We have now traced the development of the original promise of the Seed through the various experiences in the history of the church. We have followed it in the promises to Abraham, in the promises to David, in the experience in ancient Babylon, in the first advent, in “the falling away,” in the experience in modern Babylon, and in the final call out of Babylon, and we have seen that God’s promises to his people and his providential dealings with his people have all had reference to the fulfilment of the original purpose and plan that sin and its author should be destroyed by the gift of his Son to the human family, and we have seen that the hope of the church and the principal theme of promise and prophecy is the coming of Christ the Seed. This is indeed the true keynote of Scripture teaching. To take this idea out of the Bible would be like taking the framing timbers out of a building. The whole structure would collapse. The gospel can not be taught in its proper setting, with due regard to its historical development, unless “the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” are constantly emphasized. This has always been true, but in this generation, as the time of the promise draws near, the true gospel message for the world must be most emphatically the gospel of the coming of the Seed. The second advent of Christ, the coming of the Seed of the woman as the Lord and King of glory, is the climax of all that is involved in the original promise made in the garden of Eden. This is the glorious consummation toward which the whole history both of the church and of the world has been tending during this whole experience of sin. “To God’s pilgrim people, so long left to sojourn in ‘the region and shadow of death,’ a precious, joy-inspiring hope is given in the promise of his appearing, who is ‘the resurrection and the life,’ to ‘bring home again his banished.’ . . . From the day when the first pair turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming of the Promised One to break the destroyer’s power, and bring them again to the lost Paradise. Holy men of old looked forward to the advent of the Messiah in glory, as the consummation of their hope. . . . The coming of Christ to usher in the reign of righteousness, has inspired the most sublime and impassioned utterances of the sacred writers. The poets and prophets of the Bible have dwelt upon it in words glowing with celestial fire.” “About his coming cluster the glories of that ‘restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his4holy prophets since the world began.’ Then the long-continued rule of evil shall be broken; ‘the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.’ ‘The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.’ ‘The Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.’ He shall be ‘for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people.’ “It is then that the peaceful and long-desired kingdom of the Messiah shall be established under the whole heaven. ‘The Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord.’ ‘The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon.’ ‘Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called my Delight, and thy land Beulah.’ ‘As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.’” “From the dungeon, the stake, the scaffold, where saints and martyrs witnessed for the truth, comes down the centuries the utterance of their faith and hope. ‘Being assured of Christ’s personal resurrection, and consequently of their own at his coming, for this cause,’ says one of these Christians, ‘they despised death, and were found to be above it.’ They were willing to go down to the grave, that they ‘might rise free.’ They looked for the ‘Lord to come from heaven in the clouds with the glory of his Father,’ bringing to the just the times of the kingdom.” As the promise of the coming of the Seed runs like a thread of gold through all the teaching of the Scripture, so in the closing work of preparation for the coming of the Seed this whole chain of truth should be presented to the people. Every promise has reference to this time. Every prophecy is a part of the one great prophecy which finds its fulfilment at this time. All the experiences of the past which were emphasizing some phase of the one great truth, throw their light upon the present time. Much of the preaching of to-day is utterly lacking in power, and fails to meet the needs of the people, because it does not recognize and give the proper place to the truth for the hour. “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set over his household, to give them their food in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.” We earnestly urge those who voice the third angel’s message to the world to give fresh and faithful study to the whole question of the coming of the Seed as revealed in the Scripture. A comprehensive grasp of this central truth of the gospel message will give a clearer understanding of the application of the utterances of the prophets of all times, and will make it possible to bring to a focus in our own day all the rays of light which have shone forth from God’s Word from the beginning. Those who thus consider this great theme will certainly be impressed with the fact that “the return of Christ to our world will not be long delayed,” and they will certainly make this “the keynote of every message.”