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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 29, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 34.

3541 — How Many Shall See Him?

By E. C. D.

At the second coming of Christ, when He comes to gather His people and to take them home to Himself, will the living wicked see Him? E. C. D.

It would seem so. Thus we read in Rev. 1:7, "Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him." The coming with clouds seems very clearly to indicate that it refers to His immediate coming after probation, for the very term is used in connection with the description of that coming elsewhere. See Matt. 24:30; Acts 1:11; Luke 21:25-27. The same thought seems also to be indicated by Rev. 6:16 — that is, the scripture shows that the wicked expect to see Him when He comes. They pray to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne." But in the sight of that wonderful glory they shall perish; for we read in 2 Thess. 2:8 that that great system of that wicked shall be consumed with the Spirit of His mouth, and destroyed with the brightness of His coming. His coming is not a secret coming.