The Coming of Our Lord

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This is an integral part of the Christian's faith. The hope of believers, who have passed away, is linked up with the coming of our Lord. This was true of Old Testament saints " These all died in faith " (Heb. 2:1313And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. (Hebrews 2:13)). Still more clearly do believers in this dispensation die with a certainty the full light of the Gospel gives. So we read, " WE KNOW that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, WE HAVE a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." (2 Cor. 5:11For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2 Corinthians 5:1)).
The coming of our Lord is the culmination of our pilgrim journey through this vale of tears, when in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, the dead that are Christ's will be raised incorruptible (1 Cor. 15:52, 5352In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (1 Corinthians 15:52‑53)), and the living saints will be changed, and all together caught up to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we be forever with the Lord. (1 Thess. 4:14-1814For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16For 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: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:14‑18)). We wait for that blissful moment, which surely must be on the very threshold, for manifold are the signs around us which tell us that things are shaping for the very last days,
" When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Thess. 1: 7, 8).
Then will follow our Lord's millennial reign over the earth. This earth marked by blood and tears will at last be under His blissful sway, a blessed time of security and peace.
" He'll bid the whole creation smile, And hush its groan."
May the Lord keep His people in lively expectation of His return, more and more till He come.