p. 98 | LEFT OVER by D. T. T.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 30, 1876

“LEFT OVER.”

By D. T. T.

Unto what? “To the coming of the Lord.” Such is the literal rendering in 1 Thess. 4:15. Who are those “left over?” “We, the living;” i. e., somebody will live to see him come. Somebody will never fall asleep—never taste of death. Somebody will escape death-bed, shroud, coffin, and the grave. Somebody will never be mourned for, or their names be carved on the marble tomb. Somebody will clasp angel hands, and out from living homes, not open graves, will be caught up to join the celestial escort, and see the King of kings. Lost to the world—lost in the ambrosial, sun-bright skies, lost heavenward. Was ever such a thing heard of? O yes; one of old went up in the cherubic chariots sky-ward, and men on earth saw him no more—type of the living left over unto his epiphany. And the same chariots are waiting to carry up the Bride to the Bridegroom.

O ye weary, and worn, and sad, cheer up. Ye sick, and suffering, and bruised, be of good comfort. Ye who wrestle in agony with the “lost archangel,” and whose wrath would sift, and toss, and shake you as wheat, “hold in, hold out, hold on,” a little while, and the victory is yours forever. A few more sighs, struggles, tears, temptations, trials, with “stormy waiting,” and then if “left over,” there cometh the unspeakable glory and the everlasting rest. I beseech you not to cease to watch—D. T. T.