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He Shall Reign Forever, December 2
The seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying,
The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of
his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Revelation 11:15
.
The coming of Christ to usher in the reign of righteousness has inspired the
most sublime ... utterances of the sacred writers.... The psalmist sang of the power
and majesty of Israel’s King:...“Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad
... before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge
the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.”
Psalm 96:11-13
.
Said the prophet Isaiah: “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....”
Isaiah 25:8
....
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 angels who lingered upon Olivet after Christ’s ascension repeated 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 of Patmos: “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see
him.”
Revelation 1:7
.
About His coming cluster the glories of that “restitution of all things, which
God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.”
Acts 3:21
. Then the long-continued rule of evil shall be broken; “the kingdoms
of this world” will become “the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he
shall reign for ever and ever.”
Revelation 11:15
.
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