We have read many books and pamphlets on the Millennium but few, if any

recognize that there are only ten verses in the Scriptures that speak positively of

that period. To that inspired and basic passage we hope to devote a portion of

each issue of the Berean Expositor during 1957-58.

The claims of the Testimony of the Lord's Prisoner have been paramount, and

the Apocalypse has in consequence not been given so much attention. However,

what we now lay before the reader is incipient in the article published in the

Berean Expositor for May 1916, but not expanded until the present article in

September 1956.

We urge all who may read this exposition to put everything to the Berean test.

Remember the example of Barnabas. He stood firm with Paul, he dissembled

with Peter (Gal. 2: 13). Let all

"Search and see" if what is written is "so".

II Timothy 2: 14-26

has been before us in writing the following, somewhat

provocative article.

Striving, and striving about words to no profit, is forbidden (14, 24).

(b)

The only approval we should seek is that of God (15).

To misplace a truth, may eat as a gangrene (17, 18).

(d)

While we have no fears concerning the "sure foundation", we have a

responsibility to "depart from iniquity" (19).

We have no call to attempt to "purge" other servants of God, but if we

would be "meet for the Master's use" we must "purge ourselves" from

any complicity with known error (21).

Such exhortations as "shun", "depart", "flee", "avoid", cannot be ignored

(16, 19, 22, 23). We cannot sit on the fence.

(g)

All at length leads to "IF GOD PERADVENTURE". Here we stop and God

alone carries forward (25, 26).

(h)

The dreadful alternative being II Timothy 3: 7.