Man has moved himself to the center of the stage. He writes the script and determines the actions. Mankind has claimed history for himself as if he is the author and creator. He gives me no room, grants me no status. Little does he know that I am behind the scenes. I have never given history over to man. I have never said, “You write the script and you direct the action”. Mankind has totally misunderstood his own freedom. I created man to freely obey my plans and to come to the greatest happiness. Instead, he has torn up my plans. “We no longer need these goals”, he has said. “We no longer need these laws. We no longer need to live by a revealed word. We are modern man who has come of age.”

O modern man, how long before you destroy yourself. However, I will not let this happen. At the hour of your greatest crisis, when it seems as if the curtain will come down on human history, I will intervene in the most dramatic of ways. Suddenly, the world will return to childlike faith and we will begin again.

Jesus will come again to bring history to a close. When that happens, everyone will come before him, all who have lived on earth, from the first to the last. This final coming is not what is being described here. There will be another coming, another visitation of Jesus, much sooner than the end of the world. He will have compassion on the world, a world that has rejected him. He will not discard the world nor will he allow the world to destroy itself. Yes, he will come again – not in human flesh as the first time, not in eternal glory as the last time. This will be a coming of his divine presence which will be preceded by many preparatory events, and signs that all will see. When he comes, many will welcome him and many will wish they had prepared themselves. All will know that the Lord has come.