The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-07-15
PRESENT INDICATIONS
OF SECOND COMING OF T..
CHRIST ARE EXPLAINED
DR.. Weisle in Powerful Serlne,
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d lnterpret' Bible Truth,. ,.If
On This Theme y


by Rev. Weigle was delivered last
Tuesday night ON the Second Coming
Of Christ. The evangelist brought to
his hearers modern day applications
Of the indications laid down in the
Bible on the second coming and with
terrific force and scsthing rebuke pic
tured to the audience and modern
tendency towards the very things set
down in the Bible as signs Of the
second coming. He said:
1.-THE second coming of Christ is
one of the most prominent doctrines
In the Bible. 1t is referred to more
than, $50 times. 4 Many of the great
characters in the Old Testimen.
caught the vision of Christ's second
advent and rejoiced in view of that
day. And when we,look into the New
Testiment we lind the same thing. Je-
sus declared he Twas coming again.
On the eve of his sdsparture from the
world he comforted} his disciples by
telling them he would return again.
At his departure two angels appeared
before the disciples to tell them that
the same Jesus would return again.
Paul, Peter, James and John, tell us
in their letters to the church that
Jesus is coming back again. In fact,
John was SO full Of his coming that
he devoted one whole book Of 22
chapters to the description of it. :.
therefore, we dare not remain un-
concerned about this matter. When
remember that Jesus said, Watch
therefore, for We know not what hour
your Lord doth Gomez" when | REM
ember that Jesus promised to return,
the angel said he would return, the
disciples looked 3fpf his return, and
called it the 'tblessed hope" of the
church, and they''were so eager for
his return thattthey prayed. Lord
Jesus, come quicklH," then I insist the
subject is we'll RAfthy of our earnest
thought and attention.
According to TIE Word of GodSt the
history of the 'hnman race is divided
into nine dispensations, or ages. With
out taking time to name them I will
call your attention, to few signifi-
1t is significant, that man has been
a failure in all the past ages. I CAL
your attention to, this fact because
we are hearing much nowadays about
| the; ateadysProEress Of the race toward
higher and better. conditions, and or
a new social order; that is about to
be ushered in to, bring peace and
prosperity to- human kind. It. is q
glowing picture. that some mon try
to paint for us but it does not har-
monte; with the Word Of God. 1t is
the popular thing to teach, that the
world is not so bad after all, and that
man will eventually work out, his own
destiny, destiny that will be crown
ed with glory and honor. Hear what
God says. For as in the days that
were before the food, they were eat
ing and drinking. marrying and CIV
ing in marriage. until the day that
Noah entered into the ark, and knew
not until the flood came, and took
them all away. So shall also the COM
ing of the Son Of Man be-"
Another fact worth considering in
connection with4t past ages is that
they all ended with a judgment Of
some kind. The Word tells US the
present age will also close with a
Judgment. The people of all past
ages have had their prophets to
warn them Of coming judgments,
which fell on them because they
were unheeded by the masseS, When
sin and vice become rampant: God is
compelled to send Judgment and
death in order to save some of the
race. Men can become so immoral
and vice so general that procreation
will cease. God threshes out his
wheat at the end of every age with
the fail of His judgment. He saves
the best out of the past age as a
seed-corn with which to start the
new age. He takes the best of the
old order to begin the new order. He
destroyed the wicked ante-deluv-
ians, but saved Noah and his family
to start new dispensation The
Bible declares He will do the same
at the close OF the present age.
1.-THE teachings of the Bible is
that Jesus Christ is coming literally
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