Second Coming

American  

noun

Christianity.

1. the coming of Christ on Judgment Day.

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Second Coming British  

noun

1. the prophesied return of Christ to earth at the Last Judgment

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Second Coming Cultural  

1. The return of Jesus, prophesied in the New Testament, to judge the living and the dead and bring about the final triumph of good over evil. The writings of the Apostles in the New Testament express the belief that the Second Coming will happen soon and suggest that it may happen within a generation of their own time. (See Judgment Day.)

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Several Christian denominations, such as the Seventh-Day Adventists and the Jehovah's Witnesses, are founded on a similar belief about the imminence of Jesus' return.

Etymology

Origin of Second Coming

First recorded in 1635–45

Example Sentences

One of his first engineering jobs was with the Roses for the epic 14-month recording of their Second Coming record at Rockfield.

From BBC

Much is shrouded in mystery about a Surrey church that is sealed for the Second Coming.

From BBC

If we are to prevent more anarchy, the blood-dimmed tide that Yeats predicted in his poem “The Second Coming,” the center that unites us must be regained, reimagined, rebuilt.

From Los Angeles Times

In his excellent recent essay “The Second Coming”, Fintan O’Toole warns that:

From Salon

“Things fall apart,” W. B. Yeats wrote in his 1920 poem “The Second Coming,” “the centre cannot hold.”

From Los Angeles Times