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came and judgment was gwen 10 the
saints of the Most High, and the time
came that the saints possessed the king
dom?" And after graphic description
of the Judgment, he adds, " 1beheld then |
because of the great words which the
horn spake: I beheld, even till the beast
was slain, and his body destroyed and
given to the burning fame See Dan
lei 7th chapter. Methinks power ma
king war and prevailing against the saints
until the Judgment, could not have been
subdued before that time. Again,
Does not our Lord positively declare that
g the wheat and tares, representing Hthe
children of the kingdom and the chill
dren of the wicked one, are to "grow
together until the harvest" which is the
end of the world? Matt. 18th chap. IF
the tares qroag with the wheat till then, of
course they are not subdued by the in
fuence Of the Holy Spirit, but by the
power of Christ as manifested in the last
day. See also the parable of the drag
net and its explanation, in the same chap
ter. Do not the apostolic epistles teach
that the last days are to be perilous for
the church and the world? Read care
fully such texts as the following, and we
shall find nothing like millennial bliss be-
for, the Lord of the millennium comes
| Tim. 4: 1-3; 2 Tim. Sd chapter; 4:
1-3; . Thess. 2: Is; James 8; 1
2 Pet. 3: Il; Jude TIE
LIT US not deceive ourselves, the enemies
of Christ are to be subdued, but it is when
4 He as the Nobleman returns from the far
! co1ntry. - Luke 10: 11-27; Anti
Christ is to be destroyed, but it is when
tie true Christ comes in his glory; all
things that offend are to be gathered out
O the kingdom of Christ and his saints,
; bit it is at the end of the world till then
We shall find our Saviour's words true,
''In the world We shall have tribulation."
Another reason assigned by your cor
respondent why the end cannot be near
il, that |" the descendants of Abraham
and Isaac must still occupy the land OF
/ Canaan 43110 years" This statement
he fo1nds on l Chron. 49, 1919 and
the Doth Psalm, in which David calls
on Israel to be &c mindful always of Gods
Il covenant; the word which he command
ed to a thousand generations" After
} reading his argument carefully mus
L CONFESS, have no faith in his figures or
this question. Because
o ~ The word thousand is frequently
Y used among ourselves, ard in the scrip.
T lures, as Webster says, "prover6ialy
2, denoting great number indefinitely, as
: it is thousand chances to one you sue
y eeed J" also, f" he cannot answ er for ONT
e of thouand,"- if there be an inter
d prefer one among thousand, p" thu
e cattle on a thousand hills" ga day il
thy courts Is better than a thousand, y
: g for though We have ten thousand in
u structors in Christ, yet have ye not man.
II fathers" &c. Who infers from this las
g passage that the Corinthian church ha
+ literally ten thousand instructors TIL
IS phrase thousand generations occur
Le but three times in the Bible, while til
y expressions "many generations" "al
generations are often found, and wit
I'll the fact before US that the word is FIRE
t. quently used for a great number indef
nitely it is highly probable that the NEAR
at ing of the passage under consideration
I; the word which he commanded to man
IL generations. In Genesis 8: u we rea
1t, that Gods covenant with Noah and til
o. living creatures of the earth was g fl
eS perpetual generations" yet who infel
IN from this that there will be generations
d men living and dying on the earth to e
ne erlasting ages?
IT, (2) In our Lords prophecy on IL
nd Mount of Olives, he said of the Jew
IT. they shall fall by the edge of the swor
ne and shall be led away captive into all III
an tions and Jerusalem shall be trodde
ee down by the Gentiles, until the times
Ill the Gentiles be fulfilled" p
Ct chap. Jerusalem has changed maste
Ito nine or ten times since its destruction |
ne the Romans in A. D. 20, and amid {
rd these changes the Jews have never 0
10 tanned possession thereof as an indepe
IN don't people. The symbolic imagery
ne Daniel End and 9TH chapters measur
e. the Gentle times. Our Lord himst
10 has told US how they will terminates
all " there shall be signs in the sun and
d. the moon and in the stars a
ne there shall they see the Son of MAJ
the grand heir to David's throne "coI
u ing in the clouds of heaven with pow
III" and great glory" Now bear in mindtI
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