The Kingdom Age
The work of rebuilding Society
in the Kingdom Age-
upon a foundation which is entirely new to the surviving mortals,
will be a great work indeed.
And it will be a work which will be undertaken only by those who,
during the period of their probation,
will have become fitted for that work.
Those who work together with the Lord Jesus Christ
for the rebuilding of Society in the Kingdom Age
will have dedicated themselves wholeheartedly to the service of Yahweh
during the days of their flesh.
They will have carefully nurtured in their lives those qualities of character
which in the days of account will reveal them as a
"chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people".
During the Kingdom Age,
they will be fitted to "declare the perfections of Him" who had "called" them
"out of darkness into His marvelous light".
This they will have done, when they have shone forth
"as lights to the world...in the midst of a crooked and perverse " society
(1 Peter 2:9,AV and Diag; Phil. 2:15).
Brother John Ullman
Logos 1983
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these words were in the last letter written by brother Thomas to brother Roberts dated Feb. 7, 1871.
Dr. Thomas, when about to visit England, said that he was looking forward to visiting this country (UK),
but would much rather be on his way to Sinai. Is this our state of mind? It should be.
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When we direct our eyes forward,
we see Christ more distinctly than even in the past.
We see ourselves on the verge of that great change
by which kingdoms of the world are to be abolished,
and transferred to a new order of rulers who have been
in slow and painful preparation
for ages past-
Brother Robert Roberts
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The political elements
are evidently entering upon new combinations.
They are everywhere in a state of active unquiet and transition,
and so far as their movements can be discerned,
they are in the direction desired by those waiting for
"the consummation."
Brother Robert Roberts
1881
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Who are they?
You may well ask who they are.
Nobody will own himself one of the number;
but everybody can point to some of the fraternity.
Are those the creatures that (the Kingdom of)Heaven is to be peopled with?
It seems so.
The poor in spirit, the poor-spirited!
Those who have not the courage to cheat a creditor;
who are not so bold faced as to be able to deceive or tell a lie,
but whose heart and soul are revealed in their looks;
those who are not so fierce, so active, and energetic
as to attempt to drive the world before them,
as if they thought they could put Providence in harness;
those who delight more in the passive enjoyments of life than the
active domination of society,
and who for that very reason are deaf to all temptations
that lead to disorder, injustice, and corruption,
as tending inevitably to break the peace
and mar their felicity -gentle men and gentle women,
the inheritors of the age to come,
creatures so very timid as to be afraid to do wrong.
A Selection from the
1851 Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come
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Thank God for the blessed Hope
that the cankering political and social diseases which afflict the world
will be cured by the Great Physician whom He has raised up for the purpose.
Thank Him for the prospect of his coming to
"destroy them that destroy the earth,"
to redress the grievances of this misgoverned world -
to satisfy the hungering wants of oppressed humanity.
All praise to God that a ruler will arise whose power
will be equal to the forcible repression of arrogance
and despotism on every shore,
whose wisdom will be sufficient for the exigencies of universal dominion,
and whose sympathy will distill to the ends of the earth,
healing every wound,
drying away ever tear,
and filling the earth with joy and gladness.
Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morning!
Joy to the lands that in darkness hath lain;
Hushed be the accents of sorrow and mourning,
Zion in triumph begins her bright reign.
Brother Robert Roberts
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The mighty God will have spoken peace to the nations.
Demagogism will be suppressed,
sectarianism abolished,
and a social regeneration established
under the heaven-born sovereignty of Jesus and the Saints.
Success, then, to Russian ambition;
for the speedier its consummation the sooner will
"the kingdom come to the daughter of Jerusalem."
Even so; come Lord Jesus, come quickly;
for our hope is in thee!
Brother John Thomas
Herald of the Kingdom Age
1852
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" The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the Earth hath he given to the children of men." Ps. cxv. 16.
I might say much of what I saw in this beautiful country, (Scotland,) and of the impression made upon my mind by the sublime and picturesque;
but the story has been so often told by tourists; and the feelings in the case are of so little consequence to other people, that I deem it best to dismiss the subject by saying,
that I have seen enough of the surface of our Globe, to satisfy me that when finished it will make a sufficiently splendid and magnificent inheritance for intelligences of the largest capacities, and most scriptural aspirations. It needs only that development of which it is capable by the hand of God, to make it a heavenly world. Substitute righteousness for sin, and perfect what remains unfinished in its wastes and barrens, and no better heaven need be sought than the earth, when the Lord is there.
Brother John Thomas
1858