The name refers to belief in the imminent Second Coming ( or " Second Advent ") of Jesus Christ.

Patrick was charged for kidnapping, but he was acquitted with the reasoning: :" here parents are, as here, of the reasonable and intelligent belief that they were not physically capable of recapturing their daughter from existing, imminent danger, then the defense of necessity transfers or transposes to the constituted agent, the person who acts upon their belief under such conditions.

With the surrender of France to Germany on June 25, 1940, and the belief that Britain was under imminent threat of a Nazi invasion, the convention opened in an atmosphere of great excitement and national stress ; this is believed to have boosted Willkie's chances even further.

It was a general belief that if the Jewish Messiah arrived in Jerusalem, it would mean that the Kingdom of Heaven was imminent.

An over-anxious guardian angel ( Buck Henry ) on his first assignment plucks Joe out of his body early in the mistaken belief that his death is imminent, and Pendleton arrives in the afterlife.

They were united by a belief in the imminent return of Jesus Christ — the Second Advent.

His deep pessimism may stem from a belief in the imminent end of the world, since he had read the apocryphal letter of Christ to Thomas, which was interpreted to show that the world would end in May 482.

He established 1914 as the date of Christ's invisible return, asserted that Christ died on a tree rather than a cross, formulated the current Witness concept of Armageddon as God's war on the wicked, and reinforced the belief that the start of Christ's millennial reign was imminent.

Adventism is a Christian eschatological belief that looks for the imminent Second Coming of Jesus to inaugurate the Kingdom of God.

They focused on several key doctrinal points that they considered a return to " primitive Christianity ", derived from their interpretation of the Bible, including a rejection of trinitarianism, the immortality of the soul, and the definition of Hell as a place of eternal torment ; active proselytization ; strict neutrality in political affairs ; abstinence from warfare ; and a belief in the imminent manifestation of the Kingdom of God ( or World to Come ) on Earth.

Gossip serves as a mechanism for sanctioning deviation, but the most powerful deterrent to antisocial behavior is an abiding belief in imminent justice, that supernatural forces ( the ' atua or ghosts of ancestors ) will punish wrongdoing.

Doctrine includes belief in the Trinity ; the inspiration of the Scriptures ; the Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues ; the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ ; the death, burial and resurrection of Christ ; and His imminent, personal, premillennial second coming.

The doctrine of the Advent Christian Church includes belief in the Bible as the infallible rule of faith and practice, salvation available for all conditioned on repentance, a belief in the doctrine of the Trinity ( God as Father, Son, & Holy Spirit ), faith & faithfulness to God, and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.

Typically, this is because police have a reasonable belief that evidence is in imminent danger of being removed or destroyed, but there is still a probable cause requirement.

But in spring 1939 Hoare aligned himself very firmly with Chamberlain's upbeat belief that war was now unlikely, rather than with Halifax's increasing focus on shoring up alliances and rearming for a conflict that to the Foreign Secretary seemed imminent.

This stems from a fallacious belief ( still cultivated by neo-fascist propaganda ) that the Nazis warned the Roman populace that a retaliation was imminent.

Some sources say that the issue was Venceremos ' belief that revolution was imminent, but Franklin says that is incorrect.

Creationists during this period were largely a premillennialist minority, whose belief in Christ's imminent return depended on a quasi-literal reading of parts of the Bible.

The Communist Party did not intervene in ILGWU politics in any concerted fashion for the first few years of its existence, when it was focused first on its belief that revolution in the advanced capitalist countries was imminent, followed by a period of underground activity.

In the belief that the downed pilot was seriously injured and in imminent danger of capture, Maj. Fisher announced his intention to land on the airstrip to effect a rescue.

" features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent.

Menasseh became a convert to La Peyrère's belief that the coming of the Jewish Messiah was imminent.

This belief is grounded in the Gospel of John passage “ You heard me say, ‘ I am going away and I am coming back to you .’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

When Aegeus saw the black sails coming into Athens, he jumped into the sea and drowned, mistaken in his belief that his son had been slain.

This includes the belief that the coming Kingdom will be the restoration of God's first Kingdom of Israel, which was under David and Solomon.

