p. 74 | 854.-THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1902

854.—THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN.

1. What is the sign of the Son of man spoken of in Matt. 24: 30? 2. Are we now in the time mentioned in Matt. 25: 5: “While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept”?

Ans.—1. The sign of the Son of man in heaven is held to be the first appearance of the cloud upon which He comes (Rev. 14: 14), which appears small at first, but at length becomes a great “white cloud,” before which the kings and great men of the earth fall in terror and despair, and pray for the rocks and mountains to cover them. Rev. 6: 14-17.

2. The time mentioned in Matt. 25: 5 is a part of the parable of the ten virgins. The tarrying of the Bridegroom is now all past, by over fifty years. See tract at this Office on that point. The sleeping, we are sorry to say, is not yet past. The exhortation of Rom. 13: 11, 12,—“Now it is high time to awake out of sleep,”—is a current exhortation still. Let us speedily change over to 1 Thess. 5: 4-6: “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.”