Millennial Dawn 119 amined (five English, three Italian, the Vulgate and the Span- ish) ; every Lexicon (Thayer, Green, Liddell and Scott, Sophocles, and Vincent’s Word Studies), translate the Greek word “lightning”. Attention is called to this particular in- stance of mistranslation of Scripture for the reason that it is but a sample of the uniform effort to empty every text of its true meaning if it in any wise denies Millennial Dawnism. Scores of such abuses of Scripture as the above are en- countered in these books; nay, the characteristic features of this vicious system betray Biblical perversion at every point. For example, Paul’s three supernatural accompanists of the advent, the “shout”, the “voice of the archangel”, and the “trump of God” (1 Thess. 4:16) are all symbols and denote the agitation, dissatisfaction, and restlessness everyr where manifest throughout the civilized world since 1874! So we are oracularly told. If this be all the Apostle meant, .then we must confess that the “majesty of the prediction is lost in the poverty of its fulfillment.” Let one other text be mentioned—Rev. 6:16: “Fall on us [cover, protect] and hide 'us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne.” “The thought is that of protection, not of destruction. . . . The real fulfillment is already beginning.” Furthermore, according to the plain teaching of Scripture the resurrection of the saints takes place at the Lord’s Coming. (1 Cor. 15:51-57; 1 Thess. 4:13-18.) I t appears also that the two events are contemporaneous and simultaneous; the Lord’s Coming, even before He reaches the earth, effects the rising of sleeping saints and the transformation of living be- lievers, when both together are caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. (1 Thess. 4:16, 17.) We are assured that this majestic event will occur in “a moment, in the twin- kling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Cor. 15:51). Millennial Dawn likewise teaches that the resurrection takes place at the Lord’s advent, but not
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