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The Modern Era · 1918–1922

The Second Coming of Christ

Clarence Larkin · 1850–1924

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What it is

A short study of the return of Christ, distinguishing a rapture of the church from a later appearing in glory, with charts of the sequence. Larkin drew his own charts and they carry the argument: the books were printed around them, and readers came to them for the diagrams as much as the prose.

Why it lasted

The clearest brief statement of the two-stage return that is dispensationalism's most distinctive and most contested claim. Worth reading beside the older expectation of a single advent that the creeds and the earlier writers in this Library assume.

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