LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. \ . UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. X Millennial Day- Star. By R. J. SIMS. I And he laid hold ou the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. — Rev. xx. 2. Naskviu/E, Tknn. : printed for the author. 1892. X rX* Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1892, by R. J. Sims, Pomeroy, Washington, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. f&he beginning of the $#UUennUtro* §1 oien* of the lamp ano the £*elooeo ©ity* ©he Gllean&inQ of the igtcmetn- cttry* djtrtet tretgntna, fotr one thoit^ano year* on <*£avth with hi# people* CONTENTS. 1. Beginning of the Millennium, 2. Christ and His Kingdom, 3. The Three Great Dispensations, . 4. The Love of Christ, 5. The Mount of Olives, . 6. The Passover, 7. Covenant of Grace, 8. The Jews — Gentiles — Gospel, 9. Duality of the Bible, . 10. The Two Great Cities, 11. The Spirit without Measure, 12. Angelology, 13. Praying for all Men, 14. The Star of Bethlehem, . 15. Suffering and Reigning with Christ, 16. Living by Faith, .... 17. Faith and Action, 18. Faith and God, .... 19. Faith and Works, 20. Faith and Purity, .... 21. Faith and Keeping, 22. Faith and Cleansing, 23. Faith and Obedience, . 24. Faith and Self, 25. Faith and Sickness, 26. Faith and Reputation, 27. Faith and Work, .... 28. Faith and Property, 29. Faith and Children, 30. Faith and Burdens, .... 31 . Faith and Troubles, 32. Faith and Resting, .... 33. Faith and Children, 9 17 22 25 37 44 50 63 69 85 93 101 104 109 112 123 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 1S3 134 135 136 136 137 138 139 140 Contents. 34. Faith and Anxiety, . 35. Faith and Consecration, 36. Faith and Faithfulness, . 37. Faith and God's Will, . 38. Faith and Promises, 39. Faith and Growth in Grace, 40. Faith and Increase of Faith, 41. Faith and the Heart, . 42. Faith and Intemperance, 43. Faith and the Spirit, . 44. Faith and Experience, 45. Faith and Help, . 46. Faith and Success, . 47. Faith and the Truth, . 48. Faith and Feeling, . 49. Faith and Our Judgment, 50. Faith and the Will, . 51. Faith and the Controlling, 52. Faith and Memory, 53. Faith and Yielding to the Spirit, 54. Faith and Heeding, 55. Faith and Patience, 56. Faith and Worship, 57. Faith and Meditation, . 58. Faith Resting, .... 59. Faith-Delight, 60. Faith and Testimony, 61. Faith and God's Thoughts, 62. Faith and God's Goodness, 63. Faith and Providence, 64. Faith and Mercy, 65. Faith and Endurance, , 66. Faith and Satan, 67. Faith and Temptations 68. Faith and the World, 69. Faith and Afflictions, . 70. Faith and Adversity, 71. Faith and Drunkenness, 72. Faith and Oppression, 73. Faith and Famine, Contents. 74. Faith and Earthquakes, . 75. Faith and Assurance, . 76. Faith and Troubles, 77. Faith and Murmurings, 78. Faith and God's Will Our Will, 79. Faith and Grace, 80. Faith and Feeling, . 81. Faith and Rooted in Love, . 82. Faith and Established, 83. Faith and Knowledge, 84. Faith and Grace in the Soul, . 85. Faith and the Source of Grace, 86. Faith and Repose, 87. Faith and Service, 88. Faith and Time and Eternity, 89. Faith and Pleasure, 90. Faith and God's Presence, 91. Faith and the Cross, 92. Faith and Sorrow, 93. Faith and Our Soul Life, 94. Faith and Our Guide, 95. Faith and Our Judgment, . 96. Faith and Studying, 97. Faith and the Spirit Guiding in Temporal Things, 98. Faith and Words, 99. Faith and Reason, . . . . 100. Faith and Confidence, 101. Faith and Waiting 102. Faith and Promptness, 103. Faith and Direction, 104. Faith and Sound Speech, ...... 105. Faith and Enemies, ...... 106. Faith and Forgiveness, 107. Faith and Conformity, . . 108. Faith and Missions, 109. Faith and Fruitfulness, 110. Faith and Union, 111. Faith and Contest, 112. Faith and Overcoming, 113. Faith and Temptations, 176 177 177 178 179 180 180 181 182 182 183 185 185 186 186 187 188 188 189 189 190 101 192 192 193 194 195 196 197 197 198 199 199 200 201 201 202 203 203 204 8 Contents. 114. Faith and Discouragements, 205 115. Faith and Surprises, 206 116. Faith and Honesty, 206 117. Faith and Confession, 208 118. Faith and Discernment, 209 119. Faith and Looking to Jesus, 210 120. Faith and Experience, ...... 211 121. Faith and Innocence, 211 122. Faith and Benevolence, 212 123. Faith and Variety, 213 124. Faith and Joy, 213 125. Faith and Fellowship, 216 126. Faith and Fulness of Christ, 217 127. Faith and Christ Compassion, 217 128. Faith and Christ's Prayer, 218 129. How to Enter this Life of Faith, . . . .219 130. Cleansing the Sanctuary, 222 131. Residue of the Spirit, 232 132. The Fulness of God, 240 133. Promised Rest, 248 THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIUM. The time for the beginning of the Millen- nium is near at hand. Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Seeing therefore it remain- eth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was preached entered not in be- cause of unbelief. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest lest any fall after the same example of unbelief. — Heb. iv. This rest spoken of in this chapter is of a fourfold nature. First, when we are saved from our sins by faith we get rest. Second, when we receive Christ as a perfect Savior, and realize he keeps us in perfect peace, re^ alizing he preserves us from all evil, and that he preserves us in all conditions of life, we find rest to our souls. Third, if we die in our first love, or if we die after we have received io MiIvI^knniai, Day-Star. this rest to our souls by learning of Christ, we will enter into rest until the millennium is set up on earth, then will our blessed Savior ap- pear to them that are looking for him. Fourth, then the rest of one thousand years begins, and God will locate the camp of the saints and the beloved city on earth, and will descend from heaven and will occupy this "beloved" city for one thousand years with his people. A VIEW OF THE BELOVED CITY. This beloved city will be located on earth. It will be beautiful to behold. It will be the garden of Eden restored. Beautiful bowers, blooming and fruitful, will adorn it. This blooming and fruiting will be for the people of God. It will be a city in which Jesus and his bride are to dwell for one thousand years. All tears will be wiped away and sweet rest given to all its inhabitants. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. — Rev. xxi. 3. MlLI/KNNIAI, DAY-STAR. II And God shall wipe all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sor- row, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write; for these words are true and faithful. THE GARDEN OF EDEN RESTORED. Our world has grown old and faded by sin, but Jesus will open up again its beautiful riv- ers, give back its precious fruits, its gentle breezes, its singing birds, and in the cool of the day God will come to gladden our hearts. And he that sat upon the throne said, Be- hold, I make all things new. — Rev. xxi. 5. THE BELOVED CITY. It will be situated somewhere on earth. And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. — Rev. xx. 9. Satan is to make this assault on the beloved city after he is loosed out of 12 MiivivKNNiAi, D ay-Star. prison. This proves clearly that the city will be somewhere on the earth. THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS. When the tabernacle was set up by Moses it will be noticed there were three things: ist, the tabernacle; 2d, the holy place, or mercy seat; 3d, and the camp. So likewise in Eden restored. There will be the holy city where all God's people shall dwell. First, the one hundred and forty and four thousand on Mount Sion with Jesus. And will dwell with great joy and peace in the most holy place with Christ, and those who are seeking diligently to be admitted into the same place are in the tabernacle, but not ready for translation. Third, the camp are those who are babes in Christ, and are not inside the tabernacle, but belong to the city. This is to be the condi- tion of the church when Satan is let out of prison. He will be so enraged at her pros- perity and growth, glory and beauty, since he left the world. He decides at once to go out into the nations of the earth, raise an immense army, and proceed to compass the camp and Mii/lenniai, D ay-Star. 13 the beloved city, and attempt to capture the saints by the force of arms. He doubtless will attempt, when he is let out of prison, to enter the beloved city as he did before in the garden of Eden, but he will find the city so strongly guarded by the holy angels that he nor any other vile spirit nor human being that is not washed in the blood of the Lamb can enter its sacred gates. Here Satan meets his final doom. God will consume him with fire. THE INNOCENCE OF THE BEAUTIFUL CITY. The wolf also 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. