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shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God." The attempt that so many are making to lay out a complete and very definite chart of events leading up to our Lord's Return loses sight of this clearly revealed fact about His coming. That He is coming we may be sure, but of every definite detail regarding His coming we cannot be sure. As the thief never sends word beforehand that He is coming, so our Lord will come without previous announce ment. Our part is to be ready always, ''For in an hour that ye think not the Son of Man cometh" (Matt. 24 :44, R. V., cf. V. 43). We should always see to it that that day does not come upon us as a snare. How earnestly our Lord pleads with us, "Take heed to your selves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you sud denly as a snare: for so shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of all the earth. But watch ye at every season, making suppli cation, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21 :34-36).
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