Chapter 30—Coming Again
Our Saviour is coming again. Before parting with His disciples on
the earth, He Himself gave them the promise of His return.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” He said. “In My Father’s house
are many mansions: ... 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 ye may be also.”
John 14:1-3
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He did not leave them in doubt as to the manner of His coming.
“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.”
Matthew 25:31, 32
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Carefully He warned them against deception: “If they shall say
unto you, Behold, He is in the desert; go not forth: behold, He is in
the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of
the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of
the Son of man be.”
Matthew 24:26, 27
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This warning is for us. Today false teachers are saying, “Behold,
He is in the desert,” and thousands have gone forth into the desert,
hoping to find Christ.
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And thousands who claim to hold communion with the spirits of
the dead are declaring, “Behold, He is in the secret chambers.” This is
the very claim that Spiritualism makes.
But Christ says, “Believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of
the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of
the Son of man be.”
At Christ’s ascension the angels declared to the disciples that He
would “so come in like manner” as they had seen Him go into Heaven.
Acts 1:11
. He ascended bodily, and they saw Him as He left them and
was received by the cloud. He will return on a great white cloud, and
“every eye shall see Him.”
Revelation 1:7
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The exact day and hour of His coming has not been revealed. Christ
told His disciples that He Himself could not make known the day or
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