The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-06-11
The Millennium.

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derstanding about the Millennium
among Christian people is that they
do not read and study the articles OF
faith set forth by their own church
es. Baptist Church Directory, page
SOL, article 20 C'The World to
Gomez: 1--WE believe the Scriptures
teach that the end of the worlds ap-
preaching; that at the last day Christ
will descend from Heaven and raise
the dead from the grave for final
retribution; that solemn separa-
ton will then take place; that the
wicked will be adjudged to endless
sorrow, and the righteous to endless
Joy, and this judgment will fix for
ever the final state of men in Heaven
or hell on principles of righteous.
ness" See lst Peter iv:7: But the
end of all things is at hand; be ye
therefore sober and watch unto
prayer" Acts ill: This same Je-
sus which is taken up from you into
Heaven shall so come in like manner
as ye have seen Him 60 into Heaven.
Very many more passages can be
cited in the Old and New Testa-
ments. Methodist Discipline, page
2, article 8: Christ did truly rise
again from the dead and took again
His body, with all things appertain-
ing to the perfection of mans ma
ture, wherewith He ascended into
Heaven, and there sitteth until He
return to Judge all men at the last
day." To suppose that these great,
good and intelligent people made a
mistake is to conclude that we are
wiser than they, which would be in
tolerable ignorance. often thank
God for such safe leaders in His
churches and rejoice to overt1owing
in the fact that we shall have them
to the end. God will have men at
the head able to lead US safely by
His Word and Spirit, no matter what
men and devilslmay teach. Instead
of concluding ::we are ahead of the
church, mayl God open our eyes to
see how far behind we are. | often
sing with DR. Watts:
To Thee our spirits fly
With infinite desire;
And yet how far from Thee we lie;
o, Jesus, raise US higher.
Let US turn to Revelations, goth
chapter, where so many would-be
teachers and leaders think that they
have Scripture for the Millennium.
Verse 4: And they lived and reign
ed with Christ thousand years"
God alone can teach His Word.
Scripture must explain Scripture.
The context here: Gospel of John,
v:22, I'd Cor v:10, 1st Thes iv: l5-l7.
Another Scripture shows that all
Judgment is committed to the Son
by the Father, and that in the
church while on earth there will
be corruptions within and tempta-
tons without, there will be hypo-
critics, there will be offences. Though
freedom from all these will at that
time be more than usual, yet taking
up the cross and living conformed to
Christ in His sufferings will be du-
ties belonging to saints while the
world endures, hence there is no
ground in these or any other Scrip
lures for millenniums. 1t seems not
probable, because the Scriptures are
silent about it. To expect Christ to
come and reign a thousand years on
earth with His church is not taught
in the Word. 1t does not say He
reigned with them, but they reigned
with Him, denoting that His king
dom is spiritual. consisting in purity
and peace, righteousness and joy in
the Holy Ghost. For various reasons:
first, if Christ came He would be no
use to His saints. He is glorifed;
the saints are not and cannot be till
the resurrection, therefore they