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LESSON IX.—SABBATH, SEPTEMBER 1, 1894

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 41.

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LESSON IX.—SABBATH, SEPTEMBER 1, 1894.

CHRIST'S SECOND COMING.

Lesson Scripture, Luke 17: 20-37.

  1. AND being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God cometh, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation;
  2. Neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, There! for lo, the kingdom of God is within you.
  3. And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not see it.
  4. And they shall say to you, Lo, there! Lo, here! go not away, nor follow after them:
  5. For as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall the Son of Man be in his day.
  6. But first must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.
  7. And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.
  8. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
  9. Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
  10. But in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all;
  11. After the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
  12. In that day, he which shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him that is in the field likewise not return back.
  13. Remember Lot's wife.
  14. Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
  15. I say unto you, In that night there shall be two men on one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
  16. There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
  17. And they answering say unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Where the body is, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.
The title of this lesson will be found sufficient analysis of it. See how easily you can recall all the subjects treated of in this chapter.
  1. What did some of the Pharisees demand of Jesus?
  2. How did he say the kingdom of God would not come?
  3. What can men not say about the kingdom?
  4. What did he say to his disciples?
  5. What will men say in spite of the Lord's instruction? Compare verse 23, with Matt. 24: 23.
  6. How are we to regard such sayings?
  7. What will be the manner of Christ's coming?
  8. What did he tell the people must first take place?
  9. What did all the prophets speak of as preceding the glorious coming of the Lord? 1 Peter 1: 10, 11.
  10. How will it be in the days of the coming of the Lord?
  11. How were the people also doing in the days of Lot?
  12. What comparison is made between that time and the last days?
  13. When the day of the Lord comes, what should not be done?
  14. What are we exhorted to remember?
  15. What will happen to one who seeks to save his life?
  16. What to him who loses his life?
  17. How closely will the division be made?
  18. What did Jesus reply in answer to the question where these judgments should occur?

NOTE.

"THE kingdom of God is within you." This may be rendered "among you." But the idea which the Saviour seeks to impress on our minds is the fact of the gradual development of the kingdom. Those who are waiting for it to burst upon them suddenly will see it too late. The kingdom of God is a condition, as well as a place. Only those in whom the principles of the kingdom are developed, can have any part in it when it is revealed. God bestows upon us his glory in this present time. See John 17: 22; 1 Peter 5: 1. This glory is in the form of his grace. Christ's glory when on this earth was the glory of the only-begotten Son of God, but it was manifested in his fullness of grace and truth. John 1: 14. The effect of the glory in this present time is to transform the characters of those who believe. See 2 Cor. 3: 18; 4: 4-6. Thus they become fitted to dwell in the kingdom where the glory of God shines without being veiled. Then when at last the glory is revealed, it will not be so unnatural and foreign a thing as to blind them, and cause their death, but will simply add the finishing touch in the transformation, namely, to change their bodies so that they will also shine as the sun,