The Salvation Messenger from Sabetha, Kansas • 2

THE SALVATION MESSENGER. then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air!" Hallelujah! (1 Thess. When Job got a glimpse of that glorious day he said, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. For I know my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God." (Job 19:25, 26).

What shall be our likeness In 1 John 3:2 we find "we shall be like Him" and shall see Him as He is; and in Phillippians 3:21, we are told He "shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his own glorious body." What a change! We shall be like Him. What a blessed privilege God has given to the sons of men Theue is nothing on earth to compare with it. David, anced all the treasures of this world when he saw the future glories of the saints, and explained, "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness" (Psa. We shall be like Him; we shall see Him as He is. (1 John What is His likeness now The testimony of Peter at the transfiguration was that "His face did shine as the sun and His raiment as white as snow" (Matt.

Mar. Luke Paul testified that the light about him shined "above the brightness of the sun" at midday On the Isle of Patmos, John testified that His countenance was as the sun shineth in this strength Rev. And, Beloved, just think, "we shall be like Him." They that be wise shall shine with the brightness of a firmamennt; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. (Dan. 12:2, 3).

Think, beloved, what a flash of lightning shall rend the heavens when that illustrious day shall come, when all the saints from the North and from the South, the East and from the men shall be in one bed; the one shall be taken and the other left. mt Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken and the other left." This was a great "mystery" to the disciples even as it is to many people of today, and when they inquired, "Where Lord?" (where are they to be taken) He said unto them, "Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together." It is very evident that the "body" here referred to is His own body, which "was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities" and laid (in the "heart of the earth," but "God raised him from the dead" and he is now seated on the right hand of God (Acts 2:32, 33; 7:55, 56). In another place we find the words: "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead 'body' shall they rise. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be over past For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity" (Isa.

This does not mean to enter in by the way of death, for it is said dead men shall live," and in another place "we shall not all sleep" (die) (1 Cor. Some of us must be "alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord" (1 Thess. "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep (die) but we shall all be changed, at the last moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Cor. "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.

and the dead in Christ shall rise first; The Second Commg Of Christ As Lightning We Shall be Changed. "For as the lightning cometh out 'of the East, and shineth even unto the West; so shall the coming of the Son of Man be." (Matt. 24:27.) This mysterious message of the Scripture has been quoted and "wondered at" by many in the past, and even to this day the minds of many are at a loss as to what it really means. We are sure that it signifies an important event that is to come. In St.

Luke we find the same expression in connection with the- time when "one shall be taken and the other left" (Luke In reading the context of verses 34-37 we will see there is a time of trouble and desolation coming "as it was in the days of Noe" and "in the days of Lot," during the preparation of which an "escape" was made for both Noah and Lot and all that were with them. Being warned of God concerning the oncoming flood, Noah (Noe, Greek) "moved with fear and prepared an ark for the saving of his house (Heb. and thereby escaped the mighty deluge that came upon the earth, while Lot escaped the burning flames of Sodom and Gomorrah by being warned of God to flee to the mountains (Gen. 19: 12-25) "And even as it was in the days of Noah and Lot, even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed." (Luke "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man." (Luke Now, 'according to the above Scrip- ture there must be a way to "eccape'r for the saints of God therefore Jesus says, "I tell you in that night, two.