3402<\/b> Christians\u2019 Two-Way Ticket<\/b><\/p>\n
A Christian woman was once talking to a servant of Christ about the assurance of her safety in the Saviour and said, \u201cI have taken a single ticket to Glory, and do not intend to come back.\u201d Whereupon the man of God replied: \u201cYou are going to miss a lot. I have taken a return ticket, for I am not only going to meet Christ in Glory, but I am coming back with him in power and great glory to the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Sunday School Times<\/i><\/p>\n
3403<\/b> One World In Future<\/b><\/p>\n
The Reader\u2019s Digest<\/i> once contained this statement:<\/p>\n
\u201cGod grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the Rights of Man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its suface and say, \u201cThis is my country.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n
That day is coming! <\/p>\n
3404<\/b> Pastor Became Premillennial<\/b><\/p>\n
Asked by Dr. George E. Guille what was his attitude on the Lord\u2019s Second Coming, Pastor William Anderson, Jr., of Dallas, Tex., answered that he didn\u2019t know that he had any attitude on the subject. He wasn\u2019t interested. He had been so busy preaching the first coming that he had not had time to think about the Second Coming. <\/p>\n
\u201cWell,\u201d said Mr. Guille, \u201cI only wanted to know whether you loved His appearing.\u201d Left alone in his study, \u201cDr. Bill,\u201d as his many friends called him, sat at his desk asking himself over and over, \u201cDo I love His appearing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later, the church was as much amazed as Mrs. Anderson had been, when the pastor explained what had happened to his convictions, that he had become a premillenarian, whereas he had come to their church a postmillenarian, and thought the only fair thing was to resign. One of the elders cried out, \u201cWhy, my dear pastor, this is what we have been praying for. Resign nothing! God has answered our prayers!\u201d From that time Dr. Bill Anderson\u2019s ministry was transformed, and his pastorate became so fruitful as to be \u201cspoken of throughout the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014W. L. Pettingill<\/p>\n
3405<\/b> Christian Inconsistency<\/b><\/p>\n
There is a story told to the effect that a Jew, being in the company of a Christian, took up a New Testament and opened it to Luke 1:32, 33: \u201cThe Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turning to his Christian friend the Jew asked, \u201cHow do you understand that Scripture?\u201d The Christian answered, \u201cOh, it\u2019s figurative language, descriptive of Christ\u2019s spiritual reign over the church.\u201d \u201cThen you do not take it literally?\u201d asked the Jew. \u201cCertainly not,\u201d replied the Christian. <\/p>\n
The Jew made this further remark, \u201cThen why should you expect me to take literally what precedes, where the Scriptures say that this Son of David shall be born of a virgin? Do you believe that literally?\u201d \u201cSurely,\u201d answered the Christian. The Jew continued, \u201cWhy do you accept verse 31 as literal, but explain verses 32 and 33 as figurative?\u201d \u201cBecause,\u201d answered the Christian, \u201cverse 31 has become a fact\u2014Jesus was so born. It is indisputable evidence.\u201d \u201cAh,\u201d said the Jew, \u201cI see! You believe the Scriptures when you see them fulfilled. I believe them because they are the Word of God.\u201d Who was right in principle? <\/p>\n
\u2014King\u2019s Business<\/i><\/p>\n
3406<\/b> \u201cThousand-Year\u201d House<\/b><\/p>\n
Maryville, Tennessee, boasts a house built \u201cto last a thousand years.\u201d The house was built of marble, stone and concrete by Mr. and Mrs. William Nichols. It took nine years to build. <\/p>\n
There are no nails in any part of the house. Except for doors, door facings, and parts of the windows, there is no wood. Even the bathtub is concrete. Some walls are five feet thick. <\/p>\n
