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Pre-Millennial Arguments.
We now invite your prayerful attention to the follow-
ing scriptural arguments, which, we believe, show that the
coming of our Lord will be pre-millennial.
No. I. The Antichrist.
In 2 Thes. 2:8/ The Antichrist, who is on all sides con-
fessed to be pre-millennial, is to be destroyed with the
brightness of His (Christ's) coming, or more literally the
epiphany (appearing*) of His own presence. This fixes
the coming of Christ to be pre-millennial.
Bishop Mcllvaine says of this argument that "it is
wholly unanswerable."
Even Mr. Brown, the great champion of post-millennial-
ism, admits that this is an apparent evidence for the pre-
millennial advent, and he has been obliged to meet it by
that process of "spiritualizing" Scripture which has been
so condemned by Dr. John Pye Smith, Martin Luther, Sir
Isaac Newton, Bishop Hooker, Dr. Adam Clarke, and oth-
ers. On this argument alone we might rest, but we have
others fully as conclusive.
No. II. Immediately After the Tribulation.
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In Mat. 24:29-31, the coming of the Son of Mant
is said to be immediately after the Tribulation. But this
*See Greek tn-i^oveta same word used in 1 Tim. 6:14; 2 Tim.
1:10; 4:1; 4:8; and Titus 2:13; in each place translated ap-
pearing.
tThis is His coming' at the Revelation; see diagram,
page 72.
(1) 2 Thes. 2:8. And then ly after the tribulation of those
shall that Wicked be revealed, days shall the sun be darkened,
whom the Lord shall consume and the moon shall not give her
with the spirit of his mouth, and light, and the stars shall fall
shall destroy with the bright- from heaven, and the powers of
ness of his coming : the heavens shall be shaken :
(2) Mat. 24 :29. Immediate- 30. And then shall appear the
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