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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 19, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 25.

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Bible Readings with Families.

By Mrs. S. N. Haskell

MRS. S. N. HASKELL.
The plan of holding Bible readings was a heaven-born idea. There are many, both men and women, who can engage in this branch of missionary labor. . . . God will not permit this precious work for him to go unrewarded. He will crown with success every humble effort made in his name.—“Gospel Workers,” page 339.
In visiting your neighbors it is easy to turn the conversation from the news of the day to the subject of the second coming of Christ. Most of the thrilling events that are occurring in the world are signs of the coming of the Saviour. Many of our friends and neighbors recognize this, and would be glad to know what the Bible teaches on the subject of the second advent.
Below is a simple series of texts that contains some suggestive thoughts, which may be of use if you wish to hold Bible readings with your neighbors. These texts should be studied until they are familiar; and you should make the thoughts your own before you attempt to give them to others. There are many thoughts given in the texts, but space will not permit more than one LEADING thought to be given after each text.
John 14: 1–3: The promise, “I will come again.”
Acts 1: 9–11: He will come in person, not as a spirit.
Rev. 1: 7: “Every eye shall see him.”
Matt. 24: 30: Comes in the clouds, with great glory.
Luke 9: 26: Threefold glory: Father’s, Son’s, and angels’.
Matt. 17: 1, 2; Acts 26: 13: Christ’s glory above the brightness of the noonday sun.
Ex. 24: 16, 17: The Lord’s glory like devouring fire.
Eze. 1: 28: The glory of the Lord like the rainbow. To the wicked it will appear dreadful; to the righteous, glorious.
Matt. 28: 1–3: The glory of one angel.
Matt. 25: 31: All the angels will come.
Rev. 5: 11: The numbers of the angels. The whole heavens will be filled with the glorious host.
Matt. 28: 4: Effect of the glory of ONLY ONE ANGEL.
Matt. 28: 5: Righteous hidden not to fear.
2 Thess. 2: 8: Effect of the glory upon all the wicked.
Jer. 25: 30–33: Wicked dead upon the earth.
1 Thess. 4: 16, 17: Righteous taken to meet the Lord.
1 Cor. 15: 51–53: Changed before they are taken.
Phil. 3: 20, 21: Given glorious bodies like Christ’s.
Matt. 13: 43: Shine as the sun in the kingdom.
Rom. 8: 18: Sufferings not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us—in our own bodies.