• Answer: He who performs the will of God. Proofs

• Answer: That we believe in His Son Jesus Christ and keep His commandments. Proofs

• Answer: It is Christ himself who has done so. Proofs

• Answer: Because multitudes are called Christian who do not believe the truth concerning Christ or obey his commandments. It has become, in fact, the name for a system of fable, and error that has risen up in the world in the place of truth, in fulfillment of the predictions of the apostles. Therefore, to be known as a "Christian" is not to be known as a believer of the truth. Proofs

6. Where can we learn the will of God and the truth concerning Christ

• Answer: In the Holy Scriptures, which are known in our day as in the Bible. Proofs

• Answer: It is a book written by the power of inspiration working in prophets and apostles who lived in Israel a long time ago. They lived at different times, and each wrote his part independently of the others; but one Spirit moved them all, and enabled them to make known to mean the mind of God in history, precept and prophecy, so that the Bible though composed of many books and parts, is the one Word of God. Proofs

• Answer: Moses, Joshua, Samuel, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habbakuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, James, Jude and Peter

• Answer: Into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. But in the days of Christ, the Scriptures were known as "Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms." The Old Testament was written by Moses and the Prophets, who came after him. The New Testament was written by the Apostles

• Answer: The Old Testament was begun by Moses about 1,600 years before Christ, and finished by Malachi a little of 1,200 years afterwards. (Before Christ 400) The New Testament was written during the lifetime of the Apostles, after the resurrection and ascension of Christ, over 1,800 years ago.

• Answer: The Bible is composed of sixty-six books arranged in the following order of names. OLD TESTAMENT: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Michah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zepheniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. NEW TESTAMENT: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Phillipians, Collosians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation.

• Answer: The Bible, given by the inspiration of God, reveals to us the Truth concerning God and men.

13. What does the Bible reveal concerning God?

• Answer: That there is only One God, the Father of all, even of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the common idea that God is a Trinity is un-scriptural. Proofs

• Answer: That He is kind, yet inflexible in the requirements of His Law; loving and compassionate, yet terrible as a destroying fire against the rebellious and the guilty; forgiving towards offenses, yet jealous of the dignity, the glory, and supremacy of His name. He is holy, and cannot look upon sin. He is wise, and cannot tolerate fools. He is true and faithful, and will destroy all that is false and perfidious. He is just and true and perfect - at once the fountain of love and vengeance; the author of life and death; the source of reviving mercy and consuming fire. He is eternal, unchangeable, unsearchable, infinite, glorious in power and majesty - the King immortal, the Possessor of heaven and earth, to whom alone glory is due. Proofs

• Answer: He is everywhere present and nothing can be hid from His knowledge. Proofs

16. In what way is God everywhere if He dwells in heaven?

• Answer: God is everywhere present by His spirit which proceeds from Him, and which fills all space. Proofs

• Answer: It is His invisible power or energy breathed forth from His presence, and of like nature with His Glorious Person. By this, heaven and earth have been made and are preserved in being from moment to moment. In this we live and move and have our being in Him. Proofs

• Answer: No. God and His Spirit cannot be separated. They are both one. The Sun and the light that come from the sun are both one. So God, and the Spirit that comes from God, are both one. God is the centre and glorious substantial form of the Spirit that fills heaven and earth. Proofs

• Answer: Yes. They teach me that I am always in the presence of God though I do not feel it, and that He always sees me (even when it is dark) though I cannot see Him. Nothing can happen without His knowing it. Even though my inmost thoughts and intentions He can discern, though I should seek to keep them secret. Proofs

20. What is a Spiritual Body?

• Answer: It is a body made in the glorious nature of the Spirit of God, and therefore incorruptible in substance and immortal in life. Proofs

• Answer: It is like it in shape, but not in nature. Proofs

• Answer: A mortal body grows old, decays and dies; whereas a spiritual body lasts forever. A mortal body is weak; a spiritual body is strong. A mortal body is corruptible, lustreless, and dishonorable, whereas a spiritual body is incorruptible, bright, and glorious. Even the clothes worn by a spiritual body can become as white as snow and as shining as the sun. Proofs

