PUTTING UP READILY WITH A DIFFERENT GOSPEL (PART I)

“The Second Coming of Christ is a Farce”

By Akin Ojumu

“Jesus is going nowhere. Is coming back again, my lord is coming back again. That’s how we used to sign it. We don’t use to say “AGAIN,” but “HAHGAIN.” So, that you know he is coming hahgain. He went away and promise that he is coming back again. He didn’t went [sic] away. Lo! I am with you always. So, the “returning Jesus concept” is not a Bible concept. What we have in the Bible is the appearing Jesus. When Christ who is our light shall appear. Appearance is different from returning.”

Don’t freak out. There’s nothing wrong with your eyes. What you’ve just read is exactly what you think it says. The “Jesus is Coming Back Again” concept is not a Bible concept. What we have in the Bible is the “Appearing Jesus” and not a “Returning Jesus.” Appearance is different from returning.

Before you go, “Ha ha! We always knew Akin Ojumu is an apostate,” just hold your horses. The idea that the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is a myth is not mine. That nonsensical assertion belongs to Abel Damina. It is the hot pile of bovine excrement that the heretic from Uyo has been force-feeding his followers for years.

Abel Damina has been the subject of my commentaries in the past. The man is a firehose of aberrant Gospel. False teaching is like oxygen to the man. Whenever he opens his mouth, erroneous teachings tend to pour out. He is an accursed soul personified.

Galatians 1:8-9

“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.”

That Christ is returning is not a hidden mystery that requires theological scholarship to decode. There are few subjects in the Bible with greater specificity and clarity than the Second Coming of Christ. While we may not know the day or the hour of His return, the Bible is explicit about His return. Even though the time and season may be hidden to us, Scripture is clear that He is coming back again.

The Return of Christ is a historical traditional Christian doctrine that has been taught since the founding of the Christian faith. It was taught by the Lord Jesus to His disciples. His disciples taught it to their own followers. In the face of severe affliction, suffering Christians found solace in the hope of Christ’s return. Several Epistles were written to encourage persecuted Believers to hold on to the hope of the coming of the Lord even in the midst of their pain and misery. Christ Return was the hope that was set before the early Christians that made them endured scorn and shame.

Yet Abel Damina abandoned this long-standing belief to embrace the doctrine of demons, and in the process making himself a condemned man. And it’s not my word or opinion that condemns the Damina. His condemnation are the very Words of God. 

Below are just a sample of selected passages from God’s Word that speak clearly and explicitly about the Second Coming of Christ. And it is these Bible texts that denounce Abel Damina as a bonafide heretic.

Matthew 24:36–44

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

Luke 21:25–28

“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13–18

“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the Coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”

Hebrews 9:27–28

“And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.”

Revelation 1:7

“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.”

When it comes to false teachers and their false teachings, the vast majority of people who call themselves Christians are nonchalant. The typical attitude of church folks to the distortion and twisting of Scriptures by preachers that have become pervasive in the Church today is nothing short of cavalier. In the typical laissez-faire fashion, they assume the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” posture.

There are several reasons church folks shy away from confronting false teachers and their false teachings. We’ll discuss those next time.