Where Is the Promise of His Coming?
Many are asking it. From pulpit to grogshop, from "Christian" to infidel, the question is asked, asked not in inquiry, not to elicit information, but asked as an unanswerable argument; and immediately the question is followed by the statement that all things continue as they were from the beginning. These dear souls do not know that they themselves are the sign of the coming; that the very question they ask, the very statement they make, based on the unproved and unprovable hypothesis of geologists of uniformity in change, has been predicted by Holy Writ for nearly two thousand years. Read: "Knowing this first, 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. How the truth of the prophecy—its very fulfilment—has been repeatedly vindicated by the scoffers in every class—rich and poor, learned and unschooled, religious and unreligious and irreligious! Why do they do this? The same apostle continues: "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." We may honor men who are as grass, we may ignore the rock of God's word as the dust of our feet, but sometime (God wants it now to our good) we shall learn that "the grass withereth, and the flower thereof fadeth away; but the word of the Lord endureth forever."