3660 - A Set Time by A. K.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Feb 6, 1912

3660 — A Set Time

By A. K.

Has God a set time for Christ's second advent, or is it hastened or delayed according to how soon the Gospel is preached to all the inhabitants of the earth? A. K.

God has an appointed time for the judgment to begin. This seems quite clear from Eccl. 3:17 and Acts 17:31. And the prophecy also seems very clear that this judgment began in 1844 in the courts of heaven. But nowhere has He told us that there is a definite time set when our Lord shall come. Of course He who is infinite in His knowledge knows when that time will be, knows how His people may delay it by their unbelief, or hasten it by their zeal, as indicated by the margin of 2 Peter 3:12. God knew of course that Israel would fail of meeting all that He desired that they should be when they left Egypt and entered Canaan. He would have given them eternal life and blessed rest even then, but they would not have it. So would He have saved the Jewish nation and made them heralds to all the other peoples, but they would not. It would therefore seem reasonable that God's children in these closing days could be much more earnest, and hasten the work of the Master by so doing.