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views of the millennium, with the institution of the Sabbath, or day of rest, following the six day's work of Creation, as it is written, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." I have followed the subject, in my search after truth, I mean the truths connected with this great and glorious Sabbath, through all the books of the Old and New Testament, (and likewise the Apocrypha,) and I am well satisfied in my own mind, that Millennium commences, continues, and concludes with the personal return of Jesus Christ, as man and as God, to this world, his personal reign on this earth, and his entire victory here over all his foes, and that the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

From the scriptures I learn, that Christ in his own person will reign as a king upon earth; and not only in his own person, not alone will he reign, but in and with his redeemed church, which he hath bought with his blood. I behold the same person on the throne of his father David, that was baptized in Jordan, and crucified on Calvary; but it is glorified; and this state I view as foreshadowed in the scene quoted to by Peter in his 2nd Epistle, 1 ch. 16-18 vs. I believe that the actual reign of Christ is immediately preceded by three grand events. 1. The defeat of Anti-christ.

2. The binding of Satan, and his imprisonment. 3. The sanctification of the whole house of Israel. And I believe that these three grand events are preceded by three others.

1. The revelation of "the man of sin, the son of perdition, who is to rise in opposition against every object that hath the name of God attached to it, whether in Catholic, Protestant, &c.; or even Jewish form.

2. The pouring forth upon the Gentiles the wrath of God.

3. The gathering of the Jews to Palestine. * As to the man of sin, the son of perdition, I believe he is the vile person portrayed in the eleventh chapter of Daniel's book of prophecy; the beast shown to John in a vision, as coming up out of the bottomless pit, see Rev. chap. 17. 8, typified by Nimrod, the first king upon earth, by Pharoah the first persecutor of Israel, also Goliath, Sennacherib, Belshazzar, and Leviathan. I believe that he is really a man, as much as I believe that Domitian was a man, or Nero, Julius Cæsar, Antiochus, Epiphanes, or Voltaire.

Jesus of Nazareth, who is Christ, was a man.
Anti-christ is also a man.
Jesus Christ hath a people.
Anti-christ has a people.

The Lamb and his army.
The Beast and his army.

The Beast usurps authority-appears first—reigns three years and a half.

The Lamb then destroys the Beast, and reigns 1,000 years.

I believe there is a particular year, month, and day appointed for this Beast to commence his reign; and that it is the signal of divine vengeance on the Gentiles, by the emptying of that tremendous cup in the hand of God, Psalm 75.† At the same time, two remarkable witnesses will prophesy at Jerusalem, and the Beast will kill them, and then he will sit in the temple of God, as God: this scene cannot continue longer than three days and a half, just as long as the witnesses lie dead. As soon as they rise, and ascend, in the same hour (prophetic calculation an hour is about six weeks) there is a

* The Holy Land.

+ Seventh vial.

great earthquake, in which seven thousand men are slain, the remnant are affrighted, they cry to their Redeemer; and immediately the seventh trumpet sounds, "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."

The wild Beast, in his reckless fury, daringly approaches the heavenly warrior who rides the white horse and is taken prisoner, with the false prophet; and both are cast into the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels-then, indeed, Emanuel goes forth from conquering to conquer. He binds his greatest foe, the chief captain of fallen angels, casts him into the bottomless pit, shuts him up, and seals his prison door with the mandate of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that he shall tyrannize, deceive, and calumniate no more, until the thousand years, called Millennium, are fulfilled.

comes the victory of Love.

Then

The Jews, who have withstood even the warnings of the witnesses while they lived, are alarmed by their death, speedy resurrection and triumphant ascension on a cloud, and refuse submission to the Beast, who is fired by their resistance, to destroy them with hellish fury. His army is composed of all nations he leads the desperate crew-Jerusalem is taken, the houses are rifled, the women ravished. What consternation, what agony of despair, fills the bosoms of God's elect people! Ah! why is this? why is Jerusalem ever and anon, when possessed by her children, an aceldama? Is it on account of our rejection of Jesus of Nazareth, whom our fathers killed. O! that the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, would pity and forgive. If Jesus is our Messiah, O that he will come to us, and we will say, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord," "It shall come to pass, saith the Lord, while they

are calling I will answer; and while they are speaking I will hear.”

Now behold the majesty of his coming-
"God came from Terman, and the
Holy One from Mount Paran.-SELAH.
His glory covered the heavens;
And the earth was full of his praise
And his brigthness was as the light.
He had horns coming out of his hand,
And there was the hiding of his power.
*Before him went the pestilence;
+And burning coals at his feet.

#He stood and measured the earth-
He beheld and drove asunder the nations,
And the everlasting mountains were scattered
And the perpetual hills did bow,

His ways are everlasting."-Hab. 3. 3-7,

Now we may view the solemn meeting that takes place between the Lord and his brethren according to the flesh. The Shiloh stands before his elect. They look on him whom they have pierced, and mourn as one mourneth for an only son-they are in bitterness for him, as for a first born

Ah! hear that broken-hearted Jew
Asking his Redeemer:

Whence those wounds in hands so pure,
Glorious king Messiah?

These wounds, replies King David's Lord,

Are those I had on Calvary,

My friends would not receive my word,
They cast me out and slew me!

It is difficult for me to pursue this theme.

Oh! I believe that the mourning of that day will exceed all that was ever felt of sorrow. The house of David, the men of Judah, with Benjamin and parts of other tribes in Israel, are mingling their tears with the dust at those dear pierced feet

That is, preceded his event. + Read Malachi, 4th chapter.
Zechariah 14. 4. also Isaiah 24th chapter.

He

I must hasten to a point, that will astonish angels— immediately the Prodigal son is drest in robes of honour-shoes are put on his feet, and a ring upon his hand; the fatted calf is killed for him to eat, and the everlasting Father celebrates the resurrection from dead works (the ritual of Moses) of his eldest son, even the ancient Zion of God. What if angels, that never transgressed one divine command, should complain that redeeming love is not prepared for them? Israel's rejoicing shall not be marred. is called their brother, and God declares the meetness of rejoicing in the jubilee year, "the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion."Then will Israel sing "Lo! this is our God (whom Peter denied, Judas betrayed, Herod mocked, Pilate delivered up, and our fathers crucified) we have waited for him: we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Then shall Jerusalem be built; and they shall call her walls salvation, and her gates praise. Yea, "Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not press through her any more." Then "shall they use this speech in the land of Judah, and in the cities thereof, the Lord bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness."

In

But do I not omit an event of vast magnitude? my ecstacy of joy over the restoration of Israel, I have left the bringing back the dear lost Ephraim, to be understood by my readers, as a thing of course. We will introduce it now. *Judah is pardoned; and then the great trumpet is blown; and they that are ready to perish in the land of Assyria shall come, even the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem."

* See Matthew 24, 31. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, &c., and Isaiah, 27, 13. "Then shall the great trumpet be blown," &c.

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