Maranatha: or the Lord Cometh

by James H. Brookes

Publisher:

Fleming H. Revell

, 1889

Overview

Discover the meaning of Paul’s unique phrase, “Maranatha!” James Hall Brookes argues that it means “Our Lord Comes!”—and that it points to a future return of Christ. Brookes demonstrates that Christ’s promised return occupied the thoughts and engaged the affections of the early Christians. According to Brookes, Christians today should look with the same believing and longing contemplation to this great, future event.

Key Features

• Argues that the phrase “Maranatha!” points to a future return of Christ
• Explores the emphasis early Christians placed on the return of christ
• Suggests that Christians shoudl share the same expectation for the return of Jesus as the early Christians did

Contents

Top Highlights

“But His second coming will be in judgment, and it is to this the Apostle manifestly appeals as an incentive to holy fear and a warning against indifference to the claims of the once crucified but now risen Saviour, when He says, ‘If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord cometh.’” (Page 12)

“Were the prophecies of no importance that promised the first advent of the Messiah who was to appear to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself; and can it be possible that the prophecies are of no importance which promise that unto them who look for Him, shall He appear a second time without sin unto salvation?” (Page 31)

“it certainly does not teach the universal reception of the gospel, nor the conversion of the nations.” (Page 156)

“ but what is in accordance with the plain teachings of the Bible.” (Page 22)

“Here we are plainly told that there is to be an apostacy among those who profess to be the people of God” (Page 151)

Product Details

• Title: Maranatha: or the Lord Cometh
• Author: James H. Brookes
• Edition: Tenth Edition
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Print Publication Date: 1889
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 553
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Second Advent
• Resource ID: LLS:ESCHABROOKES
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T01:42:43Z

About James H. Brookes

James Hall Brookes (1830–1897) was an early proponent of dispensational premillennialism and the pre-tribulation rapture. He was a popular preacher, and began his writing career authoring pamphlets for wounded Civil War soldiers. He was the editor of the monthly magazine The Truth or Testimony for Christ, which had a circulation of more than 40,000, as well as numerous books, including Salvation: The Way Made Plain, Chaff and Wheat: A Defense of Verbal Inspiration, and Did Jesus Rise?