"HOW WILL IT END! MARK 7: 24-37.

  THEN JESUS LEFT GALILEE AND WENT TO THE REGION OF TYRE AND SIDON AND TRIED TO KEEP IT A SECRET THAT HE WAS THERE, BUT COULDN'T FOR AS USUAL THE NEWS OF HIS ARRIVAL SPREAD FAST. RIGHT AWAY. A WOMEN CAME TO HIM WHOSE LITTLE GIRL WAS POSSESSED BY A DEMON. SHE HAD HEARD ABOUT JESUS AND NOW SHE CAME AND FELL AT HIS FEET., AND PLED WITH HIM TO RELEASE HER CHILD FROM THE DEMON'S CONTROL. ( BUT SHE WAS A SYROPHOENICIAN-A DESPISED GENTILE"). JESUS TOLD HER, " FIRST I SHOULD HELP MY OWN FAMILY- THE JEWS. IT ISN'T RIGHT TO TAKE THE CHILDRENS FOOD AND THROW IT TO THE DOGS." SHE REPLIED, " THAT'S TRUE, SIR, BUT EVEN THE PUPPIES UNDER THE TABLE ARE GIVEN SOME SCRAPS FROM THE CHILDREN'S PLATES. "GOOD! " YOU HAVE ANSWERED WELL.- SO WELL THAT I HAVE HEALED YOUR LITTLE GIRL. GO ON HOME, FOR THE DEMON HAS LEFT HER!" 
PEOPLE SIMPLY GAVE JESUS NO PRIVACY. IF IT WASN'T THE 5,OOO, IT WAS THE PHARISEES AND THE OTHER TEACHERS OF THE LAW, OR SUCH WHO NEED HEALING.
THERE WAS NO TIME FOR TEACHING OF THE DISCIPLES. THIS FINALLY FORCED JESUS TO LEAVE THE ISRAELITE TERRITORY AND OF ENTERING GENTILE TERRITORY IN THE VICINITY OF TYRE AND SIDON, TODAY KNOWN AS LEBANON.
EVEN THERE JESUS COULD NOT KEEP HIS PRESENCE A SECRET. THIRTEEN MEN ARE QUITE A GROUP. SO ALMOST IMMEDIATELY A GENTILE WOMEN APPROACHED HIM AND BEGGED HIM TO HELP HIS DAUGHTER. NOW THIS CAUSED A PREDICAMENT FOR OUR LORD. HE HAD BEEN SENT TO FULFILL THE PROMISES GIVEN BY GOD TO ISRAEL. TO BEGIN A PREACHING AND HEALING TOUR THROUGH GENTILE TERRITORY COULD HAVE DELAYED, PERHAPS EVEN UNDERMINED, GOD'S PLAN OF REDEMPTION. STILL THERE WAS A GREAT NEED AND HE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD HELP. THIS EXPLAINS JESUS WORD'S ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S BREAD BEING TOSSED TO THEIR "DOGS", JESUS WORDS SEEMED HARSH. THE ISRAELITES OFTEN CALLED THE GENTILES "DOGS," MEANING SCAVENGERS AND ANIMALS. HOWEVER THE GREEK WORD HERE USED- CHRIST SEEMS TO BE SPEAKING IN GREEK TO THIS WOMEN- MEANING"PET DOGS" OR "PUPPIES."
 THE WOMEN UNDERSTOOD JESUS REPLY IN THAT SENSE. SHE ALSO CAUGHT THE IMPLIED PROMISE IN THE WORDS: "FIRST... THE CHILDREN' WHICH SUGGESTED THEN THE PETS. JESUS HAD COME TO BRING THE GOSPEL TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WITH WHOM THE COVENANT HAD BEEN MADE. THIS ACCOUNT CERTAINLY COMFORTED MARK'S GENTILE READERS. THEN THEY KNEW THAT FROM THE BEGINNING JESUS HAD INCLUDED THEM ALSO IN SALVATION. AND NOT ONLY

WHEN HE FIRST SAID, " YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM, IN ALL JUDEA, AND SAMARIA AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.  (STARTING OF THE END; PART ONE).

