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I disagree with the term “second coming”. What is the source for such a term? Jesus came in Judgement at the destruction of the Temple and the Jewish Nation. How can anyone disagree with that? As for the resurrection, Paul says that we will have a heavenly body, whatever that means I’m sure we will find out. And I am sure Jesus will come again at the end of this age, just like He did at the end of the last age. I do not see much to disagree about - but I am very interested.

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I disagree with the term “second coming”. What is the source for such a term? Jesus came in Judgement at the destruction of the Temple and the Jewish Nation. How can anyone disagree with that?

The term "Second Coming" is from the Greek παρουσία meaning arrival, advent, or coming. The First Advent was the birth of the Messiah in Bethlehem. The Second Advent will be the return of the Messiah to judge the living and the dead at the Last Day. The Messiah came and said He was coming again. The angel told the Apostles the Messiah would return in like manner as when He ascended into heaven. It will not be a secret when He returns.

There is no record in scripture or tradition in the one holy catholic apostolic church that the LORD Jesus Christ came to Jerusalem in 70 AD. The Second Coming (Parousia), ie. the return of the LORD Jesus Christ to earth is an event yet to be fulfilled according to the Nicene Creed ("and ascended to heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father, and will come again with glory to judge living and dead, of Whose kingdom there will be no end;")

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

John, Catholic chapter fourteen, Protestant verses one to four,
Matthew, Catholic chapter twenty three, Protestant verses thirty seven to thirty nine,
Acts, Catholic chapter one, Protestant verses six to twelve,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

“Jesus came in Judgement at the destruction of the Temple and the Jewish Nation. How can anyone disagree with that?”

Perhaps because the Bible tells us that every nation on earth will witness Christ’s coming when He returns, and not a single one witnessed Him returning in 70 AD?