Is the Second Coming of Jesus Close at Hand?

In the past several years, there has been a prevalence of “end-time prophecies”. Various apparitions of Our Lady, as well as numerous private revelations, all refer to the current times we are living in as the “end times”. Their common theme: that our present generation will witness the Second Coming of Christ.

In the ongoing Medjugorje apparitions, the visionaries received various secrets - all prophecies pertaining to future events leading up to the Second Coming of Jesus that will happen in our generation. Our Lady has said that the visionaries will witness the fulfillment of the prophecies. While the Church is still investigating the apparitions, the fruits of the apparitions are abundantly clear: since the apparitions began more than 30 years ago, more than 40 million pilgrims have visited Medjugorje, with countless stories of conversion and healing.

In an apparition of Our Lady in Rwanda, Africa approved by the local Bishop in 1995, the visionaries were told to prepare for the Second Coming of the Lord. Alphonsine says: “She (the Blessed Mother) said to pray hard – we must prepare now for the return of her Son Jesus.”

And we can hardly shrug off what the Lord Jesus said to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska of Poland (St. Faustina’s Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul): “You will prepare the world for My final coming…let all mankind recognize My unfathomable mercy. It is a sign for the end times; after it will come the day of justice.”

Other contemporary apparitions of Our Lady likewise speak of the End Times: Garabandal and Akita, to name a few. Akita speaks of a “great chastisement” by fire that will befall the world - unless mankind repents. Garabandal speaks of interventions planned by the Lord to prepare the world for His Second Coming: a worldwide Warning, a worldwide Miracle, and a cataclysmic Chastisement if the world does not repent.

Then, there are also the prophecies and messages given to the Irish seer "Maria Divine Mercy", which states in unequivocal terms that we are living in the end times. Click here for a objective review of these messages.

The unmistakable fact is that there are many modern-day prophecies and apparitions that are telling us that the Second Coming of Jesus will happen in our generation.