The Millennium is merely one phase of God’s eternal Kingdom; that is, the "theocratic Kingdom,"

Everything that has happened in history, that is happening in our day, and will happen in the future is

all part of God’s program in setting up His Kingdom here upon this earth.

The Millennium, one feature of God’s eternal Kingdom, is a special dispensation that is yet future. The Millennial Kingdom will come to an end, and the eternal Kingdom will begin.

That is stated clearly in Scripture.

In 1 Corinthians 15, Apostle Paul gives the order of events,

beginning with the resurrection of Christ in verse 20, he says that those who are Christ’s will be raised at His coming.

"But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming" (1 Corinthians 15:23).

After that,

 "Then cometh the end."

The end of what?

The world?

No.

The Bible does not teach the end of the world.

This world that we live in will not come to an end but is going into eternity. Yes, it’s to be renovated, made new, but it is going into eternity.

"Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the Father …

There does come a time when this 1000-year reign will be delivered up to God the Father,

… when He (Christ) shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under his feet" (1 Corinthians 15:24, 25).

Christ is coming into this world someday, and He will come in with great judgment.

He will set up His thousand-year reign here upon this earth.

And during that thousand-year reign, He will accomplish a purpose.

Today He is accomplishing His purpose of calling a people out of this world unto Himself.

During the millennial reign He’s going to bring this earth under His rule. He will rule with a rod of iron. Those who oppose Him will be " .. dashed in pieces like a potter’s vessel."

That will be the time when Christ will rule arbitrarily upon this earth.

The Millennium will be a hell for anyone who is in rebellion against God.

The Bible tells us that there will be some in rebellion, that rebellion breaks out during the Millennium.

Christ will judge it immediately because He is going to bring this earth back under the rule of God. That is His purpose for the earth.

"For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For He hath put all things under His feet. But when He saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is excepted, which did put all things under Him. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:25–28).

What does that mean?

It means simply this:

The Lord Jesus Christ will come to this earth, and He will reign for one thousand years, and He will bring this earth back under the rule of God.

 When this is accomplished, I take it that He will return back to His place in the Godhead. And this earth then will become what God intended it to be throughout the eternal ages of the future.

This is the picture that the Bible presents.

All the way through the Old Testament, and especially in the Prophets, this Kingdom, this 1000-year reign of Christ on the earth, is set before us

There is more Scripture on this subject than there is on any other subject.

The prophets had more to say about this Kingdom than anything else.

It was their theme song.

They sound like a broken record, saying over and over that the King is coming, the Kingdom is coming, and great blessings will be on this earth.

The prophets spoke of it as coming in the future.

And from where you and I are today, it is still future. The conditions predicted have never been fulfilled in the past, and they are not being fulfilled yet, as we shall see.

The Kingdom of God will not be established by man’s efforts, by human ability.

The church is not building the Kingdom, yet it is geared into a program that will see the coming of the Kingdom.

It is not our business to build a Kingdom.

This is one reason that I am thankful today to be out of the denomination that teaches this.

I heard for years that the church is building the kingdom - and all I ever saw was the little "chicken-coop" that we built! Dear reader today I know that when God is ready to set up His Kingdom, He won’t need help from any church.

He is going to remove His true church out of the world before He establishes His Kingdom here upon the earth.

That is His plan, and His program!

The Kingdom that we are looking at in these few pages will be confined to what Isaiah had to say on this subject. He had much to say about it.

The Kingdom of Heaven.

This Kingdom - and this is important to understand - is the same as we find in the New Testament, where it is called, the Kingdom of Heaven.

That was the message John the Baptist began with:

"Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 3:2). 

When our Lord Jesus began His ministry, He said the same thing.

Neither John nor our Lord Jesus explained what that phrase meant. 

That seems to indicate to me that the only ones who miss this are theologians and seminary professors today who don’t seem to know what’s happening in this world. They try to make something very obtuse, something esoteric out of the Kingdom of Heaven.

