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we have need of patience that we
may receive the promise:
"For yet a little while" (Greek very, very little while)
"and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry."
Heb. 10:37.
"But," you say, "it is not a little while." Ah ! beloved,
does it seem long to you from creation to the flood, or
from the flood to Christ? The "little while" of Hag. 2:6-
36 37
7, we believe, has not ended yet, and it certainly covered
the five hundred years up to Christ's first coming. Re-
member that God speaks to you as to an immortal soul.
Wait until you have realized a few of the mighty cycles
of eternity, and then these eighteen centuries will indeed
appear to be "a very, very little while."
0! let us fix our eyes upon Jesus. Let us watch and
wait for the King Eternal. 38
The Faith of the Early Church.
It is admitted on all sides that the pre-millennial coming
of Christ, and His. reign with His saints upon the earth a
thousand years, was the faith of the early church. Indeed,
this is substantiated by such an abundance of evidence,
that it cannot be denied.
We would that we had space to quote at length, from
the many authorities on this point, but must be content
to select a few:
(36) Hag. 2 :6. For thus saith in Zion, my holy mountain : then
the Lord of hosts ; Yet once, it is shall Jerusalem be holy, and
a little while, and I will shake there shall no strangers pass
the heavens, and the earth, and through her any more.
the sea, and the dry land; Heb. 12 :26. Whose voice then
7. And I will shake all na- shook the earth ; but now he
tions, and, the Desire of all na- hath promised, saying, Yet once
tions shall come: and I will fill more I shake not the earth only,
this house with glory, saith the but also heaven.
Lord of hosts. 27. And this word, Yet once
(37) Joel 3 :16. The Lord also more, signifieth the removing ot
shall roar out of Zion, and ut- those things that are shaken, as
ter his voice from Jerusalem ; of things that are made, that
and the heavens and the earth those things which cannot be
shall shake : but the Lord will be shaken may remain.
the hope of his people, and the (38) 1 Tim. 1 :17. Now unto
strength of the children of Is- the King eternal, immortal, in-
rael. visible, the only wise God, 6e
17. So shall ye know that I honour and glory for ever and
am the Lord your God dwelling ever. Amen.