The coming of each of these messengers is seen as the day of judgement to the adherents of the previous religion, who may choose to accept the new messenger and enter the ' heaven ' of belief, or denounce the new messenger and enter the ' hell ' of denial.

In Bahá ' í belief, the coming of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, signals the fulfilment of previous eschatological expectations of Islam, Christianity and other major religions.

The number 666 had been identified in the Book of Revelation with the ultimate human despot to rule the world, but who would be replaced by the second coming of the Messiah ; this only added to the belief that the Fifth Monarchy was about to begin.

An alternative viewpoint of some credobaptists is that since all Christians are predestined to salvation ( John 15: 16, 1 Cor. 1: 27, Eph. 1: 4, 1 Pt. 2: 4 ), God will not allow his elect to die before receiving their need, even if they are in old age ( Luke 2: 25-35 ), an argument whose relation to baptism whether of infants or adults is unclear, unless it means that infants who die without coming to explicit belief and baptism are not among God's elect.

In most belief systems, Dao is used symbolically in its sense of ' way ' as the ' right ' or ' proper ' way of existence, or in the context of ongoing practices of attainment or of the full coming into being, or the state of enlightenment or spiritual perfection that is the outcome of such practices.

There are many varieties of this form of Unitarianism, ranging from the belief that the Son was a divine spirit of the same nature as God before coming to earth, to the belief that he was an angel or other lesser spirit creature of a wholly different nature from God.

In their influential book The Kingdom of the Cults ( first published in 1965 ), Walter Ralston Martin and Ravi K. Zacharias disagreed with the Divine Principle on the issues of the divinity of Christ, the virgin birth of Jesus, the Unification Church's belief that Jesus should have married, the necessity of the crucifixion of Jesus, and a literal resurrection of Jesus as well as a literal second coming of Jesus.

The name refers to belief in the soon Second Advent of Jesus ( popularly known as the Second coming ) and resulted in several major religious denominations, including Seventh-day Adventists and Advent Christians.

Another theory is that the fairies were originally worshiped as minor goddesses, such as nymphs or tree spirits, but with the coming of Christianity, they lived on, in a dwindled state of power, in folk belief.

During his presentation Wendell outlined his belief that 1873 or 1874 would be the date for Christ's second coming.

Millenarianism ( also millenarism ) is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society, after which all things will be changed, based on a one-thousand-year cycle.

The Millerites were the followers of the teachings of William Miller who, in 1833, first shared publicly his belief in the coming Second Advent of Jesus Christ in roughly the year 1843.

* Fourth World, the current world according to the Hopi belief system and Maya mythology ; the coming age is the Fifth World

In Judaism the term " end of days " is a reference to the Messianic Age and the Jewish belief in the coming of mashiach and the Olam haba, that will usher in peace and unity for all mankind, in the service of one God.

Hasidic Jews tend to have a particularly strong and passionate belief in the immediacy of the Messiah's coming, and in the ability of their actions to hasten his arrival.

Many Jews, ( see the Bartenura's explanation on Megillat Rut, and the Halakhic responsa of The Ch ' sam Sofer on Choshen Mishpat 6, Chapter 98 where this view is explicit ) especially Hasidim, adhere to the belief that there is a person born each generation with the potential to become Messiah, if the Jewish people warrant his coming ; this candidate is known as the Tzadik Ha-Dor, meaning Tzaddik ( a Hebrew term literally meaning " righteous one " but used to refer to holy men who can, for example, perform miracles or act as an intermediary between man and God ) of the Generation.

On 28 October, travelling from Kew to London, the King overtook Devonshire and Newcastle's coach in the belief that the two dukes were plotting and that Devonshire was coming to tender his resignation.

Galland had harboured the belief that the Western Alliance would soon be at war with the Soviet Union, and he wanted to join American forces and to use his unit in the coming war to free Germany from Communist occupation.

... people who accept the stereotype ... are forever coming up with evidence to support their idée fixe and seem unable to notice any information which might disturb their belief.

Premillennialism in Christian end-times theology is the belief that Jesus Christ will literally and physically be on the earth for his millennial reign at his second coming.