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 solar system. He could do no more than state the facts as plainly as he could, leaving the words with them for future ages to understand, at the same time trying to impress upon them, in whatever way was possible, that he was somehow God. He recognizes that a time will come when men will be able to understand, for after many humanly disheartening attempts to enlighten them he says:

"These things have I spoken unto you in parables; but the time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in parables; but I shall show you plainly of the Father." (John 16:25.)

Has that time not now come?

In Revelation it is predicted, "Behold, he cometh with clouds."

Has the trouble with the Church of the past not been that it has seen him only obscurely in the clouds of the letter? It has failed to see him coming "with power and great glory" in these very clouds of the letter as he predicted in Matthew would be the way in which he would come again. We must remember that it was the glorified Jesus, after his ascension or perfect union with the Father, when there was no longer any apparent separation of identity, who said,