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Thursday November 29
[size=x-large]Anticipation of the Second Advent[/size]
"For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come" (1 Cor. 11:26). What great hope is presented here?
With these words we see how closely entwined the Second Coming and the Communion service are. That makes so much sense, too, because the Second Coming is, really, the culmination of what happened at the cross. One could argue that the biggest reason for the First Coming - which included His body being broken and His blood shed for us - was the Second Coming. The First Coming is what paved the way for the Second.
What good would the first coming of Christ be without the Second?
The Communion service, in a sense, spans the interim between Calvary and the Second Coming. Each time we partake of communion, we dwell on the Cross and what it accomplished for us. Yet, what it accomplished for us cannot be separated from the Second Coming. In fact, what Jesus did on the cross for us doesn
[size=x-large]Anticipation of the Second Advent[/size]
"For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come" (1 Cor. 11:26). What great hope is presented here?
With these words we see how closely entwined the Second Coming and the Communion service are. That makes so much sense, too, because the Second Coming is, really, the culmination of what happened at the cross. One could argue that the biggest reason for the First Coming - which included His body being broken and His blood shed for us - was the Second Coming. The First Coming is what paved the way for the Second.
What good would the first coming of Christ be without the Second?
The Communion service, in a sense, spans the interim between Calvary and the Second Coming. Each time we partake of communion, we dwell on the Cross and what it accomplished for us. Yet, what it accomplished for us cannot be separated from the Second Coming. In fact, what Jesus did on the cross for us doesn