The Lord Cometh!

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · May 9, 1854

Yes the Lord cometh. Behold he cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. He cometh forth of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft as wax before the fire, and as waters that are poured down a steep place. He cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall weep and wail because of him. As He ascended into heaven, even so this same Jesus cometh in like manner—He cometh with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. He cometh with power and great glory—in all the glory of his Father, and with all his holy angels; and he will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet to gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

He cometh in that great and dreadful day of the Lord—that great day which is near, and hasteth greatly; in that day when the mighty men shall cry bitterly—that day, which will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasting and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, and a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities and high towers. He cometh in that day when the trumpet shall be blown in Zion, and an alarm sounded in all God's holy mountain; and when all the inhabitants of the land will tremble. He cometh in that day which shall burn as an oven, when all the proud, yea, and all who do wickedly, shall be as stubble; and He that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts. And he cometh in that day of the Lord which will be cruel both with wrath and fierce anger; which will come as a day of destruction from the Almighty, when all hands will faint, and all hearts melt; when God will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; when the arrogance of the

proud will cease, and the haughtiness of the terrible be laid low; when God will lay the land desolate and destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Yes, the Lord cometh. He cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, glorious in his apparel, travailing in the greatness of his strength, speaking righteousness and mighty to save. He has trodden the winepress alone, and of the people, there were none with him; he will tread them in his anger, and trample them in his fury; for the day of vengeance is in his heart, and the year of his redeemed is come.

"Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; Let the field be joyful and all that is therein; Then let all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord; for He cometh! For he cometh to judge the earth! He shall judge the world with righteousness! And the people with his truth!!"

Yes, He cometh; and he that cometh will come and will not tarry. He says surely I come quickly; and who will not respond—Even so come, Lord Jesus? He cometh to reign; to try every man's work of what sort it is, and to render to every man according as his work shall be. He cometh to cleanse the earth, to beautify it and purify it, to make the wilderness like Eden, and the desert like the garden of the Lord.

How important it is, that we should meditate on his coming; that it should be the subject of our nightly prayer, the burden of our morning thoughts, and the theme of our noon-day conversation. It should occupy our sleeping, and our waking hours. How solemn the thought that the Lord COMETH! Those words should be in our hearts continually, and we should teach them diligently to our children; we should talk of them when we sit in the house, and when we walk by the way; when we lie down, and when we rise up, and when we are about our daily occupation; we should bind them for a sign upon our hand, and a frontlet between our eyes, and write them on the tablet of our hearts; we should engrave them on the posts of our houses and on our gates; and say to all continually, The Lord cometh. He cometh as a refiner's fire, and as fuller's soap; and who shall stand when he appeareth.