• Answer: All will experience this glorious change who believe, love, and obey the truth steadfastly to the end. They will rise from the dead at the coming of Christ, and appear before him to be judged, along with all others who are at that time brought to judgment. When he has separated them from the unfaithful, the unfaithful will be dismissed from his presence to shame, corruption, and death, while they , the accepted, will be changed in a moment all in one company, in the likeness of the body of their glorious judge. Proofs

24. What are angels?

• Answer: They are glorious beings sent by God on various errands throughout the universe? Proofs

• Answer: They are spiritual bodies, and like men in their form and aspect. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, exactly the same. The promise to us is that we shall become equal to them, and die no more. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, many a time. Three appeared to Abraham; two visited Sodom; one wrestled with Jacob, to whom also a host appeared; one led the Israelites out of Egypt; one withstood Balaam; one appeared to Gideon; one to Manoah, one to David; one to Daniel; one destroyed Sennacherib's army; one appeared to the father of John the Baptist; one to the mother of Jesus, one to the shepherds; a multitude sang on the plains of Bethlehem. They appeared also at the resurrection of Christ and at various times to the Apostles after Christ's ascension. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, such as Gabriel; but the name by which they are more commonly described in the Bible is simply angel. Sometimes they are spoken of as God. Proofs

• Answer: Because they come on God's business and work by His power, and are of His nature. His name is in them. Proofs

30. What does the Bible reveal concerning man?

• Answer: The Bible reveals that man is a living soul or creature, originally made of the dust of the ground, in the image of God. Proofs

• Answer: No: he is mortal. He dies and returns to the dust. Proofs

• Answer: No: that doctrine is one of the many religious lies that have come to be regarded as truth. Man is wholly mortal. God only has immortality. Immortality is something a man has to seek for; it is a matter of promise and hope. Proofs

• Answer: Man's life is not in himself. It is the power of God by which he lives, and which returns to God when man dies. If God were to gather it all to Himself, man would perish from the universe. Proofs

• Answer: Man has no existence of any kind in death. He is dead - entirely dead for the time being, and knows no more than if he had never been born. Proofs

• Answer: Man is mortal because of sin. It is God's law that sinners must die. Adam, our first father, sinned and was sentenced to death before he had any children. Death began with him, and came to us through him. We receive the nature that he had after he was condemned to die. We thus inherit his sentence of death. Besides this, we are all sinners ourselves. Proofs

• Answer: No: He purposes to take away sin from the earth altogether, and to cause death to cease. Proofs

• Answer: No: the work will be thoroughly done in righteousness. As death came by sin, so life will come by obedience. Proofs

• Answer: The state of man, left to himself, is what the Scriptures describe. But God has not left man to himself. He has interposed in his affairs, and opened a way of righteousness near through Jesus Christ and asks men to lay hold of it by faith in him. Proofs

• Answer: Because God calls on them to repent, and offers to forgive their sins if they believe in Jesus and put on his name. Proofs

• Answer: No. Faith justifies from all past sins, and ensures peace with God: but works are requisite to retain His favour and secure acceptance at the last. Proofs

41. Who was Jesus Christ?

• Answer: Jesus Christ was the Son of God. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, he was a man also, made in all things like unto ourselves, yet without sin. Proofs

• Answer: Because he was begotten of a human virgin-mother by the power of the Spirit of God, and not by a human father. Mary, a damsel descended from David, and betrothed to Joseph, also a descendant of David, was his mother; and God was his father. So that on his father's side he was the Son of God, and on his mother's side he was the son of David, and, therefore, a man partaking of David's nature, which was the nature common to all. Proofs

• Answer: He was human as to the substance of which he was made; but divine as to the source from which he came; the Spirit from which he derived his wisdom; and the pattern of the character which he possessed.Proofs

• Answer: Yes, Jesus and the Father were one by the Spirit, which, proceeding from the Father, embraced them both. God was thus in Christ, and Christ was thus the manifestation of God: which things cannot be said of any other man.Proofs

