He Is Coming Again

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 15, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Volume 41, Number 49

He Is Coming Again

THE Lord Jesus Christ is coming again, and He is coming very soon. While He was here in person, He told His disciples that He would return. A large part of the divine Book is devoted to the promises of His coming, to describing the manner of His return, and to giving us the evidence by which we may know that the event is near.

The fact that men will laugh at the thought of His returning, that they will refuse to consider the evidence, does not set the matter aside. In fact, He has told us “that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” 2 Peter 3: 3, 4. According to this text, instead of the scoffer who ridicules the second coming of Christ being a hindrance, that will set the great event to one side, he is merely an evidence that the Master knew how to foretell even what men would be saying “in the last days.”

God's prophecies are so numerous and so clear that those who take time to study them are aroused to tell the world that the end of all things is at hand, and that the glorious appearing of the blessed Christ is a near-by event. But the scoffer, in order to quiet his fears, derisively asks, “Where is the promise of His coming?” He refuses the evidence, and scoffs at the thought of it. The Master knew that he would do this, and foretold it.

That great day is coming. Jesus will soon return. The world will be made up of two classes. The one will study the evidence, and be ready for the event; the other will be scoffing at it. It is for each individual to decide which class he will be in.