For a couple of thousand years now Christians have been looking forward to and expecting the return of Jesus Christ. Some people don't think that Jesus is coming back while others claim Jesus already came back. I will approach this subject by the basic questions that bible students ask themselves while studying the bible. These basic questions are Who?, What?, When?, Where?, Why? and How? In this case the "who?" is Jesus Christ and the "what?" is his return. Now let us take a look at "why?'

1. Why do Christians expect Jesus to return?
Jesus said he would return. The disciples expected Jesus to return because he said that he would return.
John 14:1-3 "Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

Later we see that Jesus' disciples understood that he would return because they asked him "what will be the sign of Your coming?"

Matt 24:3 And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"

If Jesus was not going to return he should have told his disciples they were mistaken when they asked "what will be the sign of Your coming?". Jesus answered the question by telling them what things would first take place and then concluding when he would return.

Matt 24:29-30 "But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken, and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

The bible tells us Jesus will return.
           The New Testament is scattered with references of the return of Jesus Christ. We as Christians are not building a doctrine on a single isolated scripture, but rather a central teaching of the New Testament. Following are just a few of these references.

1 Cor 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming,

1Thes 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.