COMING AGAIN by E. A. Kitteredge

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 22, 1880

COMING AGAIN.

By E. A. Kitteredge

THE ascension of Christ is interwoven with an angelic promise that he will come again. No words could possibly be plainer than the message which angels brought to those grieving hearts of the little group on Olivet. "This same Jesus shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven." And this message is in perfect harmony with the repeated utterances of our Lord before his crucifixion. I have no theory upon the subject. I am satisfied with the simple word of God, and am willing to leave the theorizing to others—more than satisfied with the stupendous, glorious fact that he is coming to crush Satan and death under his feet; coming to claim his own, who will be caught up to meet him in the air; coming to reign on earth as in Heaven; coming to make earth a heaven below. Do you ask when he is coming? He has expressly told us that we are not to know this, but we are to expect him, and this is to be the inspiration of earnest toil and patient waiting. Do you ask, How is he coming? I only know so far as the angels have told us, "in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven." The cloud of glory will form his stairway earthward, as it once was his stairway heavenward.—E. A. Kitteredge.