I saw this sentence in a train advertisement for a job placement agency:

```

    いまとサヨナラしなければ、出会えないあなたがきっといる。
    
```

I don't sense a future tense at all in the independent (latter) clause because
the verb is simply いる rather than a "can" form like 〜える/〜れる/〜ける。The sentence
feels disjointed as the tenses don't agree.

I feel that the following sentence expresses the same thing, but with a better
match between the clauses:

```

    いまとサヨナラしなければ、もう一人のあなたと出会えない。
    
```

Translating the original sentence literally to English as:

```

    If you don't say goodbye to the present, there is a you that you will never meet.
    
```

sounds just as wrong because of the "is". It should be "there _will be_ a you
that you never meet".

I understand きっと to mean "certainly", but does きっといる here serve as a future
tense?

EDIT: Inserted missing "you" in translation from dainichi's comment. Revised
title.
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〜なければ、〜がきっといる。Do the tenses agree?
No, きっと means "certainly" here.

I don't understand what you find wrong with 'is' in your translation. Insert a
'you' before 'will' and it makes perfect sense.
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