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

Christ will not be with her in person None. But
our text tells us he will live and reign with them, and
the shall be priests to God.
Xgain: whlle in thia state of meaty and e, we
are called the servants and ministers of C M ; but
then, in the millennia1 blessedness, we shall be called .
priests of God and of Christ You may ask, a Why this
distinction in the lang~age~ I answer, There is a
great difference between the kingdom of Christ, aa it
was established when Chfi waa here on earth, and the
kin dom given u to G 4 &en the Father. The subjecta
of Ehriat's kinggm, in this state of thin may be, and
in fact are, imperfect Hypoeritea and gse professom
ma and do obtain an entrance into it; for an enemy
htg sown tares. But the Yngdom of God, no man,
says Christ, can see, or enter, without being born of
God. Here they may deceive the sentinels which
card the kingdom of Christ; but in the kingdom of
od there shall in no w k enter into it any thing that
defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or
maketh a lie ; but they which are written in the Lamb%
book of life." Here the chiidren of the kin dorn are
ecotad, tormented, perplexed, cast down ; fut in the
Gdom of God their enemia am all slain; they are
comforted, glorified, 'ustilied, exalted ; and not a dog to
move his tongue. kern they weep, but there will nrjoice
: here they sin and repent ; th there will be holy
without fkdt before hin throne. u~e%Bed and holy r
he that hah part in the first mmurectionn i9mm