The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-12-02

the dead lived not again I'LL Inc thousand years
were finished This is the first resurrection,
These will live and reign with Christ. That Isl
Christ will reign, and they will reign with him
thousand years The enemies Of Cod those who
are eneme, by wicked works, will all have died, |
and gone to their place. Those who yet live and
peopIe the earth viii all be pious; will love and
serve Cod will submit to the reign OF Christ, and
rejoice in it,and will love and serve Christ as God
They are freed from the temptations Of satan,
who is bound in prison, all, who are born during
these thousand years, will embrace the Saviour IN
early life Christ will reign bodily on the earth.
Those eminent saints, who will thus reign with
him, will have capacity To see him and know INN.
Probably not so with those, whose souls yet dwell
in mortal bodies. The curse induced by SIM VIII
so far be removed that the earth will be IN meas
ure renovated and become more fertile than it now
is, ard will furnish more healthy lnod,and sup
port for a vastly greater number urnhalitanis, and
in the same proportion, will the people live to u
greater age, than now under the ra,rges OF sinful
habits, and while fed by The nulls OF the earth thus
under The curSc Of sin. Sec isaiah Goth 2Oh ana
2lst, "Theic shall be no more then an infant OF
days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days;
for the child shall die an hundred years old, but
the sinner, being nm hundred years old shall he ac-
cursed, and they shall build houses ard inhahlt
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fruit of them" This renovation will be so great,
that it may we'll be said. old things are done away
and all things are become new. To this may well
be applied the fguratve language IN the same
clpier verses 9Th and 18Th, "ncho'd, create
new heavens and new earth;and the former shall
! not be remembered, nor come INTO mlnd bnt I've
glad and rejoice forever in that which create: lor,
| hehold.l create Jerusalem rejoicing and her peo-
pie joy" E.,
| What blessed cnd.-T'hen, it will moi be said
that God hath made mankind in vain. Then will
Chris soc of the travail of soul and be satisfied
But these thousand years mus! come to an end
and leave an eternity 10 be occupied by all tie
descendants of 0pOslac Adam; az eternity not
shortened at nll by the lapse Of these thousand
years. in which such great muIudcs live aud pre-
pare for heaven.
We now arrive at period when new scene
opens and opens upon this earth, See Rev, chap
ter 2Olh verses 9Th and Sth, land, when the
lhousand years are expired, satan Shall be Iooscd
out Of his prison, and shall 90 ont TO deceive The
nations, which in The four quarters OF the earth,
Gov and N!ngog, to gather them together to battle
Here satan is restored to his ancient liberty, and
possesses or exercises his accustomed art NJ scduc-
lion and extends his operations TO the four quarters
of the earth which meaus, all over the earth: and
he Gnd, new generation of people rising and
rowirr IN, as in these dNys,tO whom he can have
access, as in orr days. beginning 10 draw them as
,iay in early yoUh, and his success Is marked m
verse 9th, "And they went up on lie breadth o.
the earth and encompNsscd the camp OF The SAINTS
about, and the beloved city, and tire came down
from God ont of heaven and dcvoured them. NO
man can tell what will be that exact warfare wns-
ed upon the saints by this great army, deceived
aud raised by satan. 1t may be that satan VIII
transform himself into IN angel oil s'l' ana bear
a rush of false doGlrine, to deceive II possible The
very elect, and lead them away from God' ana
cause them to worship devils, keeping awe the
spirit of his original apoSlacy, and active feoel'ioh
ngAins, God. And it may be his purpose to take
vengeance on the saints. and destroy them, be-
cause they will no, lorsake God and worship him
who thus tried to deceive them. AZ any rate, the
purpose and movement of this great army, raised
by satan, is opposition to God aud proyokes the
the vengeance of God: for "lirc comes down from
people thus dccuiyedWip 1GSGJrS ,ihGm' ,, llIffF
subject to like passions ~ we are: who, had the,
been born and lived during sunns captivity, would
have been the servants Of fod but being born af-
ter he was let oosc,urc deceived and led to dGstruc
ton by him. They are persons having material
bodies like ourselves, or fire would not be used to
devour them. have said they are inhabitants OF
this earth Can any rational man sopposc, that tho
SAINTS, that have rclgned with Christ thousand
years. can be deceived by satan, and gathered inu
great army To fight against God: or 10 fight n
gainst other saints of his or, that saints thus
, icgning with Christ thousand years, will he de-
yourcd by fire coming down from God OUT Of hea-
ven, because Of their npoSlacy and rebellion n
galnst him Saints raised from the dead 10 reign
with Chrilt must be raised with spiritual bodies,
and what power hath fire over spiritual bodies
= al. At. al. 4
ycas and lis nitcndrnt circumstances viii be on
tins carlh and affect the inhabitants Of this cath;
and the winding up Of this scene, Is the dcslruc-
ton by Iirc Of tbs great army of saan nil passdg
10 the congregation Of The Dead 10 await the last
scene Of the whole vision, when Christ, having
rcrngd on earth q thousand years. with those Clnl-
ncnt saints, who were raised to reign with him,
ascend, the throne Of Judgment. Now comes what,
in scripture, j. repeatedly, called tie day Of Tie
lori. The earth is not 10 he burnt till this day
Of the Lord. For Peter says, in his second Epis-
tie Sd chapter and Ilh verse, "But the heavens
and the earth which are now, by the same word
are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the
day of Judgment and perdi.ion Of ungodIy men. "
And again verse 10Th "hut The day Of The Lori
will come US Il thief in the night; in the which the
heavens Ohn material heavens, the sun, moon and
slars)n he which the heavens shall pass away with
great nulSc anu llc ctHlCnIs snllI htil WIN Ter
vent heat; the earth also, and the works, that are
therein, shall be burned up" This Is 10 be when
The dan Of Tic lord comes; or not I'LL that day.
For the scenes Of that day read Rev. 2Oth llih,
"And saw great white throne and lin tia, sat
il from whose face the earth and heaven fed away;
and there wa fund no Place for them" The earth
and material heavens, We perceive, arc still in en-
sicncc. Verse 10Th "And saw the dead, small
and great, appear before God: and the books were
opened, and anolhnr hook was opened, which is
the book Of lie: and lle dead were judged out Of
/ those things which wore written IN the books, ac-
cording to their works" This is the second rcsur-
rrcilon when all the dead, who came not at the
/ first resurrection, c,me fcrlh aud all that ever
| lived appear before The Judge 10 he judged Accord
ing 10 their works; according to what the infinitely
wise Judge knows tier works to have been. Then,
as in Daniel i2lh, 3D., "Sha!l they that be wise
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