Meaning of second coming of Jesus

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Meaning of second coming of Jesus

The names like Rama, Krishna, Jesus etc., belong to the external human body, which has taken birth. Such names are generated only after the birth of these human bodies. Therefore, such names are certainly the names of the external human bodies only, which are like the shirts. When the human bodies perish, these names also must perish. But these names exist as eternal names even after the disappearance of these human bodies due to death. The reason is that these names were directed towards the inner Lord even during the time of existence these human bodies.

A person is carrying vegetables for selling. You call him by the name “ Vegetables”. The person is not vegetable and the vegetables are not the person also. But the possessor of the vegetables is called by the name of the possessed material. Similarly, when the name “ Krishna or Jesus” was called, this name was directed towards the internal Lord also. Therefore, even if the human body perished, since the Lord is eternal, Krishna or Jesus is also eternal. When Krishna said that He will come again and again, whenever necessary ( Yada Yada hi….Gita), it means the eternal Lord present in the human body will come again and again through different human forms. Similarly, when it is told that Jesus will come again, it means the Lord present in that human body will come again. Here the names Krishna and Jesus indicate the Lord and not the human body.

When some body says that He will come again after 20 years, it does not mean that he will come in the same shirt. Even in the case of the ordinary human beings the name indicates the inner eternal soul also. When people say that Subba Rao died, it means that the name indicates the external human body. People say that Subba Rao’s last journey is today. It means that the name indicates only the external body, which is going to be cremated in the burial ground on that day. In these sayings the name indicates the external human body. But after one-year people say that today is the yearly ceremony of Subba Rao. When you have stated that Subba Rao finished his last journey one year back, how can you bring Subba Rao again after one year? Here the name indicates the inner soul. Therefore, even in the worldly terminology the name indicates both the external body and inner soul according to the context.

Therefore, when you say that Jesus was crucified and killed, the name indicates the external human body. When you say that Jesus will come again on final day of destruction of this world, the name indicates the inner Lord. Thus, the same name indicates the external or internal item according to the context. When you say that Krishna danced in Brundavanam, the name indicates the external human body. When you say that Krishna will come again and again whenever necessary, the name indicates the inner Lord. If you realise this discrimination, you have no quarrel with any religion. When you say that Jesus or Krishna will come again, it means that the inner Lord is going to come in different human bodies again. When you are drawing the picture of Jesus or Krishna, the picture represents the external human body only and not the inner Lord.

You can never draw the picture of the inner Lord because He is beyond the realm of imagination. You cannot say about the existence of two unimaginable Lords. When the Lord is unimaginable, He can be only one. If you say that there are two entities, it means that both the entities are imaginable. Therefore, you have to accept that there is only one unimaginable Lord or God. The external human bodies are different and cannot be one. When I say that Krishna is Jesus, it means that the Lord in the body of Krishna and in the body of Jesus is one and the same. It does not mean that the two different bodies are one and the same.

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Jesus tomb opened for the first time in over 2 centuries for renovations...

Jesus’ tomb opened for the first time in centuries
Mon, Oct 31, 2016 - Preservation experts have opened for the first time in at least two centuries what Christians believe is Jesus’ tomb inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, Israel.

Some of the historic work was witnessed by photographer Gali Tibbon, who captured images of the site believed to contain the rock upon which Jesus was laid in about 33 AD as it was uncovered as part of ongoing restoration at the site. A marble slab covering the site, among the holiest in Christianity, was pulled back for three days as part of both restoration work and archeological analysis, experts on the scene told reporters. It was the first time the marble had been removed since at least 1810, when the previous restoration work took place following a fire, and possibly earlier, said Father Samuel Aghoyan, the church’s Armenian superior. A painting of Jesus can be seen in the narrow area above where the marble slab was removed.

Debris and material was found beneath the marble and was being further studied, Aghoyan said. “It is moving in a sense, something we’ve been talking about so many centuries,” Aghoyan said. National Geographic has been documenting the restoration work which is being carried out by a team of Greek specialists. It reported that “the exposure of the burial bed is giving researchers an unprecedented opportunity to study the original surface of what is considered the most sacred site in Christianity.” “My knees are shaking a little bit,” Fred Hiebert, an archeologist-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, said in a video on the organization’s Web site during the work at the shrine.