The owners built the house to last through the millennium, which they believe will come through the reign of Christ. <\/p>\n
3407<\/b> Life In The Millennium<\/b><\/p>\n
The Millennium will be one of:<\/p>\n
1. Peace<\/p>\n
There will be no war. See Isaiah 11:6\u20139. Isaiah 2:4<\/p>\n
2. Happiness<\/p>\n
See Isaiah 11:6\u20139 and 12:3. Also Revelation 20:3<\/p>\n
3. Long Life and Health<\/p>\n
Read Isaiah 65:20 and Isaiah 33:24. Sickness will virtually be removed. <\/p>\n
4. Prosperity<\/p>\n
This will be a time of unequalled prosperity. See Isaiah 35:1, 2. <\/p>\n
5. Joy In Work<\/p>\n
Read Isaiah 65:21, 22<\/p>\n
6. Mortals On Earth<\/p>\n
Those saints who live through the Tribulation Period and enter the 1000-year Millennium in their natural bodies will be able to have children (Matt. 25:31\u201340). Thus Isaiah 11:6 and 8 speak of little children living during the Millennial Age. <\/p>\n
7. Resurrected Saints Reigning With Christ<\/p>\n
See Rev. 20:4, 6. An analogy exists in Christ\u2019s life on earth after His resurrection. <\/p>\n
3408<\/b> Can World Be Ruled? <\/b><\/p>\n
John Foster Dulles once remarked: \u201cPeace is often identified with the imposition by strong nations of their benevolent rule upon the weaker. Most of these efforts collapsed in war. The best known effort of this kind was the Pax Romana. And a Pax Britannica for a century kept relative peace and a world order which promoted worldwide economic development. But the world of today is very different from the world of past centuries. It cannot be ruled.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former US Secretary of State had forgotten the millennial reign of Christ. <\/p>\n
3409<\/b> Peace On Earth<\/b><\/p>\n
The passage, found in Isaiah 2 and in Micah 4, where \u201cswords\u201d will be made into \u201cploughshares,\u201d is inscribed on a stone wall facing the U.N. building in New York. <\/p>\n
Khrushchev saw a figurative fulfillment of the prophecy when he visited the John Deere factory near Des Moines, Iowa: The plant was built early in World War II for manufacture of machine-gun bullets. Today it produces farm implements. <\/p>\n
3410<\/b> Bring Back The King! <\/b><\/p>\n
On September 4, 1970, France celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Third Republic, the one that installed parliamentary democracy in France. But one group of people was not able to join in the celebrations. These were the royalists, who want to restore the monarchy to France. Their newspaper carried the headline, \u201cOne hundred years of the republic, one hundred years of calamity.\u201d An editorial in Aspects de la France<\/i> said: \u201cToday more than ever, every thinking patriot, every intelligent man can only want to put an end to the long interregnum, where the king\u2019s absence has been so cruelly felt.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Prairie Overcomer<\/i><\/p>\n
3411<\/b> Wonders Of 21st-Century Life<\/b><\/p>\n
Glimpses of millennial scenes may be gleaned from the following newsreport:<\/p>\n
The man who foretold radio and TV sees more wonders coming in the twenty-first century. General David Sarnoff, builder of the mighty Radio Corporation of America predicts:<\/p>\n
(1) Homes run by fingertouch, with twenty years of power buried in a suitcase-sized battery in the basement. <\/p>\n
(2) Planes racing 5,000 an hour overhead; freight zipped across the continent by missile. <\/p>\n
(3) Food lifted from the sea. Pushbutton weather that makes the deserts bloom and turns hurricanes back to the sea. <\/p>\n
(4) Reduced work to ten hours per week. <\/p>\n
(5) Lengthened life with electronic substitutes for worn-out hearts, lungs, and kidneys. <\/p>\n
3412<\/b> Fertility Will Be Restored<\/b><\/p>\n
Various Old Testament references affirm that the desert and wilderness of Palestine will someday be transformed. This transformation will require vast quantities of water. <\/p>\n
