How firm a foundation,

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

The Bible bus is moving ahead in our journey through God's entire word.

We're leaving behind the practical, prophetic book of Haggai and diving into the visionary book of Zachariah.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwetz, welcoming you aboard and inviting you to have your Bible in hand and your heart open to hear the word.

But first, let's listen to this special introduction

from our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, on how to understand prophecy. I want to talk to you today

about a new subject. We have talked about dispensations and covenants and judgments. All of these are

necessary to get the total perspective in order that we

might understand prophecy. Now, I want to speak on the spiritual characteristics of the millennium.

The spiritual characteristics of the millennium.

When the word millennium is used, most of us immediately and invariably think of

streets of gold, desert blooming like a rose garden, and the lamb and lion lying down

as pals.

Well, these are physical, geographical, topographical changes that are identified with the

millennium.

However, these are not the most important marks of identification of the millennium.

Moral and spiritual changes are the most notable and

important marks of identification of the millennium. It is a thousand-year reign of Christ on

the earth that is coming after the Great Tribulation. The church will be with Christ, and he's coming to the earth to establish

this kingdom. Now, it's called a millennium because it's a thousand years. And somebody says,

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