• Answer: The man Christ Jesus, begotten of the Father and endowed immeasurably with His spirit, was distinct from the Father, though one with Him in the sense expressed in the last answer. But as to co-equality and co-eternity, these are ideas that owe their existence to the speculations and disputations of Church theologians in the third and fourth centuries. They do not belong to the New Testament system of doctrine concerning Christ. This system teaches that the God of Christ was the Father who fills heaven and earth by His Spirit. Christ disowned co-equality with the Father; and co-eternity is impossible in a son.Proofs

47. Why was Jesus Christ called by that name.

• Answer: To show who he was and what was his mission.Proofs

• Answer: First by Jesus, which is a name of Hebrew origin, signifying God shall save; and then by Christ, which is a Greek word, meaning anointed.Proofs

• Answer: It is the ceremony by which kings and priests were by divine appointment consecrated to their office. It consisted in putting holy oil on their heads.Proofs

• Answer: No: he was anointed with that of which the oil of ancient custom was but a type. He was anointed with the spirit of God at his baptism in the Jordan. Proofs

• Answer: From their sins.Proofs

• Answer: He forgives them for Christ's sake, and by the power of his teaching. He turns men away from their sins, and leads them to righteousness.Proofs

53. In what way does God save men from their sins through Christ?

• Answer: Because of what has been accomplished in him.Proofs

• Answer: Sin has been condemned in his death on the cross, and the righteousness of God has been declared and exhibited to all the world in the shedding of his blood. Proofs

• Answer: Because being born of Adam's condemned race, and partaking of their condemned nature, Christ was made subject, equally with them, to the consequences of Adam's transgression. Therefore his public execution was a public exhibition of what was due to man from God. It pleased God to require this before inviting men to reconciliation through the man in whom this vindication should take place. Proofs

• Answer: Where Jesus in this matter differed from other men was, in the spotlessness of his personal character, on account of which the Father was well-pleased. Jesus required no forgiveness. It was this that opened the way for his resurrection. For had he been a sinner as other men, death must have held the power over him that it had over them. But God raised him from the dead after sin had been condemned in his crucifixion, and being raised from the dead, 'Death hath no more dominion over him'. 'He ever liveth to make intercession for us, and is able to save to the uttermost all those who come unto God by him.' In this way he has become the righteousness of God to us. Proofs

• Answer: The devil, or Satan, is the Bible name for sin in its various forms among men. Christ took away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Sin is the death-power. There is no such being as the personal immortal devil of popular religious belief. The belief in such a being is due to the misunderstanding of certain figures and symbols in the Bible. The Bible devil has many shapes; but all these have their origin in the insubordination of flesh and blood to divine law. He presents himself in our own feelings, and in the persons of those who would draw us into wrong ways. In his largest shape, he exists in the present political constitution of things upon the earth. Proofs

58. Is it possible for us to be saved apart from this work of Christ?

• Answer: No: God has provided no other way of salvation for man than Jesus Christ. Proofs

• Answer:By faith in it. Our faith is counted for righteousness. Proofs

• Answer:No: there must be obedience, or "works" also. Proofs

• Answer:There are many things they have been commanded to do. First, they are commanded to be baptized. Proofs

• Answer:Burial in water. Proofs

• Answer:It is the act that God has appointed, by which a believer puts on Christ and receives the remission of sins. Proofs

64. What other commandments has Christ delivered for our observance?

• Answer: He has commanded us to assemble ourselves together on every first day of the week to break bread and drink wine in remembrance of him. Proofs

• Answer:Yes; many. Some of these commandments tell us what we are to do, and others tell us what we are not to do. Proofs

• Answer:
  1. We are to love God and Christ.
  2. To do to men as we would that they should do to us.
  3. To love one another.
  4. To sympathize with men in their joys and sorrows.
  5. To love even our enemies, blessing those who curse us, doing good to those who hate us, and praying for those who badly use us.
  6. We are to be ready to every good work, to give to those who ask, to relieve the afflicted.
  7. To be faithful even to bad masters.
  8. To pray always and in everything give thanks.
  9. To speak the truth always.
  10. To be blameless and harmless.
  11. To be humble, brave, joyful, courteous, and manly.
  12. To follow after whatsoever things are true, honest, pure, just, lovely, and of good report.
  Proofs

