The Lord Cometh
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adan, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Jude 14
The doctrine of the second advent is the very keynote of the Sacred Scriptures. From the day when the first pair turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming of the Promised One to break the destroyer's power and bring them again to the lost Paradise. Holy men of old looked forward to the advent of the Messiah in glory, as the consummation of their hope. Enoch, only the seventh in descent from them that dwelt in Eden, he who for three centuries on earth walked with his God, was permitted to behold from afar the coming of the Deliverer. "Behold," he declared, "the Lord cometh with tem thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all" (Jude 14, 15). The patriarch Job in the night of his affliction exclaimed with unshakable trust: "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:...in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another" (Job 19:25-27). (The Great Controversy, 299)
Reflection: "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad...before the Lord: for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth: He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth" (Psalm 96:11-13).
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adan, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Jude 14
The doctrine of the second advent is the very keynote of the Sacred Scriptures. From the day when the first pair turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming of the Promised One to break the destroyer's power and bring them again to the lost Paradise. Holy men of old looked forward to the advent of the Messiah in glory, as the consummation of their hope. Enoch, only the seventh in descent from them that dwelt in Eden, he who for three centuries on earth walked with his God, was permitted to behold from afar the coming of the Deliverer. "Behold," he declared, "the Lord cometh with tem thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all" (Jude 14, 15). The patriarch Job in the night of his affliction exclaimed with unshakable trust: "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:...in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another" (Job 19:25-27). (The Great Controversy, 299)
Reflection: "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad...before the Lord: for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth: He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth" (Psalm 96:11-13).
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