But the common people who heard John the Baptist and our Lord Jesus Christ understood what they were talking about. 

The Kingdom we are talking about is what the Old Testament has been talking about: the Millennial Kingdom coming on the earth.

The Kingdom of Heaven is just simply this:

the rule of the Heavens over the earth.

When Heaven rules over this earth on which we live, we will have the Kingdom of Heaven condition.

The reign of the Heavens over the earth is all the Kingdom of Heaven can possibly imply.

The Millennium will be the time when there will be the full manifestation of the glory, the power and the will of God over this earth.

And all agree that this is not in evidence today. 

When it does we will not have hospitals, will not have graveyards, will not have the suffering nor broken hearts and lives when Christ is reigning on this earth. It is an insult to my Lord to say that the Kingdom of Heaven is being built today and that it is in existence on this earth. 

When He is reigning we will not have the tragedy that presently exists throughout the world.

Why do we have tragedies? 

God has to vindicate Himself. 

Why is it that the earth is in such a deplorable condition? Why isn’t God reigning on this earth now? 

Prophet Isaiah tells us how it all began. 

This is where sin began,

and Isaiah deals with this subject.

In Isaiah 14:12 the prophet tells about the fall of God’s highest creature and that this creature led a rebellion against God to set up a kingdom that was opposed to God. 

Here we have the revelation concerning it, and it is startling indeed.

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" (Isaiah 14:12).

The prophecy of Isaiah goes back into the past and then looks on into the future concerning this creature who is yet to be judged and brought down. 

Who is this creature that rebelled against God? 

He is the highest creature God ever created, Lucifer. 

We know him today as Satan and as the Devil. 

He has many different names.

 Our Lord Jesus Christ even called 

him a liar and a murderer.

This highest of God’s creatures, according to Ezekiel 28, was 

"  ... full of wisdom and perfect in beauty."

And Satan hasn’t lost that beauty.

If we could see him today, we would not see an ugly, fearsome being. He would be most attractive.

According to 2 Corinthians 11:14-15, 

He disguises himself as an angel of light, and his ministers as preachers of righteousness. 

The leaders of the cults are very attractive and they certainly do look like ministers of righteousness. 

Satan, if we could see him today, is the most beautiful creature we could ever see.

God created him that way.

What was it that he did? 

This significant passage refers to the beginning of sin in the universe:

"For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High" (Isaiah 14:13-14).

Satan does not want to be unlike God, he wants to be like God.

When Lucifer, son of the morning, said,

 "I will," sin entered the universe.

Way back in the past, and we’re told practically nothing about this in the Bible, something happened to this earth. It happened long before man got here. 

A great catastrophe took place on earth.

When?

The view that I favor is that this catastrophe took place between verses 1 and 2 of the Genesis account, and the earth became without form, and void. 

Also, I think that the catastrophe was connected with the fall of Lucifer, who became Satan, as we know him today. 

However, God has given us no details in the first chapter of Genesis.

In the third chapter of Genesis God does tell us that Satan had access to this earth and that he approached our first parents with the same temptations that had affected him - the desire to "be as gods, knowing good and evil."

This is the sin of man right now.

This is our problem today.

In Isaiah 53:6 the prophet of God Isaiah says, 

"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way" - 

those are the three words that tell what’s wrong with all of us. 

We all  want our own way. 

Have you ever noticed how the little baby in the cot gets red in the face and yells and even holds his breath? One would think he was about to die! 

Why does he do that? 

He wants his way. It is born in us. 

We have a nature that says,

"We do not want God’s way. 

Mankind is in rebellion against God.

God says that He will establish His Kingdom on this earth. 

His way will prevail some day. 

That is the meaning of the rule of the Heavens over this earth.

His Kingdom shall come and His will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Sin entered the universe when Satan rebelled. Then man rebelled against 

God.

And continues to do so today.

