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execute judgment upon the earth. So we see that there
is no place in the whole earthly history of such a perse-
cuted Church, for the Millennial Kingdom. For, in that
time, "righteousness and peace" shall kiss each other,
"truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall
look out of heaven." Psa, 85.
"A King shall reign in righteousness, and Princes shall
rule in judgment." Isa, 32 :1. With righteousness shall
He judge the poor. Judah and Israel shall be restored
and dwell safely. There shall be no harm nor destruction
in all God's holy mountain, and even the animals shall be
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at peace.
Again, from all of these passages, and especially Isa. 60,
we see that restored Israel and Jerusalem are to be the
very central glory of the Millennial Kingdom. But God
does not restore Israel and rebuild Zion, or Jerusalem,
until He appears in His glory.
"When the Lord shall build up Zion, He shall appear
Psa. 102:16.
in His glory." And He does not build up
9. Who shall suffer punish- breath of his lips shall he slay
ment, even eternal destruction the wicked.
from the face of the Lord and 5. And righteousness shall be
from the glory of his might, the girdle of his lo.'ns, and faith-
10. When he shall come to bo fulness the girdle of his reins.
glorified in his saints, and to be 6. The wolf also shall dwell
marvelled at ia all them that with the lamb, and the leopard
believed (because our testimony shall lie down with the kid ; and
unto you was believed) in that the calf and young lion and the
day. fatling together ; and a little
child shall lead them.
(33) Jude 14. And Enoch also,
the seventh from Adam, prophe- 7. And the cow and the bear
sied of these, saying, behold, the shall feed ; their young ones shal}
Lord cometh with ten thousand lie down together : and the lion
of his saints. shall eat straw like the ox.
15. To execute judgment upon 8. And the sucking child shall
all, and to convince all that are play on the hole of the asp,
ungodly among them of all their and the weaned child shall put
ungodly deeds which they have his hand on the cockatrice' den.
ungodly committed, and of all 9. They shall not hurt nor de-
their hard speeches which un- in all my holy mountain :
godly sinners have spoken stroy
for the earth shall be full of the
against him.
(34) Isa. 11:4. But with knowledge of the Lord, as the
waters cover the sea.
righteousness shall he judge the Rom. 8 :21. Because the crea-
poor, and reprove with equity ture itself also shall be
for the meek of the earth : and deliv-
ered from the bondage of cor-
he shall smite the earth with the
ruption into the glorious liberty
rod of his mouth, and with the of the children of God.