When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, "Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world ..." Then he will say to those at his left hand, "You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels ..." (Matthew 25:31-34, 41).

The thought of Jesus coming to earth again throws some people into a panic. They associate his return with the end of this world and for…