When Christ Comes

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II The Resurrection Both the Old and New Testaments speak clearly concerning the resurrection of the dead. Because of this great keystone fact, there have been many, from time to time, who have in one way or another tried to overthrow or dislodge this chief truth in order to have the whole system...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II The Resurrection Both the Old and New Testaments speak clearly concerning the resurrection of the dead. Because of this great keystone fact, there have been many, from time to time, who have in one way or another tried to overthrow or dislodge this chief truth in order to have the whole system of Christianity fail, but, thanks be to God, all such come, live awhile, and pass away forever; while the everlasting truth and fact still stands, and ever shall remain, throughout time and eternity. I am the Resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, even though he were dead, yet shall he live. With the assurance of life after death is linked the assurance of the resurrection of the body. On account of its vast importance the risen Christ remained upon the earth for forty days, proving with many infallible proofs that He was the same Jesus who had been crucified, dead and buried. 45 He came into the world to conquer the grave and to rob it of its ill-gotten victims; therefore, He went into it Himself and came forth victorious. After all, while we look upon bodily death as a hard thing which awaits each of us, yet who would care to live in this world under existing natural laws forever ? Here the law of nature is that we are born, and with it comes sin and suffering. We grow to middle life, and, behold, we discover the gray hairs upon our heads and we knew it not. Then comes the declining years, and, do as we may, yet time rolls on and we are drawn slowly but surely to the time when we become feeble and tottering, and to many we are only in the way, for even though we live to be fourscore years, yet is their strength, labor and sorrow. For a Christian to live on and on in a sinful world would be most unfortunate, to say the least; therefore, God in His g...