Parousia Quotes

“The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.”
― Witness Lee, Life-Study of 1 & 2 Thessalonians

“Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.”
― Umberto Eco, Belief or Nonbelief?

“If the church preaches faith in anything other than the resurrection - if it gives so much as the impression that anything else, be it political action, moral achievement, or spiritual proficiency, can save the world - it becomes just one more false, parochial prophet leading the world away from the catholic parousia of Christ in the universal death of history.”
― Robert Farrar Capon

“The Thessalonians believed that no one would die before the parousia (the final coming of Jesus). They thought that those who died before this coming were disadvantaged compared to the living. Paul states that Christian hope is founded on Jesus' death and resurrection, so both the dead and the living will be gathered by Jesus to live forever with him. Paul, in presenting the final coming of Jesus, uses the biblical models of theophany (manifestation of God). The Lord Jesus will descend from the world of God at the command or voice of the archangel (Rev. 5:2; 7:2). The sound of God's trumpet is one of the signals convening the assembly of the Lord.”
― Don Oreste Benzi, Pane Quotidiano Settembre - Ottobre 2016: Le letture di ogni giorno commentate da Don Oreste Benzi