A MIGHTY PROCLAMATION

The clouds are meant to set forth the might, as well as the majesty, of His coming.  "Ascribe ye strength unto God: His excellency is over Israel, and His strength is in the clouds" (Psalm 68:34).

This was the royal token given by Daniel the prophet:  "I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven" (Daniel 7:13).  Not less than divine is the glory of the Son of God, who once had nowhere to lay His head.  The most sublime objects in nature will most aptly minister to the manifest glory of the returning King.

"Behold, He cometh," not with the swaddling cloths of His infancy, the weariness of His manhood, or the shame of His death, but with all the glorious tapestry of heaven's high chambers.

The hangings of the divine throne room will aid His stately entrance.


--Charles H. Spurgeon, on the second coming of Jesus Christ