Those who believe that the centuries that followed Jesus Christ are all alike and that the wars, diseases, and famine that Christ spoke of in chapter 24 of Matthew and chapter 17 of Luke, have all come true throughout the ages, are mistaken. The 20^th century is characterized, for the first time in history, with two World Wars where 216* million died as a result of war or political purges. Add to that the 20-40** million that died from the “Spanish flu” that followed War World I. The events of the 20^th century alone are the signs for the Second Coming of Christ because the danger to humanity has reached a critical stage.

*In “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,” March/April 2004, Jonathan Dean reviewed Occasional Paper #29, 2003 of Cornell University Peace Studies titled “Deaths in Wars and Conflicts Between 1945 and 2000” by Milton Leitenberg.

“Leitenberg goes on to discuss fatality counts, ranging from the narrowest definition—casualties among uniformed military personnel—to the broadest, which includes civilian deaths from disease and famine linked to war, plus deaths caused by deliberate political decisions, policies, and programs. Leitenberg adopts the broadest definition, which includes those who died as the result of political decisions by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other dictators. Using this definition, Leitenberg calculates a total of 216 million conflict deaths in the twentieth century—the bloodiest hundred years in human history. The figure includes nearly 90 million “political program” deaths, including 35 million in the Soviet Union and 45 million in China. Reading these tragic statistics, it is impossible to avoid reacting with deep melancholy mixed with rage at the political leaders who directed or permitted these killings.”

** In “Discover,” May 2004, in an article titled: Are Animal Viruses Even More Dangerous Than We Thought? Jocelyn Selim wrote:

“Why is it that animal viruses seem to be responsible for the virtually every modern plague—West Nile, Ebola, AIDS, SARS, and most recently, the frightening (but so far contained) outbreak of bird flue in Southeast Asia? Biologists from London’s Medical Research Council are trying to find the answer—by looking at the past. Team leader, Sir John Skehel and his colleagues set their sights on the 1918 influenza virus, preserved in human bodies buried in the Alaskan permafrost. They were particularly interested in the virus’s molecular engineering because the 1918 “Spanish flue” was the most deadly pandemic in history, killing 20 million to 40 million worldwide.”

Readers and interpreters of Christ’s prophesies in Matthew 24 and Luke 17 have erred about the time and method of Christ’s Second Coming. They have erred about the destruction of Jerusalem that took place about 40 years after crucifixion; the time of his Second Coming, the time when earth and the planets are destroyed, and the disappearance of the universe—the broader Doomsday.

Christ alluded to the time of his return by making analogies to Noah and Lot. Just as Noah and Lot were rejected, so will Christ, who will spend time on earth to deliver his message to the people:

“As it was in the time of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man. Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all. It will be as it was in the time of Lot. Everybody kept on eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. On the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and killed them all. That is how it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.” (Luke 17.26-30)

“The coming of the Son of Man will be like what happened in the time of Noah. In the days before the flood people ate and drank, men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat; yet they did not realize what was happening until the flood came and swept them all away.” (Matthew 24.37-39)

Confusion and ambiguity about the time of Christ’s Second Coming are removed by reading Peter’s Second Epistle, where towards its end he gives the following clarification:

“But do not forget one thing, my dear friends! There is no difference in the Lord’s sight between one day and a thousand years; to him the two are the same. The Lord is not slow to do what he has promised, as some think. Instead, he is patient with you, because he does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants all to turn away from their sins. But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the sky will disappear with a shrill noise, the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth with everything in it will be burned up.” (2 Peter 3.8-10)

In the Holy Qur’an, it is also written that Christ’s Second Coming will be to warn people about the Day of Judgment:

“He [Christ] is a portent of the Hour of Doom. Have no doubt about its coming and follow me.” (Sura 43.61 Al-Zukhruf)

The Holy Qur’an also gives signs about the time of Christ’s Second Coming:

“When the heaven shall be rent asunder and turned red like pigment.” Sura 55.37 Al-Rahman)

All these spiritual sayings are further proofs that “Doomsday” will be brought about by a nuclear war—unless humanity reverses its course and change history. Such a reversal can only take place by man’s free will to accept salvation through Christ’s New Name: Dahesh.

In the inspired book “Jesus of Nazareth,” by Dahesh, young Jesus, addresses his hometown as he is about to depart from it by saying:

“O City of Nazareth!

When my last hour draws near,

I shall depart from your midst

To return to you after twenty centuries…”

In the introductions to the book, Dr. Ghazi Brax and Eliya Hajjar are certain that the autobiography is real and that Christ wrote it himself through his Spiritual Powers.