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224 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
flood of destruction gushed in on them with thieflike
suddenness. So with the destructive climax
of Jesus' invisible presence . "Concerning that day
and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the
heavens nor the Son, but only the Father. For
just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of
the Son of man will be . For as people were in
those days before the flood, eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the day
that Noah entered into the ark ; and they took no
note until the flood came and swept them all away,
so the presence of the Son of man will be." Matthew
24 :36-39, NW Christendom, professing to
believe in a visible return of Christ in the flesh,
refuses to believe the evidences of his parousia in
spirit. Imitating the unbelief of the time of Noah's
presence, Christendom scoffs and thus adds to
the proof that we are in the consummation of this
system of things .
14
"For you know this first, that in the last days
there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding
according to their own desires and saying :
Where is this promised presence par .ou.si'a of
his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep
in death, all things are continuing exactly as from
creation's beginning ."' 2 Peter 3 :3,4, NW This,
too, adds to the proof that Christ's second presence
would be invisible in spirit. To join those
ridiculers leads to sudden destruction at Armageddon
. To examine the evidence and then live
and act as in the second presence of Jesus Christ
the reigning King leads to everlasting life .
14 . Of what does ridicule of his presence add proof?