them:

"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This
same Jesus which is _taken up_ from you into heaven, _shall so
come in like manner as ye have seen him go_ (up) _into
heaven_."[234:3]

The one great object which the writer of the book of Revelations wished
to present to view, was "_the second coming of Christ_." This writer,
who seems to have been anxious for that time, which was "surely" to come
"quickly;" ends his book by saying: "Even so, come Lord Jesus."[234:4]

The two men, dressed in white apparel, who had told the Apostles that
Jesus should "come again," were not the only persons whom they looked to
for authority. He himself (according to the Gospel) had told them so:

"The Son of man shall come (again) in the glory of his Father
with his angels."

And, as if to impress upon their minds that his second coming should not
be at a distant day, he further said:

"Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here, which
shall not taste of death, _till they see the Son of man coming
in his kingdom_."[234:5]

This, surely, is very explicit, but it is not the only time he speaks of
his second advent. When foretelling the destruction of the temple, his
disciples came unto him, saying:

"Tell us when shall these things be, _and what shall be the
sign of thy coming_?"[234:6]

His answer to this is very plain:

"Verily I say unto you, _this generation shall not pass till
all these things be fulfilled_ (_i. e_, the destruction of the
temple and his second coming), but of that day and hour
knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only."[234:7]

In the second Epistle _attributed_ to Peter, which was written after
that generation had passed away,[235:1] there had begun to be some
impatience manifest among the _believers_, on account of the long delay
of Christ Jesus' second coming. "Where is the promise of his coming?"
say they, "for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they
were from the beginning of the creation."[235:2] In attempting to
smoothe over matters, this writer says: "There shall come in the last
days scoffers, saying: 'Where is the promise of his coming?'" to which
he replies by telling them that they were ignorant of all the ways of
the Lord, and that: "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day." He further says: "The Lord is not s