Coming by Pacific Churchman

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1879

Coming.

By Pacific Churchman

THE Advent season calls our attention to the great fact that Jesus Christ "shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and dead." It looks forward to the second coming of Christ at the end of the world. It is full of "the last things." The Advent season has not been observed in the church in keeping with its importance in the Christian year. Its real character has not been appreciated—its lessons have not been learned or taught as they deserve. There is no truth more frequently and emphatically revealed in the word of God than that of the coming again of the Messiah. It is foretold by the Old Testament prophets. Christ himself in some of the most vivid language to be found in his gospel, over and over again predicted it, and painted the scene of heavenly glory that should accompany the event. The apostles delighted to refer to it and made it the basis of their admonitions. The early Christians lived in constant expectation of it. And the simplest, plainest interpretation of all this combined testimony is the most consistent, pointing to a literal, personal coming again into this world of Jesus Christ at the close of the Christian dispensation. Why is it that this great truth is so little impressed upon the present age? It is less in the thought of the average Christian than any other article of the faith. Is it of least importance? Surely not, or it would not have been so plainly and repeatedly taught in the word of God. —Pacific Churchman.