do, “then shall the end come.” And, mark it well, it is not before the rapture, but after it, that the final call is to be given. It will be Jewish saints, and not Christian missionaries, who will complete the work of worldwide evangelization; therefore the coming of the Lord as predicted in 1 Thess. 4 must be very near! But now we turn to consider the other prediction to which I referred in the beginning. “That day,” writes the apostle, “shall not come except there come the apostasy first” (literal
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