C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

It is only Christ’s coming that can make a millennium. 379.255 Some think that this descent of the Lord will be post-millennial—that is, after the thousand years of his reign. I cannot think so. I conceive that the advent will be pre-millenial; that he will come first; and then will come the millennium as the result of his personal reign upon earth. 627.249 You expect to reign upon earth, but it is with him; you do not expect a millennium apart from the King. 1281.129 Paul does not paint the future with rose-colour: he is not smooth-tongued prophet of a golden age, into which this dull earth may be imagined to be glowing. There are sanguine brethren who are looking forward to everything growing better and better and better, until at last, this present age ripens into a millennium. They will not be able to sustain their hopes, for Scripture gives them no solid basis to rest upon. We who believe that there will be no millennial reign without the King, and who expect no rule of righteousness except from the appearing of the righteous Lord are nearer the mark. Apart from the second Advent of our Lord, the world is more likely to sink into a pandemonium than to rise into a millennium. 2088.301 Do not dream that the world will go on improving and improving, and that the improvements will naturally culminate in the millenium. No such thing. It may grow better for a while, better under certain aspects; but, afterwards the power of the better element will ebb out like the sea, even though each wave should look like an advance. That day shall not come except there be a falling away first. 2203.257 I think that the millennium will commence after his coming, and not before it. I cannot imagine the kingdom with the King absent. 2302.159