I want to speak to my little friends today, about the Lord Jesus coming again to this world. If you will read the first few verses of the 14th chapter of the gospel of John, you will see that Jesus says, “If I go and prepare a place for you,
I WILL COME AGAIN. “
We know that He is gone away. He was nailed to the cross. After He died, they took down His body and laid it in the grave, and after three days He rose again and was on earth for forty days after His resurrection, and was seen by a great many of those who loved Him, and then He was seen to go up into heaven. So He is not here now. And just as sure as He is gone, He will come again. Then in the 1St chapter. of the Acts we are told that one day Jesus was on Mount Olivet, talking to His disciples, and all at once they saw Him going up into heaven, and as they stood looking at Him going up, a cloud came in between Him and them and they could see Him no more. But as they stood looking up, two men in white clothing stood by them and said;
“THIS SAME JESUS
which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:1111Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. (Acts 1:11).) These two in white, I think, were two angels sent from God, and they were telling these disciples the same thing that Jesus had told, them, that is, that Jesus was coming again. And then the Apostle Paul, who was inspired of God, said:
“THE LORD HIMSELF
shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God,” etc., 1 Thess. 4:1616For 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) etc. So we have Jesus speaking in the first scripture, angels speaking in the second, and an inspired man speaking in the third, and they are all speaking of Jesus coming again. Now no one but God the Father knows when Jesus will come again, but the bible tells us, He is going to come soon, and then “in a moment in the twinkling of an eye’’ every one who loves Him will be called up to meet Him in the air. He may come to-day, perhaps before you finish reading this little paper, and if He did, do you think you would go? Do you believe in Jesus as your own Saviour? If you do then you would be sure to go. He could not leave you behind. If you have accepted Him as your Saviour, then you are His little child and He wants to have you up in the glory with Him. No matter where you are, at home or at school; no matter if you are playing or working; if it is at night or in the day, when Jesus comes, you will go up to meet Him and then be with Him forever. Oh, how my heart longs that every little one who reads this, may be among that happy number who are to be with Jesus when He comes.
All those who are left behind, when Jesus comes. will never have another opportunity of being saved. They will be those who have heard the gospel and refused to believe in Jesus, so God says they will hear and believe the lie of Satan and be forever lost. How important then that you should believe on the Lord Jesus now, before He comes, and then when His shout is heard in the air, you will hear it and rise to meet Him. Then
Forever with the Lord Each little one will be, Who hath believed in Him Who died upon the tree. E. B. H.
ML 10/01/1899