Affecting a second coming!
Editorial, June 2026
God’s bounties were sought through humble prayers and charity rather than gaining them through human means, however, the current stream of news carries a whiff of an effort to bring about the second coming through a human effort.
The first messiah came two thousand years ago. Both the Christians and the Muslims expected the second coming to take place in the mid-1800s. The faithful insisted that the sun would not set on the fourteenth century of Islam until the second coming happened. But the dawn of the fifteenth century was celebrated without a second advent.
Looking back over a hundred years, only one viable claimant stands out, His Holiness, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian in India, may peace be on him. He claimed that Jesus could not come back in his own person as Jesus had died a natural death. God had sent him as the Messiah for the last millennium. He prophesied in 1903,
“Remember, that no one will descend from heaven. All our opponents who are alive today will die and no one will see Jesus, son of Mary, descending from heaven. Then their next generation will pass away and none of them will see this spectacle. The generation next after that will pass away without seeing the son of Mary descending from heaven. Then God will make them anxious that though the time of the supremacy of the cross had passed away and the world had undergone great changes, yet the son of Mary has not descended from heaven. Then wise people will suddenly discard this belief. The third century after today will not yet have come to a close when those who hold this belief, whether Muslims or Christians, will lose all hope and will give up this belief in disgust. There will then be one religion that will prevail in also world and only one leader. I have come only to sow the seed, which has been sown by my hand. Now it will sprout, grow and flourish, and no one can arrest its growth.” (Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), Translated from Tadhkiratush-Shahadatain, Urdu, p. 65)
This prophecy was written 123 years ago. We can see today how the world has changed and no one has descended. Therefore, rather than resorting to futile earthly efforts to bring about the second coming, a peaceful and harmonious avenue would be to investigate this claim and explore its validity.
Revelations 1:7 says, “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.” (King James Version)
Man, today, is able to observe an event happening on the other side of the earth using electronic gadgets in clouds that a human eye cannot observe physically. In today’s lingo, word clouds fits both ways as in the skies and as in using the “cloud storage.” Just marvel at how this ability is in your hands before your eyes. Is it not worth pondering and considering how majestically the prophecy is being fulfilled that the scenes of second coming (MTA.tv, alislam.org) can be seen today through electronic media as prophesied in Revelations 1:7? The Bible could not have explained the fulfillment of the prophecy better than this two thousand years ago.God’s bounties were sought through humble prayers and charity rather than gaining them through human means, however, the current stream of news carries a whiff of an effort to bring about the second coming through a human effort.
Syed Sajid Ahmad
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