8 THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S “Weigh not so much what men say as what they prove, remembering that truth is simple .and naked, and needs no invective to apparel her comeliness. Any believer can test the whole matter for himself. “ The proof of tha pudding is in the eating.” Test it by tasting it. ■ T. C. H.
THE CHRIST OF THE CROSS AND THE CROWN ‘ ‘ The Pittsburgh Christian Advocate” (Methodist) has been devoting its cover page to an expose of the “ modern heresy ’—belief in the second coming of Christ. In one of these brilliant articles occurs the following statement: “ The hope of this premillennial propaganda is that Jesus is about to do what He resolutely refused to do in the days of His flesh, namely, confirm men in their misconception of both the Bible and the King dom.” . . . . It is true that the Jews completely misunderstood Christ’s mission m His first advent. This is evident in many statements, such as Mark 9 :32; Luke 9 :45; John 10:6 j Luke 18:34; John 12:16; 8 :43. Even His disciples failed to grasp the truth He was .constantly repeating (Matt. 15:16). They completely reversed the order of the prophecies which uniformly repre sented the Messiah as first coming as a suffering Savior and later as a glori ous King. (See 1 Pet. 1:11; Acts 17:3; Luke 24 :25-27, 44-46). They failed to see that the sin question must be settled. The religious leaders there fore totally ignored the angel’s announcement that Christ had come “ to save His people from.their sins” (Matt. 1:21) and John’s announcement that He had come as the Lamb of God to atone for sin, to baptize with the Holy Ghost and to gather His wheat into His garner (Matt. 3:11, 12; Jn. 1:291. Believers in the premillennial coming of Christ are fully aware of this misconception on the part of the Jews (John 18:33-36), but they know something else equally as well for they believe in the statements of the New Testament. They know that Christ repeatedly told His hearers that His world-wide kingdom promised by the prophets awaited His second coining when He would appear with power and great glory, bringing His saints with Him, meting out vengeance to the enemies of the Cross and establishing a reign of absolute righteousness and peace. The Methodist professors seem to have but one good way of getting around the nearly 400 references in the New Testament to the second com ing of Christ. Their Professor Brightman, for instance, says, “ If the doc trine of the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures be true, premillennialism is true. ’ ’ The Jew ignored the Christ of the Cross and the modernist ignores the Christ of the crown. Denying, as they do, the inspiration of the Scriptures, it is easy for them to evade all the prophecies of the last times such as 2 Pet. 3 :3, 4, where we are told the day will Come when man will deny the truth of the glorious second coming of Christ. -K . L. B.
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