Second advent library

Icn1us'r's sscmm cosmro. KIwl|osefaoetlwlzeaoen|¢mdearthjledaway;aadthenfuasmplaoefoundforthenn"Thisisthe same thronethat Daniel saw, vii. 9-14: "I beheld till tho throneswere cast down and the Ancient of days did sit, whoserment was white as snow, and the hair of his headae the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame,and his wheels asburning fire." 12th verse: "Ano[saw the dead,ama1I and great, stand before God; unethe books wereopened; and another book wasopened,which-uh thebookq/TW; and the dead were judged ou!of those ih-i .9 which were written in lhe books, accordingto their wo:-is."This is the same as Daniel saw, vil.stream issued and came forth from before10: " A fieryhim; thousand thousands ministered unto him, and tenthousand times ten-thousand stood before him. Thejudgment was set, and the books wereopened." lt isvery evident that this is the begnning of the judgment,when Christ comes in the clou of heaven, with powerand great glory, to raise and judge his saints, and toreward everyman as his work shall be. lst, becauseit is when the judgment first sets; 2d, because the bookof life is there, and open; and, 34), because it was atthe time or before antichrist wasdestroyed; and noone can believe that the antichristlan beast can be onthe earth duringor in the millennium. 13th verse:".rQndtheseag'ozeuptlledeadwhich1oerein11;anadealh and hell delivered up the dead which were in them."I conclude the apostle, after he had seen the righteousdead raised, small and great, and stand before God,and saw the book of life o en to justify them, and sawthem and rewardeg, he then glides down to theend o the thousand years, and beheld the wicked dead'judgedgiven up by those elements and places wherein theyto bead been confined during the mil ennial period,judged in the flesh, every man according to his works.This only can reconcile some of those conflictingpassages ( or seemingly so to us) concerning the resurrection;and I cannot see any impropriety in thus understandingthese tor it is the conunon mannerof prophecies; the aprophets,ittle here and alittle there. In allthe descriptions of the resurrection of the righteous