SIGNS OF CHRIST'S SECOND COMING.
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS CONCERNING HIS ADVENT.
BY ELDER EDWIN F. PARRY, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.
WHAT THE SAVIOR AND HIS APOSTLES AND THE ANCIENT PROPHETS SAY CONCERNING IT—THE MANY THINGS TO TAKE PLACE BEFORE THAT GREAT EVENT—THE SIGNS ALREADY APPEARING.
SCRIPTURAL PROOF THAT HE WILL COME.
The holy scriptures supply many proofs that Christ will again come to earth. After His resurrection He appeared to His disciples, and was "seen of them forty days." Then "he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." While the disciples were looking towards heaven as He went up, two men (angels) in white apparel stood by them and said:
"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? 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 1: 11).
MANNER OF HIS APPEARANCE.
Christ's second coming will be both glorious and terrible.
"They shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." (Matthew 24: 30; Mark 13: 26; Luke 21: 27).
"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works." (Matthew 16: 27; Mark 8: 38).
"And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." (II Thessalonians 1: 7, 8, 9).