the 1335 days have an end, that Daniel may "stand in his lot" at that time. "And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." They may refer to the fact they will live with Christ as merely their sovereign head or governor; yet it seems difficult to give this expression an entirely figurative sense from what immediately follows. The second advent will occur in the United States, either at the beginning or during the Millennium, or at its close, no telling when positively. "But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were ended." A distinction is here drawn between the martyrs living for a thousand years, and those who were not martyrs. Now, it seems utterly impossible to interpret this passage politically, because all persons in Europe and America are to enjoy political redemption, while those that will live afterwards are the dead generally. The resurrection, it seems, therefore, must be something more than a political restitution of rights to man. "This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." Here, the conviction is resistless almost, that the first resurrection will be literal, and will embrace the martyrs and noblest servants of Christ who have lived in the world. This resurrection must be that which Paul endeavored to attain unto. Yet, after all, as symbols are mostly exaggerated and political representations, the first resurrection may relate to a general resurrection of a political nature in the main. The second advent of Christ, and the first resurrection, are subjects on which we are not clear, and can not be till the events shall determine the time of the one and the nature of the other

Understand us, then, to teach that the Millennium will be a Christian republic of the Japhetic race only, and of some few Shemites, within the Roman empire, and that the Asiatics, generally, will hold to the Millennial, or Japhetic race, the relation of a younger brother to a king, and the Hamitic race will hold the relation of a ward to a guardian, or servant to his master. The perfection of the spiritual kingdom of Christ will not occur till after the regeneration of nature by fire. The United States will, in the Millennium, be the great ruling power of the world, and it will never apostatize. It is likely a confederacy of the United States with Europeans, will occur; but the Europeans will, after a thousand years, apostatize, and gather the world against America; and in the midst of their war, the spiritual judgment will come, and the earth will be burnt up, and changed into the paradise of God, and the full glory of God shall be forever manifested. This period coincides with the sealing of the twelve tribes, after the sixth seal, and with the marriage supper of the lamb.

CLAUSE VII.

Seventh View. The Spiritual Judgment-Day.—In the vision of the ancient of days, an exhibition of a political judgment-day was given, occurring at the close of the time of the end, and which coincides with the war of Armageddon. But here, a thousand years after that event, we have a full account of the great spiritual judgment of the dead and living. This is spoken of by all the Bible teachers of spirituality, bút expressly, by none of the political symbolic prophets, except John.

1. "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the heavens and the earth fled away; and there was found no place for them." This

is a generic description, extending over a wide compass, and includes the time of the judgment; for the heavens and the earth could not have passed away before its close, as the sea and earth were in existence during the judg ment, and gave up their dead, and they were to pass away.

2. "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God." As nothing is said of the living, in this judgment, may it not have already transpired, by the presence of Christ on earth? "And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." As the literal dead are here judged, of course it was not a political judgment, but a spiritual one. "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every one according to their works." Death is, by a figure, put for the bodies destroyed by death, or the grave, and hell is put for the grave or receptacle of disembodied spirits. "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." This limits the terms death and hell to the bodies and souls of the wicked. "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire." That is, all the wicked were sentenced to eternal punishment.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH-THE VICTORY.

THE earth and heaven fled away;" "and I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea." This is literal, because the term sea, in the connection in which it stands, can not be made to receive a symbolic sense. This was the long promised regeneration of the globe. Some severe destructionists have been advocates of the total annihilation of the globe, from a strange misconception of the meaning of this, and other passages of scripture; but no theory can be more destitute of truth and good sense. The truth is, the destruction of the present heaven and earth is necessary to accomplish the promise of the full glory of God, by preparing the globe for the erection of the throne of David and of God upon it forever. We will briefly meet the theory on its merits. It is affirmed that the heaven and earth that are to be destroyed, signify the globe. This we deny most positively. 1. The term earth, has at least twelve significations; and the term, world, has twentytwo. Now, it is not by any means necessary to give the signification of globe, to the term earth, whenever it is used, and especially when the context does not require it. 2. The terms heaven and earth, as used by Moses, most certainly do not signify the globe; for he expressly

defines them to signify only parts of the mundane system. Thus, he says, "God called the dry land earth, and God called the firmament (or atmosphere) heaven, "and the gathering together of waters called he seas." Here is as clear a definition of these terms, by inspiration itself, as could be desired. Now, as it is illogical and falsifying to give the terms of an author a different sense from that he has expressly given them, so is it falsifying God's word to insist that he means the destruction of the globe, when he speaks of the destruction of heaven, and earth, and sea, which he had defined to be but exterior parts of the globe.

3. St. Peter, who gives a description of the heavens and earth, literally by fire, teaches plainly that he does not mean a destruction of the globe, but only a renewal of it by fire; and Moses, in his description of the destruction of the earth by the deluge, concurs with our views. Thus, he says, "I will destroy them with the earth;" "a flood to destroy the earth." Peter says, "by the word of God, the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water, and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment." Nothing can be plainer than that the old heavens and earth, before the flood, perished, and that the globe did not; and nothing can be plainer, than "that the heavens and earth which are now," are as much different from the globe, as were the heavens and earth before the flood. It is as clear as light, that the heavens and earth destroyed by water, have the same signification as the terms heaven and earth, which are to be destroyed by fire. So that the destruction announced by Peter, has no sort of reference