Page:The Last Judgement and Second Coming of the Lord Illustrated.djvu/310

 the world of men. These are some of the points to which we will now direct our attention.

The Lord Jesus Christ plainly said, "I will come again." In other portions of the Gospels, besides John, the same fact is spoken of with much precision, and the expectation of its fulfilment has been cherished in all ages of the Christian Church; but the way in which this promise is to be accomplished is not so clearly expressed: hence much obscurity has prevailed concerning it. The Lord's words upon the subject are, "Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." No one who thinks upon the term of this prediction with any exactness, can suppose that by "the sign of the Son of man in heaven," is meant some remarkable appearance in the sky, or that by His coming in the clouds of heaven is signified His descending in the vapours of the earth; and surely His "power" will not be exhibited in the production of disaster, nor His "glory"'