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File Name: Kelly, William - The Second Advent of Christ Premillennial Droid MySword Version
File Submitter: david psalms
File Submitted: 27 Nov 2012
File Category: Books
Author: William Kelly

Scripture is not only the mine, but the standard, of truth. Error cannot stand before the inspired word. Not that the believer is competent of himself either to draw out or to apply aright; our sufficiency is from God, Who also made us sufficient, says the apostle, as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Every Christian cites 1 Thess. 1: 10; 1 Thess. 2: 19; 1 Thess. 3: 13; 1 Thess. 4: 16, etc.; 1 Thess. 5: 2; 2 Thess. 1: 6-10; 2 Thess. 2: 1, 2, 8; 2 Thess. 3: 5, to prove that Christ's coming, or παρουσία, is our hope, and that His day will bring judgment on the world. With all this, it is allowed, the apostle's later Epistles agree, as do those of James, Peter, John, and Jude. It is not otherwise with the Gospels.

But it is a strange position to except the Book of Revelation, especially Rev. 20: 1-8, unless we concede the synchronism of vv. 8, 9, with 2 Thess. 2: 8! Even so it is confessed that the very great difficulty is involved of a preliminary victory over Satan earlier than the final victory. "But possibly," says professor Beet, "the events of Rev. 19: 11, Rev. 20: 4, may take place without any interruption of the ordinary course of human life" (p. 30)! Let the Christian read and judge.

To what is all this unbelieving perplexity owing? To the notion that Christ's coming cannot possibly be followed by the millennium and its subsequent conflict, and must therefore follow these events. But is this true? What saith the scripture?

Table of Contents

Part 1, Chapter 1: The Hope of Christ's Coming Again, and Its Relation to the Question of Time
Part 1, Chapter 2 The Hope of Christ's Coming Again, and It's Relation to the Question of Time
Part 1, Chapter 3 Premillennialism Consistent with the Completeness of the Church at Christ's Coming Again
Part 1, Chapter 4 The Premillennial Advent in Relation to the Agencies of Salvation
Part 1, Chapter 5 The Kingdom
Part 1, Chapter 6 The First Resurrection and the Second Death
Part 1, Chapter 7 The Judgment and the Eternal State
Part 2, Chapter 1 The Millennium — How Brought About
Part 2, Chapter 2 Nature of the Millennium
Part 2, Chapter 3 The Millennium — Display of the Kingdom in Judgment
Part 2, Chapter 4 Millennial Revival of Jewish Peculiarities
Part 2, Chapters 5 and 6 Millennial Coexistence of Earthly and Heavenly Things
Part 2, Chapter 7 Millennial Binding of Satan
Part 2: Chapter 8 Millennial Features and the "Little Season" that Follows
Objections: 2Th_2:1-8.
The Second Advent Before, not After, the Millennium.

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