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. — Isa. xi. 6—9. 14 MiUvEnniai, Day-Star. Therefore with joy shall we draw water out of the wells of salvation. And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. Sing unto the Lord, for he hath done excellent things; this is known in all the earth. Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. — Isa. xii. 3-6. TOIL AND LABOR CEASES. Toil, labor, and suffering to support and provide for the body will cease. The land shall rest from the tillage of man. This is typified by the jubilee every seven years. Six years shalt thou sow the field, and six years thou shalt prune the vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord. Thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. — Lev. xxv. 3-5. Note, this sabbath is unto the Lord. He is to provide without the hand of man to help him. Six thousand years has this toil been Mii,i,enniai, D ay-Star. 15 going on, but now we are to have the seventh period of the world's six thousand years of toil and labor and one thousand of rest, which is the millennium period. Who shall enter into the most holy place, and what will they do? Those only who have been made free from the law of sin and death that is in our bodies, and it must be done by the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Those that enter in shall reign with Christ, that is, they will be employed in the administration of the government of Christ, and shall rest from their works as God did from his. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. — Heb. iv. 10. The church is God's house, composed of strong and weak; those that can bear strong meat and those who must live on the sincere milk of the word, even babes in Christ. Here is God's dwelling place when all things are put in order by our Savior. Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. — 1 Peter i6 Mii^knnial Day-Star. ii. 5. This is the purchased possession — the church by Christ for God's house, and the earth purchased for a home for the church for one thousand years. But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to be- have thyself in the house of God which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. — 1 Tim. iii. 15. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye all are builded to- gether for an habitation of God through the Spirit.—- -Eph. ii. 19-22. But those that wait upon the Lord shall inherit the earth. — Ps. xxxvii. 9. But the meek shall inherit the earth. — Ps. xxxvii. 11. For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth.— Ps. xxxvii. 22. The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein forever. — Ps. xxxvii. 29. CHRIST AND HIS KINGDOM. Behold, I make all things new. — Rev. xxi. 5. I. WHAT ADAM LOST. And God said, Let us make man in our im- age, after our likeness: and let them have do- minion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — Gen. i. 26. He lost his divine image and likeness. So God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him. — Gen. i. 27. Here is the beginning of sin in our race, in losing this divine image and likeness. It is the beginning of our loss of power over all that pertains to this world. It is the begin- ning of the reign of moral darkness and our subjugation to the power of Satan. Here is where our race fell into the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity. We were changed 1 8 Millennial D ay-Star. from the children of God to the children of Satan. Dead in trespasses and in sins. 3. All the creation went down with the first Adam in this great fall. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. — Gen. iii. 17. Note the words of this text, "Cursed is the ground for thy sake." This curse fell upon all living, animated nature. This put Adam under a fixed law that in disposition all living things should be in harmony with him. While this is true there is another universal law of self-protection, and God has provided all living things with weapons of defense. The honey bee with his sting, the serpent with his poison, the cock with his spurs, the lion with his claws. In some way all living things have some way of defending, or some way of escape from danger of the loss of life or infliction of pain. For we know that the whole creation groan- MilIvKnniai, Day-Star. 19 eth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we our- selves groaning within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. — Rom. viii. 22, 23. Note the words, " The whole creation groan- eth and travaileth in pain." Here is another universal law that embraced Adam and all living creatures, pain — travailing in pain through the . whole of life, from the highest to the lowest order of life. 11. satan's dominion. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. — Eph. ii. 2. It is now clear to be seen that Satan has superseded Adam and taken control of him and his posterity, and his power over all liv- ing creatures is as great perhaps as was Adam's before the fall. Satan dispossessed 20 MlU/ENNlAt- DAY-STAR. Adam and all his posterity of their primeval happiness. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfieth not. — Isa. lv. 2. Here we see the power of Satan manifested. The whole human family are controlled by him so as to pursue that course in life that brings to them a constant dissatisfaction. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not. — 2 Cor. iv. 4. III. CHRIST THE SECOND ADAM. Our Redeemer who has bought us. In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the re- demption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. — Eph. i. 13, 14. Note the words, "The purchased posses- sion." Christ has bought back all that Adam lost, soul, body, and our inheritance in time and in eternity. For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and Millennial D ay-Star. 21 in your spirits, which are God's. This shows us that we are no longer under Satan when we arrive at full redemption. The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein for evermore. — Ps. xxvii. 29. This is a clear statement that the church and Christ will literally inherit again this earth, and regain what the first Adam lost. The pleasures of Eden will be enjoyed again by the people of God. The meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. — Ps. xxxvii. 1 1. If the Son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed. — John viii. 36. Behold, I make all things new. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. — Rev. vii. 17. THE THREE GREAT DISPENSATIONS. Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people. — Rev. xxii. 3. I. This dispensation of the Holy Ghost,which is the first division mentioned by Peter. I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams. — Acts ii. 27. It began at Pentecost. In his great work he is silent and unseen. He has taken the place of our Savior, who was both heard and seen. To see him and hear him was walking by sight. To be led by the Spirit is walking by faith and not by sight. It is a dis- pensation of suffering, self-denial, persecution, daily crucifixion, poverty, and great labor, looking for our reward in the unseen world, where we know not what we shall be when we get there. II. At the -close of this dispensation the Millennial Day-Star. 23 Spirit will change his mode or manner of work in the church. For over eighteen hundred years the Spirit has been poured out upon all flesh. In the introduction of the Son's dis- pensation, even our Savior's personal reign on earth, the Holy Ghost will be poured out upon the church in a peculiar manner. I will pour out in those days of my Spirit (upon my servants and upon my handmaidens), and they shall prophesy. — Acts ii. 17. Here the male and female are to be endued with a power in prophesying hitherto unknown. And it will be a necessity to the introduction of the dis- pensation of the Son or the beginning of the millennium, the great jubilee of the church of Christ on earth. III. The dispensation of the Son. It will begin at the close of the Gentile age. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits ; that blindness in part is happened to Israel ; until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. — Rom. xi. 25. This dis- pensation will be a time in which Christ shall reign on earth for one thousand years with his 24 MlI/EyENNIAI, DAY-STAR. people. Satan will be bound for one thou- sand years. And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. — Rev. xx. 2. IV. Christ shall appear only to his servants and handmaids ; those on whom this second baptism is to fall. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many ; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. — Heb. ix. 28. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. — 1 Peter v. 4. V. The third dispensation, or the dispen- sation of the Father. This dispensation will begin when the one thousand years are ended. When Satan shall be destroyed and the wicked judged and their place assigned them which shall endure forever and forever. When Christ shall say to his bride, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, — Matt. xxv. 34. THE LOVE OF CHRIST IN THE MILLENNIUM. Beloved now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. — I John iii. 2. The love of our Savior as presented to us in the Bible is incomprehensible. " It doth not yet appear." We can not see its height, depth, length, nor breadth while in this present dis- pensation. But when he shall appear we shall be like him. Not until he appears in his own peculiar dispensation and opens our un- derstanding will we be capable of compre- hending the greatness of his love. We shall see him as he is. Not simply his tangible form with garments glistening and white as light, but that love that flows out like a deluge, as he himself expresses it. As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you. We now look at his brooding love as 3 26 Miu,knniai< Day-Star. he expresses it in these words : How often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not. — Matt, xxiii. 37. We realize this brooding love in this dis- pensation of the Holy Ghost and its wonder- ful and exceeding sweetness to our souls. In this dispensation we dwell now with delight upon his expanded love. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height ; and to know the love of Christ. Here we walk with our heads in the sunshine of his love ; here we bathe our consciences in this expanded love. Here our souls float in celes- tial satisfaction upon the surging billows of this love. We think we comprehend this ex- panded love • because our souls are en- larged to that degree we are lost in love • and our joy has reached an exalted plane that is beyond all expression and beyond the grasp of our thoughts. We in this dispensation draw for our everlasting MiIvLKnniai, Day-Star. 27 consolation upon our Savior's immutable love. The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, say- ing, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlast- ing love ; therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.— Jer. xxxi. 3. This view of his immutable love, when it falls upon us in its broad-sheeted, consoling glory and divine riches, our souls take wings of faith, and like the eagle's, and fly away to Jesus, in spirit and in truth at the right hand of God on high, to give vent to our pent-up gratitude at his sacred feet. In this dispensation we behold with delight the love of Christ as we see him lifting heavy burdens from the hearts of penitent sinners, wearied like the prodigal son, and see them in their raptures of joy as they are pardoned, obeying the small still voice of Jesus when he says to them, Go home to thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee and hath had compassion on thee. — Mark v. 19. In this dispensation we can glory in the yearning love of Christ. We dwell on it un- til we fall into deep sympathy with him and 28 Millennial Day-Star. listen to his yearning words that melt our hearts, and floods of tears gush from our eyes. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. — Luke xix. 10. In this dispensation we take comfort and courage in times of bereavement and adver- sity and afflictions in drawing upon our Sav- ior's tender love. Our children, one by one, may pass away from our homes ; a good neighbor, whose heart is knit together in love to our own, may be called up to heaven ; we may be laid on our beds of sickness, yet it comes to our souls with healing, blissful cheer when we hear his blessed words, It is I ; be not afraid. — John vi. 20. In this dispensation we sometimes go down to Jordan's stormy banks and view the cold stream of death, and shudder when we think that the day, the hour, will come when we must go alone into this stream (and yet not alone), and as we pass through the valley of the shadow our heartstrings must break and all our ties to this life shall be broken. In these solemn reflections our hearts run up and down through the Bible in search of the love MlIXKNNIAI, DAY-STAR. 29 of our Savior to support us. And lo, we find his endearing love in this expression : Having loved his own which were in the world he loved them unto the end. — John xiii. Now let us pass over the line drawn by this dispensation of Christ during his personal reign on earth, which will be the millennial glory of his love. When this glorious period in the history of the church shall come to pass, then our eyes shall be opened to see and understand what the prophet meant when he said : Then shall the moon be confounded and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion and Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. — Isa. xxiv. 23 The time will come when the universal ho- liness of all the Lord's dear children shall be seen, and shall excel in strength and blaze with a luster that can come from no other source than the power of our blessed Savior's love. Then we shall realize the true meaning of the prophet when he says : Thy people shall be all righteousness. — Isa. lx. 21. In that day shall the Lord defend the in- habitants of Jerusalem ; and he that is feeble 30 Mii^knniai, Day-Star. among them at that day shall be as David ; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. — Zach. xii. 8. In this millennial dispensation, when we shall behold the bride, the Lamb's wife, crowned with celestial music interlaced with fadeless joy unspeakable, and full of glory, and all her tears and all her sorrows will be rolled away by the strong arm of the love of her faithful bridegroom as he brings her home again. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. — Isa. xxxv. 10. In this glorious dispensation all the chafings in the church caused by scoffers and the scorn- ful shall pass away never to return. And from prisons, and fires, and cross-bearing, and shame shall Zion arise above them all by the power of the love of Jesus to an exalted height that will cause a shout in heaven and on earth that will be like the sound of many waters. Mii^knnial Day-Star. 31 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellence, a joy of many gen- erations. Thy sun shall no more go down : neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning be ended. — Isa. lx. 20. This glorious dispensation will reveal that by the love of Jesus we are enriched in all knowledge and in all utterance. No longer to see through a glass darkly, but face to face. No longer to know in part, but to know even as we are known. A sweet familiarity will exist between every saint and his Savior : and a note in the song of Solomon will be sung anew. My beloved is mine and I am his. And they shall teach no, more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, say- ing, Know ye the Lord : for they all shall know me from the least to the greatest of them. — Jer. xxxi. 34. In that day it shall be our kingdom will be no longer locked up in our hearts as it is now; for the kingdom is now within us, and is right- eousness, joy, and peace in the Holy Ghost. 