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CHAPTER XIH.
The Principal Event.
We believe that the foregoing outline of the order of
events will commend itself to every careful student of the
Word. However, we persistently urge but ONE POINT,
and that is the PRE-MILLENNIAL COMING OF CHRIST AND
RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS. This we believe to be the GREAT
HOPE for the church, and the principal event for which be-
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lievers wait.
Much has been revealed in regard to the Tribulation, the
Kingdom, etc., which follow the Rapture; but it is, as it
were, only an outline. And, dear reader, let us not be
discouraged if we cannot fully understand it.
Do not forget that THE KING is coming. And when HE
comes it will be time to make known, in detail, the manner
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of the Kingdom.
Post-Millennial Questionings.
Post-millennialists apparently forget this altogether, and
because they cannot fully understand those things in re-
gard to the Lord's coming, which we now see through a
glass darkly, they reject what is plainly revealed.
If, even in the present dispensation, we cannot explain
the doctrines of "Free Will," and "God's Sovereignty," to
our mutual understanding, much less can we comprehend
the glory, which shall be revealed in us, in the coming
(1) 1 Thes. 1:9. For they uel said to all the people, See ye
themselves shew of us what man- him whom the Lord hath chosen,
ner of entering in we had unto that there is none like him
you, and how ye turned to God among all the people? And all
from idols to serve the living the people shouted, and said,
and true God ; God save the king.
10. And to wait for his Son 25. Then Samuel told the peo-
from heaven, whom he raised pie the manner of the kingdom,
from the dead, even Jesus, which and wrote it in a book, and laid
delivered us from the wrath to it up before the Lord. And
come. Samuel sent all the people away,
And Sam-
(2) 1 Sam. 10 :2 1. every man to his house.
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