THE
SECOND COMING
OF
JESUS
Editor
of Pentecostal Sunday
School
Literature
“The
Son of Man cometh.”—Matt. 24:44
Price:
$1.00
Press
of
The
Falcon Publishing Co.
Falcon,
N. C.
Copyright,
1916, by
G.
F. Taylor
PREFACE.
During the last fifty years many books on the second coming of Jesus have appeared. Great and good men have given the subject their earnest and extensive study. The world has been blessed by their lives, studies, and productions. So many are the books on this subject that no one need live in ignorance concerning it.
The writer of this volume can not remember the time when he first became interested in this great subject. As far back as my memory can go, I was inquiring, searching, and asking all manner of questions about it. Though I thus sought for information, the years of maturity found me with but little knowledge concerning it. However, about the time of my entering the ministry at the age of twenty, I began the study of the subject in earnest. At this time I gained access to the works of many men who had written on the subject, and by the aid of these, with a careful study of the Scriptures, the fields of prophecy began to break upon my vision. Fourteen years have passed, and during this time I have given the subject my closest and most extended study, and yet I am only a primary student in this course. Having been asked by hundreds of my friends to put in printed form some knowledge that I have gained of this great subject, and having felt thus led of the Lord, I here venture upon the task.
This book is not put before the public because the writer feels it to be a superior work to those books of kindred theme that have appeared before it. The writer rather wishes to acknowledge the help he has derived from the study of such
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books,
and to praise the Lord that men lived and wrote before him.
He, however, gives farther praises to God that He has enabled him to
derive many thoughts on the subject from the study of the Word alone.
Much of the matter in this book, therefore, is original with the
writer. While my understanding
has been enlightened by reading the writings of others, yet if I bring forth
no truth in addition to what others have written, I shall write in vain.
At least, if I bring forth the same truths that others have brought
before me, I should be able to bring them forth in a different dress.
This the writer believes he has accomplished in the following pages.
The book is sent
forth, therefore, to the world. With
it goes the prayer that it may prove as helpful to thousands of souls as the
writings of many good men on this subject have proven to me, and that the
blessings that have come to me in writing this book may be given in double
portion to each of its readers.
.
Yours
looking for His appearing,
G.
F. Taylor.
Falcon,
N. C., August, 1916.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
JESUS
IS COMING.....................................................................................................................................
1
HIS
COMING EVER IMMINENT......................................................................................................
5
THE
ORDINATION OF THE AGES.................................................................................................
14
THE
END OF THE AGE.........................................................................................................................
20
SIGNS
OF THE END................................................................................................................................
26
THE
TWO APPEARINGS........................................................................................................................
31
HIS
PREPARATION....................................................................................................................................
37
THE
DAY OF THE LORD......................................................................................................................
43
THE
JUDGMENT.......................................................................................................................................
50
WHERE
ARE THE DEAD.......................................................................................................................
57
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Contents.
THE
RESURRECTION..............................................................................................................................
63
THE
GREAT TRIBULATION................................................................................................................
70
ABOMINATION
OF DESOLATION................................................................................................
76
THE
JERUSALEM TRIBULATION NOT THE GREAT ONE..............................................
83
DUTY
OF WATCHFULNESS................................................................................................................
89
THE
TEN VIRGINS....................................................................................................................................
95
THE
GREAT EUROPEAN WAR..........................................................................................................
101
THE
ANTICHRIST......................................................................................................................................
105
DEVELOPMENTS
OF THE KINGDOM OF ANTICHRIST.................................................
111
THE
KINGDOM OF ANTICHRIST NOW DEVELOPING...................................................
117
THE
SEAT OF ANTICHRIST.................................................................................................................
123
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Contents.
THE
MARK OF ANTICHRIST...............................................................................................................
130
THE
IDENTITY OF ANTICHRIST.....................................................................................................
136
THE
DOOM OF ANTICHRIST.............................................................................................................
143
TYPES
AND FORERUNNERS OF ANTICHRIST.......................................................................
149
BAAL..................................................................................................................................................................
155
BAAL
AND ELIJAH...................................................................................................................................
166
BEELZEBUB..................................................................................................................................................
172
BABYLON.......................................................................................................................................................
178
PROPHECIES
CONCERNING BABYLON....................................................................................
184
LITERAL
BABYLON.................................................................................................................................
195
BABYLON
IN MYSTERY........................................................................................................................
201
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Contents.
THE
MILLENNIUM .................................................................................................................................
207
THE
PERPETUITY OF THE EARTH.................................................................................................
229
THE
CURSE REMOVED.........................................................................................................................
235
HEAVEN
AND EARTH MADE NEW..............................................................................................
241
THE
RENEWED EARTH........................................................................................................................
247
EVERLASTING
GENERATIONS.......................................................................................................
253
NEW
JERUSALEM......................................................................................................................................
259