chapter. At the destruction of Jerusalem, those who slept in Jesus were not raised, living believers were not caught up to meet the Lord in the air, the bodies of believers were not transformed. Furthermore, years after the destruction of Jerusalem we find John still looking forward to the Lord's coming as an event still lying in the future (Rev. 22:20). The words found in John 21:22, 23, "Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me. This saying therefore went forth among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He should not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?" were written years after the destruction of Jerusalem.

Not any of these events mentioned, nor all of them together, nor any other event that has yet occurred fulfills the very plain, explicit and definite predictions and promises of our Lord Jesus and His apostles regarding His coming again. THE COMING AGAIN OF JESUS CHRIST SO FREQUENTLY MENTIONED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AS THE GREAT HOPE OF THE CHURCH IS AN EVENT THAT STILL LIES IN THE FUTURE.

CHAPTER III

THE MANNER IN WHICH OUR LORD JESUS

IS COMING AGAIN

Personally-Bodily and visibly-In three stages -With great publicity-In great power and glory-With His holy angels-Suddenly and unannounced.

"And while they were looking steadfastly into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven? this Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye behold Him going into heaven."

ACTS 1:10, 11.

CHAPTER I11

THE MANNER IN WHICH OUR LORD

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JESUS IS COMING AGAIN

HAT our Lord Jesus is coming again is generally admitted among all who really believe in the Bible, but there is a wide diversity of opinion as to how He is coming again. However, if one will go to the Bible to find out what it teaches, instead of trying to read his own views into the Bible, there are many things about the Manner of His Coming which are perfectly plain.

I. First of all, it is perfectly plain that His coming will be personal. That is to say, it is not merely the coming of some great revival, or moral reformation, or social uplift, or the disclosure of some new truth, but the coming of our Lord Jesus Himself. In His promise to His disciples on the night of His crucifixion, He said, "I will come again. And the context clearly shows that He meant that