What the 66% Who Believe Jesus Will Return in 2010 Don’t Know But Should

An Ipsos poll in 2006 said that 25% of adults believe it is at least somewhat likely that Jesus Christ will return to Earth in 2007. Among white evangelical Christian adults, 66% believed this. Yet three years later Jesus still has not returned. Want to know why Jesus did not come in 2007 and still won’t come in 2010?

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Update: Although this article was written in 2007, it is far from outdated. I'm sure if another poll were done for 2010, most Christians would still believe the Return of Christ was somewhat likely to happen in 2010. Yet they still would be wrong for the same reasons they have been wrong every year since 2007. Find out how I knew the Second Advent would not happen in 2007, 2008 or 2009 and why it will not happen in 2010, either. Read on:

When I first heard the results of this poll, I was surprised at how large a percentage of Christians thought that Christ was somewhat likely to return in the next year. Of course, after studying Bible prophecy seriously for over a decade, I have more than a casual knowledge of this subject. From my studies I have learned many important details about the end times roadmap that the people surveyed do not know. If they had surveyed me, I would have looked for a box to check that said Jesus' return was "impossible" in 2007, not just "highly unlikely". And 2010 is going to be no different. How do I know this and how can I be so sure?

Legal Prerequisites To Jesus' Return

It is simple. There are several prerequisites given in Bible prophecy for the return of Jesus Christ and none of them are present or fulfilled yet. Without them happening, it is impossible for Jesus to come in 2010 or even in the few years following 2010. Being unaware of these prophecies, Christians are able to believe an event is possible that Scripture tells us is currently impossible.

What are these prerequisites? I can give you many examples:

1. Great Tribulation — According to Daniel 9:27 and Matthew 24:15, Jesus must return after a 3½ year Great Tribulation. During this Great Tribulation the Antichrist will rule over the world for 42 months (Rev 13). He will force everyone to take a mark in their right hand or forehead during that time. We of course are not in the Great Tribulation and no mark of the beast issued yet.
2. Abomination of Desolation — This Great Tribulation starts 30 days after the Abomination of Desolation is stood up on the Temple Mount (Mk 13:14). The abomination refers to the Image of the Beast statue being erected for worship. We have no such statue on the Temple Mount.
3. Temple Mount Sacrifices — Similarly, on the day of the Abomination, daily oblation morning and evening sacrfices are to be stopped on the Temple Mount (Dan 12:11). As of 2010, no sacrifices have even started yet that can be stopped.
4. Third Temple — Revelation 11 tells us that there will be a Third Temple on the Temple Mount at that time. The Antichrist must even sit in this end time temple and declare himself to be God (2Th 2:4). Of course, there is not even a temple under construction yet (although rumor has it that one is being prepared along with all the furnishing and a sequestered priesthood prepared to attend it).
5. Sixth Seal — Finally, we have not seen the events of the sixth seal yet. If you read Revelation 6:12-17 carefully you will see that it depicts the entire population panicking and running for cover in response to signs in the heavens and a tremendous global earthquake on earth moving every mountain and island out of place. Most people ignore this prophecy because they simply cannot make sense of it literally with all the errors Christianity has filled their head with (pretrib rapture, imminency, etc.). That leads to the typical practice of Bible prophecy interpretation today, not accepting the plain words for what they say and taking poetic license with them.
6. Sabbath Year — When you carefully consider Daniel 9:27, Isaiah 61:1-2, and Luke 4:16-22 you will be lead to the conclusion that the 70 weeks of Daniel are all sabbath year cycles. This idea is confirmed by Jesus own mouth when he came at the end of the 69th week and declared it to be a sabbath year in the synagogue at Nazareth. This means that when he returns at the end of the 70th week, it too, again, will be a Sabbath year, just like his First Coming was in. So Jesus must return in a Sabbath year. Only one out of every seven years is a Sabbath year. But 2007 (or 2010) is not one of them according to the historical sabbath year cycle followed by Ancient Israel. You may have heard that the Rabbis of Judaism consider 2007-2008 a Sabbath year. But that conclusion is based on the traditions of the Talmud, not on the consensus of Scripture and the best historical evidence. Christians assume that the Jews are accurate on such things such as the Biblical calendar, but Judaism has diverged much from the Old Testament. (For example, Judaism celebrates Pentecost/Shavuot on a fixed date (Sivan 6) instead of a floating date arrived at by counting 50 days from the sabbath following the harvest, as Scripture has it. It should fall sometime between Sivan 6 and 12 and always on a Sunday (Lev 23:15-16). Judaism has the year start in the Fall/7th Biblical month of Tishrei instead of the Spring/1st month as the Bible has it (Ex 12:2). Judaism teaches that the Jubilee comes every 50th year instead of every 49th year according to Scripture (which is the 50th year using inclusive reckoning from year one of the start of the seven sabbath cycles you are to count). Their Sabbath year reckoning similarly departs from Scripture while it relies on tradition.)

