Does It Look Like the Millennium?
By A. O. Tait
We are frequently assured by popular ministers that the world is getting better and will soon be converted to Christianity preparatory to the reign of the temporal millennium. The word of God, however, does not so teach. It tells us that the last days shall be perilous, and that “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” 2 Tim. 3:1, 13. The Saviour, furthermore, tells us that both the righteous and the wicked are to grow together till the harvest which is the end of the world. Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43. The Bible is the word of God, and when men advance ideas that are contrary to it they will always find the facts to be against them. In the case before us, the man who has his eyes open will see plainly that what God has said is true. A few facts from a recent copy of the Inter Ocean will serve to show that what the Lord has foretold on the subject under consideration is being fulfilled. A large portion of the paper is given to the account of the deposition of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, and the trouble that is liable to result from it among the powers of Europe. The general unrest that is causing these disturbances in the European nations, indicates anything but a time of peace when the nations will learn war no more. That longed-for time of peace cannot come till the world's Redeemer makes his appearance and destroys wickedness by the brightness of his coming. 2 Thess. 2:8. In another column the paper states that, “a foreign lady who lost £12,000 at the Monte Carlo gaming tables has committed suicide in a village near Grenoble. This makes the seventy-sixth case of suicide owing to losses at Monte Carlo since the beginning of the season.” It would certainly seem that the millennium was a good way off from that fashionable gambling place. The same paper contains, beside the above, a record of seven cases of murder and embezzlement; and as a climax to the long list of iniquity, it gives an account of a man starving his three little children to death in the most heartless and cruel manner. When one paper, that is only a sample of those published every day, records so many as this one does, how is it possible for men to think that the world is getting so much better and will soon be converted? The man must be blind who will, in the face of such plain facts, argue for the dogma of a temporal-millennial reign of righteousness. A. O. TAIT.