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VOLUME 8
BOOMER., NORTH CAROLINA, i MARCH, 1918,
NUMBER 8
THE MILLENNIAL AGE.
In the January issue of Good
Hews I prored that the literal re
storation of literal Israel to their
promised Land Palestine is one
of th-3 prominent subjects talked
efwut in the Bible. And then I
vent on to show from present
developments of the war. and
from current newspaper comment
tiiat the prophecies concerning a
literal restoration are already be
ginning to be literally fulfilled.
Now in this article I want to
give you some idea of what sort of
a world it will be during the next
thousand years, during which
time the devil will be bound and
Christ will be the supreme ruler
f the earth. x
I don't ask you to take my
word for it, but please read the
scriptures that I will quote in this
article. And first in order is a
fomous one from 'Isaiah :
And it shall come to pass in the
last days that the mountain of the
Lord's house shall be established in
the top of the mountains, and shall
fee exalted above the hills; and many
nations shall flow 'unto it And many
people shall go and say, Come ye, and
let us go up to the mountain oi the
Lord, to- the- houset-HheGodot
Jacob; and he will teach us his ways,
and we will walk in his paths: for
out of Zion shall go forth the law,
and the word of the Lord from Jeru
salem. And he shall judge among the
nations, and shall rebuke many peo
ple: and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares and their spears into
jruning-hooks; nation shall not lift
p sword against nation, neither shall
toey learn war any more. Isaiah
2:2-4.
The word "mountain" in pro
phecy nearly always means " gov
ernment." So the "mountain of
Hie Lord's house' ' is the "govern
ment of the Lord's house", and it
k to he "established in the top of
tiie mountains" that is, it will
tower above all the other govern
ments in power and importance.
The "hills" spoken of are the
small governments, and the new
government is to be exalted far
tbove them.
The above language quoted
from Isaiah is repeated almost
ord for word in the 4th chapter
f Micah. There is a class of peo
ple who have tried awful hard to
blot out this beautiful picture by
twisting it around and trying to
ake it appear that "many peo
P!e" are saying it, an4 that the
jeopli are mistaken that the
true conditions will be just the
opposite. Read the first verse of
je chapter and see how this pic
J5 is introduced. You see it is
word that God put into
ah's mouth concerning Judah
ana Jerusalem. Not a syllable to
"Wicate that it is the idle gossip
J some "people" and that they
fiave got it all wrong. No fir,
these are God 's words, and they
are true; Now read Micah 4:1-4.
1 here you see the same picture,
and it winds up by saying : For
the mouth of , the Lord of hosts
hath spoken it." That surely is
plain enough to convince anybody
that the glorious conditions out
lined in these verses are not mere
ly the idle dreams of "many peo
ple," but the plain and positive
word of God the very conditions
that He proposes to bring to pass.
Ihe center of all this is going i
to be in J erusalem- the literal
J erusalem over yonder in Pales
tinewhere Jesus Christ will
have charge of things. There will
still be other nations in the world,
and Christ is going to "rebuke
strong nations afar off." The
United States is a strong nation,
and it is 'far off" from Jeru
salem, hence we will very likely
be one of the strong nations afar
off that will be rebuked. This na
tion will still be standing here
and will still have its capital at
Washington, but it will have to
take orders from Jerusalem.
Whenever our government at
Washington does something thit
is not in acordance with divine
jightandiusticewlheiUcme
a ' rebuke ' ' from J erusalem that
"For
Think About This:
has been such a condition on the
earth YET, hence it must be
FUTURE.
The wilderness and the solitary
place shall be glad for them; and
the desert shall rejoice and blossom
as the rose. Then shall the . lame man
leap as a hart, and the tongue of the
dumb sing; for in the wilderness shall
waters break out, an4 streams in the
desert. Isaiah 35:1-.
will straighten things out in
hurry.
In that glorious time (which I
beljve is now almost ready to
dawn) there will not be any more
war, and more than that, there
will not be any armies drilling up
and down the land "learning
war." "Neither shall they learn
war any more."
But don't take my word for it.
