Sign of Christ's Coming - Alf Cengia -http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=8289
I've been reading through my Morning and Evening Spurgeon Devotional. He was called the Prince of Preachers for good reasons. I love his grand language and his pastoral insights. He was a man of great faith who worked tirelessly for the kingdom of God.
A recent Morning Devotion particularly warmed my heart. It was titled: "Watchman, What Time of the Night?" Spurgeon wrote in part:
But, watchman, when comes the morning? The Bridegroom delays. Are there no signs of His appearing as the Sun of Righteousness? Hasn't the morning star arisen as the pledge of day? When will the day dawn and the shadows flee away? O Jesus, if You don't come in person to Your waiting Church today, still come in Spirit to my sighing heart and make it sing for joy.
Now all the earth is bright and glad
With the fresh morn;
But all my heart is cold, and dark and sad:
Sun of my soul, let me behold Thy dawn!
Come, Jesus, Lord,
O quickly come, according to Thy word.
Charles Spurgeon eloquently stated what we wish for: Maranatha, please, Lord, come soon! The interesting thing to me is that Spurgeon was a Historic Premillennialist. As such he was also a posttribulationist. Dennis Swanson wrote an informative article on Spurgeon's eschatology which you can read online.
Despite being a posttribulationist, Spurgeon expected Christ's any-moment coming. J Barton Payne was another posttribulationist who believed in imminence. Others were Robert Murray M'Cheyne and the Bonar brothers.
However, the Coming of the Lord they expected imminently was the Second Advent just prior to the Millennium. Their view of imminence wasn't connected to the rapture of the church. The reason they could simultaneously believe in the Second Advent and imminence is because they were Covenant Theologians.
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