Ecce Venit: Behold He Cometh

by A.J. Gordon

This book takes you on a journey from the emergence of Jesus in the first century to the last days and the final judgement.



A. J. Gordon interprets biblical events to the last detail, putting scripture in historical context, and painting an accurate and realistic picture of its prophecies.



He compares the futurist and historical schools of religious thought, with the first holding that the Antichrist is yet to appear and that the larger part of the Apocalypse remains to be fulfilled; while the latter maintains that Antichrist has already come in the form of the papacy, and that the Apocalypse has been continuously fulfilling from Jesus's ascension to the present time.



Gordon claims that the name "Antichrist" is not necessarily an individual man, but the long succession of popes in Rome, basing the claim on his interpretation from the scripture saying that no man should ever take the place of the Lord.

"What is he who should claim to be the vicar of Christ but a usurper of the Spirit's seat in the temple of God?"



This book makes you revisit every belief you hold about the last days and the Second Coming, and opens your eyes to foregleams we're witnessing in the present day.



"The theme of Christ's coming in glory is second to none in scripture, not even to the atonement itself."



"Christ is not only coming in power at the last day, but the power of His coming is to be constantly operating in the present day."

223 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2007

About the author

Adoniram Judson Gordon was born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, on April 19, 1836. His father, Baptist deacon John Calvin Gordon, was a Calvinist named after John Calvin. His mother was Sally Robinson Gordon. A.J. was named after Adoniram Judson, a Baptist missionary to Burma who had recently completed a Burmese translation of the Bible.

Gordon experienced a Christian conversion at age 15 and thereafter sought to become a pastor. He graduated from Brown University (then a Baptist affiliated school) in 1860 and Newton Theological Institution in 1863. In 1863, he married Maria Hale and became pastor of Jamaica Plain Baptist Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1869, he became pastor of Clarendon Street Baptist Church in Boston, a fairly affluent church. Under Gordon's leadership, Clarendon Street Church was described as "one of the most spiritual and aggressive in America". The church is no longer in operation. Gordon became a favored speaker in evangelist Dwight L. Moody's Northfield conventions. Every summer Gordon returned to his hometown in New Hampshire and often preached at the Dana Meeting House.

Gordon became suddenly ill with influenza and bronchitis and died at age 59 on February 2, 1895. He is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. A son, Ernest Barron Gordon, published a biography of his father in 1896, titled Adoniram Judson Gordon, a Biography with Letters and Illustrative Extracts Drawn from Unpublished or Uncollected Sermons and Addresses, which is still in print.

Reviews

[Vaclav · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though I don't embrace this view, this is a well-written book on the topic of the dispensational view of the end times by A.J.Gordon. He is not as extreme in his views as Darby and some other dispensationalists. "Some dispensationalists practically denied that the Old Testament had any relation to the church at all. Yet, Gordon did not go that far." A.J. Gordon: American Premillennialist, By Scott M. Gibson)