CHAPTER XXXVI
SERMON—THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
A Few Years Ago
“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede them which are asleep.
“For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
“Then-we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (I. Thess. 4.15, 16 and 17.)
“The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels.”
“In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
“Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.” (II. Thess. 1.7-9.})
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.” (Rev. 20.5.)
“And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.” (Matt. 24.30.)
“But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel, the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand).” (Mark. 13.14.);
“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection; on such the second hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.” (Rev. 20.6.)
The subject of the Resurrection is grand and glorious to contemplate; it should be taught and explained in all our churches; it is the hope of the church; it was the theme of prophets’ and
apostles’ preaching.
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