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Christ will set up
His  kingdom
on earth at His second coming says Rome
and New Movement Adventism!
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Roman Catholic
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Seventh-day
Adventist Church
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“Therefore peace being made, and
every evil suppressed, that righteous King and Conqueror (Jesus Christ) will
institute a great judgment on the earth respecting the living and the
dead, and will deliver all the nations into subjection to the righteous
who are alive, and will raise the righteous dead to eternal life, and
will Himself reign with them on the earth...” (St. Lactantius,
The Epitome of the Divine Institutes, Chapter LXXII, in Early Church
Fathers, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII. http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF_07/anf07_11.htm).
“Though already present in his
Church, Christ's reign is nevertheless yet to be fulfilled "with
power and great glory" by the King's return to earth....
“Before his Ascension Christ
affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of
the messianic kingdom awaited by Israel[561] which, according to the
prophets, was to bring all men the definitive order of justice, love and
peace.” (Catechism
of the Catholic Church, The Profession of Faith, Section Two, Article 7,
Subsection I, #671 & 672. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/creed9.html#THENCE).
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"The signs He [Christ]
predicted are taking place before our eyes. World conditions are
precisely what He said they would be just before His second advent....
"What will happen when this
new world Leader appears? What will the various governments do about
it? How will the churches react? What will be the effect on the stock
market? More important still, how will it affect individuals--you and me
and everybody?...
"Now He is about to do it
again [healing the sick], on a global scale. His coming invasion of the
world will have a similar miraculous result. Hospitals and convalescent
homes will be emptied, their one-time occupants bursting with new life
and vigor... Thousands upon thousands [of insane in mental homes] will
rejoice at His touch upon their poor, confused brains....
"Eventually raising the dead
on a prodigious scale will be another of the first actions of the coming
world Leader....
"When you come to think of
it, this will be a novel way to start a new regime....
"Part of His master design
is full employment for everybody. And the jobs He provides will
never run out....Indeed the establishment of His kingdom will be the
success story of the ages....
"In the not far distant
future He will take over the government of our world and set up His
own kingdom of righteousness and peace...all those who are accepted
as citizens of His kingdom have to experience a radical change in their
minds, so radical indeed that it will be as though they had started all
over again, like being born anew. They will have to think differently,
and act differently...They will have to stop acting like rebels and take
their stand with the loyalists....
"Come, O man the world needs
most! Come and bring an end to all strife and conflict! Come and make
wars cease to the ends of the earth! Come and make all sick people well
again! Come and restore the crippled and handicapped! Come and raise the
dead! Come and take over the government of mankind! Come and commence
Your reign of righteousness and peace! Come and bring in the glorious
years of eternity!
"’Even so, come, Lord
Jesus!’" (Arthur S. Maxwell, well known SDA author, in Man the
World Needs Most, p 76-83, 93-96).
"We Still Believe...Jesus
Will Usher in a New World Order....
"He will come to inaugurate
a ‘new world order’ that will be unlike anything the world has known. Someday soon,
you and I will live in that new world....If Jesus were to come tomorrow,
would you be happy in the new world He will bring with Him?
"But neither democracy nor
communism nor socialism is God's system. His eternal kingdom is built
on different principles and will supersede all earthly governments and
powers...and the next great event in the world history will happen
when God sets up His kingdom that will last forever." (General
Conference President, Robert Folkenberg, in We Still Believe, p 23,
28-29, 118-19).
“Thus shall we anticipate the
establishment of God’s eternal kingdom of peace at the second advent of
our Lord and Saviour, who is the Prince of peace.” (Annual Council
of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in Adventist Review, December 5,
1985, p 19).
“...the establishment of the
literal kingdom of God ushered in by the glorious second coming of
Jesus Christ.” (Douglas Devnich, Director of Public Affairs for the
Canadian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, in Ministry
Magazine, November, 1983, p 24).
“We believe that soon Jesus
will come to this world and usher in His kingdom of peace, joy, and
righteousness.” (General Conference President Neal C. Wilson, in Adventist
Review, December 13, 1979, p 6).
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Addendum added by Ron
Beaulieu
2 Cor 11:14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an
angel of light.
2 Cor 11:15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade
as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
[NIV]
Rev 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon [Satan] which gave power
unto the beast: ...
Satan Will
Work Miracles
In Paul's second epistle
to the Thessalonians, he exhorts us to be on our guard, and not depart from
the faith. He speaks of Christ's coming as an event to immediately follow
the work of Satan in spiritualism in these words: "Even him, whose
coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie; that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness." {RH, April 15, 1875 par. 9}
Satan Will Work
Miracles
The time is coming when
Satan will work miracles right in your sight, claiming that he is Christ;
and if your feet are not firmly established upon the truth of God, then you
will be led away from your foundation. The only safety for you is to search
for the truth as for hid treasures. Dig for the truth as you would for
treasures in the earth, and present the Word of God, the Bible, before your
heavenly Father, and say, "Enlighten me; teach me what is truth." {FW 56.2}
The world is a theater; the
actors, its inhabitants, are preparing to act their part in the last great
drama. With the great masses of mankind, there is no unity, except as men confederate
to accomplish their selfish purposes. God is looking on. His purposes in
regard to His rebellious subjects will be fulfilled.
The world has not been given into the hands of men, though God is
permitting the elements of confusion and disorder to bear sway for a
season. A power from beneath is working to bring about the last great
scenes in the drama,--Satan coming as Christ, and working with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in those who are binding themselves
together in secret societies. Those who are yielding to the passion for
confederation are working out the plans of the enemy. The cause will be
followed by the effect.--Testimonies, vol. 8, pp. 27, 28. {ChS 50.1}
The world is a theater; the
actors, its inhabitants, are preparing to act their part in the last great
drama. With the great masses of mankind there is no unity, except as men confederate
to accomplish their selfish purposes. God is looking on. His purposes in
regard to His rebellious subjects will be fulfilled. The world has not been
given into the hands of men, though God is permitting the elements of confusion
and disorder to bear sway for a season. A power from beneath is working to
bring about the last great scenes in the drama--Satan coming as Christ, and
working with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in those who are binding
themselves together in secret societies. Those who are yielding to the
passion for confederation are working out the plans of the enemy. The cause
will be followed by the effect. {Mar 138.1}
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