“The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and the atonement for sin, and rejoiced in Christ crucified. They looked upward to Christ at the right hand of God, and rejoiced in Christ interceding. They looked forward to the promised return of their Master, and rejoiced in the thought that they would see him again. And we ought to do the same”
![“The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.” quote by Mike Huckabee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24e/mike-huckabee-1433_christ_the-real-preparation-for-christ-s-return_173585.jpg)
