When Shall These Things Be? Or, Signs of the Last TimesJ Nisbet, 1868 - 414 pages |
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... believe the " sure word of prophecy , " it is the inspiration of energy and life , and ecstasy of heart . Should it be our lot to die before the sunrise of the long - expected day , we know well the way to the grave , and that also to ...
... believe the " sure word of prophecy , " it is the inspiration of energy and life , and ecstasy of heart . Should it be our lot to die before the sunrise of the long - expected day , we know well the way to the grave , and that also to ...
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... believe . It is only by giving the advent of Christ this supreme place in our affections , this glorious site in our horizon , that we can cherish a cheering and a bright hope in relation to the future . Why should we look forward to ...
... believe . It is only by giving the advent of Christ this supreme place in our affections , this glorious site in our horizon , that we can cherish a cheering and a bright hope in relation to the future . Why should we look forward to ...
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... believe that Jesus died , and rose again ; even so them that sleep in Jesus will He bring with Him ! " What a glori- ous and cheering thought ! Not only will Christ come ; but , in the words of Zechariah , all his saints will come with ...
... believe that Jesus died , and rose again ; even so them that sleep in Jesus will He bring with Him ! " What a glori- ous and cheering thought ! Not only will Christ come ; but , in the words of Zechariah , all his saints will come with ...
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... believe that He shall descend on that very mount again . It is not right to try to explain away plain words of Scripture . Wherever the literal interpretation does not involve absurdity , or obvious contradiction , let us always ac- 32 ...
... believe that He shall descend on that very mount again . It is not right to try to explain away plain words of Scripture . Wherever the literal interpretation does not involve absurdity , or obvious contradiction , let us always ac- 32 ...
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... believe that the earth as it is and our social condition as we feel it , were the ori- ginal creation of Deity , we should be tempted to curse God and die . But , blessed hope ! when Christ returns , this nature which thus suffers shall ...
... believe that the earth as it is and our social condition as we feel it , were the ori- ginal creation of Deity , we should be tempted to curse God and die . But , blessed hope ! when Christ returns , this nature which thus suffers shall ...
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Page 312 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people...
Page 66 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Page 364 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 66 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Page 237 - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first...
Page 93 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.
Page 102 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
Page 310 - Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Page 268 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 349 - And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubil and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the gentiles.