The Biblical Pervasiveness and Certainty of the Second Coming
THE LAST JUDGMENT
Finally, we believe, according to the Word of God, when the time appointed by the Lord (which is unknown to all creatures) is come, and the number of the elect complete, that our Lord Jesus Christ will come from heaven, corporally and visibly, as He ascended, with great glory and majesty to declare Himself Judge of the quick and the dead, burning this old world with fire and flame to cleanse it …
Dean Davis: “[T]here is a fulsome list of texts from the Didactic New Testament (i.e., the Gospels, the Book of Acts, and the Epistles) touching on the Parousia and the Consummation … God has planned a single, Christ-centered Consummation for the end of the present evil age, when, at the Lord’s one Parousia, he raises the dead, judges the world in righteousness, destroys the present earth and its works by fire, and creates new heavens and a new earth, the eternal home of the redeemed” (The High King of Heaven [Enumclaw, WA: Redemption Press, 2014], p. 671).

