Jesus “For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father"

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“For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels” (Luke 9:26).

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In its earlier ages the Church was in constant expectation of the Parousia, the Second Coming of the Lord, not in the obscurity of the manger but in the full panoply of the King of Heaven, in the midst of his angelic hosts. As the centuries have passed without Gabriel’s trumpet rending the skies, this expectation has largely fizzled out, except in the lunatic fringe of Protestantism. Obviously, the Church has been looking for the Parousia in the wrong direction — in the outward skies and not in the realm of heaven which is “within.” The true Parousia comes at the moment of crisis in consciousness, not in the world of newspaper reality.

From "Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship" (Alan Watts)

Excellent reading for anyone seeking a Christianity of greater depth.