People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
THE DELAYED MILLENNIUM
MORAL RETROGRESSION OF THE
CHILDREN OF MEN.
The Saying of the Popular Preachers,
that the World is Growing Better,
Shown to be Vain.

our Savior will reign with his glo-
rifed saints somewhere before he
delivers up his mediatorial kingdom,
that the Father may become all IN
all Now, any careful Bible reader
can ascertain for himself that this
reign will be after the first resurrec-
ton, which is the resurrection OF the
righteous. The resurrection OF the
wicked viii occur one thousand
years after, which is the second res
direction.
Rev. 20 a: "And I saw thrones,
and they sat upon them, and judg-
ment was given unto them; and |
saw the souls of them that were be-
headed for the witness Of Jesus and
for the word of God, and which had
not worshiped the beast, neither his
image" Chose are not aiding in any
of bis works, the words fair in
cluded) ''neither had received his
mark upon the foreheads, or in their
hands" (our legislative bodies, cor
porations and professional men tax
ing the suffering millions, and would
tax the air if they had power, are
the ones that had this MARK "and
they lived and reigned with Christ
thousand years"
Now, surely any man that has any
sense at all can see that this llvInng
and reigning with Christ a thousand
years by these good people was after
they had been beheaded and dead.
Is any one so blind as not TO see ?
| reckon the next, or 9th verse, will
surely settle it: "But the rest of the
dead live not again until the thous-
and wears are finished. This is the
first resurrection resurrection
OF the righteous dead who had been
beheaded. St. John had been car
ried through the mighty scenes until
the end or first resurrection, hence
he uses the perfect tense.
This first resurrection Il lhess.
16:10, "For the Lord hiIn8eA -fs3all
descend from heaven with Ihout,
with the voice of the archange, and
with the trump of God; and the
dead in Christ shall rise first.
"Then we which are alive and re-
main shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the
Lord in the air, and so shall we ever
be with the Lord"
Now, nay paid brethren, who al
your time search the scriptures while
I am at the plow handles, what have
you been doing all your lives, tina
you are yet one thousand years be
hind? This thousand years, relating
to the period when old mother earth
shall be resting preparatory to hel
final burning, is not in scripture
save in Revelations, Xxx.
During this thousand years res
of mother earth, the wicked deaC
and those sinners who are killed by
the brightness of his coming will
remain. asleep in and On the earth
till the thousand years are finished
then they shall be resurrected; this
the second resurrection. They shall
then appear before God and b.
Judged; receive their sentence and
be cast into a lake OF IRE and br1m
ata-e anu burned up; this is the
second death.
The resurrected righteous, and
those who are alive and remain
after, rise up to meet Him IN the
clouds and are changed in the twin
Ile of an eye, and shall for the first
time put on immortality, will be taken
by him to heaven, there to spend
this thousand years in celebrating
the 81 eat marriage supper or feast,
and in taking the great bridal tour
of Christ and his redeemed church,
or the bridegroom and bride.
Where, then, is reign of right
eousness in this world to be found {?
! am sure it is not in the Bible. But
let us examine some more scriptures /:
Mat. 7 : -, IA: "Enter We in at
the strait gates for vide is the
gate and broad is the way that lead
eth to destruction, and many there
be which go in thereat; because
strait is the gate and narrow is
the way which leadeth unto life, and
few there be that find it."
No, how absurd it IS for Imen to
imagine that our Savior's word will
of sudden be changed and all the
world be saved or condemned. Such
an idea is libel on the word of
sacred truth.
But these temporal millennium
preachers declare that the world is
growing better they say that the
spread of the gospel is dispelling
darkness and ignorance, and that we
are easing into this glorious reign of
righteousness.
Now, just let us calmly and in an
unprecedented spirit examine just
what will be the moral condition of
the world in the last days:
''This know, also, that in the last
nerilous times shall come. 2.
an shall be lovers of their own
on covetous, boosters, proud,
Miners, disobedient to parents,
full and unholy. 3. Without
Election, truce-breakers, false
II iucontinent, fierce, despisers
bit that are good. /. Traitors,
THIGH minded. lovers of pleas