• Answer:No: there must be obedience, or "works" also. Proofs

• Answer:No: there must be obedience, or "works" also. Proofs

• Answer:No: there must be obedience, or "works" also. Proofs

70. Is faith by itself enough to secure for us the benefit of the work of Christ?

• Answer:No: there must be obedience, or "works" also. Proofs

• Answer: In the gospel. Proofs

• Answer: The word "gospel" means good news or glad tidings; and the glad tidings announced by Christ and the Apostles are the things concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. Proofs

73. What is the Kingdom of God?

• Answer: It is a kingdom that God will set up on earth which will overthrow and take possession of all others. Proofs

• Answer: Jesus Christ. Proofs

• Answer: Others will reign with him. Proofs

• Answer: The saints. Proofs

• Answer: Those who believe and obey the gospel. Proofs

• Answer: Yes; the Kingdom of Israel was the Kingdom of God. Proofs

• Answer: The Kingdom of God, in which Christ and the saints will reign, will be the Kingdom of Israel restored. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, it will be re-established in the very land where David reigned and where Christ was crucified. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, the Jews, the descendants of Abraham now dispersed in all the countries of the world will be gathered to their own land, and made there a great and righteous nation. Proofs

82. Who was Abraham?

• Answer: Originally he was a dweller in the land of the Chaldeans, on the eastern side of the Euphrates, but when he was 75 years old, he left his friends and removed to Canaan. Proofs

• Answer: Because God commanded him to do so. Proofs

• Answer: Because of the purpose God had formed concerning him and all the earth. Proofs

• Answer: To make of Abraham a great nation for the glory of God and the blessing of all mankind at last. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, to Abraham's son, Isaac, and to Isaac's son, Jacob. Proofs

• Answer: He made a covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, wherein they were strangers, for an everlasting possession. Proofs

• Answer: No; they were strangers in the land of promise during their lifetime and died (and were all three buried at Hebron) without receiving it. Proofs

• Answer: God will certainly fulfill His promise. He will raise Abraham, Isaac and Jacob from the dead, and give them possession of the land, when the Kingdom of God having been established there, it will have become a heavenly country. Proofs

90. After having established His Covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, what next did God to in preparation for the carrying out of His purpose?

• Answer: He sent Jacob's family down into Egypt, where in process of time they grew numerous, and were enslaved by Pharaoh, who used them as makers of brick for the building of cities. Proofs

• Answer: Between two and three hundred years. Proofs

• Answer: God sent Moses to Pharaoh to demand their release, and when Pharaoh refused to let them go, God sent plagues into the land, one after another, to the number of ten, and at the last, Pharaoh was glad to let them go. Proofs

• Answer: No; God led them to the west side of the Red Sea, where they were brought into great danger; for Pharaoh, hearing that they were in a place where they could not get away, came out with a great army to catch them, and take them back again into Egypt. Proofs

• Answer: He opened a way in the sea for Israel to pass through. Israel got safely to the other side, and when the Egyptians followed them. God brought the sea upon the Egyptians and drowned them all. Proofs

• Answer: That He might make His existence and power known to Israel and to all the earth. Proofs

• Answer: He led them to the wilderness of Sinai among great and barren mountains, and showed His presence in a visible manner before them by descending to the top of Sinai in the midst of dense cloud, smoke, and earthquake; and speaking to them with a loud voice which they all heard. Proofs

• Answer: That the people might believe in Moses as the prophet of God, and be prepared to obey the law which he purposed to give them through him. Proofs

• Answer: He recited the ten commandments. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, He spoke to Moses many other things which Moses spoke to the people. Proofs

100. Did God make a covenant with the people about these things?

• Answer: Yes; God offered to bless them with many blessings if they would obey the law that He would give them, and the people promised to do all that the Lord would command. Then the Lord gave the law, and Moses wrote it in a book, and read it to the people. He then sprinkled the book and the people with the blood of sacrifices, and thus a covenant was established between god and the people. Proofs

• Answer: It is called the first, or the old, covenant. Proofs

• Answer: Because, although the covenant of the law of Moses was the last to be given, it was the first to come into force, and was the law of Israel's national life for many hundreds of years before the confirmation of the covenant made with Abraham by the shedding of the blood of Christ. Proofs

103. What happened after the giving of the law to Israel, and the establishment in their midst of all things pertaining to it?