God’s process by which our Lord Jesus Christ will come to the throne - that is, the establishing of the Kingdom here upon this earth and the Millennial Kingdom  -  is part of the great theocratic Kingdom of God.

I will God willing to hit only some of high points.

You may have noticed that the difference today in eschatology - that is, the difference in interpretation of future things - is always centered around the Millennium. 

This controversy is not centered around the Person of Christ, but rather it centers around the Millennium. 

There is postmillennialism which holds that the church or Christian agencies will correct every evil in the world until Christ has a "spiritual reign" for a thousand years. And not until after that would He return in Person to reign over the earth. 

However two world wars, a worldwide depression and then the atomic bomb put the postmillennialists out of business.

A new group has come up known as amillennialists. 

They teach in seminary the amillennial position, which is that there will be no Millennium other than that which is in progress at the present time! 

But if we would study the Word of God and look at the amillennial position I feel sure we would all be a  premillennialist today. 

To my own judgment amillennialism is a preposterous position.

Premillennialism holds the position that in the present age, evil will increase and end in judgment at the 

seond coming of Christ to the earth,

at which time He will Himself set up His Kingdom and reign in righteousness for one thousand years.

These are the three views of eschatology today, and they all center around the Millennium.

The amillennialist makes the charge against those of us who are premillennial that we believe in only a materialistic kingdom with physical blessings in the future.

A professor at Westminster Seminary has said that what we believe in is a worldly kingdom. 

That is not true. 

Let us look at an answer to this accusation.

The answer we will find in the Book of Isaiah, and let us now look at some of the spiritual blessings of the Kingdom that are yet to come.

The Spiritual Blessings of the Millennium.

This is one of those wonderful passages of Scripture:

"And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" (Isaiah 2:4).

This will not be experienced until the Millennium. 

Only then will there be world peace.

Until then, we will have to keep our gun powder. We had better not believe that aggressive superpowers will stop filling their arsenals, because they have lied before and are very capable of doing that sort of thing.

But the day is coming when there will be peace. 

That peace will come when the Prince of Peace rules on this earth. 

In that day we will be able to beat swords into plowshares. 

Peace is a great spiritual blessing that is yet in the future.

In Psalm 85 it says, 

"Righteousness and peace have kissed each other" - 

they are not even on speaking terms today! 

One of the reasons we cannot have peace on this earth is because we do not have righteousness. 

However, righteousness will characterize the reign of Christ during the Millennium.

3) Holiness.

Holiness will characterizes the Millennium. 

The word holiness literally means separation, 

a thing set apart. 

A believer’s spiritual birth, his salvation, sets him apart as holy - that is, separated unto God. 

But our salvation is in three tenses: 

I have been saved;

I am being saved; and 

I shall be saved.

Our problem comes in the second tense: 

"I am being saved." 

We are told very clearly, 

"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure" (Philippians 2:12-13). 

Yet the believer still has that old sinful nature, and the idea that we can get rid of it in this life is a tragic mistake.

"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (1 John 1:8).

Not until we go to be with Christ will we experience the final stage of our salvation. 

"… We know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is" (1 John 3:2).  We are not going to see holiness on this earth until Christ Jesus rules.

It will be holy when He rules.

Not only does the prophet Isaiah mention peace, righteousness and holiness, but he also tells us here that glory is yet another 

spiritual blessing during the Millennium.

"When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence" (Isaiah 4:4-5).

5) Joy.

"Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon His Name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that His name is exalted" (Isaiah 12:3-4).

The phrase "in that day" in Isaiah and in all the Prophets refers to the 

Kingdom, to the Millennial Kingdom. 

"And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord,"

and when we say

"Praise the Lord" people who look at us as if we are fanatic will not be there. 

We will be able to shout out with great joy 

"Praise the Lord, call upon His name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that His Name is exalted!"

"Sing unto the Lord; for He hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth" (Isaiah 12:5).

Joy is one of the blessings that will characterize the Millennium.

