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

f"~, Then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the
ord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy
by the brightness of his coming," 2 Thesa i. In
his 2 Thess. i, he tells them of the necessity of patience
and faith in all their persecutions and tribulations ; which,
he says, is a manifest token of the righteous judgment
of God ; and then goes on to show Christ's coming, and
destruction of an nngodly world; nothi that looks like
a millennium in this, or any part of pass writings, be-
after the personal and second coming of the Savior; and
all the arguments to do away or destroy the word murnction
are so futile and weak that it needs no argument
to refute them; for what could do it in that place might
in every other case, and we should be Sadducees at
once. James, Peter, and Jude mention the last days in
their epistles, and describe tliein as being ver wicked,
yet make no mention of a day of the spread o!tlle aspel
in this wonderful manner. Jnmes speaks of 8eir
heaping up treasures for the last days. Behold, tlre
hire of the laborers who hove reaped down your tiel&, .
which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth ; and Uie crica
of them wliicl~ linve reaped are entered into the earn of
the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasore on tllc
earth, and been wanton: ye have nourished your hcortj
us in a day of slaugl~ter. Ye.havc condemned and killed
the just; ant1 he dot11 not resist you. Be ticut, tllerc-
Lxe, brethren, unto the coming of the ~ orrfor Ule coniing
of tl~e Lord dmweth nigh." Can tl~is be the ~nillcu-
~iiu~n No! u~~lcss pn)ud, earthlv plearure, wantonnmj,
and ~nurtlcr, are tile spirit of their millennium. Yet, if
it is temporal, tliis would be the most likely fruitq, if we
judge of thc future by tlie put; for the greater he temporal
blessings, the grcator is man's rebellion Read
tl~e second and third cllnpters of 2 Peter, rherc he expressly
spalw of the Inat daya UKnowi~ig Ll~ia first,
that them rhall oome, in the h t days, ecofferq walking