When I came to see the truth concerning the Second Coming of Christ. The latter truth transformed my whole idea of life, it broke the power of the world and its ambition over me and filled my life with the most radiant optimism even under the most discouraging circumstances.

CHAPTER II

THE CERTAINTY THAT OUR LORD JESUS

IS COMING AGAIN

It is repeatedly and explicitly affirmed by the Word of God-It is distinguished as a coming "a second time"-It is not synonymous with death-It is not the coming of the Holy Spirit -It did not occur at the destruction of Jerusalem-It lies yet in the future.

"He who testifleth these things saith, yea: (surely) I come quickly. Amen: come Lord Jesus."

REVELATION 22:20.

CHAPTER II

THE CERTAINTY THAT OUR LORD

B

JESUS IS COMING AGAIN

EYOND a peradventure our Lord Jesus is coming again. How do we know that? Because God tells us so in His Word, over and over again in the most explicit and unmistakable terms. On the night before His crucifixion our Lord Jesus seeking to comfort His disciples who were overwhelmed with the thought that He was about to leave them said, "I come again and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3). The Apostle Paul in I Thess. 4:16, 17 takes up this promise of his Lord and writes, "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds,