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The Second Coming of Christ (Classic Reprint): Is He Coming? How Is He Coming? When Is He Coming? For Whom Is He Coming?
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Since the blessed Lord So tenderly called the writer unto Himself, washed her heart in His blessed blood, baptised her with the Holy Spirit, called her from the home on a Canadian farm to preach the Gospel and began to open the Word before her adoring eyes, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ has ever been of all things the clearest to her heart.
Surely, the Coming of the Master draweth nigh. It behooves us therefore as His Spirit filled children to bear this blessed message of warning and of hope, with out delay to the sleeping world about us.
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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.
Since the blessed Lord So tenderly called the writer unto Himself, washed her heart in His blessed blood, baptised her with the Holy Spirit, called her from the home on a Canadian farm to preach the Gospel and began to open the Word before her adoring eyes, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ has ever been of all things the clearest to her heart.
Surely, the Coming of the Master draweth nigh. It behooves us therefore as His Spirit filled children to bear this blessed message of warning and of hope, with out delay to the sleeping world about us.
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.
132 pages, Paperback
First published February 14, 2010
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Aimee Semple McPherson
95 books11 followersAimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both religious services and appeals for donations, using radio to draw both audience and revenue with the growing appeal of popular entertainment and incorporating stage techniques into her weekly sermons at Angelus Temple, an early megachurch.
In her time, she was the most publicized Protestant evangelist, surpassing Billy Sunday and other predecessors. She conducted public faith healing demonstrations involving tens of thousands of participants. McPherson's view of the United States as a nation founded and sustained by divine inspiration influenced later pastors.
National news coverage focused on events surrounding her family and church members, including accusations that she fabricated her reported kidnapping. McPherson's preaching style, extensive charity work, and ecumenical contributions were major influences on 20th-century Charismatic Christianity.
[Excerpted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_S...]
In her time, she was the most publicized Protestant evangelist, surpassing Billy Sunday and other predecessors. She conducted public faith healing demonstrations involving tens of thousands of participants. McPherson's view of the United States as a nation founded and sustained by divine inspiration influenced later pastors.
National news coverage focused on events surrounding her family and church members, including accusations that she fabricated her reported kidnapping. McPherson's preaching style, extensive charity work, and ecumenical contributions were major influences on 20th-century Charismatic Christianity.
[Excerpted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_S...]
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January 1, 2024
Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Foursquare Church and pioneering Los Angeles revivalist, is a real character. If you're here, you probably already have a good idea of who she was: a flamboyant minister who spoke in soaring tones and knew how to get attention. Plus, she sparked a national scandal when she faked her disappearance to cover up an affair. Anyway... the subject of this particular book is evident from the title: The Second Coming of Christ. I've always been fascinated with people who are convinced Jesus is coming back (having fervently believed that myself as a child), and it's particularly entertaining to read it in the voice of someone from over a century ago (1921), knowing just how wrong she didn't know she was. It's all the same arguments, but with examples particular to the times: the proliferation of cars, the recent world war, the massive influenza plague, and false Christs most of us have forgotten about. Oh, and what flowery prose she wrote!
"In these last days the Lord is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh."
"Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him."
"Seek him today; there is no time to lose."
"The Signs of the Times, when compared with Bible prophecy, declare that His coming is night. Unbelievers may scoff at the thought of His personal and literal return for His waiting church, as the people of Noah's day scoffed at the declaration of the coming flood."
There's also an adorable little imagined tableau in which a rich woman's servants disappear in the Rapture while she's waiting for them to serve her food. "'Mercy! What was that?' asks some one nervously. 'Sounded to me like thunder,' replies another... Her hand trembles visibly as she sounds the table chime for Miss Faithful... They are nowhere to be found; there is the dinner on the tray, ready to be served, there is the pan which has just boiled dry on the stove... and over on the window seat an open Bible, marked at 1st Thessalonians 4:16."
