Our Bible Reading by H.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 3, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 5.

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Our Bible Reading

By H.

The Second Advent—The Manner of It.

1. How definite is the assurance that Christ will return to earth?

"If I go and prepare a place for you, I WILL COME AGAIN, and receive you unto Myself." John 14: 3.

2. This is in harmony with the plan of salvation.

"So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He APPEAR THE SECOND TIME without sin unto salvation." Heb. 9: 28.

3. How early in the history of the world did prophets speak of His coming?

Enoch, "the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, THE LORD COMETH with ten thousand of His saints" [literally, "His holy myriads"]. Jude 14, 15.

4. What description is given of His coming?

"This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER as ye have seen Him go into heaven." Acts 1: 11.

5. How did He go into heaven?

Being assembled together with the disciples at Bethany, "He lifted up His hands and blessed them. And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven." "While they beheld, He was taken up; and A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM out of their sight." Luke 24: 50, 51; Acts 1: 9.

NOTE THAT AS HE was taken up into heaven, personally, on a cloud, in the sight of men, so will He come again, personally, on a cloud, in the sight of men.

6. How sure was Job concerning this event?

"I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that HE SHALL STAND AT THE LATTER DAY UPON THE EARTH; WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF, and mine eye shall behold, and not another." Job 19: 25-27.

7. How did the Saviour Himself describe His coming?

"They shall see the SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS of heaven with power and great glory." Matt. 24: 30.

"He shall come IN HIS OWN GLORY, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels." Luke 9: 26.

8. How will His appearing be heralded?

"The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD." 1 Thess. 4: 16.

9. How widely will His coming be known?

"Behold, He cometh with clouds; and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM." Rev. 1: 7.

NOTE.—Not "in the secret chamber," "in the desert," in some great movement, in some cult or "ism," in some local, human agent, or at the hour of death,—not in any of these ways will the Saviour appear; but "with a shout" which will call forth the sleeping dead, attended by all the angelic hosts of heaven, with the glory of all the universe, "and every eye shall see Him."