Christ Again Returns to the Earth

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for November 24
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Christ Again Returns to the Earth

Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold,
the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment
upon all. Jude 14, 15. 


At the close of the thousand years, Christ again returns to the earth.
He is accompanied by the host of the redeemed and attended by a retinue
of angels. As He descends in terrific majesty He bids the wicked dead
arise to receive their doom. They come forth, a mighty host, numberless
as the sands of the sea. What a contrast to those who were raised at the
first resurrection! The righteous were clothed with immortal youth and
beauty. The wicked bear the traces of disease and death. 

Every eye in that vast multitude is turned to behold the glory of the
Son of God. With one voice the wicked hosts exclaim: "Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the Lord!" It is not love to Jesus that inspires
this utterance. The force of truth urges the words from unwilling lips.
As the wicked went into their graves, so they come forth with the same
enmity to Christ and the same spirit of rebellion. They are to have no
new probation in which to remedy the defects of their past lives.
Nothing would be gained by this. A lifetime of transgression has not
softened their hearts. A second probation, were it given them, would be
occupied as was the first in evading the requirements of God and
exciting rebellion against Him. 

Christ descends upon the Mount of Olives, whence, after His
resurrection, He ascended, and where angels repeated the promise of His
return. Says the prophet: "The Lord my God shall come, and all the
saints with thee." "And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount
of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of
Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof, . . . and there shall be a
very great valley." "And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in
that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one." Zechariah 14:5, 4,
9. As the New Jerusalem, in its dazzling splendor, comes down out of
heaven, it rests upon the place purified and made ready to receive it,
and Christ, with His people and the angels, enters the Holy City.

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