In Psalm 14, the King James version uses "generation" in this wide and outdated sense, when it declares that "God is in the generation of the righteous." According to Larsen, the Oxford Universal Dictionary state that the latest attested use of genea in the sense of "class, kind or set of persons" took place in 1727. The Danish linguist Iver Larsen argues that the word "generation" as it was used in the King James Version of the Bible (1611) had a much 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). Likewise for Danish, Swedish and Norwegian (slægt, släkte and slekt, respectively). In most German Bibles, genea is instead translated as "family/lineage" (geschlecht). For instance, 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 the early Christian communities. The most common English translation of genea is "generation", which lead some to conclude that the Second Coming was to be witnessed by the people living in the same generation as Jesus. The term is most commonly used by Shia Muslims.
In Islam, the term Rajʽa ( Arabic: الرجعة, romanized: al-rajʿah, lit.'Return') refers to the Second Coming. 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. The word is also used six times referring to individuals ( Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus, Titus, and Paul the Apostle ) and one time referring to the "coming of the lawless one". So this parousia or "presence" would be unique and distinct from anything that had occurred before. The Greek word eleusis which means "coming" is not interchangeable with parousia. At Matthew 24:37 parousia is used to clearly describe the period of time that Noah lived. However, parousia has the distinct reference to a period of time rather than an instance in time. The Greek New Testament uses the Greek term parousia (παρουσία, meaning "arrival", "coming", or "presence") twenty-four times, seventeen of them concerning Christ.
In the New Testament, the Greek word ἐπιφάνεια ( epiphaneia, appearing) is used five times to refer to the return of Christ. Several different terms are used to refer to the Second Coming of Christ:
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