32 Mili^nniai, Day-Star. But then the Lord Jesus shall set his badge on each of his dear children, and that badge shall be holiness unto the Lord. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Je- rusalem and Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord. — Zech. xiv. 20, 21. It is" sweet to our souls to receive the light of conviction. When we bend to that light until it brings us into the valley of humility where we get the light of conversion, and bending and yielding to this light until it brings us into the broad plains of perfect love that casteth out fear. But how much sweeter it will be when we run on in this way in the path of the just that shall shine brighter and brighter unto the perfect day when the voice of the prophet shall be heard with glad- ness. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. The sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending to thee: and they that despised thee Millennial Day-Star. 33 shall bow themselves down at thy feet. — Isa. lx. 1, 14. In this dispensation the curse will be taken from the earth, and there will be a copious flow of milk and honey from one corner of the whole earth to all other corners. Even the heathen shall be astonished in that day that such bountiful stores come rolling down the mountains and from the valleys of the earth. For thy seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all things. — Zech. viii. 12. In this long-desired day of Zion Jesus shall see the travail of his soul and be satisfied. Our long period of waiting patiently for the coming of the Lord to receive us will open like the roses in the valley to display their beauty and send abroad their sweet fragrance of gratitude to God. And the daughters of Tyre shall be there with a gift: even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favor. — Ps. xlv. 12. 34 MixIvKnniai, Day-Star. In this glorious jubilee year of Zion not one soul on earth shall fail to honor Zion as the Queen of Sheba honored King Solomon with many rich and costly gifts as an expres- sion of their admiration of her beauty, and earnestly plead for her favors. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: and they shall bow down to thee with their faces to- ward the earth and lick up the dust of thy feet, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be ashamed that waiteth for me. — Isa. xlix. 23. We say it is good to have health and wealth, but it is better still to be able to say that we are rich in faith and love, and know that no good thing will our Lord withhold from them that love him and love his appearing. But in that day when we see all the good that infinite love can bestow, then all the powers of Satan be shaken and his mighty hosts shall tremble. And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble Mm,ENNIAI, Day-Star. 35 for all the goodness for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. — Jer. xxxiii. 9. Our world has long been groaning under the weight of many troubles sweeping over every generation for ages past. From the lips of the little child of but a few days comes the wail of trouble reaching down to the gray- headed sire. There is not an hour in the day nor in the darkness of the night but what every second of fleeting time is loaded down with the mournful cry from the children of men. A man born of woman is of but few days, and they are full of trouble. But in that day the white dove of peace shall extend her wings over Zion for one thousand years, and the church shall rest. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. — Isa. ii. 4. In this glorious reign of our blessed Re- deemer his love shall fill the whole earth, so that the war demon shall roar no more for a 36 Mii^enniai, Day-Star. thousand years — a raging lion going up and down the earth seeking whom he may devour. He maketh the war to cease unto the ends of the earth; he breaketh the bow, he cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariots with fire. — Ps. xlvi. 9. MOUNT OLIVET THE LOCATION FOR THE MILLEN- NIAL CITY. And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. — John xviii. 2. When we consider the history and peculiar life of our Savior in connection with Mount Olivet we find that he made this place a favor- ite spot on our earth while he m as doing the work his Father had sent him to do and finish. It was on this mount that every important part of that work was portrayed in a figura- tive and symbolic form. The object of the Savior for this course is plain to be seen when we take a broad view of his manner and method of work in connection with his reve- lation to his church. It was on this mount where he displayed his power over death, and proclaimed to the world that he was the res- urrection and the life. 2. Here was the place where he taught by 38 Mii^enniai, Day-Star. his living example the importance of holy, spiritual, and earnest devotion; for here was the place where he spent many hours in med- itation and prayer with his disciples, and sometimes all alone. 3. On this mount he gave to his disciples and the world the full scope of all true proph- ecy. 4. On this mount he manifested to the world his deep sympathy for sinners. Although Je- rusalem was past redemption, yet he yearned over the awful doom that awaited that wicked city. How touching and heart-melting must it have been to have heard him utter those wonderful words, How often would I have gathered thee, and to witness the flowing of his sympathizing tears. 5. At one time while on this mount he sent two disciples away for a colt on which man had never sat, to ride into Jerusalem. He waited on this mount until the colt was brought. The colt was covered with the garments of them that loved him. The road that he was to pass over was carpeted with their garments and the branches of the trees. While he was MH.LENNIAI, DAY-STAR. 39 on this wonderful march to Jerusalem down near the base of the mountain a wave of in- spiration seemed to roll over the whole multi- tude, filling every soul that was not his enemy, even the babes and unweaned children. And a new song of praise was spontaneously ut- tered by all, using the same words, saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest. — Luke xix. 38. At the beginning of the millennium Christ will explain why he took this course, why he rode the colt, why he was so honored that day by his followers, why it took place on this mountain. This is all symbolic of the triumph of the King of saints, and the glory that shall be given him by his saints at the day when the millennial period shall have come. His enemies were greatly troubled on that day by the shouting of the multitude, for that was a symbol of the horror that shall come on all them that believe not at his appearing on the mount at the beginning of the millennium. And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse ; and he that sat upon him was 40 Miu^nniai, Day-Star. called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name writ- ten, King of kings, and Lord of lords. — Rev. xix. ii, 1 6. 6. The Passover. — The passover was an all- important factor in preparing the way for our great salvation. And on this mount, while with his disciples, he sent two of them to pre- pare the passover, for when it was ready he descended this mount to take it. The Atonement. — Would you see the first shower of the blood of the atonement? Go to this mount of sacred wonders. It was in the garden of Gethsemane that Jesus made the first payment on the purchase of redemp- tion. Gethsemane means a winepress. He was crushed under the weight of our sins until the blood of atonement was produced. Adam fell in the garden of Eden. Jesus, the second Adam, bought us back in a garden. