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(Matthew 24:37-39) Instead of these clergymen as a class joining in the
proclamation, 'Behold the Bridegroom! the Lord has returned, the kingdom
is at hand,' they scoff and jeer, and if they say anything concerning
the Lord's second presence, even though they get all their information
from what Pastor Russell wrote, they discredit him and mock and scoff at
what he wrote or said. Of course the Lord foreknew this and therefore he
caused the Apostle under inspiration to write: "There shall come in the
last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is
the promise of his coming [presence]? for since the fathers fell asleep,
all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation".
--2 Peter 3:3,4.
END OF THE WORLD
[427]Jesus having taught his disciples concerning his second coming,
and having informed them that the world would end at or during that
time, they desired to know how they might be able to ascertain the fact
of his presence and what would be the indication or proof of it to them
or to any one. He was sitting on the side of the Mount of Olives when
his disciples came to him privately and propounded the question: "Tell
us, _when_ shall these things be? and _what_ shall be the sign [proof or
indication] of thy presence, and of the end of the world?" (Matthew 24:3)
The word world as here used does not mean the earth.
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