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tle to the Gentiles (that is the nations) will give us some hint of what the whole people will do when they have been converted and go forth as missionaries in that great coming day.. IV. The Results of the Return of our Lord as Regards the Nations and Unregenerate In dividuals. 1. The first result of the Return of our Lord as regards the nations, that is to say, the other peoples of the earth except Israel, will be A UNIVERSAL MOURNING OVER HIM. we read in Rev. 1 :7 R. V., '' Behold He cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of ·the earth shall mourn over him." Our Lord Jesus Himself declared the same fact. He said to His disciples in expounding to them the facts concerning His own coming, "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 clouds of heaven with power and great glory" (Matt. 24 :30, R. V.). The gladdest day of all for His people will be the saddest day of all for those who
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