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212 JESUS IS COMING.
"He that scattereth Israel will gather him, and keep
him as a shepherd doth his flock." Jer. 31:10.
Besides these, we have other evidences. Many are run-
ning to and fro upon the highways of travel, or searching
diligently through and through the prophetic Word, which
is doubtless the true meaning of the passage (Dan. 12:4)
and which is a sign of "the time of the end."
The awful dearth of spiritual life in the great nominal
church is another evidence.
The restless and perplexed condition of the nations is
also suggestive. And there are several other evidences of
which we might speak, all of which substantiate the fact
that the day is "approaching." Heb. 10 :25.
And lastly, while it is entirely unscriptural and wrong
to put the second coming of our Lord any distance into the
future, and likewise unscriptural and wrong to fix a date,
or name the time when He shall come for His bride, yet
there will be & privileged company of saints living upon the
earth 11 at the time when He shall descend from heaven, 12
and who shall say that they will all be taken by surprise?
Every generation that has lived since He went away, how-
ever dark and unspiritual it may have been, has had its
band of faithful watching ones.
Shortly previous to the first coming of Christ, the Holy
Ghost, although He had given, through Daniel, the definite
prophecy of the seventy weeks, gave a special revelation
unto the devout Simeon, who was "waiting for the con-
solation of Israel," to-wit: "that he should not see death
before he had seen the Lord's Christ. Luke 2:26. And
this leads us to ask: May not the same blessed Spirit,
who thus revealed this mighty event to Simeon of old (and
13 likewise give unto a
probably to the aged Anna, also)
(11) 1 Cor. 15 :51. Behold, I corrruptible, and we shall be
shew you a mystery ; We shall changed.
not all sleep, but we shall all be (12) 1 Thes. 4:16. For the
changed. Lord himself shall descend from
heaven, with a shout, with the
52. In a moment, In the twlnk- voice of the archangel, and with
ling of an eye, at the last trump : the trump of God : and the dead
for the trumpet shall sound, in Christ shall rise first.
and the dead shall be raised in- (13) Lu. 2:36. And there