The Promise of Christ’s Coming
THE last message of mercy to this stricken world brings out two classes,—the faithful and the faithless; the believers and the scoffers; the commandment keepers and the image worshipers. The one looks to Christ and believes the promise of his return, the other turns its eyes to, and places its trust in, a human being sitting in the temple of God and setting himself forth as God. “Where is the promise of his coming?” asks the one class. “Here in the infallible Book of our Father,” answers the other, “as true as God is true.” In that promise lies the only hope of a world now enshrouded in the gloom of Satan’s machinations. That promise is worth more than worlds to us. It opens all the storehouses of eternity. It makes us heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ in all the wealth of God’s universe, and brings us into his household to sit down with our Redeemer, and go no more out forever.