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and “distress of nations, with perplexity,” declare that the Lord’s com-
ing is near.
Of those who beheld these signs He says, “This generation shall
not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass
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away, but My words shall not pass away.”
Matthew 24:34, 35
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“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: 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. Wherefore comfort one another
with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
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Christ is coming, coming with clouds and with great glory. A
multitude of shining angels will attend Him. He will come to raise the
dead, and to change the living saints from glory to glory.
He will come to honor those who have loved Him and kept His
commandments, and to take them to Himself. He has not forgotten
them nor His promise.
There will be a relinking of the family chain. When we look upon
our dead, we may think of the morning when the trump of God shall
sound, when the “dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.”
1 Corinthians 15:52
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That time is near. A little while, and we shall see the King in His
beauty. A little while, and He will wipe all tears from our eyes. A
little while, and He will present us “faultless before the presence of
His glory with exceeding joy.”
Jude 1:24
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Wherefore when He gave the signs of His coming He said, “When
these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads;
for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Luke 21:28
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