1555. The Lord Will Come

The Lord Will Come

"If I go * * I will come again" (Joh_14:3).

If the language of our key verse means anything it means what it says": "Christ will come again." "The Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God." Who? "The Lord Himself." What? "Shall descend from Heaven." No place for spiritualizing here, if you please. These words are not mere "poetic fancy"–they state plain unvarnished truth.

If language means anything, then those in Christ will come, and those in Christ will meet Him in the air.

The Second Coming of Christ is not a doctrine substantiated by one or two figurative or symbolical passages. It is a doctrine written in plain, every-day statements upon many pages of Scripture.

The fact of the Lord's Return was a source of constant joy to the early Church–they lived, looking for the glorious appearing of the Lord Jesus.

Every age has had those who were watching and waiting for the return.

Today, the cry, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh," is being sounded near and far. It is one of the signs of the Return.

Millions are lifting up their hearts, and, with clear, clarion call, are crying, "Come, Lord Jesus."

The message of our Lord's Return is not a message held by a few isolated and radical people, swept along by human excitement and unbalanced vision. There is not a denomination that does not hold ministers and members who preach and proclaim the Lord's Return.

Among those who are looking for the Coming, are our strongest, our safest and our sanest Bible teachers and expositors. Practically all the evangelists of to-day who are known as real soul-winners, are waiting for the Lord's Return.

The majority of the missionaries who are pressing forward with the Gospel story to the uttermost bounds of the earth, are premillennial.

Every Faith Mission, operating upon the foreign field (and there are many of them), believes that the Lord will surely come.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR