The Lord's Coming

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1865

The Lord's Coming.

REASONS FOR PRAYING FOR IT.

1. It will bring glory to the Father. 1 Thess. i, 10; Phil. ii, 9, 10, 11; Ps. xxiv; Rev. xv, 3, 4; Titus ii, 13, 14; 1 Cor. xv, 24, 28; Ps. xl; Luke xiii, 32; Matt. vi, 9, 10.

2. It is the desire of Christ. John xvii, 24; Ps. xx, 2-9; Isa. liii, 11; John xiv, 2, 3; Isa. lxiii, 4; Cant. ii, 8; iii, 11.

3. It is the desire of the Spirit. Rev. xxii, 17; Rom. viii, 23.

4. It is the end of the sin and sorrow of the Church. Isa. xxv, 8; 2 Thess. i, 7, 8; Jude 24, 25; 1 John iii, 2, 3; 2 Peter ii, 10, 11, 12; Heb. xi, 14; 2 Peter iii, 13, 14; Heb. ix, 28; xiii, 14; Acts i, 11; Jude 14, 15, 21.

5. Prayer for the Lord's coming is an evidence of our belonging to Christ. 2 Tim. iv, 8; Isa. lxiv, 1-4; 2 Pet. iii, 11, 12, (Margin.)

6. It prevents Christians from setting their affections upon the things of the world. Heb. x, 34-37; Heb. xi, 24-26, 39, 40; Heb. xii, 1, 2.

7. It will hasten the conversion of all who are to become the people of God, according to the promise of the latter rain in the latter days. Zech. x, 1; Joel ii, 23-32.