Revealing the truth about Christ's seeming delay to come back

 

WHY IS JESUS TAKING SO LONG TO COME BACK? – By Bruce Campbell

QUORA – 20 December 2025

 

The answer is in the bible and it’s not good news for those hanging out for it.

Jesus himself says he will return within the lifetime of his followers. It is in multiple tracts in the New Testament. This sets a very concrete prophecy. This prophecy is either fulfilled by the resurrection or he was wrong. Either way, Jesus is not returning(again).

Matthew 16:27–28

27 “For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done.

28 Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

Mark 13:30, Matthew 24:34 & Luke 21:32

24 “But in those days, after that suffering,

the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light,
25 and the stars will be falling from heaven,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

26 Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory. 27 Then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

28 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. 29 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he[a] is near, at the very gates. 30 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.

Mark 8:31–38 where Jesus foretells his death and resurrection for context of 9:1

9:1 And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”

Many believes pull out Mark 13:32 to say we don’t know when it’ll happen.

32 “But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

but it is within the context of Mark 13:30

30 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.

 

COMMENT:

It is not that easy to understand Christ’s appearance (the so-called “second coming”).  The theology of the endtime is deep, only a minuscule of the Church people will understand it.

The best understanding of this invisible (yes, INVISIBLE appearance, and thereafter his invisible appearance WITH HIS ANGELS) will be obtain by a close study of Matthew Chapter 24.  Here, Christ talks about the critical things that will happen after his invisible appearance and then leading up to his invisible appearance WITH HIS ANGELS.  The first appearance occurred at the beginning of World War I; but the appearance with his angels is yet to occur – that’s after the fulfillment of the consequent anxious days.  We (this generation) are already in those anxious (or troublous) days.  With foresight driven by hindsight, it is clear to me that “this generation”, as mentioned by Christ, is the present generation that is experiencing too many upheavals, turmoil, wars and rumours of war, food shortages, natural disasters, people degenerating from bad to worse in attitudes/morals – all these woes happening as never before in the history of mankind.  Yes, we are the generation referred to! And it is fast-forward to the appearance WITH HIS ANGELS to prosecute Yahweh’s just global war of removing only the bad elements and sentencing Satan and his demons to 1,000 years imprisonment.

Now, as for Mark 9:1, my understanding is that Christ referred to those who would witness his Transfiguration! Yes, Peter. James and John witnessed that glorious appearance – which prefigured Christ in his Kingdom power and glory!  In this context, Mark 9:1 does not speak about Christ appearance or his so-called second coming.

-      CFMonye

Obituary: BENJAMIN SUNDAY EBAJU

 

Benjamin Sunday Ebaju

Sunday, 29 December 1946 to Monday, 9 June 2025

Born on 29 December 1946 in Owerre-Olubor in the then Western Region of Nigeria, the late diokpa Benjamin attended Western Boys’ High School in Benin City for his high school education.  Coincidentally, that school features as its alumni the late Midwestern State military governor Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia and Mr Emmanuel Charles Osigbeme Ikazoboh – a former managing partner of Akintola Williams Deloitte, one time sole administrator of the Nigerian Stock Exchange and later Chairman of Ecobank.

I remember diokpa Benjamin as a dynamic and handsome man in the 1970s.  He was a capable mobilizer of men and resources.  He opened up Ikorodu to many sons of Olubor for them to put up their own houses – just as he himself had done in the 1970s upon returning from working with UTC Ibadan branch to settle in Lagos.  Diokpa Benjamin never liked working too long as an employee and so, on quitting UTC, he pursued his dream of having other streams of income as a self-employed person.  That was at a time when self-employment had not become popular; he was a trailblazer in this respect and therefore an example worthy of emulation.

In another respect, as a community builder, diokpa Benjamin spearheaded the founding of the first Owerre-Olubor Quarter Union in Lagos when the Umuikpulu Progressive Union (UPU) was established in the house of the late diokpa Pius Okorie Monye in Maryland, Lagos on Sunday, 25 November 1979. In fact, it was the then young Benjamin Sunday Ebaju who wrote the first draft of the UPU Lagos constitution.  This Owerre-Olubor Quarter union (UPU Lagos) was the first and remains the only one still functioning today in Lagos as the four other Quarter unions which had copied from it have all wound down ignobly.

Lest we forget, UPU Lagos was formed immediately after the death of the teenager Benjamin Pius-Monye who had drowned in the Atlantic Ocean in Lagos. He had gone to swim as he used to do in Accra but he never came back!  Benjamin Monye, a namesake of Benjamin Sunday Ebaju, was the son of diokpa Pius Okorie Monye; no wonder that Benjamin Sunday Ebaju was affectionately treated by diokpa Pius.

