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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 25, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 41.

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THE SAINTS’ INHERITANCE.

2. He has not possessed it. Acts vii, 5; Heb. xi, 8, 9.
3. The faithful are heirs with him. Gal. iii, 7, 9, 29; Rom. iv, 16.
4. The promise embraces the earth. Rom. iv, 13; Heb. xi, 13; Ps. xxxvii, 11; Matt. v, 5; Prov. xi, 31; Ps. cxv, 16.
5. The earth, cursed for sin, will be redeemed. Gen. iii, 17, 18; Eph. i, 13, 14; 2 Pet. iii, 13; Isa. lxv, 17, 18; Rev. xxi, 1. It will be seen by former reference that the saints will be taken up to heaven at Christ’s second coming, and that the earth will be desolate—without an inhabitant. We find in the Scriptures but one time for the removing of all the inhabitants of the earth, viz., at the second advent, when the wicked are all destroyed, and the saints caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. From this point, a period of 1000 years is measured off before the resurrection of the wicked, which is the period that the saints remain in the city above, until the time of the renewing of the earth for their eternal abode, which cannot take place until after the second resurrection.
The reader is referred to a pamphlet entitled “The Saints’ Inheritance, or the Earth Made New,” for sale at the Office of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.