The Fundamentals
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presence of God for us; but as the high priest again assumed his garments of scarlet and blue and purple and gold when he came forth to complete his work in the presence of the people, so Christ, when He returns to bless, and to receive the homage of the world, will be manifest in His Divine glory. (Heb. 9:24- 28.) As He appeared to Isaiah in his vision, to the disciples on the holy mount, to Saul on his way to Damascus, to John on Patmos, so will the Son of Man appear when, as He prom ised, He is seen “sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven” (Matt. 26:64). Nothing could be more natural than such a triumphant return of the risen, ascended Lord. What a pathetic picture Christ would present in the history of the race, if, after all His claims and promises, the world should see Him, last of all, hanging on a cross as a malefactor, or laid lifeless in a tomb! “He was despised and rejected of m e n b u t He is to return again “with power and great glory,” attended by thousands of the heavenly host. As the Epistle to the Hebrews strikingly says: “When He again bringeth in the first born into the inhabited earth He saith, And let all the angels of God worship Him” (Heb. 1 :6 ). “Thou art coming, O my Saviour,
Thou art coming, O my King, In Thy beauty all resplendent; In Thy glory all transcendent; Well may we rejoice and sing: Coming! in the opening East Herald brightness slowly swells; Coming! O my glorious Priest, Hear we not Thy golden bells.”
Then Christ will reign in glory over all the world. It is true that now “all power” has been given to Him “in heaven and on earth,” but that power has not been fully manifest; “we see not yet all things put under Him.” He has “sat down
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