Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Before or After the Millennium "ND Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, The Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints." (Jude 14.) "And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, "And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." (Revelation 20: i-6.) The "thousand years" is the term which in Scripture represents that golden era fortetold by prophet, priest and king, when our Lord Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords shall set up His kingdom of righteousness and peace and reign and rule in undisturbed authority among the sons of men. The thousand years of Scripture are commonly known by the word, "millennium." This is a Latin word compounded of mille, a thousand, and annus, a year. The doctrine of a millennium is believed in and accepted more or less by all Christians. All Christians do not agree as to the manner in which it is to be introduced. There are those who believe and teach that as the age goes on the Gospel will be less and less successful, the Church instead of overcoming the world will be overcome by the world, sin, iniquity, lawlessness and war will increase. At an undetermined moment the Lord will suddenly come into the upper air, raise the dead in Christ, tran...