What Promise Did Christ Make
Concerning His Coming?
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe
also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto
myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:1-3.
What
Follows the Signs of Christ’s Coming?
“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud
with power and great glory.” Luke 21:27.
At
His ascension, how was Christ’s return promised?
“And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went
up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men
of Galilee, why stand
ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you
into heaven shall come in like manner, as ye have seen him go into heaven.”
Acts 1: 10, 11.
How
does Pail give expression to this hope?
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of
the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.” Titus 2:13.
What
is Peter’s testimony regarding it?
“We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made
known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were
eyewitnesses of his majesty.” 2 Peter 1:16.
“Will
the inhabitants of the earth as a whole be prepared to meet Him”?
“Then shall appear the sign of Son of man in heaven: 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.” Mathew 24:30
“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also
which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of
him.” Revelation 1: 7
Why
will many not be prepared for this event?
“But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My
lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellow servant,
and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that servant shall come
in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware
of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the
hypocrites; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 24:
47-51.
What
would the world be doing when Christ comes?
“But
as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the son of man be. For
as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the
ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall
also the coming of the son of man be.” Matthew 24: 37-39. “Likewise also as
it was in the days of
Lot; they did
eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but
the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from
heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the
Son of man is revealed.” Luke 17: 28-30
