Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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EDITOPSPAL THE COMING OF THE LORD-WITH SOME CONNECTING EVENTS 'HE question of our Lord Jesus Christ coming back to the earth again is a 4 vital and pressing one. The coming of Jesus will be a world-wide event. It will include so much that the world will feel its force everywhere and in all affairs. tJesust is the C-ne through whom our world and all its life was created, and through whom its atfairs are ministered for the Father. It is because He sosvitally touches every phase of human and earthly life, that His return will concern things so broadly. It will be a world movement. There are certain facts that touched the heart of Christ, so deeply, one day as He revealed them in His answers to the disciples' question. When will thy coming ben? Jesus had been talking to them about the destruction 1,12 the temple, the end ofthe Jewish kingdom, the end of the age. the setting up of the kingdom of heaven. In His answer, llc speaks of three events in 'par- ticular, that were to take place in connection with His coming. First, the great tribulation. Jesus gave His disciples to understand the Gentiles were to rule the world for a time in place of the Jews. which woulfl end in great disturbance, and distress-the great tribulation. Leading up in this will be wars, earthquakes, famines, and pestilences. The Jew will pa-as through a time of terrible perlsecution, first having reorganized their nation in Palestine and set up their temple worship. At the same time, the followers of Christ will be subjected to persecution which would destroy them, but the Lord will intervene to prevent it. A world leader will arise, called the Anti-christ. He will blaspheme God, cause men to worship him as God, and will use the powers of civil government, religious deceit, and subtle methods in boycotting to obtain his blasphemous purposes. The second thing that shall occur is the coming of the Lord Himself. Gi:d's definite policy for the world will then be revealed. The second coming of Christ has two epochs very plainly discerned, and will have to do with four major things. Briefly. the iirst epoch is the Rapture. At this time He will leave His inter- cessary throne, where He now is at the right hand of the Father, and coming with the holy angels will eall His sanctified Church out of the world to meet Him in the air. At this meeting of Christ and the Church, He apportions re- wards to His saints, organizes His kingdom government to include all the nations of the earth, and then comes on to the earth in His revelation, to set up His kingdom. At the time that the Church is taken out of the earth, the awful and ter- rible tribulation is let loose. Satan. through the Anti-christ as leader. practical- ly takes possession of the world, and every evil thing uncontrolled does its Worst, running to a climax about the time that the Lord returns with His saints to set. up His kingdom. At which time the leader of lawlessness, the Anti-christ, will be overthrown. the Jewish nation will end, and the kingdom of Heaven will be set up under the leadership of Christ and His People. The third thing of vital importance is the kingdom. Christ will rule over the entire world. Those that were taken up to be with Christ will rule with Him over the Jews and other nations. Those who refuse to submit to the king- dom of Christ will.sutfer the vengeance. Righteousness and justness will come into their own. Every man shall dwell under his own vine and fig tree. The swords and implements of war will be moulded into tools of industry, war shall be no more. Rest and joy shall brood over the earth and Christ shall be Lord of all, -5.