taught by sectarian
teachers we emphatically declare to be wholly without Scriptural
foundation. It is a purpose of Satan to cause man to place what should be
a present realization to some time in the past or future.

In the days previous to the coming of Christ the Jews were in great
expectation concerning the kingdom of God. They looked forward with great
joy and anticipation to the coming of Christ, their King, who should set
up a kingdom which should never be destroyed. They expected him to reign
in a pomp and splendor that excelled the Caesars. The kingdom of God came,
but their proud hearts and high mind overlooked it altogether. The same is
true to-day. The cold formal professors in Babylon see in the Bible a
glowing description of the kingdom of God, and they, failing to come to
its present and blessed realizations, have come to the conclusion that it
must be in an age to come.

With perfect confidence we say there is not one text in the Bible speaking
of the glory of Christ's kingdom but what is fulfilled here in salvation
or in the eternal glory world above. There is no intervening state of
peace and righteousness. We will briefly notice some of the principal
texts used by millennial teachers, and we will find almost every one, if
not every one, refers to the wonders of salvation here in this life. Mr.
Talmage, in a sermon in October 1898, said in referring to Isa. 35:6: "In
the millennial the lame man shall leap as an hart." Where can we behold a
greater exposition of Bible ignorance? There is not a sentence in the
whole of this chapter but points to the blessings of grace in this gospel
day. Did not the lame man leap as an hart in the days of Christ and the
apostles? Why will man be so unfair or so blind as to place the fulfilment
of such prophecies in a millennial, when every word has been fulfilled,
and is being fulfilled to-day, in those who are possessing the fulness of
Christ's kingdom?

A text quoted by millennial teachers everywhere is found in Isa. 11:6-8:
"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 together: and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and
the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den." In the next
verse you will