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HP CONFERENCE

Are We Living in the Last Days?

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October 28th Nashville, TN (see schedule)

Hank and Gary are opening their views up to the public and the light of Scripture.

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November 10-11, 2006 | Riverside, CA
 
Jerry Wayne Bernard, Douglas Falk, Phil & Barney Bagby, Forrest Cottrell, John Rucker, Jim Harris  Plus: Presentation of the research on "Noah's Ark" findings by Dr. Charles Asbell - Details



The Parousia by James Stuart Russell

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CONTENTS

PREFACE | BOOK OF MALACHI | PAROUSIA PREDICTED BY JOHN BAPTIST | Prediction of Coming Wrath upon that Generation | Parables of Christ on Parousia | Interrogatory of Disciples | Parousia a time of Judgment | Our Lord's declaration before High Priest | Parousia and Resurrection of Dead | Double-sense Theory of Interpretation | Parousia and Restitution of all things | Expectation of Speedy Coming of Christ | Events which must precede the Parousia | Apostasy; Man of Sin | Attitude of Christians of Corinth on Parousia | Two Jerusalems- Old and New | Nearness of Coming Salvation | Approaching Manifestation of Christ | Economy of the Fulness of Times | Day of Christ | Apostasy already manifesting itself | Anticipation of the Parousia | End, i.e., of Age, or AEon | Nearness of Parousia | Glory about to be revealed | Antichrist not a person, but a principle | Kingdom of Heaven/God ; Babylon | Symbolism of Prophecy, Predictions of Parousia | Dr. Owen on ' Heavens and Earth' | Rev. F. D. Maurice on ' Last Time'  | Interpretation of Apocalypse | MESSAGES TO 7 CHURCHES | Episode of Sealing of Servants of God | Opening of Seventh Seal | SEVEN MYSTIC FIGURES | SEVEN VIALS | HARLOT CITY  | HOLY CITY, OR BRIDE | SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION | APPENDIX TO PART III. | Reuss ; Macdonald's ; Warburton

 

The Parousia

By James Stuart Russell


THE PAROUSIA IN THE APOSTLOTIC EPISTLES


THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLE TO TITUS.

 ANTICIPATION OF THE PAROUSIA.

‘Titus ii. 13.---‘Looking for that blessed hope, and the revelation of the glory of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ.’

     We again find here, what we have long come to recognise, the habitual attitude of the Christians of the apostolic age, the expectation of the Lord’s coming. It is inculcated as one of the primary Christian duties, and ranks with sober, righteous, and godly living. This implies that the event was regarded as at hand, for how could a powerful motive to watchfulness be derived from a remote and unknown contingency lying in the distant future? Or, how could it be the duty of Christians to be ‘looking’ for that which was not to happen for hundreds and thousands of years? The apostle evidently regards the present aeon, t o n n u n a i v n a , as drawing to a close, and exhorts Christians to live in the attitude of expectancy of the Parousia, which was to introduce the new order, ‘the aiwno mellwn .’

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