The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-03-21
No MILLENNIUM
Until Christ
comes AGAIN
We Are Living Today in
Hopes of Better Times,
Rev. Davidson Says in
Sunday Sermon.

BAPTIST church TO hear the pastor,
i. l.. Davidson. on the Second Com.
ing OF Christ The interest deepens
and is intensified as the discussion
progresses, An overflowing house
heard him Sunday night on the ques-
tion, rs Christ Coming Before or
After the Millennium" He said in
part:
THE entrance Of sin into the world |
brought sorrow and hard times. At /
times the burdens have laid 50 heav- |
lily upon the people that they have !
cried out in anguish. They have been
saved from utter despair by the hope
Of better times TO come. We are
living today in the hope Of better
times. our president, our statesmen,
our financiers and our captains of in
dustry promise us better times soon.
Some are so optimistic as to cay that
we have already entered upon those
good times For six thousand years
the world mas been expecting and
looking for permanent relief from its
burdens and sorrows.
The Millennium.
The Holy Scriptures predict and
promise a Golden Era Of material and
moral and spiritual prosperity. The
Old Testament writer's speak Of il as
time when the curse shall be re-
moved from the SOIL when all animal
kind shall dwell together in harmony;
when men shall cease warning with
each other and shall beat tLeir swords
into plow shares and their sp AXE into
pruning hooks, and when righteous
ness and justice shall cover the earth
as the waters cover the face OF the
deep. The New Testament writer's
/ speak of II as time when Satln,
the Arch Disturber Of the woi ilG's
peace, shall be bound and consigned
to the Bottomless Pit for period of
thousand years. The word millen-
MUM IL a Latin word compounded of
mile, n thousand, and annus year.
meaning a thousand years. All Bible
scholars believe in the coming of
millennium. The controversy is over
the question as to whether Christ will
|
Some claim that the world under the
preaching of the Gospel, will eradr-
ally improve until there shall be ush-
cred in that Golden Era OF good
times. Others claim that there car
be no Millennium until Christ comes
These two classes of Bible scholars are
designated as Post and Pre-Millennial
Ear heinR
Pre-AIillennialist.
No Millennium Until Christ Comes.
"The Scriptures give no promise of
Millennium until Christ comes. In
fact, it clearly declares that sin and
sorrow will continue and abound until
Christ comes. In the oath chapter of
. Matthew our Lord gives prophetic
outline OF the history of the world
down to the time Of His second com
ing and declares that the whole period
Of time shall be characterized by wars
and rumors OF wars and famine and
pestilence and earthquakes. lie also
| states that as IL was in the days OF
Noah and Lot so shall II be when He
comes again New Testament writers
declare that sin and distress shall
continue until the Lords return and
| that the days Immediately preceding
| His Second Coming shall be character
/ ized by unparalleled activitd and ma
liciousress on the part Of Satan which
will result in great apostasy OF the
professcd followers OF Christ, Paul
says, now the Spirit speaketh eX.
pressly, that in the latter times some
shall depart from the faith, giving
heed TO seducing spirits, and doctrines
OF demons; speaking lies in hypocrisy;
having their consciences scared The
Apostle Peter says, That there shall
come in the last days scoffers with
their scoffing, walking after their own
lusts.' Jude declares that when He
comes again lie will find ungodly
men on earth and that lie will exc
cute judgment upon all and convict
all that are ungodly among them OF
all their ungodly deeds which in their
ungodiness they have committed. and
OF all the hard things which ungodly
sinners nave spoken against Him.
III the Holy Scriptures be true
there can be no Golden Era until
Christ comes. While the Gospel Dis.
pensation has been success in that
II has resulted in the saving OF mil
lions OF souls. II can never usher In
the Millennium. Satan must be put
out OF the way before that glad day
can come and Christ alone can bind
Him. II the Gospel alone could bring
in the Golden Era the places where 1t
won its first triumphs ought now TO
be the most peaceful, happy and pros
porous. The contrary is true. The
nearest approach TO hell here on this
earth is to be found in Jerusalem and
Palestine and Asia Minor and south
ern Europe where the Gospel was
first preached. II Il failed TO bring In
the Millennium there we cannot hope
for IL TO usher In the Millennium over
the whole world. The Golne Era will
be characterized by the absence OF
thorns and hriars and thistles In the
earth. and the pest OF grasshoppers,
chinch bugs, boil weavils coolies, flies,
ticks. and all kinds OF diseases. The
Gospel has great power. but IL has
never succeeded In roofing out thorns
and cookie burrs or killing ticks and