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THE SECOND ADVENT

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 16, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 24.

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THE SECOND ADVENT.

Christ will appear the second time.—"And to them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." Heb. ix, 28; Acts i, 9-11; John xiv, 1-3; Tit. ii, 13; 1 John iii, 2; Rev. i, 7; xxii, 20.
Christ's coming will be personal and visible.—"This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." Acts i, 9-11; Matt. xxiv, 30; Mark xiii, 26; xiv, 62; John xiv, 3; 2 Thess. iv, 16; 2 Thess. i, 7; Tit. ii, 13; 1 John iii, 2; Rev. i, 7.
At Christ's second coming the sinners then living will be destroyed.—"And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming." 2 Thess. ii, 7, 8; i, 7-10. Matt. xiii, 24-30, 37-43; iii, 12; Luke xvii, 26-30.
The dead in Christ will be raised, and the living saints will be changed at his coming.—"Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." 1 Cor. xv, 51, 52; 1 Thess. iv, 16, 17; 1 John iii, 2.
The immortal saints will then ascend up to heaven with their Lord, to the Father's house, or New Jerusalem.—"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 vii, 33; xiii, 33, 36; 1 Pet. i, 3-5.
The earth will be left desolate.—"Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it." Isa. xiii, 9; vi, 8-11; xxiv, 1-3; xxxiv, 1-15; xxviii, 21, 22; Jer. iv, 20, 27; xxv, 32-38; Zeph. i, 2, 3, 7-18; iii, 6-8.

SAINTS' INHERITANCE.

Abraham was promised the land. "And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land." Gen. xii, 7; xiii, 14, 15; xvii, 8; xxvi, 3, 4; xxxiii, 13.
He has not possessed it. Acts vii; Heb. xi, 8, 9.
The faithful are heirs with him. Gal. iii, 7, 9, 29; Rom. iv, 16.
The earth, cursed for sin, will be redeemed. Gen. iii, 17, 18; Rom. viii, 20-23; Eph. i, 13, 14; 2 Pet. iii, 13; Isa. lv, 17, 18; Rev. xxi, 1.
The new, or heavenly Jerusalem, is embraced in the promise to Abraham. Gal. iii, 29; iv, 26, 28; Heb. xi, 8, 10, 16; xii, 22; xiii, 14.[It will be seen by reference to page 8, that the saints will go to heaven, and the earth will be desolate, without an inhabitant. We find in the scriptures but one place for the removing of all the inhabitants of the earth, viz.: at the second advent, when the wicked are all destroyed, and the saints caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. From this point a period of 1000 years is measured off before the resurrection of the wicked, which denotes the period during which the saints remain in the city above, until the time of the renewing of the earth, for their eternal abode, which cannot take place until after the second resurrection.]