Will Christ Come Again?

Excerpt from Will Christ Come Again?: An Exposure of the Foolishness, Fallacies and Falsehoods of Shailer Mathews A gross ignorance of Old Testament teaching. We cordially admit that much of the messianic expectation in so far as it dealt with the future did not originate with the Chris tians, but on the other hand it certainly did not originate, as Shailer Mathews slanderously affirms it did, with the Jewish apocalyptic literature that appeared from 175 B. C. To 100 ad. It originated with those men who spake from God, being moved by the Holy Ghost (2 Pet. The Old Testament prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and others. That is to say, it originated with God, the Holy Ghost. In this sense the teaching of Jesus Christ and the Apostles in regard to the second coming of Christ, is of Jewish origni, i.e., it came from the Jewish Old Testa ment Scriptures, which were given by inspiration of God. But is that anything against it? As we have just seen these Jewish ideas were given by inspiration of God (see 2 Pet. 2 Tim. Jesus christ himself was OE jewish origin. Shall we therefore give Him up and accept Shailer Mathews, who is of good old New England stock, and has studied in one American College (colby), and one American Theological Institute (new ton), and one German University (berlin), in His place? Yes, in this sense the premillennial doctrine is of Jewish origin, and by the word of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, salvation IS OF the jews (greek, out of the i.e., of Jewish origin (john. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.