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apply to the whole earth in its state of primeval chaos.
And we have reason to believe that it means precisely this
in Rev. 20:3, when it is made the dreary prison-house of
Satan. At this time, let it be borne in mind, the earth is
a vast charnel-house of desolation and death. The voice of
God has shaken it to its foundations (Rev. 16:17,18); the
islands and mountains have been moved out of their places
(Rev. 6:14); the great earthquake has leveled to the earth
the mightiest works of man (Heb. 12:26,27); the seven last
plagues have left their withering and blasting footprints
over all the fair face of nature (Revelation 16); the burning
glory attending the coming of the Son of Man has borne
its part in accomplishing the general desolation (2 Thess.
1:7,8); the wicked have been given to the slaughter, and
their putrefying flesh and bleaching bones lie unburied and
unlamented from one end of the earth to the other. Jer.
25:32,33. Thus is the earth made empty and waste, and
turned upside down. Isa. 24:1. Thus is it brought back
again to its original state of chaos; for Jeremiah, describing
the scenes of the last days, says, "I beheld the
earth, and, lo, it was without form, and cold; and the
heavens, and they had no light." Jer. 4:23-25. And what
better term could be used to describe it rolling on in its
disorganized condition of darkness and desolation for a
thousand years, than the term "abyss" or "bottomless pit"
which was used to describe it in the beginning? p. 263,
Para. 5, [LOOKING].
Here is a desolate wilderness, or "land not inhabited,"
well befitting the great antitypical scapegoat. And what
more fitting retribution could at this point overtake the
author of all our woe, than that he should, through all
these slow-circling thousand years, be confined amid the
ruin which his own hands have directly and indirectly
wrought, unable to flee from his habitation of woe, or to
repair in the least degree its hideous wretchedness. p.
264, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
But it may be asked if Paul does not show by the expression
that Christ "appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself," that he did put it away upon the cross. The
answer is that that must be understood only as making provision
for the putting away of sin; for sins cannot be put
away in advance, and millions of those who will be saved,
were yet unborn when Christ suffered. p. 265, Para. 1,
[LOOKING].