Endnotes
- Acts 1:10, 11.
- Matthew 24:27-31.
- Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (New York: Touchstone, 1957), 16.
- 2 Peter 3:4, NLT.
- Matthew 25:13.
- Matthew 24:3-14.
- Matthew 24:3-51.
- Luke 21:28.
- Titus 2:13.
- 2 Peter 3:8-9.
- Matthew 24:14.
- Matthew 16:13-17; Luke 4:16-21; 7:19-23.
- Matthew 24:1-2; Luke 13:34-35; 19:41-44; 21:20-24.
- Matthew 12:40; 17:22-23.
- Quoted in Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict(Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 12.
- Peter Stoner, Science Speaks (Chicago: Moody Press, 1958.), 97-110.
- Matthew 24:1-14; Mark 13:1-37; Luke 21:5-38.
- Quoted in http://kloposmasm.wordpress.com/.
- http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/return-christ/.
- Quoted in McDowell, 209.
- Peter Steinfels, “Jesus Died—And Then What Happened?” New York Times, April 3, 1988.
- Zechariah 14:4.
- Leviticus 16:2, 29-30.
- Zechariah 14:1-4.
- Ezekiel 36:24, NLT.
- Los Angeles Times, front page, May 27, 1967.
- Zechariah 12:3.
- Revelation 1:7.
- Zechariah 12:10.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.
- Titus 2:13.
- Revelation 21:3-15.
- C. S. Lewis, “Predictions of the Second Coming,” quoted in: http://www.atkinsmarketingsolutions.com/wp/2011/05/21/rapture-marketing-c-s-lewis-end-of-the-world-predictions/
- Luke 12:35-40.
- Matthew 25:1-13.
- Matthew 7:21-23, NASB.
- Matthew 7:22-23, NASB.
- John 1:12.
- Revelation 20:11-15.
- Revelation 22:12, NIV.
- Revelation 22:20.
- Ibid.