Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-05-22
THE SECOND COMING
OF JESUS CHRIST

Editor News:
Will You give me little space in
| your valuable paper to express my
| views Of the second coming of our
Savior Your humble servant went a
few weeks ago to hear funeral ser
vice preached by a Methodist minis
ter, and / think he got his sermon
mixed somewhat. The lady's funeral
he preached was a good christian
woman, and he said in part that this
day she was enjoying the fruits of her
religion safe in Heaven. Now, read
these Scriptures. ''For the hour is
coming in which all that are in the
graves shall hear bis voice, and shall
come forth, they that have done good
unto the resurrection of life, and they
that have done evil unto the resurrect-
ion of damnatiOn. John 1913; Acts
M:29. And then, again, read: "For
the Lord himself shall descend from
Heaven with shout, with the voice
Of the archangel and with the trump
of God, and the dead in Christ shall
RISE Thess 4:16 For the trum-
pet shall sound and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible and we shall be
changed. II Cor, 1853 One of the
most solemn and yet most glorious
truths revealed in the Bible is that of
Christ's second coming to complete the
great work of redemption. The com
ing of Christ to usher in the reign of
righteousness has inspired the most
sublime and impassioned utterances of
the sacred writers, the poets and
prophets of the Bible "He shall call
to the Heavens from above and to the
earth that he may judge his people.
Let the heavens rejoice and let the
earth be glad before the Lord for be
cometh to judge the earth. He shall
Judge the world with righteousness
and the people with bis truth. Said
the Prophet Isaiah: awake and sing,
ye that dwell in dust, for thy dew is
as the dew of herbs and the earth shall
cast out the dead. Thy dead men shall
live, together with my dead body shall
they arise. He will swallow up death
in victory and the Lord God will wine
away tears from off all faces and the
rebuke of his people shall he take
away from off all the earth, for the
Lord has spoken it, and it shall be said
in that day: Lo, this is our God we
have waited for him and he will save
us. We will be glad and rejoice in
his salvation.
When the Savior was about to be
separated from his disciples he COM
forted them in their sorrow with the
assurance that he would come again.
"Let not your hearts be troubled. In
my fathers house are many mansions.
go to prepare place for you, and if
go and prepare place for you will
come again and receive you unto my
self" The Son of Man shall come
in his glory and all the holy angels
with him. Then shall he sit upon the
throne Of his gloly and before him
shall be gathered all nations. Then
the long continued rule Of evil shall be
broken and the Lord will cause right
eousness and praise to spring forth be-
fore all the nations The coming Of
the Lord has been in all ages the hope
of his true followers. The Savior's
parting promise upon Olivet that he
would come again lighted up the fu-
ture for his disciples, filling their
hearts with joy and hope that sorrow
could not quench nor trials dim. When
the Thessalonian christians were filled
with grief, or they buried their loved
ones who had hoped to live to witness
the coming of the Lord, Paul, their
pointed them to the resurrec-
ton to take place at the Savior's ad-
vent. Then the dead in Christ shall
rise and together with the living be
caught up to meet the Lord in the air,
and 80 he said shall we ever be with
the Lord, wherefore, comfort one an
other with these words
Wycliffe locked forward to the Re-
deemer appearing as the hope of the |
church. Luther declared: 81 pursuade |
myself, verify. that the day of judge
ment will not be absent full three |
years >" 1.-THE thought of the |
coming Of the Lord said Baxter, sis
most sweet and joyful to me.
Dear readers, where are the deadH
Do they 60 to their reward. as the |
said at deathl Rev. 22:l2
says, "For the Son of man shall come
In the glory Of his father, with his
angels, and then he shall reward every |
man according to his works. 1t |
seems that when man dies he don't |
get his reward until Christ comes
again. Will someone explain this sec
ond coming of Christ, If man dies |
and goes to his reward at death, as
our good minister said, what is the
use of a judgement day1 We find in
Nal. 3:16. and Rev. 2O.12. that on
the Judgement Day there will be a
book of remembrance that will be op-
ened, and all secret things good or
bad, will be revealed. Il
WIN. LoACH,