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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 13.

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Behold!

By H.

I RECENTLY heard a Wesleyan Methodist minister preach from the passage, “Behold I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” He remarked that when the word “Behold” is used in this way, we may be sure that something of peculiar importance and demanding special attention, is about to follow.
It at once occurred to my mind that if the principle thus laid down was allowed to have its perfect work, there would be no danger of the doctrines of the Second Advent and the Restitution being cast into the shade, or lost sight of; for in the Apocalypse, from which the text was taken, the following passages are found: “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, amen.” “Behold, I come quickly; hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.” “Behold, I come quickly; blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” “Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. . . . and I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And he shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.” .
If the minister was correct in the rule of exegesis which he announced, then the coming again of Christ and the new creation are “of peculiar importance, and demanding special attention;” and it is not surprising that John Wesley should publish a sermon on the words, “Behold, I make all thing new.”—H., in Millennial News.