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The assumptions of human imagination, we should know by now, can never provide completely reliable criteria for the proper understanding of divine revelation and prophecy, nor can one find adequate guidance in even the most favored and esteemed opinions and conceptions of human wisdom, reflection, and scholarship. All human understanding and tradition fail to give us the keys to Divine Prophecy and Revelation. And if we require striking confirmation of this truth, we can hardly do better than examine contemporary assumptions about the Return of Christ, and reflect about the striking similarity of such assumptions to the assumptions about Christ at His First Coming (97:5) These assumptions, among others, are that His Return will be accompanied by outward signs of His earthly sovereignty, that He will triumph, not suffer, and that, of course, His coming is primarily for His chosen people who shall be exalted above all others - the same assumptions that were made at His First Coming
(97:6)
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