CHAPTER II THE CERTAINTY THAT OUR LORD JESUS IS COMING AGAIN B EYOND a peradventure our Lord Jesus is coming again. How do we know that? Because God tells us so in His Word, over and over again in the most ex plicit and unmistakable terms. On the night before His crucifixion our Lord Jesus seeking to comfort His disciples who were over whelmed with the thought that He was about to leave them said, '' I come again and will re ceive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3). The Apostle Paul in I Thess. 4 :16, 17 takes up this promise of his Lord and writes, '' The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God ; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive that are left, shall to gether with them be caught up in the clouds,
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