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

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uns ns plucejbd for t k n This is the rame throne
that Ddel saw, vii 9--14 : I beheld till tho thrones
were caet down and the Ancient of days did sit, whose
ent was white aa snow, and the hair of his head
=the pure wool : his throne was like the fiery flame,
and hia wheels as burning fire." 12th verse: L6.&nd
Isaw tAc dead, mall and greot, dad befem Qed; am
ihe boeke tam opened; and adher book was opened,
which Y the book of lye; and the dead wen jx&ed out
of the things which rams raritten in the bovka, according
&I their works." This is the same aa Daniel saw, vii
PO : A fiery stream issued and came forth from befare
him ; thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten
thousand times ten thousand atood before him The
judgment waa set, and the books were opened." It ia
very evident that this js the be ning of the judgment,
when Christ comes in the clourof heaven, ait.11 power
and pat glory, to raise and judge his saints, and to
reward every man as his work shall be. lst, because
it is whe~thc judgment first sets; 2d, because the book
of life ia there, and open; and, 34 because it was at
the time or befbre antichrist was destroyed; and no
one can believe that the dchrist~an beast can be on
the e h during or in the millennium. 13th verse:
uAd tkc bea gnve up tlte dcad wk& r e in it; and
dLath and hell & i d up the dcad cohich were in tkmn
I conclude the apostle, after he had seen the righteoum
dead raised, small and great, and stand before God,
and saw the book of life n to justify them, and saw
them judged md rewardrhe then glides down to the
end of the tkousand years, and beheld the wicked dead
given up by those elementa and places wherein they
had been confined during the milleanial period, to be
judged in the &ah, every man according to his works.
This only can reconcile some of those conflicting
passages lor seemingly so to us) concerning the resurrection
; and 1 cannot see any impropriety in thus underetanding
these prophecies ; for it is the common manner
of the prophets, a little here and a little there. In all
tbe bvaptiom of the rewurection of the righteow