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67-489: Downtown New Haven is one of the most residential downtown areas in the United States, with nearly 7,000 inhabitants. The expansion of housing options in recent years has helped support downtown businesses and has brought about a surge in economic activity. Secondary streets and areas at the periphery of the neighborhood that once contained vacant storefronts are now almost entirely leased to restaurants and retailers, and

134-418: A center for New Haven's East Asian community, with several restaurants and grocery stores catering to this population and an annual Chinese New Year festival parading up Whitney Avenue. New Haven Green The New Haven Green is a 16-acre (65,000 m ) privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven, Connecticut , United States. It comprises

201-549: A timeless and spiritual family/lineage of good or bad people in the New Testament, and that this is the case also for the second coming discourse in Matthew 24 . In contrast to Larsen however, he argues that the word genea here denotes the "bad kind of people", because Jesus had used the word in that pejorative sense in the preceding context (chapter 23). He also lists the main competing translation alternatives, and some of

268-515: Is seated at the right hand of the Father . He will come again in his glory to judge the living and the dead , and his kingdom will have no end. ... We look for the resurrection of the dead , and the life of the world to come . A 2010 survey showed that about 40% of Americans believe that Jesus is likely to return by 2050. This varies from 58% of white evangelical Christians, through 32% of Catholics to 27% of white mainline Protestants. Belief in

335-637: Is "generation", which led some to conclude that the Second Coming was to be witnessed by the people living in the same generation as Jesus. According to historian Charles Freeman , early Christians expected Jesus to return within a generation of his death, and the non-occurrence of the second coming surprised them. N. T. Wright disputes this. In most German Bibles, genea is instead translated as "family/lineage" (Geschlecht). Likewise for Danish, Swedish and Norwegian (slægt, släkte and slekt, respectively). The Danish linguist Iver Larsen argues that

402-572: Is a distinction between the cosmic Christ, or Christ without, and the Christ within. According to this tradition, the Christ within is regarded as the true Saviour who needs to be born within each individual in order to evolve toward the future Sixth Epoch in the Earth's etheric plane , that is, toward the "new heavens and a new earth": the New Galilee . The Second Coming or Advent of the Christ

469-476: Is a popular stretch of restaurants, boutiques and bars located across from the Old Campus of Yale University. Includes such historic establishments as Union League Cafe and the c.  1934 Owl Shop cigar lounge. The Anchor Bar , notable for its Art Moderne style and popularity with playwright Thornton Wilder , operated on College Street from the 1940s until 2015. The area is largely coterminous with

536-811: Is a tribute to the federal churches on the green and even borrows the cupola from the United Church. On the northeast side along Elm Street by the lower Green is the New Haven Free Public Library ( Cass Gilbert , 1908). The library was once the site of the Bristol House, also designed by David Hoadley, whose doorway is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Next to the library is the Beaux-Arts , neoclassical New Haven County Courthouse . The courthouse

603-655: Is considered to be a Messenger of God and the masih (messiah) who was sent to guide banī isrā'īl (the Israelites) with a new scripture, the Injīl (Gospel). The belief in Jesus (and all other messengers of God) is required in Islam , and a requirement of being a Muslim . However, Muslims believe that Jesus was never crucified or resurrected, instead ascending directly into heaven. Additionally, they do not recognize Jesus as

670-544: Is in the generation of the righteous". According to Larsen, the Oxford Universal Dictionary states that the latest attested use of genea in the sense of "class, kind or set of persons" dates from 1727. Larsen concludes that the meaning of "generation" in the English language has narrowed considerably since then. Bible scholar Philip La Grange du Toit argues that genea is mostly used to describe

737-580: Is not in a physical body, but in the new soul body of each individual in the etheric plane of the planet where man "shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air." The "day and hour" of this event is not known. The esoteric Christian tradition teaches that first there will be a preparatory period as the Sun enters Aquarius , an astrological concept, by precession: the coming Age of Aquarius . In Islam, Jesus (or Isa ; Arabic : عيسى ʿĪsā )

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804-575: Is now disclosed. ... This Second Coming of the Lord is effected by means of a man to whom the Lord has manifested Himself in Person, and whom He has filled with His Spirit, that he may teach the doctrines of the New Church from the Lord by means of the Word. ... That the Lord manifested Himself before me. His servant, and sent me to this office, ... I affirm in truth." In Max Heindel 's teaching, there

871-539: Is one of the oldest and most well-known town greens in the nation, dating back to at least 1638. As of July 2017, the City of New Haven offers free public WiFi on the Green. The Green is a traditional town green ( common ) and was originally known as "the marketplace". It was completed in 1638. The Puritans were said to have designed the green large enough to hold the number of people who they believed would be spared in

