"Even So, Come Lord Jesus"

Sergii Bulgakov on the Coming of Christ

“He will come again to judge the living and the dead.”

Our hope is in Christ’s “return,” and the liberating judgment it brings about, but we must not speak of it in ways that leave the impression that Jesus has left us orphaned in his absence (for two thousand years and counting). His Appearing, the culmination of the working out of the incarnation, happ…