Joy does not characterize the world today.

Instead there is dissatisfaction, loneliness, sorrow and heartbreak.

But just imagine being on this earth when all is joyful, and everyone is filled with joy!

6) Comfort.

There is comfort in this same chapter, just notice it:

"And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise Thee: though Thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and Thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; He also is become my salvation" (Isaiah 12:1-2).

Never again will we mourn over sin.

Now here is another wonderful feature: there will be full knowledge in the Kingdom. 

Today we "see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known" (1 Corinthians 13:12) - full knowledge.

"And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of His roots: and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding … the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord" (Isaiah 11:1-2)

There will be knowledge in that day.

It will be a time of instruction, a time when people are going to go to school. Right now a great many young people are going away to college, going away to school, trying to learn something - and maybe some of them will. Ours is a day when a great many people are interested in knowledge. 

During the Millennium there will be great knowledge, and instruction. 

"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 be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of 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 Jerusalem" (Isaiah 2:2-3).

There is going to be a great hunger and thirst for God, folks wanting to know about God. We are living in a day when men want to know about missiles, about electronics. But in that day there will be a great hunger and thirst after God - people wanting to know Him, wanting to know His Word.

Oh I am so looking forward to that!

Every now and then we see that eagerness of people wanting to know God’s Word. 

Most today are not interested or most times I find they would rather not know because it makes them afraid, They are afraid of conviction and some I have spoken to, even think that conviction is something not to be spoken of, they do not like to be convicted at all.

The joy about the radio ministry is the folk who write in with their letters asking questions and seeking the answers. We sure get a glimpse of their interest for which I continually Praise our Great and Wonderful Saviour. He has His own in this world today and they love the Word of God.

It is quite amazing! 

We see little indications of thirst for God, but just think what it will be during the Millennium. 

It will be most  wonderful!

May I say to you my dear reader, because I do so love you in our Lord Jesus, because He is the One who has brought you to this page, for I asked Him to, and I know that He has called me to do this each day, and so I do believe, with all my heart and soul that we ought to equip ourselves down here for what we are going to do in heaven one day. Here on this earth I do believe is really our training school, a staging area, where we get ready to go over onto the other side. And one of these days I am going to move out of this earthly body and be present with my Lord and Saviour.

Oh it is a thought most Glorious.

It really makes me feel like shouting at the top of my voice, as loud as I possibly can, that  

I love You Lord Jesus for dying for me.

Here on this earth is a good time for us to prepare ourselves for what we will be doing in Heaven.

But first of all we must be born-from-above and if perhaps you are not born-again dear reader then I want to plead with you right now to invite our Most Precious Saviour, for He died for you also, on a rugged tree on the hill of Golgotha, to come into your life and I know He will give you a brand new heart just like He gave me that will seek to Praise Him and Glorify Him with all of your being.

Today we live in a world where the Word of God tells us plainly that  

" ...  there is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one" (Romans 3:10-12).

David had a heart for God. 

David did not volunteer to fight the giant because his people were being shamed, but because Goliath was defying the armies of the living God! 

And as he faced his formidable foe, he testified to his faith in God:

"Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied" (1 Samuel 17:45).

I want to mention just three or four passages that have to do especially with the Millennium. 

The 2nd chapter of Isaiah has these special features. 

The person, the character and the physical facts of His Kingdom.

Special Features of The Kingdom.

"The Word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 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 be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it" (Isaiah 2:1- 2).

Jerusalem will become the capital of this earth in the Kingdom. 

Just as Babylon is to be the capital of Antichrist during the Tribulation,

Jerusalem will be the capital on the earth for the Lord Jesus, as Messiah.

"And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths:

We will all have to go there to the university, in order to learn.

" … for out of Zion shall go forth The Law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem" (Isaiah 2:3).

God names Jerusalem specifically, and this refers to the Kingdom.

"And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: ... "

This is a worldwide kingdom.

