The Messages To The Seven Churches Of Asia Minor - An Exposition Of The First Three Chapters Of The Book Of The Revelation (1884) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: enemies. Perhaps there is no more terrible expression in Holy Scripture than "the wrath of the Lamb" (Rev. vi. 16). " Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him " (Ps. ii. 12). teal en/rerat Uvtov Tt? odafto;, and every eye shall see Him. Not in any spiritual or transcendental sense shall Christ our King and Judge be seen; but all who are alive at His coming, as well as those who shall have a share in the first resurrection, shall see Him?see Him as He was when, from the Mount of Olives, He left this earth, bearing in His body those marks of suffering which He carried with Him to heaven?those "wounds wherewith He was wounded in the house of His friends " (Zech. xiii. 6). Was not the seeing Christ what Job, the patriarch of Uz, so ardently longed for ? " Yet in my flesh shall I see God." I?this poor creaturely being, racked with pain, and weak with sores, brought down with infirmity and disease to the very dust, helpless, bereaved, alone?I shall see the Redeemer for myself, mine eyes shall behold Him, and not another (Job xix. 27). Every eye shall see Him, not " with visage marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men"?"an astonishment and a byword" (Deut xxviii. 37)?so that those who saw Him were dumb with the amazement of scorn at one so abject claiming to be the Messiah; but now He shall be seen coming as from Bozrah, travelling in the greatness of His strength, proclaiming Himself as He that speaks of righteousness, mighty to save those who trust in Him, while He will inflict judgment upon His enemies. It will be a day of judgment to the hostile Gentiles, as His first coming was to the unbelieving Jews. Every eye shall see Him. Now the heavens ha...