938-492: Is recognized by "all of Israel", and it will be followed by a final and ultimate temptation to sin – in this case, apostasy – caused by the antichrist . Yet there are three things that hasten the second coming: the celebration of the Eucharist ; Christians living with the mind of Jesus; and Christians praying for the Second Coming. Like many Christian denominations, the church considers this second coming of Christ to be

1005-573: The Age of Enlightenment ) was an age of darkness and doubt for the Christian church. Historian Marguerite Beck Block writes, Now therefore it was time for a new church to be founded upon the earth, and for this purpose it was necessary for the Lord Himself to make his Second Coming to the sons of men. "The night is followed by a morning which is the coming of the Lord. ... The prevailing opinion in

1072-682: The American Revolution . This indirectly led to the burning of most of the city by the British when they landed in New Haven in 1779. The Green was used as the main burial grounds for the residents of New Haven during its first 150 years, but by 1821 the practice was abolished and many of the headstones were moved to the Grove Street Cemetery . However, the remains of the dead were not moved, and thus still remain below

1139-635: The Chapel Street Historic District . Notable buildings include the Hotel Taft and the Chapel Square Mall . The Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art are also located here. The Broadway area is a commercial center that has since the 1990s been bought piece-by-piece by Yale University and redeveloped into The Shops at Yale shopping district. This section was previously notable as home of

1206-639: The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens) and the flagpole with granite World War I memorial (designed by Douglas Orr in 1928) and fountain (added in 2003). While once the edges of the Green were covered with a glorious canopy of elms , planted originally by James Hillhouse , most died of dutch elm disease . In the 1980s, through the efforts of the Garden Club of New Haven, disease-resistant elms were planted in an attempt to memorialize

1273-634: The Evangelical Methodist Church Conference teaches, with regard to the Second Coming of Christ: We believe that the coming of our Lord is to be personal and pre-millenial, also that it is imminent. We must distinguish between the Rapture—His coming in the air to receive his saints, which may occur at any moment, and the Revelation—His coming down to earth with His saints, the latter of which will not occur until after

1340-484: The International Festival of Arts and Ideas and New Haven Jazz Festival, summer jazz and classical music concerts that can draw hundreds of thousands of people, as well as typical daily park activities. The New Haven Green Historic District was designated a National Historic Landmark District for the architectural significance of the three 19th-century churches located there. The New Haven Green

1407-654: The Mystery of Faith in their liturgies: "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again." Methodist denominations teach that the Second Coming is connected with the Last Judgment, as professed in the Creeds. Methodist denominations differ on the nature of the Second Coming. For example, the United Methodist Church does not teach that there will be a " rapture ". On the other hand,

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1474-575: The Second Advent or the Parousia ) is the Christian and Muslim belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago). The idea is based on messianic prophecies and is part of most Christian eschatologies . Other faiths have various interpretations of it. Several different terms are used to refer to

1541-594: The Second Coming of Christ : 144,000. In its early years, the Green held a watch house, a prison and a school. The upper Green also once held the First Methodist Church. The church was removed from the Green in 1848 with a new church built across Elm Street (designed by Henry Austin ). The Green also held a succession of statehouses, dating from the time when New Haven was joint capital of Connecticut with Hartford . The most recent state house

1608-746: The Son of God , as they believe God has no equals, but rather that he was a prophet. The Quran states that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary . Muslims believe that Jesus performed all the miracles in the Gospels (with God's permission). The pertinent verses in Sura An-Nisa 4:157 reads "And for their saying, 'Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.' And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but another

1675-769: The Yankee Doodle Coffee Shop and Cutlers Records. The Ninth Square district, which contains the blocks southeast of the New Haven Green, has experienced a resurgence as a nightlife and arts district since the first decade of the 21st century. The majority of buildings within these blocks are preserved as the Ninth Square Historic District . The Whitney Avenue corridor, north of the New Haven Green, contains shops and eateries that are primarily owned by Yale University and cater to its student population. This area serves as

1742-782: The federal style white clapboard Nicholas Callahan house, once a tavern (now the Yale Elihu Senior Society ), the federal Eli W. Blake House (now the Graduate Club), the federal John Pierpont house (now the Yale University Koerner Center) built in 1767 and the brick Greek Revival Governor Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll House, designed in 1829 by Town and Davis . 41°18′29″N 72°55′37″W  /  41.308031°N 72.926980°W  / 41.308031; -72.926980 Second Coming of Christ The Second Coming (sometimes called

