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    In the poem “The Second Coming”, by William Butler Yeats. He writes this poem after World War I, around 1919. Yeats is a Irish poet, who came from Protestant parentage. The over all theme of the poem is that God will come back again. There are many versions to how God will appear, but in this poem bad things happen first in order for God to come. In “The Second Coming,” Yeats uses symbolism to unfold the meaning of the poem. The first symbol in the poem would be the falcon. The falcon would represent

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    Matthew 24 42-44 Essay

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    the reader is taught to be ever vigilant for the time of the second coming of Christ is unknown. Vigilance is defined in the passage through the use of the home owner and the thief analogy. If the home owner knew when the thief was coming to the house, that home owner would be ready to foil the thief. This passage fits in with the stories immediately surrounding it to show a bit about Jesus’ heart and a message from Matthew as to how Christ followers should behave. When the passage in Matthew 24:42-44

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    caused by war is William Butler Yeats. In his poem, “The Second Coming,” written in 1919, Yeats examines the social and political disarray of Europe following the Great War, now known as World War I. Yeats believes that The Great War was the catalyst for the end of stability in Europe and he uses religious allusions to develop this idea by comparing the second coming to contemporary times. The first stanza of Yeats's “The Second Coming” describes the upheaval warfare has caused through its

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    Revelation 20

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    used interchangeably from this point forward. The millennium in Revelation 20 is only used in reference to the reign of Jesus Christ after Satan the devil has been imprisoned. There are three main views on this millennial reign they are Amillennial, Postmillennial, and Premillennial. While there is much debate over the differences, all three views believe that Jesus is coming again, that there will be a physical resurrection

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    paper is to compare the teaching on the resurrection of Jesus Christ as it is noted in Paul's letter to the Corinthians and Thessalonian letters. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the primary doctrines of study in the Bible because it reveals the victory that believers have over death, hell and the grave. However, the belief in a bodily resurrection has been the central focus of controversy since the death of Jesus Christ.

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    Revelation 20: 1-6

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    The angel is about to being what is called the millennium reign of Christ. The victory of Christ and the church is a prophetic event that still has not happened. Daniel 2:35, “Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried

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    Christ’s Second Coming As it states in Thessalonians 5:2, “For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night” (NIV). The second coming of Christ is a theological discussion that people obsess over. They study the actions of Christ day after day to see if they can find the answers to when it will happen. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”, the characters negatively await and listen to the clocks ticking in anticipation for the plague to come and take

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    Butler Yeats. In his poem, “The Second Coming,” written in 1919, Yeats examines the social and political disarray of Europe following the Great War, now known as World War I. This conflict signified the birth of modern warfare. Yeats believes that The Great War was the catalyst for the end of stability in Europe and he uses religious allusions to develop this idea by comparing the second coming to contemporary times. The first stanza of Yeats's “The Second

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    On the night before Jesus Christ was crucified, the Lord organized the last meal called the last super with His disciples. Here during this meal, He established/instituted a sacrament of His body and blood. He did this as a memorial from everlasting to everlasting of all generation of Christians. A perpetual sacrifice of the cross for all ages and to build his church. As written in Matthew, “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, ’Take

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    miraculously won a battle and was re-converted into Christianity (Baptist Church of Christ). Furthermore, in the year 1836, 42 ministers in the Baptist Church have signed the endorsement to accept

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