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with us (John 14:18, 21, 23), but at His coming again mentioned in John 14:3, and I Thess. 4 :16, 17, He takes us to be with Him. Further still, He does not at His coming in the Spirit fashion anew the body of our hu miliation that it may be conformed to the body of His glory (Phil. 3 :20, 21), and at the coming of the Spirit, there is no trump of the archangel, no shout, no resurrection, no rapture in the clouds-in other words the coming of Christ at the coming of the Holy Spirit in scarcely any particular conforms to the plain and explicit statements of Christ and the Apostles concerning His Second Coming. Many scholarly students of the Bible, whose opinion is well worth considering, take the coming again mentioned in the verses above to be at the Destruction of Jerusalem. There is an element of truth in this interpretation. The destruction of Jerusalem was in an im portant sense a precursor, prophecy and type of the judgment of the end of this age and therefore in Matt. 24 and Mark 13 the two events are described in connection with each other. But God's judgment on Jerusalem at that time is manifestly not the event referred to in the passages given in the opening of this
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