Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TIME OF THE ADVENT. ‘ Watch therelbre, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son or man cometh. ?Matthew xxv. 13. These are some who assert that the day and the hour are so clearly revealed that we can pronounce when they shall arrive a hundred or a thousand years before. It is owing to this that whoever ventures to discuss the subject is pretty sure to be set down as one who has prophesied the very day and hour, if not the very minute, when the world is to be dissolved, and everything is to be changed. I believe the day and the hour we cannot absolutely and infallibly determine. There are those who go to the opposite extreme, and say all interpretation is so uncertain, so few and far between are the forethrown rays of the approaching glory, that we may expect Christ’s return every day; and every morning we rise we should feel that the Lord may that very day return to this world of ours. I doubt if this be wholly right; one extreme may be as wrong as another. That the latter is not correct will be obvious from such reasons as these. The apostles constantly enumerate premonitory signs. For instance, in 2 Thess. ii., where the portrait of the Antichrist, the man of sin, is given, on the identification of which it would be here out of place to enter, the apostle tells us, in verse 3,
thatday, the day of Christ’s advent,
shall not come, except there come a falling away;
or, as it. is in the Greek, the apostasy, the well-known, well-marked; and to the Thessalonians expected apostasy;? that day shall not come except there come first th apostasy, and the Antichrist be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God. This man of sin, or this apostasy, is to continue until Christ return; that is to say, the sunsh…
