In 2002, he announced that he would begin preparing for the second coming of Christ.

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The 40ft mural, on a wall inside St Mark's Church in the city's Swanswell area, is said to depict the second coming of Christ.

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The end in question was the second coming of Christ, who would arrive either to judge and cleanse a wicked world or as the liberator of down-trodden mankind.

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