2 Peter 3: 10
 
Augustine,City of God, Book XXII, Chapter 30
 
Reasons for the expectation of the Second Coming as an event in the near future can also be derived from bible passages, such as in Mark 13:30 'Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.'
   
Richard Landes, Apocalyptic Expectations around the Year 1000
   
Richard Landes, Millennialism (Millenarianism, Chiliasm) Draft of article for the Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of World Religions, 1999
   
   
   
   
This text is cited from Bernard McGinn, Visions of the End, pp. 89-90
 
This text is cited from Bernard McGinn, Visions of the End, pg. 90