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the heavenly bodies, and that by no means the largest, the sun, that if the sun were, hollow and a hole were bored into it, you could pour into it 1,200,000 earths like ours and still there would be room for them to rattle around, and there are millions of these worlds. If every member of the human race were lost, the num ber of holy and blessed beings would immeasurably surpass the number of the lost. And not only may some of these wondrous worlds of light be in habited. by countless angelic beings but the aerial spaces themselves are inhabited by spirits good and evil, demons and angels, “principalities, powers, world rulers,” and in the train o f our returning King shall come these wonderful angels of light. Seventh, When Jesus Christ comes again, He will come as a thief, i. e,. unannounced, without warning, unex pectedly, suddenly. In Revelation 16: 15, the Lord Jesus says, “ Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” In 1 Thessalonians 5 :2, 3, the Apostle Paul tells us, “ Yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” There will be no previous announcement of the coming of our Lord. The world will not be expect ing Him. He Himself says in Mat thew 24 :44, “ Therefore be ye also ready: for in cm hour that ve think not, the Son of man cometh.” He will take every one unawares. Men will not be standing out on the hill tops in white robes waiting for Him. The world will be taken up with its usual occupations. Our Lord says, “ As were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. For as in those days which were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, unto the day that Noah en
tered into the ark and they knew not until the flood came and took them all away, so shall be the coming of the Son of man” (Matt. 24:37-39). Everything will be going on as usual; women will be in the istores buying dress cloth for dresses and all man ner of finery; they will be in the jewelry stores buying diamonds ana pearls and rubies and emeralds; the theatres will be in full blast, crowded with the eager seekers after pleasure; throngs will be going up and down the streets; the dance halls will be crowded; society people will be tan going, maxixing, hesitating, waltzing, bunny-hugging, grizzly bearing, Tex as Tommying; there will be wild hilarity with no thought o f judgment near at hand. Wedding parties will be in full swing, when suddenly without a moment’s warning there will be the shout, the voice of the archangel will ring out, the trump of God will reverberate, the sleeping saints will be raised, and true be lievers will be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air, and the worldlings and worldly professors of religion will be left behind to meet the tribulation and the judgment. III. The Results of His Coming Again. We have no time left to speak of the results of our Lord’s Return; they will be glorious; they can be summed up under seven heads: 1. The results of His coming as regards God. 2. The results o f His coming as regards the Church. • 3. The results o f His coming as regards Israel. 4. The results of His coming as regards the nations and unregener ate individuals. 5. The results of His coming as regards human society as a whole.
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