1809-462: The resurrection and promise of eternal life . A competing view is that it is Jesus' coming in power on the mountain that provides the correct interpretative frame for the "not taste death" statement. The author of Second Peter describes the event: For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received honor and glory from God

1876-558: The Apostle ) and once referring to the "coming of the lawless one ". Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1908) showed that the Greek word parousia occurred as early as the 3rd century BC to describe the visit of a king or dignitary to a city – a visit arranged in order to show the visitor's magnificence to the people. In Islam, the term Rajʽa ( Arabic : الرجعة , romanized :  al-rajʿah , lit.   'Return') refers to

1943-567: The Bible. They also teach that When the Savior comes again, He will come in power and glory to claim the earth as His kingdom. His Second Coming will mark the beginning of the Millennium. The Second Coming will be a fearful, mournful time for the wicked, but it will be a day of peace for the righteous. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders do not make predictions of

2010-477: The Biblical sources ( Matthew 25:31 – 46 ), the conjunction of the Last Judgment and the works of mercy is very frequent in the pictorial tradition of Christian art . It is the traditional view of Orthodox Christians , preserved from the early Church, that the Second Coming will be a sudden and unmistakable incident, like "a flash of lightning". They hold the general view that Jesus will not spend any time on

2077-573: The Committee of the Proprietors of Common and Undivided Lands at New Haven, maintain ownership of the green. This five-member committee oversees the large, main portion of the green. The proprietors are drawn from the ranks of prominent city residents. Members are appointed for life, and when one dies the four remaining members convene to select a replacement. Located on the upper Green are three historic early 19th century churches which reflect

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2144-662: The Father when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory, saying, "This is my Son, my Beloved, with whom I am well pleased." We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven, while we were with him on the holy mountain. The position associating the Second Coming with 1st century events such as the destruction of Jerusalem and of the Jewish Temple in AD 70 is known as Preterism. Some Preterists see this "coming of

2211-576: The Green. The memorial stands on the site of the jail that held the Amistad captives during their time in New Haven. Spectators came to see them when they were brought out to exercise on the Green and paid 12 and a half cents to view them in the jail. Opposite the eastern corner of the lower green is the Union and New Haven Trust Building (now Wells Fargo and The Union apartments) designed by Cross and Cross in colonial revival style in 1927. The design

2278-498: The Second Coming of Christ: In the New Testament , the Greek word ἐπιφάνεια ( epiphaneia , appearing) is used six times to refer to the return of Christ. The Greek New Testament uses the Greek term parousia (παρουσία, meaning "arrival", "coming", or "presence") 24 times, seventeen of them concerning Christ. However, parousia has the distinct reference to a period of time rather than an instant in time. At Matthew 24:37 ,

2345-538: The Second Coming was popularised in the US in the late nineteenth century by the evangelist Dwight L. Moody and the premillennial interpretation became one of the core components of Christian fundamentalism in the 1920s. Jesus told his disciples , Truly I tell you, this generation [greek: genea ] will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. The most common English translation of genea

2412-482: The Second Coming. The term is most commonly used by Shia Muslims . Views about the nature of the Second Coming vary among Christian denominations and among individual Christians. Many specific dates have been predicted for the Second Coming, some now in the distant past, others still in the future. Most English versions of the Nicene Creed include the following statements: ...he ascended into heaven and

2479-452: The Son of Man in glory" primarily fulfilled in Jesus's death on the cross. They believe the apocalyptic signs are already fulfilled including " the sun will be dark ", the "powers ... will be shaken", and "then they will see". Yet some critics note that many are missing, such as "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and

2546-550: The Upper Green. Intertwined in the dirt and roots was a human skeleton. The police and medical examiner were called to the scene. The bones likely date back to colonial times, when the Green was used as a cemetery. The Grove Street cemetery that replaced it was chartered in 1797. A small portion of the burial ground is now preserved in The Center Church Crypt . A self-electing group of private individuals,

2613-522: The actual date of the Second Coming. Mormons believe Jesus appeared to his "new world disciples" in the Americas sometime after his crucifixion. This is a central tenet of the religion. Latter-day Saints have particularly distinct and specific interpretations of what are considered to be signs stated in the Book of Revelation . According to the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

2680-476: The angels, saints, or demons know when it will occur). It will cause the fullness of the reign of God and the consummation of the universe and mankind. The fullness of the reign of God means God fully manifests the victory he won over his enemies (sin, suffering, and Satan) on the Cross. Just as God gradually revealed himself to Israel until the birth of Jesus, so also God gradually manifests his victory through