A Franciscan friar looks at an exposed tomb on Friday, believed to have been that of Jesus, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, Israel.

A shrine was built in the 19th century over the site of the cave where Jesus is believed to have been buried before his resurrection, and it is visited by throngs of tourists and pilgrims each day. Earlier this year, a major restoration project began on the site, surrounded by a structure called an edicule and located at the center of the church in Jerusalem’s Old City, underneath its dome.

The project required the agreement of the various Christian denominations that share the church, which also contains the area where Jesus is believed to have been crucified and his body anointed. The restoration project is expected to be completed around March next year, in time for Easter, and the site has remained open to visitors for nearly the entire time, although the ornate edicule has been surrounded by scaffolding. Its marble slabs have weakened over the years, caused in part by the thousands of people who visit daily.

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Experts May Have Found ‘Rock Where Body of Jesus Was Laid’
October 27, 2016 — In the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of Jesus, a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it believes is the original rock surface where Jesus’ body was laid.

Many historians have long believed that the original cave, identified a few centuries after Jesus’ death as his tomb, was obliterated ages ago. But an archaeologist accompanying the restoration team said ground penetrating radar tests determined that cave walls are in fact standing — at a height of six feet and connected to bedrock — behind the marbled panels of the chamber at the center of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. “What was found,” said National Geographic archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert, “is astonishing.”

Christian nuns watch as experts begin renovation of Jesus' tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's old city, June 6, 2016. The team has begun a historic renovation at the spot where Christians believe Jesus was buried, overcoming longstanding religious rivalries to carry out the first repairs in more than 200 years.

From Tut’s tomb to Jesus’

The work is part of a historic renovation project to reinforce and preserve the Edicule, the chamber housing the cave where Jesus is said to have been entombed and resurrected. It is the centerpiece of one of Christianity’s oldest churches and one of its most important shrines. “I usually spend my time in Tut’s tomb,’’ said Hiebert about the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s burial site, “but this is more important.’’ National Geographic is partnering with Greek restoration experts to document the work. A 12th-century building sitting on fourth-century remains, the Church of the Holy Sepluchre is the only place where six Christian denominations practice their faith at the same site.

Orthodox Christian worshipper at the Tomb of Christ as the miracle of the Holy Fire occurs in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel

Chamber restored in 1810

The Edicule was last restored in 1810 after a fire and is in need of reinforcement after years of exposure to humidity and candle smoke. A hulking iron cage built around the Edicule by British authorities in 1947 for support still stands but is not enough. Renovations at this holiest of spots require mutual agreement by the church’s various custodians, and that is notoriously hard to secure. The denominations jealously guard different parts of the site and often object to even the slightest changes.

A Greek worker, part of team of experts, begins renovation of Jesus' tomb in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's old city

Last year, Israeli police briefly shut down the building after Israel’s Antiquities Authority deemed it unsafe. It prompted the Christian denominations to green light the repairs, which began in June. Pilgrims line up throughout the day for the chance to crouch in the Edicule’s tiny room. They kneel before a white marble encasing, said to cover a surface hewn from the side of the limestone cave where Jesus’ body was laid before his resurrection.

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Restoration of Jesus' tomb is completed
March 21, 2017 - The tomb is in a cave below a shrine housed in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

A Greek team announced the finish to the restoration of the tomb of Jesus, a $4 million project in Jerusalem which took nearly a year to complete. The site is a cave where Roman Catholics and Orthodox Catholics believe Jesus was entombed and then was resurrected. It lies beneath a shrine called the Edicule, which itself is surrounded by the 12-century Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The restoration included the cleaning and reinforcing of the limestone and marble Edicule and the removal of an iron cage installed in 1947 to shore up its walls. The shrine was restored once before, in 1810 after an 1807 fire, and has not been improved since.

