At the outset of the discussion of this question it is well to state certain definitions upon which we are agreed. The term Millennium-Mille-annum-a thousand years-as used by both Jewish and Christian scholars, stands for the doctrine of an era of righteous government upon the earth to last a thousand years.

Jewish writers, throughout the Talmud, hold that this Millennium will be chiefly characterized by the deliverance of the Jews from all their enemies, recovery of Palestine and the literal reign of their Messiah in unequalled splendor and prosperity therein.

Pre-millennial Christians hold much in common with the Jews, but also that our Lord Jesus Christ is the Messiah, that He is to return to the earth and overthrow Satan, all ungodly governments and lawlessness: and establish a kingdom of righteousness, having the Church, with himself, as sovereign, Jerusalem as the Capital, regathered and converted Israel as the center, and all nations included, in a universal world-wide kingdom of righteous government.