"… they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" (Isaiah 2:4).

This is a remarkable passage.

Then we have another remarkable passage in the 11 chapter, let me call attention to several things:

"And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots" (Isaiah 11:1).

The Kingdom is never established by the church, never by an organization, never by a movement. 

The world will not grow into the Kingdom of Heaven.

But the One who will establish the Kingdom is mentioned here, 

the "rod" and the "Branch," 

The Messiah who is to come.

This is exactly what John the Baptist meant when he said, 

"The kingdom of heaven is at hand;"

literally the Greek is "in your midst." 

The Kingdom of Heaven is in your midst because the King is here.

And we just cannot have a kingdom without a king, any more than we can have a marriage without a bride and groom. They are essential. We cannot have a kingdom without a king. 

When John the Baptist said, 

"The kingdom of heaven is at hand,"

he meant the King is here. 

It couldn’t be otherwise, now could it? 

The King had come.

Now, the word of god tells us plainly that they rejected Him. But here the prophet is emphasizing the necessity of this One coming in the line of Jesse.

He is to come out of the stem of Jesse. 

Why didn’t Isaiah mention David? 

Did Lord Jesus come from the line of King David? 

Yes,

but David’s line had returned to peasantry by the time our Lord Jesus came. Jesse was a farmer from Bethlehem. Our Lord Jesus was a carpenter from Nazareth  - that is the  way He was identified when He was here. 

The stem was of Jesse and a Branch would grow out of his roots.

The Messiah was to have the fullness of the Spirit:

"And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord" (Isaiah 11:2).

In John 3:34 we are told that God gave to Lord Jesus the Spirit without measure, the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

"And shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord.… (Isaiah 11:3).

One thing that will characterize the Kingdom is that the Lord Jesus will increase the IQ of all the people. 

Won’t that just be too wonderful! 

There will be no neurotics, no mentally retarded, no dull minds. 

There will be nobody in the class who will have to say,

"Teacher, I didn’t get that. Would you go over that again?" 

We will all get the point immediately. 

I will really so love having my IQ stepped up!

Perhaps you will also dear reader.

Notice this as the prophet Isaiah continues:

"But with righteousness shall He judge the poor, ..."

The poor have never had a square deal yet, have they? The politicians talk about all of us before election day, and then they forget us the day after election. 

Our Lord Jesus Christ shall judge in righteousness the poor man. 

Special interests and labor unions are not for the poor anymore. 

Capitalists have never been for the poor.

Let’s face it the poor man just does not have a chance in this world. 

Thank God for a King who is coming to judge in righteousness for the poor! 

He is the One who will rule on earth.

Oh I do so like His platform.

" and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth;"

Meek folk.

Our Lord Jesus Christ says in Matthew 5:5 

that the meek shall inherit the earth. 

They are positively not doing it today.

"… and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked" (Isaiah 11:4).

People today like to play this down, but the Word of God does not play it down. 

He will "break them with a rod of iron," 

that is written for us in the second Psalm. 

The Word of God is very specific.

God will put down the wicked.

All of the wicked.

He will make no treaty with the godless superpowers of this world. 

He will make no treaty with the combine of gangsters either in our own country or abroad. 

God will put them down - with no apology to anybody. God does not need their votes.

He does not need their influence. He does   not  need their help. He will slay the wicked. 

Praise God that this earth is yet to get a square deal. 

It will never get it until Christ comes. 

That is why the Millennium is a most wonderful prospect for this earth.

"And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins" (Isaiah 11:5)

Righteousness and faithfulness are two additional spiritual blessings.

They are most wonderful.

The Physical Blessings.

Let us now look at some of the physical blessings of the Kingdom.

"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" (Isaiah 11:6).

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox" (Isaiah 11:7).

This will be the Millennium.

"And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’s den" (Isaiah 11:8).

Nothing that is poisonous will be on this earth.

