Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . ation. Not till then are the children of God ushered intothe eternal kingdom. Then the crowns of life are bestowed,and the saved all go together through the gates into the city— patriarch and prophet, apostle and reformer, and the childof God of this last generation. Of the ancient worthies it iswritten: These all, having obtained a good report through faith,received not the promise: God having provided some betterthing for us, that they without us should not be made per-fect. Heb. 11:39, 40. What a glorious day it will be when the ransomed of
Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . ation. Not till then are the children of God ushered intothe eternal kingdom. Then the crowns of life are bestowed,and the saved all go together through the gates into the city— patriarch and prophet, apostle and reformer, and the childof God of this last generation. Of the ancient worthies it iswritten: These all, having obtained a good report through faith,received not the promise: God having provided some betterthing for us, that they without us should not be made per-fect. Heb. 11:39, 40. What a glorious day it will be when the ransomed of allthe ages, march in together through the gates into the city! It is to take His children to their eternal home that Christcomes the second time. This was His promise to the disciples: I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and preparea place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto My-self; that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14: 2, 3. Not in detail, but in their general order, let us follow theevents of that great CHRIST COMING IN GLORY **The Son of man shall come in His glory,and all the holy angels with Him. :31. The Second Coming of Christ 59 The Prelude to His Coming as the revelator saw it and heard it in a vision of the lastday: There came a great voice out of the temple of heaven,from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices,and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earth-quake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, . .and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came inremembrance before God.^ Rev. 16:17-19. The heaven departed as a scroll when it is roUed to-gether; and every mountain and island were moved out oftheir places. Rev. 6: 14. His Glorious Appearing Then bursts upon the world the glory of our Saviourscoming: Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and theyshall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with
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