Heralds Of The Morning
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The patriarch Job in the night of his affliction exclaimed with unshaken 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. One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible is that of Christ's second coming to complete the great work of redemption.
The doctrine of the second advent is the very keynote of the Sacred Scriptures.
From the dungeon, the stake, the scaffold, where saints and martyrs witnessed for the truth, comes down the centuries the utterance of their faith and hope.
Luther declared: "I persuade myself verily,...God will not, cannot, suffer this wicked world much longer."
Calvin bids Christians "not to hesitate, ardently desiring the day of Christ's coming as of all events most auspicious;" and declares that "the whole family of the faithful will keep in view that day."
This message is declared to be a part of the everlasting gospel. The work of preaching the gospel has not been committed to angels, but has been entrusted to men.