The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-17


come, even though uaeOlsciousIy, the
agent Of TIE enemy.
Christ suffered, died, was buried, and
the third day rose, according TO the
Scriptures
After HIS resurrection the Son OF God
fingered with His disciples teaching
them that all these things were bus
fuihilmcut OF the prophecies which they
already had. He was amazed at The
, slOwness Of their perceptions. and was
led 10 exc-aim: 80 fools and slow OF
heart to believe ell that the prophets
have spoken
Upon the evening after His resurroc-
ton, At His fist meeting with His dis
ciples. Mark tells US that He upbraid 4
them with their unbcl.ef and hardness OF
heart
After instructing the disciples concern
/ ing the things of the kingdom, one day
while walking by the way, He was taken
up: and cloud received Him out OF
their sight. And while they looked stead
lastly toward heaven as He went up, be
/ hold. two men stood by them in white
apparel; which also said. 'Ye men OF Gal
lice. why stand We gazing up into heaV-
en-? this same Jesus, which is taken up
| from you into heaven, shall so come In
like manner as We have seen Him go into
heaven "
Before His crucifixion Christ had said:
"Ye believe in God: believe also in
me. In my Fathers house are many
/ mansions; If IL were not so I would have
told you. 1 go to prepare a place for
you And If 1 go and prepare place for
you, 1 will come again, and receive you
unto myself; that where 1 am, there ye
may be also"
Peter. in speaking of the sufferlngs of
Christ, said: Those things which God
before had showed by the mouth of all
His prophets He hath fulfilled.
that your sins may be blotted out when
the times of refreshing shall come from
the presence of the Lord; and He shall
send Jesus which before was preached
unto you; whom the heaven must receive
till the times of restitution of all things.
which God hath spoken by the mouth of
all His holy prophets since the world be-
gan. Yea, and all the prophets
as many as have spoken, have likewise
foretold these days
: BY some. what the prophets say is
passed by very lightly, because they do
not stop TO consider the source from
whence the prophet speaks. II first Peter.
III, wet are taught that it is the Spirit
Of Christ in the prophet that speaks: SO
when we consider any OF the prophecies.
we as truly studying the teachings
of Christ as we are when studying the
Gospels.
/ The glorious truth of the second coming
song of the faithful of all ages. When
Christ was here as our example, He gave
many lessons with reference to His sec
ond coming. When His disciples asked
him. What shall be the sign OF Thy
coming His first words TO them were:
Take heed that no man deceive you"
and again: Behold, have foretoId you
all things" mo man." said He, know
eth the day or the hour" but, There
shall be signs in the sun, in the moon,
ana in the stars; and upon the earth dis
tress of nations. with perplexty;
Mems hearts failing them for fear
Step by step He brought them down TO
the generation that should he living
when He should return. and left them
with the earnest admonition: Watch,
/ therefore; for We know not what hour
your Lord doth come"
The Lord said there would be so much
false teaching concerning His second
coming that if it were possible it would
deceive the very elcct,yet the events that
surround thu second advent are so clear
L. set forth that none need be deceived.
THE Lord Himself shall descend from
heaven with Il 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" Behold, 1 show you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all
be changed, in a moment, in the twink
ling of al eye, at the last trump; for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed. For this corruptible must put
on interruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality Then shall be
brought TO pass the saying that is writ
ten. Death is swallowed up in victory"
II is at Christ's second coming that death
is swallowed up in victory. Then it is
that the Lord viii WIPE away tears
from off all faces, and the rebuke of His
people shall He take away from off the
earth"
"And il shall be said in that day. 10.
this IS our God; we have waited for Him
and He Will save us; this is the Lord; we
have waited for Him. we VIII be glad and
rejoice in His salvation
Very different IS the experience of
those who have refused to make their
peace with God for they are consumed
by the spirit of His mouth, and destroy
ed by the brightness of His coming.
Even nature itself recoils at the presence
Of the Holy One. 1.-THE heaven departed
as scroll when it IS rolled together; and
every island and mountain were moved
out OF their places. And the kings of the
earth and the great men and the rich
and the chief captains and the mighty
men, and every bond man and every free |
man hid themselves in the dens and in
the rocks OF the mountains; and said to
the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and
hide US from the face of Him that stteth |
upon the throne, and from the wrath OF
the Lamb; for the great day of His |
wrath is come and who shall be able to |
stand%
brief glance at what we have thus |
far considered shows that Christ was !
promised. The time and place OF His |
birth and the nature of His work are !
plainly and simply told by priest and |
prophet. When He came the church re- |
jected Him. betrayed Him to the civil |
power, and Insisted that He be crucified.
God raised Him from the dead. After I
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