As the late diokpa Benjamin Ebaju advocated at the formation of UPU Lagos, it would serve as an internal bastion of support in case of any emergency arising upon any Umuikpulu indigene in Lagos and also as a firm foundation of diaspora support for Umuikpulu Quarters in Owerre-Olubor. Today, UPU Lagos has surpassed the other such Owerre-Olubor unions in Lagos in terms of organization and finance; thanks to the vision of the late diokpa Benjamin Sunday Ebaju.

Of course, as every mortal will eventually pass, Benjamin Sunday Ebaju has passed away.  But we pray that his demise will not be the death knell for the outstanding union which he headed and which has been meeting in Ikorodu house up till the time of death last Monday.  Let us keep the flag aloft and fluttering and flying forever!  This is how to keep the memory of the last head of Umuikpulu-in-Lagos, the late Benjamin Sunday Ebaju evergreen!

 

Frank Monye

Nwa Ogude Ndudi Smart Monye

13 June 2025

 

 

In Memoriam

 

Lucky Okafor

“The web of our life is

of a mingled yarn,

good and ill together.”

– William Shakespeare in All’s Well That Ends Well.

 

And our own prominent transporter, Edwin Nwaiye, says:

“Uke emene onye,

O ga dua.”

 

In June of 2019, the Afam Family of Umuikpulu lost the one who proved true to his name – Alexander (a Greek name meaning benefactor)!  Yes, Onyebaolonwanne Alexander Nkennor-Monye.  Now, fast forward to June 2021.

 

On Sunday, 13 June 2021, the Afams lost the handsome and dashing Chukwuma Awunzie, an Abuja-based pastor, to the cold hands of sudden death in the prime of his life!

 

Barely two weeks after Chukwuma Awunzie, and while still in the month of June, someone was jolted with the sad news of a fatal auto-crash which claimed the life of Lucky Okafor, a pastor of The Apostolic Faith Church in Otolokpo.  The late Lucky Okafor, though of Umunofo, was of the Afam tree branch of Monye – through his grandfather!  We, of the Afam tree, therefore mourn Lucky Okafor.

 

Our consolation is that those three late brothers of ours left offspring – good enough to carry on aloft the banner and light of Afam.  We thank God for this.

 

And may we draw the necessary lessons from the above quote of Williams Shakespeare and also the saying of Edwin Nwaiye.

 

Ebon Afam of Umuikpulu

25 June 2021

***

 

Vincent Uyanwanne (July 9, 1962 – August 16, 2021)

The sad news hit me like a thunderbolt at midday on Monday, August 16. And it was a phone call announcing that Vincent Uyanwanne died in the morning of that day! Upon enquiry, I was informed that he had an excruciating stomach upset all night the previous Sunday till the morning of that Monday.

 

I suppressed what would have been my emotional outburst but my fleeting thoughts presented a panoramic view of how Vin, as I fondly called him, used to speak so logically and convincingly in all deliberations at our Owerre-Olubor monthly meetings in Lagos.  I sighed and asked myself, “So, that eloquent nwa Olubor is gone forever?”

 

No amount of tears, no amount of grieving, and even no number of entreaties to the Almighty Creator could bring him back from that place of no return.  It had become too late!  And the loss is heavily more to our beloved hamlet Owerre-Olubor than to Vin’s family!  It is extremely sad, even revolting that the cream of Owerre-Olubor is so steadily wearing off and being washed away.  Our leading lights are being extinguished so very often.  Well, as they say, “God sees and he knows ….”

 

Then my fleeting thoughts led me to some observable coincidences, as I still remember that the late Vincent Onyemaibi of Idumu-Etiti died in August - precisely, on Sunday the 5th of August 2018.  And now, his namesake, Vincent Uyanwanne of Umu-Agboma, died also in August – Monday the 16th of August 2021.  The latter being only a few hours after Sunday.

 

The second observable coincidence is that the late Vincent Onyemaibi's wife is the elder sister of Vincent Uyanwanne's wife.  And the third, but saddening, coincidence is their sudden and mysterious demises – both reported to be “hale and hearty a moment ago ….” 

 

The two men are Vincent by name and they both died in the month of August and their respective wives are siblings and their deaths mysterious.  I am still awestricken – no, not in a cheerful manner!

 

Be that as it may, O, how I pray that Yahweh would console our hometown Owerre-Olubor with more men like the meticulous Vincent Onyemaibi, and our Cicero – the eloquent Vincent Uyanwanne!

 

 

Frank Monye

Umuikpulu, Owerre-Olubor

August 19, 2021