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Second Coming
noun
- the coming of Christ on Judgment Day.
Second Coming
noun
- the prophesied return of Christ to earth at the Last Judgment
Second Coming
- 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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Example Sentences
If we are to prevent more anarchy, the blood-dimmed tide that Yeats predicted in his poem 鈥淭he Second Coming,鈥 the center that unites us must be regained, reimagined, rebuilt.
It鈥檚 impossible to ignore Trump鈥檚 rise to the most famous poem in the English language, Yeats鈥檚 The Second Coming, looming over this moment in history, its prophetic lines reverberating with unsettling clarity.
This is not a reference to the Jewish faith, but to the belief of some Pentecostal Christians that the return of Jews to Israel will lead to the Second Coming of Christ.
In his excellent recent essay 鈥淭he Second Coming鈥, Fintan O鈥橳oole warns that:
Trump shared such a video recently, called "God Made Trump," which portrays the allegedly butt-smelly former president as the Second Coming.
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