THE SECONDCOMING
by Hubert Mitchell
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C onsidering the times in which we are living, the most thrilling subject for consideration by the child of God is the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It has been my joy to teach numerous Bible classes on the book of Revelation. What a thrill this has been for my own heart, and how the Lord has re warded with spiritual victories! It took me two years to go through the book with one class. Read such portions as Luke 13 and see some of the graphic and fascinating events of the end times. Did you ever stop to think that Jesus Christ could come right now before you finish reading this pub lication? Every night before I enter my home, coming back from meet ings, I always make it a habit to look up in the sky. Sometimes I can see the stars and my heart goes out in prayer, “Lord, won't you come to night?” Sometime that prayer will be answered, I know! This is what John meant when, under the inspira tion of the Holy Spirit, he wrote, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” What a day that will be when this corrup tion shall put on incorruption! We read in the Word that He is going to come very suddenly, without warn ing. He will return in an hour when we think not. A lot of people have set dates and made predictions. How foolish this is! No man knows the day or the hour. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when Christ comes again. If He comes to day, I know I would be ready because of the witness in my heart that I am bom again. My name is written down in the book of life in heaven. How about you, my friend? Are you
ready to meet God if He would send His Son back right now? Never has America been living in such an ungodly condition as now. LET US GO ON Some of us stay at the cross, Some of us wait at the tomb, Quickened and raised together with Christ, Yet lingering still in its gloom; Some of us bide at the passover feast With Pentecost all unknown— The triumphs of grace in the heav enly place That our Lord has made our own. If the Christ who died had stopped at the cross His work had been incomplete. If the Christ who was buried had stayed in the tomb He had only known defeat; But the Way of the Cross never stops at the Cross, And the way of the tomb leads on To victorious grace in the heavenly place Where the risen Lord has gone. So, let us go on with our Lord To the fulness of God He has brought, Unsearchable riches of glory and good Exceeding our uttermost thought; Let us grow up into Christ, Claiming His life and its powers, The triumphs of grace in the heavenly place That our conquering Lord has made ours. — 'Annie Johnson Flint People seem to be wallowing in sin. The end could be very near. Think of the case of Lot. They were eat ing, drinking, marrying and giving 16
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