_When will He come?_ God "hath _appointed_ a day wherein He will judge
the world in equity by the Man whom He hath appointed." (Acts XVII. 31).
The day then is _fixed_, "but of that day and hour no one knoweth, no
not the Angels of Heaven, but the Father alone." (St. Matt. XXIV. 36).
_How will He come?_ He "shall so come as you have seen Him going into
Heaven" (Acts I. 11), the Angel told the Apostles who had just watched
His Ascension. He will come, that is, in His beautiful Resurrection
Body, dazzling with brightness and glory, with the wounds in Hands and
Feet and Side. He will come "with much power and majesty" (St. Matt.
XXIV. 30) for He will come to judge, not to preach penance nor atone for
sin; He will come unexpectedly "as a thief in the night" (1 Thess. V. 2)
"at what hour you think not" (St. Luke XII. 40); He will come "with
thousands of His Saints" (Jude 14) for all those "who have slept through
JESUS will God bring with Him" (1 Thess. IV. 13); He will bring, too,
"all the Angels with Him" (St. Matt. XXV. 31); He will come "with the
voice of an Archangel, and with the trumpet of God" (1 Thess. IV. 15);
He will come "with the clouds" (Apoc. I. 7); He will come "in the glory
of His Father with His Angels" (St. Matt. XVI. 27); He will come "as
lightning" (XXIV. 27) and before Him will come His Cross--"the sign of
the Son of man" in the heavens (verse 30), every eye shall see it. What
different emotions that sign will excite!