The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-27
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World Peace viii Not Come.

WO 10 Peace VIII NOT Come.
To the Editor:
While the world is reelng at the
spectacle of civilization going to
pieces under the blow of a cataclys-
mic struggle and while "the progress
of mankind is taking us toward de-
struction at an appalling rate, there
are some religious leaders and states
men who persist in talking world
peace and predict the beginning Of
the millennium at the close of this
war. This Ctopian's dream will never
be realized Lasting, universal peace
will never come between the nations
of this world
The word "millennium" signifies a
thousand years, without any reference
whatever to the character Of the per
iod, whether good or bad 1t means
simply and only thousand years
In six verses in Rev. 20, this eX-
preston, "a thousand years" is used
1t is a period in which Christ will
reign with the just of all ages after
they have been raised from the dead
at the first resurrection.
Destruction, not conversion, awaits
the world at the very time when
many popular religious teachers cher
ish the delusive hope of the good
time coming. They see no danger,
and brand as fanatical alarmists those
who obey the prophetic injunction,
BLOW ye the trumpet in Zion, and
sound an alarm in my holy mountain;
let all the inhabitants of the land
tremble; ,or the day of the Lord
cometh it is nigh at hand" But
says the Apostle Paul "when they
shall say, peace and safety then sud
den destruction cometh upon them"
The millennial reign with Christ
brought to view in Rev. 20, is not on
this earth, but in heaven, for when
the righteous dead are raised at his
second coming Il Cor. Is: 22-24), at
the last trump Il Cor. -. l5:I-5H,
they are caught up to meet the Lord
in the air Il Thess. 4:15-l0, ard are
taken to heaven, where Christ is
John 1913. Thus the saints shall
live and reign with Christ in heaven
during the thousand years after the
first resurrection, or the resurrection
of the just But it should be remem-
bered that when Christ comes the
second time and gives life to the
righteous, at the same time the
brightness and glory of his presence
consume all the wicked so that the
earth is depopulated and left desc
late. This will be clearly seen by
comparison of Thess. 1:7-9 with
Rev. 6:14-17; Rev. 19:11-21; lisa. 49,
60 Isa 24:1-3; Jer. 25:31-33; Zeph.
1:14-1S; and Jer 4:19-27.
When the living wicked are con
sumed by the burning glory of the
coming Of Christ, and the blessed
and holy are taken to heaven to
reign with Christ a thousand years,
the earth, let desolate and uninhab
tied, is called the bottomless pit
into which Satan is cast and confined
In this desolated earth he remains
bound for thousand years. In the
beginning the earth was without
form and void" that is, it was in
a chaotic, empty, desolate condition;
and this will be its condition again
during the millennium. Satan, con-
fined in this earth during the mil
and having no one to tempt
and deceive, is said to be bound with
a chain. This chain is a chain of
circumstances which
not only limit his operations, but abb
take away his opportunities
to deceive and destroy souls.
But when the wicked dead are
raised at the end of the thousand
years. as we are informed in the first