The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-03-31
THE SECOND COM
ING OF CHRIST

AS to conditions Immediately pre-
ceding His second, coming our Savior
said: "As the days of Noah were so
shall also the coming of the Son of
Man be. For as the days that were
before the flood they We're eating and
drinking, marrying and giving IN mar
riage 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 coming of the Son of
Man be-" Matt. "a: 1888
Why were the people taken by sur
prise when the food came? Why was
it-'They knew not until the flood
came and took them all away? Clear
ly because they did not heed the mes
sage that God sent them by Noah and
his co-workers. They did not know the
food was coming because they did not
believe the preaching of Noah. They
did not believe his preaching because
they did not desire the flood to come.
Therefore they did not know because
they were blinded by their own de-
sires, because they loved the world
and the things that were in the world
and a food would cut directly across
their plans for worldly pleasure. Their
selfish inclinations had all to do with
the fact that they did not know.
Obedience toward God has everything
to do with an understanding of His
truth. And so we must take the speci-
fications concerning the generation up
on whom the flood came and say as
it was then; $50 also shall the coming
of the Son of Man be-" But have we
not reached the place in the stream OF
time now that we can say, as it was
then so is it today. Then self graft
: fication was the chief object of life
: Is it not so today? Then the earth
was filled with violence, Gen. Z: 11-12
Is it not so toay? Then the message
of the end by flood was not vel
, come theme, so today the message o.
the imminence of the Great Day o.
God is equally unwelcome. Can we no
t see why the prophecies of the Blbl'
f are not understood wherein the mes
d sage concerning this great event is s.
e clearly set forth? Awful as was tn
k destruction by the food and plain an
: clear as was the message concern
n ing it, yet the nearer its approach tn
9 more the people Stunned Noah an
e his message. So will it be under tn
: message of the second coming o
e Christ. Take warning not to reject tn
k message that gives you plain Blbl
prophecies of that great event. An
Al do not reject the truths of such
II message because some people VIII
n have believed in it are not obeyin
Il it emselves.-Christ says of HI
lie people who would start to prepare fe
i His second coming-"They would, /
I'd likened to ten virgins who went fort
* to meet the bridegroom five of whol
n were wise and five were foolish" Pr
O. fession alone will not save us, con
* plete obedience to Gods messae
5y alone will stand the test of the JUDI
he ment.
ty | will speak four nights at Saint
ne on the "Second Coming of Christ
ne which is the most important of &
n, questions either political, religion
ne or financial confronting the world t
Ir. day. The meetings will be held in Il
nd Adventist Church beginning Thursd;
no night, April 9Th, at 7:45. Everybo'
he is invited. The message concernl
Ir. Christ's Second coming like that
His first coming given by John {
Baptist and the Apostles calls for I
pentance from all, high and low, ri
and poor, minister and people.
This message vitally concerns Y
en- whether you realize it or not. Cor
e@ and hear.
M J. S. KILGORE,
1t- Evangelist.