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representing seven thousand years. The kingdom of God, in the scriptures, is stated to be "Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost."

Those who may examine this arrangement of the kingdom of God, will perceive that righteousness is the first step in that kingdom, peace the second step, and the third step is joy in the Holy Ghost. This arrangement proves that it came from the ever blessed Creator, who doeth all things well: for it is evident that there cannot be any true peace without righteousness preceding that peace; and there cannot be any true joy unless righteousness and peace precede that joy. But if there be joy in the heart of any one, and if that joy does not proceed from righteousness and peace, it is a proof that the kingdom of God has not yet been established in that heart. And if the present condition of the hearts of the whole human race is judged by their works, it will prove that as yet the kingdom of God is but little advanced in the world; and the prophetic numbers instruct us that 3000 years from the time of Christ's ministry on Earth, or about 1206* years from A. D. 1840, must needs elapse before this world is fully leavened with this Glorious Kingdom.

Christ says, "Behold I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected." Here again the number of the days squares with those represented by Moses, for Christ's

* Those who may examine this calculation, will observe that I have taken into the account the 15 years that has been calculated too much in the Christian era.

third day in which He is to be perfected, squares with the Seventh day mentioned by Moses, the day on which God shall rest from all his work which He shall make. Christ says, "And the third day I shall be perfected:" now where there is perfection arrived at in any work, there must be rest from that work. Christ is said to be the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; and who can tell the extent of work and travail which He finished and is still carrying on for this world. But it is written of this eternal lover of the souls of men, that*. "His rest shall be glorious. "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound." Again, Christ says, "So shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth.". It is generally believed, that this was a prediction as to the time that Christ was to remain in the grave; this however could not be, seeing that Christ lay in the state of the dead only from Friday, the Jewish sixth day, from about the ninth hour, till early on the first day; so that agreeably to the Jewish calculation, the ninth hour would be about three hours before sunset.

The Jewish day commenced at sunset, and the hours were calculated during the light, as the scriptures say, "Are there not twelve hours in the day." As Christ

Isaiah xi. 11. + Isaiah xxx. 26.

Those parts of the Earth near the equator, the length of the day during the year is not much different.

rose from the dead early on the Lord's day, or the Jewish first day, and before it was daylight, it is evident that Christ lay in the state of the dead only about forty hours, being less than two days by about eight hours. Although Christ was only in the state of the dead about forty hours, yet it is obvious enough that He rose, as He himself said, on the third day after his crucifixion, because Christ was crucified on Friday, about the ninth hour, a few hours before sunset being the first day, the second day commenced on Friday at sunset, and ended at sunset on Saturday; the third day commenced on Saturday at sunset; and that day before the sun was risen, Christ rose, as He said, on the third day after his crucifixion; therefore, as Christ was not, in a literal sense, three days and three nights in the grave, the three days and the three nights must be considered as representative of three thousand years, the period that this Holy One was to contend with the gross earthiness of the human race, John iii. 31, "He that is of the earth is earthy, and speaketh of the earth." 1 Cor. xv. 47, 48, "The first man is of the earth earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven; as is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly." Jeremiah xxii. 29, "O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord." Again, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The apostle John says He spake of the temple of His body; when therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them. The Apostle in

forms us, that Christ's disciples understood what He said as referring to His body as the temple, and as a prediction that He would rise from the dead on the third day. Yet, as Christ said He would take three days to raise the temple up, it must have a more extensive meaning, and must be understood as representing the whole Body of Christian believers; Christ himself being the chief corner stone during the three days, or the first three thousand years after He came into this world; at the latter end of which period it is probable the top stone of perfection in this world will be placed on this Glorious Temple.

The apostle Paul took nearly the same view of this part of scripture when he wrote to the Ephesians, ii. 20, “And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone, in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord, in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."

There are other proofs that, when God spake of a day at the beginning of the creation of the human race, a thousand years is to be understood. The first is in Genesis v. 1, "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day God created Adam, in the likeness of God He made him; male and female He created them; moreover He blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when He created them.' The symbolical parallel to these two verses, is in the 2nd Chapter, 4th verse, 'These are the generations of the heaven and earth when He created

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them, on the day Jehovah God finished earth and heaven.' The literal translation reads, In the day of Jehovah's making, "old bas yah s to nieba I quote the following notes on the 5th Chapter, from Bellamy's version, "This Chapter contains an account of the descendents of Adam, to the time of Noah. It is said in the day; but it could not be a book of the generations of Adam in the day he was created; it must have reference to time, and not simply day, &c, and called their name Adam. Hence it appears that Adam is a general term for the human race." 1962 3ã© Euɛ £dqLÀ 2 901 sd or hue.atH

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The next proof is in the 2nd Chapter, 17th verse, "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" or dying thou shalt die ao teon sit bus ayab

It is evident that although Adam did die to a dertain extent a spiritual death in the first 24 hours on which he transgressed the command of God, in eating the forbidden fruit: yet, as soon as he transgressed, God, in mercy and love, devised a plan for raising him and his posterity to a spiritual life through the promised seed. Yet Adam did not die a natural death till he was 930 years, this being the first thousand years or day, or the day in which he lived; and this is in perfect agreement with the sentence that God passed upon Adam: "In the day that thou eatest thereof dying thou shalt die."qob Jon Hede sitq58

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Surely it is due to the majesty and glory of God, when He speaks of a day, that a thousand years should be understood; and this the more especially seeing the Holy Spirit, by prophecy in the Psalms, and the lan

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