CHAPTER I THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TRUTH THAT OUR LORD JESUS IS COMING .AG.A.IN T HE importance in God's thought of the Second Coming of Christ is seen in the fact that this event is mentioned more times in the New Testament than there are chapters. It bas been said by those who have taken the trouble to count that it is mentioned 318 times in the 260 chapters of the New Tes tament. . .And one who made a life-long study of the doctrine has said that it occupies one in every twenty-five verses from Matthew to Revelation. It also occupies a prominent place in the Old Testament, as by far the greater part of the predictions concerning Christ in the Old Testament are connected, not with His first coming to die as an atoning Saviour, but with His Second Coming to rule as King. • The coming again of Jesus Christ is the one
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