delivered from the bondage of corruption and transformed into the
paradise of God.

The Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ FOR His Church is the most
imminent event on the horizon of time.

I. M. H.

_New York, 1919._

Contents

I. THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE EVENT MOST
OFTEN RECORDED IN HOLY SCRIPTURE

II. THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS BOUND UP WITH
EVERY FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE, EVERY SUBLIME PROMISE AND EVERY
EXHORTATION TO HIGH, TO HOLY AND PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN LIVING

III. ONLY AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL REDEMPTION BE
COMPLETE AND THE BLOOD OF THE CROSS BE JUSTIFIED

IV. NOT TILL OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST COMES THE SECOND TIME WILL THE
CHURCH BE EXALTED INTO HER TRUE FUNCTION OF RULERSHIP OVER THE WORLD

V. ONLY AT THE SECOND COMING WILL THE SOLEMN AND COVENANT PROMISES
OF GOD TO ISRAEL BE FULFILLED

VI. ONLY AT THE SECOND COMING OF THE CHRIST OF GOD WILL A GOVERNMENT
OF EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE BE ESTABLISHED UPON THE EARTH

VII. IT IS AT THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THAT THE
EARTH WILL BE DELIVERED FROM THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION AND
TRANSFORMED INTO THE PARADISE OF GOD

VIII. THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR HIS CHURCH IS THE MOST
IMMINENT EVENT ON THE HORIZON OF TIME

I

The Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ is the One Event Most
Often Recorded in Holy Scripture

IT is recorded in type, in figure, in symbol, in analogue, in
parable, in hyperbole and metaphor, in exalted song, in noblest
poetry and in rarest rhetoric. It is set before us in dramatic and
dynamic statement, in high prophetic forecast, in simple narrative,
close linked logic, expanded doctrine, divine exhortation and far
-reaching appeal.

The first promise of the Second Coming was made in Eden. It was made
in the promise given to the woman that her seed should bruise the
serpent's head. On the cross the serpent bruised the heel of the
woman's seed, but her seed did not bruise the serpent's head. Never
was his head more uplifted and unbruised than now. The promise of
the bruising is of God and must be fulfilled. The record of that
fulfillment is to be found in the twentieth chapter of the book of
the Revelation where our Lord descends and in the plenitude of His
power by the hand of an angel binds Satan for a thousand years
beneath His feet and the feet of His saints. As the bruising of the
serpent's head takes place at the