God´s people were crying for their King, His Majesty King David, to return. And he did come back in triumph after having been driven away for a short while by an evil son.  He was not alone.  He had a big company of servants with him.  What a fine picture of our King´s return.  He has said, “Surely I am coming quickly”, and His people respond with the apostle John, “Even so come, Lord Jesus!”  (Rev. 22:20).  Even Enoch of old prophesied, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints!”  (Jude v. 14)

I remember Billy Graham telling us of a question once put to him by John F. Kennedy, “Do you really believe, literally, that Christ is coming back?”  Billy without hesitation referred to the fact that this glorious gospel truth is being proclaimed again and again in The New Testament.

It was also Billy Graham who at a meeting with Churchill in 1954 answered the prime minister´s question, “Do you have any hope for tomorrow?” by referring to promises in the Bible about the coming of Christ.  Billy had his New Testament with him and read some relevant Bible verses for old Churchill, and then he was permitted to pray for him.

One of my friends thought that Billy had too much eschatology in his books.  He would much rather hear about the Lord´s doings right now.  I don´t think he got the point.  We preach the immediate salvation for sinners, but we´re also in our preaching “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ”  (Tit. 2:13). 

So on that point I go along with Billy Graham.  Don´t you?  Our business is the salvation of sinners “from this perverse generation” (Acts 2:40).  We don´t aim at making the world better, for it´s already doomed.

“Return, You and all your Servants!”

June 1, 2012 – jn