THE CHRIST HAS COME
THE SECOND ADVENT
AN EVENT OF THE PAST
AN APPEAL FROM HUMAN TRADITION TO THE
TEACHING OF JESUS AND HIS APOSTLES
BY
ERNEST HAMPDEN-COOK
B.A., LONDON ; M.A., CAMBRIDGE
Exhibitioner and Prizeman
of St. John's College;
Editor and Part Reviser of Dr. Weymouth's New Testament in Modern
Speech;
late Resident Secretary of Mill Hill School, London
(1891)
Digital
Text Converted By Vince Mercer, 2/98
CONTENTS.
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
I. INTRODUCTION.
Revelation
has been progressive.
Man's understanding of the Bible progressive also.
The Kingdom of God.
The spiritual nature of the Kingdom.
A world-wide judgment yet to come.
II. THE
EVIDENCE FROM THE EPISTLES.
1
Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
I Corinthians
Romans
Philippians
The Pastoral Epistles
I Peter
2 Peter
James
1 John
Hebrews
The inference to be drawn
III. THE
EVIDENCE FROM THE GOSPELS.
Matt. xxiv.,
Mark xiii., Luke xxi.
"At hand."
John 9, herald of speedy judgement.
Before their ministry ended.
Until the end of the Jewish age.
At the end of the Jewish age.
White already to harvest.
Within the lifetime of some who listened.
Speedily.
Within the lifetime of some of the apostles.
Within the lifetime of John.
"The hour cometh -and now is." " Now
is a judgment of this world.
"Weep for yourselves and for your
children"
Within the lifetime of His judges.
"In the near future"
Corroborative statements.
The inference to be drawn.
IV. THE
FACTS RE-STATED
V. THE
SILENCE 0F HISTORY
The hiatus :
70-150 A.D.
The cause of the hiatus
The predicted secrecy of the event
The necessary powers of perception
The narrow scope of the Advent
Three sections of humanity
The fact itself is certain
VI. HOW
THE EVENT AFFECTED COUNTRIES
OUTSIDE OF PALESTINE
VII. HOW
CHRISTIANITY WAS PERPETUATED.
The
unwatchful Christian,
The apostle John
The New Testament
A further Note on John xx i. 21-23
VIII.
THE HIDING OF THE TRUTH
IX.
OTHER DIFFICULTIES
Old
Testament prophecies
Luke xxi. 21
"Every eye shall see Him"
The restoration of all things
"Blessed is He that cometh"
X. THE
PARABLE OF JUDGEMENT (Matt. xxv.)
Was realised
in 70 A.D.
"All the nations"
The division into two classes
The test of character
The severity of the punishment
The exceptional wickedness of that generation
The permanent significance of the parable
(1) It
increases the certainty of Retribution
(2) The error of Universalism. Some men for ever lost
(3) Being burnt up as refuse
(4) Yet many other degrees of guilt and punishment
The error of
Conditional Immortality
The Wider Hope firmly established
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XI. THE REVELATION
The date
Fixed by the internal evidence
(1) Why
written in cipher
(2) Jerusalem / temple still in existence
(3) Parallels to the teaching of Jesus
(4) To be immediately fulfilled
(5) Referred to in Hebrews and 1 Peter
XII. THE
REVELATION CONTINUED.
The plan of
the book
The seven seals
The seven trumpets
The seven mystic figures
XIII.
THE REVELATION CONTINUED.
The beast
said its number
The harvest and the vintage
Babylon probably Jerusalem
The binding of Satan
The first resurrection
The now heavens and the new earth
XIV.
CONSEQUENCES.
(1) Our duty
as Christians in relation to social and political
movements
(2) The early date of the Now Testament
(3) The divinity of Jesus
(4) "Where are we now?"
(5) The Millennium
XV.
CONSEQUENCES CONTINUED.
(6) Our relation to the
Kingdom of Grid. The first resurrection continuous in
its results. Death is to us what the Second Advent was to t he first Charstians
(7) Christianity in
its primitive
purity and simplicity
(8) The Sabbath
(9) "Why have miracles ceased?" The
exceptional character of the apostolic age
(10) Faith healing and prayer
(11) The Sermon on the mount
XVI.
CONSEQUENCES CONTINUED.
(12) The
Lord's prayer
(13) Lawful variety in, Church systems
(14) The sudden break in early Church history. The
fate of the apostles " Did Lazarus die a second
Time
(15) Apostolic succession.
The work of
the apostle, unique, fully accomplished and incapable of repetition. Their
qualifications and credentials also unique
Those worthy to succeed the
apostles were withdrawn from earth to heaven alone,
with them
The apostles have never relinquished their position
of pre-eminence over the Church
(16) The
visible unity of Christendom
(17) Other Consequences
Appendices
(A) Hymns of the Second and
Third Advents
(B) " The End of the
Age." Matt. xxiv. 3
(C) Sir Edwin Arnold on the Imperfection of Man's
ordinary powers of perception
(D) " The Lord's Day." Rev. i. 10
(E) The Fragmentary Character f History
(F) " The Kingdom of God
(G) Prayer and the Holy Spirit
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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