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Second Advent

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Second Advent British  

noun

  1. a less common term for the Second Coming

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Second Advent

First recorded in 1730–40

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The Puritans were chiliasts, firm believers in the millennial prophecies of the Bible: the coming of the antichrist, the Second Advent, Armageddon, the works.

From The Guardian Apr. 9, 2016

According to Divine Principle, the time for this "Lord of the Second Advent" to be born was right after World War I, and the place, Korea.

From Time Magazine Archive

But some still believed that Christ's Second Advent was imminent.

From Time Magazine Archive

William Miller, Baptist licentiate, began to preach in 1831 of the Second Advent of The Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, for example, the doctrine of the Second Advent, which still exercises the Christian mind, is wholly cleared up as looked at through the time-vista.

From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Newton, R. Heber

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