The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-29
STEREOPT|CON LECTURES
ON BIBLE PROPHESY

heaven; all the wicked will be in
death and the devil will be bound with
chain of circumstance to this world
in it's desolate condition." was the de-
claration of Evangelist G. P Gaede in
the Cotton Tabernacle, corner Seventh
and Dodge streets, last night. Contin-
uing he said in part:
1.-THE word millennium is coined
from two Latin words, 'mille,' meaning
a Thousand, and 'annus,' year; thus
representing a thousand year period.
This period of time is found eight
times in the bible. Six of these in
stances are found in the twentieth
chapter of the Book of Revelation.
This thousand year period in Reeve
latiOn 20, is bounded by two great
events-the first and the second resur-
rection. The bible teaches two resur-
rections, the resurrection of the just
and the unjust, of life and of damna-
ton
The first resurrection ushers in the
second coming of Christ He comes to
receive the saints to reign with Him.
Paul says of that blessed time, And
the Lord Himself shall descend from
heaven with shout, with the voice of
the archangel and with the trumpet 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
ho os, IL, II - ~ l.
the Lord. Wherefore comfort one an
other with these words. 1 Thess. l.:
1913.
Christ's promise was that He would
return and receive his people unto
himself John IA: 1-3). John takes
the matter up and in vision sees them
in heaven. Rev. 10: Ito. He then
tells us, This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy is he that hath part
in the first resurrection; on such the
second death hath no power, but shall
be priests Of God and of Christ, and
shall reign with him thousand years.
Rev. 20: 4-6.
So the righteous live and reign with
Christ thousand years in heaven Is
there difference between the saints
with the saints? Certainly there is
Would it make any difference to you
whether you would come and live
with me or that l should come and
live with you? You say it would, and
you are right. Christ says he will re-
ceive his people when he comes, with
him.
When Christ comes at the beginning
of the thousand years, the living
wicked are destroyed First, they cry
for the rocks and the mountains to
fall upon them (Rev. 6: AID rather
than to look into the face of Christ
and have the glory of the Lord de-
stroy them. We read, Then shalt the
wicked be revealed, whom the Lord
shall consume with the spirit of his
mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming. Thess g.: 8.
The bodies of the wicked lay upon the
face of the earth, with no one to gath
er Or bury nor lament them. They lay
as filth upon the earth. Jer. 25: 27-34
Satan is bound to the earth by a
chain of circumstances That the
righteous are in heaven is a circum-
stance which prevents the adversary
from tempting them again. The fact
that his own subjects, the wicked, are
all in death, is a circumstance that
removes them where he cannot worry
them further. Satan is utterly bound,
confined to the earth in it's desolate
condition. Right here, where he has
caused so much trouble, deceiving the
human family, causing sorrow, crying
and death, and crucifying the Master,
is where the plan of God has designed
that Satan shall receive part of his
punishment, during the thousand
years, and eventually be burned, and
suffer the death in the lake of fire.
Some scriptures which show the
condition of the world during the
thousand years are: L beheld the earth
and, 10, it was without form and
void; and the heavens. and they had
no light. l beheld, and, 10, there was
no man, and the birds of the heavens
were fed. l behold, and, 10, the fruitful
place was wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down. For
thus saith the Lord, the whole land
shall be desolate For this shall the
earth mourn, and the heavens above
be black; because I have spoken it,
Jer. 4: %, 26, %.
Satan has always made the boast
that he could rule a kingdom better
than God. Once in the end of time the
Lord sees that Satan has an opportun-
ity to demonstrate his power God re-
duces the world to the same condition
that it was when he took it in the be-
There is no man, the birds
and the beasts are persisted, and the
sun does not shine upon the earth.
When God began his work in the be-
he simply commanded, and
the birds were created, the sun gave
light, and man was made. Satan may
call for the birds, command the sun
to shine and seek to bring back his
subjects, but to no avail He is utterly