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fulfilled before `He shall have come'. The context points the
other way, and there is no possibility of this meaning in other
passages where the same tense is used.
`When the lord of the vineyard shall have come'. This leads on to what He
will then do (Matt. 21:40).
`When ye shall have done all those things' - say, `We are unprofitable
servants' (Luke 17:10).
`Of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when He shall have come' (Mark
8:38).
`When He (the Messiah) shall have come (then, and not before), He will tell
us all things' (John 4:25).
`This is My covenant unto them, when I shall have taken away their sins'
(Rom. 11:27).
`When He shall have delivered up the Kingdom ... when He shall have put
down all rule ... (then, and not before), God shall be all in all' (1 Cor.
15:24-28).
So, when He shall have come, in that day, to be glorified in
His saints, then, in that same coming, He will take vengeance
and punish with aionion destruction those who know not God
and obey not His gospel. It is not possible to appeal to this
passage as evidence of a hope entertained by these saints before
`that day' when He shall have come.
In 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, the apostle speaks of the `order'
that will govern the resurrection, and it may at first sight be felt
that here is a distinct revelation - something more than can be
found in Moses and the prophets. While it is true that the actual
words of 1 Thessalonians 4 are not found in the Law or the
Prophets, they are but a legitimate expansion of what the Old