The evidence for Jesus’s concentration on the imminence of the coming kingdom piles up, all the more strikingly because within decades of Jesus’s death the Church began to have second thoughts on just how imminent it might be. The Apostle Paul hardly ever recorded what Jesus had actually taught, so it is all the more notable that he records as a ‘word of the Lord’ that ‘the Lord himself will descend from Heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God’
