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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 Millenium Kingdom

Jesus reigns!

For the first disciples, the second coming of Jesus was something they expected to happen at any moment. Like us today, they did not know the day nor hour of Jesus’ return. Also like us, they knew that nothing less than the personal return of Jesus would solve all the problems of this troubled world. What was this hope that sustained them? It wasn’t just the joy of seeing Jesus again, wonderful though that was. It was the thought of what lay beyond. How did they know what would follow His return? Because they had the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, who had described these events many years before. Like them, we can go to Isaiah’s writings and discover what lies ahead for those who love Jesus. We’re talking about what we call ‘The Millennium Kingdom’, a thousand-year period that will begin after the Tribulation. What will life be like during this period? Over the next few days, we'll be looking at fifteen characteristics of life in the Millennium, drawn from three passages in the book of Isaiah. Join us for a journey that will change your view of the future!