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He Will Come Again

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 2, No. 1.

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He Will Come Again.

J. H. Brookes, D. D., writes as follows:
“Rev. Mr. Bickersteth states, after careful examination, that at least one verse in thirty of the New Testament relates to the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. If he had included allusions to the great event, as well as direct references, the proportions would have been more striking; for there are more than three hundred and twenty verses out of seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine found in the New Testament that point forward as with eager gesture to the future appearing of the Saviour. This fact is most suggestive of the high value placed upon the doctrine by the divine Spirit who dictated the word of God; and it stands in significant contrast with the strange silence of many of our preachers and writers respecting a topic of momentous importance in the estimation of the inspired penman.”
“When we find the doctrine of our Lord's divinity repeatedly affirmed in every book of the New Testament, and the doctrine of human redemption through his blood prevailing the gospel, and the doctrine of faith or belief in his name as essential to salvation stated about five hundred times, it is proper to infer that these doctrines possess special value to the mind of the Spirit. What shall we say, then, when we discover that the doctrine of our Lord's second coming is distinctly or incidentally mentioned, in one verse of every twenty-five perhaps in the New Testament? Can it be right to neglect such a truth? Can it be right to banish it from our thoughts and discourse as a forbidden subject? If our ministers and professors in the theological seminaries should rarely or never clearly announce the doctrine of Christ's true and proper divinity, or his atoning sacrifice for sin, or the necessity of faith in him, they would be justly regarded by every real Christian as sadly derelict in duty. And surely they are no less derelict when they fail to announce the second coming of the Lord.”