Bible Discussion Thread

Published in 1748-49 by Henry Funk

"Jesus, when he shall come again in his great day, will fulfill, finish and restore all things as God declared by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began ( Matthew 5:17 Acts 3:21 Revelation 10:7 ), and so man will be delivered from death and corruption and restored into an incorruptible state. The temporal world also, on the great day of the Lord, will come to an end (and yet not pass into nothingness or be annihilated), for the world will be then changed by Christ and restored to an infinite state, in which it will remain for ever and ever, according to the teaching of the holy scripture. "The Lord cometh to judge the earth; he shall judge with his truth" Psalm 96:13.

How shall the world be judged? By being changed, as David writes concerning heaven and earth: "Of old thou has laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shall thou change them, and they shall be changed." Psalm 102:25-26 . So will heaven and earth be changed in the judgement when Jesus shall appear in his great day, in the final fulfillment and consummation of all things. But how shall the heaven and earth be changed? The change will be according to God's word, as he declares through Isaiah: "It is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion..." Isaiah 34:8-10 ".