How firm a foundation,

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

Can you imagine a world where everything is dedicated to the service of God, where even the pots

and pans in your kitchen and the harness on your horse sing of the holiness of God?

Well, it's coming.

It's coming in the millennial kingdom.

When God's peace will cover the earth, you'll hardly recognize the world, as Zachariah describes

it in chapter 14.

Welcome to Through the Bible with our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee. The Bible bus, well, it's traveling the last stretch of road in the Old

Testament book of Zachariah. But before we jump in, let's listen to more of Dr. McGee's special

introductions on the millennium. We're looking at these matters that will help us in our understanding of prophecy and

the way that God is concluding and winding down his word to mankind.

Now, we said last time that God judges sin, and he hates sin.

He loves the good, and he never makes light of sin.

He doesn't shut his eyes to it.

Paul could say, knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade man.

And believe me, when he's talking to Felix, he reasoned of him of judgment, the justice of God.

And this is something that has caused us to use the expression, and I'd do it myself,

but very frankly, feel like that I ought to qualify it when I do,

that God hates sin, but that God loves the sinner.

Well, that's not exactly what the Word of God says.

The Word of God puts it just a little bit differently than that.

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