Quiet, steady performance

I googled “Second Coming.” Jesus' “Second Coming” didn't get a mention on the first page of Google references. The items are all about W.B. Yeats' famous poem – which I had never heard of.

Oh boy! There is much more to this than I had thought. My Bible Dictionary directs me to “Eschatology; Millennium; Parousia.” 

A statement at the beginning of a long entry on eschatology sort of satisfies me: 

Eschatology, beliefs or teaching about last things. Biblical, intertestamental, and rabbinic writings often distinguish between the present age or aeon, the period of history in which life is being lived, and the future, coming age, or period of transformed existence that God will bring at the end of history. The latter age or aeon is sometimes also referred to as the age to come or coming age, the kingdom of God, the new world, or the new or messianic age.

I usually get good info from Dummelow's One Volume Commentary on the Holy Bible. He concludes his introduction to the two letters to the Thessalonians: 

“(Paul) points out to the Thessalonians the true way of preparing for the Final Advent which Christ meant His Church to expect. They were to make ready for it, not by feverish excitement and restlessness, but by the quiet, steady performance of everyday duty as in His sight, with the assurance that His followers, whether living or asleep in Him, were in His safe keeping.”

Joyce Voysey