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dred or more passages about the coming of the Lord which we find in the Bible. VII. Christ in the glory of the Future Eternity. At the end of our Lord's reign on earth the great white throne will be set up, and judgment will be executed; then there will be the delivery of the kingdom to the Father, when God shall be all in all; and we find last of all, the eternal home. Almost the closing picture is that of the throne of God and of the Lamb. And so we notice that Christ has an essential glory, as the effulgence of the Father, and an acquired glory by reason of His redemptive work. God raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory; God highly exalted Him, and gave Him a name which is above every name. And thus we have Christ pre-existent, Christ predicted, Chrits proclaimed, Christ possessed, and Christ pre-eminent. From the beginning to the end, the Bible is full of the Lord Jesus Christ. There are just two points of application. I would beg of you to remember again and again that the Lord Jesus Christ lived before Bethlehem, and did not finish his life on Olivet. And we must study the Bible with this key. This is the first thing. We must look at the Bible from God's point of view. When I went to the Dore Gallery to see the pictures, I remember they told me to stand before "Christ Leaving the Pretorium" at a par ticular place, so that I might view the picture from the standpoint of the artist. That is what we need in reading the Bible-to look at it from the standpoint of the Author, God Himself, from the standpoint of His purpose, and of His plan. His purpose is redemption, and His plan is accomplished through the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a familiar illustration, which I will not even apologize for mentioning, although so frequently used. Dr. Pierson was fond of it, and others have used it many times. Dr. A. J. Gordon, of Boston, was one day at home with his children, and to keep them quiet he gave them a puzzle consisting of different shaped pieces of
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