The personal, bodily, visible return of Jesus Christ to judge the living and the dead and to consummate the kingdom. The promise is given at the ascension by two men in white apparel: this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven (Acts 1:11). Christ Himself promised it (Matt 24:30; John 14:3). Paul develops the doctrine (1 Thess 4:13-18; 2 Thess 2; 1 Cor 15:23-28; 2 Tim 4:1, 8). Peter (2 Pet 3) and John (Rev 22:20: even so, come, Lord Jesus) end the canon with the same expectation. Eschatological details vary among orthodox Christian traditions (premillennial, amillennial, postmillennial; pretribulational, posttribulational), but the personal bodily visible return is universally affirmed across all orthodox positions. The doctrine has shaped the church's posture of watchful holiness (Titus 2:13: looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ) for twenty centuries.