He Will Come! | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 25.

"He Will Come!"

THE personal, visible second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, is a doctrine to which the church should turn with ever increasing interest. Because extremists have brought this truth under a shadow by undertaking to set the time and give the particulars as to the manner of his coming, this precious doctrine must not be allowed to go into the background, nor must we be robbed of its teachings and defrauded of the hope which it inspires, by any exegesis which declares that "Christ came at the destruction of Jerusalem," or is coming in the victories of his kingdom every day; or is here continually manifested by the Holy Spirit which bears witness of him. All these things are true, but they are not all the truth. The kingdom of God is as God himself, "which was, and is, and is to come!"

He is coming, some day—sometime—in the clouds of heaven, when "every eye shall see him," and all who love his appearing will rejoice with exceeding great joy. All his parables bearing on this subject—and they are many—show that that coming is to be a personal, visible one. Then they who have not oil in their lamps will find that the door is shut! Then they who have refused to have this Man to rule over them shall perish in his sight!

The years go on and over. The world grows old, and the seasons come and go. But some day—we know not when—somehow—not yet known—the trumpet shall sound, the dead will be raised, and all the righteous will God bring with him! "He will come!"—Advance.