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your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints," and I Thess. 4:14, "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." In the air our Lord comes for His own; to the earth He comes with His own. For anything we know a considerable interval may take place between these two stages of the Lord's coming. The words of our Lord Himself in Luke 21 :36 "But watch ye at every season making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son <?f Man,'' and the words of Paul in II Thess. 2:7, 8, ''For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work; only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to naught by the manifesta tion of his coming,'' seem to hint that the whole period of the great tribulation inter venes between the coming of Jesus in the air for His earthly saints and His coming to the earth with His saints. This, however, does not constitute two comings but two stages in
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