This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt:...(Jude 14), and "with clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him" (Rev. i. 7). The distinguishing excellence of the Corinthians was that they "waited for Christ." "Ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. i. 7, 8). It has been suggested that the death of any individual is for him the second coming of Christ. Death is to him the end of time and the opening of eternity. It is his call to the judgment-seat of Christ. Death is, indeed, a partial fulfilment of the prophecies regarding the second coming, but it cannot be admitted that it is complete fulfilment. If it were the 11 161 complete fulfilment it would be contrary to the spirit of the Scriptures, for it would not be an event of such colossal importance to the world as we are told that the second coming will actually be. Again, the second coming is always represented as something exceptionally joyous for believers; but there is nothing joyous in death. It may have no terrors for the true believer, but it is often a time of pain and always an occasion of sorrow among others. And we are expressly told that at the real second coming all the redeemed will be gathered together and glorified, perfectly, publicly, and simultaneously. There will be no association of death with that time, for death is always regarded in the Scriptures as interwoven with sin and tribulation. No Christian can doubt that the prophecies concerning the second advent, however partially they may be fulfilled in the case of individuals, will receive a complete fulfilment, and before all man...