Lesson 9 · September 1, 1894
Christ's Second Coming.—Luke 17:20-37
The title of this lesson will be found sufficient analysis of it. See how easily you can recall all the subjects treated of in this chapter.
- 1.What did some of the Pharisees demand of Jesus?
- 2.How did He say the kingdom of God would not come?
- 3.What can men not say about the kingdom?
- 4.What did He say to His disciples?
- 5.What will men say in spite of the Lord's instructions? Compare with .
- 6.How are we to regard such sayings?
- 7.What will be the manner of Christ's coming?
- 8.What did He tell the people must first take place?
- 9.What did all the prophets speak of as preceding the glorious coming of the Lord? .
- 10.How will it be in the days of the coming of the Lord?
- 11.How were the people also doing in the days of Lot?
- 12.What comparison is made between that time and the last days?
- 13.When the day of the Lord comes, what should not be done?
- 14.What are we exhorted to remember?
- 15.What will happen to one who seeks to save his life?
- 16.What to him who loses his life?
- 17.How closely will the division be made?
- 18.What did Jesus reply in answer to the question where these judgments should occur?
Notes
1. "The kingdom of God is within you." This may be rendered "among you." But the idea which the Saviour seeks to impress on our minds is the fact of the gradual development of the kingdom. Those who are waiting for it to burst upon them suddenly will see it too late. The kingdom of God is a condition, as well as a place. Only those in whom the principles of the kingdom are developed, can have any part in it when it is revealed. God bestows upon us His glory in this present time. See ; . This glory is in the form of His grace. Christ's glory when on this earth was the glory of the only-begotten Son of God, but it was manifested in His fullness of grace and truth. . The effect of the glory in this present time is to transform the characters of those who believe. See . Thus they become fitted to dwell in the kingdom where the glory of God shines without being veiled. Then when at last the glory is revealed, it will not be so unnatural and foreign a thing as to blind them, and cause their death, but will simply add the finishing touch in the transformation, namely, to change their bodies so that they will also shine as the sun.
Bible texts in this lesson
Luke 17:23 · Matthew 24:23 · 1 Peter 1:10 · 1 Peter 1:11 · John 17:22 · 1 Peter 5:1 · John 1:14 · 2 Corinthians 3:18 · 2 Corinthians 4:4-6
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