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He personally was coming. The apostle Paul wrote, "The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven." And the two men who stood by the disciples as they were looking steadfastly into heaven, trying to follow Jesus with their eyes as He went away from them, said, ''Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven T this Jes-us who was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye beheld Him going into heaven" (Acts 1 :11). There is no mistaking the · meaning of these words. Jesus Himself in His own person (the same Jesus who went away) is coming back again. Some years ago a minister of the Gospel wrote, ''We must not expect a personal return of our Lord, but be satisfied with Him as coming more and more in all the wonders and glories of this closing nineteenth century." The man who wrote these words was a good and godly man, a man who had made great sacrifices for the Lord Jesus Christ, but I have never been able to comprehend how any man who really loved the Lord could have written these words. The wonders and glories of the closing nine teenth century were well enough in their place, and for them we thank God, but if one really loves the Lord, it is not the wonden
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