2747-525: The beginning. A reference to the second coming is contained in the Nicene Creed and Apostles Creed , which is recited during the Lutheran and Anglican liturgies: "He [Jesus] shall come again in glory to judge the living and the dead; and His kingdom shall have no end." An analogous statement is also in the biblical Pauline Creed ( 1 Corinthians 15:23 ). The Lutheran and Anglican churches proclaim

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2814-401: The blink of an eye: the living will die, the universe will be transfigured, and the dead will be resurrected, judged, and recompensed. After this single instant or moment, the church does not know what will happen for the rest of eternity – only that the damned will continue to be in hell and the saved will continue to experience the beatific vision . The second coming is suspended until Jesus

2881-402: The central square of the nine-square settlement plan of the original Puritan colonists in New Haven, and was designed and surveyed by colonist John Brockett . Today the Green is bordered by the modern paved roads of College, Chapel, Church, and Elm streets. Temple Street bisects the Green into upper (northwest) and lower (southeast) halves. The green is host to numerous public events, such as

2948-417: The church's sacraments (baptism, forgiving sin, exorcising Satan, holy unction, relieving suffering, etc.), until the moment when he will fully manifest his victory through the consummation of the universe and mankind, e.g., by granting the universe and mankind a share in Jesus' resurrection (the universe being transfigured and the dead being resurrected, judged, and recompensed). The church does not believe

3015-410: The churches at the present day is, that when the Lord shall come for the last judgment. He will appear in the clouds of heaven with angels and the sound of trumpets, etc.," but this opinion is erroneous. The Second Coming of the Lord is not a coming in person, but in spirit and in the Word, which is from Him, and is Himself. ... Heretofore it has not been known that 'the clouds of heaven' mean the Word in

3082-518: The city's theocratic roots. Two of the three churches are the work of the influential early-19th century architects Ithiel Town and Asher Benjamin , and one of them is the nation's first large-scale Gothic Revival structure. Because of this architectural legacy, the green was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970. The three churches are: In the lower Green are the Bennett Fountain (built in 1907 and designed after

3149-552: The earth in ministry or preaching, but come to judge mankind. They teach that the ministry of the Antichrist will take place right before the Second Coming. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church , a part of the Oriental Orthodox communion of churches, teaches that the second coming of Jesus will be radically different from his first coming, which "was to save the lost world". Orthodox layman Alexander Kalomiros explains

3216-499: The elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up." And "Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." According to the Catholic Church , the second coming will happen in a single moment, suddenly and unexpectedly (not even

3283-619: The final and eternal judgment by God of the people in every nation resulting in the glorification of some and the punishment of others. The concept is found in all the Canonical gospels , particularly the Gospel of Matthew . A decisive factor in this Last Judgment during the second coming of Christ will be the question of whether the corporal and spiritual works of mercy were practised or not during lifetime. They rate as important acts of mercy, charity and justice. Therefore, and according to

3350-459: The final battle of Armageddon . Other biblical expressions they correlate with this period include "the time of the end" ( Daniel 12:4 ), "the conclusion of the system of things" ( Matthew 13:40 , 49 ; 24:3 ) and "the last days" ( 2 Timothy 3:1 ; 2 Peter 3:3 ). Witnesses believe Christ's millennial reign begins after Armageddon. Emanuel Swedenborg , an 18th-century scientist turned theologian, taught that his time (that historians have called

3417-466: The gathering of Israel, the manifestation of Antichrist, and other prophesied events. Ezek. 36:24, 37:21; Matt. 24:27; 25:13; 26-29; Acts 1:9-11; I Thess. 4:14-17; II Thess. 2:8-10; Rev. 19:20; 20:4; 22:12 The standard works of the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement , The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), say that Christ will return, as stated in

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3484-539: The gospel. The Saviour's coming will be literal, personal, visible, and worldwide. When He returns, the righteous dead will be resurrected, and together with the righteous living will be glorified and taken to heaven, but the unrighteous will die. The almost complete fulfillment of most lines of prophecy, together with the present condition of the world, indicates that Christ's coming is imminent. The time of that event has not been revealed, and we are therefore exhorted to be ready at all times. Jehovah's Witnesses rarely use

3551-560: The legacy of the trees that gave New Haven the nickname "Elm City". Bordering the Green are municipal, commercial and university structures. On the northwest side of the Green, across College Street, stand Phelps Gate and the Yale University buildings bordering Old Campus . Before the Old Campus was built, the buildings of Yale's Old Brick Row bordered the Green here. On the southwest side along Chapel Street are stores, bars, and such popular restaurants as Claire's Corner Copia . On

