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The simplest answer to this question is to read the Bible descriptions of the state of affairs when our Lord comes again. We read for example in Rev. 1 :7, ''Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see ~im, and they that pierced him, and all the tribes " Tb' of the earth shall mourn over him. 1s certainly does not picture a converted world, not a world rejoicing at the return of their Lord, but all the tribes of the earth mourn ing. If possible, even more explicitly we read in Matt. 25 :31, 32, '' But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory, and before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd sep arateth the sheep from the goats." This cer tainly does not picture the whole world con verted. Still again we read in II Tbess. 2:2-4, 8, '' To the end that ye 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 h~nd; _let no man beguile you in any wise; for 1t will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed the son of perdition, he that opposeth and
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