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24:30, 27. He is to be accompanied by all the hosts of heaven. "The Son of man shall
come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him." Matthew 25:31. "And He shall
send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His
elect." Matthew 24:31.
At His coming the righteous dead will be raised, and the righteous living will be
changed. "We shall not all sleep," says Paul, "but we shall all be changed, in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must
put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." 1 Corinthians 15:51-
53. And in his letter to the Thessalonians, after describing the coming of the Lord, he
says: "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 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.
Not until the personal advent of Christ can His people receive the kingdom. The
Saviour said: "When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels
with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: and before Him shall be
gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd
divideth his sheep from the goats: and He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but
the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye
blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the
world." Matthew 25:31-34. We have seen by the scriptures just given that when the
Son of man comes, the dead are raised incorruptible and the living are changed. By
this great change they are prepared to receive the kingdom; for Paul says: "Flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit
incorruption." 1 Corinthians 15:50. Man in his present state is mortal, corruptible;
but the kingdom of God will be incorruptible, enduring forever. Therefore man in his
present state cannot enter into the kingdom of God. But when Jesus comes, He confers
immortality upon His people; and then He calls them to inherit the kingdom of which
they have hitherto been only heirs.
These and other scriptures clearly proved to Miller's mind that the events which
were generally expected to take place before the coming of Christ, such as the
universal reign of peace and the setting up of the kingdom of God upon the earth,
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