Go to the inspired prophets and
see what they say:
For unto us a child is born, unto
ns a son , Is given; and the govern
ment shall be upon his shoulders;
and his name shall be called Won
derful, Counsellor, The Mighty God,
the EARTH shall be full
Of the knnwlprl
tlie waters cover the sea." Surely, " J,u" " vc.1 """"i
we can all agree that there never &t?dl of h? i7mM ? Gen-
uies axiu xne seven nines pun
ishment of Israel, it would pay
you to do so. These periods be
gan together in 606 B. C, ran
along together for 2520 years, and
ended together in 1914 We have
already seen the first steps taken
toward the restoration of Israel,
and we will see the rest of it if
we Jive three xor four more years.
infant of days, nor an old man that ! And also keep a sharp lookout for
hath not filled his days; for the child : the "Lost Tribes of Israel,'' as
shall die a hundred years old; but tn ey will join with the Jew and
build houses and inhabit them; and government. There is strong evi
they shall plant vineyards and eat the dence that the English-speaking
fruit of them. For as the days of a peoples of the world are part or:
tree are toe. day of my people, and jth Lost Tribes, and if so we will!
mine elect shall long enjoy the work , - A , .. .
of their handsIsaiah 65:20-22. .beamong., thefavored class m the
v . A, , ' .v final reckoning. America is now
You see from the above that the belpin to bind the devil, which,
elect are going to build . houses that she beloil on the
and plant vineyards and do ri- Lord's-side. Let every American
osu kmds of work during that be true ana loyal to his govern
age, and they shall 'long enjoy ment in th time of trial, for the
the work of their hands. ' victory we are fighting for is go-
Behold, the days come, salth the ing to be greater than even Presi
Lor ?, that I will raise unto David a PTlf wiknn has p.vp.t dreamed
righteous Branch, and a King shall , T u ,';n- W
reignlprQsperandrshaii ..cxecutell?- lt wlU not ?e
Allies are looking for but it will
be greater and better than, any
judgment and justice in the earth
Jeremiah 23:5
Don't forget to notice as you go
along that this all applies to the living statesman has dared to
EARTH not away up yonder nope Ior-
above Jupiter somewhere.
i
And they shall teach no more every
man his neighbor, and every man his
TO BIBLE STUDENT WRITERS
I am accumulating a great
brother, saying, Know the Lord; for quantity of good contributed mat
they shall all know me, from the least t I will print just as soon ,
of them unto the greatest of them, .r trr i v t
alth the Lord-Jeremiah 31:34. . as the Weekly paper starts. In
Beold. the days come, saith the some instances the writers may
Lord, that the plowman shall over- n6t express my own views exactly,
take the reaper, and the treader of bnt j propose 'that my policy shalh
grapes him that soweth seed, and the i i,nli,otrA
mountains shall drop sweet wine j be broad enough to let thenl have
Amos 9:13. ;a Rearing anyhow. We are deal-
And thou. O tower of the flock, the ing with'bie things; and we can't
stronghold of the daughter of Zion, hope to all be exactly together on
derful, Counsellor, The Mighty God. n xnes every little detail." I am only a
the Everlasting Father, the Prince of fominlon; the kingdom shall come to ' .A v- ino
Peace. Of the increase of his govern
ment and peace there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David, and upon
his kingdom, to order it, and to estab
lish it with judgment and with justice
from henceforth even forever.
Isaiah 5:6-7.
The wolf also shall dwell with the
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid; and the calf and the
young lion and the fatling together;
and a little child' shall lead them.
And the cow and the bear shall feed;
their young ones shall lie down- to
gether; and the lion shall eat straw
the daughter of Jerusalem.Micah
4:8. ,- ,v. . ..
I could go on and on with these
quotations, but this is enough.
Certainly there is a good time
coming on this earth, and I am
glad to believe that the day of its
beginning is not far away.
. One man writes advising me to
keep myself free from all sects
and isms and not tie myself to any
man-made creed nor accept any
like the ox. And the sucking child I man s views, but go straight to
Bible and .stay there. And
then before he finished his letter
he was just pawing the air trying
to make me accept HIS views.
There is consistency for yon.
the weaned child shall put his hand
on the cockatrice's den. They shall
not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain ; (government) ; for the
earth shall , be full of the knowledge
of the Lord, as the waters cover the
sea, Isaiah 11:6-0.
i - TaKe narticnlar notice that the
above is talking about the
BARTH, and hot about some
Tisionary place up in the sldea. 1 German Kaiser wonldn 't do.
student of prophecy, and the true
student J always admits that there
is more to learn. If I should be
gin to claim that I knew it all, I
would no longer have the right
to. call myself a student. And so
I hope to not only teacher others,
but to learn something myself
every dav.
Of course in any true Bible Stu
dent a, certain degree of advance
ment is taken for granted. The
person who has gotten beyond the
A'B.C's of Bible study has natur
ally had to drop a good deal of
the old creeds. And so Good
News will be open to contributors
only within certain reasonable
limits. Yon know I couldn't af
ford to throw my columns wide
open to just every, crank that
might come along. The paper will
be made to stand for what the
People who pretend to love God,
and who claim that He is a good
God, yet go through life charging
Him with things that even the very best Bible Students believe
to be the truth.