Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-02-01
Second Coming Of Christ.
HAzELToN, KAs.. January 20. 's3.

| Cnrist, creates as much fear in the minds OF
many, as did the big comet a short time ago.
1.-The viewers of the heavens. MARS the star
gazers. the monthly prognosticators," Isa- x+
vii ID; had declared was coming direct for this
earth. Now as there will be many frightful
| sights before the advent of the great King and
for the purpose of laying the minds OF all hon.
| est and well disposed people. do earnestly ask
| them to believe God And be not dismayed at
the signs OF heaven, for the heather are dis
mayed at them,' Jer. g. These Stargazers
may foretell storms of rain or druuth, but as
foretelling the signs of the times. they are as
blind as this same class was when our Saviour
was on earth. See Matt. xvi I-3 In speak
ing of the end of this age. Jesus says, And
great earthquakes shall be in divers places
and famines and pestilences, and fearful sights
and great signs shall then be from heaven"
| Luke xxi ii. Instead of telling us to be alarm
ed at fearful sights, He says, when these
| things begin to come to pass. then look up
| and lift up your heads for your redemption
| draweth Nigh and that the Kingdom of God Is
| nigh at hand. tverses 20 81. Now we see many
| things beginning to come TO pass that prove
we arc near the end OF this corrupt age. So
| all true Christians should believe Christ and
! rejoice with exceeding great joy, and all the
/ oppressed. poor and starving millions shout
| aloud for joy, and pray come Lord, Come
| quickly" and break the power of the OPP
pressors, land in mercy establish thy throne
See Isa. xvi 4-5 Whether they they are men,
! bers of church or not, the true and tried
| Christians that is approved at Chrsts judg-
ment seat is all to be rulers after being blessed
| with Immortality. and the mortal nation will
rejoice in abundance of peace Pisa. xxi J,
| under the righteous rule of Christ and his
| saints. There is nothing so plainly taught in
| the scriptures as the second coming of Christ
| 1t is plainly declared more than a hundred
| times. All christian seets that | know any
| thing about, believe it. We real lie ''shaii
! come Pisa. 36, Isa. liX -, Acts H. Heb.
! %. Unto them thar look for HIM shall He
| appear the second time" Heb. tx %
| Unto all them also that love His appearing
= Tim. iv s. The lord Jesus Christ who shall
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing
and His Kingdom" I'VE do show the Lords
| death till He come" Cor. XII 20. Jesus in
speaking by parable of himself says. After
| a long time Matt. XIV 10 he would come
There is many things to prove the long time
| is near its end.
| Now we will proceed to give bible reason for
| believing His second advent is nigh at hand
| Now in addition to the many prophecies in re-
lation to Christs first coming The prophet
Daniel gives the length of time by his prophecy
! Of the seventy weeks" Dan. tx 24-27 So In
| addition to the meditations of all the prophets
| in relation TO Christs second coming Daniel
| also gives the length of time to the end of this
| age and the commencement of the glorious
| age to come he says THAT il shall be for a
| time times and a half, and when he shall have
| been accomplished to scatter the power of the
| holy people all these things shall be finished,
| Dan. xii Z. As to the date when the scattering
| of the holy people (the Jews)w was accomplished
| there is a very great difference of opinion
\ among learned men, j. N. Robertson, of New
Jersey and many others puts the date at when
| Omar took Jerusalem A D. 637. Some put the
date at A ID. 565, this is from his letter Of June
%, 1891, as published in Frank Leslies paper,
| but he does not show that this date marks any
! important epoch i'll history. Robert Roberts,
| of Birmingham, England, and few others
have adopted A. d. 6O7 the date when the
| Emperor Phocas issues his decree constituting
| Boniface iii the Bishop the head of all the
| churches. While l have examined all these
! calculations of learned men, yet don't follow
| any mau any farther than he is we'll fortified
by the scriptures and advise all to do the same
| Now with all that have read on the subject
am convinced that A. d. 607 is the date best
| lOTJ'leu ny prOpHcSy ana However
! all these men with different calculations all
| agree that christ is due within the next five Oh
six years. Now ''time times and an half
has been ascertained to be 1850 years. Then
Daniel tells us ''And from the time that the
daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the
| abomination that maketh desolate There
shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety
days. these days represent years and is I29(
years then he says blessed is he that waitett
and cometh to the thousand three hundred
and five and thirty days. V 1l-12. These DAYS
| also represent years and is 1885 years. Now
| then 1260 years from A. D. 607 brings us 10 A
| ID. 1867, the date when the Pope lost his tenn
poral or coercive power that 1870 also starting
from the same date of A. ID. 607 reads thirty
years further to A. d. 1897. There is many
reasons for believing Christ will come about
this date, though none claim to know 1.-The day
or the hour" but all true Christians Are not
in Darkness that that day should overtake
them as a thief" Thes. 4; that 1.-THE wise
shall understand Dan. xii 10; and many of us
believe that Christ will steal upon the world IN
a very few years, Rev. xvi Is; and send His
"angels and shall gather together his elect
Mark xiii ~, to his judgment seat. The 1873;
years from the same date of A. d. COZ viii
reach As years farther to about 1912. Some
put it 1916, which will be jubilee year after
the conquest of the world at any rate this will
give plenty Of time for the Judgment of his
household and the conquest OF the world
Daniel says, blessed is he' that cometh tc
the end of those days, as Christ's saints are
already blessed and with Him in subduing the
world. See Pisa. cxlix 40, Isa xiv 2I-22
These blessed ones must be mortal men, wo
men and states and nations that submit and
| al,a
mitted to survive the great judgment storm
and will be the blessed ones in repeopling the
earth again. This is in harmony with all the
writer's on the signs of the times.
To further explain will say that tine time.
| and an half is simply three times and a half
and is 1850 years and that twice that amount
is seven times, and is $50 years. Ihis is tn,
longth of time that God promised to punish
Israel if they rebelled against him, Deu. ky
, 2S. So that seventimes is definite period o.
2520 years neither more nor less. Now we fine
from tie creation of Adam to the commence
ment of the conquest of Canaan to joshua
long day is seventimes-2520 years. That from
! the birth of Shem who was probably the Mel
chisedec of Abrahams day to the birth OF
Christ is seven times or 2520 years. That the
times of the Gentiles commenced in the frs
year af Nebuehadnezzar b. c. GIL, and tina
seventimes CT 2520 years will reach to 1909
when Christ will have his kingdom established
} Palestine. On this part of the subject will
speak fully upon 10 my next.
That the end of 200 of Dan. viii II began a
the first division of the seventy weeks B. C
46S will end in 1851. That seven times or 252
from the departure of the glory from the TEN
pie II. c. 592, Eek. x Is XII l9. to the return O
the of the Lord to the new temple (Ezek xiii
y will reach to about 1882. For full parti
culars of this new temple which is to be bull
by direction of Christ see last nine chapter
) of Ezekiels prophecy. VIII deeper tell in thu
next letter. n. B. BLANTON.