I don't think Jesus is coming soon.
The end is Not near. Well, the end of my life (and yours) is near -- sometime within the next 70 years, maybe even today. So we need to be always faithful to Christ. Be prepared.
But Christians need to read Ephesians more, ... more carefully, more often.
"God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, ... has made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." -- Ephesians 2:4-7
God has made us sit in Christ. And where is Christ? At God's "own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named" (Eph. 1:20-21). To continue, God has "put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, which is His body" (Eph. 1:22).
Do you see that? We the church are positioned with great authority. ~ But is that the sense you get from the brothers and sisters in your particular Christian circle(s)? Do they go about with the confidence of "conquering and to conquer"?
Notice, too, that Paul speaks of "ages to come." The age in which Paul was living was coming to an end, but there were yet "ages to come" including the one in which you and I now live. And what's to be expected in these ages? "Exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." Exceeding riches!
So let's live as if our Father "is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the Power that works in us" (Eph. 3:20). Take dominion. Take charge. Conquer the world! Build the kingdom! After all, "the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever" (Rev. 11:15).