3618-491: The office vacancy rate has dramatically fallen as well. Downtown New Haven is divided into several independent sections centered on the New Haven Green . This basic structure is a remnant of the 1638 New Haven Plan. The main campus of Yale University , which is located to the north and west of the Green, is sometimes considered distinct from but intermingled with Downtown. The area bounded by Chapel and Crown Streets

3685-631: The original Church's position regarding the Second Coming in River of Fire and Against False Union , stating that those who contend that Christ will reign on earth for a thousand years "do not wait for Christ, but for the Antichrist". The idea of Jesus returning to this earth as a king is a heretical concept to the Church, equated to "the expectations of the Jews who wanted the Messiah to be an earthly King." The Church instead teaches that which it has taught since

3752-411: The restored gospel will be taught in all parts of the world prior to the Second Coming. Church members believe that there will be increasingly severe wars, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other man-made and natural disasters prior to the Second Coming. Fundamental Belief #25 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church states: The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of

3819-419: The scholars who support the different views: Jesus is also recorded as saying, there are some standing here, which shall not taste death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. He makes similar predictions in five other places in the Gospels. In religious sceptic Victor J. Stenger 's view, when the coming did not happen within the life-times of his disciples, Christianity changed its emphasis to

3886-448: The second coming will happen via a catastrophe (such as a nuclear war or extinction event ), reincarnation (such as someone claiming to be Jesus), social or technological progress (such as mankind abolishing slavery or curing disease), or ascendancy (such as the church having political power). Nor does the church believe in double predestination . At the moment of Jesus' arrival, three events will happen all at once in an instant, in

3953-415: The sense of the letter, and that the 'glory and power' in which He is then to come, mean the spiritual sense of the Word, because no one as yet has had the least conjecture that there is a spiritual sense in the Word, such as this sense is in itself. But as the Lord has now opened to me the spiritual sense of the Word, and has granted me to be associated with angels and spirits in their world as one of them, it

4020-482: The soil of the Green. It is conservatively estimated that between 4,000 and 5,000 people remain buried there, including Benedict Arnold's first wife, members of President Rutherford B. Hayes ' family, Reverend James Pierpont (founder of Yale University ), and Theophilus Eaton , one of the founders of New Haven and the church and governor of the New Haven Colony for 19 years. On the evening of October 29, 2012, winds from Hurricane Sandy knocked over an oak tree on

4087-422: The southeast side of the green, across Church Street is The Exchange Building (1832, restored in 1990) and the Richard C. Lee United States Courthouse ( James Gamble Rogers , 1913). This was once the site of the Tontine Hotel, built by David Hoadley. New Haven's Victorian City Hall (by Henry Austin in 1861; restored and added to by Herbert S. Newman and Partners) and the Amistad Memorial are also at this end of

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4154-403: The term "second coming", preferring the term "presence" as a translation of parousia . They believe that Jesus' comparison of "the presence of the Son of man" with "the days of Noah" at Matthew 24:37–39 and Luke 17:26–30 suggests a duration rather than a moment of arrival. They also believe that biblical chronology points to 1914 as the start of Christ's "presence", which continues until

4221-399: The word parousia is used to clearly describe the period of time in which Noah lived. The Greek word eleusi s, which means "coming", is not interchangeable with parousia . So this parousia or "presence" would be unique and distinct from anything that had occurred before. The word is also used six times referring to individuals ( Stephanas , Fortunatus and Achaicus , Titus , and Paul

4288-484: The word "generation" as it was used in the King James Version of the Bible (1611) had a wider meaning than it has today, and that the correct translation of genea in the context of the second coming is "kind of people" (specifically the "good" kind of people; the disciple's kind of people, who, like the words of Jesus, will endure through all the tribulations). In Psalm 14 , the King James version uses "generation" in this wide and outdated sense, when it declares that "God

4355-404: Was designed by New Haven architects William Allen and Richard Williams, modeled after St. George's Hall in Liverpool, England . The statuary in front of the courthouse is by the sculptor J. Massey Rhind and murals and lunettes inside the courthouse are by the painter T. Thomas Gilbert. The upper Green on Elm is bordered by "Quality Row", containing some of the oldest structures in New Haven:

4422-413: Was erected in 1837, designed by Ithiel Town in a Greek Revival style. Ultimately, Hartford was declared the sole capital and the building was demolished in 1889. The Green served as the parade grounds for the New Haven militia, who, under the leadership of Benedict Arnold , rushed to Massachusetts after hearing of the Battle of Lexington and Concord and participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill in

4489-416: Was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain." 4:158 continues "rather, Allah raised him to Himself. And ever is Allah Exalted in Might and Wise." The Quran refers to a conversation between Jesus and God on judgement day in Sura Al-Ma'idah 5:116, 5:117. Jesus

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