Steps to the Throne

By George Douglas Watson

Conclusion

 

I have not had space in this book to give a detailed account of the many prophecies which refer to the millennial age, or to set before the reader the marvelous glories that will fill the earth at that time in the extraordinary inventions, and the social, intellectual, and spiritual progress that will then be developed.

We learn from several prophecies such as "The child shall die a hundred years old, and the age of my people shall be as the age of a tree," that human life among those who are born in that age will be lengthened to antediluvian lifetime. We must remember, however, that the human i ace will still be in a fallen condition, and those who are born in that age will have the principle of original sin in their nature, hence the Scriptures do not teach that everybody born in that age will be holy. Several places in the Book of Psalms, it is said in the margin, that many people in that time -'will serve the King feignedly. v Hence toward the close of that age there will be great multitudes who have secret sin in their hearts, and will be open to the delusion and devices of a tempting devil. So John tells us "that after the thousand years are ended Satan will again be loosed out of his prison for a short time, and go forth to deceive these multitudes'' who harbor inward sin, and they will rebel against the dominion of the saints; then lightning from heaven will destroy every one of them. Then follows the general resurrection, of hoth great and small, all the dead who had not been raised in the first resurrection. Then the great white throne is set up in the regions of the air, and every human being will be assembled, and stand one by one before that throne to give an account of himself. This great judgment day may last a thousand years, or a sufficient time for all the untold millions of earth to render an exact detail account of his life during probation.

During that time the earth will be burned over, and crystalized into a glorious orb, and the water in the sea will be consumed by the fire, and the whole planet celestialized, and made a part of the heaven of glory, The lost will be banished into the outer regions of darkness, and the saved of all the ages, both "the church of the first born," and the church of the second born, and the myriads that were saved in the millennial age, will return to the glorified earth as their home, with the privileges of angels and glorified beings of other worlds, of moving to and fro throughout all the whole universe according to the will of God.

There are intimations in Scripture that all the created worlds will be in the future ages filled with intelligent populations, and that God will use the saved and glorified millions of this earth as missionaries and ministers to the younger races of beings on the other worlds to warn them against falling into sin by rehearsing to them the awful history of sin in our own world.

St. Paul says in the close of his wonderful prayer in Ephesians that God will glorify Himself in the church unto the generations of the ages of ages, and by some inexcusable blunder in our common version of the Bible the word "generations" in the Greek is entirely left out in our translation. And John tells us that after the new heavens and the new earth in the glorified state we shall serve the Lord oar God for ever and ever.