CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction. (2) Scriptural source of consolation. III. The Restoration of the Jews to their own Land. IV. The dead Saints to be raised, and the living ones changed at His coming in the clouds of V. Personal coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to judge the living: i.e., to earth, with his saints VI. The Kingdom of Israel to be again united to (2) Apostate condition of professing Christendom. (4) The signs of his coming to produce awful fore- XIII. The land of Judea, a blessing to all nations. XIV. Jerusalem to become the metropolis of the world. XV. Punishment of those nations who will not yield homage to the King at Jerusalem. - XVI. The glorified saints to inhabit the heavenly Jerusalem, which is to descend out of heaven. XVII. Personal reign of Jesus Christ, with his risen XVIII. Events expected to take place at the close of (1) Satan, being loosed, stirs up the nations to APPENDIX. INTRODUCTION. THE SECOND COMING OF THE GREAT GOD OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST IN GLORY, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM. THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS TO PALESTINE is clearly revealed in the Word of God; how lamentable is it then to perceive that so large a portion of those who style themselves "the religious world" reject this truth, whilst the whole of the prophetic Scripture declare the fact in language so plain that "a wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein." This cannot be interpreted as referring to spiritual blessings, for they are promised as subsequent to their restoration to the land of Israel; nor was this restoration accomplished in their return from the Babylonish captivity, when only a comparatively small number even of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin returned; for the Scriptures declare that the children of Israel are again to be united to the tribe of Judah, under one head (the Messiah, the Son of David), and never being divided any more at all, shall dwell together in the land in which their fathers had dwelt for ever! Surely the promises made to them will be as literally fulfilled as the threatenings have been. If they will not believe truth so plainly revealed as this, we need not wonder at their being backward in admitting the doctrine of Christ's personal advent, so inseparably connected with it, and their being incapable of discerning "those signs of the times" which, at the present period, demonstrate His speedy approach to inflict judgment on apostate Christendom, and to usher in the Millennium, or thousand years of blessedness, during which He will reign with His risen saints over the whole earth in power and great glory! We grieve to see such a majority of the professing Church of Christ frittering away the plain language of Scripture, and adopting a spiritualizing phraseology, and interpretation of their own invention. Reader, as you are to answer at the bar of God for your own belief, be not led away by the opinions of others: we beseech you be divested of all prejudice, and come with a simple mind, and examine for |