An
important question, therefore, for us to determine is
HOW HE COMES
[367]We must make up our minds at once that the Bible testimony
concerning the manner of our Lord's coming is to be taken as conclusive.
A careful examination of this will disclose the fact that the Bible does
establish definitely and reasonably the manner of his appearing. Many
have supposed and yet suppose that the Lord will come again in his body
of humiliation, the very body in which he was crucified and which has
the marks upon it, and that such is to be visible to human eyes. The
words of Jesus disprove this conclusion. When instructing his disciples
just before his crucifixion, Jesus said: "Yet a little while, and the
world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live
also". (John 14:19) Thus he establishes the fact that his faithful
disciples will see him as he is, but that the world will see him no
more. And why is this true? We answer, Because Jesus was raised from the
dead not a human but a spirit being, with divine nature or organism. The
nature is determined by the organism or body. He now has a glorious
body, which no man hath seen nor can look upon and live. (1 Timothy
6:15,16) We have heretofore examined the Scriptural evidence showing
that no one of the different organisms or bodies in which Jesus appeared
to his disciples after his resurrection was his glorious body, but that
such bodies were created by him for the purpose at the time.
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