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The Keynote of Scripture, January 5
I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter
day upon the earth.
Job 19:25
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One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the
Bible is that of Christ’s second coming, to complete the great work of
redemption. To God’s pilgrim people, so long left to sojourn in “the region
and shadow of death,” a precious, joy-inspiring hope is given in the promise
of His appearing, who is “the resurrection and the life,” to “bring home
again His banished.” The doctrine of the second advent is the very key-note
of the Sacred Scriptures. From the day when the first pair turned their
sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming
of the Promised One to break the destroyer’s power and bring them again
to the lost Paradise. ... Enoch, only the seventh in descent from them that
dwelt in Eden, he who for three centuries on earth walked with his God,
was permitted to behold from afar the coming of the Deliverer. “Behold,”
he declared, “the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute
judgment upon all.” The patriarch Job in the night of his affliction exclaimed
with unshaken trust: “I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall
stand at the latter day upon the earth:... in my flesh shall I see God: whom I
shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.”
May the God of all grace so enlighten your understanding that you may
discern eternal things, that by the light of truth your own errors, which are
many, may be discovered to you just as they are, that you may make the
necessary effort to put them away, and in the place of this evil, bitter fruit
may bring forth fruit which is precious unto eternal life.
Humble your poor, proud, self-righteous heart before God; get low, very
low, all broken in your sinfulness at His feet. Devote yourself to the work
of preparation. Rest not until you can truly say: My Redeemer liveth, and,
because He lives, I shall live also.
If you lose heaven, you lose everything; if you gain heaven, you gain
everything. Do not make a mistake in this matter, I implore you. Eternal
interests are here involved.
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