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138 JESUS IS COMING.

in what they term the spiritual coining on the day of
Pentecost, and that His coming in the clouds of heaven,
is
in the glory of His Father, with the holy angels, etc.,
his real, personal, visible coming at the end of the gospel
age (which they also hold to be the end of time and of the
world).
This seems to us to be founded upon a mere distinction
of terms, where there is no difference in fact. For is it not
at His coming in His Kingdom that He shall be mani-
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fested in His glory ? History proves and all our ideas
of the glory of Kings coincide with the fact that such
glory is identical with the majesty and manifestation of
their kingdoms.
It is in Christ's Kingdom that He shall rule all nations
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with a rod of iron, and it is in His Kingdom that He is
to be manifested as "the Blessed and only Potentate, the
King of kings, and Lord of lords." 76 Therefore His com-
ing in His Kingdom and His coming in His glory are
synonymous, and both are yet future.
Some of Them Did See the Kingdom,
Then what do the passages mean, to wit: Mat. 16:28,
"verily I say unto you, there be some standing here which
shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming
in His Kingdom," or as in Mark 9 :1, "till they have seen
the Kingdom of God come with power," or as in Luke
:27, "till they see the Kingdom of God."
We answer first, the limiting clause "shall not taste of
(74) 2 Thes. 1 :10. When he Also Rev. 12 :5 and 19 :15.
hall come to be glorified in his ,_-, .. _. fl ...

(75) Psa. 2:8. Ask of me,
and I shall give thee the heathen 15 - Which In his times he
shew, who
for thine inheritance, and the sha11 is the blessed
and onl y Potentate, the King of
uttermost parts of the earth for
kings, and Lord of lords.
thy possession.
9. Thou shall break them with Rev. 19 :16. And he hath on
a rod of iron ; thou shalt dash his vesture and on his thigh a
them in pieces like a potter's name written, KING OF KINGS,
vessel. AND LORD OF LORDS.