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Return of ChristDEFINITIONJesus of Nazareth became the Christ of God, the Messiah, theSeed of God's "woman" (organization), upon his baptism in theJordan river A .D . 29 and thus his first official presence upon thisearth as Jehovah's faithful witness continued for three and one halfyears . Before leaving the earth Christ promised to return againaccording to God's purpose to establish his kingdom, to rule amidsthis enemies, to judge the nations and to bring salvation and deliveranceto faithful mankind . This second presence (par .ou.si'a) of Christthe Messiah was to be invisible and the unmistakable sign he gaveshows conclusively that this return of Christ began in the year 1914 .Since that time Christ has turned his attention toward earth's affairsand is dividing the peoples and educating the true Christiansin preparation for their survival during the great storm of Armageddon,when all unfaithful mankind will be destroyed from theface of the earth .Sign of Christ's First Presence ; Acts 10 :38-41 "Jesus who wasPictured by Jonah's Preaching, from Nazareth, how God anointedHis Being Swallowed Up 3 Days, him with holy spirit and power,and Restorationand he went through the landLuke 11:29, 30 "This generation doing good and healing all thoseis a wicked generation ; it looks oppressed by the Devil, becausefor a sign . But no sign will be God was with him. And we aregiven it except the sign of Jonah . witnesses of all the things heFor just as Jonah became a sign did both in the country of theto the Ninevites, in the same way Jews and in Jerusalem ; but theywill the Son of man be also to also did away with him by hangthisgeneration."ing him on a stake . God raisedJonah 3 :2; 1 :17 ; 2 :10 "Arise, go this One up on the third dayunto Nineveh, that great city, and granted him to become visiandpreach unto it the preaching ble, not to all the people, but tothat I bid thee ." "And Jehovah witnesses appointed beforehandprepared a great fish to swallow by God, to us, who ate and drankup Jonah ; and Jonah was in the with him after his rising frombelly of the fish three days and the dead ."three nights ." "And Jehovah Sign of Christ's Second Presencespake unto the fish, and it vom- the Coming in Clouds Whenited out Jonah upon the dryland ."Given Kingdom RuleFulfilled in Jesus' Preaching, HisDan . 7 :13, 14 "I saw in theBeing 3 Days in the Grave, andnight-visions, and, behold, thereHis Resurrectioncame with the clouds of heavenone like unto a son of man, andMatt . 12:40 "For just as Jonah he came even to the ancient ofwas in the belly of the huge fish days, and they brought him nearthree days and three nights, so before him . And there was giventhe Son of man will be in the him dominion, and glory, and aheart of the earth three days and kingdom, that all the peoples,three nights."nations, and languages should319