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erhaps you have stood on an eastern ness arise with healing in his wings” (4:2).
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shoreline watching the sunrise over Bible scholars have rightly pointed out
Pthe ocean. How quickly the dark- that in regard to the first advent of Christ
ness of night gives way to the brilliant approximately 350 prophecies were ful-
light of day! Yet, in another sense, there is filled. Incredibly, when we turn our view
a slow but unstoppable progression from to the second advent, there are over 1,500
night to astronomical dawn to nautical prophecies awaiting their moment of
dawn to civil dawn to sunrise and, finally, completion. That so much of the program
to day. So, too, will it be with the coming of God is yet to be revealed is stunning.
of the Son of Man. The Scriptures give us a However, to the student of the Word, it
number of vistas and horizons to appreci- is also overwhelming to mentally catego-
ate in relation to His return for us. There rize and practically conceptualize such
will be things to be seen upon the earth, a vast expanse of coming world events.
on the hills and valleys, on the mountain The chart above, though woefully sim-
top, in the sky, in outer space, and in the plistic compared to the precision of 1,500
very heights of heaven. With unstoppable prophecies, seeks plainly to illustrate the
rapidity, our world will leave behind the horizons visible at the second advent of
dark night of death and destruction and the Son of Man.
demonically-driven despotism for the glo- Some in Scripture were given a vision
rious reign of the true King. As Malachi so into the highest heaven. Isaiah, Daniel,
beautifully expresses, “But unto you that
fear my name shall the Sun of righteous- 1 Bible quotations in this article are from the KJV.

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