WE ARE ALL WAITING CHRIST'S RETURN AND HAVE BEEN SINCE THE FIRST DAYS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, LOOKING FOR THAT "BLESSED HOPE." AND THE GLORIOUS APPEARING OF THE GREAT GOD AND OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. DIFFERNT CHURCH'S MAY HAVE DISAGREED TO ITS TIMING AND TO THE EVENTS ON THE ESCHATOLOGICAL (END TIMES CALENDAR). THEY MAY HAVE DIFFERED AS TO A PRE-TRIBULATION OR POST TRIBULATION RAPTURE, POST OR NON MILLENNIAL COMING. HOWEVER ALL AGREED THAT THE FINAL SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF THIS WORLD AND HIS RETURN ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE KING OF KINGS WHO WILL SOMEDAY MAKE THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD HIS VERY OWN. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ONE VERSE IN TWENTY-FIVE DEALS WITH THE LORDS RETURN.

 THE RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST IS MENTIONED IN EVERY ONE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS EXCEPT GALATAINS, 2, AND 3 JOHN AND PHILEMON. JESUS SPOKE OF  HIS RETURN QUITE OFTEN. 'MARK RECORDS HIM AS SAYING, " WHOEVER IS ASHAMED OF ME AND MY WORDS IN THIS ADULTEROUS AND SINFUL GENERATIONS, OF HIM WILL THE SON-OF-MAN ALSO BE ASHAMED, WHEN HE COMES IN THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER. WITH THE HOLY ANGELS. (MARK*38). WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER JOHN 14.

 IN THE LAST CHAPTER OF JOHN THE AUTHOR RECORDS A STATEMENT OF JESUS TO PETER IN WHICH A REFERENCE TO HIS RETURN IS INCIDENTAL, BUT IS, NEVERTHELESS, ALL THE MORE IMPRESSIVE ON THAT ACCOUNT. JESUS HAD BEEN ENCOURAGING PETER IN FAITHFULNESS IN DISCIPLESHIP.
IN THE MEAN TIME PAUL'S LETTERS ARE ALSO FULL OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST'S RETURN TO THE CHRISTIANS AT THESSLONICA AND FOR US NOW, HE WROTE " FOR THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A CRY OF COMMAND, AND THE ARCHANGEL'S CALL, WITH THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET JESUS IS HERE.
 THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST; THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE, SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER  WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR;  AND SO WE SHALL BE WITH THE LORD (1THESS. 4: 16-17. TO THE PHILIPPIANS PAUL WROTE, BUT OUR HOME IS IN HEAVEN AND AWAIT A SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO WILL CHANGE OUR LOWLY BODY, TO BE LIKE HIS GLORIOUS BODY, BY THE POWER WHICH ENABLES HIM EVEN TO SUBJECT ALL THINGS TO HIMSELF.
( PHIL. 3:20-21).
PETER CALLED THE RETURN  OF JESUS CHRIST OUR " LIVING HOPE" (1PETER 1:3).
 PAUL CALLED IT OUR BLESSED HOPE. JOHN DECLARED WITH CONVICTION:    BEHOLD, HE IS COMING IN THE CLOUDS, AND EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM, EVERY ONE WHO PIERCED HIM; AND ALL THE TRIBES ON EARTH WILL WAIL ON ACCOUNT OF HIM (REV 1:7)..
HE ENDED THE REVELATION WITH " HE WHO TESTIFIES TO THESE THING SAYS , SURELY I AM COMING SOON. AMEN. COME, LORD JESUS! " (REV 22:20).
IN THESE VERSES AND MANY OTHERS THE EARLY CHRISTIANS EXPRESSED THEIR BELIEF IN JESUS PERSONAL RETURN, THAT WAS TO BE A PERIOD OF GREAT WICKEDNESS ON EARTH, THE RESURRECTION, AND TRANSFORMATION OF THEIR OWN BODIES, AN EARTHLY RULE OF THE GLORIFIED JESUS AND A FINAL JUDGMENT OF INDIVIDALS AND NATIONS.