The renovated Edicule, traditionally believed to be the tomb of Jesus, is seen in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, on Tuesday. A Greek restoration team has completed a historic renovation of the Edicule, the shrine believed to be the cave where Jesus was buried and rose to heaven.

The project was led by the National Technical University of Athens and was announced completed on Monday. The restoration team removed hundreds of years of candle soot, as well as marble slabs encasing a stone bench where believers say Jesus' body was placed after his crucifixion and death. One slab was installed by the emperor Constantine when the first church on the site was built; another was from the late-Crusader era in the 14th century. "It was really important to see the bench, very flat and almost complete, from the right to the left, almost for the shape of one man [who] can stay on it," said Eugenio Alliata, an Italian archaeologist. "This was really something very important. And it was the first time it has been documented as it is."

A Greek Orthodox priest stands at the entrance to the renovated Edicule, traditionally believed to be the tomb of Jesus, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday. A Greek restoration team completed a historic renovation of the Edicule, the shrine believed to be the cave where Jesus was buried and rose to heaven.

The funders for the project included Jordan's King Abdullah and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. "I would venture to say that if this intervention hadn't happened now, there was a very great risk that there could have been a collapse," said Bonnie Burnham of the World Monuments Fund, a New York-based non-profit organization which also raised funds for the project.

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Newly restored shrine at Jesus’ tomb unveiled
Thu, Mar 23, 2017 - The newly restored shrine surrounding what is believed to be Jesus’ tomb was unveiled yesterday at a ceremony in Jerusalem following months of delicate work.

Religious leaders opened the ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built at the site where Christians believe Jesus was crucified and buried. They stood in front of the 19th-century edicule surrounding the tomb as hymns were sung. Dignitaries including Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras were in attendance. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theo-philos III of Jerusalem, in his address to the ceremony, called the restoration “not only a gift to our Holy Land, but to the whole world.” “For the first time in over two centuries, this sacred edicule has been restored,” he said, referring to the shrine built in 1810 surrounding the tomb. The shrine is a key part of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City.

The church is in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians see as the capital of their future state, and the shrine was briefly closed by Israeli authorities in 2015 over security fears. Centuries of candle smoke and visiting pilgrims had left the shrine discolored and almost black. Parts of it were also coming loose, with warnings that it was structurally unsound and posed a risk to the millions of pilgrims who visit the site every year. Following a US$3.7 million renovation led by the church’s three main Christian denominations, the tomb has been painstakingly restored to its former glory — including a warm reddish-yellow coloring. “Before this, the monument was black,” chief renovator Antonia Moropoulou said. “This is the actual color of the monument, the color of hope,” she said.

A picture taken on Tuesday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem shows the renovated edicule of the tomb of Jesus.

Unlike other parts of the church, which were renovated between the 1960s and 1990s, the edicule had been neglected. Moropoulou said that restorers had systematically dismantled, cleaned and renovated almost all of the edicule, including the columns and upper and inner domes. A window has been installed to allow pilgrims to see the bare stone of the ancient burial cave for the first time. The new structural integrity means a protective cage installed 70 years ago by the British is no longer necessary. “The deformations of the holy edicule are addressed and the structural integrity is assured,” Moropoulou said.

Samuel Aghoyan, the superior of the Armenian Church at the Sepulchre, which cofinanced the project, said that after the renovation the edicule looked “like a brand new building.” In October last year, perhaps the most dramatic moment in the renovation occurred when the cave thought to be the tomb of Jesus was opened for the first time in centuries. Marble slabs were removed to allow for the chamber’s reinforcement. They found a top slab dating from the era of the Crusades, indicating that the tomb had not been opened for 700 years, Moropoulou said.

Underneath they found another from the era of Constantine the Great, the emperor who began the Roman empire’s transition to Christianity in 4AD. “When we opened the slabs we discovered within the internal masonry all the layers of history — from Constantinian to Byzantine, to Crusaders to Renaissance,” Moropoulou said. Whether the site is indeed the place of Jesus’ burial has long been a matter of dispute. Some Christians believe he was buried in the Garden Tomb, outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, but Moropoulou said their findings supported the Sepulchre as the location.

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