1. Acts 1:10, 11.
2. Matthew 24:27-31.
3. Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (New York: Touchstone, 1957), 16.
4. 2 Peter 3:4, NLT.
5. Matthew 25:13.
6. Matthew 24:3-14.
7. Matthew 24:3-51.
8. Luke 21:28.
9. Titus 2:13.
10. 2 Peter 3:8-9.
11. Matthew 24:14.
12. Matthew 16:13-17; Luke 4:16-21; 7:19-23.
13. Matthew 24:1-2; Luke 13:34-35; 19:41-44; 21:20-24.
14. Matthew 12:40; 17:22-23.
15. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict(Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 12.
16. Peter Stoner, Science Speaks (Chicago: Moody Press, 1958.), 97-110.
17. Matthew 24:1-14; Mark 13:1-37; Luke 21:5-38.
18. Quoted in http://kloposmasm.wordpress.com/.
19. http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/return-christ/.
20. Quoted in McDowell, 209.
21. Peter Steinfels, “Jesus Died—And Then What Happened?” New York Times, April 3, 1988.
22. Zechariah 14:4.
23. Leviticus 16:2, 29-30.
24. Zechariah 14:1-4.
25. Ezekiel 36:24, NLT.
26. Los Angeles Times, front page, May 27, 1967.
27. Zechariah 12:3.
28. Revelation 1:7.
29. Zechariah 12:10.
30. 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.
31. Titus 2:13.
32. Revelation 21:3-15.
33. C. S. Lewis, “Predictions of the Second Coming,” quoted in: http://www.atkinsmarketingsolutions.com/wp/2011/05/21/rapture-marketing-c-s-lewis-end-of-the-world-predictions/
34. Luke 12:35-40.
35. Matthew 25:1-13.
36. Matthew 7:21-23, NASB.
37. Matthew 7:22-23, NASB.
38. John 1:12.
39. Revelation 20:11-15.
40. Revelation 22:12, NIV.
41. Revelation 22:20.
42. Ibid.

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