• Answer: God commanded Israel to march and enter the land of Canaan and subdue the nations that were there. Proofs

• Answer: They meant to do it, but when they heard that the nations of Canaan were so strong, they were afraid and made up their minds not to go, but to kill Moses, and set up another captain over them who would lead them back into Egypt. Proofs

• Answer: Having shown His glory visibly in the camp to protect Moses, He ordered the whole congregation to go back into the wilderness, and there to remain for 40 years till the whole of the men over 20 years of age were dead. Proofs

• Answer: At the end of the forty years, the Israelites came to Canaan from the east side of the river Jordan. When the nations on that side had been conquered, Moses died; and then the children of Israel crossed the Jordan and attacked the nations of Canaan. Proofs

• Answer: No. The Canaanitish nations were sunk in wickedness, and God had commanded Israel to execute judgment upon them. It would have been wickedness if they had not done it. Proofs

108. What is wickedness? and what is rightness?

• Answer: That is wicked which God forbids: and that is righteous which God commands -- whatever it is. Proofs

• Answer: No; because God commanded Israel to kill the Canaanites. There is a time to kill and a time to keep alive. God knows the one thing and the other, and when He commands, man has nothing to do but obey. God can do as He pleases. None can call Him in question. Proofs

110. When Israel, under Joshua, had destroyed the seven nations of Canaan, what did they do with their land?

• Answer: They divided it amongst themselves by lot, and settled down in it to live in it according to the laws God had given them by Moses. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, so long as Joshua was alive and the old men who outlived him. After that, they turned away from the law of Moses, and began to do as the Canaanites did who lived near them They forsook the worship of God and worshipped idols. Proofs

• Answer: God brought them into great trouble by allowing the neighbouring nations to get the upper hand of them, and drive them out of their houses, and take possession of their goods and lands. Proofs

• Answer: No. When they got into trouble, they repented of their disobedience, and cried to God; and time after time, during a period of 450 years, God raised them up judges who delivered them. Proofs

• Answer: After Joshua, Othniel, Ehud, Deborah and Barak, Gideon, Abimelech, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibsan, Elon, Abdon, Samson, Eli, and Samuel. These judges, though coming one after the other, did not all succeed each other in an unbroken line. There were intervals during which Israel was oppressed by neighbouring kings. Proofs

115. What change took place in the days of the last of these judges?

• Answer: Israel desired a king that they might be like the other nations. They came to Samuel and asked him to appoint them a king. Proofs

• Answer: Go told Samuel to do as they wished: and Samuel anointed Saul, son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, to be their king. Proofs

• Answer: No; he several times disobeyed God in important matters that he had been commanded to do. Proofs

• Answer: God rejected him from being king, and appointed David, the son of Jesse, of the tribe of Judah, in his place. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, he was a man after God's own heart. All his life he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD except in one or two things in which he erred, but God forgave him. Proofs

• Answer: There were twenty kings after David, all lineally descended from him, and sitting on his throne. The names were: Solomon, Rehoboam, Abija, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joram, Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. Proofs

• Answer: Solomon did so, but after his death, as a punishment for his sins, ten tribes revolted from the government of David's house, and set up a king of their own, - one Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who established a separate Kingdom in the Northern part of Palestine, consisting of the ten tribes. Proofs

• Answer: Of the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, Zebulun, Ashwer, Dan, Gad, Simeon, and Rebuen. Proofs

123. What was the new kingdom called?

• Answer: The Kingdom of Israel. It was also frequently spoken of by the prophets as "Ephraim" from the leading tribe. Proofs

• Answer: No. Jeroboam abandoned the law of Moses and led the ten tribes into idolatry, from which they never departed. Proofs

• Answer: The kings who reigned after Jeroboam were 18 in number: Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Omri, Ahab, Ahaziah, Joram, Jehu, Jehoahaz, Joash, Jeroboam, Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, Hoshea. Proofs

