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140 JESUS IS COMING.
ING of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of His
majesty. For He received from God the Father honor and
glory, when there came such a voice to Him from the excel-
lent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with Him in the holy mount." 2 Pet. 1:16-18.
We cannot tell how much of the future they saw in that
enraptured hour, but doubtless they had a specific vision of
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in His kingdom and
glory.
John Saw It.
We have only to turn to Revelation, where we finoT
that He "which is and which was, and which is to come'*
permitted John to see (Rev. 1:2, 11, etc.) it most definitely.
His enraptured vision swept the centuries. Time, to him,
was annihilated and he gazed upon the literal facts. He
actually saw them. Thirty-six times does he say "I saw,"
seven times "I beheld," and five times "I looked," besides
many similar expressions. And he saw the very things
mentioned in the passages.
"And I SAW heaven opened, and behold a white horse;
and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and Truth,
and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. His
eyes were as a flame of fire and on His head were many
crowns and He was clothed with a vesture dipped
in blood: and His name is called the Word of God. And the
armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white
horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.. . . And
He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
He saw the beast and kings of the earth gathered and
taken and cast into the lake of fire. He saw Satan bound,
and he saw Christ and His saints reigning for a thousand
years. He saw it all in perfect fulfillment of the statements
in the passages we are considering. Rev. 19 :20.
Paul Saw It.
Paul also saw Christ in His glory and doubtless he saw
all that John did, and probably more, for he saw things
that it was impossible for a man to utter. (2 Cor. 12:4,
margin.) Surely these are an absolute and literal fulfill-