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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 7, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 13.

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He Is Coming

IN THESE times when there are so many discordant and violent elements among men in the world, in these times when even nature itself is breaking out with the furies of storm, flood, earthquake, and volcano, how quieting it is to know that there is a bright and glorious day just before us! These conditions of distress are only for a short time. They are nothing more than the expressions of Satan's fury, because he knows that all the prophecies are pointing with unmistakable accuracy to this generation as the one that is to see the second coming of Christ.
Nothing in all the Bible is taught any more clearly than Christ's return to this earth with power and great glory. Statements and promises concerning His coming may be found by the score scattered through all His word. One of these numerous texts is the following:
"And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." Matt. 24: 30, 31.
Some men have sought to spiritualize away such plain statements of the divine Lord. But there stands His clear promise, and that promise will be fulfilled to the letter. And the glorious truth concerning the promise is that it will meet its accomplishment in this very generation in which we are living. If we will but receive His truth and prepare for the great event, His coming, which will soon put an end to all the distressing conditions of this time, will also bring us into the everlasting joys of eternal bliss. How the heart should thrill with joy, how it should palpitate with every pleasing emotion, as we drink in the knowledge of the fact, not merely that He is coming again, but that He is coming very soon!