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: CHAPTER II. lk Comments. rE have said that the Father’s promise to the Son in the 110th Psalm, is both the key and the key-note of the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ, because wherever the Second Coming is referred to, it is almost always in connection with or founded upon this promise. Five times it is quoted, and in ten other passages of the New Testament it is referred to in this connection. We know of no other promise in the Old Testament of which the same can be said. Two of these references are of the greatest importance in consequence of the light which they shed on the promise, and the additional information which they supply. They are, in fact, inspired comments on the passage. The first of these references occurs in Peter’s address to the Jews, shortly after the day of Pentecost, on the occasion of his having healed the lame man at the beautiful gate of the temple, as recorded in the third chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. In the Revised Version it is as follows: ?
Repent ye therefore and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.
And that He may send the Christ who hath been appointed for you, even Jesus.
Whom the heavens must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spake by themouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world began. The first thing which we have to notice here, is the two inducements which the Apostle presented to the Jews, to repent and believe in Christ. The first was that their sins might be blotted out, from which of course we are to understand that their sins would not be blotted out unless they repented and accepted Jesus as the Messiah. The second inducement was, that Christ might all the soone…