The return of the Lord Jesus Christ is the pre-eminent promise of the New Testament. The Bible’s teaching on it, however, is not easily harmonised, leaving many Christians unclear in their thinking. Brian Russell sets out the Bible’s teaching with clarity, thoughtfulness and affection. This fine book will enlighten the mind and warm the heart of every reader, whether in the congregation or in the pulpit. I commend it with enthusiasm.

Mostyn Roberts, pastor of Welwyn Evangelical Church, and lecturer in systematic theology at the London Seminary,

Born in South Africa, Brian Russell was converted at the age of seventeen. After training in the gold mining industry for six years, he studied at the University of South Africa and the Baptist Theological College in Johannesburg before entering the pastoral ministry in 1962. He has pastored several Baptist churches in his native land, in Zimbabwe and in Virginia, U.S.A. where he now lives in retirement. He and his wife Muriel have three grown children.