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260 The Hope of Israel: What Is It? tainly the fact. Consider that Jesus said as He approached His death on the cross, 'Now is the prince of this world cast out' (Jno. 12:31. Cf. 16:11). But He did not cast him out in every sense; for He said afterward, 'The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in Me' (Jno. 14 :30) . Here are conceptions of the limiting of Satan, or the casting out of Satan, that should guide us in interpreting Rev. 20:1-3. There ought to be no doubt at all as to the soundness and safety of this method of procedure. "If now we have reasoned correctly up to this point, it is easy to say what 'the thousand years' signifies. It is the Christian age, extending up to 'a little time' before Christ comes again. 'The thousand years, have become nearly two thousand years. Or are we now in 'the little time' that follows that period? I do not know [though the late war and its consequences make it seem likely]. But this is certain: We are either in the millennium, or we have passed through it and we have entered the 'little time,' when from all quarters attacks are made on the very citadel of Christianity itself." Whether or not Dr. Stafford's explanation of this very difficult passage of Scripture is in all essential particulars correct, the present writer feels constrained to say concerning it, that on the one hand, it has more scriptural evidence in its favor than any other explanation of the passage that has come to the writer's knowledge up to now ; whereas, on the other hand, he knows of nothing in the Scriptures that contradicts it.
The Hope of Israel: What Is It? 261 And whatever be the true sense and meaning of the passage, it certainly lends not the slightest support to the doctrine of the restoration of the Jewish nation in a coming age and its lordship over the nations of the world. exaltation to the position of [The End]
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<strong>The</strong> Hope of Israel: What Is It? 261<br />
And whatever be the true sense and meaning of the<br />
passage, it certainly lends not the slightest support to<br />
the doctrine of the restoration of the Jewish nation<br />
in a coming age and its<br />
lordship over the nations of the world.<br />
exaltation to the position of<br />
[<strong>The</strong> End]
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