How firm a foundation,

Ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

How do you wrap your mind around the concept of eternity?

Well, that's a tough question.

Dr. J. Vernon McGee, our teacher on Through the Bible,

addresses in this special introduction to our study.

Before we leave the subject of the millennium altogether,

and before we get to the book of Revelation,

I probably should add one little note.

And that is the fact that in the millennium, I think for the first time man will begin to see something of the meaning of infinity and eternity.

And I'd just like to read a statement that I got out of Dr. Stokes' book on the Genesis

answer, and here is what he writes.

Infinity and eternity are difficult, if not impossible for the human mind to comprehend.

It's much easier to deal with beginnings and endings because these are what we experience and observe every day.

The world is one of finite things with edges, boundaries, dimensions, origins, endings,

starting, stoppings, appearances, disappearances.

Only when we gaze into the starry heavens do we begin to grasp however dimly the idea of infinity.

But the same questions that stirred the first inquiring minds thousands of years ago

still plagued the sophisticated, foreseeing scientist of today.

What lies beyond?

Always one can imagine a boundary, but never a boundary with nothing beyond.

May I say to you, I think that in the millennium, we're going to begin to see these stretching out

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