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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“I shall not hesitate also to put into ordered form for you, along with the interpretations, everything I learned carefully in the past from the elders and noted down carefully, for the truth of which I vouch. For unlike most people, I took no pleasure in those who told many different stories, but only in those who taught the truth. Nor did I take pleasure in those who reported their memory of someone else’s commandments, but only in those who reported their memory of the commandments given by the Lord to the faith and proceeding from the Truth itself. And if by chance anyone who had been in attendance on the elders arrived, I made enquiries about the words of the elders—what Andrew or Peter had said, or Philip or Thomas or James or John or Matthew or any other of the Lord’s disciples, and whatever Aristion and John the Elder, the Lord’s disciples, were saying. For I did not think that information from the books would profit me as much as information from a living and surviving voice.
~ Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60–130 AD) From the Preface to his lost ‘Expositions of the Sayings of the Lord’
This week's Psalm is Psalm 31 'My Rock, My Shield, My Song'

The Millenial Earth

This earth will remain

The earth will remain during the Millenium. The prophet Isaiah says, “Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills” (Isaiah 2:2). The first thing that we learn here about the Millennium is that there will be hills and mountains. We’re talking about a physical earth, not an immaterial heaven of clouds and spirits. Secondly, there will be a Temple, “the Lord’s house.” It will be where it has always been, the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem. The first and second temples were destroyed. A future Temple will exist during the Tribulation, and there will also be one during the Millennium. Isaiah tells us that, “…all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, ‘Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob’” (Isaiah 2:2,3).