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seem to have much support in Scripture. IV. When our Lord comes again, He is coming on the clouds of heaven with POWER AND GREAT GLORY. His words regarding it were, ''And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clou,ds of heaven with power and great glory" (Matt. 24 :30, R. V). What did our Lord mean by saying He was coming on the clouds 'I First of all, this is a literal description of the man ner of His coming, but further than that, it sets forth the fact that He is coming as a Divine person and in Divine glory. Every where in the Old Testament Jehovah was the One who came in or on a cloud. In Ex. 19 :9, R. V., we read, ''And Jehovah said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee forever." Again we read in Ex. 34 :5, ''And Jehovah descended in the cloud~ and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.'' In Ps. 97 :1, 2, the Psalmist sings, ''Jehovah reigneth; let the earth rejoice; Let the multi tudes of isles be glad. Clouds and darkness are round about him: Righteousness and jus-
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