ho shall also confirm you unto the end,
that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ," 1 Cor. 1:7,
8. As Paul "reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come,
Felix trembled," Acts 24:25. He said to the impenitent Romans, that they
were "treasuring up to themselves wrath against the day of wrath, and
revelation of the righteous judgment of God," Rom. 2:5. The first things
which were presented in all their teachings were "the foundation of
repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of
baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and
of eternal judgment," Heb. 6:1, 2. Thus "Enoch also, the seventh from
Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten
thousand of his saints," Jude 14, 15.

As Christ was to judge the world "at his appearing and kingdom" (2 Tim.
4:1), a reference to his coming always involved a consideration of the
hour of his judgment; and his appearing was a great incentive to holiness.
"For our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ," Phil. 3:20. And "when Christ, who is our
life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory," Col.
3:4. "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye
in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?" 1 Thess. 2:19.
"To the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before
God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his
saints," _Ib._ 3:13. "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 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: Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord," _Ib._ 4:14-17. "And to you who are
troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven
with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know
not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ," 2 Thess.
1:7, 8.

Not only the apostles, but their successors, in succeeding ages, have