Editorial May 11, 1940 Issue

Millennial Vision

Duncan Sinclair

Men are constantly picturing to themselves the dawning of a golden age, an age in which poverty will be unknown, where sickness and sin will have been overcome, and where harmony and peace will reign supreme. Some of them speak of it as the millennium, which has been defined as "a period of happiness and benign government." And one might quite correctly designate this period, this condition of thought, as one of millennial vision.

There are many who sneer at any such possibility. Contemplating mortal existence, they find it hard to believe that mankind will ever find itself free from the grind of poverty, the suffering of disease, the penalties of sin. They cannot see how these experiences will ever be done away with entirely; they can only trust that they may be alleviated. They believe that their skepticism is amply justified. But in spite of all that can be argued against the possibility of the human race ever entering upon a progressive millennium, the desire for it persists.

The religion of the Hebrews encouraged men to look forward to a period which should be God-governed, and therefore harmonious. Necessarily, this should be preceded by a knowledge of God which would reveal His nature. Jeremiah prophetically writes (Jer. 31:34), "They shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord." Habakkuk foretells that "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." Prophecy has it, then, that the knowledge of God shall become universal—that all men will possess it, and with its coming, harmony will be ushered in.

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