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cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.,, In a similar strain in II Thees. 1 :17, the Apostle Paul speaks of "the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven . with the angels of his power in flaming fire." When Jesus came the first time, He came as a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger; He was despised and rejected of men; they did what they pleased with Him; the Divine glory was hidden beneath the veil of flesh; but when He comes again, His Divine glory and power will be manifest to every eye. As in His pre-existent state in the heavenly world, He was manifested to all the angelic world "in the form of God" (Phil. 2 :6), so shall He be manifested to us. While He shall still be the Son of Man, He shall be Man wear ing the very form of God, clothed with the outwardly manifest glory of God. VI. The coming of our Lord Jesus will be SUDDEN AND UNANNOUNCED. He will come unexpectedly and without warning. He says in Rev. 16 :15, "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keep eth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.'' This is constantly taken to refer to His coming at death, but the context and parallel passages show clearly that this
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