The Millennium by Dudley Marvin Canright

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 10, 1875

The Millennium.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Editor Leader.—Allow me to call the attention of your readers to the following scriptural facts concerning the much talked of millennium, for which so many are looking.

1. The Bible teaches that both the righteous and the wicked will grow together till the final end of the world. Matt. 13:24-43.

2. Evil men and seducers will grow worse and worse till the end. 2 Tim. 3:13.

3. In the last days men and society will be more wicked and corrupt morally than ever before, or as it was in the days of Noah and Lot. Matt. 24:37-39.

4. In the last days there will be a great spiritual and religious declension. While many will have the form of holiness most of them will lack the power. 2 Tim. 3:1-5.

5. In the last days the nations will be in a state of anger, hostility, and war, instead of peace and harmony. Rev. 12:15-19; Joel 3:9-15.

6. There is not a promise in the Bible of a state of universal peace and holiness upon this earth before the second advent of Christ.

7. Every promise of this kind relates to the new earth after it has been melted by fire and cleansed from the curse, and the saints are all made immortal. 2 Pet. 3:3-13; Isa. 65:17-25.

8. But when this is fulfilled the wicked are all, not converted, but destroyed, then the saints will possess the new earth not simply for one thousand years, but eternally. Dan. 7:17, 18, 26, 27.

We write this hoping to stir up investigation upon this interesting and important subject. —D. M. CANRIGHT, in The Gilroy Leader.