Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 33
'33 <and not the second advent of his physical part or body. It is the spirit that lives and not the body and, therefore, the spirit might come back. We do not mean soul by the spirit, nor are we advo- cating the theory of transmigration, but we take it exactly in the same light in which Jesus took it. (Vol. II R. E. 1903-) The Second advent of the Messiah. \ Let us turn now to the discussion of the question of the second advent of the Messiah, or of Jesus as the Christians would have it. The prophecy as given in the Christian Scrip- tures is exactly like the one we have just been considering. Matthew says:- "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shiueth even unto the west ; so shall also the corning of the. son of man be Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken : and then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven : and then shall al) the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. '* (Matt. 24: 27-31,) Compare this prophecy of the second advent of Jesus with the prophecies relating to the advent of the first Messiah, as uttered by the Israelite prophets and given to the Jews- "Behold I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,