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

And now I refer n to om more passlge, and then
pass on. ~ s ~ iOrw d , yon a mystery; we *d nat
all slee~ (that is, die, but we ahdl all be changed, in
a moment, in the twin& of lo eye, u the last trump;
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raked
iocorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this eorruptible
muet put on incorruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality. So when this mod shall pat.-
~mrnortality, then shall be brought to pass the sa
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."
texts, to which I have called your attention, will apply
only to the people of God, or those rho are in Christ
Jesu I have, therefore, only been proving to you the
object of Christ's coming, as it respecta his people. And
1 think I have plainly proved that when Chris-t shall ap
pear in the clouda of heaven with power and great
glory, he will raise the righteous dead, cbange the
righteous living, gather them from among all nations,
where they have been scattered during the ages of persecution
and trial, "in the dark and cloudy day," and
receive them 11nt.o himself in the air, when they will ever
be with the Lord. - I will,
2dly, Show that the wicked will be destroyed from
the earth by fire, and the world cleansed from the curse
of sin by tlre same means, and prepared for the recep
tion of tlre New Jerusalem state, or the glorious reim
of Chrid with his people. That the wicked will be de.
stroyed by fire, at his appearin we prove by the 6)llowing
testa: Deut xxxii. 22, '&or a fire is kindled in
mine anger, and shnll burn unto the lowest hell, and shall
consume the earth, with her increase, and set on fire the
fou~rdations of the mountains." 2 .%muel ssii. $1, 10,
cr There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, al~d fire out
of his mouth devo~~red: coals were kindled by it Ho
bowed the heaveru and canln down. and darkness was
u~lder llis feet Tlrrough the brightness before him
werr coals of fire kiudled.' Panlm xcvii. 2, 3, Cloude
and darkness are round about Itirn, r&I~teor~snew and
udgment are the habitation of his throne. A fire pth
C fure him, and burneth up hb onelnicer nmnd aboutw
Im lrvi 15,16, "Far, bchold. the lanl will cmae ritb
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