A newspaper item said, \u201cVast quantities of sweet water buried deep beneath the Sinai and the Negev deserts have been discovered by Israel geologists. Isotope examination of the water showed that it is ancient, thus proving that the present desert area was once subject to rainfall and was inhabited.\u201d<\/p>\n
3413<\/b> Dead Sea To Come Alive<\/b><\/p>\n
In today\u2019s Jerusalem there is no river! But at the ushering in of the Millennial 1000-year age not only will there be a river in Jerusalem, but also then the death-giving Salt Sea\u2014the Dead Sea\u2014will come ALIVE. lt will be alive with its banks lined with all kinds of trees for food, always fruit-bearing, and fishermen on its shores (Ezekiel 47:8, 9, 10, 12). <\/p>\n
3414<\/b> Changing Their Diets<\/b><\/p>\n
Professor Drummond shows how a change in the surroundings of an animal will even change the structure of its body. A hunter changed the environment of a sea-gull by keeping it in captivity, so that it could only secure a grain diet. The effect was to modify the stomach of a bird normally adapted to a fish diet, until a time when it came to resemble in structure the gizzard of an ordinary grainfeeder, such as the pigeon. Holmgren, again, reversed this experiment by feeding pigeons for a lengthened period on a meat diet, with the result that the gizzard became transformed with a carnivorous stomach. <\/p>\n
Isaiah 11:7 predicts that \u201cthe lion shall eat straw like the ox.\u201d<\/p>\n
3415<\/b> Replenishing The Lamb Daily<\/b><\/p>\n
P. T. Barnum, the showman, delighted in showing to visiting clergymen an exhibit he called \u201cThe Happy Family,\u201d in which lions, tigers and panthers squatted around a lamb, without a predatory smack of the lips. Dexter Fellows, the Barnum press agent, declared that when a minister asked Barnum if the group ever gave any trouble, the showman replied:<\/p>\n
\u201cApart from replenishing the lamb now and then, they get along very well together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Isaiah 11:6 has it that \u201cthe wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.\u201d<\/p>\n
3416<\/b> Mohammedan Worship Place Told Of Christ\u2019s Reign<\/b><\/p>\n
On the door of the mosque in Damascus, which was once a Christian church\u2014but for twelve centuries has ranked among the holiest of the Mohammedan sanctuaries\u2014are inscribed these words: \u201cThy kingdom, O Christ! is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.\u201d Though the name of Christ has been regularly blasphemed, and the disciples of Christ regularly cursed, for twelve hundred years the inscription within it has remained unimpaired by time, and undisturbed by man. <\/p>\n
The inscription was not discovered during the long reign of Mohammedan intolerance and oppression; but when religious liberty was partially restored, and the missionaries were enabled to establish a Christian church in that city, it was brought to light. <\/p>\n
\u2014Bate<\/p>\n
3417<\/b> Rabbis Said World To Last<\/b><\/p>\n
6000 Years<\/p>\n
According to rabbinical mythology, the world is to last six thousand years. The reasons assigned are (1) the name Jehovah contains six letters; (2) the Hebrew letter \u201cm\u201d occurs six times in the book of Genesis; (3) the patriach Enoch, who was taken to heaven without dying, was the sixth generation from Adam; (4) God created the world in six days; (5) six contains three binaries\u2014the first 2,000 years were for the law of nature, the next 2,000 years the written law, and the last 2,000 the law of grace. <\/p>\n
\u2014E. Cobham Brewer<\/p>\n
3418<\/b> Persian Mythology On<\/b><\/p>\n
Millennium<\/p>\n
According to Persian mythology, the ages of the world are divided into periods of 1,000 years. When the cycle of \u201cchiliasms\u201d (1,000-year periods) is complete, the reign of Ormuzd will begin, and men will be all good and all happy, but this event will be preceded by the loosing of Dahak, who will break his chain and fall upon the world, and bring on man the most dreadful calamities. Two prophets will appear to cheer the oppressed, and announce the advent of Marmuzd. <\/p>\n
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