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat. I have trodden the winepress alone. — Isa. lxiii. 2, 3. Mii/lenniai, D ay-Star. 41 7. The Divine Agony. — There are ministers of the gospel to-day who know from personal experience what it is to be sorrowful even unto death in agony pleading the merits of the atonement. It was all-important on the part of our Savior, and has continued so from that day until now. It had its beginning on Mount Olivet. 8. Angelic Ministration. — It is God's plan in saving souls through his Son to use both men and angels as instruments to accomplish the work. Christ was human as well as di- * vine. Here on this mount it crops out that as Christ needed an angel's help on his human side, we will have them too in our suffering bodies while battling for the kingdom of glory in like manner to strengthen us. 9. Here, too, is the place where he was be- trayed. 10. On this mount he gave his last blessing to his faithful followers just before he took his glorious flight to heaven to prepare a place for us. 1 1 . From this mount he ascended to heaven to remain until the fullness of time should come. 4 42 Millennial Day-Star. Whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. — Acts iii. 21. 12. The Angelic Proclamation. — Two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. — Acts i. 11. He was seen by none but his own when he left the world. When he returns he will ap- pear to none but those who are looking for him. He is to come without sin unto salta- tion. The first time he came to battle with sin, the second time he will come to those who are saved. 13. He will return to Mount Olivet. — And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley. — Zech. xiv. Millennial Day-Star. 43 This will be literally fulfilled, and in this great valley will be the millennium city. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. — Rev. xx. 9. Mount Olivet a place of Sacred Wonders. — On this identical spot is where the beloved city shall stand. Mount Olivet, drenched with divine blood, baptized with divine tears, trembled with the shock of divine groanings, baptized with a farewell benediction. The place appointed by our Redeemer for the re- union of the bridegroom and his bride. THE PASSOVER. There is a set time with God for all great events in the history of redemption, a set time for the Israelites to go out of bondage, a set time for the birth of Christ, a set time for Christ to eat the passover with his disciples. When our Savior was in that upper room he had but one great desire in his heart, and that was a burning one, and that was the glorify- ing his Father's name, and his Father glorify- ing his Son. Just before he entered that up- per room he was troubled, and uttered this prayer, Father, glorify thy name. The an- swer to this prayer was given with an audible voice by his Father, I have glorified it, and will glorify it again. — John xii. 27, 28. When he had finished all his work that had to be done in that upper room, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee. — John xvii. 1. Millennial Day-Star. 45 Our Savior had on a former occasion said to his disciples, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suf- fer. And why? First, it would close out the ceremonial law; second, the old covenant would be abolished; third, it would remove the vail from the face of God's people; fourth, it would introduce the new covenant; fifth, it would diclose a divine secret; sixth, the church would go out of bondage to the law; seventh, the church would enter into spiritual freedom; eighth, the Spirit poured out upon all flesh; ninth, Christ would enter upon his mediatorial work in heaven; tenth, his church from that hour took up her grand march from spiritual Egypt to reach the "beloved city," and would begin that wonderful journey of over eighteen hundred years. She has passed over the blood red sea of martyrdom. She has passed the wilderness of the dark ages. She has passed the bombarding of infidelity. She has fought her way through heathenism and idolatry. She has all this behind her, and she has built a bulwark out of Bibles between her and all her enemies, printed in many 46 Milennial Day-Star. tongues; a fortification as high as heaven, as deep as eternity; the very gates of hell can not prevail against it. As it is written, Walk about Zion, and go aroun,d about her; tell her towers thereof. Mark well her bulwarks, consider her pal- aces; that ye may tell it to the generations following. For this God is our God forever and ever; he will be our guide even unto death. — Ps. xlviii. 12. And now the day-star is about to arise in her heart. And from that hour his bride shall go from under bondage again. She passed out of the bondage of Egypt the next day after the last, the passover. And when she ate the passover the last time on earth she did that which she had never done beforehand that was to have Jesus personally present at the table and to eat with him. It was eaten in the night at the begin- ing of it, and it was eaten in the night at its close. The next morning she set out on her journey to the millennial city ; now free again from the bondage of Egypt first, and second Millennial Day-Star. 47 from bondage to the ceremonial law. She is now drawing near to the beloved city, the mil- lennial period. And her Lord will meet her again where he left her at the same Mount Olivet to do what he had promised to do when he instituted the sacrament bread and wine. But I say unto you I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom. When this comes to pass she will go out of bondage the third time. Her body that has been travailing in pain for 1800 years will be subject to vanity no longer. The world, the flesh, and the devil have held her in bondage all these years. But when he comes on Mount Olivet he will say again, With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you before I shall see the trav- ail of my soul and be satisfied ; before I enter with you upon that joy which was set before me when I came to earth to be crucified for you. When he comes to Mount Olivet to meet his bride, and supper being ended, the gateway into Eden rest will be opened. His bride will enter with him. Here will be 48 Mii,i,enniai, Day-Star. the beginning of that rest that remains to the people of God. — Heb. iv. The Lord's day spoken of by John in Rev- elation is that notable day that may be appro- priately denominated the day of freedom. This day was the fifteenth day of the first month after the Israelites ate the pass- over on the Levitical sabbath, which was on the fourteenth day of the first month. This fifteenth day was their Mon- day. It was the first day of the seven feast days, and was kept by them as a sabbath of rest. They had strict orders that when they reached the land of Canaan they were not to eat of the fruit of that land until on this fifteenth day of the first month; they were to offer a sheaf of wheat to the priest, which was the first fruit of the land; a type of Christ, the first fruit of the resurrection. Also a he lamb on the same day, a type of Christ. And bread and wine, a type of the Lord's supper. This fifteenth day was indeed the day of free- dom. From this day, our Sabbath, Jesus arose from the dead, which is now our Sun- day or Christian Sabbath, our day of rest and Mixi/enniaIv Day-Star. 49 freedom. It was on this same day 5 the fif- teenth of the first month, that the Spirit was poured out at Pentecost, and was kept as a sacred day, which was just fifty days after the first fast day that Jesus appeared to his disciples after his resurrection. And on the same day the apostles took the sacrament. % Hence, it is our Christian Sabbath, which we now keep, our long-hoped for Sabbath of a thousand years. — Lev. xxiii. It will be on the Sabbath day after we eat and drink with our Lord anew