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VII. Coming Events and Signs of
the Times
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Chapter 74
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Object of Christ's Coming
1.
FOR what purpose did Christ say He would come again?
"I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there you may
be also." John 14:2,3.
2.
What part will the angels have in this event?
"And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a
trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect
from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other." Matt. 24:31.
3.
What takes place at the sounding of the trumpet?
"For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the
trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first." 1 Thess. 4:16.
4.
What will be done with the righteous living?
"Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught
up together with them in the clouds, to meet the
Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."
Verse 17.
5.
What change will then take place in both the living and
the sleeping saints?
"We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality." 1 Cor.
15:51-53.
6.
When are the saints to be like Jesus?
"But we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be
like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." 1 John
3:2.
7.
How many will receive a reward when Christ comes?
"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." Matt. 16:27.
8.
What does He say He will bring with Him when He comes?
"Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me,
to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev.
22:12.
9.
What promise is made to those who look for Him?
"So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;
and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the
second time without sin unto salvation." Heb. 9:28.
10.
When did Christ say the good would he recompensed?
"For thou shall be recompensed at the resurrection of
the just." Luke 14:14.
11.
Have the worthies of old gone to their reward?
"And these all, having obtained a good report through
faith, received not the promise: God having
provided some better thing for us, that they without
us should not be made perfect." Heb. 11:39,40.
12.
When did Paul expect to receive his crown?
"Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge,
shall give me at that day: and not to me only,
but unto all them also that love His appearing." 2 Tim.
4:8.
13.
Will this he a time of judgment?
"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of
these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten
thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all."
Jude 14,15.
14.
How did David express himself on this point?
"For He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth:
He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the
people with His truth." Ps. 96:13.
15.
When did Paul say Christ would judge the living and the
dead?
"I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus
Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His
appearing and His kingdom." 2 Tim. 4:1.
16.
What great separation will then take place?
"When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all
the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the
throne of His glory: and before Him shall be gathered
all nations: and He shall separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the
goats." Matt. 25:31,32.
17.
What will He say to those on His right hand?
"Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand,
Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
Verse 34.
18.
What will He say to those on the left?
"Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand,
Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels." Verse 41.
AT
the Bounding of the trumpet, when the saints are
gathered home,
We shall greet each other by the crystal sea;
When the Lord Himself from heaven to His glory bids them
come,
What a gathering of the faithful that will be!
When the angel of the Lord proclaims that time shall be
no more,
We shall gather, and the saved and ransomed see;
Then to meet again together, on the bright, celestial
shore,
What a gathering of the faithful that will be!
At
the great and final judgment, when the hidden comes to
light,
When the Lord in an His glory we shall see;
At the bidding of our Saviour, "Come, ye blessed, to My
right,"
What a gathering of the faithful that will be!
When the golden harps are sounding, and the angel bands
proclaim
In triumphant strains the glorious jubilee;
Then to meet and join to sing the song of Moses and the
Lamb,
What a gathering of the faithful that will be!
J.
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