{"id":454,"date":"2016-08-15T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christ-return-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:57:10","slug":"christ-return-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christ-return-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ, return of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Come, Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Come, Lord, and tarry not; Bring the long-looked-for day; O why these years of waiting here, These ages of delay?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Come, for Thy saints still wait;  Daily ascends their sigh; The Spirit and the Bride say, \u2018Come\u2019: Dost Thou not hear the cry?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Come, for creation groans,  Impatient of Thy stay, Worn out with these long years of ill, These ages of delay. Come, and make all things new; Build up this ruined earth; Restore our faded Paradise, Creation\u2019s second birth.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>Come, and begin Thy reign Of everlasting peace; Come, take Thy Kingdom to Thyself, Great King of Righteousness.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Horatius Bonar<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Dates for Christ\u2019s Return<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>After 14 years of studying the Bible, William Miller became convinced that Christ would return in 1843. When Miller announced April 3 as the day, some disciples went to mountaintops, hoping for a head start to heaven. Others were in graveyards, planning to ascend in reunion with their departed loved ones. Philadelphia society ladies clustered together outside town to avoid entering God\u2019s kingdom amid the common herd. When April 4 dawned as usual the Millerites were disillusioned, but they took heart. Their leader had predicted a range of dates for Christ\u2019s return. They still had until March 21, 1844. The devout continued to make ready, but again they were disappointed. A third date\u2014October 22, 1844\u2014was set, but it also passed. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Today in the Word, MBI, 12\u201320-91<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Second Coming<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>After church, where she had been taught about the Second Coming, a little girl was quizzing her mother.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cMommy, do you believe Jesus will come back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cToday?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cIn a few minutes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cYes, dear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cMommy, would you comb my hair?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Don Hussong<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come, Lord Come, Lord, and tarry not; Bring the long-looked-for day; O why these years of waiting here, These ages of delay? Come, for Thy saints still wait; Daily ascends their sigh; The Spirit and the Bride say, \u2018Come\u2019: Dost Thou not hear the cry? Come, for creation groans, Impatient of Thy stay, Worn out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christ-return-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christ, return of&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}