1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

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on to prepare to meet your God No. If tbey beleve
not Moses and the pro h&, neither would they
though one rose from the lead. How foolirsh, then,
Muld it be for me to try to prove m any other manner
what God has revealed or promised, than by the means
which God has appointed. By his word you will be
judged; and if this condemns you now, (bnlese you become
reconciled,) it will condemn you hereafter. .
111. The object of his coming.
1st. He comes to raise and dther his saints to him
in the air. L6 AS in Adam a11 ge, ao in ChriBt shall all
be made alive; but every man in hie ownorder - Christ
the first fruit, afterwards they that are Christ's at his'
coming," 1 Cor. xv. 22, 2.3. Again, "For if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also
which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him, For
this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we
which are alive, and remain unto the coming of the
Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep. For the
hrd himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the tmmp of
God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we;
which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air;
and SO shall we ever be with the Lord," 1 Thess. iv.
14-17. KNOW we beseech you, brethren, by tho
5oming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering
together unto him," 2 l'hess. ii. 1. "Blessed and holy
is he that hath part in the fuet resurrection: on such the
second death shall have no power," Rev. xx. 6. In
Psalms we have the same account of the gathering of
his people. 4' Gather my saints together unto me, those
who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice,"
l'salm 1. 5. Again, see Isaiah Ixvi. 18, "It shall come
that I will gather all nations and tongues ; and they shall
come and see my lory." "For thus saith the Lord God,
Behold, I, even f will both search my sheep and seek
them out As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the
day that he is among his sheep that are scattered ; so will
I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all
ces where they have been scattered in the cloudy and
ark day," Ezekiel xxxiv. 11, 12.
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