While Sister Aimee didn't commit the same error as so many others of her time by naming a date of Christ's return, she was of course still wrong about its imminence. One thing she was right about, though, was the developing sentiment for Israel to be restated as a nation for the Jewish people (which happened in 1948). It's fascinating to see that peculiar, demeaning Christian flavor of Zionism that wants the Jews to have a home and a rebuilt temple, but only because it will hasten the return of Jesus. Otherwise, she was happy to say all kinds of uncomfortable things about Jews. "The judgment of an outraged God fell upon the masters of that infamy. How little did the murderers realize the meaning of their own words when they mockingly said: 'His blood will be upon us and upon our children!'" And then... "If you are ever in lower Broadway or Wall Street, on a Jewish holiday, you will be startled into a realization of the tremendous grasp they have upon the finances of our country - business, markets and the Stock Exchange are practically at a stand-still. It is a common saying that the Jews own the U.S.A."
Sister Aimee has plenty of shade left to throw at others. Her false Christs of the age include Sweinfurth, Dora Beekman of Minnesota, Mr. Herron of Detroit, Annie Besant's pet boy, and the "Baab" of Persia. I hadn't heard of any of these figures. She has some strong words for Mary Baker Eddy, the founder and discoverer of Christian Science. "Diabolically hatched in the heart of Satan, denying the Deity of Christ and necessity of cleansing through His precious blood." She slams Spiritualism. She slams Darwin. She calls out a group called P.C.D.W. for having the gall to distribute literature at HER meetings. I looked them up, and it turns out they're the same cult that ran Holy City up in the Santa Cruz mountains near where I was raised. Fascinating.
It's all the same poor argumentation and selective reading of scripture that we see in today's Rapture promoters, but all the more entertaining in the voice of a bygone era.
"In these last days the Lord is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh."
"Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him."
"Seek him today; there is no time to lose."
"The Signs of the Times, when compared with Bible prophecy, declare that His coming is night. Unbelievers may scoff at the thought of His personal and literal return for His waiting church, as the people of Noah's day scoffed at the declaration of the coming flood."
There's also an adorable little imagined tableau in which a rich woman's servants disappear in the Rapture while she's waiting for them to serve her food. "'Mercy! What was that?' asks some one nervously. 'Sounded to me like thunder,' replies another... Her hand trembles visibly as she sounds the table chime for Miss Faithful... They are nowhere to be found; there is the dinner on the tray, ready to be served, there is the pan which has just boiled dry on the stove... and over on the window seat an open Bible, marked at 1st Thessalonians 4:16."
While Sister Aimee didn't commit the same error as so many others of her time by naming a date of Christ's return, she was of course still wrong about its imminence. One thing she was right about, though, was the developing sentiment for Israel to be restated as a nation for the Jewish people (which happened in 1948). It's fascinating to see that peculiar, demeaning Christian flavor of Zionism that wants the Jews to have a home and a rebuilt temple, but only because it will hasten the return of Jesus. Otherwise, she was happy to say all kinds of uncomfortable things about Jews. "The judgment of an outraged God fell upon the masters of that infamy. How little did the murderers realize the meaning of their own words when they mockingly said: 'His blood will be upon us and upon our children!'" And then... "If you are ever in lower Broadway or Wall Street, on a Jewish holiday, you will be startled into a realization of the tremendous grasp they have upon the finances of our country - business, markets and the Stock Exchange are practically at a stand-still. It is a common saying that the Jews own the U.S.A."
Sister Aimee has plenty of shade left to throw at others. Her false Christs of the age include Sweinfurth, Dora Beekman of Minnesota, Mr. Herron of Detroit, Annie Besant's pet boy, and the "Baab" of Persia. I hadn't heard of any of these figures. She has some strong words for Mary Baker Eddy, the founder and discoverer of Christian Science. "Diabolically hatched in the heart of Satan, denying the Deity of Christ and necessity of cleansing through His precious blood." She slams Spiritualism. She slams Darwin. She calls out a group called P.C.D.W. for having the gall to distribute literature at HER meetings. I looked them up, and it turns out they're the same cult that ran Holy City up in the Santa Cruz mountains near where I was raised. Fascinating.
It's all the same poor argumentation and selective reading of scripture that we see in today's Rapture promoters, but all the more entertaining in the voice of a bygone era.
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