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LITERAL REIGN OF CHRIST. 47

shall be no more, Until He come whose right it is; and I
will give it Him." Ezek. 21 :27.
which bear upon this fact we
The multitude of passages
can not even refer to. Dr. J. Pye Smith says that they are
far more numerous than those which describe the humilia-
tion and suffering of Christ.
And they are so specific, so full of detail, so like the
prophecies concerning the first coming, in their literalness,
that our post-millennial brethren are compelled to do the
utmost violence to the laws of interpretation in the "spir-
itualizing" method with which they meet this argument.
We believe that we have the word of prophecy spoken
by "holy men of God," "as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost" (2 Peter 1:19), and that we should direct our first
efforts toward understanding the literal sense (as it is
called), "which alone," as Martin Luther says, "is the sub-
stance of faith and of Christian theology."
Jesus is in "heaven," at "the right hand of God" (1 Pet.
3:22), "upon the throne with the Father" (Psa. 110:1;
Rev. 3:21), in the Holy of Holies, or true Holy Place
(Heb. 9:24), making intercession (Rom. 8:34), for those
that come unto God by Him. Heb. 7:25. But Heaven
has only received Him until the time of restitution of all
things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His
holy prophets (Acts 3:21), when He shall come again, to
sit in the throne of His Father David. 12
This again proves His coming to be pre-millennial.*
No. VI. Argument From the Order of the Resurrection.
We believe we have a conclusive argument based upon
the Resurrection, which may be briefly stated as follows:
All the dead will be raised, but, as Jesus was raised out
of the dead and the rest of the dead were left, so the dead
*For further evidence of the distinction between the
Church and the Kingdom, see page 83.
(12) Acts 3:20. And he shall tution of all things, which God
send Jesus Christ, which before hath spoken by the mouth of all
was preached unto you
; his holy prophets since the world
21. Whom the heaven must began,
receive until the times of resti-