How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Are you a good person?

Welcome to Through the Bible, where we'll hear our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, answer that question

for himself and for you and me.

I'm Steve Schwartz, your host, and I'm so glad that you've hopped aboard the Bible bus

for another intriguing study, this time in the Old Testament book of Zachariah.

So while you open God's word to Zachariah chapter 7 verse 7, let's listen to a few

introductory remarks Dr. McGee shared on justice in the future millennium.

I want to again today talk about some of the spiritual values and characteristics and benefits of the millennium, because there's been such an emphasis

upon that which is physical, and it's not understand the millennium when we put the wrong

emphasis upon it. And we have mentioned the fact that it's going to be a time of peace.

And right now with 57 wars going on throughout the

world, you couldn't say that this world, today's a time of peace. The fact of the matter is,

when they shall say peace, peace, then sudden destruction will come upon them.

And that is the present condition.

But the millennium will be a great time of peace.

And we also began talking about the fact that it's going to be a time of justice.

And we were looking at these spiritual benefits.

We began it some time ago, and I read at that time an editorial that I had written,

and we looked at that article, and I wrote it some time ago,

and I was reading it, and it was on the subject of justice. Well, that merely introduced the subject. The justice of God and the justice of man is not the same. Man's justice

is motivated by selfish reasons. Justice is what we want at the expense of others. Very briefly,

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