CHAPTER VII.

Signs of the Glorious Christian Millenium.

THERE never has been perfect unanimity in the world upon any subject. Unanimity is a divine work, A NEW THING, which God accomplishes. Unanimity is God-like.

"All the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy; then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent." Zephaniah.

God divided the waters at the creation, and placed half above the firmament. Water descended at the Deluge, as we behold rains do. God commands all elements, whose fire will descend at the last day.

The signs of Christ's coming are daily visible to his WATCHMEN; they cannot know the day and hour, but see paradise summers are nigh, and consequently know the years well, and feel" tidings of great joy to all people."

The gospel summer is at hand, but the devil has caused nearly 6000 years winter of sin and slaughter. Some say six millions perished between 1789 and 1816.

Before the tower of Babel was built there was but one language, and all languages may die, except one (before or during the Millenium), by which all shall worship Christ, as lawgiver, judge, king, and saviour.

Immediately after the [universal] tribulation of those days, shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars [the high churchmen] shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."

The next day of Pentecost (according to the gospel) arrives immediately after universal tribulation; and (it cannot be too often repeated, or too well understood) at Christ's coming, not to judgment, but to purify his church, and cast out the devil (by the perdition of ungodly men), sinners shall see and feel his vengeance, who know not Christ, and obey not his gospel. "Judgment must begin at the house of God."

Christendom, or devildom, is full of deadly convulsions. Who is at rest? What spot is free from iniquity? The love of many waxes cold.

"He who giveth his mind to the law of the Most High, will seek out the wisdom of all the ancient, and be occupied in PROPHECIES." Eccl. xxxix. 1.

"He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward. Beware of false prophets. Beware of dogs and wolves in sheep's clothing." Mat. x. 41.

The harvest and vintage of God's wrath is at hand against heathens and hypocrites, abounding among the MULTITUDES GOING TO THE TEMPLES TO PRAY."

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St. John's 13 Revelation describes a mighty and terrible infidel power overwhelming the world, abolishing all religion. "All the dwellers upon earth shall worship the beast [golden devils], whose names are not found in the book of life."

This prophecy alludes to the whole world embracing and yielding to "the bull or beast... the mystery of iniquity" VICARIVS FILII DEI. (See page 73.) *

O, Christian soldiers, prepare to die defenders of the faith, for in the world ye shall have tribulation till "the Sun of Righteousness " arises. "The wicked walk on

every side, when the vilest men are exalted.... Sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of the Lord cometh; it is

* Are not gluttons called beasts and monsters, when dead drunk or beastly drunk?

nigh at hand. The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of GOD in the land.... Every morning doth the Lord bring his judgment to light." Zephaniah.

The attempts of the Bible Societies appear almost fruitless. The gospel language shall be universal. England sent the gospel to Madagascar, but France invades and destroys the uncivilized islanders, and checks its growth in the bud, so that savages exclaim against such Christianity. Christ alone is the great physician; the captain and conqueror. His medicine or doctrine is the gospel of universal PEACE, after all unbelievers are laid in the dust by universal WAR. The Bible is published in 145 languages, to every nation under heaven.

Look at our West Indian slaves, and consider how the African slave trade continues, in spite of Christendom.

We have most positive and divine proclamations of two great and terrible events to come, at two opposite periods; the first immediately after a greater tribulation than the deluge; the second, when the world shall be at rest, as it was before the deluge !!! "In the midst of life we are in death."

"The dangers men discern not, they deny;
Laugh at their only remedy, and die."

"Fearful

O read the 24 Matt. 13 Mark, and 21 Luke. sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.... There shall be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and waves roaring. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things that are coming upon the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. When these things begin to come to pass, then [O Christians] look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption [or first resurrection] draweth nigh.”

"As a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth!" Here is proof, that no man living will be watching in the hour Christ arrives. Even,

like the eleven apostles in Gethsemane's garden, the best saints will be sleepy, whose spirits are willing, but flesh weak; nevertheless, such" may be accounted worthy to escape all these things," for Christ's sake.

The world heeds nothing, in its mad career, but gold and pleasure.

I admire the sublime overtures against the battle of Armageddon, where two hundred million declare open war now, alas! against Christ, "the King of the Jews." The population of Europe, or Christendom, consists of about that number of souls !!! "God will arise in fierce anger, and consume them, for they are locusts, destroying all the earth, worshipping DEVILS, and idols of gold, silver,” &c. Rev. ix.

O that I had wings like a dove, with a voice of thunder, to proclaim destruction to all unbelievers, and deliverance to believers. After much tribulation, Christ will chain satan 1000 years. Isaiah's prophecy shall then be fulfilled, "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any "'* more. O, what a blessed hour!!! Let swords be exchanged for ploughs. Alas! after 1000 years, the devil will reign (exactly the number of days now shortened) a little season. For instance, the devil has still 170 years to reign, in order to complete 6000 years; and, of course, will have 170 years to reign when he is loosed (after the Millenium), if (to illustrate my meaning) the Millenium commenced in 1830. The seventh thousand years shall resemble the first SABBATH, or paradise, which Adam forfeited.

"I [Christ] know their blasphemy, who say they are Jews, and are not, but are of the synagogue of satan."+

* Though nations shall not LEARN war; yet, after the Millenium, there will be great sudden bloodshed, without all the malice prepense, or dreadful deliberate warlike preparations used by all nations, professing Christ's example, worse than Chinese, whose empire is called CELESTIAL.

"A people I have not known shall serve me; as soon as they hear, they shall obey me." This prophecy may apply to the Chinese suddenly.

This is one of the first and most important revelations Christ ever made to St. John, which did not strike me till April, 1830; therefore, will form a new chapter, to remove the great delusion existing about the Jew's restoration.

God sent unto men all his servants, the prophets, saying, Oh, do not the abominable things which I hate."

"Behold, the days come, when the Most High will begin to deliver them that are upon the earth, and when all the people hear his voice, every man shall, in his own land, LEAVE the battle [of ARMAGEDDON] which they have one against another." How awful! how mysterious is this sacred proclamation! What must we do to be saved?

Let Christians "sing to the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvellous things; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, hath he gotten the victory. . . . over sin and death, the flesh, and the devil." Believe, and be saved.

"Thousands of heathens shall fall at thy right hand, and tens of thousands at thy left, but death shall not come nigh" Christians at Armageddon!! Thousands must expire on dunghills, for want of a penny loaf. "The proud shall be scattered and abased; the humble exalted."

In dog-days we have very cold weather, and continual clouds (more sublime and magnificent than Mont Blanc), very terrible to look upon. Nature mourns, according to Esdras. Surely these are tokens of great power, arresting the usual course of nature. I, for one, declare I see the signs of the Son of Man's spirit coming (in the clouds of heaven and earth), for I believe nature is reversed till Christ restores it. Are men's hearts failing them for fear? This part of the prophecy is not yet publicly fulfilled, though it is privately; but when "the seed is rotten under the clods," and seven harvests fail, men's hearts must fail for fear, and feel they deserve destruction, when too late to ask mercy; for God will laugh at their calamities, who mock the cross of Christ.

I declare, I see "the SIGN of the Son of Man coming" (in the clouds of heaven). Angry clouds overspread the heavens, while clouds of sinners overwhelm the earth, and turn the Gospel sun into darkness. The universal tribulation must presently follow the signs now given. Universal sentence will be executed directly; whoever fore