A world in perplexity . ^^^^^^^^^^i ^^ ; ^^ r ^^pi«|. 4 F ^m^s :i /I ^ ^^^^^^Z^mg^^ THE TR\N3PIGITRATI0N A TYPE OF HIS COMING*llehoId, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him. Matt. 17:3. THE CLIMAX Gods last-day, world-wide message culminates inthe second coming of Christ. St. John saw this mes-sage extend until it penetrated everj^ nation. He sawit gathering from every nation, and kindred, andtongue, and people a great company of whom he said, Here are they that keep the commandments of God,and the faith of Jesus. Then he beheld a whitecloud, and upon the cloud one sat like
A world in perplexity . ^^^^^^^^^^i ^^ ; ^^ r ^^pi«|. 4 F ^m^s :i /I ^ ^^^^^^Z^mg^^ THE TR\N3PIGITRATI0N A TYPE OF HIS COMING*llehoId, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him. Matt. 17:3. THE CLIMAX Gods last-day, world-wide message culminates inthe second coming of Christ. St. John saw this mes-sage extend until it penetrated everj^ nation. He sawit gathering from every nation, and kindred, andtongue, and people a great company of whom he said, Here are they that keep the commandments of God,and the faith of Jesus. Then he beheld a whitecloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son ofman, having: on His head a golden crown, and in Hishand a sharp sickle. Rev. 14: 6, 12, 14. Let us emphasize the thought that this is the returnof Christ in fulfilment of His own promise to comeagain, and the promise of the angels that He will socome in like manner as He went avv^ay. Now, however,He comes, not as the humble Carpenter of Nazareth, butas King. He has closed His work as priest, and has 123. THE DYING SOLDIERS VISIONPainted in a prison camp in Siberia by a student of the Vienna Academy 124 The Climax 125 received from His Father a iJingdom. The prophetDaniel says: I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one likethe Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, andcame to the Ancient of days, and they brought Himnear before Him. And there was given Him dominion,and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, andlanguages, should serve Him: His dominion is an ever-lasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and Hiskingdom that which shall not be destroyed. :13, 14. The gift of this kingdom to Christ is in fulfilmentof the promise recorded by Luke: He shall be great,and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and theLord God shall give unto Him the throne of His fatherDavid: and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for-ever; and of His kingdom there shall be no 1: 32, 33. St. John, to whom this great event was revealed,wrote: The ki
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