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The Millennium
Seeley D. Kinne in 1945
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This
earth and its lordly master (Adam) were created in the heavenly realm;
to be occupied in his pursuits: operating in the highest kinds of production;
even to the giving forth of the creating Word of God.
Yet
Divine Wisdom saw that this lavish environment needed to be tested. All moral beings have to be tried. Satan struck at Divine veracity. If he could break the faith of man in
the Word of God, how could man speak it?
Through deception, Satan became the prince of this world.
Jehovah laid out a program of seven
thousand years. In these years
the Lord, Satan, and men, would have opportunity to exhibit and work out their
character and works. Satan having
hold of mankind, individually and collectively, has clearly shown his intention
to wreck and destroy all he possibly can. His last great act is through the antichrist,
in attempting to put the Almighty and His Son out of the world – in which
he is bound and put in the bottomless pit.
Jehovah has worked plan after plan
for the salvation of men at infinite cost, with great patience. Central to His program, is the obtaining
of a company to fulfill His original purpose of speaking of His Word with
authority. This company He has
by the working of His redeeming power, snatched from all earthly control,
amid Satan’s most malicious workings.
This is a great triumph over Satan.
This
brings us to the opening of the seventh thousand year, during which time,
Jesus Christ, Son of Man, and Son of God, accompanied by the Lamb’s wife,
saints of the most high order, those conformed to the image of His Son, will
reign on the earth over all. There
will be abundant opportunity to observe a world redeemed and freed from temptation.
“Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David,
and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with
justice from henceforth even forever.” Isaiah 9:7
The
Here
in Christ’s Kingdom, will be the permanent union of Church and state, so called,
a government, holy and heavenly, with no unrighteous therein. Bribery, favoritism, unfair concessions,
class legislation, and the like will be unknown. Every legitimate enterprise will be fostered.
Services of worship and praise to Jehovah and the King will have their
proper place.
In
order to understand the conduct of the Kingdom in the Millennium, it is necessary
to know that its officials are men who have passed through the vicissitudes
of an earth career, and overcome all things. They are redeemed men, conformed to the
image of His Son. This only will
be the ruling class.
Instead of evil powers that haunted
men, they have been cast out and every incentive to do and be right will have
taken their place.
There
are different levels, or realms of the redeemed. They may properly be named the Court of
the King. In Revelation, Chapter
seven, they are in twelve divisions as tribes. In Revelation, Chapters two and three, are seven kinds of overcomers. In Revelation, Chapter
19, the white horse army, and in Revelation 14:14, a white cloud. There are those who are called to function
in government, such as executive, legislative, judges, etc. There are intercessors, and those who
will function in the higher realms of Holy Spirit enabling. It will be the most illustrious Court
ever known.
To
hold a portfolio under this King Jesus is an indescribable privilege.
To
Shepherdize the nations is one of the chief occupations
of the Kingdom in the Millennium. In
Revelation 2:27; and 12:5, the overcomers and Manchild are said to “rule all nations with a rod of iron.”
In the eleventh Chapter of Isaiah, we are told, “a
rod out of the stem of Jesse, a Branch, an Ensign of the people (nations); to it shall the Gentiles seek.”
“But with righteousness shall He
judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth; 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
The
word “rod” means the curved stick
which is the shepherd’s principal instrument. It is called “a rod of iron,” because of its firm unbreakable
rule. It is the
By
the prophetic Word of the Lord in the mouth of the Lord, and in the mouth
of the Manchild, which is His rod, the wicked will be slain, and the nations
shepherdized: that is, cared for, comforted, controlled, directed, led, brought
into righteousness, fed and developed into God fearing nations.
To
have a share in this great recreation is a high honor from the King.
But will soon pass by you!
Engage while you may,
Ere failure be to pay.
“Thine is the kingdom, and the power and the
glory, forever and forever.” Amen
and amen!