If the Lord had actually come to reign a thousand years, surely the world would know it.

In what favoured region has he made his second advent ?" "Is it not possible that the Christian world may be in error as to the manner of this second coming, that is to usher in the millennium ?" "Yes, very.

I don't see, that in all prophecy, there is any thing definite on the subject." "Nothing more definite than there was in regard to the first coming ?" "No." "And yet, while in their very midst, even though miracles were wrought for them; the Jews did not know the promised Messiah." "True." "They expected a king in regal state, and an assumption of visible power.

They looked for marked political changes.

And when the Lord said to them, 'My kingdom is not of this world,' they denied and rejected him.