of the fruit of the vine that he will escort us into our old Eden home, which was typified by the fiftieth jubilee year. COVENANT OF GRACE. This covenant began with Abraham. — Gen. xvn. I, 2. The covenant of grace God made with Abraham is the common center of all the wis- dom of the Old and New Testament Script- ures, Christ being the divine illuminator of all its doctrines, promises, rewards, achieve- ments, and its final outcome, and the display of its divine glory. The millennium will be a revelation of the truth of this statement. As the stars in the sky in the midnight hour all join with the moon when it is full, and the sky clear in harmony, pouring their rays of light on the earth for the benefit of man; so the Scriptures, with all their feasts, sabbaths, ceremonies, ordinances, prophecies, and cov- enants, miracles, and kings; with all the apostles, teachers, evangelists, pastors, preach- ers, helps, and elders, and deacons, throw their light upon this new covenant of grace, Millennial D ay-Star. 51 Christ being the center of this covenant and the chief light. As the moon borrows all its light from the sun, so Jesus borrows all his light from his heavenly Father, who is hidden behind our earthly weakness, and in harmony with his Son and the Scriptures the light of this glorious covenant falls upon the pathway of the church of God as she marches on to her long-sought millennial rest. In this cove- nant all the writers of the Old and New Tes- taments have come in with their timber and stones dressed and squared; and without the sound of a hammer their work from Abra- ham down to John the Baptist, and from John the Baptist through the age of the twelve apostles, the great temple of Christianity has been erected, and stands out before its enemies of all ages as the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth, Christ the chief corner-stone, and the prophets and apostles being the foun- dation. They that would be wise, and rooted and grounded in love, and girt with truth, and wise as serpents and harmless as doves, let them study this covenant of grace. First, 52 MlIvIvKNNIAl^ Day-Star. Abraham's part in this covenant was " The obedience of Faith." This is the chief duty of all God's children, an obedient faith. God's part in this covenant is : i. To make Abraham the father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. — Gen. xvii. 5. 2. To establish his covenant with Abra- ham's seed. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant. — Gen. xvii. 7. 3. To give to Abraham and his seed all the land of Canaan for an inheritance. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting pos- session; and I will be their God. — Gen. xvii. 8. 4. Abraham's faith should be counted to them for righteousness, and all believers to the end of the world. Milennial Day-Star. 53 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. — - Gal. iii. 7. Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteous- ness. — Gal. iii. 6. 5. That the earth should be filled with the glory of the Lord. But I have pardoned according to thy word. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. — Num. xiv. 20, 21. 6. That all the families of the earth should be blessed in Abraham and his seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 7. That Abraham should be the heir of the world. For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the right- eousness of faith. — Rom. iv. 13. 8. That the Holy Ghost should be given to 54 Millennial Day-Star. the church. I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon thine offspring. — Isa. xliv. 3. 9. That the righteous should inherit the earth. For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed shall be cut off. 10. That all things should be restored in Christ. Whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things. — Acts iii. 21. 11. That the sanctuary should be cleansed. And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days, then shall the sanc- tuary be cleansed. — Dan. viii. 14. 12. That the wicked shall be cut off. And it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be de- stroyed from among the people. — Acts iii. 23. 13. That the works of Satan should be de- stroyed. For this purpose the Son of God was man- ifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. — 1 John iii. 8. Millennial Day-Star. 55 The covenant of grace is like the human body, with arteries and veins to diffuse life into all its parts. These fourteen things are the main arteries of this everlasting covenant. From these arteries life is imparted to all the veins of the Christian system, and from these veins life is given to the whole body of Chris- tianity, and will come to perfection in the mil- lennium. Then the bride shall have made herself ready. And the proclamation shall go forth to all the earth, Rejoice and be glad, for the marriage of the Lamb is come. This covenant was made with Abraham one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight years before Christ's first advent into this world. If the same number of years will be given to the Gentiles it is evident that the ful- fillment of their time must be near at hand, at which time we may expect the second com- ing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This covenant secures full salvation to all true believers and was confirmed in Christ four hundred and thirty years before the law was given to Moses. And this I say, That the covenant that was 56 Mii,i,enniai, Day-Star. confirmed before in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, can not disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. — Gal. iii. 17. This covenant promised Abraham a twofold inheritance. First, in the land of Canaan, which will be Eden restored to the bride, the Lamb's wife, which will be the one thousand years of rest to the church on earth. Second, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for } 7 ou who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be re- vealed in the last time. — 1 Peter i. 4, 5. This covenant was confirmed in Christ by our heavenly Father, and this is the confirma- tion: As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began, that we should be saved from our ene- mies, and from the hand of all that hate us, to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; the oath which he sware to our father Abraham, that he would grant unto us that we being deliv- Mm,ENNiAiv Day-Star. 57 ered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, in holiness and right- eousness before him, all the days of our lives. — Luke i. 70-74. The names of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are often referred to by our Savior as a trinity in humanity — a type of the Holy Trinity. No other three names are linked together as these three. There is in the Bible an interesting reason for this in connection with the cove- nant of grace. The Father and Son and the Holy Ghost display their work in the salva- tion of men in this covenant in all the length, breadth, height, and depth of their divine ca- pacity. This shows up the divine side of this glorious covenant of grace, while Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob show up the human side of this glorious covenant. Abraham is the only character in the history of redemption that is a type of God the Father — God the Father of the church as well as its chief head, and all the holy angels. Abraham is the father of all believers on the human side according to the promises made to him in the covenant. He gave his only begotten son as a sacrifice to 58 Millennial Day-Star. God. God in like manner gave his Son as a sacrifice for sin. God gave all things into the hands of his Son. In like manner Abraham gave all his great wealth to his son Isaac at his death. The covenant of grace originated and began with God the Father. In like manner this covenant on its human side be- gan with Abraham. Christ was begotten of God on his divine side. So was Christ begotten by Abraham on his human side. Isaac is a type of Christ in a peculiar sense, while Christ has types in the Scriptures, but none of them in such a significant sense as Isaac. Christ, begotten of God; Isaac, begotten of Abraham. Christ gave himself a sacrifice, Isaac gave himself to his father Abraham for a sacrifice. God has given all the earth into the hands of his Son. In like manner Canaan was transferred to Isaac. Sojourn in the land, and I will bless thee, for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give thee all these countries, and I will per- form the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father. — Gen. xxvi. 3. God has given his church to his Son for a Millennial Day-Star. 59 bride. Abraham secured to Isaac Rebekah for his bride. She became the mother of Ja- cob, the father of the twelve patriarchs. The Abrahamic church is the mother of the twelve apostles who were begotten of Christ in the Spirit. Abraham dug three wells in Canaan and the Philistines filled them up with earth and stones. Isaac opened them all again, but was driven by his enemies from them, until he dug one in Beer-she-ba, and there he found a set- tled home, and here he cleaned out the well his father had dug. In like manner Christ preached to the woman of Samaria at Jacob's well about the water of life, and opened up to all the world the well of living water. Isaac also blessed his sons just before his death. Christ blessed his twelve apostles just before he took his flight into heaven. Isaac lived and died in Canaan. Christ will never for- sake the church. JACOB A TYPE OF THE HOLY GHOST. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to 60 MlXIvKNNIAl, Day-Star. heaven; and behold the angels of God ascend- ing and descending on it. In this dream the ladder reaching from earth to heaven, and angels ascending and descend- ing, is a type of that living communication opened up between Christ in heaven and his church on earth on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost commenced his work of tak- ing the things of Christ and showing them unto his church in her journey from earth to heaven. It was further promised Jacob in that dream: And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the fami- lies of the earth be blessed. God gave to Jacob twelve sons, and they became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel, and by the off- spring of these sons the whole land of Canaan was peopled. So in like manner the Holy Ghost sent out the twelve apostles, and are to fill all the nations of the earth with the glory of the Lord as instruments in the hands of the Lord to spread in all the earth the everlasting gospel. MlLI/EtfNlAI, D ay-Star. 6 1 Jacob is a type of our Christ nature when we have been born of the Spirit. Esau is a type of our Adam nature after we have been born of the Spirit. We must keep our bodies under according to the teachings of St. Paul; and the same writer, in Romans, eighth chap- ter, teaches us that by this indwelling Spirit we are to mortify the deeds of the body, or the Adam nature. The Holy Ghost must make intercession in all God's dear children in all these eighteen hundred years, and must continue until the time of the Gentiles be come in. In this way to overcome the Adam nature in sinners so as instruments in the hands of the Lord to bring sinners to repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they may prepare the way and make ready a people who shall enter into that rest that remains to the people of God. And God will purge all the nations of the earth by cutting off all that will not hear this prophet in the Acts of the Apostles. Noah and his family all went into the ark at God's command, and when the flood was dried up the earth had none to occupy the land only 62 Millennial Day-Star. Christians. The gospel ark is to receive all God's children when the time comes that are living on the earth, when God shall cut off all that will not believe the gospel. While this dreadful storm of God's wrath is raging the Christians will be safe in the ark, and when it is over and passed and gone, to inhabit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. THE JEWS, THE GENTILES, AND THE GOSPEL And behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. — Luke xiii. 30. From the very nature of the covenant of grace Christ was to come to the Jews first; for this grew out of the relation that he sus- tained to Abraham, who was to be head and representative of the church according to the flesh through all ages. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. — John i. 1 1. There was, however, a part of the Jews that received him. And to them he gave the se- cret of the gospel. Although the gospel was preached to Abraham, yet it was wrapped in profound mystery. Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gos- pel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, accord- ing to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began. But is now made manifest, according to the com- 64 Millennial Day-Sta£. mandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith. — Rom. xvi. 25, 26. This wonderful rev- elation must be given to the Jews, because of the very nature of the covenant of grace. And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel to Abraham. Yet it was wrapped in mystery. The Jews, as a whole, rejected Christ in a most grievous manner, and the Spirit of all grace. And this was the fatal and sad mistake when the Jews said, Let his blood be upon us and upon our children. This was the black seal upon their eyes. This was seed sown that has taken more than one thousand eight hundred years to reap, and yet their harvest time is not ended. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be igno- rant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. — Rom. xi. 25. When the Lord shall have done all for the Gentiles that they will allow him, then he will turn away from them as he turned away from MlIvIvENNlAI, DAY-STAR. 65 the Jews. And they shall be cut off from among the people. The Jews that believed: God gave to them all that belonged to his spiritual church, and through and by them he set up the dispensation of the Holy Ghost. As he gave to them and set up the Levitical dispensation, or the Mosaic, so God's plan was to take these believing Jews and call and or- dain pastors, teachers, evangelists, helps, and prophets, baptizing them with the Holy Ghost, bestowing upon them the gifts of miracles, wisdom, knowledge, faith, tongues, laying on of hands, discerning of spirits, and prophe- sying. Here was an organized army, and sent out to all the Gentile nations of all the earth to make war upon heathenism and all idolatry and superstition. And this war is to go on until the set time be fulfilled. Then will the Jews be called back and the believ- ing Gentiles will meet them at their Re- deemer's feet; and all shall see eye to eye; and God shall be their God and they shall be his people. The first shall be last and the last shall be first. The Jews have failed in doing the work that God called them 66 Miixknniai, Day-Star. to perform for his honor and glory. God promised them rest in the land of Canaan by the hand of Joshua, but they failed to obtain it. For Jesus (or Joshua) had given them rest, then would he not afterward spoken of another day. There remaineth, therefore, a rest to the people of God. — Heb. iv. 8, 9. They failed also with the gospel as they had failed with the old covenant. So the Jews were first to receive the oracles of God in the old covenant by the hand of Moses. And they received first the covenant of grace in all its fullness as a new and living way from earth to heaven at the hands of Jesus Christ our Lord, but proved unworthy, and have also failed in this great work committed to their hands. All the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit they have lost. All the power to work mira- cles they have lost. All the power to receive messages from the holy angels they have lost. All the power to receive orders directly from the voice of the Holy Ghost they have lost. And the greatest of all losses is the power to impart the Holy Ghost to others. This power was confined to the apostles and Ananias, who Millennial Day-Star. 67 laid his hands upon the Apostle Paul when he was converted and he received the Holy Ghost. Philip had a great revival at Samaria, for many believed on the Son of God through his preaching. But John and Peter had to be sent for that they should come and pray and lay their hands on the converts that they might receive the Holy Ghost. Philip had power to work many great and wonderful miracles, yet had no power to impart the Holy Ghost to believers. This power the Jews have lost. What little is left now concerning all these primitive powers in the church is now seen only in the converted Gentiles. The Jews are to regain all they have lost, according to the Scriptures, through the holiness, fidelity, and power that shall be given to the Gentiles in the latter day. For as ye in time passed have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief. Even so have these not now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. The Jews can not regain what they have lost until it is regained by the Gentiles first. 