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to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever be with the Lord." The Apostle Paul doubtless had the words of Christ in mind when he said this; for there are four items in connection with the Lord's promise that are exactly covered by four in Paul's words. (1) Jesus said, "I come again." Paul said, "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven.'' · (2) Jesus said, "and receive you unto my self." Paul said, "We shall be caught up to meet the Lord." (3) Jesus said, "that where I am there ye may be also.'' Paul said, ''So shall we ever be with the Lord." (4) Jesus prefaces His words with ''Let not your heart be troubled" (John 14:1). Paul closes bis by saying, ''Comfort one another with these words.'' Paul's words are an inspired com mentary upon the promise of Jesus. In one of bis later epistles Paul says again, "Our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself" (Phil. 3 :20, 21). In Heb. 9 :28 we read again, '' Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins
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