And Habakkuk, rapt in holy vision, beheld His appearing. " God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. And His brightness was as the light." " He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hill did bow: His ways are everlasting." " Thou didst ride upon Thine horses and Thy chariots of salvation." " The mountains saw Thee, and they trembled:... the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of Thine arrows they went, and at the shining of Thy glittering spear." " Thou wentest forth for the salvation of Thy people, even for salvation with Thine anointed." Habakkuk 3:3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13.
When the Saviour was about to be separated from His disciples, He comforted them in their sorrow with the assurance that He would come again: " Let not your heart be troubled.... In My Father ' s house are many mansions.... I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself." John 14:1-3. " 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." Matthew 25:31, 32.
The angels who lingered upon Olivet after Christ ' s ascension repeated to the disciples the promise of His return: " This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven." Acts 1:11. And the apostle Paul, speaking by the Spirit of Inspiration, testified: " The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God." 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Says the prophet of Patmos: " Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him." Revelation 1:7.
About His coming cluster the glories of that " restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." Acts 3:21. Then the long-continued rule of evil shall be broken; " the kingdoms of this world " will become " the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever." Revelation 11:15. " The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." " The Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations." He shall be " for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of His people." Isaiah 40:5; 61:11; 28:5.
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