lence.... He shall call to the heavens
from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people."(452) "Let the
heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad ... before the Lord: for He
cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth: He shall judge the world with
righteousness, and the people with His truth."(453)

Said the prophet Isaiah: "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy
dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." "Thy
dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise." "He
will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears
from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from
off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. And it shall be said in
that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save
us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice
in His salvation."(454)

And Habakkuk, rapt in holy vision, beheld His appearing. "God came from
Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens,
and the earth was full of His praise. And His brightness was as the
light." "He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder
the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual
hills did bow: His ways are everlasting." "Thou didst ride upon Thine
horses and Thy chariots of salvation." "The mountains saw Thee, and they
trembled: ... the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of Thine
arrows they went, and at the shining of Thy glittering spear." "Thou
wentest forth for the salvation of Thy people, even for salvation with
Thine anointed."(455)

When the Saviour was about to be separated from His disciples, He
comforted them in their sorrow with the assurance that He would come
again: "Let not your heart be troubled.... In My Father's house are many
mansions.... I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself."(456) "The
Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him. Then
shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: and before Him shall be
gathered all nations."(457)

The angels who lingered upon Olivet after Christ's ascension, repeated to
the disciples the promise of His return: "This _same_ Jesus, which is
taken up from you into heaven, shall _so_ come in like manner as