their Master’s expected return. And its suitability is at once apparent. Touching His bodily form, Christ is now absent in heaven: on that day He will be visibly present on earth. And His presence will bring in at once the great consummation for which His followers are waiting. The coming of Christ and its immediate consequences are described with graphic detail in 1 Thess. 4:16, 17: “the Lord Himself, with shout, with voice of archangel, with trumpet of God, (notice the climax,) will come down from