REIGNING WITH CHRIST
The Bedside Watchman
EXHORTATIONS FROM THE DAILY READINGS
December 30th -- Revelation 20
REIGNING WITH CHRIST
REIGNING with Christ, as exhibited in the gospel, is a reality. Popular hymns talk of reigning with Christ, but what do they mean? They know not. A mere subsistence of delight -- a passive ecstasy, in which they drowsily float in the ethereal clouds of "the happy land" -- a bathing in the blue and brightness of heaven -- an imaginary bliss. This is not the Bible "reigning with Christ" -- though the Bible reigning with Christ will have all the happiness about it that was ever imagined in connection with the orthodox heaven. The Bible reigning with Christ is a regulating of human affairs as they ought to be regulated: a guiding of mankind with power into ways of enlightenment and righteousness, joy and peace, in the then present time, with an unbounded prospect of eternal day beyond. Such a reigning with Christ is exactly adapted to meet the wants of the afflicted human race who will be blessed by it, and to give scope to the noble aspirations and benevolent ambitions of those who will be called upon to take part in it.
ROBERT ROBERTS, Thirteen Lectures on the Apocalypse, page 198
EXHORTATIONS FROM THE DAILY READINGS
December 30th -- Revelation 20
REIGNING WITH CHRIST
REIGNING with Christ, as exhibited in the gospel, is a reality. Popular hymns talk of reigning with Christ, but what do they mean? They know not. A mere subsistence of delight -- a passive ecstasy, in which they drowsily float in the ethereal clouds of "the happy land" -- a bathing in the blue and brightness of heaven -- an imaginary bliss. This is not the Bible "reigning with Christ" -- though the Bible reigning with Christ will have all the happiness about it that was ever imagined in connection with the orthodox heaven. The Bible reigning with Christ is a regulating of human affairs as they ought to be regulated: a guiding of mankind with power into ways of enlightenment and righteousness, joy and peace, in the then present time, with an unbounded prospect of eternal day beyond. Such a reigning with Christ is exactly adapted to meet the wants of the afflicted human race who will be blessed by it, and to give scope to the noble aspirations and benevolent ambitions of those who will be called upon to take part in it.
ROBERT ROBERTS, Thirteen Lectures on the Apocalypse, page 198
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