The
doctrine of the Second Coming is deeply uncongenial to the whole evolutionary or
developmental character of modern thought. We have been taught to think of the
world as something that grows slowly towards perfection, something that
"progresses" or "evolves." Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. - C.
S. Lewis
Now
dear friends, I am far from discouraging those who, with humble prayerfulness,
search into the records of prophesy to find out what God has said as to the
second coming of the Son of Man. We are not like the first disciples of Jesus,
if we do not often put the question: "What shall be the signs of Thy coming, and
of the end of the world?" But the truth which I wish to be written on your
hearts is this: That the coming be sudden - sudden to the world - sudden to the
Children of God: "In such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh, at
even, at mid-night or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning." Oh, my friends!
your faith is incomplete, if you do no live in the daily faith of a coming
Saviour. - Robert Murray M'Cheyne
So
that though Christ doth say, 'There was a certain rich man,' yet you must
understand he meaneth all the ungodly, rich or poor. Nay, if you will not
understand it so now, you shall be made to understand it to be so meant at the
day of Christ's second coming, when all that are ungodly shall stand at the left
hand of Christ, with pale faces and guilty consciences, with the vials of the
Almighty's wrath ready to be poured out upon them. - John Bunyan
We
know some who select Christ's Second Advent as their one great theme, and we
would not silence them; yet do they err. The second coming is it glorious hope
for saints, but there is no cure in it for sinners; to them the coming of the
Lord is darkness and not light; but Christ smitten for our sins, there is the
star which breaks the sinner's midnight. - Charles Spurgeon
"Remember
Lot's wife." (Luke 17:32). There are few warnings in Scripture more solemn than
that which heads this page. The Lord Jesus Christ says to us, "Remember Lot's
wife." Lot's wife was a professor of religion; her husband was a "righteous man"
(2 Peter 2:8). She left Sodom with him on the day when Sodom was destroyed; she
looked back toward the city from behind her husband, against God's express
command; she was struck dead at once and turned into a pillar of salt. And the
Lord Jesus Christ holds her up as a beacon to His church; He says, "Remember
Lot's wife." It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person Jesus names. He
does not bid us remember Abraham or Isaac or Jacob or Sarah or Hannah or Ruth.
No, He singles out one whose soul was lost forever. He cries to us, "Remember
Lot's wife." It is a solemn warning, when we consider the subject Jesus is upon.
He is speaking of His own second coming to judge the world; He is describing the
dreadful state of unreadiness in which many will be found. The last days are on
His mind when He says, "Remember Lot's wife." It is a solemn warning, when we
think of the person who gives it. The Lord Jesus is full of love, mercy and
compassion; He is one who will not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking
flax. He could weep over unbelieving Jerusalem and pray for the men that
crucified Him; yet even He thinks it good to remind us of lost souls. Even He
says, "Remember Lot's wife." - J. C. Ryle
Nothing
is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ. - John Nelson Darby
The
doctrine of the Second Coming is deeply uncongenial to the whole evolutionary or
developmental character of modern thought. We have been taught to think of the
world as something that grows slowly towards perfection, something that
"progresses" or "evolves." Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. - C.
S. Lewis
Now
dear friends, I am far from discouraging those who, with humble prayerfulness,
search into the records of prophesy to find out what God has said as to the
second coming of the Son of Man. We are not like the first disciples of Jesus,
if we do not often put the question: "What shall be the signs of Thy coming, and
of the end of the world?" But the truth which I wish to be written on your
hearts is this: That the coming be sudden - sudden to the world - sudden to the
Children of God: "In such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh, at
even, at mid-night or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning." Oh, my friends!
your faith is incomplete, if you do no live in the daily faith of a coming
Saviour. - Robert Murray M'Cheyne
So
that though Christ doth say, 'There was a certain rich man,' yet you must
understand he meaneth all the ungodly, rich or poor. Nay, if you will not
understand it so now, you shall be made to understand it to be so meant at the
day of Christ's second coming, when all that are ungodly shall stand at the left
hand of Christ, with pale faces and guilty consciences, with the vials of the
Almighty's wrath ready to be poured out upon them. - John Bunyan
We
know some who select Christ's Second Advent as their one great theme, and we
would not silence them; yet do they err. The second coming is it glorious hope
for saints, but there is no cure in it for sinners; to them the coming of the
Lord is darkness and not light; but Christ smitten for our sins, there is the
star which breaks the sinner's midnight. - Charles Spurgeon
"Remember
Lot's wife." (Luke 17:32). There are few warnings in Scripture more solemn than
that which heads this page. The Lord Jesus Christ says to us, "Remember Lot's
wife." Lot's wife was a professor of religion; her husband was a "righteous man"
(2 Peter 2:8). She left Sodom with him on the day when Sodom was destroyed; she
looked back toward the city from behind her husband, against God's express
command; she was struck dead at once and turned into a pillar of salt. And the
Lord Jesus Christ holds her up as a beacon to His church; He says, "Remember
Lot's wife." It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person Jesus names. He
does not bid us remember Abraham or Isaac or Jacob or Sarah or Hannah or Ruth.
No, He singles out one whose soul was lost forever. He cries to us, "Remember
Lot's wife." It is a solemn warning, when we consider the subject Jesus is upon.
He is speaking of His own second coming to judge the world; He is describing the
dreadful state of unreadiness in which many will be found. The last days are on
His mind when He says, "Remember Lot's wife." It is a solemn warning, when we
think of the person who gives it. The Lord Jesus is full of love, mercy and
compassion; He is one who will not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking
flax. He could weep over unbelieving Jerusalem and pray for the men that
crucified Him; yet even He thinks it good to remind us of lost souls. Even He
says, "Remember Lot's wife." - J. C. Ryle
Nothing
is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ. - John Nelson Darby