He Is Soon Coming — The Evidence Abundant and Clear
WHEN the Lord Jesus Christ was here in person, He promised, as recorded in numerous passages of Scripture, that He would come again. "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:1-3. This is only one of the many promises left on record. It is so simple, so clear in its statement of the great fact, that no child need misunderstand it. The Lord gave numerous prophecies and various signs that were to precede His coming, and then He said, "When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." Matt. 24:33. There is no occasion for any of us to make mistakes in regard to the great event of Christ's coming, which is soon to end this earth's career of sin, and to bring immortality and the eternal reign of righteousness to those who are prepared. If we desire to know these things and be ready for the one supreme event of history, it is our privilege. With the evidence that points out His coming, the same as with the evidence of anything else, men may laugh at it and turn it aside if they so desire. But those who really want to know, may understand for themselves, and be sure that they are right; for the evidence is not equivocal. It is not capable of various kinds of misleading and contradictory interpretation, except for those who, because of their prejudices or some other fleshly interest or gratification, would ignore the clearest truth. As an illustration, millions of men have been preaching, for the last twenty-five years, that we would have no more war. This war in Europe comes to them as not only a surprise but an awful shock. These same people are already beginning to say that Europe's present war is so terrible that it will end all wars. But the individual who is walking in the light of the prophetic word of God has known all along, and has been teaching, that we would have furious outbreaks of war in these last days of earth's history. This war in Europe has come as no surprise to such. They were looking for just such things; and in the face of the millions who are saying to the contrary, they stand in the light of these same prophecies, and say plainly to the world that this is not the last war, it is only the beginning of the terrible wars that will afflict this world. This war will terminate by and by; but others still more furious will follow; and the final climax will be the breaking out of the great war of Armageddon, followed almost immediately by the second coming of Christ. There is no need of speculation in the study of God's clear prophetic word. We may know its divine truth. Will we accept the evidence, and be ready to stand with Christ at His coming, or will we permit ourselves to be deceived, and be among the lost in that great day?