1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

ighteous.
It will not be sung until the lset chid io
born into the kingdom - the last enemy conquered -
the elect gathered froni the four wid& of heaven, and
the cap stone brought forth, when the heavens will
ring w~th this general chorus. U Holy, holy, holy is the
Lord God Almighty : blessing, and honor, and glory, and
power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and
unto the Lamb forever and ever ; and the four beasts will
may, Amen."
111. I shall now show the reign spoken of in our text,
and the place where.
There is much peculation at the present da on the
reign of Christ on the eiwth, which is promised in hi
word, and in the text Some have suppoeed that it
would be purely spiritual, by the Holy Splrit's influeme,
when all, or a lwge share of mankind who then sbould
be on the earth, would be regenerated and become the
subjects of his spiritual kingdom; that there would be
no tern ting devil to deceive, nor any kingdoms on the
earth, put what would be ~ubject to Christ9s spiritual
reign, and the church would enjoy a long Sobbath of
red; and the long-desired period of eome who profto
be the servants of Christ would come ; when ctlurch
and state would be united, and war would cease to the
end of the world, and the world would increase in riches,
arts, and science to an amazing degree, beyond an thin2
we have yet conceived; thousands would inhagit the
earth where there are but tena now, and man would live
Lo P good old age, nnd nations be born ill a day. Thin
theory is tile Inoat rntional one I have been able to db
cover, aside from the glorious reign of Christ with his
people in a state of hnmortality.
To the above theory I have mnny scriptural objections.
Altliough the advocates of this theory call it spiritnal,
yet a luge 8hare, if not all, are temporal bleseinp of
this luogdom, and are exactly the samo that tho Jem
believed they should potmess at Christ's first coming.
A ain: tliey must suppose, if this bc trur, that tbe
ruferu of tho world must all be Christians, or pmfclaedly
m. Then what must we say to Chrisl's words, hfy
kingdom b not of this world" and again, UIn the