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- Question #2
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- "This week in the newspaper, it was reported that some experts," in fact they
- called them Biblical Scholars, I read the article," met to discuss the
- Scriptures, regarding the Second Coming of Christ. And they voted. And
- twenty-seven out of thirty, of the scholars, voted that Christ did not
- promise to return a second time. So the article in the Daily News, I think
- it was, said that, 'Bible Scholars now agree, that Christ will not return a
- second time, and its foolish for us to start a cult of the Second Coming of
- Jesus Christ, because Biblical Scholars now know, He never said that He would
- come again.'"
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- Answer #2
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- That's difficult to understand in the light of the fact of several things,
- but one Scripture that comes to mind, that seems to me to be rather
- significant, Jesus said this, "Heaven and Earth will pass away, my words will
- not pass away, but of that day and hour knows no one, not even the angels in
- Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone, for the coming of the Son of Man,
- will be just like the days of Noah" Then he goes on to describe the coming
- of the Son of Man, and then that's Matthew 24, in Matthew 25, we find again
- that He's going to come, and when He comes, He is going to bring about
- judgment on the earth.
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- Verse 31, "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with
- Him . . . ." Now how can twenty-seven Bible Scholars vote that, that's not
- in the Bible? You say, "How can they do that?" Well, they just eliminate
- that verse. They just say, "Well, that doesn't mean what it says, and Jesus
- didn't really say that, somebody fabricated that, someone said He said that,
- and so forth and so on.
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- You know, one of the distinguishing marks of the Christian Church, from the
- very outset, has been a hope in the Coming of Christ. In 1Thessalonians
- Chapter 1, it says, "For they themselves report about us what kind of a
- reception we had with you. How you turned to God from idols to serve a
- living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven." That's basic to
- the life of the Church. Peter calls it, "A living hope." We have a living
- hope in Christ's return, in spite of what these men say. We have to come up
- with a new definition of scholars, I think.
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- Here's another question of a different nature. And by the way, these are not
- necessarily related, I want to cover as many as I can. So I won't take a lot
- of time on them.
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