Bible Readings by G. W. Rogers

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 43.

Bible Readings.

By G. W. Rogers

"Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord, and read."—Isaiah. "Whoso readeth, let him understand."—Jesus.

EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE MILLENNIUM.

1. THE Lord comes, raises the righteous dead, changes the righteous living, and both classes are caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thess. 4:16, 17.

2. Jesus comes to fulfil the following promise:—

"In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:2, 3.

3. The earth is reduced to a chaotic condition.

"I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light." Jer. 4:23.

4. It is desolate of inhabitants.

"I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord." Zeph. 1:3.

"I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger." See Jer. 4:23-26.

"Then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming [Greek, "presence"]." 2 Thess. 2:8.

5. The saints during the thousand years shall reign in judgment with Christ in heaven.

"And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." Rev. 20:4.

"Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? . . . Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" 1 Cor. 6:2, 3.

6. During the thousand years (the millennium), Satan is bound.

"And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit." Rev. 20:2, 3.

7. The wicked do not live again till the end of the thousand years.

"The rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished." Rev. 20:5.

8. At the end of the thousand years will be fulfilled what is written in Rev. 20:7-15.

G. W. ROGERS.