all these things be fulfilled." This text is considered a kind of key, by which all mysteries connected with the last judgment, are unlocked, and made plainly to refer to the ravages of the Roman army under the walls of Jerusalem. Here I totally disagree with you.-If you will carefully examine the New Testament, you will find five different comings of Christ spoken of, neither of which took place, properly speaking, at the destruction of the Holy City; as,

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1. The personal coming of Christ in the flesh. Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. to his own, and his own received him not.' 14. This was his first personal coming.

John 1: 11,

2. His spiritual coming in the hearts of his disciples. "I will not leave you comfortless; I will COME unto you.' ." "If any man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him and we will COME unto him and make our abode with him." John 14: 18, 23..

3. We have a model and prelibation of the final coming of Christ in his transfiguration, called "the Son of man COMING in his kingdom." Math. 16: 28; read it in connexion with Math. 17: 1–9. 2 Pet. 1: 16–19. As I intend to examine these passages and illustrate this coming hereafter, I will not attempt the discussion now.

4. There is a providential coming of Christ spoken of in the New Testament, to punish apostate churches, as such, by removing their light and privileges. Hence Christ says unto the church at Ephesus: "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent and do thy first works, or else I will COME unto thee quickly, and will remove the candlestick out of his place." Rev. 2: 5. This may be called the providential coming of Christ. It is not coming with his "mighty angels," "in the glory of his Father,' (( gathering all nations before him, and rewarding every man according to his works."-In the Old Testament we find great displays of divine power, whether for the salvation or destruction of nations, are called the coming, appearing, or presence of God. See 2 Sam. 22:

10-12. Isa. 19: 1. Hence the destruction of Sodom, the old world, Babylon, Nineveh, and Jerusalem, both by Nebuchadnezzar and Titus, were providential comings of God the Father, but none of these events are anywhere spoken of as the comings of Christ. The providential comings of the Son, are to remove the privileges of apostate churches, as in Revelation 2: 5.

5. The last and final coming. This coming is marked and may be easily distinguished from his other comings. It will be his fifth coming in one respect, and his second in another. It will be his fifth in order of time, but his second personal coming. This is the coming upon which you and I differ so much; the sublime and blessed event, which your preachers and authors refer to the destruction of Jerusalem. If you will consider the object of this coming as set forth in the word of God, you will see that it is not to destroy Jerusalem; but,

1. To raise the righteous dead and change the righteous living.

"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him, for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep; for the Lord himself, shall descend from heaven with a shout-with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord." "For our conversation (citizenship) is in heaven, from whence we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body." "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive (raised from death) but every man in his own order, (troop or company) Christ the first fruits, afterwards they that are Christ's at his coming." "Behold I shew you a mystery. We shall not all sleep (die) but we (disciples

of Christ who do not sleep,) shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trump shall sound and the dead shall be raised, and we (who don't sleep) shall be changed." 1 Thes. 4: 14 -17. Phil. 3: 20, 21. 1 Cor. 15: 22, 23, 51, 52.

2. The Lord Jesus will come to destroy the wicked from the face of the earth, and to regenerate it by fire.

"The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.' "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works therein shall be burnt up *** nevertheless we according to his promise, look fór new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness." And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him: then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not; for behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, all that do wickedly, shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch." 2 Thes. 1: 7, 10. 2 Pet. 3: 8, 14. Mal. 3: 17, 18. 4: 1.-Dan. 7: 11. Rev. 17: 16. Acts 3: 20, 21.

3. The Lord Jesus will come to judge the world.

"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels, and then he shall reward every man according to his works." "When the Son of man shall come in his glory and all his holy angels with him, then shall he set upon the throne of his glory, and before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats."

The day, or period of judgment will commence when "the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven." The solemn day will be introduced by the first resurrection, changing of the righteous living, a general conflagration of the earth, and it will close up at the expiration of a period, called in Rev. 20: 5, a thousand years, with the resurrection of the unjust, and the condemnation and destruction of the wicked, from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power. Rev. 20: 12--15.

"I charge thee before God and our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing in his kingdom."

'He hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness.' In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.' For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.' 2 Thes. 5:1. Acts 17:31. Rom. 2:16. 2 Cor. 5:10.

4. Christ will come to purify his church and be glorified

in his saints.

"When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe.” "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of the world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." 2 Thes. 1: 10. Matt. 13: 40-43,

Again; the second advent of our Lord or his final coming, differs as to the manner of his appearing from every thing said to have taken place at the destruction of Jerusalem. Nothing of which historians inform us, connected with that bloody and cruel war, answers at all with

the account given of it in the Word of God. According to the Scriptures, our Blessed Lord will come,

1. Personally, in his glorified body. When he ascended into heaven from Mt. Olivet, two celestial messengers appeared to his admiring disciples and said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This SAME JESUS which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like MANNER as ye have seen him go up into heaven." Acts 1: 11. See also John 14: 3. Here it is said the same Jesus shall come; and as though this was not yet sufficiently emphatic, the angels assure his disciples he shall come in like manner as they had seen him go into heaven.' How did Christ go into heaven? Visibly, personally; with his resurrection body, he mounted a chariot of light and rode off majestically to his glorious mediatorial throne.

2. He will come visibly. This point has already been made manifest, but as the coming of the Lord Messiah is supposed by many to be a spiritual coming, or to refer to Jerusalem, it may not be unimportant to show, beyond all dispute, that his coming will be visible.

And they shall SEE the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Matt. 24: 30. See also Mark 13: 26; Luke 21: 27; Dan. 7: 9-14. John says of this coming;

"Behold he cometh 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. 1: 7. Besides those passages which assure us that we shall SEE Christ at his coming, there are several texts which clearly imply the visibility of the second advent. As for instance, all those texts which speak of his coming as an appearing. Lexicographers tell us that an "appearance is the act of coming into sight." If Christ's coming then, is an appearing, it is "coming into sight."

Unto them who look for him shall be APPEAR the second time, without sin (sin offering) unto salvation. Heb. 8: 28. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glo