“him that hath the power of death, that is, the Devil.” These prisoners in the
tomb, prisoners of hope, will all come forth to the privileges and opportunities
of the Millennial Age-of coming to perfection and securing eteinal life af-
forded under the Millennial Reign of Christ. (Point.)
In another discourse we may explain Satan’s connection with sin and death.
But now we merely draw upon the fact that when the Lord says to Satan’s cap-
tives, “Show yourselves,” they will come forth; and they will come forth in
order that they may be ble.ssed by Jesus during His thousand-year Reign, dur-
ing their Judgment Day. (Point to Millennia1 Age.) That Judgment Day will
not be a twenty-four hour day, but a thousand years (2 Pet. 3:7, 8). and during
it “all the families of the earth shall be blessed” with full knowledge. and
judged according to the use they will make of it.
But now we seem to hear some one say, Isn’t that too good to believe? No, it is
not; but people have so long been mistaught that to preach the Love and Jus-
tice and Wisdom and Power of God is almost to preach an unknown God. The
“god of this world” has blinded all. Even Cluistians have had a vail upon theit.
hearts, lo, these many years-the burden of feeling their God unjust; because
they could not understand His Plan. Many have been driven into infidelity by
false teachings, and the spiritual life of many others has been blighted. But
now God is lifting the curtain and letting in the light. Now is the time of which
it is written, “The wise shall understand”; “The meek will He teach His way”;
“It is high time to awake out of sleep”; “Joy cometh in the Morning [the resur-
rection Mor~iing; the Millennial Morning];” “The Sun of Righteousness shall
arise with healing in His beams-healing implies restoration
One point more: We wonder if we call find an illustration in the Scriptures
proving that people who lived back here, and back here (point to beginning of
Jewish and of Gospel Ages), or rather that lived further back, (point to begin-
ning of Patriarchal Age), are to be restored. We wonder if we can find some-
thing about “really wicked people,” as some would say. Right here, lest we
should be misunderstood, we will explain that we are nor preaching a SEC-
OND CHANCE, but we wish to find a class of people that have not had an
opportunity, that have been in ignorance, without God; a class that have never
known God, and hence could not reject Him; for we believe thar those who
have really known God and then disobeyed willfully will be punished with
everlasting destruction without additional opportunity. Let us look back until
we find a record of a particularly wicked nation-a nation that was all wicked,
and that is now enfirely extinct. We will select the Sodomites. They lived at
about the time Abraham was called. When Lot, Abraham’s nephew, found that
his herdsmen could not agree with Abraham’s, he moved among the people of