“By the first century CE there was already a precedent ... while discussing the second coming of Jesus’ name. “So, when Paul and the evangelists refer to Jesus — Yeshu/a — they use ...

Mark 13:35-37, “Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘Surely I am coming soon.’ The Bible’s penultimate verse, prophesying the return of Jesus Christ, has always ...