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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
wicked are to receive their recompense in
the earth (Proverbs 11:31); we can see also
that this recompense is not eternal life in
misery, but an “utter excision,” entire and
complete destruction.
The Wicked Never Tread the New Earth. —
Two views deserve a passing notice at this
point. The first is that the earth is renewed at
the second coming of Christ, and is the
habitation of the saints during the thousand
years; the other is that when Christ appears
the second time, he sets up his kingdom in
Palestine, and performs, in connection with
his saints, a work of conquest over the nations
left on the earth during the thousand years,
and subdues them to himself.
One among many objections to the first view
is that it makes the wicked, in their
