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OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED. 159
slain this world with the sword of death, over fifty times
in the present dispensation.
Think of it! more than fifty worlds gone down in the
whirlpool of death. Each generation brings on to the
scene an entirely new world. And how few out of these
are converted. How few are reached by the gospel life-
boat, and how few of those reached heed the message of
salvation. The great mass sweep on, like a wrecked vessel,
in darkness and unbelief, to the Judgment.
The coming of Christ will inaugurate a far better state
For, when He comes, all things that offend shall
of things.
be gathered out and the kingdom shall be established in
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righteousness. And even though the subjects of the king-
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dom (not Ihe reigning ones) may die during the millen-
nial age, yet shall they die in a good old age, the child
even a hundred years old, 132 and their death shall be
133 and though the Millennium
blessed, is not the perfect
state, yet Judgment will speedily follow the sinner of that
day, or the nation which shall swerve from serving God. 134
(130) Mat. 13:49. So shall dred years old, shall be ac-
it be at the end of the world: cursed.
the angels shall come forth, and (133) Rev. 14:13. And I
sever the wicked from among heard a voice from heaven say-
the just, ing unto me, Write, Blessed are
50. And shall cast them into tne dead which die in the Lord
the furnace of fire: there shall from henceforth: Yea saith the
8 P irIt ' that the y may rest from
be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
their labours.
Also verses 31-43. And
(134) Zech.
it
Ut
5 2 :35 ' * ^ ^ ^all come to 14:16. that every
which shall Qne that is left pass, all tfae na _
LV ^ ^l be accounted worthy
of
to obtain that world and the tioQS w h came inst Jeru .
resurrection from the dead,
, eyen from
neither marry, nor are given in
year to year to worship tbe Klng>
the Lord of hosts, and to keep
36. Neither can they die any the feast of tabernacles,
more: for they are equal unto 17. And it shall be, that who-
; and are the children
the angels so wm not come up of all the
of God, being the children of the families of the earth unto Jeru-
resurrection. salem to worship the King, the
Also Rev. 20 :4-6. Lord of hosts, even upon f>em
(132) Isa. 65 :20. There shall shall be no rain,
be no more thence an infant of 18. And if the family of Eb/Pt
days, nor an old man that hath go not up, and come not, that
not filled his days : for the child have no rain, there shall be the
plague wherewith the Lord will
shall die an hundred years old ;
but the sinner, being an hun- smite the heathen that come not