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Said the prophet Isaiah: “Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:
for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the
dead.” “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall
they arise.” “He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God
will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people
shall He take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for
Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him,
we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”
Isaiah 26:19
;
25:8, 9
.
And Habakkuk, rapt in holy vision, beheld His appearing. “God
came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory
covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. And His
brightness was as the light.” “He stood, and measured the earth: He
beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains
were scattered, the perpetual hill did bow: His ways are everlasting.”
“Thou didst ride upon Thine horses and Thy chariots of salvation.”
“The mountains saw Thee, and they trembled: ... the deep uttered his
voice, and lifted up his hands on high. The sun and moon stood still
in their habitation: at the light of Thine arrows they went, and at the
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shining of Thy glittering spear.” “Thou wentest forth for the salvation
of Thy people, even for salvation with Thine anointed.”
Habakkuk 3:3,
4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13
.
When the Saviour was about to be separated from His disciples,
He comforted them in their sorrow with the assurance that He would
come again: “Let not your heart be troubled.... 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.”
John 14:1-3
. “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
.
The angels who lingered upon Olivet after Christ’s ascension re-
peated to the disciples the promise of His return: “This same Jesus,
which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner
as ye have seen Him go into heaven.”
Acts 1:11
. And the apostle Paul,
speaking by the Spirit of Inspiration, testified: “The Lord Himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel,
and with the trump of God.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16
. Says the prophet