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tirely invisible to men, recognizable
only by outward signs of his presence
and known only to the sanity few Of
humanity.
This feature Of the lesson Is yelled
from the eyes Of the average Bible
student by a mistranslated word. The
Greek for the word coming In verses
81 and 80 Is pGrousia. which does not
mean coming. but should be rendered
presence, as Of n who has already
come.
"ln the Presence Of the Son Of Man.
j This gives us a %stupendous thought!
The great King Of kings will for a
time be present amongst men. In
visible. unknown. except by a very
few of his saints. to whom his pres
ence will be revealed through the
knock of prophecy and the opening of
the eyes Of their understanding to ap.
preciate fulillments. Everything will
continue as ordinarily-the eating,
drinking, planting, building and mar
rying. las it was in the days of Noah"
Had the world known in Noah's day
the climax Of trouble impending many
Of the ordinary affairs of life would
have been discontinued-and likewise
here. The lesson is that as the world
did not know in Noah's day, so the
world will not know sin the days OF
the Son Of Man"-in the presence of
the Son Of Man.
The field is the world. said our Lord.
| in explaining n of his parallels. And
so we should interpret it here. The Lord
will gather some Of his Jewels from
| the field; all not his jewels will be left.
! Two will be grinding ut the mill pre-
pairing food for the household; one will
be taken and another left. The Lords
household is tie Church and the mills
which prepare the food for the Church
are theological. The intimation Is that
some t%heologians will be taken and
some will be left, In the selective pro-
cesses Of the presence of the Son of
MANN the making up of his jewels.
Y st. Luke mentions another feature Of
this discourse. There shall be two in
one bed: the one shall be taken and
the other left. A bed is a place for
rest. All churches profess to be rest
ing places. where the weary and heavy
laden restathrough faith in God and in
his promises. The teaching. then, would
be that not all who are resting in the
churches of C~hristendom. in the creeds,
will be amongst the elect. the gathered
these beds. Others will be left in
them. A vivid description of these
creed-beds and their unsatisfactory
character is given us by the Prophet
| isaiah xviii. 2O}.
Watch That Ye May Know
Following these illustrations of his
I presence and his work in the harvest
time of this Gospel Age the Master
! cxhorts all of his followers to watch,
! to be ready. to be on the alert. to be
! on the lookout, that they may be ready
for his presence, that they may, in duo
time. discern his presence and that
they may be gathered or separated
from the world and theological rela.
tionship. and from earthly church re-
l%ationship. to the Master himself.
Some very earnest Bible students be-
lieve that we are in this harvest pc
Rod now: that the Son of Man, the
glorifed Messiah, invisible to men, is
even now present doing a searching
aud separating work in his Church,
gathering his saints unto himself pre-
paratory to their change from earthly
to heavenly conditions and prepare
tory to the Inauguration of the great
time of trouble, by which present in
situations will be blotted out to make
way for the Kingdom of righteousness.
for which we have so long prayed.
Many Bible students believe that the
present unrest and sitting and shak-
ling amongst Christians and the creeds
Of all denominations and the colleges
and seminaries are but incidental to
this work which the Son Of Man. pres
ent amongst us. is accomplishing for
the purpose Of fully separating to him
much they wished them joy and hap.