• Answer: Of Benjamin and Judah. Proofs

• Answer: The Kingdom of David was known as the Kingdom of Judah. It lasted 393 years after the revolt of the ten tribes. It was then overthrown by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who took the people away into Babylon, where they remained in captivity for seventy years. There was then a restoration under Ezra and Nehemiah, in consequence of a decree of Cyrus, king of Persia, who had overthrown the kingdom of Babylon. But the kingdom of David was never restored. In about 540 years after the return from Babylon, Christ was born. In seventy years after that, the Jewish state was broken up by the Romans, and since then, it has been "trodden down of the Gentiles". Proofs

128. Did God make a covenant with David concerning the everlasting continuance of his kingdom.

• Answer: Yes; He promised to give him a son who should sit on his throne for ever, and set up a Kingdom in Israel that should have no end; and that David should see it with hi eyes, and have a place therein. Proofs

• Answer: It was fulfilled typically in Solomon; but its real fulfillment is to be in Christ, who was born in David's line and declared to be, not only the Son of God, but the Son of David and heir to David's throne. Proofs

• Answer: He will. At his second coming, he will sit on his throne, and reign in Jerusalem as king of the Jews and ruler of all mankind. Proofs

• Answer: Yes; he will return as really as he went away; and when he comes, men will see him as really as when he was on the earth before. Proofs

132. What will Christ do when he returns?

• Answer: He will assemble all those who are responsible to judgment, living or dead. The dead he will bring from their graves; the living he will gather by his angels. They must all appear before his judgment seat, that they may receive through the body according to what they have done in this present life. Proofs

• Answer: All who know the truth, whether they submit to it or refuse. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, many. It is the light that makes responsible; but darkness covers the earth; and where there is darkness, sin is not imputed. Proofs

• Answer: They die and pass out of memory, as if they had never been. Proofs

• Answer: Immortality of nature. Their mortal bodies will be changed in a moment by the power of the Spirit of God. Proofs

• Answer: They will depart from his presence with shame and vexation, to suffer according as the Judge shall think they deserve, and at last to be devoured by the second death. Proofs

• Answer: He will make war upon the nations of the earth and subdue them. Proofs

139. When the nations are overthrown, what will he do next?

• Answer: He will gather the Jews from their dispersion among all the nations and re-establish them in their own land. Proofs

• Answer: They will all be gathered from Gentile lands: but they will not all enter the land: the disobedient are to be destroyed from the midst of them, as it was when they came out of Egypt under Moses. Proofs

• Answer: Yes, a new covenant will be made with them under which all their sins will be forgiven, and the law of God will be written in their hearts and minds. All will know and love God, from the least to the greatest. Proofs

• Answer: Yes; such a temple as has never been seen upon the earth for size and magnificence. The land will be turned into a Paradise, and the temple will stand in the centre of the land in a section of country dedicated wholly to the Lord. To this, all nations will regularly journey, to learn the way of God and worship before Him. Proofs

143. In what relation will the nations of the earth stand to Israel and their glorious King?

• Answer: The nations of the earth will all be subject to Christ, and do honour to the Jews, of whose blessedness they will share. Proofs

• Answer: One thousand years. Proofs

• Answer: None will be immortal but Christ and his brethren - the saints. There will be death among men generally as now, only life will be greatly prolonged, and will be a blessed and happy state. Proofs

146. Will the Kingdom come to an end at the close of the thousand years?

• Answer: The kingdom will never end: but will undergo a change at the close of the millenium. Proofs

• Answer: The nature of the change in its detail has not been revealed: but we know that death will then cease upon earth, and that Christ will deliver up the Kingdom to the Father, that God may be all in all. Proofs

• Answer: By all men being made immortal who have come into harmony with God during the reign of Christ. As for those who remain out of harmony with Him, they will be destroyed. Proofs

• Answer: Yes; if they please God, they will enter into life at the end of the thousand years, just as those do who enter into life at the beginning of that period. If they die before that time, they will then be raised and glorified. If they are alive, they will be changed. Their number will be much greater than the number of those who become immortal at the beginning of the thousand years. They will be the harvest, while those accepted at the coming of Christ will be but the first-fruits. Proofs

• Answer: No; the earth will endure for ever, filled with the glory of God and His deathless rejoicing people. Proofs