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Seeing His Face

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 21, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 16.

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Seeing His Face

By L. A. S.

IN the day of the revelation of Jesus Christ in the clouds of heaven two classes of people will be living upon the earth who will view his coming with widely contrasted emotions. To the one class there will be nothing so joyful as the sight of his face, and they will exclaim, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us.” To the other class there will be nothing so terrible as that countenance, and they will exclaim to the rocks and mountains, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.” The one class have become acquainted with him; the other class have shunned his acquaintance. To the one class he comes as a friend; to the other he comes as an awful stranger. To the one class he is “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.” He is the same Jesus when sitting upon the throne of his glory, and coming in flaming fire at the head of the armies of heaven, that he was when he was simply Jesus of Nazareth, the meek and lowly teacher. He is the same that he was when, coming over the waves of Galilee, he spoke those words of cheer to his troubled and fear-stricken disciples, “It is I; be not afraid.” Amid the terrors of that scene of flaming fire, of shaking heavens and reeling earth, there comes to them that same message, “It is I; be not afraid.” If we long to see him now, we shall with joy behold him then. Is this the longing of your heart to-day?
L. A. S.