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shall come with His saints down to the earth and destroy
this lawless Antichrist, deliver Israel, who will then look
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upon "Him they have pierced," and a nation shall be born
in a day, or at once. 23 He will judge the living nations
and establish His millennial kingdom. Psa. 2; Dan. 2:44;
Rev. 11:15.
But let it be distinctly remembered that we have no
date for the rapture, the coming of our Lord to the tryst-
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ing place in the air. We are to live with our loins girt
and our lamps burning like men that wait for their Lord.
Luke 12:35-40. And yet, in the unfolding of events we
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may see the day approaching, the beginnings that shall
cause us to lift up our heads. 26
(22) Zech. 12 :9. And it shall born at once? for as soon as
come to pass in that day, that I Zion travailed, she brought forth
will seek to destroy all the na- her children.
tions that come against Jerusa- (24) Mark 13:32. But of
lem. that day and that hour knoweth
10. And I will pour upon the no man, no, not the angels
house of David, and upon the which are in heaven, neither th9
Inhabitants erf Jerusalem, the Son, but the Father.
spirit of grace and of supplica- 33. Take ye heed, watch and
tions ; and they shall look upon pray : for ye know not when
me whom they have pierced, and
the time is.
they shall mourn for him, as 34. For the Son of man is as
one mourneth for his only son, a man taking a far journey,
and shall be in bitterness for who left his and
him, as one that is in bitter- house, gave
authority to his servants, and to
ness for Tits first-borni. . every man his work, and com-
11. In that day shall there be manded the porter to watch.
a great mourning in Jerusalem, 35. Watch ye for
as the mourning of Hadadrim- therefore :
mon in the \alley of Megiddon. ye know not when the master of
the house cometh, at even, or at
12. And the land shall mourn,
midnight, or at the cock-
every family apart ; the family
of the house of David apart, and crowing, or in the morning :
36. Lest coming suddenly he
their wives apart ; the family
of the hous'e of Nathan apart, find you sleeping.
37. And what I say unto you I
and their wives apart
; all, Watch.
13. The family of the house say unto
of Levi apart, and their wives (25) Heb. 10:25. Not forsak-
apart ; the family of Shimei ing the assembling of ourselves
apart, and their wives apart ; together, as the manner of some
14. All the families that re- is; but exhorting one another:
main, every family apart, and and so much the more as ye see
the day approaching.
their wives apart.
(23) Isa. 66: 8. Who hath (26) Luke 21:28. And when
heard such a thing? who hath these things begin to come to
seen such things? Shall the pass, then look up, and lift up
earth be made to bring forth in your heads ; for your redemp-
one day? or shall a nation be tion draweth nigh.