The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-11-04
The Second Coming of Christ

the light of Gods Word the Second Coming Of Jesus the
Christ Let open by singing Hymn No. Is, che is
COMING"
We will have number Of Scripture lessons bearing
upon the Second Coming. will read to you the twelfth
chapter of Daniel:
"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great
prince which sandeh for the children of thy people, and
there shall be time Of trouble such since
there nation to that time and at that time
thy people shall be delivered that shall be found
written in the book.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake, to everlasting life, and some to shame
and everlasting contempt.
And they that be wise shall shine the brightness of
the rmamen and they that turn to Righteousness
as the stars for and ever.
"But thou, Daniel shut up the words, and seal the
book even the time Of the end shall to and
fro and knowledge shall be increased.
"Then T. Daniel looked and, behold, there stood other
two this side of the bank of the river and the
other on that side of the bank of the river.
"And said to the clothed in linen, which was
upon the Of the river How long shall it be to the end
of these wonders?
"And heard the man clothed in linen, which upon
the of the river when he held his right hand and
his left hand heaven and by Him that iveth for
ever that it shall be for time times and half and when
shall have accomplished to scatter the of the
holy people, all these things shall be finished
"And heard but understood not: then said I, my
Lord, what shall be the end Of these things?
"And he said, 20 thy way, Daniel Tor the WORDS are
closed up and sealed to the time of the end
"Many shall be purified and made white and tried but
the wicked shall do wckedy and of the wicked shall
understand but the wise shall understand.
"And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be
taken away and the abomnation that makeh desolae set
p there shall be thousand two hundred and ninety days
BLESSED he that wateth and cometh to the thousand
three hundred and five and thirty days.
"But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou shalt
rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days..
The first stanza of Hymn No. 391, "CRowN HIM. was
One stanza of Hymn No. &c. GILL He COME" was
then sung
The following passages of Scripture read by the
various Elders present.
Second Peter third chapter:
"This second epste beloved, write unto you, in
both which I stir up your pure minds by way OF remem
brance;
"That ye may be mindful of the words which we're
spoken before by the holy prophets and of the command
ment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
KNOWING this first that there shall in the last
days scofers, walking after their own lusts,
"And saying Where is the promise of His coming
for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue they
we're from the beginning of the creation.
"For this they willingly ignorant of, that by the
word of God the heavens of DID, and the earth stand
ing out of the water and in the water
"Whereby the world that then was, being overfowed
with water, persisted:
"But the heavens and the earth which by the
word kept in store reserved unto fire against the
day of judgment and perdton of ungodly men.
"But beloved be not ignorant of this thing, that
day is with the Lord thousand and thousand
years as day.
"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as
some men ackness but is longsuferng to usward
not willing that any should perish but that all should come
to repentance.
"But the day of the Lord will come as thief in the
night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with
great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat
the earth also and the works that therein shall be burnt
up.
"Seeng then that all these things shall be dissolved
what of persons ought to be in all holy con-
versaton and goodness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the Day
of God wherein the heavens being fire shall be dissolved