Unto His Own

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 27, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 25.

Once Christ “came unto His own and His own received Him not.” He came in humiliation. He did not awe men by His majesty. He would be received on account of His goodness, His sympathy, His character, or not at all. Humanity veiled His glory and majesty. And men whom He died to save rejected Him and His healing words of life. Only the few “of whom the world was not worthy,” received Him, and became the salt of the earth, its saving power from utter decay. Still the world rejects Him and the healing balm of His Gospel, and the ills of earth increase. Sometime He is coming into His own again, into His own kingdom which He has purchased with His own blood. He is coming in all the forthshining of His glorious majesty. Before His presence the earth will quake and the rocks melt. Everything identified with sin will perish with it. “The Lord alone will be exalted in that day.” All who are identified with everlasting righteousness will endure the shock and the fire, and live with Him. The wicked will plead for rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide from them His face. The righteous will say, “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us; this is Jehovah; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”