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Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

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Lord in the air, -- and will reign with him forever<br />

in the regenerated earth:[5] that the controversy<br />

with Zion will then be finished, her children be<br />

delivered from bondage, and from the power <strong>of</strong> the<br />

tempter, and the saints be all presented to God<br />

blameless, without spot or wrinkle in love;[6] that<br />

the bodies <strong>of</strong> the wicked will then all be destroyed,<br />

and their spirits be reserved in prison until their<br />

resurrection and damnation;[7] and that, when the<br />

earth is thus regenerated, the righteous raised, and<br />

the wicked destroyed, the kingdom <strong>of</strong> God will<br />

have come, when his will will be done on earth as<br />

it is done in heaven; that the meek will inherit it,<br />

and the kingdom become the saints.[8] I found that<br />

the only millennium taught in the word <strong>of</strong> God is<br />

the thousand years which are to intervene between<br />

the first resurrection and that <strong>of</strong> the rest <strong>of</strong> the<br />

dead, as inculcated in the twentieth <strong>of</strong> Revelation;<br />

and that it must necessarily follow the personal<br />

coming <strong>of</strong> Christ and the regeneration <strong>of</strong> the<br />

earth:[9] that, till Christ’s coming, and the end <strong>of</strong><br />

the world, the righteous and wicked are to continue<br />

together on the earth, and that the horn <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Papacy is to war against the saints until his<br />

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