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meant what He explicitly says, that men will be engaged in their usual occupations, little thinking the Lord is near, and in a moment He will come. 4. The day of the Lo,rd will not come •U,n til after the revelation of the man of sin. Writing to the Thessalonians who had been disturbed by the thought that the day of the Lord bad already come, Paul says, "Be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand; (English Revision "now present, " i. e., "Has actually ar rived''). Let no man beguile you in any wise; for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be re vealed, the son of perdition, he that opposetb and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sit teth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God" (2 Thess. 2 :2-4). Of course, the ''day of the Lord'' is the time of the Lord's coming to the earth. This, as we have already seen, is preceded by His com ing into the air to receive the Bride, the Church, unto Himself. There is nothing in Scripture to show that quite an interim may
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