-14, we wait for “the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our
great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
Now, it wouldn’t be much of a blessed hope if you’ve got to go through half of the
tribulation, or three fourths of the tribulation, or all of the tribulation.
It’s a blessed hope precisely because we escape the tribulation.
Indeed, we are kept out of the time period all together.
Ankerberg: Yeah, my favorite is Maranatha.
You have an Aramaic phrase, and you’re using it to a Greek church, so they all knew what
it meant.
And it meant “Our Lord, come.”
So their greeting was “Shalom,” hello, and/or “Our Lord, come,” okay?
Why would they say that?
Because they were expecting the Lord to come any moment.
They wanted Him to come.
And Paul included himself in that.