Answers to Biblical Questions

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 19.

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Answers to Biblical Questions

I. LAMB. Obscure prophecies relating to the eternal state will be all understood when the time for their accomplishment comes, by those who are so happy as to share in them. The earth is not made new till after the second resurrection; but during the thousand years that intervene between the first and second resurrection, the saints reign with Christ in the New Jerusalem above. See John xiv, 2, 3; 1 Pet. i, 4; Rev. xiv, 1–5; xv, 2, 3; xx, 1–5, &c.
The Nicolaitans were the followers of one Nicolas of the first century of the Christian era, an evil character who taught a community of wives, regarded adultery and fornication as things indifferent, and permitted the eating of things offered to idols. See Rel. Encyc., Clarke, Kitto, &c.
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