"They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and His rest shall be glorious" (Isaiah 11:9-10).

"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left ..."

This is the nation Israel. 

There can be no Millennium until Israel is back in the land. There are so many things out of socket today. The devil is in the wrong place - he goes to and fro in this earth seeking whom he may devour. He has to be in the bottomless pit during the Millennium. 

He is out of place today. 

Christ is not in His rightful place for the Millennium. He will be on the throne of David reigning over this earth. The church is out of place today - it is in this world. 

The church is to be with Christ in the New Jerusalem. 

Israel is out of place today, her people scattered throughout the world, and they must be back in their own land. 

There will be no Millennium until everything gets in its place.

In that day our  Lord will recover the remnant of His people, who shall be left,

" …from Assyria and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elan, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea" (Isaiah 11:11).

"And He shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth" (Isaiah 11:12).

This is during the Millennium.

"The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see The Glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our GOD" (Isaiah 35:1-2).

The desert will blossom as a rose in the Millennium. 

The curse that’s on this earth today will be removed. 

Just think - mile upon mile of roses! 

The desert shall blossom as the rose."

That’s not all. 

Something else will be there:

"Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; He will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, ... "

There will be no blind person in in the Millennium.

" … and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped" (Isaiah 35:3–5).

There will be no need for sign language to translate for those who cannot hear. 

There will be no deaf in that day.

"Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing …. "

"The tongue of the dumb sing."

"… for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert" (Isaiah 35:6).

Let us now drop down to the final verse of this chapter:

"And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away" (Isaiah 35:10).

That is the Millennium; that is the hope of this earth.

However, that is not the hope of the church. 

The church’s hope is that one of these days we are to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air,

"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (1 Thessalonians 4:14–17).

O Lord Jesus, How long?

How long  -  ere  we shout the glad song?

Christ returneth!  Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!  Amen!

Hallelujah!  Amen!

It may be at morn, When the day is awaking,

When sunlight through darkness And shadow is breaking,

That Jesus will come in the fullness of glory

To receive from the world His own.

It  may be at midday, It may be at twilight,

It may be perchance, that the blackness of midnight

Will burst into light In the blaze of His glory

When Jesus receives His own.

While hosts cry Hosanna, From heaven descending,

With glorified saints And with angels  attending,

With grace on His brow, Like a halo of glory

Will Jesus receive His own.

O  joy!  O  delight! Should we go without dying;

No sickness, No sadness, No dread, and No crying;

Caught up through the clouds  

With our Lord into glory

When Jesus receives His own.

Amen!

We will be home in the New Jerusalem. 

Hallelujah!

Amen!

Glorious things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God!
He, whose Word cannot be broken,
Formed thee for His own abode.
On the Rock of Ages founded,
What can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation's walls surrounded,
Thou may'st smile at all thy foes.

See! the streams of living waters,
Springing from eternal love,
Well supply thy sons and daughters,
And all fear of want remove:
Who can faint while such a river
Ever flows their thirst to assuage—
Grace which, like the Lord, the Giver,
Never fails from age to age?

Round each habitation hov'ring,
See! the cloud and fire appear
For a glory and a cov'ring,
Showing that the Lord is near:
Blest inhabitants of Zion,
Washed in the Redeemer's blood—
Jesus, whom their souls rely on,
Makes them kings and priests to God.

Saviour, if of Zion's city
I thro' grace a member am,
Let the world deride or pity,
I will glory in Thy Name:
Fading is the worldling's pleasure,
All his boasted pomp and show;
Solid joys and lasting treasure
None but Zion's children know.

Amen!

Oh what glorious things God has planned for our future!

Our Lord Jesus Christ has said, 

"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me" (John 14:6).

In the next front page paper I want to write about the New Jerusalem, the City of gold, if our precious Lord allows me to and if it is in accordance with His will in my life.

Hallelujah!

(in anticipation)

Amen!

THIS PAGE UPDATED: 15-5-2011.