Christ's Appearance at His Second Coming

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for October 10
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Christ's Appearance at His Second Coming

We look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile
body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to
the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Phil. 3:20, 21. 


Christ had ascended to heaven in the form of humanity. The disciples had
beheld the cloud receive Him. The same Jesus who had walked and talked
and prayed with them; who had broken bread with them; who had been with
them in their boats on the lake; and who had that very day toiled with
them up the ascent of Olivet--the same Jesus had now gone to share His
Father's throne. And the angels had assured them that the very One whom
they had seen go up into heaven, would come again even as He had
ascended. 

The glory of Christ's humanity did not appear when He was upon the
earth. . . . That same humanity now appears as He descends from heaven,
robed in glory, triumphant, exalted. 

Christ will come in His own glory, in the glory of His Father, and in
the glory of the holy angels. Ten thousand times ten thousand and
thousands of thousands of angels, the beautiful, triumphant sons of God,
possessing surpassing loveliness and glory, will escort Him on His way.
In the place of a crown of thorns, He will wear a crown of glory--a
crown within a crown. In the place of that old purple robe, He will be
clothed in a garment of whitest white, "so as no fuller on earth can
white" (Mark 9:3) it. And on His vesture and on His thigh a name will be
written, "King of Kings, and Lord of Lords." Rev. 19:16. 

All heaven will be emptied of the angels, while the waiting saints will
be looking for Him and gazing into heaven, as were the men of Galilee
when He ascended from the Mount of Olivet. Then only those who are holy,
those who have followed fully the meek Pattern, will with rapturous joy
exclaim as they behold Him, "Lo, this is our God; we have waited for
him, and he will save us." And they will be changed "in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump"--that trump which wakes the
sleeping saints, and calls them forth from their dusty beds, clothed
with glorious immortality, and shouting, "Victory! Victory over death
and the grave!"

>From Maranatha - Page 291