The Blessed Hope | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 10, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 24.

"The Blessed Hope."

THE second coming of our Lord is the hope of the church. To set aside the promises and prophecies which have been given of that event is to set aside the Scriptures as the word of God. By no just principle of interpretation, by no sound logic, can the predictions and declarations concerning His first advent be received as literal and those concerning His second advent be spiritualized away. Was His first coming literal?—So will His second coming be. He whom the opening heavens received was the literal Jesus with whom for years His disciples had companied, under whose instruction they had sat, whose blessed ministry they had enjoyed. "This same Jesus" is coming again. The open heavens will disclose Him, coming in the very manner He ascended—with power and great glory.

Over and over, the Old Testament voices the hope of the church. On an average of one verse in twenty-five, Mr. Moody declared, the New Testament refers to that crowning event of the ages. The words of our Lord Himself repeatedly assure us that He is coming again. Do you believe the Bible? then why not believe that our Lord Jesus Christ is coming again, literally, personally, visibly? Then will the Christian hope be realized. Are you looking for, longing for, expecting, His coming? If not, why not?