Matthew 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.
Mark 8:38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.
Luke 9:26 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Matthew Poole says that Luke repeats the first two most perfectly, as here recorded. Mark expounds Luke’s words, where he saith that Christ shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s and of the holy angels. By the glory of the holy angels is meant no more than attended by the holy angels, according to Matthew 13:41 and 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and other scriptures.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 says
For the Lord himself will come down
with a loud command,
with the voice of the archangel and
with the trumpet call of God,
and the dead in Christ will rise first.
There appears to be some parallelism here - the loud command is the voice of an archangel and can be pictured as the trumpet call of God. Christ calls the dead from their graves. He does so by sending his holy angels, led by the archangel, to gather the elect.
At the same time (Matthew 13:41) the angels will weed out all evil
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
No comments:
Post a Comment