Why don't Christians know these prerequisites? Most are simply not taught End Times Bible prophecy. This should not come as a shock because there are other parts of the Christian Bible that Christianity ironically de-emphasizes, such as the Old Testament or especially "the law" (which both contain keys to unseal Revelation!). The few who do study Bible prophecy are usually exposed to prophecy teachings which are based on allegorizing or ignoring many verses to arrive at a preconceived pre-tribulation rapture position. This creates a psychological barrier to understanding the prophecies for what they plainly, literally say.

Confused, Just Like the People of the Sixth Seal

This confusion is a dangerous situation according to the Bible. It tells us already what the people who today believe that Jesus can return at any moment are going to think and say at the sixth seal. It's recorded in verse 16 of Revelation 6. When the sixth seal happens it will fall upon a global population who do not read or understand their Bibles. Seeing the events of the sixth seal happen all around them, they will therefore incorrectly conclude that what they are witnessing is "Judgment Day" or the wrath of God and the Lamb.

Revelation 6:16-17 (HCSB) — 16 And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of Their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?"

The population then won't realize that this is only the "beginning of sorrows" which leads next to the wrath of Satan for 3½ years, Only after that do the seven bowls of God's Wrath (for about 10 days) come. This is a good four years after the sixth seal comes and is mistaken for God's wrath!

It's ironic that when most Christians today read this very quotation, they make the same mistake of believing it, that the sixth seal is somehow the wrath of God. They completely miss that it's not God, Jesus, an angel, or the apostle John labeling the sixth seal as the wrath of God, but the biblically unschooled masses.

Other errors follow as a result of this assumption. A common misunderstanding is that the seals, bowls and trumpets are parallel events instead of serial, etc.

By the way, I am not in any way putting down those who do not understand the Bible or who believe in a pretrib rapture. The Bible is a very difficult book and it's nearly impossible to find a teacher with the wisdom to understand it properly. Paul warned that those who do not cultivate a love for Biblical truth will be under strong delusion in the end times (2The 2:10). The belief that the sixth seal is the wrath of God is just one consequence of the typical Christian emphasis on Jesus and the Gospels to the ignorance of the prophecies. I can't tell you how many emails I get from Christians telling me to stop teaching prophecy and just teach about Jesus. My reply is why exclude any part of the Bible in our studies, especially one that promises direct blessings for studying and keeping it? (Rev 1:1-3). We are told to diligently search the Scripture as good Bereans but few do this (Act 17:11).

Conclusion

According to the Bible, Jesus won't be returning in 2010 2007 or the next 3½ years for sure. The belief that the Second Advent can happen imminently or without warning breaks Scripture. Scripture teaches there are prerequisites that must come first (as were listed above). Scripture is supposed to be our guide, not fictional books like "Left Behind".

There are other prophecies that are coming soon which are largely overlooked by Christian prophecy experts who teach that the rapture is the next event. These are what we were commanded to "pray and watch" for by Jesus in Luke 21:36 so that we can "escape all things". If you want to save yourself years of study and learn what they are, check out the comprehensive book, Know the Future, offered on this site.

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