The Kingdom and the Restoration, Or, a Scriptural View of the Second Coming of Christ; With the Wonderful Signs Will That Prececde It, and the Still M - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1882 Excerpt: ... We wait for Thee through days forlorn, In patient self-denial; We know that Thou our guilt hast borne Upon Thy cross of trial; And well may we s Submit with Thee To bear the cross and love it, Until Thy hand remove it. We wait for Thee; already Thou Hast all our heart's submission; And though the spirit sees Thee now, We long for open vision, When ours shall be Sweet rest with Thee, And pure, unfading pleasure, And life in endless measure. We wait for Thee in certain hope--The time will soon be over; With childlike longing we look up, Thy glory to discover. Oh bliss! to share Thy triumph there, When home, with joy and singing, The Lord His saints is bringing." XI. PROPHETIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ANTI-CHRIST. As the Anti-christ is a subject of divine revelation, as various prophecies have set forth both his character and his destiny, it is our duty to compare them one with another and find out the true sense of the whole, as far as possible. We are aware that two views prevail regarding the Antichrist,--two chief views, we mean, for there are different phases or aspects of these views. One view is that by that term we are to understand the papacy, and that view places the Anti-christ, as to time. entirely in the past, or almost entirely in the past. The other view is, that the Anti-christ will be one who will rise up after the last ten kings in the end of the apostacy, and who will gather together the armies of the earth to fight against Jerusalem, after the Jews have gone back to their own land, and constituted themselves as a nation. We hold the latter view, and we hold it because, after having thoroughly examined the subject, as far as our ability has enabled us, we are fully persuaded it is the one borne out by the general tenour of the prophetic word. We ...

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.