68 Millennial Day-Star. There will be a power given to the Gentile believers in the latter days that will be so glo- rious and so powerful that it will bring all the Jews of all lands back to Christ our risen Lord. What the power will be that the Gentiles will receive remains to be seen. It may be a res- toration of all the gifts of the Spirit as was first given to the apostles, or it may be a spirit of prophecy giving a power in preaching the word that will completely overthrow all the infidelity of the Jews, and be the chief cause of bringing into the church millions of heathens. It is clearly to be seen in all this what our Savior meant when he said, The first shall be last and the last first. THE DUALITY OF THE BIBLE. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and fe- male created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam.— Gen. v. i, 2. In tracing the duality of the Bible through the Old and the New Testament Scriptures, we find it is used as a sign or finger board all the way from the time God made the cove- nant of redemption with his Son Jesus Christ to the introduction of the millennium. It is also seen that this duality runs parallel with the line of the covenant of grace from Abra- ham down to the beginning of the millennium. And there is a harmony and beauty in the manner in which God has chosen to present to our minds the many points that we are to retain in our memories in order to grasp the many doctrines contained in the great scheme of our redemption. In the covenant of grace there are certain things that mark the many 70 Millennial Day-Star. important steps God has taken all the way down to the final restitution of all things; so in the line of dualities the same method is re- peated on a different scale, and to bring out important and other necessary points and doc- trines. The same things are to be observed in tracing the line of the passover clear down to the ushering in of the millennium, when it finishes up its final work and finds its intended end. The love of Christ in the same way runs parallel with the duality of the Bible and the covenant of grace all the way down to the millennium, where it is seen in full bloom with all its divine beauty, and its fragrance is the feast of the souls of just men made per- fect. The history of Christ, as he stands re- lated to Mount Olivet, forms a line of sacred events; when traced to their terminus we find ourselves in the full blaze of millennium glory. The duality of the Bible begins with God and Christ. They enter into a covenant from the founda- tion of the world to lay the plan of redemp- tion. Also I will make him my first born higher than the kings of the earth; my mercy MiiviyKNNiAi^ Day-Star. 71 will I keep for him for evermore, and my cov- enant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. — Ps. lxxxix. 27-29. My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my mouth. — Ps. lxxxiv. 34. This covenant between the Father and Son shows in the very beginning of redemption mercy and justice. And these two things must never be lost sight of in all the forma- tion of our Christian character. Adam and Eve. — The purpose of God in beginning of the human family; he begins with a duality. The fatherhood and mother- hood make all human beings one family, bound together in blood and life unity, so as they can all be ready by faith for redemption by Jesus Christ our Lord. God stands related to his church as a father, while Christ stands related to the same church as a kind, loving, and nursing mother. So God, Christ, and the church constitute one great God family. God and Abraham, a duality in the cove- nant of grace, It has already been shown 72 Millennial Day-Star. that Abraham in this covenant shows up the human side of this covenant. And his part was to live a life of faith. And that all be- lievers are to make the same covenant with God in order to be saved. While God with an oath promises to do for all them just what he did for Abraham. This duality brings to our minds, in looking at these two things in a nut- shell, a complete understanding what is re- quired of us and what God will do for us. Ishmael and Isaac, a duality presenting to us in a living child born of a bond woman and another born of a free woman. The old cov- enant was salvation by works conforming to the ceremonial law, which law was a real fact. Ishmael was a figure of this fact, for his mother's offspring were in bondage ; but Isaac, born of Abraham's legal wife, was a free son; and his offspring with him had no bondage, but all along the Abraham side and his mother's side was free, and Christ came of this line of Abraham's seed, showing our free- dom in Christ by Isaac, a living figure. In this duality we can see the two sides of our hope for salvation. Millennial D ay-Star 73 If by works, it is a failure. If by grace, it is a success. This duality carries us deeper into the plan of salvation than we find in the duality of God and Abraham in the covenant of grace. Esau and Jacob, a duality to set before us just where our bodies stand in redemption in contradistinction to the condition of our souls in redemption. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. — Rom. ix. 13. Here we have two brothers coming from a legal side and line on both sides from Abra- ham, which brings Esau nearer to Isaac than Ishmael was to Abraham. And by compari- son we will find in this duality we will go down still deeper into the scheme of redemp- tion. Esau, a figure of the first Adam. Adam lost his birthright to Eden. So Esau sold his birthright to Jacob. Our souls are first re- deemed by Christ, but our bodies are unsaved and must die and be buried and wait for their resurrection, adoption, and redemption. Esau was older than Jacob, yet he had to serve Jacob. Our bodies have life and action before our souls are accountable to God; but after 6 74 MlUvENNIAI, Day-Star. we are saved by faith in Christ our bodies and Adam nature must become the servants of our souls, as Esau served Jacob. Esau was a red man, and had red hair all over his body like an animal, a complete figure of our Adam nature that still remains with us even after our conversion, and is of the earth earthy, and feeds on nothing that is of a spiritual nature, but will continue to lust and contend all our lifetime for pleasures that are of the things of this world. In conversion we consent to the will of God to have this Esau nature nailed to the cross and to remain there until our death. Hence the Apostle tells us that we die daily and we must keep our bodies under, mortify- ing the deeds of the body by the indwelling spirit. Thus God preserves our bodies blame- less by faith. Our souls after the new birth become the Jacob nature, or rather Jacob is a figure of our Christ nature when we have been made new creatures in Christ Jesus our Lord. Esau and Jacob were enemies for twenty years. By faith and importunate and earnest prayer Jacob prevailed with God for grace to Miu