The Only Blessed Hope

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 21.

The Only Blessed Hope.

THE resurrection of Christ and His second coming are the hope, the only hope, “the blessed hope” (Titus 2:13) of the children of God. If these great events do not occur, man is forever lost. But they will take place. The Son of God will come with all the shining angelic host; the dead shall hear His voice, and those who sleep in Him shall come forth to everlasting life and immortality.

This was the hope of the promise made by God unto the fathers that God should raise the dead. Acts 26:6-8. It was the hope of the patient patriarch (Job 19:25-27; 14:15); it was the hope of David (Ps. 17:15); it was the hope of the prophets (Isa. 26:19; Jer. 31:15-17; Ezekiel 37; Dan. 12:1; Hosea 13:14). Christ taught it, and the same promise and hope and comfort

were set before the church by His inspired apostles.

Why, then, will so many Christians reject the plain teachings of the word on so important and vital a subject, and accept a pagan theory of which the pagans were not certain. The Bible theory,—eternal life only thru our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming and the resurrection, thru faith in Him,—it is true, does not glorify or exalt man, but it does glorify our God and Christ Jesus our Lord.