Second advent library

I/0 ncrun xr.plainly, "Then shall that wicked be revealed, whom therd shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and destroyby the brightness of his coming," 2 Thess. ii. Inhis 2 Thess. i., he tells them of the necessity of patienceand faith in all their persecutions and tribulations; which,he says, is a manifest token of the righteous judgmentof God; and then goes on to show Christ's coming, anddestruction ot' anungodly world; that looks likea millennium in this, nothing or any part of Pau 's writings, beforeChrist's second coming. Where, then, shall wefind it in the New Testament?they may sayin Rev. xx.; but this chapter can Perhaps never e to themuntilthey given do away the iirst resurrection; or all in thatchapter is after the iirst resurrection, and, of course, isafter the personal and second coming of the Savior; andall the arguments to do away or destroy the word resurnctrbnare so futile and weak that it needs noargumentto refute them; for what could do it in that place mightinevery other case, and we should be Sadducees atonce. ames, Peter, and Jude mention the last days intheir epistles, and describe them as being very wicked,yet make no mention of a day of the spread of the of tics- eirEelin this wonderful manner. James speakseaping up treasures for the last days. "Behold, thehire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields,which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the criesof them which have reapedare entered into the ears ofthe Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasureon theearth, and been wanton: ye have nourished your heartsas in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killedthe just; and he doth not resist you. Be(patient, therefore,brethren, unto the coming of the Lor ,for the comingofthe Lord draweth nigh." Canthis be the millennium?No! unless proud, earthly pleasure, ,and murder, wantonnesr?are the spirit of their millennium. Yet, iit is temporal, this would be the most likely fruits, if wejudge ofthe future by the past; for the greater the temporalblessings, the greater is man's rebellion. Readthe second and third chapters of 2 Peter, where he expresslyspeaks of the last days. "Knowing this lirst,that there shall come, in the last days, scofers, walking