Jesus Will Not Come Back During A Lockdown -By Joe Dauda

Even Muslims are expecting the end of the world and if, like me, you’re surprised by that fact, it means you have been making the wrong assumptions.

I was genuinely surprised when a Muslim friend of mine recently replied my question about the end of the world by saying he believed it was around the corner. He then went on to share with me 5 signs Muslims believed will prove that the end of the world was close.

1. Land will become extremely expensive
2. There will be more spinsters (unmarried ladies)
3. There will be rampant homosexuality
4. There will be high rise buildings (storey buildings)
5. Acts of dishonesty will be common, even among family members.

To say the least, I was intrigued by this. And because I have an English translation of the Koran in my library (given to me years ago by a Muslim client), I asked my friend to give me the references for this amazing Islamic teaching so I can look it up. He was not sure of the references — nor was he certain the teaching could even be found in the Koran — and so I guessed it was probably part of the Hadith. Still, I found the teaching amazing.

My belief about the second coming of Jesus Christ and the end of the world is a bit different from that of Islam but, for now, exploring those differences is not my priority. The point I wish to highlight is this: whenever and however He comes, Jesus is not coming back during a lockdown. Here are His own words concerning the situation of the world on the day He will descend from the clouds.

Luke 17:26-30
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Summary: The second coming of Jesus Christ will be on a normal day — when eating and drinking and marriages and building projects and planting and buying and selling are ongoing — certainly not during the type of lockdown virtually everybody on earth experienced last year (2020).

The importance of this highlight is to warn us that you may be on your way to signing the biggest contract of your entire life when Jesus returns; you may be going to commission your new seven-bedroom duplex when the sky suddenly turns dark, announcing the presence of millions of angels tearing through space to take the elect home.

The second coming of Jesus Christ will be an interruption of normal human activity. Never think that, just because your dream of driving a Bentley or visiting Antarctica is about to be fulfilled, that will somehow postpone the second coming of Jesus. Our reflexive wish for a postponement of the end of the world when things are going too well with us is just a human attitude we are all susceptible to. But you need to beware of it.

Some people only want Christ to come when they are around 119 years, 11 months, and 29 days old; when their appetite has become compromised by old age; when health is poorest; when the outlook for pleasurable living is at its bleakest.

But that may not be the case.

Jesus will not come when the world permits but when the Father decides it’s time.

The recommendation is as follows:

Luke 21:34, 36
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Remember this rich fool also: any one of us could die this very evening. God Himself called the man a fool, and it was simply because he was so confident he will be alive beyond the day of his boast.

Luke 12:16-21
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

I guess you never thought that foolishness consisted in being too confident that you will be alive until the next day.

This is not a call for living with the fear of death. But the Bible says (through Wise King Solomon) that there is value and a rich perspective in thinking of the end. Even in his Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Late Stephen Covey taught this principle as Begin With The End In Mind.

Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:4
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Mirth is laughter.

You can be joyful and also be sober. It’s called walking in the Spirit.

May God have mercy on all of us.