170. Lo! He Comes, From Heaven Descending

8,7.
by V. 1, 4 & 6, C. Wesley, 1758; v. 2, J. Cennick, 1752; combined by Madan, 1760
1
Lo! He comes, from heaven descending,
 
Once for favored sinners slain!
 
Thousand thousand saints attending
 
Swell the triumph of His train!
 
Hallelujah!
 
Jesus comes and comes to reign!
“For 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.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
“For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” (Hebrews 9:26)
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)
“And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree.” (Acts 10:39)
“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints.” (Jude 14)
2
See the Savior, long expected,
 
Now in solemn pomp appear!
 
And His saints, by man rejected,
 
All His heavenly glory share:
 
Hallelujah!
 
See the Son of God appear!
3
Lo! the tokens of His passion,
 
Though in glory, still He bears;
 
Cause of endless exultation
 
To His ransomed worshippers;
 
Hallelujah!
 
Christ, the Lamb of God, appears.
4
Israel’s race shall now behold Him
 
Full of grace and majesty;
 
Though they set at naught and sold Him,
 
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
 
Now in glory
 
Shall their great Messiah see.
“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.” (Zechariah 12:10)
“And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.” (Matthew 26:15)
“And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.” (Luke 23:33)
“Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.” (John 20:27)
5
’Tis Thy heavenly bride and Spirit,
 
Jesus, Lord! that bid Thee come;
 
All the glory to inherit,
 
And to take Thy people home.
 
All creation
 
Travails, groans, till Thou shalt come.
6
Yea, Amen, let all adore Thee,
 
High on Thine exalted throne:
 
Savior, take the power and glory;
 
Claim the kingdoms for Thine own:
 
Come, Lord Jesus!
 
Hallelujah! come, Lord, come!
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